Goddamit I’m just sitting here waiting to lose my job over this fuckery.

I miss the minutes when this term was just used unironically and hadn’t yet become a magat slur.

Show zero tolerance for others speaking in favor of it. You don’t have to win every argument. You have to let them know that their “political beliefs” are fighting words and they’re going to get a fight whenever they try to speak them.

Yep, convenience of plopping the phone down really is 100% of it for me. Especially with Apple’s magnets setup, it’s a one-hand, one-second operation, and then the phone is standing at attention on its cradle stand. The thought of having a dangling cable on my desk and picking it up and fiddling to plug it in then laying the phone flat seems like something from 10 years ago. I’ve even forgotten once or twice what kind of port my phone has.

“Source of all problems?” If you exaggerate it right in your question and then ask if it’s exaggerated, of course the answer will be yes.

“It’s just a tool” yes and when people say “social media” they mean the whole combination of the tools and how they are getting used. The whole “it’s just a tool” argument isn’t worth much. Yes, it is, and now that it’s been let loose in the world, we see how it is being used.

A match is “just a tool” but in a forest that’s dripping with gasoline, you can see how that tool will do exactly one job.

Elon held an all hands at the company to announce “I’m back in charge” and the financial press are reporting that “the markets rewarded it.” Meaning the stock went up. Which makes me want to puke.

A 14yo was the first to fire at Marshalls at Ruby Ridge.

Forgive him for what? I recall there was drama around this show but I legit couldn’t understand what actually happened.

I’d rather do that than arm people with assault rifles so they can live in remote rural areas where herds of feral pigs are an issue. Yes this is an actual argument people make in favor of keeping assault rifles legal. “What if I need to stop a stampede of 80 feral hogs? This is a weekly occurrence on my property.”

Frankly, if feral hogs have you running scared, it’s not your property, it’s theirs.

Yeah OP needs to define what “slow” means to them. You could say that a one-week delayed effect is slow. Or you could say that it’s only slow if it takes months of exposure.

I’ve never seen anyone even think twice about the Tears of Lys or The Strangler. And after Milk of the Poppy, it’s established that we may expect some similarity to reality in this world.

LOL I knew that was going to be the link :)

Keep those out of my pants too!

He wants to be guaranteed a woman and then to have her loyalty guaranteed.

These are obviously the desires of a man who cannot find and keep the loyalty of a mate just on his own merits. No, he needs the state to help him bag a wife.

I’ve heard it said that marriage was invented by men as a sort of peace agreement to guarantee one woman per man so that no men were totally shut out of sex. In earlier times, when wealthy or powerful men hoarded the women, this led to serious problems from those men on the losing end of the society (rape, terrorism, even war).

So yeah, in essence, this douche is trying to level the playing field between his sorry ass and more successful men.

Get your laws out of my pants.

This. This. This.

Everyone should watch this. Even people who know about rank choice voting.

Reality

Just 25 years experience developing websites and apps. Websites are thin clients. Every line of JS that executes in your browser is generated by more server side code, and that’s not even to speak of the middle tier and back end. So yeah. A majority of software is not on the client. Unless you’re doing it incredibly wrong.

EDIT: oh wait, are you counting the Windows OS, etc? I’m counting code controlled by YouTube which they would even be able to detect an error for.

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“Hey boss? I got a user here who’s blocking our ads and cussing us out.”

“Oh dear. Better give him whatever he wants.”