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Question Mark Mound posted:^^^^ edit: there’s no shadow for the sign, someone photoshopped her to be holding a sign that she didn’t have. I'm the also-probably-photoshopped mask.
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Jun 6, 2020 17:22
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For my own sanity I don't want to go back into the comments to get screenshots or anything, but yesterday Wizards of the Coast announced it's removing a bunch of racist cards from the game. The reaction from many players has been....exactly what you're thinking it is, despite the fact that literally none of those cards are relevant anymore and no one plays them. Here's the twitter thread if you want I guess: https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1270823164877189128
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Jun 11, 2020 20:00
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No lie that's the angle some people are taking to try to say banning racist cards is bad. "BUT THE HISTORY OF THE GAME!!!"
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Jun 12, 2020 04:10
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Elblanco posted:Please, everyone look at the full picture, it's much crazier than the cut off part implies. Holy poo poo. I honestly couldn't think of how it could get worse, I thought seeing the start of the "Trump" written on the side had it covered.
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Jun 15, 2020 03:25
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PurpleXVI posted:They're suffering from the same issue as any software company that becomes sufficiently large, at some point UI design is driven by the designers' need to justify keeping their jobs and/or a marketing team, rather than actually making the UI better. Either way you get pointless changes to a perfectly good UI/front end(with no option to roll back to an earlier version, of course, who would ever want that?????) rather than the under-the-hood improvements that users are actually begging for. Can confirm. Any time I've been at a company over a certain size, my meetings revolve around marketing people who feel like they need to make a certain quota of contributions to justify their paycheck. They think "it looks good as it is" is not an acceptable response to anything. I've had someone in a meeting request moving a button to a different part of a menu, then in the following meeting the same person requested we move it again....to exactly where it was originally, with absolutely no memory of their previous "idea". We'll have legit problems on the back end or mountains of tech debt to address, but it's important to "rebrand" every other month lately (my alma mater has rebranded their website twice in the past year, because another fun business trend: if you're not growing unbounded forever, you're a failure even if the numbers aren't going down either).
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Jun 16, 2020 16:44
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Grimdude posted:That is some pathetic backtracking like wtf: Jon Oliver said it best a few years ago: "Statues are not how we record history." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5b_-TZwQ0I
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Jul 16, 2020 21:02
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Absurd Alhazred posted:It's okay, these people only know how to lie and make bad faith analogies. This is literally why I don't speak to my father. Apparently my calling him and his new wife out as bigots makes me the real bigot, because I just can't respect that "other people have different opinions". I need to "accept that not everyone thinks exactly the same as [me]". Then something something life experience/once you see more of the world....thrown at me when I'm now in my mid-30s, because boomers will never accept that millennials are actually adults. I guess at least he doesn't try pretending he's not racist/classist/whatever, instead he just admits he doesn't think of black people or any followers of the Muslim religion or poor people as people and wants them dead or deported 
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Jul 21, 2020 16:41
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Picnic Princess posted:I pray no one ever has to sneeze while suffering from costochondritis because it will make you want to shoot yourself in the head That's some scary poo poo if you've never had it before (and hadn't even heard of it).
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Jul 24, 2020 02:19
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Phthisis posted:This is so depressing to me. Even without taking into account how disingenuous this is given how wealthy Bezos is, holy poo poo that's not even a question, of course I would! I'd give up everything I own if it ended world hunger and poverty. And think of the PR gain you'd get from doing so. I will never understand the people out there who value their own property over the slightest benefit for another human being. This made me remember a thing I saw over the weekend:  Fucker is now apparently worth $178 BILLION. What does $178 Billion buy you that $100 Billion can't? Or even anything beyond a single billion?
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Jul 27, 2020 17:23
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Cloacamazing! posted:FOURTH interview? How many interview rounds do these people except you to do? I've never heard of anything more than a second round! What is there that can be found out about the candidate during a fourth interview that hasn't already been covered during the first three interviews, unless it's how many hoops they're willing to jump through? Wait until you hear about the massive "code challenge" homework assignments you get to do when interviewing for software engineering positions.
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Aug 3, 2020 17:53
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HiroProtagonist posted:yeah, you're entirely right, dunno why the chemistry usage is the one I beelined for first Organic chemistry was a special kind of trauma that did odd things to our brains.
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Aug 8, 2020 17:55
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Cut off your leg to own the libs. Do it, coward.
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Sep 9, 2020 02:48
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Soylent Pudding posted:The adults are oblivious to how bad they're loving everything up while the fascists rise It's like people doing stupid poo poo in horror movies and getting themselves killed. It's a little harder to call it unrealistic in 2020.
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Sep 15, 2020 00:35
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History Comes Inside! posted:What’s dumb about not wanting someone to accidentally make a baby in space which is probably the most unsafe place I can imagine to have an unexpected baby? 
