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Today I learned that sometimes, dogs that are supposed to be put down for hurting people get rehomed instead. Great. Now I'm gonna be even more terrified of dogs than I already was. How the fuck is this even legal? If a dog hurts someone bad enough to get a euthanasia order, THAT DOG NEEDS. TO. BE. KILLED!!! No exceptions!

Video: There are people using AI chatbots as therapists now.

Jesus fucking Christ. This is beyond fucking stupid. There have been cases of AI chatbots telling people to kill themselves, telling them how to do it, and in general giving people bad advice and fake information. AIs also share everything you tell them with their corporate overlords because they're not beholden by patient/client confidentiality. Oh yeah, and AIs are idiots, glorified autocorrects; a talking parrot is more qualified to be a therapist than an AI is. Trusting an AI as a therapist has got to be the single stupidest thing a person can possibly do on the Internet. Then again, trusting AIs with anything at all is also extremely fucking stupid.

I hate this timeline. I hate AI. I hope someone bombs the AI server farms. Won't be me, I'm too poor and don't own a vehicle and don't know shit about bombs. But hopefully somebody will firebomb the AI server farms and save us from an epidemic of asinine stupidity.

Pretty much every single conservative argument I've seen for the last decade has either been something completely batshit insane, or has just been the equivalent of a five year old going "Nuh uh!" It's impossible to have any kind of constructive communication with people who peaked in preschool.

I swear to fuck, grocery baggers in Portland get stupider every time I have to deal with one. In all my 16ish years here, I have never even once met a grocery bagger who knew how the fuck to do their goddamn job, but it keeps getting worse. I thought the idiot who put heavy canned goods on top of my bread, or the other idiot who put hot deli chicken in the same bag as ice cream were bad, but today the bagger ignored the stiff bag that's for bread and other fragile things, the bag that's essentially a cloth covered box, and put everything in the other bag (the insulated bag)... including the bread bag/box.

Did he at least fold the bread bag? No, he just crammed it in there like a normal bag, though he would have had to have been the world's most perfect moron to miss the fact that it wasn't a normal bag, since I already had it unfolded for him, and it is clearly a box covered in cloth. Picking it up should have told him it had stiff sides and a stiff bottom if his fucking eyes didn't figure it out for him first. But no, he shoved it in there like it was a normal cloth bag! The idiotic fucker nearly destroyed it doing that. I am so angry (nay, PISSED) that the only reason I didn't go back and go all Karen on the guy was I had ice cream I didn't want to melt, and I was afraid if I let him have a piece of my mind about his idiocy that I'd end up screaming enough to be dragged out of the store. Honestly, this motherfucker would have to be stupider than a toddler with brain damage (or a Trump voter) to make such an insane mistake. Half an hour later I am still so pissed off that I'm tempted to call in and complain about it, because I have absolutely fucking had it with the retards they hire at these fucking places. If they were at least genuinely mentally handicapped, I could at least understand it and overlook it, but they look and sound and act like normal people, they just have the collective IQ of a wet fart.

You know, the only reason I even go to the ones with human checkers is because the self checkout things are much more annoying for a multitude of reasons, usually, but if this shit is getting to the point where it's somehow less annoying to use a self-checkout -- which those never have enough room for what I buy normally --then that's it. I am not letting any of these fucking morons bag my stuff anymore. I'm just gonna start saying "I'll bag it myself, because none of you brain dead asshats ever knows what the fuck you're doing." Or, more likely just "No, I'll do it myself" and only elaborate if they try to insist. Because I am just absolutely DONE with this bullshit.

And no, this wasn't one of the cashiers. They tend to be better at bagging stuff than the dedicated baggers. Like a LOT better. None of them get things quite right either, but at least they tend to not be "drooling retard baby" stupid about it. At least they tend to be almost like a normal fucking human being with some semblance of sense. But the dedicated baggers? I think they're trained baboons who have been transmogrified to appear human.

No, scratch that. A trained baboon would likely be competent at that simple job.

So apparently there are people who don't think nuclear weapons are real.

The video in which I learned this is an excellent rebuttal of that nonsense, but sadly it's going to fall on deaf ears. If conspiracy theorists could have their minds changed by evidence, they wouldn't be conspiracy theorists to begin with. They're cut from the same cloth as the morons who think the universe was created by a giant space wizard with the temperament of a toddler who spanked humanity for eating from a tree that didn't even have so much as a fucking wall around it.

