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- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 1 day ago:
Thatcher and Reagan were an extraordinary pair for putting the boot on the neck of the working person. Reminds me of a song:
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 1 day ago:
I used to hate hit so much until the loser liar orange piece of shit stole the show. I didn’t stop hating this one. I just had new hate that I never expected.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 1 week ago:
Just tell her that her family believes in stupid magic bullshit. No need to sugar-coat anything with these people. Remember that they vote to take away your freedom every chance they get.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I never heard of this. Not at an age where this affects me anymore, but cool if true. Meanwhile, I will poor shots in shot glasses if we have company and just down my liquor without measuring otherwise.
- Comment on my fling and I are opposites but very compatible 2 weeks ago:
Changing where you live can really reverse what you’re describing, but I know that’s not always realistic. I live in the Bay Area and I’m middle-aged. The dating pool is full of people with my values and who like doing stuff I’m into, like going to live music and rocking out. Less than with younger people, but that’s about stamina more than interests.
If I lived in the midwest, where my family all live, there’d be nothing. Conservative bland bullshit. Dunno where you live, but something to consider.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You know who I trust to tell me how to live my life? Big faceless corporations. They obviously want what’s best for me more than they care about their bottom line.
- Comment on ICE agent threatens teenager for filming his vehicle, and pointing out that it illegally has no license plate. 2 weeks ago:
Had to play it muted. Hmm, what’s up you fat fuck?
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 2 weeks ago:
You want society to treat you like you belong to it?! You stupid fucks.
“Anyone who doesn’t have to suffer is a slight against me because I had to suffer at some point!” Fucking assholes.
Guess what? I inherited money. It didn’t make me stop advocating to help people or tax those with the most. These fuckers are inhuman.
But, honestly, we have to stop the socialist threat that will destroy our country because the want to feed people and that’s UNAMERIKAN!
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, but poor Kensworth threw up and had to take the rest of the day off work. We should probably compensate him with millions of dollars of tax-payer money.
Imagine… people with light and dark skin holding hands. Jeebus.
- Comment on Every fucking time 2 weeks ago:
The most accurate description of my pain. Thanks, family-grocery store that I loved.
- Comment on You think your kool not realizing that you are so dumb you can't even spell 2 weeks ago:
Dude, have you not heard about Stan? Oh, dude he’s super dark. Like, way worse than Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dalmer. If you wanna be hardcore, worship Stan.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 2 weeks ago:
We’re fucked. I told my therapist this. I told our financial planner that I don’t expect us to survive, but we opened the account for my partner to take care of her. We’re gonna destroy ourselves. Will it be on the timeline I expect? Maybe not. But T2 has already proven that things are moving faster than I had anticipated.
Humans: A nice experiment. Maybe talking dogs will be the next ascendent species.
- Comment on Demon slayer 2 weeks ago:
Remember how Jesus pulled out a demon (or demons) named Legion? They’re in me and I desperately need this woman’s help. Please. I’m suffering.
- Comment on The Nintendo 64 is now 30 years old! Released in Japan on June 23, 1996. 2 weeks ago:
We got to rent time on one of these that very summer in an arcade-like coffee shop (or something, I was young, I don’t remember) in NYC. Everything was in Japanese, but Mario was running around in an open world and it blew our minds.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 2 weeks ago:
Tribalism. We care more about being accepted by our desired peers than being correct. At least, that’s what articles and podcasts have told me. Also, stupid. Weaken education and make people stupid and unable to think critically. Do you think Ted Cruz (Harvard) was complaining about the Paris Accord because he genuinely didn’t know that it wasn’t Paris-only? His voters are goddamned morons and he knows it. The contempt is sickening, but they see none of it.
- Comment on Need to yak? Skip emetics, hear about what the world's Most Moral Army's up to 3 weeks ago:
Sexually assaulting, murdering children, taking selfies in ladies’ lingerie like a bunch of perverts.
- Comment on About the Author.... the 1980s were wild 3 weeks ago:
What a byline.
