Shit, I knew that without reading the article.

Pointing out hypocrisy isn’t whataboutism, nor is recognizing that the news media (in basically every country) is to some degree producing propaganda.

As opposed to other countries where that advice is merely implied, by making enforcement of anti abuse laws a joke, and not doing a thing to address the systemic issues that keep people in abusive environments.

If you have to be in Bluetooth range, why the fuck does it need to talk to a cloud service?

I frequently miss calls I’m expecting because of the shit anti-spam. Carriers have been allowed to just ignore the problem of spam calls since they started because we don’t have a functioning regulatory apparatus.

And there he is holding a TETRAHEDRON. Who the fuck does he think he is, Plato?

Regarding the social network piece, I’d like to see a push in the worldwide OSS community to make an installer for self hosted federated services. I know it’s not realistic to make that completely push-button, but something that will take local machine config and connection information and then configure docker and the necessary containers for whatever services the person wants to host.

I’d start the project myself but my coding ability amounts to only a little more than hello world in a couple languages.

Yep, which is why homophobes talk about (man on man) anal sex waaaaay more than gay men.

Toxic masculinity is that, among many other things.

I mean, that looks like an air traffic control tower, so there may very well be people in there. Just not “tenants” in the strictest sense.

You can probably figure out how to smoke MDMA, and crack and meth are both aggressive overconfidence gas AFAIK.

I annoyed the friend who introduced me to Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I would frequently predict plot twists and even specific lines in the show on my first watch through.

A slice of apple pie is a taco. A slice of pumpkin pie is toast. A whole apple pie is a calzone, a whole pumpkin pie is a quiche. See how silly you sound?

(/s, the whole thing is clearly silly)

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Harris’ dad is an actual communist, IIRC. Maybe she’s just mad at him.

Hit someone hard enough in the head with that and they won’t be anything anymore, much less Catholic.

I never played RDR2 because I played 1 and GTA 4 and I just don’t like how Rockstar games play.

Honestly impressive for a 20+ year-old game to still inspire hot takes.HL2 remains undefeated.

This is kind of tangential to the question, but an incredibly irritating former friend would not shut the fuck up about Elden Ring for months after it came out and kept telling me to get it. I told him I didn’t like souls-like games and he said ER was “different” without explaining how. I still haven’t played it, even with recommendations from other people I trust. Same guy ensured I’ll never play Death Stranding, too.

Gosh, The Atlantic, maybe you shouldn’t have spent the last 20 years shitting on progressive politics and politicians, then.