Racist, but everyone is just making fun of it. “They’re rapists” struck a chord and fueled whole news cycles where the pearl clutching only spread the word. Eating the dogs and cats is a Tik Tok song meme everyone is laughing at them about because it’s so absurd and dumb. Granted it’s not been great for the residents of Springfield, but it’s a “Kamablah”-style rhetorical whiff I can’t see 2016 Trump making.

I feel like he used to seem crazy, but it was like a Tik Tok trend you don’t get, but with racism, and there’s an audience for it, but ever since he got on that Hannibal Lecter thing… I think NOW it’s just crazy

Very odd to be a vassal state to a mooch ethnostate with 1/100th your population numbers…

Narrator: they would

The management culture emphasizes a workflow that’s heavy on low skill junior devs and cheap foreign labor of highly variable quality. You caaaaan do that well with infinite planning and QA and project management and test-driven design, but the reason you’re trying to do it that way to begin with is you’re an under qualified yes-man careerist dipshit trying to come in under budget and time, so you won’t. And these are the wages of low wages.

You gotta love how aggressively they prevent users from seamlessly running executables from the internet, a VERY legitimate common use case, but a desktop shortcut from the internet? Run away!

Heck, there was even overlap with the internet where you could briefly lookup anyone in any city’s white pages listing online for free! People used to sign their Usenet posts with their full name, phone, and mailing address, though. We were really stupid in hindsight, but it was a more innocent time.

The blue MAGA mass downvoters on here are a real problem for the platform. I don’t even get the point of it. I think they think that any disagreement from the party line leads to the DNC failing because it’s like Tinkerbell, and only kept alive by belief and clapping, not just a deeply corrupt neoliberal party in need of reform, that is terribly underperforming in only managing 50-50 while the GOP self-destructs.

I’d wager your DVD rips are same quality, most stuff from the 90’s touched by computer anything is 480p at the source. VHS, it would be an improvement probably.

Yet more austerity seems like the definition of insanity – trying the same thing over and over, expecting a different result

Neoliberalism is a right wing ideology, hate to break it to you. There is no left in 2024 America.

Starmer is going to single handedly destroy the Labour party. He’s such a typical neolib thief. What exactly is the point of even voting for his Labour over the Tories? Their policy positions and tendency to corruptly profit off power has reached full parity now that Starker has purged every real Labour candidate from Labour.

Yeah, it’s kind of infuriating how there’s really no great clients

I’m on Graphene with nearly all FOSS apps

A DNC congressional majority passed every shitty thing he did except the Iran Contra stuff. There’s a great classic SNL from the late 80’s where Al Franken talks on Weekend Update about how it used to be someone who got old and rich like him would have to become a republican, but thanks to the DNC becoming a neoliberal anti-tax party, he doesn’t need to swap parties.

I assume this is referring to China. Ask anyone in China about their generous social benefits, which are even more paltry than in the US, and you’ll see how “left” the Chinese “Communist” Party really is

We’re on the brink of another Trump term --Justice Judy may well happen in the next year or two…

At least it was underground, limiting how many people were in the line of fire, every few years they open fire at someone on a major avenue in Manhattan in a crowd. Good times. I’m so glad the democratic party destroyed Scott Stringer by bribing his ex-gf to falsely accuse him of being a sex pest to ensure the DNC’s man, Eric Adams, the biggest shithead to ever come out of the NYPD, could become mayor-king of NYC, guaranteeing Guiliani-level daily police misconduct with impunity.

A number of VPNs have anti-tracking/adblocking features, but idk how well they work – I refuse to use an OS with OS level ads, so I never see non-browser ads

I would argue all of these things were possible sans “AI” (although it would have been sold as AI in the 90’s) via existing heuristics adequately developed if people knew that was the desired application