2069: Copyright law will be strengthened to the point where the English language is split into fiefdoms based on who owns what words- if you wanna use the word “summer” that’ll be 50 cents to the Coca Cola company.
Misspelling words becomes a misdemeanor as to discourage anti-corporate grassroots languages from forming- but if you mispell a word so badly that two different companies both claim you tried to spell their word, it’ll get caught in a copyright deadlock-
the legal battle between the two will last long after you’ve passed, so as long as you’re fine with your descendants being hit with the 50,000 dollar fine, you can go ahead and misydbe thq awl
Edgeworth only cares about important laws like “don’t kill people” he has no respect for trifling little inconveniences like “you can not freely investigate inside of an embassy without consent because it is foreign soil” or “you can not compel your employees to do additional unpaid work outside of their job description” and certainly not “you need to follow the speed limit.” Guy who is champing at the bit to mansplain the Autobahn to anyone in the general vicinity. His biggest success during his tenure as chief prosecutor is facilitating a statewide adoption of the jurist system, resulting in an unprecedented decline in false convictions. His most notorious failure is his deeply unsuccessful campaign to remove speed limits from various California highways.
what i’ve learned from my attempts to be more active in discords and other online communities is you just have to show up and participate in conversation and even if youre a little annoying or awkward eventually people will grow a fondness to you out of familiarity alone
been a year since i made this post and I wanna say the same also rings true from the other side. sometimes new people show up and they annoy me at first but after a while the rapport and familiarity takes over.
Apple propaganda notwithstanding, the reason tower PCs are big isn’t because they’re outdated. The reason tower PCs are so bulky is because they’re designed to be user serviceable. The case has lots of open space so your big, meaty hands can easily access all of the components, and everything is secured with friction-fit tabs and standard machine screws to minimise the need for specialised tools. A properly laid out tower PC is fully serviceable with a single Phillips-head screwdriver and no greater manual skill than your average Lego playset – heck, for some of the more modern case layouts you don’t even need the screwdriver, unless you’re performing major surgery like a full motherboard replacement.
Like, think about who benefits from convincing you that a fully modular computing device that can be serviced and repaired with your bare hands and minimal technical skill is unfashionable.
I pray the manufacturers will never take away my ability to KA-KLUNK a new PC part into the massive case, then plugging the thick power strips into each other like I am doctor Frankenstein puling my kreatur to greatness*
*‘greatness’ defined as playing minecraft without frame lag
canceled problematic babysitter for rolling eyes at the “Remember to respect the parents complete ownership and control over every aspect of the lives of these humans!” parts of “how to work with kids” advices
people like to argue “ok but what if the complete ownership over humans was really justified this time and you were the asshole for not thinking it is righteous” and you know I acknowledge that there is a line between not putting your nose in the business you don’t know about and not treating the rules of parents as the gospel, but we already live in a world accommodated to the complete ownership of kids so honestly it’s just tired. you dont need to defend the total control of parents that hard
you will be reading some advice over how You Should Treat Kids As Humans to Bond with Them! and the author will take a break to remind Unless The Parents Decided The Child Doesn’t Get To Be A Independent Human About This and it will be wrapped in cutesy language over how absolutely noble parents are and righteous for limiting autonomy
canceled problematic babysitter for rolling eyes at the “Remember to respect the parents complete ownership and control over every aspect of the lives of these humans!” parts of “how to work with kids” advices
people like to argue “ok but what if the complete ownership over humans was really justified this time and you were the asshole for not thinking it is righteous” and you know I acknowledge that there is a line between not putting your nose in the business you don’t know about and not treating the rules of parents as the gospel, but we already live in a world accommodated to the complete ownership of kids so honestly it’s just tired. you dont need to defend the total control of parents that hard
you will be reading some advice over how You Should Treat Kids As Humans to Bond with Them! and the author will take a break to remind Unless The Parents Decided The Child Doesn’t Get To Be A Independent Human About This and it will be wrapped in cutesy language over how absolutely noble parents are and righteous for limiting autonomy
I do want to note that the whole “women are allowed to dress masculine and wear trousers” thing needs to be viewed in its historical context:
People fought for generations to be allowed to dress that way. They fought hard to be allowed to wear pants. Blue jeans were a symbol of feminist revolution. Women were barred from workplaces and schools for wearing them.
This is not some a natural fact that women dressing masculine is less shocking and humiliating. That normalization was fought for and hard-won.
And yet so many people erase the struggles of those people who fought to make that happen and pretend that it’s just normal and natural that people don’t see women “dressed like men” as ridiculous.
The Marriage of Figaro has what’s called a “breeches role” which is a woman wearing men’s clothes playing am ale role. This was done partly due to the vocal range requirements, but in many cases it was done comedically. It was risque and sexualized or comic relief that a woman was dressed as a man.
Anti-suffragette posters mock women wearing pants - well they were bloomers and split skirts back then - and mocking more masculine cut styles of clothes. This was meant to portray this as ridiculous.
They mocked the “new woman” in Weimar Germany, lamenting that they were too masculine.
