casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer

@casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works

“you thought you did something there, didn’t you?”

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casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

They actually won a $2.6 million judgement against her, whereas she originally won $1.5 million. Failed to show up in court. Broke little gold digger now.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

IANAL (obviously)… (IAONAL?)

  • Every headline I’ve read about this says Musk is funding it.
  • Every article I’ve read says X is funding it, to make good on Elon’s promise that the company would fund legal battles for those discriminated against for their behavior on the platform
  • Neither X nor Musk are defendants
  • The complaint does however feature Pedro Pascal meming on the 45 IQ crowd
  • The complaint also features an example of Pedro Pascal in 2020 posting a meme of Bert and Ernie (and Ducky) from Sesame Street holding up a “Black Trans Lives Matter” protest sign, a LGBTQ+ flag, and a “Defund the Police” sign respectively. The complaint alleges that Pedro Pascal was not disciplined by Disney for this, which it seems to allude is evidence of sexual discrimination. There was no mention of fair use law, though Disney likely wouldn’t need to worry about that had they taken issue with his post. The allegation stands that Pascal was not disciplined for using Defendant’s intellectual property to promote personal ideology
  • The complaint, at least from what I can surmise, does not indicate what started the debacle on X, but tries to paint it as if users just started attacking Gina Carano. The earliest relevant artifact I could find was her uncaptioned August 2, 2020 post of a monochrome photo of a crowd giving right-hand-forward/Nazi salutes, with a red circle highlighting one man in the crowd who is not saluting. Gina would later add context: “Heartbreaking and powerful story of a man who changed his ways for the woman he loved… love changes the world, one person at a time.❤️” How you get “Nazi sympathizer” or “bootlicker” from that is beyond me.
  • The outrage against Gina allegedly intensified when X users harassed her to “say ACAB” and “use pronouns” (to identify herself, on her profile). These users posed this as a civil obligation and implied that the public would vilify her for not conforming, to which she did not yield. Gina eventually updated her profile to jokingly show “boop/bop/beep”, to which she was excessively derided for (likely by bots/trolls)

“Elon Musk Is Funding […] through X” would communicate the immediate truth. Very few media agencies thought to do so. They also do not expose any of the details I highlighted in my bullet points. Nor do they link to the publicly available complaint PDF, at least that I’ve seen.

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casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Thank you for providing that context, I saw nothing about that in my (brief, limited) search. The quote felt incomplete, but it was more than enough for me to find news articles providing extra context. Here’s the full tweet, for anyone at OOTL as I am:

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors… even by children.

Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

My understanding has now shifted to that she could have been implying Republicans were being treated like Holocaust victims, which is patently absurd. But before even recognizing this, it struck me that the passage she quotes is accurate: history is edited, and the German public was propagandized into treating Jews as the enemy to nurture complicity for their genocide.

That’s not to say I agree with her, because not all identity politics are equal: someone being attacked for their religious beliefs, race, or heritage is much different from someone being attacked for their political views. But, it still remains that nobody should be attacking anybody in a civil political setting. Meaning nobody should be storming any government buildings, nobody should be showing up to election sites with guns, nobody should be picket lining a Planned Parenthood, and nobody should attack anyone based on their identity (which does not include their actions).

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Unfortunately I think this is real.

  • 3 seconds to decide whether to invest 10 seconds or more into watching any given clip
  • 2friends’ Big Booty Mix on full blast
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

cishet white men: exist

some marginalized groups: “THEY ARE TRYING TO OPPRESS US, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HATES US AND IS PART OF THE SATAN WORSHIPPING WHITE CISHET PATRIARCHY AGENDA, THEY TOO COWARDLY TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES AND LET SOME OLD WHITE GUYS TELL THEM WHAT TO DO”

cishet white men: “fuck taxes, man. Btw when you figure we gonna get a sensible politician? Same shit we saw our parents wondered every four years when we were kids, amirite?”

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

before y’all try to “own” me or “ratio” me for not confirming to the hive mind, please kindly reread my comment and explain exactly what you think my motive was in writing this before replying. Anyone who fails to do that, whatever they could type holds no value in my tired eyes.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

People in this thread taking it at face value when:

  • Thee phrase “thank you for coming to my TED talk” implies satire
  • It’s super easy and fun to post fake texts online
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

But the caucus, which he is in, will be awarded delegates while the primary, which Haley is in, will not.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Despite being a paying customer, my biggest gripe with them is their lack of concern for freedom of speech. They decided they can “de-platform” sites that they are not aligned with, which is shitty when A) they’ve basically cornered the SMB CDN/DDoS-protection space B) they are fine with these sites in their customer base until a pressure campaign they don’t feel like battling surfaces.

