Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 12hMaking someone feel bad isn't a meaningful counteraction 110
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 13hThey want it to hurt and that is the only way they feel confident doing that 120
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Running every single decision through the virtual processing centers of the brain, what could go wrong 000
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He pulled it again with tahini and nigella just called him old 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026All it took was for you to start this very specific podcast 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's probably just because video ads pay better but I also wonder if it plays into the parasocial appeal more. 180
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well the first clue is that they live in the suburbs 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think one thing it has done is given people positive feedback for acting dumb and/or terrible (hence why everyone's most viral post is something like "are Superman's turds bulletproof?") 000
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I have been spared so many injuries as an adult by being a shitty hurdler in high school 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This feels like a prelude to Grizzly Man II 000
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The world has intentionally been made too complex to drive people towards dumb solutions 000
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Life is a labyrinth. Are you the minotaur, or the minotee? 171
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Honestly, sometimes it takes a really bad script to let a great performer loose. 030
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's perfect that you can't tell whether his head is still attached 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Vlassic Sandwich Stacker was the first volley fired in the "is a hot dog a sandwich" war 030
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's the ultimate bridge troll capitalism in that they are trying to build a bridge and then get everyone else to dig a trench underneath it so they can charge exorbitant tolls. And some people like the view and think it'll look nice with a river so they're getting on board. 0868
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of the biggest selling points for llms is that they let you produce a result without really knowing what you're asking for. It reminds me a lot of big "data democratization" movements where places wanted to let everyone do analysis. If you don't know what you're doing, the result still sucks. 0101
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I onramped in like 2014 and there were definitely a few people my friends raved about who I was like "this person is not joking" 030
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026She's there to suck ass and chew gum, and she's all outta gum 0180
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't think anyone really considered how many people weren't faking being unwell as a bit 2220
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I didn't think I learned it had a name until after I was done ever doing it 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's a museum that focuses on outsider and underrepresented art. Not sure if they're the right people for archiving in this manner though. 110
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What are your thoughts on Intuit in Chicago? 110
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I mostly just check to see if I know anyone who works at a particular place but man is the feed awful 000
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There was a guy in my physics lab who never knew how to do anything and at the end of the semester he was like "I got an internship at Pfizer, my frat brothers dad is the president" 2590
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The good ones were always struggling to get pledges because most of the guys who really wanted into a frat either did it for the patronage or the sexism 041
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If any of the other three get hurt for a meaningful amount of time they're gonna have a rough go of it 010
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We have a cultural blanket assumption of "parenting = selfless" that lets parents get away with so many selfish things 041
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also the entire concept of "chart theory" is about basing stock purchase decisions on other people's stock purchase decisions and basically incentivizes digging holes deeper 1100
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had a grad school professor who said that the stock market didn't make money it just took it from the future and well 1110
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I bet you forgot the new Orleans pelicans 020
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sure but when I try to let people "behind the scenes" my neighbors call the cops 110
Giant Boy Detective @captfamous.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Me: Worth every penny Small child: what's a penny Me: "globalists..." 000