- Comment on brand new sentence 3 weeks ago:
I love you, friend.
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 3 weeks ago:
The person who downvoted me is either offended by my use of “lads” or is a fascist.
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 3 weeks ago:
Ada Lovelace. What else would I mean? She (arguably) wrote the first algorithm. (Oh shit, a woman is responsible for all social media, let’s get them! /s)
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 3 weeks ago:
Moffitt also hinted that he would return to the same spot for further debates on ‘remigration’ – the forced return of migrants and their descendants – but next time would bring a ‘team of lads’ for security.
He said: ‘This is England. I do not want to become a demographically replaced hellhole. What I saw that day was a group of migrant lads being egged on by left-wing agitators.’
Oh, buddy, you just don’t get it.
He said: ‘This is England. I do not want to become a demographically replaced hellhole. What I saw that day was a group of migrant lads being egged on by left-wing agitators.’
" … and then I would cum in my pants cause I was led to all this hate by a corridor of online voices telling me that it was everyone else’s fault that I can’t talk to girls like a regular person." [he didn’t really say that part, your slander laws are stupid UK]
Though I am anti-violence, I found this delightful. Fascists getting what fascists deserve. Sorry, “lads.”
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on brand new sentence 4 weeks ago:
The best part about getting old with a beer belly is being in a loving relationship with someone who can see past that and not caring at all. The last time I smashed my face with a hammer was never.
Sucks to be young people these days, though.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 4 weeks ago:
I will take this opportunity to recommend a podcast ep about him from the QAA podcast:
soundcloud.com/…/episode-43-scott-adams
I hope I found the right ep. The ep number is so low that it makes me wonder if the one I wanted was a later ep? Too many total to go through and verify.)
And Behind the Bastards:
He became pretty unhinged later in life. He put some bizarre content into the world.
- Comment on Good point 4 weeks ago:
The bovine is the natural enemy of the shark. That’s why they deployed a herd of cows to save the day in Jaws.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 4 weeks ago:
Scott Adams is dead! I didn’t know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.
(I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It’s sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)
- Comment on So unfair 5 weeks ago:
We called it a “doob tube.”
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 5 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine a more advanced mind. I mean, maybe Einstein, but we have proof of her discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world! (I mean, they kinda are, but you get what I mean.)
- Comment on Can't wait. 5 weeks ago:
Note: Changed my mind but preserved initial reaction:
No. Read the book. Other languages had their massive shifts before or after the printing press. English evolved at roughly the same time. That caused chaos. While other languages solidified in advance, and others solidified after, the english language was evolving at the same time that rules were written. It’s a perfect disaster (those who know, know. great song. great album).
Not direct support for my argument, just context:
The standardization of English spelling began in the 15th and 16th centuries; the Great Vowel Shift is the major reason English spellings now often deviate considerably from how they represent pronunciations.
Back to commenter (so it doesn’t look like I’m joining different quotes):
Germany even had an official spelling reform in the 1990s.
I’ve never heard of this, so maybe I’m wrong / uninformed.
I’ll look into it because I truly believe that language shapes thought and this is interesting to me.The German orthography reform of 1996 (Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996) was a change to German spelling and punctuation that was intended to simplify German orthography, thereby making it easier to learn,[1] without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language.
Wow. That’s so incredible and impossible where I live (USA) that I’m dumbstruck at the pragmatism of it. I was wrong. Fuck England and the USA (as always!).
“German orthography reform of 1996”[1]
- Comment on Ada Lovelace 5 weeks ago:
Hooray for the Lady who might have written the first algorithm! She needs more attention.
Other: Charles Babbage (sp?) and the Analytic Engine: perhaps our first real computer. Imagine a steampunk world where all our devices were powered by huge mechanical chunks and chonks.
I saw a video of a constructed Analytical Engine (they couldn’t manufacture the parts to the specs required in Babbage’s time) donated to a Computer History museum by an early Microsoft exec. Didn’t find it on a quick search, but it’s a huge thing driven by a physical crank.