This is a political cartoon from the 1920s depicting a woman in masculine dress deciding which bathroom to use:
Sorry but you’re erasing these struggles and flattening history when you say this shit.
Women were killed and institutionalized in the struggle to make this happen. It really fucking bothers me the way it’s framed as “people just don’t find it as weird when women dress masculine.”
Yes they fucking did. Until women and transmasculine people fought for their right to wear what they want. It’s normalized because people struggled to normalize it.
And it’s not normal everywhere. There are many countries where it’s still illegal for women to wear pants. Sudan, Saudi Arabia.
Even in the US, it’s forbidden and considered ridiculous in groups like the FLDS, the Amish, and the Hutterites.
We are flattening and erasing the struggles of women when we say these things. I know we’re trying to build theory here but you can’t build solid theory on a foundation of lies.
Unfollow notifications. When someone unfollows you, you receive a notification about it. The notification includes the last post of yours that the unfollower saw so you know what the final straw was.
If the unfollower was a mutual then this notification comes with stats about how long you were mutuals and a list of comutuals who have to pick sides in the divorce. The comutuals receive this notification too
Ability to edit other people’s replies.
Ability to edit other people’s blog themes.
The ability to gift debuffs like those cooking competition shows. Pay $15 to make someone you hate only be allowed to post 20 times a day. Pay $30 and they can only make posts out of the set of pre-approved family-friendly message options like the Webkinz chatroom.
De-blaze. Halt someone else’s post right in its tracks by removing all impressions. The more a post is circulating the more expensive this is.
30 Day Trial Follows. When you follow someone you can’t unfollow them for at least 30 days because c'mon, don’t you wanna at least give them a chance?
Obligatory “Tumblr houses”. You have to act really really excited for the yearly sportsball tournament or risk being shadowbanned. Your blog is forcibly themed after your Tumblr house.
Obligatory name, face, and address when you sign up. This isn’t for verification or anything this is explicitly for doxxing. Hopefully you’ll think twice about posting your rancid My Little Pony take now that you know the whole fandom can be at your doorstep in an hour.
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Haha, 😊 surely you mean it links to like some speculative information similar to my first point and–
Despite all of the anti-bullying assemblies that go down at schools, they get so much wrong.
There is no dichotomy between “good people” and “bullies”. Nobody fucking self ids as a bully, so presenting it as such creates a false sense of security that you and your chosen friends could never bully anyone. Since none of you are bad people, right?
I 100% believe that if they taught children to recognize actual bullying they’d quickly figure out the adults are among the worst offenders
does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man’s neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for “curly hair in medieval paintings”. it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it’s so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don’t wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something
People feel like they have to… Justify their ships now? When the hell did that start? Ask me why I ship something and it’s like, the characters were in a room together one time. The fuck more do you expect from me?
sometimes they werent even in the same room but like what if they were
I put them in a room together in my mind and they were quite cute
I just find it a bit exhausting that we spend so much time arguing about semantics. So much quibbling over exact wording when in reality most people don’t know that he invented a special glue that can let you walk up and down anything.
i never thought i was going to be held accountable for just saying any random bullshit that comes into my brain. but okay.
like in the way that he’s obtrusive to all his suspects in ways that they don’t expect, instead of lathering you with soap he’s crashing your dinner parties, putting you on the spot, getting a little personal, always being genial even when you’re being a prick. ‘just one more thing’ is the lush sample of columbo detectivery
Superman is an incredibly kind and tender character. (If he’s not being written that way, then he’s not being written well.) He inspires hope not just through his heroics, but also through his kindness toward other people. That’s his thing. Don’t you DARE call tenderness a “weakness.” Get your toxic masculinity the hell away from me and go read a badly written Batman comic if you want a “tough” male character.
Why on EARTH would someone think Superman being tough and Superman being kind are contradictory?
Is that a Snyder fan telling someone that “you’re wrecking the character, create something new instead of making an interpretation that’s so off-base”?
Because Snyder is the guy who wanted the Greek Gods to all be Kryptonians and the Amazons to be descended from them.
Where’s that comic where Superman comforts Billy?
I saw that tweet by Gunn and thought “So, like regular Superman?”
Kyle sounds like Lex Luthor who believed that Superman doesn’t have a Civilian identity because such a godlike being would see it as beneath him. Also here you go @simon-newman
These few pages legit make me cry
That’s not just for acting, that’s life advice. Seriously deep wisdom right there.
Only the strong can be gentle, because the weak don’t have the option of causing harm. Gentleness is the virtue that Superman can best exemplify, by being so strong that the only thing stopping him is himself.
I am so glad that someone who actually likes Superman is writing Superman now
Superman’s whole thing, at least to me, is that he isn’t human and yet has more humanity in him than all of humanity itself. He looks at our fucked up planet and all the fucked up people on it and chooses to help us. He could easily stop crime through fear and pain (like we see in Injustice) but does things with kindness instead.
He’s tough AND touchy-feely and I wouldn’t change that for the world.
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