this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are
this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are
"yeah, but she's just some hysterical woman and he's the Secretary of Defense!"
Or rather, kids will die because grifters turned their parents against the truth.
Grifting is unfortunately an economic sector and there, at least, he still has the juice (see Tesla's share price jumping every time he announces more dismal numbers)
It's almost as bad as trying to offer a good-faith critique of the Last Jedi. Almost.
He couldn't make it agree with him and so he did what he always does - moved on
That's a lot of words to just restate the premise of Idiocracy, but substituting conservatism for low intelligence
Also that Spartans despised the "boy-loving" ways of other Greeks
They find it simply inconceivable that people receiving money they didn't "earn" would not immediately walk off their jobs, get hooked on several illicit drugs and spend their days lying on the sidewalk heckling anyone responsible enough to actually do work.
HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO WE NEED TO FUCKING TEST THIS SHIT
Cannot recommend enough the @bretdevereaux.bsky.social series on what Sparta was actually like, deep and accessible dive into a monstrous society that built an outsized reputation on a fragile system of pure cruelty and ho-hum but ultimately fleeting military success acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...
You under-estimate us at your peril and/or profit
I would be too embarrased to admit this is how I felt
You know that paper going around recently about how most college English students don't actually read, but rather skim certain keywords and retrofit a meaning that seems to match them? I'm pretty sure that's how he engages with media he disagrees with
Thisss isss defamation and ssslander
He's quite literally become one of the men Sarah calls out in her blistering rant to Miles Dyson
Of course he can't make a good Terminator film anymore, he's on Skynet's side now
Also probably some desire to stick it to both of his failed father figures (Palpatine and Obi-Wan) and make Luke into what he was supposed to be (even though he's so damaged he doesn't know how, why or even what that would entail)
I dunno, from what I hear they see it as more of a solution
Surprise, surprise. AV providers are disclosing personal information. "An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting porn sites... AgeGO receives requests disclosing the site being visited as well as a link to the exact video the person is trying to access"
Something is being completely missed in the Graham Linehan / broader UK ‘free speech’ row – and it’s that much of this is a direct consequence of Elon Musk no longer doing anything like what’s required to moderate X in line with UK and European law. 🧵
Deep sympathies for the owners & employees of the small businesses in the Morley Markets. Those businesses were important community amenities & they, & their owners, will be sorely missed. Premature & wrong announcement of "arson" added needless suspicion to the pain & injury. Please don't do that.
When a character's queerness dies with the author, are they really queer?
I remember when the old Kindles (with physical keyboards) could be jailbroken to freely browse the web. 3G so not a whole lot of utility, but it was a fun little experiment
"When you're a star, they let you do it" is now apparently more true of Congress than Hollywood, and that's really sayin' something
Absolutely blistering takedown of the US government's mad climate report that rehashes the worst denier tropes of the past decade. US gov't took on a handful of self-serious denier micro-celebs, and in doing so, basically just hugely owned themselves in public sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...
once again tapping the sign
Remember when we supposedly cared about politicians knowing the price of local groceries and fuel?
The virgin centrist vs. the chad pan-partisan
Also, "evil" is not an emotion!
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
"bluesky users are vindictive, offensive and close-minded, unlike all you lovely folks," I say as my eyes slide past exactly 1488 blue-check Tweets quoting from Mein Kampf and lamenting the fall of Rhodesia
“rich people should be allowed to rip things directly out of the hands of children” is a world class Take, linkedin has truly developed the juice
got to this part, burst out laughing and said "you fucking moron" out loud
When we see polling results like this, we know what must have happened: Socialist, liberal, and left attitudes and opinions have (once again!) all but vanished from the populace. Now everyone save for 11 percent is a Tory, and Labour must tack further rightward to find the median voter
"Real Linux has never been tried"
People right of center all saying the same talking points: echo chamber People left of center all saying the same talking points: echo chamber Centrists all saying the same talking points: great minds think alike
Especially as it's yet to be proven as an actual contributor to 'electability' (many serving politicians were elected while neutral-to-supportive of trans folk and *then* shifted terfwards)
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
I don't believe in "shared reality" as something that meaningfully exists, but it is *stressful* to know that there are thousands of internet gumshoes who are, through sheer ignorance of the tech, using generative AI to plunge thousands of people into a reality completely divorced from our own.
The Jewish Council of Australia stands with First Nations people after the cowardly Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty. Meanwhile, the Antisemitism Envoy - who you would think might be a tad disturbed about Nazis rampaging through our streets and committing acts of violence - has said nothing.
Dragonball Z, aimed at young boys, features multiple deaths by stabbing, crushing, explosion, cutting in half and being outright vaporized. Several characters have either attempted or succeeded at genocide.
Waiting with bated breath for "gender at conception" to become a thing
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
If she's named herself after the reporter from TMNT it kinda tracks that she'd have the nerd energy to pull that off
Richest immigrant on Earth calls for remigration
SANDWICH THROWN
Oh man, if you thought generational politics were rancid before, wait until a huge block of millennial men hit mid-life crisis...
Real Borisism has never been tried
Part of their whole argument is that kids shouldn't be allowed to do it because it alters your biology!
