Funny how they got rid of the mob vote after PirateSoftware had a good rant about how the mob vote was stupid, that implementing all 3 mobs was almost no work at all that could be done in less than a day.

That my family cared about me and supported me.

The main argument is that the means dictates the ends, so if we want a non violent (and non opressing) society, punching people won’t help.

And this failed logic is exactly why we are where we at right now, on the brink of the Fourth Reich rising across the US and Europe.

Because tolerant people have forgotten the most important thing about a tolerant society.

That it must be rigorously and viciously defended from those who seek to exploit the social contract to elevate their attacks on it, and it requires far more than words and wind to achieve that… again, as evidence of where we are now as a society. Because their ultimate goal is to undo the society we love, and replace it with oppression, fear, and hatred.

Hes a dancing monkey that brings in tons of ratings, viewership, and revenue.

So media has a vested financial interest in giving him tons of coverage, especially soft coverage, to get eyes on products. Its also why they have a vested interest in his winning, and are doing everything they can (including a mass hysterical hallucination that Biden was somehow old and incompetent due to having jet lag after a whirlwind 3 day international political trip) to ensure trump remains favorable in the eyes of people who wouldnt vote for him if they got the 100% unfiltered coverage about him.

Thats the biggest issue.

There are other issues, of course, helping this along (and benefiting from the above mentioned media bias) are things like the fact that he is a foreign puppet being manipulated by Putin mostly, and by others less so. Which is why they, especially russia, has invested so much money into the NRA, Republican Packs, and most recently, internet jackwads that balding beanie wearing fuckstick and his ilk. To have a chorus of mouth pieces pushing false news and pro-russian narratives, to undermine our democracy and reduce to outright eliminate our presence on the global stage as a bulwark against countries like Russia.

You also have petty powermongers at home that are sounding his call for dictatorial power so they can get their own petty feifdoms.

And the billionaire conservatives who want the world to be a festering cesspit of poverty so they can sleep on their mountains of gold… and are using the media they control to further their goals, by lifting trump up and knocking everyone else down.

and finally, you have the lowest strata, his voters, Most of which vote for him because they want their women to be property, and their non-white neighbors to be property too. and they don’t care how deep into hell everything goes as long as they can be racist twats who don’t have to self censor and are free of repercussions for their twattery.

Theres more minutae to it, and several other layers and strata, but this is kinda the general broad strokes.

I lost a tooth to one of these things.

To be fair, a bunch of teenagers were also involved, making it spin at about mach 87 before it smashed into my mouth.

the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)

Getting people to agree to a mistaken, misinformed premise does not mean you are right.

Lest you also believe the world is a flat pancake and other various nuttery.

Also, you clearly know what the difference is, since your list of examples is nothing but social media.

Again. Stop trying to make everything social media. You have all the social media you need to fuel your need for attention, as is. You don’t need to make non-social media into more of it.

Engaging with people does not make it a social media platform.

A bathroom wall covered in graffiti messages is not social media.

an email is not social media.

text messages are not social media.

a brick with “Fuck You” written on it, thrown through a window, is not social media.

A restaurant you go to with friends is not social media.

A webforum is not social media.

IMs are not social media.

Just because you socialize on/in/at something, does not magically make it social media… Because Social Media is a very specific type of thing.

Stop trying to make everything into freaking facebook.

Its a webforum.

Webforums are not social media.

doesnt that happen every time it rains in texas?

Don’t underestimate how much resentment and anger a privileged people can develop when they don’t get every. single. thing. they think they are entitled to.

as someone who has strung a ton of lights the wrong way around on more than one occasion… I can understand the desire for some magic solution that doesnt require undoing and redoing your work…

but fuck, You don’t mess around with electricity.

People also make these stupid suicide cables to plug generators into houses during disasters, often backfeeding power into the lines that may be down and can cause serious injury to workers trying to restore power.

This post really left an impact on my thought process.

I’m sure they were kept at the same tip top condition as the rest of the russian military complex’s equipment.

Did you enjoy a nice coprophilic coffee with your low hanging fruit?

If someone served me literal-shit coffee, I’d punch them in the mouth.

I dont know.

If I had my choice between a CPU that has a vulnerability that can only be exploited if the system is already compromised

or a CPU that are full of oxidation cancer, or frying themselves and doing irreparable damage… Which the company is being excessively shady about concretely admitting to any RMA promises and wwill all eventually die in short order…

I think I’m gonna go with the Ryzen and not leave leave my computer outside at defcon.

yep, came to say the same thing.

Sometimes thinking of the problem in a different way, such as describing it to another person, can help you look at it from a different direction and realize the problem.

Thats only reserved for the TF2 elite Pyros.

wait until you see him use a keyboard. he pushes W and everything!