skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

oh look, another votescold so thoroughly convinced that everything would have been fine if only everyone followed their campaign strategy, that they're literally blaming anti-fascists for fascism. How about blaming actual fascists instead?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

You don’t even need to bring income into it. Inflation is the whole point of the “things were cheaper in the old days” trope, if you adjust for inflation then all you’re saying is we’ve seen zero progress. Even on its own terms it’s still not a brag.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think it's so much a "policing" thing as a side effect of other platforms whose algorithms will avoid boosting certain sensitive topics. People do stuff like this to bypass it and then other people see it happening and think that's just what you're supposed to do.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don’t actually regret that it worked.

Are you sure though? What actual good did it do in the end; did it result in you doing anything of value or changing your mind on some topic? Or did it just make you a bit angry for a while before going about the rest of your day? (I'm not having a go at you by the way, it's the bait I'm irritated at)

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was marketed for PS2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

The PS3 could run Linux initially, but Sony remotely disabled it on account of being a shower of cunts, resulting in a bunch of lawsuits (which even more cuntingly they paid out on, sooner than re-enable Linux).

That said I think you may be talking slightly at cross purposes; the ability to run Linux isn’t tied to processor architecture, and doesn’t mean anything in terms of what the PS3 was like to develop for as a professional game studio.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In certain Austroasiatic languages, your wrists and ankles are your hand-necks and foot-necks.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Shit like this is so common that the instant I read the headline I thought, ok, so what really happened?

The infuriating thing is that by its own metric it worked; I got successfully baited into reading the article. Fuck these shitty news editors to infinity.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It's sickening how little Amazon seem to give a fuck about this. They could easily tighten up their vetting of sellers, but heaven fucking forbid they only report a $50,000,000,000 profit this year instead of $50,003,000,000.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Why not start with disabling it by default and see how many people switch it on?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

As the party fielded more and more candidates who championed economic-right policies in order to attract corporate donations, the idea of "purity testing" was turned into a stock phrase to attack critics using labels, instead of justifying it on its own terms.

Phrases like "moral purity" now serve two functions: firstly, to dismiss criticisms from the Left wholesale without having to discuss them directly, and secondly, to blame them for the rise of fascism.

In theory it was also supposed to serve a third function of bullying the Left into voting Democrat, but that didn't work.

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