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- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 5 days ago:
Leave it to Sony to come up with new and innovative ways to harass customers.
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 5 days ago:
Personally I actually think class has more to do with it than sexism in general. For example the first professional woman to play golf in slacks was in 1933, while the first black professional golfer was allowed in the PGA in 1967.
It’s weird that you keep saying only “class” when you mean both class and race. Yes, they’re correlated, but they’re not the same and both really are at play here.
- Comment on Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass. 5 days ago:
It’s because it brain dead “free market” cargo-cultism.
Merely not participating isn’t good enough. There are way too many shortsighted people in the world, making that sort of strategy a perpetual loser. This sort of shit can only be stopped by government regulation.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 6 days ago:
I’ve been boycotting WalMart for 25 years, but regrettably this has not put them out of business.
Something for folks to remember, when they try to pretend that boycotts are a good substitute for effective government regulation.
- Comment on The mystery of why so many black Britons still can't swim 1 week ago:
A ‘fun’ anecdote from Wikipedia about British attitudes towards non-white people swimming:
In 1844 a swimming competition was held in London with the participation of two Native Americans. The British competitor used the traditional breaststroke, while the Native Americans swam a variant of the front crawl, which had been used by people in the Americas for generations, but was not known to the British. The winning medal went to ‘Flying Gull’ who swam the 130-foot length in 30 seconds – the Native American swimming method proved to be a much faster style than the British breaststroke. The Times of London reported disapprovingly that the Native American stroke was an unrefined motion with the arms “like a windmill” and the chaotic and unregulated kicking of the legs. The considerable splashing that the stroke caused was deemed to be barbaric and “un-European” to the British gentlemen, who preferred to keep their heads over the water. Subsequently, the British continued to swim only breaststroke until 1873
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 1 week ago:
Or at least, publicly claiming to have done that and selling it to a jury as plausible, even if the actual thing that tipped them off was something else secret and inadmissible.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
When it comes out that he’s dead but they waited long enough that there is no time for a special election, they should just have the special election anyway, because he was away from his duties before the deadline.
No. Kentucky’s governor should just immediately appoint a replacement, because the law requiring a special election was already unconstitutional (according to KY’s state constitution) to begin with.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
Wish
he’dhis handlers would hurry up anddieannounce his death that happened months ago so we don’t have to keep paying him.FTFY.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
Yeah, if what was happening to Mitch wasn’t so exceptional in America then this would be a non issue.
It would still be an issue because (a) Kentuckians are missing half of their Senate representation, and (b) because his death is obviously being hidden for bad faith political purposes, to illegally deprive Kentucky’s governor of his right to appoint a replacement.
- Comment on US threatens Britain over Falklands 1 week ago:
Ah, so it’s not just bailouts and tainted beef trades; the US is fully adding fascist Argentina to its new Axis.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo's "hide ai images" option still shows AI images that are clearly tagged on the site 1 week ago:
Detection of AI is based on a list. Not some form of intelligent keyword matching algorithm.
“You said you wanted no AI, so we gave you no AI!”
- Comment on We don’t need 75-inch TVs, we need 75% off basic survival. 💀 1 week ago:
A small recompense for the huge prices they charge the rest of the time!
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 1 week ago:
There are also “speed tables” that are even longer and are flat-topped with sloped sides.
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 2 weeks ago:
These days they’re just as likely to hang up on you instead of transferring you to a human.
- Comment on Christmas is upon us 2 weeks ago:
Home Depot and Lowes have Halloween decorations in already, but that’s almost kind of reasonable. Ish.
Having Christmas stuff in August is just absurd, unless it’s one of those dedicated Christmas stores that’s open year-round for some reason. (Do those still exist? The only two I knew of near me either went out of business or became online-only years ago.)
- Comment on This crazy assassin character, who doesn't know what shampoo is, somehow would bother shaving her armpits 2 weeks ago:
That user has a distinctly combative tone in general.
- Comment on Justice Department to send a record 1,000 monitors to polling places in midterm elections 2 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t even be voting anyways.
Well I’ve got some good news for you, then: they don’t and claims that they do are fucking lies!
- Comment on Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action 'organisers' for Israeli arms factory raid 2 weeks ago:
Anyway, I hope your faith in the British public continues to heal.
I hope the British public continues to increasingly act in such a way as to deserve our faith.
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 2 weeks ago:
Yoshi, because if I wanted the best acceleration acceleration the only other choice was the princess.
(I only played the original SNES version.)
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
They just want to destroy open source firmware. They hate freedom from corporate control, not guns.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
It can’t. They want to destroy 3D printers entirely.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Old article + new user account = maybe bot reposting?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Fallout 76 doesn’t count as a sequel to Fallout 4 in the same way that Elder Scrolls Online doesn’t count as a sequel to Skyrim. MMOs just aren’t the same kind of game as a single-player RPG.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
the Wasteland hadn’t changed at all despite it now being centuries since the bombs fell
That’s one of the things that annoys me about Fallout: it’s just so unrealistically barren. I mean, we have real-life examples in places like Hiroshima and Chernobyl, and the reality is that pretty damn quickly after the bombs, they’ll be just as green again as normal. Don’t get me wrong, obviously there should still be mutated creatures and ruins and stuff, but it should all be super-overgrown, too.
Not to mention, centuries is plenty of time for civilization to at least clean up a lot of the debris and such, and even make decent progress recovering. Realistically, the state of the world in Fallout is more appropriate for a setting a decade or less after the war.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
At this point, I’d need to re-play Mass Effect 1 and 2 first. And also wait for it to go on a good sale.
- Comment on Wooden Cutting Boards Are the Best | SciShow [12:53] 3 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s literally what the video we’re discussing is about (starting at 8:34). You did watch it, right? 😜
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t from personal experience because its reputation is so bad I avoided it entirely, but apparently Mass Effect 3. The fan backlash was so strong they apparently had to retcon the ending, LOL!
en.wikipedia.org/…/Mass_Effect_3_ending_controver…
(You know it’s bad when it’s infamous enough to warrant its own Wikipedia article.)
- Comment on Wooden Cutting Boards Are the Best | SciShow [12:53] 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what makes wood better, though: the bacteria gets drawn into the board via capillary action and then dies when it dries out.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, you have to wait for weeks for an appointment under the current system anyway.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 3 weeks ago:
Amazon sells a lot of illegal shit. That doesn’t mean it’s okay; that just means law enforcement isn’t doing its goddamn job.