ArmchairAce1944
@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
- Comment on Age check 1 day ago:
Bernie is absolutely still viable. JD Vance, however, is millennial and I wouldn’t want him polishing my shoes.
- Comment on Age check 1 day ago:
Yes… but also the massive media shitshow at making her look like a giant slut who fucks her way to the top.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 2 days ago:
I have been using Libre office for a while now and it’s superior to office in every way.
- Comment on Age check 2 days ago:
BTW. Before Clinton, from Eisenhower to Bush Sr. The presidents were all WW2 veterans to some degree. Eisenhower was a general, Kennedy was a PT Boat skipper, and Reagan was in a non-combat role primarily acting in training films. Bush Sr. Was a naval aviator.
For some reason or another, most of them were Navy guys.
- Comment on Age check 2 days ago:
Monica got the worst part of it all.
- Comment on Age check 2 days ago:
You know what is incredibly miserable? When Clinton became president he was the first baby boomer president. And since then, save for Obama, all presidents were born roughly around the same time.
Bill Clinton is almost the same age as Trump. Both were born in 1946. They were born months apart.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 2 days ago:
90s liberalism had its flaws (it often didn’t acknowledge systemic racism as we know it), but at that time most open racism had been thrown out of mainstream media, except for occasional spots on scandal shows like Jerry Springer.
The very idea that racism would become open again like it is now was unthinkable. But they slowly and surely allowed it to come back.
Racism on the internet always existed. Stormfront and various white nationalist sites sprung up almost immediately once the internet became mainstream in the mid-90s. From what I understand, the first ever site on Martin Luther King was literally a site smearing the man and calling him a fraud back in 1995.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 2 days ago:
Most of the time it does mean mountain. But I did hear it used for hill once, but that’s it.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 2 days ago:
Zuckerberg literally means sugar hill/mountain in German.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 days ago:
I think in 2010 or so someone said that if you were US Marine and were involved in every single action that the USMC took part in, you would take part in around 2 events every year.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 days ago:
Trump did more drone strikes in his first term than Obama did in both his terms. And that is only of the strikes we know. At one point trump declared that strikes dont need to be reported and they didn’t count the number of strikes afterward.
Biden actually fully ended drone strikes… and he did it quietly without much fanfare.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 days ago:
Napster ring a bell?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 days ago:
In their mind the world will end with their deaths, so they are only doing what nature bids them to so. If they had it their way they would detonate every nuclear weapon in existence within a few seconds of their final demise to take everyone with them.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 days ago:
Trump was president in 2019 and I remember him cutting massive amounts of food aid (means on wheels) for elderly people during Christmas time. It was some serious Scrooge shit, except he didn’t get three ghosts to make him mend his ways.
- Comment on where did we go wrong 3 days ago:
At some point in the 19th century and maybe towards the early 20th century a cane was a common accessory for well-to-do individuals even if they never needed it.
And sword canes weren’t uncommon! So it was cool.
- Comment on where did we go wrong 3 days ago:
One thing I fucking love about this is the man’s hat. Like it fits so well with his speedo/loincloth thing it is perfect. The artist probably had a lot of fun with that.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 3 days ago:
They never cared about surveillance. If anything they want as much as possible. They just want their guys to be in charge for it. It is like how the people who use the strongest anti-child porn language are also the most likely to get caught with the worst child porn imaginable. You notice how roblox isn’t suffering under the new laws despite the laws being explicitly worded to protect children? This is because it was always about monitoring dissidents. Regular criminals will continue to use tech to do regular crime (drug dealing, murder, theft) and a minimal precaution on their end might be sufficient to prevent them from getting caught. They will not be subject to any more new restrictions.
But protesters? That is what they have always been for. Always.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 3 days ago:
I know, right! The writers were also pedophiles! I mean teenagers saving the day? What is the obsession with teens! It tell you something!
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 3 days ago:
No, no, no… they were as subtle as an anvil falling on your head.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 3 days ago:
I loved that guy! You get a katana named scalpel as a reward, too!
