Funny side story: ChatGPT 3.5 refuses to recognize Palestine as living under apartheid. If you ask it what are the conditions of apartheid, it will list them clearly and use South Africa & Jim Crow U.S. as examples. If you ask it if Palestine fits the same criteria it just laid out, it will agree, but will refuse to say it definitively, only responding with a million different variants of “it’s a complex issue.”

AI bros should have to do prison time with hard labor.

Having the internet on any pocket-sized device should be outlawed and hundreds of millions of people need to be put into rehabilitation camps.

Even more fun is I saw some people typing this exact shit on Reddit literally 3 days ago (the 15 9/11s bit) to uproarious rounds of upvotes. Langley had this one loaded in the chamber a while ago.

Someone from Luxembourg is worth 2,376 Chinese people.

Every time someone gets murdered in Turks & Caicos it’s like 2.5 9/11s.

destroying 30 ships takes a long fucking time

The ships you blow up in the Vanguard flight sim count against this total ;)

BGS used to have a few weirdos at the office ((Kirkbride included) who made things messy and interesting. Another one was lead concept artist Adam Adamowicz. He did all the art for Fallout 3 and like 75% of it for Skyrim (this is coming from an AMA with another BGS artist who was there at the time).

Adam died of lung cancer in 2012.

Bethesda’s games’ look and feel and writing have been nosediving. Everything feels more focus-grouped and hermetically-sealed and clean and horrifically uninteresting.

All that being said, I think I have like 60 hours in Starfield and while it is indeed boring as shit, it’s boring in a very BGS-type of way only BGS can do, and in a weird way I actually like it and plan on finishing the game. I can’t describe it, I think I’m just an uncurable Bethesda stan.

We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.

What in the ever loving fuck??? Where did they get these numbers? I didn’t read the whole paper but I couldn’t find it scanning.

My outdoor local ecosystem of skunks, raccoons, rats and squirrels are flourishing. Are cats killing that many birds? I don’t have a cat, but my neighbor’s cats killed a couple birds so the neighbor put little bells on all the cats so they can’t sneak up on shit anymore.