JillyB
@JillyB@beehaw.org
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
And the literacy tests of the Jim Crowe era were just making sure people could read well enough to vote. It was educationalist, not racist. The purpose of this sign is to exclude non-native Japanese people.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 hour ago:
I used to live in Japan. When I would go to a rural or off-the-beaten-parh izakaya, it was a coin flip. Either I would be told they are full (a lie, like this sign). Or the owner would be super excited to show a foreigner their culture and would personally serve me.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 hours ago:
I lived in Japan for 2 years. I had several expat friends with stories of going to the hospital, being told they were full, their Japanese wife showing up, and suddenly they have space. Other stories of legal disputes between a Japanese person and a foreign immigrant will always go to the Japanese person. Japanese culture is very non-confrontational, but don’t think their brand of racism is safer. If we’re comparing racism and deciding one is less bad than the other, we’ve already partially accepted that it has a place in society.
- Comment on Tasting the Smell ☣️ 1 week ago:
Or gone to smash tournaments. Luckily the weekly I run doesn’t have a lot of stinkers but there have been a few over the years.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 1 week ago:
Nintendo are excellent marksmen when it comes to their customer’s dicks. They have been for a long time. -smash competitor
- Comment on Health yeating 3 weeks ago:
Bug Gazpacho
- Comment on Suggestions for Multiplayer Browser Games 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if it’s still active, but tagpro.gg was my first online multiplayer game that I actually got good at. It’s just played with the arrow keys and you controll a little ball playing capture the flag in teams.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 4 weeks ago:
Hey look, it’s me
- Comment on The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 5 weeks ago:
Electricity and magnetism got me to change my major from physics to mechanical engineering. I thought I loved physics. Turns out when it’s a bunch of pixie bullshit that I can’t feel or see, I don’t like it so much. Vibrations is the E&M of Newtonian mechanics though. Had to take that one twice.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Y’all just need sharper knives
- Comment on 340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive 1 month ago:
Anna’s Archive offers a paid service for large dowbloads specifically for AI training. Maybe they’re concerned the Internet Archive will offer a similar service.
- Comment on MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back 2 months ago:
So it’s basically a Solja boy console situation?
- Comment on Boop Snoots 2 months ago:
Recently announced starfox remake. The characters look absolutely terrible.
- Comment on What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made? 2 months ago:
Somebody left a ps4 game on the bus one time. I brought it home only to realize it was someone’s mixtape left in an old game case so somebody would pick it up. That’s guerilla marketing.
- Comment on Best use I've seen of this template 2 months ago:
ISILDUUUUR-san
- Comment on liquor is fine though, its the carbonation they worry about 3 months ago:
I believe a twea is a Twisted Tea
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
App stores are also monopolies who are abusing their positions. There’s been recent/current litigation about exactly that. Those other services are cool but are not just a kind service to gamers. It’s to keep the industry on their platform. It’s to increase market dominance. They could spin those services off as separate if they wanted but that wouldn’t support the market dominance so they won’t.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
I’m not saying they for sure will get worse. I’m saying that a market dominance gives them the incentive and ability to do it. In general, we should resist market dominance so that incentive and ability just isn’t there to begin with.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
Valve’s cost of hosting is pennies. They’re one of the most profitable companies in the US. They could lower that number to 5% and still have plenty of margin, I’d bet.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
30%
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
The first step of enshittification is being very pro-user. All of the good will from your users will build you a dominant market position so you can squeeze them later. We should resist any company dominating any market. Just because valve hasn’t screwed you over personally doesn’t mean we should just lovingly accept market dominance. The more competitive the market, the better.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
It doesn’t have to go public to do that. It can get sold to private equity. The original owner can pass the business to their kid who has grown up privileged and huffs their own farts. Going public is a guarantee of enshittification but it isn’t the only way.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
They take 30% of all PC game sales. If that isn’t abusing their position, idk what is.
- Comment on My Country music collection 3 months ago:
Plenty of hip hop has all sorts of accents. Also, there’s no such thing as “no accent”.
- Comment on Moon Mommy Milkers 3 months ago:
Haha where’s this image from? Hahaha like where could I find others?
- Comment on Dumb bitch 4 months ago:
Don’t get tennis elbow patting yourself on the back. Your individual actions won’t matter unless you can bring industry with you. The best way to do that is to help people gain class consciousness. The best way to do that is by not considering your individual actions as relevant.
- Comment on Ray is basic. 4 months ago:
Ahh fuck
- Comment on Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys 5 months ago:
It’s crazy to imply that electoral politics (especially in the US) represents the will of the people.
- Comment on Not So Far 🚦 5 months ago:
You don’t pass them? When cars pass me and then get stuck at a light, I always pass them and then pull right in front of the light and block them. I want the futility of passing me to be super obvious.
- Comment on hair_irl 5 months ago:
I have a white cat and like to wear black. I’ve found out which lint-rollers are best.