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- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 3 hours ago:
Some people ask “why are you hotboxing a lobster?”
Others ask why not. Others dare to wonder, to dream.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 5 days ago:
He might’ve stopped some of the more dramatic hand movements to keep attention away from the bruising on his wrists.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
and it’s a multi-billion dollar corporation, that already makes more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes, that actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don’t pay, when they’ve got a practical monopoly in the “free video sharing platform” space. And you’re whiteknighting for them. 🤡 Image
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
“If you just give them your wallet right away, the mugging isn’t so bad, really. They didn’t even kick my teeth in!” 🤓
- Comment on The universe thinks you're gay. 2 weeks ago:
The universe thinks correctly.
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 2 weeks ago:
we’ve been in the dumbest timeline for a good, long while now – you’re just now figuring this out?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That’s some good bait, right there.
- Comment on North Korean defector escapes, wrapped in foam and swimming for 10 hours 5 weeks ago:
So that’s a no, then? Figured as much. Better luck next time, then.
- Comment on North Korean defector escapes, wrapped in foam and swimming for 10 hours 5 weeks ago:
Do you have any evidence that this person fled North Korea because they were a criminal? And I mean actual crime, not “forgetting to save the portrait of Dear Leader first in a house fire” crime.
No? Then why are you talking out your ass?
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Ah, that’s why.
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 5 weeks ago:
I got accused of being an LLM for the first time just a few days ago. Was pretty funny.
On the other hand, it’s when they actually get good enough at convincingly astroturfing to be indistinguishable from a normal human user that dead internet theory will truly take over. This could’ve already happened, but I’ve seen enough stupid shit vomited by LLMs to know it probably hasn’t happened yet. Once I stop seeing that for a while, then I’ll get worried.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
at this point I think my faith in other people is too damaged to accept such a thing from anyone I don’t know personally – (and alas, I have no friends up north), but I do hope you rescue someone worth saving. Not all of us didn’t see this coming. Nobody deserves that fate, not a migrant, not someone trans or someone poor or who jaywalked while black or anybody who stepped on that orange rapists bone-spurred toes.
Having said that, you should probably get rid of this comment, as I doubt Canada’s immigration authorities are very keen on marriage fraud, no matter how nice a gesture it may be.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
Currently shit scared as a gay guy with autism. I studied this, on my own, out of curiosity – how a relatively modern society can commit atrocities upon its own citizens that it deems “lesser”. In school, where we had entire chapters dedicated to things like the civil war and the war of 1812, WWI and WWII were split between a single chapter, and anything later was glossed over in even briefer fashion. My point is, nobody chased me down with homework, nobody made me learn the finer points of going from an economic crisis to an angry little man getting elected to gas chambers and piles of bodies. Nobody had to. I wanted to learn, so that I’d hopefully recognize them if they ever happened again. And now I can’t leave.
Also, hey, sidebar: anyone else finding the combination of “cutting NOAA funding”, “open air cages”, and “located in Florida, where devastating hurricanes regularly sweep through”, to be something Eichmann would’ve called genius? “Oops, we didn’t have any warning! Awww, shucks, shame about all those un-people we wanted to be rid of!” And the gators take care of the bodies. It’s brilliant, in a way.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 1 month ago:
now if only it wasn’t a chrome fork/Eich would take a long walk off a short pier.
alas, a man can dream.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 month ago:
And uses that peroxide to crap explosions at things. Extremely hardcore.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 1 month ago:
you know, I was just wondering, replaying through Black Flag, how a company could go from making the best pirate simulator to… yeah, no, that explains a lot if that’s how they think “fun” works nowadays.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
[with visibly bloodshot eyes] “Nah, man, I disagree with your definition there.”
- Comment on what 2 months ago:
that’s when you send the new offer of a whopping $21.37 and add “I’ll even throw in half a jimmy johns sammich if you accept in the next 30 minutes”
- Comment on choice 2 months ago:
God is dead and we killed him
- Comment on Epstein died by suicide, did not have 'client list': govt memo 2 months ago:
Oh there wasn’t any doubt on my part that he knew about it, just that he may or may not have “participated”. Now I’m quite certain.
- Comment on Epstein died by suicide, did not have 'client list': govt memo 2 months ago:
You know, when Elon said Trump was on the list, I figured there was about an 85-90% chance that was true. Like, given all the photos of Trump and Epstein together, I found it a very plausible claim, but I was also quite aware that Elon is a ketamine addicted narcissist and pathological bullshitter, so I figured there was at least some chance he was pulling it out of his ass just to fuck with Trump.
Now, however, I am 100% certain that list exists/existed, and that Trump is/was on it. Unfortunately, chances are good we’ll now never have proof.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 2 months ago:
Ah, what a marvelous idea, we should look to the present!
[reads the news]
… Hm. I think I may have noticed a problem with this theory.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
This is gonna be our white and gold/black and blue dress, huh?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
fair enough, goes to show the gaps in my knowledge – but after seeing one guy desperately trying to crawl away with his legs blown off before being blown up by a second drone, I decided that was all the Ukraine footage I needed to see.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but: has anyone in Ukraine actually tried a shotgun?
I generally try to avoid watching anything that’ll scar my psyche, but, as far as I’m aware soldiers in the field don’t usually carry shotguns, but rifles, in the anticipation of dealing with enemies wearing body armor/at some distance. And hitting a moving drone with a rifle, yes absolutely that’d be a bitch – one projectile is not enough, especially for a moving target.
Police (and I’m assuming ICE as well), generally dealing with people not equipped with body armor, tend to keep a shotgun handy for a multitude of reasons (breaching doors, not overpenetrating through walls, etc), and skeet shooting is already a thing (though admittedly it would still be harder if the drone was moving erratically).
All this is to say: I don’t know anything for a fact, because I’ve tried to avoid watching anything that’ll scar me, but has anyone in Ukraine on either side had access to a shotgun or two before getting turned into gibs? because I can absolutely believe that soldiers with rifles would fail to shoot a drone, but I wouldn’t be so quick to discount a couple people with shotguns unless that’s already a solution the Russians tried before the cope cages.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That sounds like a fine way to have your (presumably expensive) drone carrying your (presumably also expensive) camera hit with buckshot.
I’m not saying don’t try anyways. But there’s a good chance the gestapo just starts blastin’.
- Comment on Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok 2 months ago:
ah, so now instead of China spying on TikTok users, it will be Russia spying on TikTok users.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
“no guys it’s totally not an echo chamber, we just ban and/or relentlessly attempt to troll anyone with a differing opinion than ours!”
I’d say it’s an impressive level of cognitive dissonance, but then, you’d already have to be to believe China is a socialist utopia.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
Right? Filter out enormous swathes of obnoxious shitheads from your feed in one fell swoop!
- Comment on Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content. 2 months ago:
a paywall I am sure will be exactly as effective as google’s attempts at ad-blocking on YouTube, for exactly the same reason: a dedicated group of pissed off nerds who spend their time getting around it as a service to everyons. Bypass Paywalls Clean is already a thing.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin probably just needs its filter lists updated, you can update them by opening the extension, hitting the gears icon, clicking on the “filter lists” tab at the top and selecting update next to any that are outdated.
Personally, I use the nuclear option because fuck google – I have AdNauseam (which includes uBlock Origin), SponsorBlock, PopUpOFF, DeArrow, Return Youtube Dislike, and CanvasBlocker.
