wonderingwanderer

Average small business owner:

1. Sees a pithy saying on facebook

2. Orders it on a bunch of $2 canvas prints with the tackiest typesetting possible

3. Sells them for $20 each

Average person:

1. Rolls their eyes when they see these in the store

2. Cringes when someone gives them one as a gift and they have to pretend to be grateful

Based on what are you making that judgement? A series of truncated comments out of context? Because that’s basically all you can see. You don’t have a clue what I was saying other than that. So you’re just taking the mod’s word for it that I was being transphobic, and that the mod wasn’t just overreacting?

Literally nothing I said in that entire exchange was transphobic, but I got attacked with a series of strawman arguments by people assuming what I was trying to say. Kinda like you’re doing now. See how easily that happens?

Mostly from people overreacting and misattributing malice. Literally some of the most innocuous shit gets misinterpreted and then things spiral

We’re talking about drones, not pole-mounted…

That was the case, but they got a new grant and now the simulation goes to quadrillion

It’s at the bottom of the doc:

echo "Checking for infected AUR packages (${#INFECTED_PKGS[@]} total)..."
echo

found=()
for pkg in "${INFECTED_PKGS[@]}"; do
    if pacman -Qi "$pkg" &>/dev/null; then
        found+=("$pkg")
    fi
done

if [[ ${#found[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Clean: none of the known infected packages are installed."
else
    echo "WARNING: ${#found[@]} infected package(s) found:"
    for pkg in "${found[@]}"; do
        echo "  - $pkg"
    done
fi

Not sure why it uses -Qi instead of -Qm since there’s no point in scanning pacman packages, but I’m no expert

Get one of those cannons that launches a net tied with weights. They’ve proven very effective against drones in Ukraine.

I remember one of the big talking points in all his speeches was how he was bringing high-speed internet to rural areas, so I’m guessing that means he made some sort of directive to prioritize that

Damn, why is the world like this? Or at least this country?

I mean, I know the answer is corruption, corporatism, neoliberalism, and capitalism. But, like, why are those things the way the world is? It didn’t have to be this way…

That sucks…

I mean, it’s a huge logistical feat. But it’s not like nothing’s been done on the same scale before. The people have roads, they have landline, I don’t see why they can’t have fiberoptics.

Well waddaya know…

Panopticon.

I’ve been calling it out for years, but people thought that made me sus…

I think we’re in agreement. I basically said there’d be no point unless for some reason you wanted to describe radians as whole numbers.

Otherwise, base_π doesn’t make any sense, especially since there’s no unambiguous way to define a constant interval between irrational integers (a contraction of terms, I know).

My main point was that there’s no way to have a base_π numeral system, and even if you could it would have next to no practical value.

What about ibogaine and benzos?

Ah, but you’re forgetting that this is the age of the internet, when discussing potential solutions to a problem (or root causes of that problem so that real solutions can be found) is basically equivalent to providing justification for that problem.

We’re just supposed to paper over everything to make it presentable to an audience, even if beneath the surface everything is still a wreck. Superficial, temporary solutions are preferable to lasting solutions that address the problems at their roots.

Something about toxic positivity, and confusing descriptivism with prescriptivism.

“Does” ≠ “Should” (strawmen hate this one little trick!)

It’s not that.

It’s, “if you rob someone at gunpoint then you can’t cry racism when you get arrested.”

It’s, “if you’re a gold digger, then you can’t cry misogyny when someone calls you a gold digger.”

Behave however you want, but if you take advantage of people then you don’t get to hide behind “systemic oppression” to avoid facing consequences.

Would you consider it misogyny if someone mentions gold diggers in a conversation about dating? Or if they talk about gold diggers in any context at all? Or if someone even acknowledges that gold diggers exist?

Because a lot of people would consider that misogyny.

But an instagram model openly being a gold digger lends credence to the argument that “some women are gold diggers.”

So if you consider it misogyny to acknowledge that some women are gold diggers, then a woman being a gold digger is, by your very definitions, creating a pretext to justify misogyny.

(Funny how women can generalize about men, but when men generalize about women it’s suddenly a problem; or even if they don’t generalize but cite specific examples, people will still make a strawman argument about them generalizing so even that’s bad).

I wouldn’t be surprised if they make this retroactive to even apply to the people who bought their hardware.

When I was 18, I signed up for an internet service for the first time. They asked if I wanted to rent or purchase a modem/router, and because I did the math and saw that it would be more economical in the long run to purchase it, that’s what I chose. I paid extra up front so that the hardware would belong to me and I could take it with me later.

Fast forward to moving day, when I canceled my internet plan and boxed up my modem/router to take with me. A few months later, I got a call from the company. They said I never returned my hardware and that I owe them a fee to replace it. I told them I purchased the hardware up front; it’s mine, I already paid for it.

Their answer? “No you didn’t.”

The gaslighting commenced as they claimed to have no record of that. They continued to harass me for months, threatening legal action and debt collection and all that. Eventually I got fed up and just paid the fine. Essentially paid for it twice, but fuck me I guess. This is america where the consumer is always wrong.

Wasn’t Biden going to build out the broadband infrastructure to reach rural communities? What happened to that project? Did it get DOGEd?

That is 104.72% correct.