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2 months agoIs it really worth your privacy and freedom just to play Fortnite or whatever?
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61·2 months agoEmissions from AI datacenters offend because of just how unnecessary they are.
1·2 months agoI literally posted the same suggestion in this community three days ago as a joke!
What the fuck.
31·2 months agoIt shouldn’t ever be, because The Beaverton is basically the Canadian Onion.
🙁 Booooo for satire getting my hopes up!
1·2 months agoBut even if he hadn’t, Paris would’ve been a reasonable choice. St. Louis, not so much.
41·2 months agoI like how you say “or escalated” to “both sides” it and avoid admitting Republicans started all the wars.
I never thought about it before reading the article you posted, but WTF?
Holding the first modern games in Athens is obvious.
Going to Paris next makes sense; it’s one of the most prominent cities in the world (and was possibly even more so in 1900).
But St. Louis, Missouri?!
I’m reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics to figure out how the fuck it happened, and yep, the story is pretty stupid.
8·2 months agoTheoretically doing something right, you mean.
3·2 months agoThese days, even if you pay more you still risk getting something that isn’t “decent” a lot of the time anyway, and I’m not willing to pay a lot more for something like Mitutoyo that actually has brand reputation.
7·2 months agoFascist TV networks (a) normalizing the assumption that DHS is somehow worthwhile to begin with, and then (b) blaming Democrats for the Republicans’ refusal to fund it.
Ads
Driving in cities
Closed-source software
Edit: I missed a word in the title. I don’t think these things “secretly;” I express them very vocally at every opportunity.
I got old-school calipers with a vernier scale because I was sick and tired of replacing the coin cell batteries in the digital ones.
6·2 months agoYeah, sorry about that. I’d like to think my comment was less of a serious suggestion and more of a pointing out of what y’all are up against, but I’m just feeling real cynical right now.
Reminds me of one of my favorite videos.
background
MARTA - Atlanta’s transit system, created in the 1960s. It was originally supposed to go to the 5 innermost counties of metro Atlanta (Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton), but the 1965 ‘authorization to participate in the system’ referendum failed in Cobb. Long story short, MARTA ended up only in Fulton and Dekalb until 2014, when Clayton joined. It’s still not in Cobb or Gwinnett.
Cobb County - a county in the northwestern suburbs of Atlanta, known for being relatively white, wealthy, and racist (especially on its northeastern side).
In the decades since MARTA was founded, there have been repeated attempts to get Cobb to join, but it always fails and one of the biggest arguments the opposition uses is that it would bring “crime” (which around here, is well-understood to be a dog-whistle for “black people” in that context).
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I should fucking hope so! “Register to oppose being forced to register” is exactly the kind of cynical Catch-22 bullshit the fascist regime would love to do, if they weren’t luckily too stupid to think of it.
I hate to say it, but considering how these things tend to go, y’all should probably be using some of that LLM astroturfing software to fight fire with fire.
Also, cross-post to more general-interest communities. I saw it because I read ‘All’, but not everybody does, and (short of the suggestion above) y’all are gonna need a lot more than just trans people themselves opposing it in order for it to fail.
If every CEO who made the decision to implement enshittification suddenly dropped dead (of natural causes, surely) shortly thereafter, maybe it would stop happening.
Hence the scare quotes.
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