58008

joined 2 years ago
 

The violent jerky mannerisms, the yelling, the crazy blonde hair; it's all there!

 

Surely "byce" or "bickle" would make more sense as a shorthand/colloquialism πŸ‘€

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Google: ok i just go into settings and change 1 to 0 next to 'kiddie porn allowed???' hope that help

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Made me pretty horny too, to be fair.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

oh no who will perform the totally real and actually effective exorcisms now??

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Etc. Pride march when??

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

He's one of the greats, I agree. Plus he has no rape/sexual assault allegations or abusive behaviour on-set over a 40+ year career, so that gives him a 900% boost in my estimation.

He plays a lot of 'safe' characters. That is, characters that don't require him to dig deep into his own capacity for human depravity or whatever, and I think this gives people the impression that he's not in the same league as your De Niros or Pacinos. But I have never watched a film of his where he didn't completely sell the performance to me, even if the movie itself was shite. He's content and secure enough to not need to take roles that require him flay his psyche on-screen, and there's nothing wrong with that. I love watching those intense performances of course, but he isn't any less a master of his craft just because he has other focuses. It's like guitar virtuosos such as Steve Vai, who can play just about anything with superhuman levels of skill, speed and precision, versus someone like BB King, who plays stuff that a beginner guitarist could use as great training material. No one, including Steve Vai, would say BB King is a lesser guitarist or musician because his music doesn't require 12 fingers on each hand to play. Tom Hanks is the BB King of this tortured analogy, and someone like Gary Oldman is Steve Vai. Both great, but there's more to it than mere 'spectacle'.

I would love to see him to something more dark and evil, if only once. If Robin Williams can play a serial killer, and can play it well, Tom Hanks would absolutely smash that shit. Especially now that he's an older fella; I think he could get away with a lot more without damaging his 'brand'. I wanna see him be a serial killing, necrophilic, EVE Online-playing demonic monster.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

c/NoStupidQuestions style question:

Why is making enough RAM to go around so hard now? I know the cause of it - AI cunts - but what is the actual bottleneck in the production of RAM that means it can't be pumped out fast enough to meet demand?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is like being called a 'filthy slut' and then producing 3 different STD panel results as proof that you're not, and then mocking people who aren't on first name terms with the nurses at the clinic as being somehow sluttier than you.

P.S. Shout out to sluts, I would be one too if ladies would actually fuck me.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Low hanging fruit, but "The next president of the United States is Donald J. Trump". And I heard that shit twice. The second time was definitely the dumber of the two, but the drop off from 2nd to 3rd dumbest thing is about as wide as the known universe. It's cartoonish in its absurdity.

But the dumbest thing I've heard personally from an individual is that unbaptised babies who die go straight to hell. I was told this by a woman who liked to preach Jesus' eternal unconditional love in my town centre. I'm atheist, but by default. Like, I didn't read my way into it or anything, I just completely lack any impulse to believe despite being made to go to Catholic mass every week for 17 years. All that's to say that I don't have particular animosity towards believers, but that kind of believer can suck a dirty dog dick.

Apart from it being insanely unfair to babies - roasting away like a rotisserie chicken without even the consciousness to know what's going on - it's also beyond evil to tell that to believers who've lost children soon after birth due to disease before they even leave the hospital, or have miscarried through no fault of their own, etc. Strangely, I never hear that argument from the anti-abortion religious fanatics. That is, "don't abort the baby, or it'll be sent straight into Satan's Big Green Egg!"

Imagine being Satan, and having a daily influx of humans too young and unformed to even walk when prodded by a demon's pitchfork. Even a supremely evil entity like he's alleged to be would have to wonder just what the fuck is going on with heavenly bureaucracy for this to be the way things are done.

 

The only reason it was revealed that it was actually murder is because the main killer decided to confess in 2009, nearly 20 years later. He was also a sex offender and abused female patients under sedation in his dental practice, and there was evidence of CASM found on one of his laptops.

Further reading/viewing:

  • The book Let This Be Our Secret by Deric Henderson.
  • A 2016 miniseries entitled The Secret starring James Nesbitt as Colin Howell.
  • A 2026 two-part documentary from the BBC entitled Confessions of a Killer, in which we hear police interview tapes from Colin Howell and learn about the fate of his accomplice's final appeal of her sentence.
 

I guess it makes sense, but I've never thought of it like that before.

 

It'd take 10 lifetimes to read every book on this topic, so I'm not sure if I should use up my limited single lifespan on Al's output, as much as I love him as a comic. But if his work is actually solid, maybe his unique POV would make for a worthwhile read.