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Sep 17, 2020 17:20
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Pookah posted:These performative masculinity hard men behave as though covid is as easily spooked as a black bear - you just need to shout really loud and make yourself look big and intimidating and the virus will get scared and run off back into the woods. Funny you should mention bears. Turns out hyper-masculine libertarian types definitely can't deal with bears either.
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Nov 13, 2020 15:26
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Brawnfire posted:At least I died free! Frustrated, sick, starving, and poor, but my soul was left intact to rage fruitlessly against injustice 
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Nov 19, 2020 17:29
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:I bet that casual never had to go and find woods porn for himself. Only in the last couple of years has it come to my attention just how ubiquitous forest porn was.  from us older millennials that the internet killed off that really loving specific (and weird) thing.
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Dec 3, 2020 18:50
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Skwirl posted:Like, there's no one in Germany with ancestors that fought in WW2 claiming "heritage not hate" while flying a nazi flag. It's also straight up illegal to do that there because they're capable of prioritizing the collective good over letting "I'm not actually touching you" to allow, say, Nazis marching in the streets with tiki torches in the 21st century.
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Dec 16, 2020 23:41
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zakharov posted:omg go argue about the bad video game in the games forum
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Dec 23, 2020 20:01
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That's why I can't stand digging into poo poo from many years ago searching for something we consider offensive now. Things evolve and change, and expecting absolute perfection from everyone (against current standards) for their entire past is unrealistic. What matters is how one reacts to and acknowledges that past. Al does it right: you admit it's problematic and you didn't know at the time, you do better now.
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Jan 4, 2021 01:10
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lidnsya posted:What would be an example of "good" treason? I'm not American. It's pounded into our brains through all of grade school that the treasonous war we fought to throw off British rule is 100% cool and good, anyone who fought on our side is a demigod whose words are the only thing that should ever determine our system of government, and if you disagree with any of that or suggest any of those demigods were in any way flawed you are not AmericanTM  .
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Jan 18, 2021 18:41
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Platystemon posted:Port o' Rico When my grandma died and we were moving my grandpa out, I found an album in a closet with the label "Porto Rico" on it (from a trip they took there in I'm guessing the 50s). It was a good laugh when I found it, then it was ruined by my father thinking it was actually correct then slipping into racist nonsense when corrected....
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Jan 19, 2021 18:13
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Tony Phillips posted:I honestly have no idea if he thinks this is a real screen shot. Pretty sure my mom would know the font is way off and she'd probably even catch the typos.  I saw last night Snopes having to debunk an "Antifa Membership Card" featuring Eisenhower. These people can't conceive of abstract things like ideology or philosophy, to them everything has to be akin to a company with people in charge directing underlings to do their bidding (i.e. how they like their party to work). To them Antifa is basically Spectre; there can't just exist a very large demographic loosely tied together by the idea that authoritarian white supremacists are bad.
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Feb 9, 2021 18:18
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Ratjaculation posted:He's a warrior protecting women's spaces by *checks notes* invading women's spaces. If you haven't noticed the theme yet with these types, it's a lot of, "This is what I would do, so it's obviously what others are doing, but since I can't actually find any actual evidence of this I'll do it myself." See also: voter fraud last November, especially (I think) Laura Loomer recording herself illegally "casting" a (provisional) ballot for someone else.
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Feb 23, 2021 18:19
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EL BROMANCE posted:It worked when Patton Oswalt did it 8 years ago, but yeah marketing needs to take the L on this one and move on https://www.vulture.com/2013/08/patton-oswalt-is-an-excellent-twitter-troll.html Gordon Ramsay also did the exact same thing as Burger King during the first series of The F Word (the original UK one, not the lovely American reboot) with his "Get Women Back in the Kitchen" campaign. It generated a little controversy, but that was the goal to get it more attention, and anyone who looked at it for more than a second knew what he was actually doing. BaronVonVaderham has a new favorite as of 20:18 on Mar 8, 2021 |
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Mar 8, 2021 20:15
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There is an entire army of "boomers who think they loved Star Trek but actually completely missed the point" out there.
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Apr 27, 2021 18:15
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Katt posted:They should train police like this. Send them into burning buildings apropos of nothing? Yes.
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May 2, 2021 15:28
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learnincurve posted:I’m British and wtf is PTO? Currently stuck in one of these contracts. Bait and switch where it should have changed to FTE status after 6 months but "oh oops we did an IPO to make a bunch of money, but hey we renewed your contract so it's fine!" It took an utterly unreasonable amount of fighting to get this past week off TO loving MOVE INTO MY NEW HOUSE. "Well...you'll still have your cellphone, right? And once you have the cable company come install things you'll have wifi? Can't you just schedule everything over the weekend?" I can't think of a more American thing than needing to justify MOVING as a valid reason to miss some work and a boss trying to talk you into cramming such a massive event into a few hours on the weekend so this big upheaval in your life isn't mildly inconvenient to "the rest of the team".
