icydefiance

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icydefiance,

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read today.

icydefiance,

Any third party that a left leaning person might vote for will only help Republicans to win elections by siphoning votes away from Democrats.

In fact, that’s exactly why they exist.

So yeah, they get hate, because they’re actively trying to sabotage progressive causes and usher in fascism.

icydefiance,

Avoiding slurs is good, but you’re still claiming that her experience is impossible because you’ve never experienced the same thing.

icydefiance,

The irony here is so thick, it’s absolutely incredible.

icydefiance,

nytimes.com/…/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html

I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

Or for another example, see Andrew Tate and all the idiots who follow him.

icydefiance, (edited )
  1. To compare every comment on reddit to every other comment in reddit’s entire history would require an index, and if you want to find similar comments instead of exact matches, it becomes a lot harder to do that efficiently. ElasticSearch might be able to do it, but then you need to duplicate all of that data in a separate database and keep it in sync with your main database without affecting performance too much when people are leaving new comments, and that would probably be expensive.
  2. Comparing combinations of comments is probably impossible. Reddit has a massive number of comments to begin with, and the number of possible subtrees of those comments would just be absurd. If you only care about comparing entire threads and not subtrees, then this doesn’t apply, but I don’t know how useful that will be.
  3. Programmers just do what they’re told. If the managers don’t care about something, the programmers won’t work on it.
icydefiance,

Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals.

www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

icydefiance,

It almost did. There was a mob of people just a couple doors away from murdering most of congress and making Trump a dictator.

The only reason Trump failed to end democracy is because he and the rest of the Republican party were just trying things without a real plan.

They have a plan now. If they get a chance to use it, they will be successful.

Dirty clothes & dead kids (sh.itjust.works)

alt-text: there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up $150. I’ll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole families may have leaped up through the...

icydefiance,

Biden is pushing for a ceasefire and sanctioning settlers, while Trump said that Israel should “finish the problem”.

If you consider a Palestinian who hasn’t lost their family yet, there’s a pretty obvious difference between the two candidates.

icydefiance, (edited )

Canada would be. Mexico’s homicide rate is almost 5x higher than the USA.

icydefiance,

I haven’t said anything on the subject before, because I don’t care very much, but I don’t know what the alternative is supposed to be. It’s not like someone who is that famous can walk into a public airplane without putting her own safety at risk and causing trouble for other passengers.

It’s also well known that conservatives really hate her because she told her fans to vote and these memes are part of their effort to discredit her. Whether the point has any merit or not, it’s obvious who started the trend and who it’s helping.

icydefiance,

Why the fuck aren’t more people pressuring him with questions like this?

Because they’ll never get another interview with him, or most other Republican politicians. It’s a pathetic reason, but that’s all it takes.

icydefiance,

He’s a human trafficker and a rapist. The women in his videos don’t have a choice but to do what he says.

icydefiance,

When a leap second happens, unix time decreases by one second. See the section about leap seconds here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

As a side effect, this means some unix timestamps are ambiguous, because the timestamps at the beginning and the end of a leap second are the same.

icydefiance,

:w !sudo tee %

Of course that’s impossible to remember, but you can just google “vim sudo save” or something like that to find it.

icydefiance,

Now I kind of want to

icydefiance,

Blargerer is probably saying that because the Mastodon post OP linked to says “In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.”

That, in turn, is probably referring to a letter received from the European Commission by the same person, which you can see here: twitter.com/alexanderhanff/…/722861362607747072

It’s not exactly a “ruling”, but it’s still pretty convincing.

icydefiance,

Close encounters of the racist kind is a good read. Here’s the most relevant part:

Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”

The history channel is entry level nazi propaganda.

icydefiance,

I’m american and work right next to a roundabout. It gets a pretty low amount of traffic but I still see people stop in the middle or go around backwards all the time.

That said, I see drivers doing the stupidest things pretty much everywhere, so the roundabout isn’t exactly making things worse.

icydefiance,

The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that the right to anonymous free speech is protected by the First Amendment. A frequently cited 1995 Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission reads:

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society.

www.eff.org/issues/anonymity

icydefiance,

I have no idea what that means, but it sounds accurate

icydefiance,

I’m not familiar with the mods, but the combat was definitely rebalanced. Enemies scale with your level now, guns themselves were rebalanced, armor is on cyberware instead of clothing, and the new perk trees are more consistently useful instead of some perks being worthless and others being game breaking.

icydefiance,

That’s pretty much it. Apparently the format optionally supports compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn’t do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.

icydefiance,

I’m pretty sure GSRM wrote A Song of Ice and Fire.

icydefiance,

It is hurting people

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