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 3 days ago:
Anyone who says that TV in the 80s and 90s didn’t have ‘woke’ or ‘politically correct’ elements in it hasn’t been (re)watching a lot of TV from the era. Many major shows I grew up watching in the 90s were chock full of it. Quantum Leap, MacGyver, Sliders, The entire premise of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and basically every fucking Saturday morning cartoon…
Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons. I wonder what those people would think of characters like Charlie from Biker Mice from Mars? She was a tough, no-nonsense girl working a blue collar job (motorcycle mechanic), and there were times when they wanted to ‘Damsel’ her but it turned out they didn’t. The funniest one for me was when an episode that starts out with a bank robbery, and the robbers claim they have a hostage, the Mice all go ‘Charlie?’ and then she shows up behind them and says ‘why do you always think I’m the hostage?’ You know who the hostage was? Greasepit… the villain’s main henchman and a certified dumbass.
Every fucking time I go back to rewatch those cartoons I ALWAYS find elements that would make reactionaries go nuts. The pilot episode to M.A.S.K had the bad guys think that one of the protagonists trying to thwart their plans was a man… only for them to figure out quickly that it was a woman. Even shows that I would now consider to be really, really stupid, like Dinosaucers, had gender flipped characters. In Dinosaucers they were making a tribute episode to old-school Film noir detectives, and they had to meet ‘Sam Spade’ (Sam Spade was the protagonist of the Maltese Falcon), only for them to find out it was not Samuel Spade, but Samantha Spade.
I could go on forever. But one thing that I DID want to say that I honestly did find problematic even as a child from cartoons of the era was what I would call ‘the love potion episode’. What I mean is that sometimes in some cartoons they would have an episode where a love potion or something or the other that causes a character to fall in love with another and cannot control it. So what’s the contradiction I found as a kid and more so as an adult?
Well… if the person afflicted by the potion is female, the entire episode will center around it. Two examples is one from Dinosaucers were a female dinosaucer gets influenced by it and now is OK with wanting to marry the leader of the antagonists. One other example that was played more for laughs is in Gummi Bears when Duke Igthorn wanted to get Lady Bane to fall in love with him in order for him to gain access to her powers or something or the other to finally capture the Gummis… only problem? The person she falls in love with is Toady, Igthorn’s bumbling chief henchman, and the whole episode centers around getting Lady Bane to snap out of it.
So that being said, one thing I DID notice is that sometimes the person being affected by a love potion or spell is a guy… and when that happens, the plot or the show doesn’t take it seriously at all and is usually a quick gag. The main example that comes to mind is from Conan the Adventurer where they have a quick scene where a very large, ogre-like woman is dragging a scrawny little man who is actively resisting her and she says ‘give him a love potion, I want to marry him!’ and the man protests, but the love potion is forced on him and he then he falls in love with the woman he detested and… well, that’s it. The episode continues and those two are never mentioned again. There are probably other examples, but that is all that comes to mind.
Trust me when I say it, if these people ended up waking up 30 or 40 years ago and thinking ‘ah ha! finally! no more woke!’ they would be in for a rude awakening. Don’t get me wrong, there was a fuckload of problems with representation in the media at the time. Things like brownface/yellowface hadn’t fallen entirely out of style yet, and there were issues with female representation and racial stereotyping. MacGyver had those issues to an irritating degree, especially in the earlier seasons. Neurodivergent people weren’t well represented and in many cases not present at all. And don’t get me started on transgenderism. It is almost like at the time being transgender was a gag more than anything at best or a highly sinister trait at worst.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 3 days ago:
They don’t remember or give a fuck.
- Comment on No brainer 4 days ago:
They aren’t, but your body is. If you move just 7 inches forward, part of your body might merge with the door.
This is Nightcrawler’s worse nightmare, BTW.
- Comment on No brainer 4 days ago:
Doors no… handcuffs yes.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 4 days ago:
Fuck Israel. They have been a force for evil from day 1.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 5 days ago:
Good thing I am never going to go youtube premium.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 days ago:
Good thing I transitioned to Linux mint (my first distro!) And I will never return to windows. I have some mild challenges in getting some games and programs to work. But I overcame some and I will overcome the others. I also welcome the challenges.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 days ago:
I have just one year before I pay off my phone and I want to get a degoogled phone. I wanted my current phone degoogled… but due to the breakage of my previous phone it was a bit of an emergency and I didn’t have time to do proper research.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 5 days ago:
Why am I not fucking surprised?
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 5 days ago:
It was first uploaded to youtube, it is possible that your friend downloaded (I am sure it was possible even back then) or simply showed it to you and you weren’t aware it was YouTube. I didn’t even know what YouTube was when I was first saw it in 2006.