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May 7, 2021 20:09
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Spinz posted:We just need to fashion some kind of rudimentary lathe Gorignak wasn't one of the animals listed 
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May 15, 2021 05:39
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If you hate celery you're just doing it wrong. Also just lol at someone calling it "bland" when it's literally an aromatic that's part of the French mirepoix and the Creole "holy trinity", among others. You can dislike it, but it's definitely not bland.
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May 27, 2021 17:42
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Captain Monkey posted:It’s a fake oppression and they put it there themselves. Yesterday we stopped by a winery downtown we haven't been to in ages. As we're checking out this couple stopped outside the door and the guy pointed at the sign in the window saying "Please kindly wear a mask inside." Note it's not strictly mandatory, the owner said to us as we went in, "I'm vaccinated, if you are too and are comfortable removing your masks feel free, but we'll have to put them back on if someone else comes in." Got the vibe that they were on a date and the girl was not into it at all. We heard him say something to the effect of, "If they tell me to put on a mask...." and then proceeded to drag this poor girl inside. He walked around the entire store talking way too loudly and clearly trying to get us to look at him and say something; the girl kept shushing him and asking to leave. We all ignored him (and the owner switched our conversation over to talking about how much worse her great-grandmother had it in the 1918 pandemic) and he eventually just huffed and stormed out. They actively want to be "oppressed" so they can "fight for their freedom" by...yelling at the nicest older lady who owns this little shop
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May 29, 2021 17:07
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:She should probably toss a couple towels over that 50k+ pavement princess behind her. I don't know how I haven't heard this term before today, but I love it.
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May 30, 2021 18:00
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Platystemon posted:the fruits sold for eight dollarydoos apiece. I was going to make a joke about using this to refer to their currency from now on....but of course that's a real Australian thing, I need to stop underestimating that country.
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Jun 8, 2021 16:54
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Brawnfire posted:Is... Is summer sacrosanct, now? Can there be but one holiday? Just give it a couple more decades and I'm sure 10 of the 12 months will be the "Christmas Season".
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Jun 18, 2021 03:40
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Skwirl posted:I dated a 21 year old when I was 28, the age difference was very weird. Ignoring that it's illegal in large parts of the country and obviously morally wrong, what the gently caress do you talk about with a 16 year old on a date in your late twenties? My default questions for teenagers when I have to talk to them is what classes they like (which I hatedgetting asked about when I was in high school). I'm guessing the 16 year old dating a 27 year old doesn't want to talk about school. I've reached that level of where I just can't deal with "kids" in their early 20s. I went back to grad school to do my PhD at 30 and the others starting the program fresh out of undergrad were 21, 22 tops. There's just a huge maturity gap where they don't have anything resembling perspective yet. They'd lose their mind over any assignments and how hard and unfair their life is because they had to supervise one whole physics lab each week so how could they ever find the time to do a handful of problems or a 4 page paper!I had a full time job and those weren't hardships. I get it, I'm sure I was just as bad if not worse at that age, but I quickly drifted away from that group (half of them straight up failed out after one semester anyway). Those were actual "adults" with college degrees, though. I hated teenagers when I was one, dating one sounds like a new level of hell.
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Jun 20, 2021 16:36
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Fister Roboto posted:I loving love this poo poo. Just the absolute dumbest possible response to "hey maybe we should make things suck a little less". I got similar poo poo somewhere last year when my partner and I finally got married. We were going to do it anyway, but on our own timeline; insurance forced us to move it up because they first made it as difficult as possible to insure a domestic partner then decided they just weren't going to cover that relationship anymore a few months later. I pointed out that I thought it was so asinine that as a domestic partner I had to get so much documentation to prove we've lived together and shared expenses for years (which would be nearly impossible even for a married couple to prove by their standards; who actually has both names on every bill they get?), yet as a spouse I just needed to check a box to say we were married; they did not actually verify this in any way, we didn't have to live together or have shared accounts or assets as was required for domestic partnership....nothing. It's just amazing the responses that came up. gently caress me for trying to point out that our gate-keeping system for who is allowed to be insured on a policy is completely arbitrary and pointless, I guess  .
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Jun 29, 2021 19:00
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Inceltown posted:Are you saying that there is a secret world of Allison Mack? I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this.
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Jun 30, 2021 22:27
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Byzantine posted:Anytime something I want to see comes out, youtube immediately fills with screaming thumbnails and titles spoiling every bit and I hate it. All this poo poo about spoilers, when the real villain is this new bizarre genre of THE FIFTY THINGS YOU MISSED IN THIS LATEST EPISODE, or EVERY EASTER EGG IN X! (not even getting into the morphing of the term "easter egg" into "just a thing that existed in the show"). I haven't watched live tv in so long, did that trend of having a show after the show to talk about the show finally die off? (e.g. Talking Dead after The Walking Dead)
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Mr.Radar posted:Did you know that Forest Gump was based on a book that managed to be even worse than the movie? I love telling people about that book. I read that back in 10th grade after having seen the movie and was completely unprepared. Don't they (Forrest, a lady astronaut, and a monkey) crash in Sumatra or somewhere and run into a tribe of cannibals?
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