solsangraal
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- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 1 day ago:
my amusement at people getting argumentative over someone having the gumption to reject flying altogether doesn’t mean i “don’t want arguments or downvotes.” on the contrary, that makes the whole thing even more amusing to me. there seems to be this attitude of “flying is just something people do” regardless of all the ridiculous news articles—monthly at least, sometimes weekly—about some terrible thing airlines are doing, or boing planes falling out of the sky, or someone’s cat arriving dead, and people who put up with it can’t seem to stand that i don’t. “a different opinion” indeed.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 day ago:
the copilot nonsense really irked me, but it was then they had the gumption to force this absurd recall bullshit on everyone–that’s when i said i’m done, no more windows, no more M$
it’s obviously a “feature” they sold to senior executive board members so that middle managers could spy on their cubicle drones, but to have the gumption to try and convince the world that this was something we wanted? get fucked microsoft
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 1 day ago:
its called “a different opinion”
yea. that’s what i have. you should be explaining this to the people who are arguing/downvoting
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 2 days ago:
lol there’s always at least one who simply can’t comprehend it
Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway
yea. i avoid all of it by NOT FLYING. i’ve seen enough of the world that i don’t need to see anymore, certainly not by flying there. we all make decisions about what we’ll allow to be a part of our lives, and flying is not one of those things for me. i’m glad you’re fine with all the insufferable bullshit associated with it. and you get paid to do it. good for you. i don’t know how much money it would take to get me to ever get on a plane again, but i can guarantee it would be a lot more than you’re getting
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 2 days ago:
you mean other than the delayed flights, canceled flights, overbooked flights, luggage limits, luggage fees, lost luggage, destroyed luggage, airport “limos,” airport parking, absurdly overpriced everything, hourslong layovers, tiny seats that are filthy with dried up mystery condiments, screaming infants, and whatever else i might have left out? there’s also the people who, for some reason i can’t begin to fathom, seem to feel the need to come to poor flying’s rescue and “but…the time you save by flying!!!”
nope. if i can’t get there in time by driving, then i’m not getting there. sorry not sorry
- Comment on Did you know? 2 days ago:
i get it: you’re making a generalizing statement about generalizations being wrong, which makes the statement wrong
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 2 days ago:
it’s amazing to me how the list of reasons i’ll never fly again just keeps getting longer and longer by the day
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
what’s hilarious is they could be out on the street freezing and starving to death and they STILL will bleat their praises for dear leader trump, rather than admit that maybe they’ve been completely utterly 100% conned by the con man everyone’s been calling a con man for the last several decades
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 6 days ago:
so many reasons to ditch chrome and google altogether…
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 1 week ago:
it’s like that south park episode where prof chaos is trying to come up with an evil plan for world domination, but can’t because the simpsons already did it
except it’s real life
- Comment on Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
believe it or not, there is such a thing as looking “good enough” in any situation. spending this much time comparing yourself to everyone else-- you’re in for an exhausting life
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 4 weeks ago:
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
-Vonnegut
- Comment on 7th-inning stretch 1 month ago:
i’ll never not think “hey, fallout!” when i see that flag
- Comment on So jussi 1 month ago:
um what…jussi is my favorite kind of pussi
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 month ago:
lol i share the unpopular opinion, as well as the downright hated opinion of despising infinite. everyone fell in love with elizabeth while i was thinking “this is the most annoying npc in history.” aside from that the game was meh af
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 month ago:
amazing game. bioshock was supposed to surpass it but none of them did imo. prey came close much much later. funny though, how the wrench is pretty much the best weapon in all of them
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 1 month ago:
more info: www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/…/index.html#mi…
OP photo near the bottom
- Comment on The chair 1 month ago:
hey, the same shit happens to me! i thought i was the only one…
- Comment on The chair 1 month ago:
its like getting text messages from that friend you don’t remember making when you were blackout drunk last night
- Comment on this is art 1 month ago:
- Comment on Every morning when I read the latest news 2 months ago:
do yourself a favor, take a week off (at least) from the news. you can safely assume it’s going to be bad and there’s nothing being done about it, but you’ll notice an improvement in your mental health. nothing in the world changes when you stop doomscrolling, only changes in yourself
- Comment on Day 231 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
i’m still amazed every time i see shots of this game from 2018. everything else, even other great games, seem halfass by comparison
- Comment on Classical Meme 2 months ago:
pretty much if a 4 panel grid seems nonsense/incomprehensible…it’s usually loss
- Comment on gigachad 2 months ago:
everyone is free to play whatever they want, but everyone is also free to call your opinion dumb. which it is.
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
it’s not just me
theconversation.com/snobbery-in-the-academy-is-al…
www.beyondphdcoaching.com/…/academic-arrogance/
…com.pk/…/hidden-barrier-to-intellectual-growth
hell, someone actually wrote a fucking paper on it
- Comment on Trump’s Funding Freezes Bruise a Core Constituency: Farmers 2 months ago:
i sleep better knowing trump voters are suffering. i hope it gets worse for them
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
this sort of comment is exactly what i’m talking about. taking a blatantly metaphoric (cliched even) statement literally, and arguing against that, and then asking me to explain how private personal relationships might affect one’s general overall attitude? really?
but seriously, if you’re just trolling–keep practicing. if not, then thanks for illustrating my point.
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
how good human nature can be that academia is still working on such a collaborative and communicative basis despite capitalist and neoliberal pressures.
you mean all the dozens of prestigious unis who completely buckled like an accordion to obey in advance and defenestrate their DEI policies because…trump?
to be fair, the cultural anti intellectual takeover of the country is basically complete-- that, added to the college age population cliff, and fascism means higher education’s days are numbered anyway. unless you’re a STEM hotshot and are willing to sign a “i love trump and i hate DEI” pledge, then you should start thinking about plans B, C, and D
- Comment on Harry Potter and... fits into everything 2 months ago:
academia would be a much better place if every pompous ass my-shit-don’t-stink scholar had a spouse to regularly bust them down a peg and make them stop taking themselves so seriously to the point of cringe
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 2 months ago:
the problem is that AI can generate a million bogus “research papers” for every single legit paper. and for the general public (ie science writers, bloggers, news reporters, etc.) they are indistinguishable from each other. so unless you have literally done the research on a particular hypothesis yourself (good luck with that, with all the funding cuts), then everything is suspect
so the question of “are we better off with AI?” as of right now, is absolutely fucking not