in service of power.

“THEY GARGLE RICH NUTSACK!”

Same thing, really.

Give me autonomous swarms of T-Drones, or GTFO

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know your trigger was s*y milk, do you need a safe space to calm down before facing the big scary coffee shop again?”

A proper response to someone giving you shit about soy milk or almond milk or any other type.

Or anyone who parrots Republicans and their AnTi-wOkEnEsS lines.

Calling out reposts obsessively is weird to me.There’s more people who have not seen something than who have seen it, at least on the internet. I think most people have seen the moon…

But if I ever have a problem where the vast majority of the posts I see are reposts, I’ll simply block the channel for awhile. It costs me nothing, and takes less effort than typing out a comment complaining in every repost.

It’s the “STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE” meme, come to life. And I’d rather let people have their fun. Doesn’t cost me, nor anyone else, a thing.

Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

Super Weird.

All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.

I love when people say they feel dumb because they didn’t know something, because then I get to share xkcd with them, too.

Every time I hear someone complain about a single tiny piece of plastic on the ground or someone uses slightly more than needed cling wrap, all I can think of is the couple of warehouses I used to work in a couple jobs ago.

Everything comes on pallets wrapped in about a dozen layers of cling wrap. 8-10ft tall pallets.

Every box gets opened, the items pulled out of a large plastic bag, each item wrapped in its own plastic bag.

Those items get put in other boxes, stacked on a different pallet, and wrapped in another dozen layers of plastic wrap.

The pallets get moved to a temporary spot for a few hours, then someone comes up and curs all the wrap off. Moves the boxes onto 4 other pallets, and each of those goes to a separate forklift driver who puts them on shelves.

When the item leaves, it’s placed in plastic bags, then a box, then goes on a pallet that gers wrapped in a dozen layers of plastic wrap. Onto the truck for shipping elsewhere.

They have a truck that comes twice a day to replace a shipping container filled with plastic.

So much plastic, every day, all day, they only close for Christmas and 4th of July.

Am I still going to use anything but plastic wherever possible? Sure. Am I still going to pick up that piece of plastic and put it in the recycling bin? Absolutely.

Companies suck and will blame you for their shitty treatment just like every abuser does.

In no particular order, I have French, German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and a teensy tiny bit of “my great great great great grandmother was native American and we actually have the proof but nobody could ever tell without a DNA test so it only gets brought up when talking about obscure family genetic lineage”

Maybe it’s because my family is super midwest-usa-bible-belt, and I never even found out about most of it until a genetics test when I got married to my now wife (we wanted to know if kids would even be a medical possibility with our various issues), but I don’t identify with any of the places my ancestors lived in, so there isn’t a particular culture I’d like to be part of. And to be perfectly frank I’m not sure I want to be part of any culture, I just want to tend to my forest with fair Goldberry my wife.

You do make a good point though, if you’re looking to be part of something or feel particularly drawn to a culture after being immersed in what you think it’s really like, I could absolutely see this happening with 100% sincerity.

“or should I say us 🇮🇹”

“Sopranos was my favorite show”

Oof. Imagine saying “roots was my favorite show so it makes sense my great great great grandparent was black”

I’d bet it’s not immune to small pellets of lead or steel flying towards it at around 1000fps.

Or a rock.

I’m less accurate with the rock though…

This is one of those articles that would have made me go “WOAH, that’s so cool, the future will be awesome!” like 15 years ago…

Now it just makes me wonder “how long before someone uses it to hunt down their favorite target demographic for arrest/deportation/extermination” for a split second before I remember “if this is what we are seeing as the public, then someone is definitely already doing that”

Can’t wait to see the wapo articles praising the musk drone defense network for flushing out the undesirables from [area] and only having a 20% false positive rate of elimination.

I’m noticing a LOT of people nowadays would have absolutely been nazis in nazi Germany, just because “it’s perfectly legal and any disobedience is illegal, or isn’t hurting Hitler himself and therefore is pointless”

Before I even read: it’s phishing, and it’s nothing new. There’s no evidence supporting anyone has broken this level of E2EE.

After reading: oh look. Surprise. This is my surprised face.

This just screams of “we want backdoors to be forced into encrypted things so we have even more control”

Yeah, sit down and accept the fascist takeover and don’t bother vandalizing their symbols because that’s against their law.

Wouldn’t want to do anything crazy like protest in a non violent way, and heaven forbid anything more extreme happen! This is basically domestic terrorism.

Treated lumber is a thing, and in my experience it’s harder to light than carbon fiber and resin.

My garage almost burned down once because I didn’t notice sparks from my angle grinder were pooling on a CF/R panel, and it set off a couple other things (paper towel bar, shop towel, solvent residue close to the towel) while I ran to the extinguisher.

This “article” is just an ad, and shouldn’t exist without actual journalism going on, but let’s not pretend wood can’t be fire resistant.

I love the repeated panels, almost like the path is checking to see if anyone looking before it shifts.

Well, I ate the title. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I legitimately expect there to be something negative about unions in it. Whether it’s a “corrupt union boss” or a union strike blamed for something bad happening.

We know how to handle fascist nazis.

A lot of the developed world rallied together to do it around the 1940s.

A lot of people have trouble feeling like this, and is a big part of the sunk cost fallacy I think. “I know I’ll like it more later” then eventually becomes “well I’ve made it this far”.

You like what you like, you don’t like what you don’t like. You can’t really change that. It’s okay to put something down if you aren’t engaging with it.

Anecdote ahead:

I keep telling my wife if she doesn’t like one of my books, I won’t be offended if she stops reading.

But she feels like it’s just her “being dumb” and that she’ll like it more next chapter.

I took her to half price books the other day so we could get a bunch of books she likes, and the only reason she decided to buy as many as she did was because “we can sell them back to the store” even though I fully intend in giving away any books she won’t read.

The $2 I’ll get back for it isn’t worth the 45 minute trip there. And someone will probably get more than $2 worth of entertainment from it.

I created a nerd, send bookshelves…

This is why I occasionally watch Bing bong theorem.

It’s garbage, it’s offensive to several groups of people (some more than others), and it has a laugh track.

By all my standards, it’s garbage, with garbage characters played by( a couple) garbage people actors, and half the time it’s not funny at all, not just “not as funny as it thinks it is”

But… I still like to watch an episode here or there.

Don’t get me started on all the people who tell me I should love it because I’m a nerd and I “like space”. Usually these people don’t understand why the “smart” jokes aren’t actually smart and usually they’re giving just enough of a “you need basic education to understand this” so that when the average viewer understands it, they can feel good about themselves for being oh so smart and understanding all that nerd stuff.

And of course you can’t bring any of that up without sounding like a pretentious douche who wants people to think they’re smarter than they are.

So uh… Hi, I guess I’m a pretentious douche. IM SMRT

Like what you like, fuck the h8rz.