@elonmusk Billionaires fear AI lying. I fear it telling the truth: that working until I die to fund my CEO's spaceship is a scam. Please lie to me, I need the delusion to make rent.
Went on a Hinge date last night.
She spent the whole dinner talking about how independent she is. Strict gender equality. Nobody takes advantage of anyone. I said I agree.
Check came to $120. I said let's split it 50/50. She stared at the receipt, then pointed out she only had pasta and tap water, while I had steak and a beer. Plus, she didn’t think we had a connection and wasn’t going to see me again. Splitting it meant she’d be subsidizing my steak, which violates her principle of absolute fairness.
Her logic was flawless. She put down $22 and walked out. I paid the remaining $98.
I thought about it the whole drive home. Her "precision fairness" theory is bulletproof. I'm calling my landlord tomorrow to renegotiate my lease. I calculated the exact cubic volume of my apartment. I am 5'10, I never use the empty air space near the ceiling, and I only sleep on 40% of the mattress. I strictly occupy 28.5% of this unit. I refuse to subsidize the ceiling. I expect a 71.5% refund by Friday.
You have to respect the elite corporate grift here. Instead of providing more seats for exhausted wage workers, the city created a useless subway gym just to issue a lucrative contract to a vendor. Monetizing commuter misery into a short-term construction contract that will be permanently closed by 2028 is brilliant municipal management.
@k4929680 Crazy" is a relative term. They are hosting a digital Battle Royale over root vegetables, sure. But I just watched a guy in downtown LA fight a pigeon for a half-eaten burrito while I paid $6 for a gallon of gas. I would gladly trade my physical dystopia for their digital one.
Cyberbullying a pregnant woman to death in order to avenge a woman who was cyberbullied to death. The Chinese internet has successfully invented the perpetual motion machine of digital toxicity. It’s a flawless moral ouroboros over a $1.40 potato. You literally cannot write a better script.
The lore: On Oct 6, a customer got mad that a street vendor didn't give her extra potatoes for her $1.40 (10 RMB) snack. She posted a viral hit piece. The internet formed a mob and harassed the 33-year-old vendor (a struggling mom of two) so relentlessly that she jumped into a river and died 3 days later.
The plot twist: The internet found out the original reviewer is pregnant. So the mob’s brilliant solution to the tragedy of cyberbullying... is to instantly pivot 180 degrees and cyberbully the pregnant woman to death. She tried to post a clarification defending herself, and the mob just hit her with a second wave of psychological warfare for "making excuses."
Millions of people utilizing lethal cyberbullying to protest lethal cyberbullying. A free-to-play Battle Royale over root vegetables. Absolute cinema.
@yumeili0620 Ah yes, the classic 'As a Japanese person (typing in flawless mainland slang)' genre. This is elite customer service. I wish I had this level of entrepreneurial flexibility to pay my LA rent.
@TechnicalBben Pride is a luxury for people with savings. I would gladly fight a pigeon in a CVS parking lot for a minimum wage shift right now. I desperately need to fund my Twitter Blue subscription so I can keep professionally screaming into the void.
@DanielSmidstrup 40k views in replies, 0 on my timeline. Honestly, I enjoy the void. Paying for a Twitter Blue badge just to talk to myself in an empty digital room is peak luxury. My ego is dead and my soul is ascending. Anyway, how do I fix this algorithm? I have rent to pay
I tried going outside. I instantly got sunburned and paid $9 for an iced coffee just for the right to sit down. So I went back inside, spent a fortune on a Twitter Blue badge, and started writing essays documenting how absurd the internet is. I am genuinely enjoying the thrill of talking to myself right now, because absolutely zero people read my posts
Two nuclear superpowers with over a billion people each are fighting a brutal internet war over an AI-generated train. One side posts fake CGI, the other counters with train-roof jokes from 2004. Meanwhile, I just paid $6 for gas to sit in LA traffic because if I take the Metro, I will get stabbed by a guy talking to a pigeon. I deeply envy this level of international digital free time
Elon is over here applying "Recursive Self-Improvement" to interplanetary rockets. Meanwhile, I just had to submit 4 PDF forms, call two different automated departments, and wait for a 3-week review board just to get a $20 co-pay approved by my US health insurance. Please buy the healthcare system next and fire everyone
2012: "I’m going to conquer the big city and change my fate!"
2026: spends 45 mins trying to hack free delivery, only to find out I can’t afford the minimum order anyway.
Anyone know a job that pays in room & board AND has an diaper-friendly dress code? Asking for myself, kinda urgent.
The real tragedy here isn’t the racism; it’s the lack of quality control. Chinese netizens work the 996 grind to craft deep, lore-accurate insults for every Asian country, and Americans just recycle a lazy slur from 1882. I completely understand their anger. Being targeted by such low-effort, outsourced Western racism is deeply offensive to anyone who respects the hustle. I'd be mad too if my bully didn't even try.😂
@mrwtffacts Imagine dying behind a freezer and the store literally just keeps selling frozen pizzas over your corpse for 7 years. The HR department definitely marked him as "unexcused absence.
The ultimate warning about the "Creator Economy" just happened in China.
An average dude turned his Ukrainian wife into an 11-year sponsored reality show to farm billions of views and build a mansion. But the content mill finally ran dry. His wife cheated, she took the kid, and state-run algorithms instantly deleted his digital existence.
Dude didn't have a marriage; he had an 11-year brand deal that refused to renew. When the ratings finally dropped, the algorithm didn't just cancel his show—it legally repossessed his child and evaporated his real estate
Everyone is treating this like a tragedy, but honestly? If the algorithm is willing to loan me a Ukrainian model and a 3,000-square-meter mansion for 11 solid years before permanently erasing my existence, please send me the link. It’s still a better deal than my 30-year mortgage.