We made it this way because you're stupid. Also, if you don't like it, you're stupid.

No wonder it turned out to be a pile of dogshit.

How can I get this motherfucker to stop showing up in my feeds? I have him and all his subs blocked, and he still wriggles into my life.

I'm not playing defense for anyone. I'm recognizing that deconstructing the corporate money-making machine will take longer than we have to fix the more immediate problem of killing off our biosphere, so working with the system, broken as it is, may be the only way forward.

I'm not debating the finer points of morality; just the reality of the situation.

I loves me some udon noodles. Drain the water and add hot sauce. Mmmmmmm....

Like that's ever stopped us from doing things for profit?

Honestly, that's what's holding us back. Make climate repair profitable, and the climate will be fixed inside of a decade.

LoL... Texas...

I mean, that would be a lot of iron....

Believe it or not, it's a laudable goal. Cow feces is responsible for about 40% (yes, really) of methane production worldwide, and methane is several times more impactful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. I called bullshit (heh) the first time I heard these stats, too, but they're real.

Most of the legitimate "block sunlight" proposals involve cloud seeding or spreading long-lasting particulates high in the upper atmosphere. The goal of these projects is to reflect 1-2% of sunlight, which would significantly cool the climate, but plants would hardly notice. In fact, organisms like reef systems would greatly appreciate it, as they're dying off at an extraordinary rate.

Just pretend like you can't see or hear them.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles....

I... I don't get that one.

L O L

I mean, if we're going to keep pretending that dancing around and slugging each other is a "sport," then it makes sense to have children play it, right?

She was a contrarian. Sometimes that works out; sometimes it looks awful.

And is projected to be in service for another fifty years, IIRC. Something to be said for not fixing things that aren't broken.

Yeah, looks like a nighttime image of the island with some smoke added to it.

Considering how easy it is to set up a screen reader or to set an overriding font on most browsers, this seems like an exercise in futility. That said, something like mssystem ought to do it -- standardized, block-style typeface, with little to differentiate the individual letters.

They pulled a rifle on him for a missing mudflap, so yeah, I'd be terrified, too.

Another fun fact about them is that if you were to take all their blood vessels out and line them up end-to-end, the otter would die.

Most religions share the same problems. Sure, they each have their own hangups, but much of what people removed about with Xtianity is common in other world religions.

It's like they've given up on the whole charade and are just playing the comic book super-villains they've always been.

If a zygote qualifies as a "body," then anyone who has had a miscarriage is guilty of manslaughter.

Isn't that the old Xerox logo?

Russia clearly has a poor understanding of the word "war."

Never had any issues until you guys came along

I'm beginning to see that. I've got an old Mastodon account I may fire back up just to get away from this crap.

As for naming names, I'd rather not be lumped in with them, but they aren't difficult to sus out.

Just venting about a couple of stalkers.

Ah, we finally got to the point of "anyone who disagrees with me is a troll." Took longer than I thought. This thread is becoming a great way to populate my blocklist.

If I had to guess, I'd say they're trying to maximize their market cap. It's no secret that they're looking for a buyer and/or eyeing and IPO. The more profitable they can seem before that, the more money Huffman can walk away with.

At this point, I'm just amused that you went on a screed about downvotes after doing it yourself -- that it bugs you this much when it accomplishes nothing is kinda funny. Downvotes don't impact your account in any way; it's just there for looks.

I'm physically incapable of laughing hard enough at this.

As if we needed another reason to not buy Ubisoft crap.

I expect that election shenanigans are precisely what this is all about. We've got a serious bootlicker problem down here, and a move like this is likely to earn more votes.

Better yet, use a hidden partition.

That'd be my suggestion. I can't imagine that the average airport security goon is going to check the reported size of the drive against the hardware specs as part of a normal inspection.

Always play stupid in these instances: I forgot the password; I got it second-hand and didn't know about that; Encrypt-a-what, now?

LoL... we had a hound dog named nugget. Runt of the litter.

Jeez... eleven years. That's nuts.

Wow, that's some fucked up shit right there.

It was a certain turtle, so it wasn't hard to figure out. And yeah, I'm on eight at this point. Even if I was interested in fighting the good fight again, with the way things are going over there, he'll be back in power in no time. I'm done with that nonsense; I'll go back to Fark if I have to.