So all this time it turns out conservatives didn't care about conservatism and liberals didn't believe in liberalism? Yeah, I can see why modern politics is such a mess.
That's what makes it funny
Bonus points for Mid being another Final Fantasy name
Become a silent patron for a whole bunch of struggling content creators/artists/developers on here
And not just for purely selfless reasons. The amount of sweet, sweet art/writing/entertainment (including shitposts) that get created when all those people don't have to devote all their time, energy and resources into staying housed and fed would honestly pay for itself
Anti-immigration protesters say Australia’s migration is at record highs – but the figures tell a different story
I'm BAAAAAAACK! That's right! it's me, Doc, and I'm here to tell you all about guns in first person shooters, hopefully helping you be way more creative in your weapon design by breaking 'em down into the basics that's right, it's FPS Design 102: da guns docseuss.medium.com/the-way-of-t...
The utter shamelessness of it is what's so galling, I think. They're not even bothering to put a fig leaf of concern - if it doesn't affect Israel it's not the kind of antisemitism they care about
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Average "white guy in an anime" name
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste
Me age 10: We must all work together to save humanity from its immediate and pressing concerns, climate change and automation Me age 20: see above Me age 30: see above Me age 40: yeah humanity probably doesn't deserve to be saved
Same deal with all those "heartwarming" stories about a 10-year old who raises money for her mother's cancer treatment or somesuch
Although I'm also a fan of the nailgun dangling folks from walls and the particle gun frying flesh off the bone
FEAR gets honorary mention on any article about satisfying weapon design purely on the strength of its shotgun
Look at any medieval sword manual, from just about any culture, and you will realize that "looking like a huge fuckin nerd" has always been an occupational hazard of sword fighting. It's only once the Renaissance came along that people started caring about looking cool while holding a blade.
And big media companies vanishing popular (but not popular enough) movies and TV shows into the aether because they aren't generating enough views so the only way to access them is through piracy.
the future of the internet is its past: a bunch of horny teenagers downloading “milfs-xxx.avi.exe” from sketchy websites and fucking up the family computer
Appropriately enough, the women profiled in this article are in an Australian state called Queensland.
According to Marlon, he never said this, he won't even say he agrees with the statement:
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Meanwhile every other week every major masthead feels the need to put up another interview interrogating how the Democrats are failing to respond to the wishes of a white racist who blames immigrants and woke for the rising price of groceries
David Rowe march from australia..Financial Review
You can also disable some other ML features this way (toggle them to false): browser.ml.chat.shortcuts browser.ml.enable extensions.ml.enabled docs.openwebui.com/tutorials/in...
Hey Firefox users.
We're going to need digital exorcists soon when some of the deadbots refuse to go away
DON'T stop calling but DO stop listing what the payment is for, if that was a thing you're doing *wearily* don't ask don't tell is back, and it's for everything now
The second film was contrarian to the point of trolling (I did like it overall but its critiques of the franchise were frequently clumsy) and the third film was a bunch of studio execs yelling "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!" at the second film for 2 hours and change
"Why haven't we set up dedicated left-wing media ecosystems to counteract Fox and Newsmax?" is just a roundabout way of asking "Why are there no leftist billionaires?"
A willingness to act in even the smallest capacity magnifies your number. If you are active then you're worth a hundred people who just sit there no matter what their convictions are. Even a phonecall a day makes the difference because there's a lot of us.
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
An increasing number of women are pulling on up to 40 kilograms of steel armour to take part in historic medieval combat.
I feel the same way about the opener for Maria + Holic, a gross-out, somewhat transphobic, lesbian comedy that was apparently animated by the Monogatari studio www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7zw...
Especially considering continues to be relevant throughout the book series and is instrumental in Bourne regaining his civilian identity and being able to live normally.
Hard agree. I'm generally pro-transhumanist but until accumulated generational wealth is no longer a thing I'd rather everyone kicks the bucket than risk a future where the same 100 billionaires wield absolute power for eternity and each successive generation is even more marginalised than the last.
I'm sorry, but unless it specifically originates in the Fasces region of Italy it's just sparkling authoritarianism (joke shamelessly stolen from ancient Twitter)
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to discover that Shadow Hearts was the sequel to Koudelka, a game that I don't think I've ever met anyone IRL who's played
"A generation of young people now know Trumpism as a normal aspect of American political life. And many others have found a pleasure in the new politics on offer that the old world of Obamas and McCains could never give them." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Jaws, but instead of a shark it's the vengeful revenant of a drowned murderer
If only a reinforced umbrella could protect you against psychic damage from the Trump administration
Of course, Sensible Centrists believe themselves to be simply superior to the large majority of the population that exists outside the sensible center, so it's not entirely surprising that they might not be too bothered about diseases that mostly prove fatal to their inferiors
A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book. It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life. (Published Sept. 2022)
Not just that, but an aspirational one
On the other hand, this is one of those rare days where scrolling social media has actually been somewhat enjoyable
Oh god... the memes are coming back to me...
If dying of old age and an unhealthy diet is violence then we should all aspire to die violent deaths
A surprising amount of wild animals completely lose their fight-or-flight instinct the moment they're covered in a comfy blankie
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
It finally happened.