Snot Flickerman

3B

That’s one more than 2B so she must be really hot!

/nierjokes

AMD knew what they were doing.

Isn’t it canon in some of the comic books that Gotham is legitimately cursed and it doesn’t matter how much charity and good works Wayne does, it’s just always going to be bad?

Lemmy users reading this:

But I really don’t want to be seen as one member of that stupid group or people.

Let me ask you, when you think of Germany in 1940, do you think deeply about all the Germans who weren’t Nazis?

Whether we like it or not, that’s how history will remember us. The only ones who are remembered outside of that tend to people who fought against Nazism at great personal risk. I am in poverty and in ill health, I will doubtfully be able to achieve that kind remembrance for myself, more likely to become a statistical death, one of the many killed in Trump’s consolidation of power.

That’s a take that ignores the history of the Soviet Union, it’s collapse in 1991, and Russia’s embrace of capitalism and oligarchy after that. Putin himself didn’t even come into direct power until 1999.

I’m not even sure if brainwashed is the right term since it’s clearly a deep anti-intellectualism coupled with deep resentment of established society. They have been voting for this kind of thing in the USA long before Putin got his disinformation machine involved.

You kind of need a brain to have washed and “you’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

And y’all is technically for a small group of people, when referring to a large group of people (like a whole country):

All y’all

is actually the correct terminology.

Thus:

All y’all can go fuck yourselves.

As a US citizen, it makes me so happy that this is making Canada and Europe become stronger and more willing to stand up for themselves.

Since the end of World War II, the USA has been a big bully swinging it’s dick around fucking up the planet and getting hardly any consequences for being such a dick. The only reason we had a period of relative “stability” was because no one would stand up to the country that was siphoning off the wealth of the rest of the world for its own. The USA decimated countless countries and enabled despots who were willing to give the USA what it wanted. (*cough Saddam Hussein, Operation Ajax cough)

This honestly has been a long time coming and well deserved. It is going to hurt me and everyone I love, but too many US citizens have been ignoring this festering wound of a problem for eighty years.

It implies that that’s a quality you should be judging people on, even if their looks have no bearing on the situation.

That certainly shouldn’t be how it is, but there’s a lot of evidence to support that it is how it is. Just because we don’t like it being that way doesn’t mean it doesn’t impact people’s perceptions.

Forbes article about the phenomenon:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/11/04/attractive-people-have-a-big-advantage-in-the-job-interview/

Harvard study about the “Beauty Premium”:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3043406/mobius_beauty.pdf

Beauty and the Labor Market (1994), referenced by the Harvard study:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117767

To quote Eddie Izzard from her special Dress to Kill:

And… As I say, 70 per cent how you look, 20 per cent how you sound, only 10 per cent is what you say. He said, “I am a doughnut,” they went wild!

https://guykawasaki.com/remarkable-people/

He has a podcast, seems pretty good.

Damn, incredibly sad. Soul Reaver was a relatively unique game at the time and had interesting writing and ideas.

Seconding BSD if only for this li’l guy. Got that Lucifer vibe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon#Use_in_operating_system_logos

Thanks, Caroline Ellison, for burning this fucker to the ground.

She got a lot of shit just for looking awkward but she came out seeming like the only person with real regrets and an intent to take him down, even if she went down, too. That’s pretty rare.

So… are you the most racist man alive?

Don Hertzfeldt made some amazing short films with a really, really simple art style.

The message sometimes matters more than the quality of the art. There is still a level of high quality to it despite the seemingly simple art style.

Are they getting too high on their own products?

Yes and they literally have turned the idea of Admin Rights into the Divine Right of Kings.

“I know how to be an admin, thus I should run the fucking world.”

When Cisco helped roll out The Great Firewall of China, they made great pains to explain that all they were actually doing was setting up the hardware and software to do what they were already designed to do. Computers and computer networks were never designed to be democratic in nature at all. Now that computers run the world, these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

Everyone acts like Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he was a reddit founder.

He is married to Serena Williams. Williams has been a focal point of hate from the right wing for decades (including internationally). Literally years of unnecessary hate and derision on her because she didn’f fit stereotypical beauty guidelines and is a badass tennis player (a very white dominated sport). She also literally has first hand experience of having her medical issues ignored by doctors during her pregnancy, which happens at a far greater rate for black women.

Williams may be rich, but she was never obscene rich, and she got where she was squarely off her real talents. She also was part of a Superbowl show which made a point to critique where America is at and where it is headed, particularly in respect to race relations. A superbowl show that made right wingers collectively melt down.

I’m saying people are acting like she, a black woman who has experienced direct adversity from the right-wing, has no impact on how Ohanian conducts himself or how he approaches life, and that we should expect the same-old, same-old techbro bullshit from him. I just don’t think that’s the case after they’ve been married so long.

Look I get why everybody wants to shit all over this, and for good reasons.

But we can’t all be like “Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl performance was a deep political critique on the problems in America and the resurgence of a racial divide in America!” that literally featured Serena Williams crip walking, and turn around and act like she has zero influence on her husband Alexis Ohanian, his politics, or his understanding of where America is at.

I am cautiously optimistic.

Mike Masnick is a good egg, which makes him valuable in times like these… Just like good eggs.