This is referring to the KiwiFarms vs Keffles situation, where Keffles made false claims to Cloudflare about KiwiFarms endorsing/promoting suicide in an attempt to prevent her leaked discord convos from spreading. Cloudflare caved without question and suspended KiwiFarms’ account without warning.

Otherwise, I have personally never had an issue with Cloudflare. But I am still going to look for alternatives because I don’t think it’s cool for companies with that kind of responsibility to bend a knee to bad actors out of fucking convenience.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Idgaf about the orientation typically. But if it’s gonna be explicitly called out, then it better be significant to the character’s identity, otherwise it’s just meaningless attempts for the developer to ingratiate themselves with the LGBTQ without so much as providing a representative character of substance. I can’t think of any examples of these off the top of my head, but there were some games and/or shows where I lost interest because every character was whatever different flavor of sexual and I was just like “this contributes nothing at all to the story, who tf cares about that shit?”

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

That’s the perfect counterexample, because their sexual identity is directly tied to their motive in the story’s conflict. That is the kind of writing that deserves respect.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

ITT: People unfamiliar with the toxicity of Keffals

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Then do your mind a favor, just catalogue their name in your mental book of “people who deserve no thought or time, ever, period” and go about your day.

Long story short, they are an attention whore/drama queen that likes to get people in a tizzy to boost their ego. Same dysfunction as Drewiepoodle.

Netflix considers adding in-app purchases and ads to games, report says (techcrunch.com)

According to The Wall Street Journal, the company has had discussions about how to make money from its games for months now, including in-app purchases, putting a price tag on more premium titles and placing ads on games that subscribers to its ad tier have access to. These methods are common (and effective) in the mobile gaming...

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

This is truly absurd.

Netflix basically bought the rights to republish versions of established mobile games as “Netflix Edition” titles with ads and in-app purchases removed as a value add to subscribers to get them into their games ecosystem. And now they want… to put ads and micro transactions back? I understand the reasoning behind it obviously-- they need a return on their investment-- but that is a clean about-face from their initial strategy

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Half Life recently got an installment with Alyx, and just got a free remaster 25 years after release, with the whole non-VR franchise is perfectly playable for dirt cheap on any old system. Portal has received spin-offs. Team Fortress isn’t getting the attention it deserves, but is perfectly playable on modern PCs and has aged like fine wine while receiving bugfixes and new community-made, Valve-approved content every so often. Afaik Dota 2 still has an actively supported pro league. CS got an overhaul, for better or worse.

Valve is unique in that they are one of the few developers that understand that sometimes you don’t try to fix what ain’t broke-- this is why TF2 outlived Overwatch, and will almost certainly outlive Overwatch 2 as it has many other games.

Valve doesn’t hold out on releases out of intentional neglect, but are instead painfully aware of how hard it is to meet growing expectations and continue to improve on what many would already consider to be near perfection. That’s why we don’t have HL3.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Some Microsoft exec: “Hey, remember when TV remotes started getting a dedicated Netflix button?”

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

I swear to fucking Stallman, this is at least the fourth time this past week I’ve seen a unique post about this same fucking shit. One dude writes an article going “xrandr let’s you rotate the screen 22 degrees” and the holiday tech news cycle just loses its mind.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

d’oh, thanks

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Just give em Fedora. Seems to get people good mileage from newb to netadmin

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

idk why you are getting downvoted. Tap water in a lot of parts of America is polluted from old plumbing, this is established fact. That’s why most people have filters.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

The painting swap doesn’t add much to this, but is otherwise fitting.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

As others in this thread have stated, Costco is probably the only big company whose word I’d trust on this letter. Never heard anything bad about them and I genuinely believe their continued success is hedged entirely on their relationship with customers and employees.

But the “if you don’t feel like we care enough, talk to a manager” always sounds bad because if lower management is the issue then that’s a non-answer. Would be better to have a “reach out anonymously at this inbox” or something, otherwise they may as well tell it to the union rep.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Silicon Valley really wants to make XR a thing.

Current tech does not need 5G and the shit that they think will need 6G is just needless XR systems that will be steaming an unjustifiable amount of data from the “cloud”.

The enshittification continues. Happy 2024 folks

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

Poor man didn’t have the manpower to checks notes censor reviews about their steaming pile of shit

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer,

July 2007 — a suggestive image of Wikipe-tan (not drawn by Kasuga) was proposed for use in the article on lolicon. The image was removed from Commons by Jimbo Wales, who called Wikipe-tan a “community mascot” who should not be subject to such “pedophilic sexualization”. Kasuga later drew a new image for the article which did not use Wikipe-tan.

Poor Jimbo ain’t get enough credit for putting up with this shit.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/568d836d-8575-4fc5-8177-d1ef9ea637b9.jpeg

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