Who names an airplane “warthog”? pigs can’t fly and neither can the pig-pilots inside them

Tbh I’m more offended that the US names its helicopters after indigenous people groups it’s genocided

Its called Livemarks

Its called Livemarks

I’m blanking on the name rn, but I’ll let you know ASAP

I use FluentReader, and an extension that restores Firefox’s old RSS functionality.

Edit: The extension I use is called Livemarks

Got 'em lmao

How do you explain that 99.99% of people are super happy living their lives with just enough money to have somewhere to live and pay for food and some vehicle?

Further, how do you explain that, for most of human history, we haven’t lived in economic systems that reward greed in the way Capitalism does? Saying human beings are neurologically wired to behave in an especially greedy way, under Capitalism, is just recency bias.

Is that urge extent in people? Sure, but so are kindness, generosity, and plenty of other traits that run counter to greed and selfishness. To say that the negative ones incentivized by the economic system we live in are somehow more natural than those others, is nonsense.

A lot of the ultra wealthy espouse a nonsense philosophy called “Effective Altruism”, which asserts a kind of utilitarian “most good for the most people” ethic, but in such a way that one can basically justify any action as being, eventually, for the most good ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The government already has access to every phone number in existence

They used to publish them in big books, even

I saw a hat at a mall in Kyoto a few years ago that said “PREVIOUS WINNER” and I really regret not buying it lol

I’ve been watching a Slice of Life anime recently, called Non Non Biyori, which is about a group of kids who live in the middle of nowhere, Japan.

One of the more subtle running gags in the show, is that they wear shirts with nonsense English phrases on them, like “ARMYCRAWL”, “Charge Girl”, or “RoAsT”.

A decent amount of Geocities sites are backed up on the Wayback machine and/or restored via other projects.

Protoweb is really cool, if you wanna browse the internet like its the late 90s again

Historically soldiers were treated like shit and were poorly paid if at all, and after their service they were just forgotten and not cared for.

The parents of the generation that fought in World War 2, who themselves fought in World War 1, struggled to get paid for actually fighting, like they were promised.

When those WW1 veterans and their families organized a protest encampment in DC to demand that they be paid the money they were owed, the military was sent in to violently break up the encampment, with cavalry and tanks.

Fuck that, bring back boolean operators!!!

And much of the world’s fertilizer is shipped out of the strait of hormuz,and it’s currently spring, when fields would be getting fertilized right now. So food prices will jump too, and crop yields will be Lower

The difference is, there were no hidden messages in the music.

Meanwhile there are overt messages spat out by the LLM, because it’s a lying yes-man machine that encourages people’s worst impulses, so they keep using it.

Rob Halford just wanted to dress like a Tom of Finland drawing, and make fun music.

The companies making the chatbots want to harvest and sell your data.

Oh, 1,000%! I use the nicotine+ front end for soulseek on Linux, and it’s wonderful

Yet another reason I’m dropping streaming in favor of ripping CDs and listening to locally stored files, like it’s 2009 again

In a broad sense, yes this is same shit different day, but it’s unique in that the Imperial Boomerang is coming back around and impacting your average gringo lib.

Obviously not stated out loud

Idk they get awfully close sometimes with the “tankie triad” conspiracies.