the humble “like” is oft mocked despite what it does for us. “like, three people” is a vastly different statement from “three people”. “and i was like ‘what the fuck’” is vastly different from “and i said 'what the fuck’”. i love you “like” and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
really cool article about the FBI ignoring a neo nazi mass shooter who would eventually commit a mass shooting at a gay nightclub so they could focus on planting a pink haired cop in a protest movement and get her to introduce these protestors to some hilariously obvious undercover cops posing as arms dealers. the SOMEX parts of this are serious tho they are using social media to gather info on protestors and target them and fabricate charges and make their lives hell and it is causing the death of movements like this.
how fucking arrogant can you be to think any eugenics program could ever weed out “fascist genetics”. even if the “dark triad” was a reliable precursor to fascist ideology and even if “dark triad traits” could be reliably linked to genotype (they aren’t and they can’t be), how fucking far to jupiter are you if you think you can remove it from a population of seven billion, let alone in some “anarchist” manner? how do you programmatically sterilize anyone in an “anarchist” manner?
Do you ever see some discourse float by and think “Maybe I’m not hanging out on the worst parts of Tumblr, actually”
Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it’s a recent term.
Although not going by the term “asexual” yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I’m so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.
Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.
If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.
sometimes i forget wizardposting isn’t a regular occurrence on any other website. what do you mean your posts don’t randomly get taken over my evil wizards casting spells on your peunis
There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.
Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.
If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.
Bullet-point summary of what’s going on, for anyone who isn’t aware:
Following the scrub of the first launch attempt (due to a leaky valve in ULA’s Centaur upper stage – nothing to do with the spacecraft) an unrelated problem was found: a helium link in Starliner’s propulsion system
This leak was well within safety tolerances, and after some analysis they decided to go ahead with launch without attempting a repair
Eventually, after another scrub (due to a power supply failure for one of the launch sequencers – again, nothing to do with the spacecraft), Starliner got off the ground and docked to the ISS.
During the approach phase of the docking, two more helium leaks were discovered, and then a fourth leak was discovered.
Also during the approach phase, several of Starliner’s RCS thrusters failed. Mission controllers managed to restore all but one of these failed thrusters.
None of these failures have breached safety margins.
Because this is a TEST FLIGHT, NASA and Boeing have repeatedly postponed the end of the mission in order to, y'know, TEST THE SPACECRAFT. (These failures occurred in Starliner’s service module (which is discarded upon re-entry), the only place they can test it is in situ.)
The crews of Starliner and Expedition 71 are well-provisioned for this extension. They aren’t just gonna let everyone run out of food or over-saturate the CDRA or whatever.
These events have been reported on (by idiots) as “Starliner is stranded on the ISS??????????????? SpaceX will have to save Starliner because broken and stranded?????????????????? Boeing spacecraft not safe to fly not safe to return to Earth???????????”
And thus you get comment threads full of horseshit like this:
TL;DR Boeing’s new crew capsule has suffered some minor malfunctions and has been asked to stay in space for longer so they can figure out the whys and the hows, because this is a test flight and that’s what you do on test flights – you test the spacecraft.
Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made from—things like chicken nuggets and patties. Also, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it.
Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this.
There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.
But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?
High five, America!
oh my god
bitch that’s the tubby custard machine
date of origin: 2012
A classic
this just makes me wanna get some nuggets from mcdonalds for some reason
the fact op thought they could even get away with that blatant misinformation in the first place when the graphic they used was the fucking Tubby Custard machine amuses me like.
Even if you didn’t know what Teletubbies was that thing does not at all look like something you’d find in a factory, it’s colorful and colors cost extra.
that’s because OP’s post is a joke
I feel weird that I’m been here long enough to remember the original context–OP is mocking this post:
the picture clearly looks like some sort of strawberry ice cream, so OP did a copypasta of the original text and replaced with picture with something even funnier.
Both posts went around a lot, but it’s funny that the second, mocking post is now being reposted like OP is some kind of idiot instead of a comedic genius
does anyone have that video where toby fox is giving a speech in japanese about video games n when he says the “project” part of “touhou project” he briefly drops into the strongest american accent I’ve ever heard n then immediately switches back to perfect japanese pronunciation. been thinking about it all day
I like so fully mean this btw. “Evil” is just a way to placate ourselves and put imaginary distance between ourselves and our loved ones, and the ability to do harm
I am just as capable of harm as any other human. I am just as capable of committing rape as the people who have raped me. I am just as capable of abuse as those who have abused me. And so are you.
Those who have harmed me are just as human as I am. The harm I have experienced is the result of socio-material conditions, not some ontological bad-ness.
Evil is a convenient lie, but also one that is devoid of any hope. It’s convenient because it ‘others.’
If I am incapable of harming, I am released from the responsibility to avoid doing harm because I am incapable of harming, and because I’m incapable of harming, I am released from the responsibility of avoiding doing harm, ad infinitum. Any harm that i do perpetuate then becomes excusable and metaphysically segregated from the forms of harm we have deemed to be evil, all in the service of helping me sleep soundly. It’s a pacifier.
