True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they’re charging people to build websites, they’re own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

This would make an excellent short film. The fire axes scene would be epic.

Tangent: Whenever the news reports a major earthquake somewhere, I like to remind people that Plate Tectonic Theory is “just a theory” and that some religious leaders confidently assure us that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.

So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.

I feel like I’ve been down voting a lot of posts linking to garbage articles on sciencealert. Starting to think it’s not a very reputable source of information.

At the moment, it’s unknown if there was ever a real-world person behind this username or if Jia Tan is a completely fabricated individual.

Well, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a platypus. There was definitely one or more real-world people behind this. I doubt anyone thinks that their name is actually Jia Tan, though.

r/whoosh 😉

Now I understand where ChatGPT hallucinations come from.

Water weight. You still drink water when fasting.

As a counterpoint, I’ve had in person/face-to-face arguments with people that looked convincingly like typical adult humans that did all of these things.

Just like the flu, the virus is mutating. Boosters may not always target the newest mutation, but they’re closer to it than the previous year’s booster. Further, over time your immune system will gradually “forget” how to fight viruses it hasn’t seen in a long time. Both of these are each reason enough to get annual vaccinations for COVID and the flu.

And what they can’t seem to comprehend is that “their guy” won’t be “their guy” as soon as he doesn’t need them anymore.

Doesn’t poo go everywhere?

Not sure what you mean, but might be a misunderstanding. It’s not sucking water out of the bowl. It’s spraying a jet of fresh water. Some will even warm it up for you. 😁😌

Yes, I need to move around a bit to hit the mark, and generally ensure full coverage. Not sure how much I’m over doing it, but it works for me. Totally feel like I’m slumming any time I’m forced to use a toilet without one, now.

This is for Australia, but it applies to the US just as well. https://youtu.be/N3WTlyuhDs0?si=-xEDiCuN4bAeUWfa

May you never grow tired of hearing the truth.

This is what I was thinking at first. This just looks like classic chain letter.

But on rereading, it appears that the person at the top is controlling who’s sending books to who, and might even be dictating where you buy the book from, which is definitely a scam.

My guess on how this works. Upon DMing the person in control, you’re instructed to buy a book from a specific website (that they control) and have the book shipped directly from there to the “stranger.”. However, “stranger” doesn’t actually exist, no books are ever sent, and the person running this whole scam is just pocketing the money rubes spend on “books”.

I’m sure a couple of intrepid Ukrainian farmers with tractors could get the job done before sunset.

Good bot

That’s awful for those people. Sadly, many Christians in the US use stories like this to boost their own persecution complex so that they can justify (to themselves) their own persecution of other people.