It’s really not surprising that the most homophobic are queer themselves. Imagine how much you would resent someone who got to openly express what you’ve worked so hard to suppress.

Debian cut ties in January, so if you quit after that, you’re officially slower to change than Debian.

If you’re an American, having deep seated mistrust and skepticism of the medical establishment, pharma, and government is 1000% justifiable. Every one of these institutions has exploited, abused, abandoned, and murdered people, all in the name of public health.

As a person who grew up in poverty, the idea of trusting doctors and medical authorities is just as ridiculous as trusting the police.

Assuming that social problems are the sum of individuals making dumb choices is an easy shortcut that not only eliminates the discomfort of thinking about the issue, but has the added benefit to implying that you’re superior.

The number of possible combinations of genes is so large that the chance of a random duplication is vanishingly small. Even twins aren’t exact copies because they’ll have mutations unique to themselves.

This comment is braindead bigotry. It’s like saying a paraplegic can’t be a lawyer because they can’t climb the courthouse steps.

There has never existed an astronaut that didn’t need significant accommodation to live in work in space (duh), you’re arguing that disabled people don’t deserve the exact same treatment. Fuck you.

The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.

As you can tell, I’m waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.

SOMA is a great game. But I’m not going to watch for 2 and a half hours unless it ends with uploading Zoltan Istvan’s consciousness into a broken robot.

Epstein killed himself. (same for Gary Webb)

Too many people think suicide is rare, or extreme act. But it’s common as dirt especially for people who’s life is ruined. It’s a joke in movies that “new fish” looking at long sentences kill themselves, but somehow when it happens to someone notable, it’s mysterious and suspicious.

Also, the idea that there was a conspiracy to murder Epstein in prison and cover it up by powerful people is an extraordinary claim with the flimsiest possible evidence.

Nobody has racist field trip yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oomlb9xm-YQ

Another way of saying this is that all the dead children are worth it so I can fantasize about violently overthrowing a State.

It’s so disappointing to see fools on the left swallowing brain-dead NRA propaganda.

I’ve a canned response to anyone who supports this kind of behavior. I agree with them and say “anti-racism erases white culture”.

Then sit back and

A lot of people compare Trump to Hitler, but as apt as that may be sometimes, Hitler was a dilettante intellectual; he was a reader. And as painful as it might be to anyone who’s tried to read it, Hitler did write his own book.

I don’t remember the character well, but besides being a real-estate guy, I don’t see the connection between Trump and Fontaine. Fontaine was evil and all, but he was also hyper competent, organized, and had consistent ideology.

I hate the idea that watching ads or donating money to “support” creators. Youtube gets their content for free, why shouldn’t I?

And it’s not just content creators. Nobody shops anymore, they support business. Capitalism has camouflaged consumerism as political /social activism and it makes me sick!

The TOR project in it’s entirety was created by the CIA for secure communications. It’s public because no matter how secure, if only spies use TOR, then it would be easy to catch them.

I don’t mean to imply that TOR is insecure, it’s open source and the Government has an interest that it be secure. But if you’re going to annoy the US government, you better have good opsec because they understand TOR better than anyone.

For the curious: “War on Science” is a book of essays including Lawrence Kraus (whom “edits” the volume) and Richard Dawkins.

You might think that this book would be about RFKjr or the collapse of US funding for research. No. The ‘war on science’ is when academics are held accountable to woke ideology i.e. being disciplined for having sex with your students. It’s publisher doesn’t usually cover science, mostly selling books about fundamental Christianity.

For those of us who watched the brain-rot of Islamophobia and misogyny take over the skeptic community back in the early 2010s, it’s no surprise that these men turned out to be grifters in bed with fundamentalist Christians over their shared hatred of Muslims and women.

There is so much more to the video. Including specifics about some of the essays and their authors; the Jeffery Epstein connection; and how feminism destroyed the “new atheist” movement.

Ever since stock buybacks became the bog standard default, and P/E ratios are between ‘significantly elevated’ and ‘completely fucking delusional’…

At what point do we start to consider that capitalist economies aren’t broken, but that they never worked in the first place?

Alex Karp’s behavior is much better explained by cocaine. He may be neurodivergent, but he was still high as giraffe pussy.

Why is Linux different than Microsoft? Most of the games I play aren’t “Linux” games, but the identical Windows software running through a compatibility layer on Linux.

The Steam client on Linux has the same “workshop” tab for adding mods. It’s not in every game, but that’s true on Windows too.

you need to be able to communicate

Not necessarily. Piloting the weapon into position with internal navigation, then having the thing recognize and engage targets autonomously is becoming common with drones.

Also, you can just trail a very long wire behind the thing to communicate with home base. This is how torpedoes have worked going back to the Cold War.

That keyboard looks really nice, but the placement of the R CTRL would cause me fits.