My Friendly Neighbor hood is mascot horror, but played entirely straight. It's resident evil 4, but with all of the zombies replaced with puppets.

But of course, if an employee pocketed $20 from the register, the police will get involved immediately. funny how that works

For starters, a lot of them are convinced that the democrats are even worse, and they are just voting for the lesser of two evils. Our democracy doesn't do a great job of reflecting the peoples values

That definitely true for a significant percentage of republicans (especially their politicians and media personalities) but like any large group, republicans are internally diverse, and it's unhelpful, and potentially dangerous, to think of them as a cultural monolith with identical values.

unfortunately, not being on board with new things is kind of a key defining trait of conservatism, so they're aren't many on here.

I wonder how much of that is just an inherent part of how neural networks behave, or if LLMs only do it because they learned it from humans.

I feel like the problem there is less the free transit, and more how many people we've let fall to the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

The idea of a purely contextual power up is a fun idea, and "wonder" is a good term for what's been missing from recent 2D Mario games.

I mean, billionaires also trend towards the ghoulish, so maybe it's appropriate?

I'd actually kind of love it if it became a common thing for some smaller sites to only be open on certain days of the week. It would make the internet feel a little bit more lively

agreed, regardless of whether or not it's ethical to raise animals for meat, the way we currently do it is an eldritch abomination where "cage free" chicken are kept so tightly packed they will peck each other to death unless debeaked, and where "cut from neighbors knife" is a common injury report at slaughterhouses.

on some level, scammers are deliberating targeting the easiest marks. If you send out millions of phishing emails, you're looking to catch a dozen or so of the least tech savvy people you can.