I’m surprised there isn’t more “And then someone followed the ICE agents home and shot them dead in their driveway” happening yet.
Be funny if that did happen, and the jury refused to indict. I think our faith in institutions are so low that that’s plausible, now.
replaced with a government that serves the will of its citizens.
What are we going to do about the 20 to 40 percent of people who support ICE and other horrors?
edit for clarity: replace “this” with concrete
This is more elegant and detailed than my usual “hang them”.
They do not. They are stupid.
I only buy drm free music and then back it up somewhere myself. Bandcamp at least is drm free, but who knows if they’ll turn to shit after being bought and sold.
That won’t work if the check is server side, and they don’t send the article content to you at all without paying. That seems to be the case here.
What’s the saying? Some people are more concerned with order than justice?
I’d see that a lot with my old coworkers. They’d rather just not talk about something than be mildly uncomfortable.
Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn’t have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.
There’s some spots in the big nyc parks where you’re surrounded by trees and can pretend you’re not in a big city. That’s all I’ve got.
Outside the city it gets surprisingly conservative sometimes. I knew someone who had family north of Albany, and their neighbor flew a confederate flag. Probably a maga flag now.
Since when did zitron paywall his posts?? I usually read them and I understand giving content away for free is largely unsustainable, but I’m too unemployed to want to pay $7/mo
I think it’s a riff on an old meme I don’t quite remember. But the idea is like,
Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says “oh you’re playing checkers because you hate chess!?”. You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)
So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.
There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.
Also it’s not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ… or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.
If only separated bike lanes were more common. I’m really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised that discord is getting shittier. It’s a private for profit org. Not getting shitty is an exception.
Hegseth is a cartoon villain that shouldn’t be anywhere near a position of power
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reposted and praised a video interview of a self-described Christian nationalist pastor whose church doesn’t believe women should be allowed to vote.
Just an utter scumbag.
One of the guys at my old job submitted a PR with tests that basically just mocked everything, tested nothing. Like,
with patch("something.whatever", return_value=True):
assert whatever(0) is True
assert whatever(1) is True
Except for a few dozen lines, with names that made it look like they were doing useful.
He used AI to generate them, of course. Pretty useless.
then it would force them to actually confront the morality of themselves eating meat.
For many people, “I am a good person” is a core belief. An emotionally strong person may be able to look at a challenge to their core beliefs, assess its validity, and adjust. Most people are not emotionally strong. They see this thing like vegetarianism as an attack on their core self. And since they are not emotionally sound people, they lash out or make excuses. That’s easier than accepting maybe they’re not flawless paragons of virtue.
The oatmeal did a comic about this: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
D&D webcomic “the order of the stick” also did a comic that touches on it. One of the characters says that people like this, who refuse to look in the mirror and honestly assess maybe they’ve done something bad, are cowards. https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1151.html
And honestly that’s kind of it. People are scared, and scared people are stupid. The big “i eat nothing but MEAT” people are probably, contrary to their posturing, cowards. Worse than children, because they’ll probably never grow up.
I feel like this is just illegal in states that require two party consent for recording, but I’m not a lawyer.
It’s also just generally a bad idea and everyone involved in making it should be barred from working in technology.
People are emotionally invested in eating meat and it’s stupid.
Is this what typical people eat? Oof