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9point6,

Spurs will never win anything and they’re gonna get to the point where any self respecting manager or player will avoid them like the plague.

Cheering your team losing and not getting into the Champions League is truly pathetic and no one at that club will see success unless that mentality changes.

Crabs in a bucket

9point6,

Isaac meets vampire survivors?

I’m ready

9point6,

I think even the worst sensors in new phones today are only as bad as the best ones a few years ago now, fwiw.

High quality fingerprint scanners are almost a commodity part at this point

9point6,

Obligatory: Not Just Bikes on YouTube has a series of videos about the Strong Towns books written by the guy mentioned at the start of the article

Also his other content is pretty interesting if you’re into that stuff

9point6,

NSFW for this seems a little puritanical

9point6,

We call these retail parks in the UK

9point6, (edited )

Tbh the penalties for simulation in a lot of leagues have been turning the tides on the egregious theatrics. I’d agree what you were saying was a lot more prevalent, say a decade or so ago.

You’ll still always be able to cherry pick incidents, and some leagues will be worse than others for it, but the game has moved on a bit, and you do see it way less frequently than we did even just a few years ago.

Edit: elsewhere in the thread reminded me of the other aspect of this

There’s also the tactical fouls which are (whether you agree with it or not) part of the modern game. A player can weigh up the risk of getting sent off if they think it might prevent the opposition from otherwise scoring. These kinds of fouls can look pretty cynical to those unfamiliar with it, not least of all because they tend to also be softer than genuine fouls as the players tend to not want to actually injure themselves and others. So just enough of a foul to stop play, but ideally not even pick up a yellow card, and often in this scenario if the victim of the foul clocks what’s going on, they’ll try to hit the ground harder to increase the chances the fouling player gets booked.

A player (or even team) can probably only get away with this once or twice in a game before they piss off the ref though, and players will start getting sent off. In the same vein teams want to avoid getting a reputation for it too, otherwise they’ll end up facing much closer scrutiny.

9point6,

Oh.

Well here was me clicking on this thread thinking “oh! That seems like a positive shift in mentality”

Then I read your comment.

Was a fun 3 seconds

9point6,

Same, never used a mnemonic for it or anything, just

zxvf

Like it’s any other word

9point6,

I mean if it was gonna happen anywhere, a film festival probably makes the most sense

9point6,

🤢

9point6,

Ventoy, as everyone else says, is your friend here.

Though I saw something similar in a video recently which I’m gonna call out for completeness, the IODD devices that let you change the image on the fly:

en.iodd.kr/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Obviously not as cheap as a usb stick and ventoy, but a pretty cool alternative for those with the additional use cases

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (www.reuters.com)

May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....

9point6,

What a petulant manchild

I hope he gets acute medical complications from whatever stimulant he’s constantly on

9point6,

Someone finding out they’re wrong is the best thing a person can do

Some people unfortunately never find out they’re wrong and the worst people actually do find out but choose to remain wrong.

9point6, (edited )

Okay buckle up, this is a bit of a crazy ride.

I’d say a big event that kicked up a load of the racism we’ve got today was 9/11.

Right wingers went on a big public islamophobic tirade against anyone who they thought looked slightly Muslim for nearly a decade. This is where they got used to being confidently racist. This actually happened all over the western world, but I’m gonna focus on the American events after this.

Then Obama got elected, and relatively quickly a vast number of them had expanded their confident racism to include him, because they could hide it behind the flimsy excuse of criticising the opposing politicians. Then you had people banging on about the Kenya thing, which was just more emboldening.

This is also when we saw a lot of these “free thinker” talking head fuckos show up, and they start filling gullible viewers heads with lies and a tiny bit of racism sprinkled in.

One of the guys behind huge amounts of that, Steve Bannon, expressly targeted “angry young men” as a specific demographic he saw as easy to manipulate. Believe it or not GamerGate was one of the sources of angry guys he specifically manipulated to great success. So all these podcasts start getting funding and certain kinds of guests, and before you know it we have the manosphere, MAGA and an openly racist, criminal president.

Then of course COVID comes along which gives another angle for them to be racist through sinophobia, and also a new hook to pull people in and then get their brain warped slowly by the other cryptofascist topics that get dripfed from people talking about it.

Basically, the original event showed some Machiavellian right-wingers that a big enough enemy can be used to brainwash people towards racism, once there, they’re incredibly easy to manipulate. They then used Obama becoming president to test the theory and got the results they wanted. Next was to get the presidency in the hands of this new right-wing, and finally the January 6th coup was supposed to be the final touch.

That failed so they’re back in recruitment mode, and now they’ve got it down to an almost industrial process whenever some celebrity/influencer espouses a right wing view, a podcast set appears around them and suddenly all the funding they need to make the pod full-time, just as long as they get some certain guests on or discuss some topics in particular.

Edit: worth noting I tried to trim this down a bit, so a fair few events have been left out.

9point6,

Oh man, I’d completely forgotten about that

Actual nutjobs

9point6,

Unironically, I guess that might be why we say “I’ve got a nose bleed” here?

9point6,

You could also get a big sword-shaped ice cube mold, a chest freezer and probably not even a whole enemy.

You would have to do battle in freezing climates too though in order for it to remain physically effective

Though I imagine the psychological effectiveness might persist a bit longer

9point6,

I kinda like that’s is a new line art meme format that’s not based on wojack, it’s nice to have variety

9point6,

Oh cool, so we have our own home-grown chimera of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church

fuck’s sake…

9point6,

Hey man, I laughed

Would you say Apple is in a slump?

With the VisionPro hype already dead (maybe forever?), bad or tasteless iPad ads, purposeless updates to iPad, Apple dropping their car project, and reaching out to OpenAI or Google for AI services … it certainly feels like it to me. They’ve at least run into their limitations recently however much they want to find the...

9point6,

they seem more focused on extracting every penny from customers, rather than providing the best products possible.

Funnily I actually see them doing the opposite of this currently.

They’ve always been a company that extracts the most they can from their target demographics. It was a meme for a long time that apple hardware was overpriced rubbish that was wrapped up in a shiny (thermally badly designed) box, and until the recent shift, that’s kinda mostly tracked as true.

What we’re seeing differently now though, is they’re actually putting some of the best hardware in the industry in their machines, combined with the (now much colder) shiny box, suddenly the value proposition starts to make a lot more sense outside their usual demographics

9point6,

An AI controlled jet fighter is something a step above in force, compared to the dog.

I can imagine a scenario where enough civilians could stop a rogue gundog, that gets tougher with a jet fighter

9point6,

…fuck, you’re right

9point6,

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