Cheers!

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

The intent and impact of the word was a lot different back then, certainly so outside of the US, but still, using a subset of humanity as a stand-in for an adjective is pretty grim stuff. Shows how little was thought of them. Like if the characters had instead become white from a flour mill explosion, it's unlikely they'd have been described as being "as white as scampering little crackers".

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)
[–] 58008@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every time I meet someone new, especially if it's a romantic partner, the second they learn I'm on a cocktail of psychiatric medication, their first impulse is to tell me how they're gonna try to wean me off it. I'm sure their hearts are in the right place... kinda... but yeah, they can fuck all the way off if they think I'm going back to my pre-medicated state. They really think of psychiatry as some fluffy non-science that deals with amorphous and vague conditions, and no doubt believe the books that seem to come out every year claiming the entire industry is a placebo factory. Like, come spend the week with me when I stop taking my meds and tell me it's a placebo πŸ˜’

I'm sorry to hear about your brothers. Two of my brothers are fellow depression sufferers too, multiple attempts between them, so I feel incredibly lucky when I read a comment like yours. It's been hard, but it hasn't been that hard. I don't know what I'd do if one (nevermind both) of my brothers checked out. Doesn't bear thinking about, and again I feel lucky that I have the option to not think about such eventualities. I can't imagine what your family has gone through.

All the best to you πŸ’—

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Bigotry towards fat people is based on some Joe Rogan levels of insight into the basis of human character. They think of fat people as lazy, ignorant, gluttonous. Losing weight the hard way shows improvement of character, it shows they've broken free from their lazy ignorant fattosity, the weight-loss itself is almost secondary. Losing weight with a drug is just further 'evidence' that they have no character and are lazing their way through life. If they have such poor willpower and shallowness of character, they can't be trusted in other areas of life either. They're broken, defective people.

That's been my experience, anyway. I was thin and athletic-looking up until my mid-20s, but my younger brother was always overweight. He was more active than me, there isn't a sport you could name that he wasn't doing on the regular. Even boxing, which is extremely intensive in the training. I spent my childhood eating cake and playing video games. There's simply no fucking possibility that he and I were dealt the same metabolic hand. But people would often ask me how I managed to stay thin while my brother was fat. "Managed" being the operative word. I didn't manage shit. But my brother faced nonstop bullying for his size, and I obviously didn't. People really do have a 1 IQ understanding of this shit. You're fat = you eat too much and laze around, so you're a weak person deserving of scorn and rejection. If you take a drug to correct it, then you're a liar who found a lazy loophole to avoid your much-deserved derision.

It seems people never outgrow that imbecilic idea, if that study is anything to go by. The irony, of course, is that the people who hate others over this sort of thing are gigantic hypocrites who have huge yawning chasms where their own character ought to be. Cunts, in other words. If their failings were visible to everyone, they'd likely resemble that fella in RoboCop when the tank of acid empties over him.

 

I would probably get all kinds of diseases if I sniffed every bare asshole from every mammal I meet, humans included. I'd definitely get sick if I sniffed a dozen random turds a day. But dogs can do it without any apparent issues. Not only that, but they can do it across different species of animal, too.

What dark arts are afoot within the beak of the dog?

 

I've just been using Windows Defender, but the number of false positives and the lack of autonomy in dealing with them is making me wanna look elsewhere.

 

Disclaimer: I don't know if this has any meaningful security effects. Read the replies below to check what people are saying/recommending before doing this if you're unsure. I haven't personally had any issues [that I know of] since doing this last year.

You might have noticed that when you browse Mozilla sites (e.g. the Firefox add-ons site) your installed add-ons don't seem to work. This is annoying as hell, especially if you have accessibility needs that are met by an add-on. But there's a way to prevent this from happening:

  1. Type about:config into your browser address bar (might have to accept a warning message if it's your first time)
  2. In the search bar of the about:config page, type/paste privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager and set it to True
  3. Type/paste extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains into the search bar this time, and edit the entry to remove any websites on which you would like to have your add-ons work (I just removed 'em all)
 

If I see a gap between two lines of text, and that gap vanishes when I commit the document to the web or save it to a file, then it's not 'WYSIWYG'. But this has been my experience with 100% of such editors.

I propose a new acronym to replace 'wizzy-wig':

WYSMBWYGIYLBIACWBFRTWNBMCTYSSIYUC

What You See Might Be What You Get if You're Lucky but it Almost Certainly Won't Be For Reasons That Will Never Be Made Clear to You So Suck it Ya Ugly Cunt

Not as pithy, but at least it's accurate.

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