UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 8 hours ago:
I’ve been around the block a few times and I’m afraid I have to report that nerd love transcends sexual orientation.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 10 hours ago:
Becoming gay to avoid drama is a bit like climbing on board the Titanic to avoid drowning.
- Comment on Funny 11 hours ago:
offensive
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 22 hours ago:
Part of the joke is who even constitutes “value investors”. As the MAG7 bloat the S&P, it’s increasingly just a handful of companies passing the same dollar back and forth as fast as possible, with the expectation that they’ll get bailed out by the Feds when the game is up.
Sad thing is, they’re probably right. Trump’s trying to get the Fed to loosen rates on the heels of an inflationary wave in order to guarantee enough exit liquidity before the market crashes.
Then we’ll get another brutal privatization wave, with conservatives preaching budget hawkery in order to justify abolishing Medicare, SS, national parks, public education, anything that can be liquidated for a quick buck.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 22 hours ago:
“The Sky Is Falling! Buy My Magic Umbrella!” is a classic hypeman’s trick.
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
It’s the second part you’ll struggle with. Any ex-Mormon can tell you the details.
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
The Steven Crowder Defense is a classic
the most offensive lines (and this is where trans people might want to stop reading) in the episode come from Garrison herself, when she becomes incensed that she can’t get her period or get pregnant. “This would mean I’m not really a woman. I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis,” Garrison says. “You made me into a freak.”
Really comedy gold
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 day ago:
I mean, you could go the other way. Presidencies are bad on their face and the chief executive should be promoted from the party with a legislative majority (ie, Parliamentary system).
Then go after single representative districts and the obscenely high constituent to representative ratios.
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
Following the episode where you point out how stupid a religion’s premise is
While shamelessly glazing its members. Gary, the Mormon counterpart to the South Park gang is Twilight Vampire levels of perfect at everything. The punchline of the whole episode is that the dogma of the religion doesn’t matter, because the practitioners are these perfect, charming, innocent people. And you’re all kinda assholes for bringing up their religion to begin with.
Like, that’s the joke. The final beat of the episode is laughing at you, the audience, for thinking Mormons aren’t cool.
- Comment on mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people 1 day ago:
The bitter miserable thing is that American Christians have fully infested countries like Uganda, Nigeria, and Kenya, with predictably awful results.
African Anti-LGBTQ Groups and Anti-Vaxxers Unite Against WHO at ‘Family Values’ Conference
If there is a global reorientation around the EU and BRICS (which seems increasingly unlikely as Russia/Ukraine has devastated trans-Asiatic trade relations and India/Pakistan feuding threatens to plunge billions into a new World War), its going to have to be over the backs of tens of thousands of evangelical missionaries and their American exploiters.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 1 day ago:
It’s literally a cult.
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
If you think South Park or the creators have ever praised Mormonism
They straight up literally have. Repeatedly and frequently. Matt and Trey having Cartoon God explicitly state that he’s only letting Mormons into Heaven is about as much glowing praise as a cartoon about Satan having anal sex with Saddam Hussein and Donald Trump can churn out.
Put up against Britney Spears blowing her own head of with a shotgun and George Clooney asphyxiating on the smug farts of his electric car, and it really stands out.
The Book of Mormon
A stage play that collaborated with the Mormon Church to prostelatyze.
Throw a few dick jokes into Shen Yun and its still propaganda. This is a story of Mormon Missionaries going abroad and helping a bunch of backwards primitive Africans find entitlement through (a comic reinterpretation of) the Mormon faith.
Rudyard Kipling could hardly have done worse.
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
This amounts to the way that I look at my dog.
Sure. But then you still love your dog. And if you’re writing love letters to your dog in your televised comedy, that sticks out. Especially when the other half of your episodes involve cartoonishly shoving firecrackers up your neighbor’s cat’s asshole.
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
If you think the musical skewers Mormons, though, think again. Parker and Stone do challenge the literal credibility of the story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But the Mormons they write about come across as lovable and optimistic.
“I don’t think anybody would want to see a two-hour-long Mormon-bashing, and we wouldn’t want to see that either,” Parker tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “We love the goofiness of Mormon stories. Some of them are incredulous, and we loved almost all the Mormons that we had ever met. So this was sort of this conundrum that we like to talk about — we think what they believe is really, really ridiculous, and yet they seem like pretty happy people.”
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Along with critical acclaim, the musical has received largely positive feedback from Mormons who have seen the show, Parker says.
"The official church response was something along the lines of ‘The Book of Mormon the musical might entertain you for a night, but the Book of Mormon,’ — the book as scripture — ‘will change your life through Jesus,’ " Stone says. “Which we actually completely agree with. The Mormon church’s response to this musical is almost like our Q.E.D. at the end of it. That’s a cool, American response to a ribbing — a big musical that’s done in their name.”
“Before the church responded, a lot of people would ask us, ‘Are you afraid of what the church would say?’ And Trey and I were like, ‘They’re going to be cool.’ And they were like, ‘No, they’re not. There are going to be protests.’ And we were like, ‘Nope, they’re going to be cool.’ We weren’t that surprised by the church’s response. We had faith in them.”
- Comment on Funny 1 day ago:
What really fucking sucks is realizing South Park’s creators seem to believe this unironically.
- Comment on mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people 1 day ago:
Exciting news for people who live in countries that promote vaccination.
