For most of the first 15 minutes of "Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull" the bit is we're looking for something that's "highly magnetic" and we get to watch how magnetic it is
Then, as soon as it's time to point guns at each other, suddenly no more magnetism and no explanation for the magnetism going away
Oops, the 9-0 "employer must show that the burden of granting a religious accommodation would result in substantial increased costs" decision is not the same as the 6-3 "economic discrimination against gay people is fine" decision these are two separate cases that I've mixed up all week
“I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, The Microblog Fediverse, or as I've recently taken to calling it, The Blogiverse. The Fediverse is not a social media service unto itself, but rather is an ensemble of federated servers that are used for web publishing made useful by the ActivityPub protocol, as defined by W3C.”
This is how you people sound when you try to correct people who use the word Mastodon incorrectly. Please stop.
@Mira You're right but isn't the birdsite DDoSing itself right now? Like they can't go back
And, if they waited until this weekend to leave Twitter, they only left because the fascist hellscape they prefer is literally broken and they have no place else to go
Another for your "sounds like satire but is actually just ordinary capitalism" pile:
If you tip your Pizza Hut driver too much when placing an online order, they take the order away from one of the drivers on the shift and they give it to Doordash
So far starters, it turns out when you pay people too much they get sick of your shit and leave. Then by using DoorDash as flex labor they can have fewer drivers on the shift overall. They're probably taking a percentage of the tip to pay DoorDash directly for the service
You keep workers insecure and overworked, they stay on that treadmill
I’m gonna finally have to build the thing where the bot emails incidents to city-county councilors instead of tweets at them, aren’t I? Lol, cool, great.
To decide affirmative action, the court had to ignore literally all of the data comparing affirmative action states with states that banned affirmative action
To decide the student loan case, they had to ignore that the state that brought the case didn't have standing - the very first and most basic and most important element of a lawsuit
For the right to discriminate, all nine justices have "sided" with a claim that they knew was fictitious in every way
They're not just "choosing a side": they're ignoring the basics of law - the opinions they're writing don't hold water. They're fever dreams.
For starters, the state that sued in the student loan case didn't have standing. The court chooses to ignore that so it can rule against Biden and students.
Then, ALL 9 MEMBERS of the court sided with a bigot who LIED about EVERY detail of their case, in order to legalize discrimination against homosexuals
There's no such thing as a "liberal minority" on this court. They fundamentally agree with the shadow docket and the extralegal ways the court is making its decisions, and if the balance were swung the other direction they'd be doing the exact same crap.
They've done it: we are living in a right-wing dictatorship
To avoid taking on a dependency on a cloud-based auth system owned by an adtech multinational, I'm securing and updating my ceiling fan from a terminal, with a curl/json workaround.