Speaking from experience, that’ll do it

An embarrassing new low, even with the bars they’ve already set. And fitting, for this being the (egregiously multiply-) branded button to launch the shit show. Christ, this has been a fucking carnival lmao.

Microslop has now regressed to implementing “features” very closely resembling - in sophistication and effect - my own bumbling, desperate, ignorant attempts at similar (“making a button behave like a macro”), using AutoHotKey, somewhere between 15-20 years ago.

And do I understand that they both shipped that, on hardware, AND it’s broken so badly it can’t be easily remedied?

I don’t know what to say. It’s like all the geniuses of comedy who died too young are doing this, all of it.

(No shade whatsoever to AHK, it was, probably still is, awesome at its job!)

Edit: suddenly realized it’s just on purpose, probably. Anyway, rant remains lol

Guessing she simply was and is herself - fundamentally, permanently easier to “handle” (manipulate, etc.).

Behind the Bastards episodes on her father really tell a tale for how a ruined psyche like hers would (did) get started. (It’s a lotta episodes about not-her, to be clear, so don’t dive in with the wrong idea)

I’m not humanizing that ghoul though, just offering an explanation for why still alive. No matter what led her there, there is exactly zero rehabilitation or sympathy possible as far as I’m concerned.

C’mon now! That needs updated to that text directly lol. I can’t be arsed, you clearly can’t either, what a mess! The pedos win the (sneak-don’t-)snitch match again.

On the most shallow and vague level, me too. I wouldn’t say it looks inviting, but maybe compelling somehow. I also unironically like brutalist architecture, so this feels like its cousin.

I am reasonably certain any yearning would fade mid-way through my first bite, tho, as gigantic armies of raw onion just route and slay whatever other piddling forces of flavor they can find. Cheese? Bread? Erased, never heard of em.

I’ve seen half this much onion just eviscerate more composed, varied, and coordinated forces than these, just by sheer ignorant, naked, might.

Not for you?!

Got something to contribute?

Gatdamn.

two wrongs don’t make a right

You can keep your nursery rhyme morality, too. These are life and death stakes, occurring on the ground right now - hostility is the only appropriate response to a take as bad as yours, because it sounds like enemy action.

Go fuck yourself.

Shut the fuck up. These are members of the actual community policing a STREET themselves.

Fuck outta here with your garbage. State surveillance and power is scary cuz it’s the fucking state.

No one in Minneapolis is spinning up an NSA, and no one with a brain thinks a community imposing order and safety itself, on its own community, as it’s invaded by a fascist paramilitary, shares anything in common with the idiotic slippery slope nonsense you’re talking about. Get a grip (or get better at propaganda, your call).

keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it

So instead we get “vulture capitalism” as an entire ecosystem of companies, doing this but with more diffuse consequences, by spreading out the bag holders far and wide (but always among the powerless). Fits like a glove with the general “privatize profits, socialize losses” strategy of wealth extraction we like so much.

Corporate person-hood is a stain on humanity and the world. We should never have shifted culpability and direct experience of negative consequences away from human beings, ever.

Uvalde showed us all what cops are. Nothing else needs to be learned or said about police, that disgusting event told us every single thing worth knowing.

Cheers! As long as you know what you’re in for, you’re gonna love it.

Here’s a fun way to learn about an American you just met. Take em to Waffle House!

If they’re a judgmental asshole, never speak to them again, trust me. Let them get back to their $23 hamburger spot that charges for subpar ketchup they call “gourmet”.

No one worth a moment of my time shits on Waffle House or feels uncomfortable there. Not one person.

Whoops, forgot to say the other ways it’s fun to get to know someone. If they’ve never been, it’s a great neutral litmus test to see what they’re like.

If they’ve been, they might have fun stories 😅 All my best friends have fun Waffle House stories.

Pure poetry. There aren’t many things to celebrate in the US anymore, but they’ll never take Waffle House from us. A true national treasure.

The fuck? Waffle House is a goddamn delight. Things occasionally go off the rails 2-3 AM or whatever thanks to rambunctious drunks. By and large it’s efficient, cheap, consistently delicious “greasy spoon” diner food. Made by competent folks who don’t take shit.

Anthony Bourdain loved it, I mean really what more do ya need to know.

If you’ve never seen anything dangerous or overly bad in a “normal” public restroom, first off, that’s amazing. Congratulations, truly.

But beyond that - with that statement alone, you just told everyone who can read that you have absolutely no fucking idea about even a single relevant detail for this topic you have opinions about. Remarkable, just sincerely a breathtaking degree of self-admitted cluelessness.

I have some important messages for your cousins, can you put me in touch?

Exactly right.

As such, any bleating about markets being driven by “consumer choice” is either hopelessly out of date / embarrassingly naive - or malicious.

Just as consumer sales are a rounding error, so is consumer choice - it’s a direct relationship.

This extends a lot farther than the AI bubble, we have allowed corporations to merge and monopolize, and “investors” to gamble on it all, to where they completely invert the relationship.

They shape our experience by constraining choice, dictating only options with profit margins and heinous licensing terms that work exclusively and overwhelmingly in their favor.

Weren’t you listening trend?! The AI is going in the nostrils

Very unlikely to have been his first. Spent time deployed in Iraq, and had quite the composure, to keep the cellphone in hand as he murdered her. Especially considering he was injured last year in a similar scenario.