Between the anti-woke conspiracism and the outright racism, transphobia and general bigotry, I don’t know how anyone can use those forums for anything. Genuinely the most toxic and hate-filled forums I’ve ever used in my 30-odd years of internetting.
Any ratings system for art is stupid, from simple star ratings to book-length reviews from professional critics. I use CSS tweaks in Stylus and uBlock Origin to hide ratings and reviews for everything on IMDb and Steam (and many other places), and after watching a film or playing a game and then going to the ratings, I’m almost always shocked at how low they are compared to my own experiences with them. It’s a very rare occasion when I’m like “well, I wasted 90 minutes watching that piece of shit”. Going into a film with poor ratings ringing in your ears is only going to ensure you dislike it, because you’re gonna completely switch off your own benefit-of-the-doubt and want to have your views line up with the consensus and to edit your experience in real-time. This is robbing you of everything a film offers.
I’ve been doing the CSS thing for years and have never looked back. It’s improved my movie and game experiences tenfold and made me a marginally happier person in general. Try it, you lose literally nothing but gain so, so much.
When the walls are so densely-patterned, they resort to graffitying the occupant.
Yeah, the story isn’t about a mother giving shitty medical care to her daughter. It’s about how she got pregnant in the first place…
Timotei exists…
He thinks autism is caused by vaccines and/or over-the-counter painkillers. Frankly, I’d be shocked if he had anything halfway sane to say about Arabs.
Pasta. I like the small pieces, like penne or fusilli, but I just cannot be fucking bothered if it’s spaghetti. I simply refuse.
Maybe a birb with diarrhoea?
I feel somewhat bad for her getting the glass cliff treatment, but then my pity evaporates when she continues putting herself out there, saying the most imbecilic things imaginable. She can’t admit that her premiership was completely contrived and desperate on the part of her colleagues, and that she would never have gotten a look in under any other circumstances, and so she has to dream up conspiracies and dark forces to explain how she failed almost instantly. And the delusion simply grows the more her imagined self slams face-first into reality. She would have been the best if we’d just given her a proper chance, ya know?
Paperback edition of a human.
There was an ad on TV for Knorr’s soup when I was a toddler, and the big vegetable scarecrow character with the black hat scared the absolute fuck outta me. Just look at this cunt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzia7sJtVM
Like what was I supposed to take away from this? That a scarecrow is alive and knows when it’s being looked at, and only then will it stop coming after me? And it eats its own flesh in soup-form? The fuck? 😭
I was around at the time, and there were half a dozen other platforms that took centre stage once Napster closed its doors. Morpheus, KaZaA and eMule were my main ones. Free music was as available as it ever was, so in that sense all Metallica did was lose fans and annoy everyone.
The basic concept is still around today in the form of Soulseek, which is where I get 99% of my pirated music from (such as Metallica’s). BitTorrent mostly supplanted these kinds of programs, though.
My instant and extremely violent suicide would go down in history. They’d write songs about the cloud of bone talc I’d disappear into like a jihadist ninja. Studies would be performed to discover just how finely my corporal form was disassembled, firing my few remaining atoms around the Large Hadron Collider with such force that I break free of time and space and enter the 4th dimension, but even the 4D scientists living there will have no clue how I managed to die so fucking thoroughly.
It’s because it’s not actually AI, and some poor besocked cat girl is coding all that shit and listening to all the abuse.
His role in Django Unchained was questionable in that regard.
That’s some Vishakanya shit 👀
This book directly debunks all of that stuff, but I don’t know enough to judge the author’s other claims. Not sure where to turn, to be honest. I thought I was already doing my due diligence by reading this book 😭
The Fediverse. I can’t be bothered explaining what the Fediverse is or how it works or how it differs from traditional social media. I can’t be bothered recommending browser add-ons that correct issues that might not actually be ‘issues’ to the person in question. And even if I did all that, there’s a 1/100 chance they’ll actually care enough to try it, and an even smaller chance still that they’ll stick with it. I don’t even tell people that the memes I send them are from Lemmy, because I can’t be bothered with the follow-up questions. My parents, for example, who use Facebook exclusively, could not be paid enough to even try the Fedi equivalent (Friendica). The average person doesn’t care about their private data being sold or the behaviour of tech CEOs or the abuse of their psyches by algorithms, so there’s no reason for them to go to the pain of learning an entirely new ecosystem that’s less ‘good’ but requires more effort. The average person simply wants AI-generated images of lions with racist anti-immigrant slogans printed under them, and Facebook is unbeatable in that regard. I just can’t be bothered. Plus, I like that it’s comparatively less crowded here. Let Facebook keep their race rioters!
Scum.
I wonder if all the republican scumbags he bought looked at the money and thought “wait, why the fuck do I even need to bother being a politician? I can just take this imbecile’s money, lose, and go on a paid vacation for a few years. I’ll just call it a series of fact-finding missions in aid of the 2028 presidential election”.