supersquirrel
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- Comment on Dagnammit 17 hours ago:
DAD GUM
- Comment on Got bad news for ya bud 18 hours ago:
“Ha, Wet Bulb Temperatures won’t threaten me because I live somewhere with no water!”
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- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 4 days ago:
RIP
- Comment on POV: You're a mountain goat. 5 days ago:
too edgey of a video for me, kids these days…
- Comment on Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP 5 days ago:
Part of the reason you organize is so you don’t become complicit in authoritarian violence enacted by your workplace and find out only too late you are powerless to stop it alone without a union.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
Social media is a terrible for us. Me included. It’s addictive - that’s why I’m here.
If that is how you feel I encourage you to start from a position of curiosity about what draws you here beyond a simple thought terminating comparison to an addictive physical substance or our sex drive.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.
This is precisely what is supercharging this moral panic, people don’t automatically think critically about this and will bandwagon on social media = bad because it feels righteous and is easy unless WE force a more nuanced conversation.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
You are bad at arguments.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
:)
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
ok so sounds like the problem isn’t social media then?
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
Why are you here then?
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.
- Comment on London knife crime vs viral content about London crime 1 week ago:
Neoliberalism in a nutshell.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 week ago:
Hard disagree, everyday life is full of defused accidental escalations because pointless escalations benefit no one.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 week ago:
I think the fact that there isn’t a good way I think escalates a lot of otherwise defusable road rage situations.
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 1 week ago:
People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.
Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 1 week ago:
And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack who says it doesn’t matter that he’s a violent authoritarian fascist because you can “separate art from the artist”, Modretro has done the rhetoricians (i.e. me) a favor by announcing a special Anduril-themed version of the Chromatic, covered in Anduril branding and made of “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones” last December. They were sold as a limited edition directly through Anduril’s merchandise store.
They sold out day one.
- Comment on furry transfem 1 week ago:
Furry-A Transform
There are a whole series of Furry Transforms but this one was very important so it was named the Furry-A.
- Comment on As previously mentioned 2 weeks ago:
Dumbasses, that is why they chose a snake as their symbol, to remind each other to always train on jaw flexibility every time they eat precisely so this would’t happen.
Also sucking dick is great, don’t insult such a giving act by associating it with those who never give.
- Comment on TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld 2 weeks ago:
If I’d known this, I’d have put it in my review! Thanks for sharing!!!
Just to be clear, this is basically a guess but feel free to add it if you want, if I am right I didn’t come up with it, it was just lost in translation.
- Comment on TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld 2 weeks ago:
True, I recommend an xbox x/s controller and this cheap but great mount
powera.com/…/moga-mobile-gaming-clip-2-0-for-xbox…
$10 + a used xbox controller + your phone and you have a gyro capable (your phone) mobile gaming system with probably the best gamepad ever.
I don’t think this takes the place of a gadget like the Brick Hammer but I do HEAVILY recommend going this route first as you likely already have an adequate phone and xbox controllers are cheap and plentiful on the used market (and their only real achilles heel is they don’t have gyro… which your phone solves).
- Comment on TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld 2 weeks ago:
A stonemason’s hammer, also known as a brick hammer, has one flat traditional face and a short or long chisel-shaped blade.[1] It can thus be used to chip off edges or small pieces of stone, cut brick or a concrete masonry unit, without using a separate chisel. The chisel blade can also be used to rapidly cut bricks or cinder blocks. This type of hammer is also used by geologists when collecting rock and mineral samples and is one of several types of geologist’s hammer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonemason's_hammer
They named it after an Estwing! Badass.
- Comment on Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative 2 weeks ago:
Does “no censorship” mean “no moderation”?
- Comment on [US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically) 2 weeks ago:
In the end we all have a point
- Comment on If if the subtext of america has always been government as 'Donald Trump' imposes, where did liberals go wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I think the simplest way to explain it is the way I see it liberalism has been operating at least for as long I have been alive on a sort of dead reckoning because it has no functioning moral compass.
Maybe it never did, I don’t know we can have a lot of debates over that and one up one another with how cynical we are about it but the point is that it is indisputable that for the last several decades liberalism has been operating on a sort of dead reckoning where whether something is acceptable or not purely has to do with how normalized it has been by the pre-existing power structure and status quo. All navigation is dependent upon an established record and each further advancement is charted only within the context of previous movements.
Conservatives shot the compass a long time ago and believe compasses are too woke to use by the way in case anyone gets confused about what side I am on here.
The difference I see with “progressives” and what I would call a genuine leftist is at least the attempt to construct a somewhat consistent moral compass and build coalitions based on a shared sense of a moral compass that is RATIONALLY connected to reality through science, healthcare and history.
Someone like Joe Biden spent his whole entire career sticking his finger into the wind and attempting to chart the center of balance in public opinion, a chameleon by design to the trends and fervors of the day whether that be draconian drug policy draconian housing policy draconian crime policy…
On the other hand Bernie Sanders has been saying the same damn thing, his politics have always been an extension of his moral compass even when they weren’t considered popular by mainstream political media. This isn’t to say Bernie Sanders is perfect or some shining example but there is an undeniably fundamental difference in political ideology between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden even though they come from roughly similar political eras. They come from different genetic lineages of political ideology, and in my opinion Joe Biden’s one can’t die off quick enough.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
The gameplay sucked but what made it a far superior game to skyrim and oblivion is morrowind was weird.
Bethesda is only capable of making boring big budget fantasy epic setpieces these days, gone is the feeling of going into a random shop and reading a random book, gone is the feeling of “what the hell is over the next hill!?”.
You always know what you are going to get with Bethesda, they won’t take ANY risks. Bethesda will never again present a vision of fantasy that doesn’t simply meet the expectations of well worn fantasy tropes, as far as they are concerned that would be bad for business.
