The_Grinch [he/him]

I fw remembering who was wrong this time, or more specifically what worldview leads to being wrong, the next time there’s a world moral crisis like

But one day they will “have always been against this” and I don’t intend to let them get away with it.

We need to do this for zionists

The r/conservative Charlie Kirk mourning post appears to have 41 poop emoji reddit gold stickers on it. Am I seeing that right?

When people are being cringe about flags, they’re always squirrely and evasive about what they mean by it. It’s often obvious that they support exactly whatever said country is doing, even the “bad stuff” but won’t admit it when pressed. You also see a lot of people who want to “reclaim” that flag, as if it has ever meant anything else.

All that to say, I’m surprised there isn’t a symbol (e.g. 👥) you can superimpose on a flag to signal “I mean the people who happen to live in this area of the world and cultural context, explicitly not the state”. Not that I think it’s a “good idea”, I’m just surprised it doesn’t exist.

I’ve said this before! Everyone could benefit from knowing at least a little sign language. It’s not very useful to me personally because no one knows sign language but imagine if everyone did and you could just sign something from across the street, or on the gun range, or while mowing the lawn. I feel like once a critical mass of people knew sign it would just sort of perpetuate culturally.

One time it was trying to tell me it was unethical to install linux on a palm pilot. That’s what scares me about AI the most. It’s so corporate-aligned it’s laughable.

I think you replied to the wrong comment

I think it’s safe to say whatever reasons may exist, they aren’t valid ones. I’m highly skeptical the “play” of throwing a bunch of your comrades under the bus like that is ever effective even in the most clinical analysis.

I wonder if this decision fits the LGBT Burkinabe’ standards?

Being anti- any of the other things you mentioned in your edit is very good reason to be skeptical of a revolutionary project’s potential. Those things are all interrelated with class struggle. Even putting the suffering of LGBTs aside, failure to recognize that, being unable or unwilling to discipline your revolution on those matters, is a bad sign.

Don’t tell your comrades to shut up about LGBT issues anywhere, seriously.

I still think dictionaries adding “figuratively” as a definition for “literally” is silly. Not because I think they’re causing the decline of language or whatever other prescriptivist take, but because I don’t think anyone actually means “figuratively” by it. The meaning it imparts on a sentence is more like “very much” or “to a high degree” even if those don’t fit grammatically as a drop in replacement. It’s only ever used in cases where a sentence being figurative is already heavily implied.

Haha, I’m literally dying! | That was very funny.
You’re literally the funniest person ever! | You are very funny.
There are literally millions of people who like Korn | A lot of people like Korn.

Tolkien came to me in a dream and told me pipe weed is officially and canonically a type of cannabis and if you say otherwise you’re a big nerd and I should post at you until you go away.

I will clean the toilets. All of them. But you have to worship me as a god.

There were conspicuous cameras

That’s the realest grinch yet!

I was genuinely upset for that exact reason. I also had hiked a mile to the visitor’s center without my phone at this point because I thought I could just give cash to someone and collect the wood.

They used to give you that shit without the app.

You may be fine with it, but I would rather not be harassed about installing an app that tracks me.

(AI voice) Hi! Are you checking out with the app? … Sorry, I didn’t catch that! Are you using the app today? …

(Employee) Are you using the app to claim rewards points today?

I’m not using your fucking “app”. I’m paying with cash. You don’t need to know who I am

I recently had to download a 110MB fucking app over my data plan if I wanted to buy firewood at a campsite. The slot you used to be able to deposit cash for the firewood was still there but covered. Why? It was honor system anyway. The wood was just sitting there in pallet wrapped bundles to take.

You have to explicitly shop for an unlocked phone anymore. Xaiomi and oneplus are locking their new phones too nowadays.

Good luck installing one though. Even the pixels are getting locked down, and more and more apps are simply refusing to run on custom or even rooted phones. My bank app won’t even run if developer options are enabled.