That BBC statement was so enraging I had the momentary urge to downvote this post in order to downvote what I’d just read.

It’s not even loading for me (Vivaldi on Android). I ran it through Textized. It’s on the Verge alright… verge of unreadability 🙄

Fucksticks, decksuckers, this thread has it all

Exactly

He’ll really do anything except the things we all know will bring the advertisers back.

¿por qué no los dos?

Ah, the tao of internet

cat holding smartphone ✔ borb (european robin) with red hat ✔ shiba inu and fox with helmets ✔✔

i love it

Easy peasy! 😩

this edit made me smile. good for her!

“I 👅 U”

Conservative TV commentators love dropping buzzwords, dog whistles, and conspiracy theories, to the point of incoherence. Dear god it’s been word clouds all along…

This has always happened in homes by the foothills. Bears in pools, on your driveway, looking through trash. People don’t realize how much legitimate wilderness there is here.

Many good recommendations already. Mine are: Warhammer, namely the Horus Heresy, the first few books of which I’ve read. Only 51 more to go. Robert Heinlein, all of his books are in the same universe which is pretty neat. He has his issues but the world building is top notch and sustained across so many works.

i don’t get a chance to say this often so i’ll say it 😁… my first email account was on an mvs machine. i’d telnet in from my dorm and read it with mail or elm. if i wanted a printout i’d have to walk to the computer science department to pick it up. find it laid out in a rack of shelves with other people’s printouts. it was on the grayest, most dirt cheapest continuous feed paper. good times

I’d recommend looking into behavioral economics. It’s in very infant stages but has a lot of potential imo. And there is bleed over into experimental psychology.

hey! i’m so old i saw that in the movie theater!

gonna file this away for five or ten years from now…

that bartender was a real one. bravo.

hey, in the eyes of this woman (me) at least, you seem to be doing your best. keep holding the people you know accountable for bad actions. act when you see bad behavior… it might not be safe to confront the offender, if so, support the victim. it’s all you can do. in my opinion, you have no need to apologize for others… you can’t change or control what another person will do. you can only control what you do.