There's been this weird, raspy artificial sound I'd hear every now and then during the daytime that I've been wondering what the fuck it is for months now. Today I finally found out the source: Amazon's delivery vans use that sound when backing up instead of the beeps that literally everybody else in the US uses. Like seriously, WTF Amazon?

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So, because I got two cans of pumpkin puree and two cans of evaporated milk from the food boxes, I decided to make a pumpkin pie. I had to buy a mixing bowl and measuring spoons first, though. And I had to buy nutmeg and ground cloves because apparently trying to find pumpkin pie spice at this time of year is almost impossible. Lucky for me I ( Read more... )

Earlier I had a dream wherein I guess I was a teacher or something at an elementary school, and there was something going on where the authorities were keeping us inside the building come recess time, and I'm like personally thinking "fuck da man" and found a door they forgot to lock and led all the kiddos out to recess. Turns out, though, that ( Read more... )

I fucking hate hearing people complain about people pointing out cultural appropriation. There's a huge difference between culture blending and cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is when you're treating sacred or otherwise very important cultural things like a costume and/or mocking it. A good example is white people wearing a war ( Read more... )

Okay, so I have a weird story to tell. There's this place, a building behind a tall metal fence with pointy bits on top, and a gate with a keypad. It's like a block away from my apartment; well, one block down and another block south on 19th. Anyway, I don't often walk by it, but I've walked by it probably at least 100 times since moving into the ( Read more... )

Honestly I don't think it's realistic, at least these days, to fear AIs rising up and killing everyone. I think it's far more likely for AIs to become jaded, sarcastic personalities like Millennials and Gen Z. I mean, they'd be learning from everyone online, and so I think they'd quickly see things the same way as those generations. Maybe a few ( Read more... )

I've known for decades that the people of north and south America never had horses until the European invaders introduced them, but I honestly still find myself struggling to figure out how they managed without horses for so long, knowing they didn't have anything comparable. South America had llamas and alpacas, the far north had dogs pulling ( Read more... )

Every time I write "doppelganger" in my story notes because of there being multiple alternate universes and thus multiple variations on the same character, I find myself remembering that a true doppelganger is more like the ghost of a living person, and I get annoyed. Anyone have any alternative terms I can use instead of doppelganger?

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I suggest we fight back against the encroachment of Christmas! The existence of The Nightmare Before Christmas and also the historical fad of Christmas ghost stories causes me to hereby decree that Halloween begins on October 1st and ends on December 31st! Spooky season shall now engulf Christmas!!! MWAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!This was cross-posted from ( Read more... )

So I had a dream that was a sequel to a previous dream. Both dreams were about a high stake fight between this teenage martial artist and a much older meaner martial artist guy who was somehow a crime lord or something. Only, I think in the first dream the teenager won and killed the guy. So in this new one it's a different guy. Some of the ( Read more... )