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- Comment on NY woman who used to own "NCC-1701" license plate ticketed thousands of dollars because of cars with Star Trek novelty plates going through traffic cameras. 3 days ago:
Front plates are bad for aerodynamics/fuel efficiency.
- Comment on NY woman who used to own "NCC-1701" license plate ticketed thousands of dollars because of cars with Star Trek novelty plates going through traffic cameras. 3 days ago:
Why would they learn that when they’re not the ones suffering the consequences?
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
Are the cheap drones really shooting people with bullets? I was under the impression they just had small explosives strapped to them and were single-use.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 5 days ago:
or forcing people ti find private servers to play with each other like in the good old days.
No shit, Sherlock. That’s exactly what I was advocating for.
I wouldn’t call it “forcing,” though – that’s another strawman. It’s “allowing” the option.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 5 days ago:
That’s a strawman argument. First of all, plenty of people would be happy to self-host a game for their friends, if they were still allowed the option. Second, even people who want to run a public server would still be free to ban people (for whatever reason they wanted). We’re not talking about being forced to tolerate antisocial fuckwads.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
That strategy is spreading, BTW: momentummag.com/vision-zero-campaign-bricks-vanco…
I’m also a big fan of:
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
Even just for something as mundane as protected bike lanes, I’ve found through personal experience that just a couple instances of direct action against motorists who tried to park in them was infinitely more effective than years of begging peacefully for barriers.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 1 week ago:
WHETHER IT’S YOUR DICK OR YOUR MOTORCYCLE IS LEFT UP TO INTERPRETATION
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 1 week ago:
I choose to believe you’re taking about having pica, not eating a molten chocolate cake.
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
You mess with it until you figure it out.
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 1 week ago:
Of course I can program it. I have no idea how to do so right now, but if you have it to me I could fiddle with it for a few minutes and figure it out.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
So we’re just trusting the police that they got the right guy and aren’t framing some poor schmuck, now? I mean, saying ‘The Adjuster’ is a hero is one thing, but I’m not yet willing to concede the point that he and ‘Luigi Mangione’ are one and the same.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
Maybe people won’t become billionaires doing this
And that’s exactly why. Even if the founder wants to be altruistic, the venture capitalists he depends on to get his business of the ground sure as Hell don’t.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 1 week ago:
$75/year seems expensive for Zenni, unless you’re going all-out on the fancy features. For that budget, I think it’s worth spending some on the optometrist to update your R~x~
- Comment on Update on ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier 2 weeks ago:
There are no time constraints… of any significance
I find the length of the day to be a huge constraint, especially when mining.
- Comment on Update on ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier 2 weeks ago:
That feeling when it’s midnight and you’re still trying to get deeper in the mine.
- Comment on Claim Denied 2 weeks ago:
I deny this asshole the status of “space cowboy.”
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"? 2 weeks ago:
In other words, being able to choose to disregard the concept of race is itself an expression of privilege.
In a perfect world where everybody had that attitude, it would be the right attitude to have. But as long as some people continue to not only regard it but also use it as a tool to discriminate and oppress, their victims do not have a choice but to regard it also. To tell minorities they shouldn’t care about race is to deny them the means to describe how they’ve been wronged.
- Comment on Rust 2 weeks ago:
Because his bus already careened off the cliff and is now sinking in the river below?
- Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? 3 weeks ago:
Factorio has only ever gone up in price, and the new expansion costs more than the base game did.
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 3 weeks ago:
More to the point, it’s an ensemble show about a pseudo-military ship’s crew. Since when has it ever been necessary to explain crew changes beyond “personnel got reassigned?”
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
It’s quite likely a belief that sunscreen lotion is a bad thing that harms people.
I mean, it halfway is:
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“Sunscreen” – stuff with a decently high SPF rating – is a good thing that prevents cancer.
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“Suntan lotion” – usually glorified coconut oil with fuck-all SPF rating – is a bad thing that harms people.
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“Sunscreen lotion” – a confused amalgamation of the previous terms – is not a thing and only misleads people by conflating good things with harmful ones.
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- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
It’ll cost you less than $300
Except for the multi-thousand-dollar drive.
- Comment on There doesn't seem to be any sand a-rounnnd. 3 weeks ago:
Different kind of science:
- Comment on There doesn't seem to be any sand a-rounnnd. 3 weeks ago:
So now we’re siftin’ just as fast as we can
Holding on to one another’s pan - Comment on Solution for the Trolley Problem 4 weeks ago:
This is 100% the response OP was fishing for.
- Comment on Currently happening 4 weeks ago:
In what situations are objects ambiguously countable?
- Comment on Currently happening 4 weeks ago:
How did he not get kicked out for that? If not for sexual harassment, at least for failing to get IRB approval!
- Comment on Can't install app because it isn't "certified" by the government 4 weeks ago:
So, have you bitched at your state rep about it yet?
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 4 weeks ago:
I could be wrong (I haven’t really paid attention lately), but I think the state of Linux on “smart” TVs is considerably more dire than the state of Android phones. At least with the latter, projects like LineageOS and GrapheneOS are a thing, whereas I know of zero third-party community firmware projects for TVs.