@pearsonified
@PaulSkallas
i can't tell whether you're joking but that's basically it lol, i knew a guy who was a salesman at a dolce & gabbana store in a high-end mall and according to him all they needed was an average of two sales a month to stay afloat
bruh james somerton’s alt should’ve been discovered four days ago… then the prophecy would have been fulfilled and he would’ve plagiarized jesus and risen from the dead on easter sunday
@draculavoice
one thing that should be taken into account though is that jk rowling’s reputation has remained largely unscathed in non-english-speaking spheres. idk how much foreign-language fanfiction is hosted at ao3 (ik pt-br fanfiction usually goes to wattpad), but that might tip the scale
@hinaseven
quando eu tava no ensino médio, alguém sabia fazer o UÍÍÍÍÍ do passarinho branco do angry birds EXATAMENTE IGUAL e fazia super discreto quando a sala tava em silêncio, a gente se formou e ninguém descobriu quem que era kkkkk
@colin_fraser
heptagons are underrepresented and kinda look like an octagon seen from below, which is overrepresented in the form of stop signs
people forget that llms’ repertoires basically work by detecting trends
@bhaalsprincess
the problem is that 9/10 the teacher isnt trying to teach media literacy, but to accept the main accepted reading and discard any other reading as wrong, dare i say because the education system really doesn’t want people – especially young people – developing critical thinking
@kilpta47
@SmoothShinyShae
"The day [I] graced your village was the most important day of your life, but for me, it was Tuesday" —General M. Bison, Street Fighter: The Movie
@north0fnorth
sometimes i feel like aella is an elaborate troll ngl like look at the 91 scenario and tell me with a straight face that isn't fanfiction
@PITAYAHAMMER
@funn1estt
it’s pig latin, to decode you remove the ay in the end of the word and move the last consonant or consonant cluster to the beginning. like this: aveltray → aveltr → travel
@NexusMeme
reminds me of some guy on yt years ago who mentioned that the schoolyard liar caught a pokémon with pokérus when they were in elementary on the late 1990s and nobody believed his “pokémon with a virus” story
@014flashman
@SpritersRes
nintendo could also have come up with their own rom dump format but whatever dev was in charge took the path of least resistance and just used iNES
@_lizharvey
they used to have a contract with a town hall to be the city mascot and they do brand deals like with duolingo, but i’m pretty sure most of the revenue must come from booked live shows/appearances in japan like most mascots aiui
@lukeisamazing
this is only surpassed by stalin, hitler, freud, franz ferdinand, tito and trotsky having all lived in vienna in 1913 (and three of them frequented the same café)
@lozaning
honest question: what is wrong with living right next to a datacenter? i see everybody scandalised on the replies to the op and i literally Do Not Get It