porksnort
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- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 week ago:
And I loved Godus. Such engaging gameplay
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 1 week ago:
I added it because it is the subject we are discussing. Your comments are vaguely coherent but have no real point.
Unchecked corporate power is THE problem and corporations are a small club of people of a specific demographic with a history of protectionism and shady dealings to protect their power.
It is perfectly valid to point out the root cause of problems, in this case the corporate cabal that needs to be dismantled.
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 1 week ago:
CEOs are factually and demonstrably overwhelmingly white males, far out of proportion to general demographics. Since when did pointing out a statistical fact become divisive?
- Comment on rich 1 week ago:
Awesome, thanks. It feels so good to be hip once more!
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 1 week ago:
Their attempts to manipulate the gene pool and turn us into veal calves doesn’t seem to be going well…
- Comment on rich 1 week ago:
I must be so old.
“My mango is to explode then <shrug> next question?”
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 1 week ago:
Yea, child abuse is horrible. Intentionally setting your child up for lifelong risk of avoidable sickess or early death is clearly child abuse.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 week ago:
Excellent advice. It’s a game of cat and mouse (or whack-a-mole, whatever metaphor works…).
Sites that want your data for whatever reason hate VPNs, so they identify exit points and blacklist traffic from them. VPN providers know this so they spin up new exit points with different IP.
Just try a different server. Sometimes it’s a regional ’rights’ issue, so pick another server that is in the same jurisdiction, for instance in the case of streaming.
- Comment on Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny 1 week ago:
Not a great case if you really think about the implications, unless they legislatively make human drivers completely illegal. There’s an even better case for just investing in mass transit to get more personal cars off the roads, and encouraging other modes of personal transport auch as bicycles.
I am just not interested in helping to build a world with a panopticon in my personal car.
- Comment on The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly. 1 week ago:
They did invent the word schadenfreude after all. I blame Krampus.
- Comment on I remember watching this commercial late one night in the 90s on MTV, and wondering WTF?! What are your thoughts? 1 week ago:
MTV ran a series of commercials highlighting social justice issues, that’s all.
It was a very different era, gay rights and especially marriage were becoming part of mainstream discourse and the LGBTQ+ community was still relatively well organized from the fight to get proper attention to the AIDS epidemic.
Reagans administration literally let the transmission of HIV run unchecked because they thought it was just a ‘gay thing’ that would rid then of a minority they have always wanted to eliminate anyway. To these monsters, a genocidal plague was a happy little accident.
It took immense pressure and coordinated efforts to gather data showing it impacted straight peole too in order to get research and public health funds allocated at necessary levels.
Against this dark backdrop, MTV was building its brand as the woke media outlet and the suits let the creatives run ads like this.
Really talk to any kind of ‘sexual minority’ who lived through that era and you will find we were well aware of creeping fascism all the way back then. This and other commercials was both a signal to the queer creative community that MTV ‘got us’ and a way for MTV to establish ’counterculture’ street cred.
(Sexual minority is a clinical term I don’t like much as pretty much everyone is ‘weird’ sexually, but it is used by researchers in some fields to avoid the constant and often unproductive wrangling about the letters, knowing this is useful for finding research on these subjects)
- Comment on Marylin Mothroe 1 week ago:
They are so beautiful under magnification. Some morphs have gold flecks on the antennas and other amazing details you can only really see with a hand lens.
- Comment on Ron Howard's Cocoon is still impossible to find anywhere 2 weeks ago:
“No, stay here trapped in a decayng husk with your best days only a distant memory!”
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 2 weeks ago:
The whole thing reminds me of a sketch one of the Groundlings did as a live performance. “VCR into Ca$h” was the bit and he would just meet you in a parking lot. Same vibe
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 2 weeks ago:
Brilliant! It’s like a pawn shop without the overhead of a physical storefront.
- Comment on Who's laughing now!!? 3 weeks ago:
No one knows what to do with amphibians, in a way it is similar to dealing with bisexuals
- Comment on Ferns 3 weeks ago:
Not a lot. Just compulsively before coitus
- Comment on Ferns 3 weeks ago:
I am in this image and I resent the implication.
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 3 weeks ago:
None of the women I discuss ‘making it’ with want these sorts of pictures.
All of the men do, badly.
Dick pics are for dudes.
- Comment on Update 3 weeks ago:
God doesn’t actually have anything to do with it, but I hear you and feel a very similar vibe these days especially.
- Comment on soda 4 weeks ago:
Peyton used the length of hose he normally uses to steal gas for his three-wheeler ATV as an extension to fill the tub on the ground.
Peyton reads well below grade level but he is not stupid.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist, it’s elliptical.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
Hold me and never let me go, you insatiable nerd.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
That’s it. I am going as a gravity well this year.
I will wear plain clothes and go up to the person in my social circle most likely to ‘get it’.
I will hug them, not let go while I explain the idea in their ear. We have to go everywhere together that evening with the explicit purpose of recruiting others in that mission. There is no leader of a gravity well, except the center of mass. Which means things might get goofy.
If I can’t convince anyone to play, I will take that big tiddy goth girl and her friends up on their offer to play xbox.
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 4 weeks ago:
Unequivocally yes, but not always. You need a coordinated media campaign, a potent symbol, a dedicated core of supporters and the right combo of circumstances.
The Indian Independence movement depended in large part on boycotts. Ghandi’s followers wove their own cloth and wore traditional dhoti, both as a boycott of British cloth and as a public symbol of solidarity.
My favorite was the Salt March, wherein Ghandi used the general unfocused bitchiness around new salt taxes to make a media spectacle and demonstrate that Indians didn’t need British salt. Or anything British at all.
He marched down to the beach over a period of days gathering followers and media attention. Then he stood in the water and made salt in his bare hands using seawater and the bright hot sunshine.
18 years later they won their independence in a relatively bloodless way.
As an example Salt March
- Comment on Smoothie stealer 4 weeks ago:
<yoink>
I stole your smoothie while you were showing genuine interest in another persons perspective. Classic mistake.
- Comment on [serious] when was the last time Donald Trump went swimming, has he ever swam? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is it? 4 weeks ago:
This guy has worked retail long enough. Time to promote him to regional manager.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Spam is just too many pebbles. It only takes one pebble every few days to convey affection. More and perhaps you are spamming.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 4 weeks ago:
People frequently conflate capitalism with enterprise, not seeing the distinctions.
