calliope
@calliope@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on ICE blasts Hilton after emails allegedly show hotel refusing rooms to immigration agents 1 day ago:
So you’re saying everyone else should stay at Hiltons, got it
- Comment on Five Europeans denied US visas for combating hate speech online, accused of censoring ‘American viewpoints’ 1 day ago:
Bréton likened the move to “McCarthy’s witch hunt” in a post on X.
We are barely one generation away from that exact McCarthyism.
Roy Cohn was Donald Trump’s mentor and “fixer.”
He was also Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and assisted him in rooting out supposed communists (the “red scare”) and gay people (the “lavender scare”). The latter being especially heinous because he was a closeted, self-hating, practicing homosexual.
Cohn had been assisting McCarthy’s investigations]of suspected communists. In the 1970s and during the 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political fixer in New York City.
He was a genuine piece of shit. Trump learned a lot from him, Cohn was one of his heroes. You can see more on Roy Cohn the self-hating scumbag’s Wikipedia page.
- Comment on Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro 2 days ago:
Oh I see, this is Trump’s version of Obama capturing Bin Laden. Even NYT is
Like everything Trump does, it’s an accomplishment of his own invention that pales in comparison to any real accomplishments.
Trump is always kind of the trash pile.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 5 days ago:
Nearing retirement at 50 is impressive! “Old” is honestly hilarious.
But I can see you’re not really old enough to be interesting
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 5 days ago:
Calling anyone older than you “old people” totally proves my point, thanks!
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Reform’s deputy leader, Richard Tice, said on Thursday that all of those who had made the claims were liars.
Oh totally, all 28 of them.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 days ago:
Which is funny, because “boomer shooter” is literally named after a derogatory term for “older people”
- Comment on The Enshittifinancial Crisis 1 week ago:
The more I read about even somewhat recent history, the more it rhymes.
We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history
This could have been written about the War on Terror.
Or the “war on drugs” in the 80s, or the war on communism before that.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 1 week ago:
A bright spot of 2025 was the continued rise of “friendslop,” a cringey internet-spawned label for a broad genre of cooperative games designed for groups of friends.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard “friendslop” and I knew exactly what it was talking about.
At least the same guy doesn’t also use “boomer shooter”
- Comment on Billionaires plot to flee California over proposed super wealth tax 1 week ago:
They all look so fucking weird
- Comment on Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here 1 week ago:
One-sentence horror story!
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 2 weeks ago:
Firefox has actually become less stable for me, which is crazy because it was stable for several years.
Firefox had gotten bloated and unstable when Chrome first came out, too.
Why does Mozilla always trend toward mediocrity?
- Comment on The State Of Xbox And Game Pass In 2025: Xbox had great games in 2025, but everything else is bad, bad, bad, bad 3 weeks ago:
This website is so awful on mobile Firefox, it eventually reloads itself into a white screen.
“News” site web development has become an embarrassment.
- Comment on ARC Raiders purposefully puts jerks in the same lobby as each other 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I find it extremely hard to believe they could identify “jerks” programmatically with any accuracy.
They’re full of shit, it’s just advertising.
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if Ford literally produced the vehicle because of subsidies.
If they could get a portion of the EV tax breaks, they wanted it.
Now that the current administration is obviously still obsessed with burning oil, it no longer matters.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using JustTheRecipe, which does a good job of parsing a site and just providing a recipe.
But every time I use it, I think how crazy it is that I have to.
- Comment on The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain 3 weeks ago:
It’s interesting because the meaning of the word “independent” is shifting for games, in the same way it shifted for Hollywood movies.
Essentially one guy made Stardew Valley, and funded it himself. Most of the development of Clair Obscur was funded by a publisher, Kepler Interactive.
So… “independent” now means “not funded by one of the major game studios.” Not really “independent.”
- Comment on 'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 3 weeks ago:
Adolf Hitler was the man of the year in 1938.
Instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled ‘From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate’.
- Comment on Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, even behind Jeep and Chrysler 3 weeks ago:
The consumer reports article also mentions Tesla introduced multiple new models during the testing time frame and their older vehicles fared much better.
But tech news sites know what people will click on.
- Comment on Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists 4 weeks ago:
Literally.
This is one of the times in American history where it has been abundantly clear who is on the right side of history.
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say, you can remove “its” and “shoddy” and the title is still accurate.
- Comment on Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation 4 weeks ago:
I agree, I thought the same thing.
I’ve seen in articles RWS saying they “don’t trust the developers” anymore, which is a bizarre thing to talk about in public so quickly.
- Comment on America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle [404 Media] 5 weeks ago:
This has been happening for an entire decade now. I wish they’d stop acting like it’s new.
The 2016 U.S. election was affected by foreign facebook activity. Specifically, a lot from from Macedonia.
- Comment on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Ray Romano chokes up over sound advice late Peter Boyle once gave him on set 1 month ago:
During the pilot episode, I’m a young guy who just got fired from news radio and here I am again attempting a show and I’m nervous," Romano recalled.
“And Peter is the great Peter Boyle, this iconic guy. He’s an imposing figure. I didn’t know then how sweet he really was.”
“I hadn’t really had a conversation with Peter,” he continued. “Our paths were crossing [on set] and he just stops me, and I haven’t said anything to him… he could tell I was a little nervous and he just looks at me and he goes, ‘It’s just like water. Just let it flow.’ And then he leaves.”
“At that time, I’m like ‘What does that mean?’ And even though as an actor I didn’t know exactly what that meant, but I do now,” Romano said, while getting emotional. “Just the gesture of him reaching out to me…”
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 1 month ago:
Yuck. Figures it would be something selfish.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 1 month ago:
Why wait? Just quit now
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 1 month ago:
RIP Kevin Mitnick! Ghost in the Wires was a fun audiobook, and I really enjoyed the 2600 documentary Freedom Downtime when it was released.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me."
That’s your killer feature? “But you can converse and it can make any image!”
- Comment on In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation 1 month ago:
This is exactly it. Money was involved too.
Apparently “I didn’t know the prostitute was 17!” works in Florida as long as you’re a Gaetz.
- Comment on In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation 1 month ago:
Holy shit so this is the actual details.
Matt Gaetz was twice her age. Even if she was 18, he was 35. Gross buddy!