Jesus fucking Christ I hate conspiracy theorists. Bunch of mentally challenged high school dropouts with the utter idiocy of homeschooled kids thinking they're smarter than people who use their brain for more than something to keep their heads from imploding.

Seriously, conspiracy theorists would be doing the whole world a massive favor if they took a bath with their plugged-in toaster.

Going back to my pet peeve of people being scared of microwaved water exploding in their face... my friend, that is nearly impossible to do even on purpose, let alone by accident. You need a perfectly clean mug first, then you need to use distilled water, and you need a microwave that either turns smooth as silk or doesn't turn at all because any jostling at all will cause it to boil like normal (most likely worst case scenario, the water explodes in the microwave before you even open the door), and even then it still rarely ever happens. It's almost as rare as hypercooled water where the water remains liquid past the freezing point and then freezes all at once when you hit it. Both things require high purity of water and nothing that can nucleate the water. It's almost impossible to get water to do either of those things, there are so many ways for an attempt to fail and make it just act like normal.

Anyway, if you're still paranoid about it, just put the teabag in the water before you put the water in the microwave, and the teabag will act as a nucleation point, preventing the (already tiny) possibility of exploding water.

I know it has a kernel of truth to it, but the "microwaved water exploding in your face" thing is so rare that people worrying about that is almost as stupid a thing to worry about as the belief an old boss of mine had that microwaves change the molecular composition of molecules, destroying the nutritional value of food. Yes, a real human being really believed that, and she probably still does. (Why that's stupid: the only thing microwaves do is make the WATER molecules vibrate, causing heat. Any changes to any other molecules when being cooked in the microwave would be the exact same as if you were cooking it on a stove or in the oven.)

PS = ADHD time blindness doesn't help, either. Time blindness is hard to explain, as well, so explaining how it doesn't help isn't easy. I can say stuff like "sometimes what I think is five minutes is actually thirty, and other times three minutes feels like an hour." or "Six months will retroactively feel like a single month, while in the moment having passed more like a year." Also, the other day I spent 4 hours on a video game and it flew by like 20 minutes. And of course sometimes two contradictory things about the passage of time can be true at the same time.

Honestly I think the time blindness is half the problem, the attention deficits being 25% of the problem, and the final 25% being frequent dissociation due to trauma. The dissociation doesn't cause blackouts, and never has, but it does cause the memories to become even more slippery than normal, so they fall out of my brain more easily and faster.

Elon Musk is basically Donald Trump, but slightly better at PR. He's just as stupid, just as bad at business, and just as bigoted as Trump, but he's got people on both left and right fooled. Anyone who respects him is basically just as stupid as someone who respects Trump.

The kind of people who say "My pronouns are kiss my ass!" are so annoying. I would love to have fae powers to take away all the pronouns of people like this and of those who claim they have no pronouns, watch them try to navigate the world without pronouns, or have to say "kiss my ass" every time they try to use a pronoun. It'd be hilarious.

Example: "Kiss my ass pronouns are kiss kiss my ass ass."

But the people who claim to have no pronouns would be hilarious too. They'd have to be sooooo careful, hesitate for so very long and actually think about things they were going to say before saying them, otherwise they get constantly stuck stuttering like crazy because they forgot I, you, me, we, us, and so on are pronouns.

That, and the power to make it so anyone who mockingly says "I identify as an attack helicopter" would actually turn into an attack helicopter, but be unable to move of their own volition... and suddenly change in the middle of their home, getting them stuck there.

Religious propaganda BS should be illegal to advertise. Like if you want to advertise your shitty church, fine. But if you put up an anti-abortion ad, you should be publicly flogged. Whenever I see one of those, I have this urge to make a slingshot out of surgical rubber and pelt the damn thing with balloons filled with blood red paint.

Also, any churches that spout political stuff at their church-goers or get their money into politics should be forced to pay taxes.

There's always going to be a subset of people who always believe what the government and corporations tell them, and they think everyone should be that way.

There's also always going to be a subset of people who never believe what the government or corporations tell them, and think everyone should be the same way.

And then there's the Republicans, who have found a way to be both at once.