Whine, whine, whine. It’s not like the US is the only people with a space program. Just go to fucking Russia already, you piece of shit.

Well, it’s not like First Lady Convict was going to be supportive, so someone had to do it.

If President Convict didn’t want to get punished during his campaign, maybe he shouldn’t have done the crimes.

Investing in actual education infrastructure won’t get VC techbros their yachts, though.

You can take the Afrikaner out of South Africa, but you can’t take the apartheid out of the Afrikaner.

Didn’t Apartheid Lonnie refuse to pay rent for the office space for a while there? Did that ever get resolved or is he still defaulting on the rent?

Oh, it’s even worse than that. My understanding is that the families that invited him are specifically families of soldiers who died during the pullout from Afghanistan. Y’know, the pullout that Trump announced out of the blue with zero prep work in the last year of his presidency and dumped on Biden’s lap. They are celebrating the man directly responsible for their kids’ deaths.

Would that be better or worse than getting 2nd billing but only showing up in the last 30 seconds?

shrugs I wouldn’t know. I’m not actually one of the people downvoting, which is why I used “they” and not “we”.

Because the point is to let others know that they think it’s a shitty bot and the admins pushing it onto everybody was bullshit. Can’t do that if they just block it.

Well, the image generator had to be trained on something first in order to spit out child porn. While it may be that the training set was solely drawn/rendered images, we don’t know that, and even if the output were in that style, it might very well be photorealistic images generated from real child porn and run through a filter.

Thank you for reminding me that this ad campaign existed. You’ve made my day.

Keeping in mind that I’m not an expert on Islam by any metric, I don’t think there’s any religious prohibitions, because executing people was something that ISIS was notorious for. I’ll also note that this tendency was one of the reasons everyone else in the region dogpiled them.

Clearly, this woman is Hamas. /s

More seriously though, Hamas not mistreating her beyond the initial act of kidnapping makes sense. The entire purpose of taking hostages is to use the threat of harm as leverage. So there’s incentive to keep them in relatively good condition, because as soon as anything happens to them that leverage is lost. Of course, people don’t always remember that, and the whole thing relies on all parties involved at least pretending to act in good faith.

1st Amendment only applies to the government. Unless these university admins are also members of government and acting in their capacity as such, then as shitty a move as this is, it’s not actually a 1st Amendment violation.

That was my experience as well, but then I grew in San Francisco, which is like the gay hippie commie Mecca that the Christofascists jerk themselves off on hating. Plus we had a lot of minority students with potentially difficult to pronounce ethnic names, so that might also have been a factor.

I’d never seen a movie that came across as actively hostile towards the supposed intended audience before. And this was before I heard about him dunking on fans on social media. If he really doesn’t hate Star Wars, he sure did a good job of pretending to. But hey, it convinced me to never watch either Disney Star Wars or anything else he’s done in the future, so expectations successfully subverted, I guess.

Fucked up headline out of India? Checks article Yep, UP. Dunno if that’s confirmation bias, or if the place really is that bad, though.

Listen, at his age Sleepy Don just can’t be expected to remember every fascist scumbag he meets with!

Well, yes. As soon as his emergency powers go away his ass is gonna get ousted and jailed for corruption. So of course he’s not going to let the killing end until he absolutely has no other choice.