But with that convenient excuse comes existential anguish, and with that anguish comes complacency. If the ills of our world are caused by some fundamental, immutable force, well… What can be done? Nothing. Best just wait for God to get rid of it. Or if you don’t believe in God, best to just keep your nose down and look out for thee and thine till youre dirt. A belief in evil is a belief that our human lives are futile.
The reality is that we live in a purely physical universe. Metaphysical concepts (like evil) are a reaction to and conceptualization of the material world, not the other way around. The things we ascribe to be stemming from evil are, in reality, materially rooted, and thus able to be altered through material means–means that humanity has domain over. In this way, a lack of belief in evil is not only infinitely more hopeful than a belief in it, but infinitely more pragmatic as well.
The Patrician steepled his hands and looked at Vimes over the top of them. “Let me give you some advice, Captain,” he said.
“Yes, sir?”
“It may help you make some sense of the world.”
“Sir.”
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people,” said the man. “You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”
He waved his thin hand toward the city and walked over to the window. “A great rolling sea of evil,” he said, almost proprietorially. “Shallower in some places, of course, but deeper, oh, so much deeper in others. But people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end. Amazing!” He slapped Vimes good-naturedly on the back.
“Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no. I’m sorry if this offends you,” he added, patting the captain’s shoulder, “but you fellows really need us.”
“Yes, sir?” said Vimes quietly.
“Oh, yes. We’re the only ones who know how to make things work. You see, the only thing the good people are good at is overthrowing the bad people. And you’re good at that, I’ll grant you. But the trouble is that it’s the only thing you’re good at. One day it’s the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it’s everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one’s been taking out the trash. Because the bad people know how to plan. It’s part of the specification, you might say. Every evil tyrant has a plan to rule the world. The good people don’t seem to have the knack.”
“Maybe. But you’re wrong about the rest!” said Vimes. “It’s just because people are afraid, and alone—” He paused. It sounded pretty hollow, even to him. He shrugged. “They’re just people,” he said. “They’re just doing what people do. Sir.”
Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile. “Of course, of course,” he said. “You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you’d go quite mad. Otherwise you’d think you’re standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand.”
wow i wish there was an easier way to convert ntfs to a reasonable filesystem without copying 3.5tb of data between partitions
Ok but for the longest time I had a couple drives left over from a windows installation that I just used with ntfs. I totally understand how you ended up in that situation
I’d probably just leave it alone if Proton was cooler about it, but alas
This reminds me I should probably back up my windows partition
wow i wish there was an easier way to convert ntfs to a reasonable filesystem without copying 3.5tb of data between partitions
Ok but for the longest time I had a couple drives left over from a windows installation that I just used with ntfs. I totally understand how you ended up in that situation
I’d probably just leave it alone if Proton was cooler about it, but alas
This reminds me I should probably back up my windows partition
Don’t get sucked into the “if they really cared I wouldn’t have to say something” spiral. No matter how close you are with someone, it’s unfair to expect them to know things you haven’t actually communicated.
i hate it when game devs put “fixed several issues” in patch notes
no. tell me what you fixed. i wanna know what the glitch was.
you know those patch notes that are like “fixed an issue where if the player sat in a bush for too long, they’d become the size of a skyscraper”
i wanna read those. tell me those.
Adjusted value of Bees.
Now that was a special one… because every item in the game had a minimum value, and a beehive was a container for bees, which each had a minimum value… which meant the moment one of your dwarves picked up a beehive, your entire fortress’ net worth skyrocketed… a value used in determining how powerful the foes that visit and try to murder you are.
Reblogging for the explanation of what “adjusted value of bees” actually means, because I know several folks following this blog have been wondering.
Okay but you’ve all forgotten the best Dwarf Fortress bug of all “Flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy”
Actually I lied it’s the one where after a major update werewolves and vampires started climbing the nearest tree and refusing to come down. It turned out that he’d given evil creatures the ability to sense each other, but forgotten to set a maximum range on it, so werewolves were aware Hell was underground and trying to flee by climbing
Do not make the MISTAKE of thinking you need to put your side forward. The Guardian is transphobic as fuck, and will twist your words. DO NOT ENGAGE.
By the way, this is in the aftermath of the Cass Report, and the goal will be to make Trans DIY something that needs to be regulated or stamped out. DO NOT ENGAGE.
interesting how transmascs & transfems alike think losing weight is the answer to pass as our chosen gender…. almost as if fat people are never Truly afforded a passing gender regardless of trans status. as fat people we are never Truly seen as Men or Women. anyway fuck that notion & if u think u need to lose weight to pass that’s the devil talking
i’d also like to point out that this is a problem with people seeking to present androgynously. even androgyny must be skinny in the eyes of the world. in order to even be a person outside of gender, you mustn’t be fat
i want fat nb folks to know that you aren’t any less of a person or any less androgynous for being fat
What if I told you that the lore behind the housing areas means that these neighborhoods are entirely populated by other adventurers and mercenaries, which means that statistically they are all doing this
Now I’m thinking the opposite, where the gossipy neighbors are seeing all this and just “Damn she’s been wailing on that dummy for a while and still hasn’t broken it?” “Yeah she’s new to being a Viper I’m sure she’ll be breaking them in no time.”