Good luck to everyone preparing their illicit journey across the US/Mexico border to get basic medical care.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 day ago:
Don’t hold your breath on that.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 1 day ago:
Texas is a big state with a large number of interior groups and cultures. Also, go where, exactly?
Is everyone in Montrose supposed to pick up and move to LA, the city Trump is currently telling to bite the curb?
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 days ago:
You want to trust the water a data center with zero regulations is regurgitating?
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 days ago:
The estimate of the majority Democrats would need to retake the Senate is something like 70/30, based on the degree of gerrymandering.
And the math just gets worse every time maps are redrawn.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 days ago:
Yes, Texas did vote for that.
- Comment on When was the last time your top 1 overall anime got changed? 2 days ago:
I’ve never had a hard #1. It feels almost vulgar to hold Evangelion, Samurai Champloo, and Golden Boy to the same standard.
But there are definitely shows I pick up on that bring the whole artistic style into a new light. The style and pacing of Frieren, especially early on, left me wondering why I haven’t found an anime like this sooner. The outro music mix in Chainsaw Man sets it apart even beyond the story. Miyazaki’s Spirited Away put all those hack Disney movies in the dust bin.
I don’t think I can pry Full Metal Alchemist out of my brain just to make room for One Piece in the top spot. So much of the appeal of the genre is in the invention and the artistry. It’s a space that still feels fresh and bold and weird in a way American media struggles to compete. But who can rate a Van Gogh against a Rafael or a Picaso? Who would dare to try?
- Comment on What anime pleasantly surprised you the most? 2 days ago:
Had no idea Kill a Kill was going to go as hard as it did by the ending arc.
Just one of those shows that starts strong and gets better with every passing episode.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 days ago:
Canada is where all the illegals live
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 5 days ago:
If/when it destabilizes the American banking system the entire global economy will follow its lead down
One of the nice things Trump has been doing has been decoupling the US domestic market from the global chain. If we can keep ourselves propped up for another couple of years, the collapse will remain contained to ourselves and our immediate allies. I mean, case in point, Russians and Iranians and N. Koreans and Cubans are so sanctioned to shit that they don’t really care if the dollar takes a tumble.
Like I don’t think people understand how devastating letting a scam like this into proper finance can be.
2008 was the hard lesson. Too Big To Fail means the scammers are the only ones who walk away from the mess.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 5 days ago:
Alexa already periodically makes “suggestions” that are annoying to disable if you misspeak.
Counting down until it starts demanding credit cards in order to function. Maybe as a form of “identity check”, as that’s been a popular excuse to collect payment information.
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 5 days ago:
In fact, they haven’t voted majority D since, you guessed it, the civil rights act was signed.
By state, that’s clearly untrue. Vermont and Massachusetts and Minnesota and Oregon would be blood-red if the split was purely racial.
This is a very regionalized phenomenon and heavily predicated on the way governors and state legislatures have historically dictated enfranchisement.
they are actively choosing this every election cycle
In 2008, Obama enjoyed a slight majority of support over McCain among white voters. And that’s without discussing the landslide support he saw in the Midwest relative to Clinton.
There’s also a strong youth vote trend that favors progressive politicians, even (perhaps especially) among white voters. Meanwhile, older Black and Asian and Hispanic voters lean conservative relative to their ethnic mean.
Even then, voter participation in the US is abysmal - hoovering in the 50-70% range. To crib from Beto O’Rourke’s favorite lines, America isn’t a conservative country, its a non-voting country. White people aren’t choosing, any more than their colored peers. They are having their politicians pre-selected and force-fed to them by a handful of wealthy, ideological radicals. This leads to some of the worst approval ratings for elected representatives in the world.
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 5 days ago:
the US, they never forgave Johnson for the '68 civil rights act
Johnson passed the '68 Civil Rights Act, but failed to actively enforce it. The subsequent Nixon/Reagan Southern Realignment involved some of the most deliberate and calculated voter disenfranchisement in the country’s storied history of voter disenfranchisement.
Consequently, states like Texas and Louisiana and Georgia and Florida can host enormous pools of liberal and progressive voters who are blacklisted, caged, gerrymandered, or outright felonized. The lay (white) American only kinda-sorta understands it is happening (thanks to the tsunami of “Record High Crime!” news hysterics), while voter turnout rates stay abnormally low relative to their global neighbors.
What we saw following the Kennedy assassination in '64 was functionally a coup. Blaming “the American voters” for the subsequent composition of Congress and the White House makes about as much sense as blaming Egyptians for el-Sisi or Russians for Putin. This is a white settler government running an armed occupation, not a liberal democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 5 days ago:
It’s survivorship bias. The folks who survived from 1946 to 2025 were in the economic cohort with the least stress, the most accumulated wealth, and the most egregious consumption habits. Can’t blame all the Americans who died of black lung in the coal fields or were left destitute after midwestern industrialization or got wiped out during the AIDS epidemic or from heart disease or smoker’s lung or COVID or the 40k car fatalities/year, cause they’re not around anymore.
Safe to assume anyone still around does, in fact, carry a disproportionate share of the blame.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 5 days ago:
You thought Jordan Peterson was bad?
They’re interchangeable. Curtis is more crass and online, while JBP uses academic speak and muppet tears to sound more Canadian. But their beliefs are fundamentally no different.
