the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.

many other places bury their wires and or do proper maintenance

my bike.

why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?
Google has a massive conflict of interest; it both sells ads to SEO’ed websites, and ranks searches. Their incentive is for you to go to the pages with the most of their ads possible. Even a company with revenue purely from ads on the search page has less terrible incentives.

found the astronomer

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

I’m sorry Russian cat girls? Wat?

There’s a distinction to be made between things that “look” dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

12 people. we’re talking about 12 people, so any conclusions are suspect. that being said, facial recognition struggling with black faces from insufficient data is an extremely common problem, so it’d be unsurprising

acapella science is one of my favorite channels!

dude, go to therapy.

or at least no rhetorical questions looking for a circle -jerk

came here to say spirit farer. that game is responsible for normalizing me hugging my spouse for no reason besides it feels good. Also definitely made me cry more than pretty much any other work of fiction in any medium.

I love the SCP movie!

he doesn’t have the copyright. X won’t last

on that note, Miyazaki’s filmography. just all of it

Wisconsin cheese curds!

you forgot lutefisk and lefse!

and yet there are still plenty of maniac drivers on the road