TaterTot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d disagree with this. Personal empowerment is universal and applies to everyone, sure. But its nature is personal, and shaped by a multitude of factors including (but not limited to) gender. That’s basically the idea behind intersectionality.

  Along the various lines that make up someone’s circumstances, groups can share collective barriers to their empowerment. In this case, women (and men) face specific, gender-based obstacles. So when you generalize a conversation about one group’s particular issues, at best you derail something that would’ve been helpful. At worst, you end up with an “All Lives Matter” bumper sticker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super-threesome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Justice League, it has to be kid friendly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder who discovered it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who smells like freaking Porpoise Hork!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think I would cap out at David Sedaris levels of fame. Anything more would be too much bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tide comes in, edit goes out.

  You can’t explain that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love mixology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something kind beautiful about the prep time required for the Whisky Ball juxtaposed against the absolute peak of laziness that is the Uncrustable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Framework an ethical company?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no ethical large computer manufacturers. Framework, like its competitors, financially supports unethical people, projects, and governments, and there’s no such thing as an end-to-end ethical supply chain right now.

  People want Framework to be ethical because they champion repairability, and on a relative scale, you could do a lot worse. But that’s also the problem. Most people buying a new MacBook or ThinkPad never think about ethics. Framework puts ethics front and center, then drops the ball the moment you dig deeper than repairability.

  If you want to buy “ethically,” your best option is used. The device was still made unethically, by a company that funded abhorrent causes, and the seller will likely reinvest your money into the very ecosystem you’re trying to avoid. But at least you kept something out of a landfill a little longer, and put one more degree of Kevin Bacon between yourself and the worst of it.

  To keep things in perspective, Framework is probably less unethical than most manufacturers, and they’re doing more for repairability than most. And even Doug Forcett wasn’t good enough for the Good Place, so you know… you have to draw your own lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta run⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… is that the reason Flutterbutter has been excluded at the dog park!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨average red state university⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does a theory need to be understood or explained to be tested/proven?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨average red state university⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Evolution is the most proven theory we have, it has been tested over and over.

  I’ll see you Theory of Evolution and raise you the Theory of Gravity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, I'm not showing you.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever read a post before checking the title? I was this close to asking “For real? Can I see?”, before I checked…

  But for real though… can I see?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a key difference between Google’s search Monopoly and Valve’s is the fact that Google paid off the competition to be the default on basically every browser.

  Valve’s monopoly is very real, or at least they absolutely dominate the PC game market (IANAL, no clue if Valve’s monopoly passes the legal bar). But outside of the SteamDeck and a couple gaming focused laptop’s, Steam doesn’t get forced on any user as the default. They personally install it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATTACK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s a Churu on the other side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CATTACK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried to explain the same thing about cats, but fools never learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the shape of it, it would have been rude not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, yeah, 100%. Though I have to wonder who is even arguing against this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not all! That’s not all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mamma’s so fat Ben Kenobi said: “That’s no moon….. that’s yo mamma!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, “the drivers here are so bad”, “the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot”, “the government sure is poorly run”, “the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid”, “I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle”, and “If they don’t give me a raise this time, I’m going to start a union, I’m serious, working a Chipotle sucks”.

  You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, guess it’s nice to know I’m not giving away my location when I complain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(AI) Arrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of want to know what “trick” it was going to offer to spot r’s faster.

  How could it possibly improve on “count them”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s immigrants who brought their culture and then adapted it

  Yep, those are American’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, you are the embodiment of rational internet discourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LETS GO GAMBLING!!!! 🤩🌟😋⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like you just did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What plants crave…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My mom would always say “being able to take good advice is like learning to ride a bike… you can’t help but do it on you’re own time, when you’re ready, not a moment sooner.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this real life?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand, I fully agree with you.

  On the other, I find there to be a poetic irony to people just making shit up about him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, just saw your edit, but no apologies necessary. If the small essay I’ve written between all my comments is any indication, I just like talking about fallout. So thanks for the rant actually!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I totally concur, a lot of the stories they want to tell fit so much better closer to the bombs.

  I also think Bethesda’s need to make sure every story contains the core elements of Super Mutants, the BoS, Deathclaws, Radscorpions, etc is another key issue they have with the lore. When I played 1 and 2, it felt like I was seeing just a small slice of a world that could have any number of crazy new things in it. But now that it’s basically the same thing coast to coast, the world feels stale and predictable.

  And you pretty much summed up all my thoughts on the show. The ‘collage of fun scenes’ made it enjoyable. But it was also beyond disrespectful. Throwing away the world built up in 1, 2, and NV just to make it match the key elements of 3 and 4 is… super fucking shitty.

  And I really don’t see how they can make it seem like every faction in NV can think they won without also completely invalidating the significance of the choices in NV. I’m honestly already resigned to Bethesda just killing off that as well tho, so I hope they at least still have a fun collage of scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bongo, I don’t wanna leave the Congo.