Part of what drew me to the old site in ye olde 2013 was that it was the largest platform that wasn’t shitty about this specific subject.
Funny to see this is now the standard expectation for that place. Look how they massacred my boy
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I haven’t read it, but someone looked into this type of thing and wrote a book called Because the Internet.
I think the author is a linguist but I don’t remember.
I appreciate the sentiment but maybe put his hand down for the lower one.
That’s a small (and if we can do anything about it, shrinking) part of the Venn diagram.
I swear that week has broken something and revealed so much pent up cruelty towards my part of the world from American shitheads specifically. Didn’t even know they’d care to remember where we are on a map.
And to think I’ve been eying the US as a possible new home not that long ago. Just so icky
One day I’ll get around to playing Nomifactory CE. I’ve somehow played the base one twice over the past five years.
I’ve been so alienated from friends playing the most popular game on the planet in multiplayer because I can’t play Vanilla for shit. Not since 1.2.5 probably.
I’ll play no Minecraft for two years and then immediately nolife a modpack for two months.
Good shit. The best value game I have ever bought, no question about it.
Damn, this looks a lot like what I had in mind.
I don’t know whether to mark this as solved because the colors seem unfamiliar to me (far too much blue maybe?), and the fact that it’s a CD cover and not a DVD cover.
Some more searching and I found this DVD cover. I actually think this might be the one. There’s much less blue, and the two-panel design with the sacred heart motif on the left feels familiar.
I think this is it, on second thought!
Definitely not this one. This is also very modern looking, like a poster made in the last 10-5 years.
This type of amphitheater, not a coliseum. And the perspective is much more downward-facing.
This is textbook internet harassment if this is a real place someone works, this is not good.
It depends.
It could mean just try to put bad thoughts aside until the workday/workweek ends and really try to get intentional tunnel vision. In a corporate world of hell capitalism, I get it. Not a great sign that we have slang for it, but I get it.
It could also mean emotionally disconnect for the next while and just do what's mechanically important (work, often gym). This one's worse and it's what you're thinking of.
It's been used a fair bit around me.
Not to sound like a shill, but I was surprised when Americans on Reddit would say it was nothing special. I didn’t even think they’d have a separate American product chain.
Over here it’s not the cheapest or best chocolate but it’s probably the best chocolate you can reliably find in any grocery store.
Also. American chocolate isn’t bottom of the barrel for me. I’ll take a Hershey’s white chocolate cookie thing over no name Syrian “chocolate” with RGB bloom and a barely-perceptible gumminess not even a mother could love. When I was a kid, the shops were full of questionable cheap Syrian candy.
We’ve actually had it pretty good in Lebanon pre-2019 when it came to European chocolate and candy. And occasionally if you knew where to shop, American soft drinks. American candy isn’t it, but American liquid candy? I’d be 900 kilos if I didn’t have to pay extortion prices for American Dr. Pepper. The British stuff we sometimes get just isn’t the same.
Edit: I just noticed what community this was in. Oops, was just scrolling through All. Sorry if this is a bit out of place. Good luck Canadians!
I’m not familiar with this, but it makes sense. A phone should have everything one needs for small projects already built in. I get the OP product though, there is a reason people have gotten so into SBCs, even when they’re not always the ideal option. There’s a convenience factor with having all the ports there.
As long as these OSes let you boot the device without a lithium battery connected, I suppose using the phones as-is as microservers on USB DC power is a very sensible way to EOL phones (and to actually make sure the hardware is reused). Bonus SMS/mobile data, if you live somewhere where it’s cheap enough to use that for anything that’s not your phone in your pocket.
All I’ve known since the Symbian era ended is iPhones, so this is unfamiliar territory for me. Interesting stuff.
This kind of thing is what technology should be all about.
Honestly that could actually be interesting. Would probably be able to discuss some nuances and make the mainstream a bit more comfortable with some currently uncomfortable conversations. People can remember complicated things if they’re invested in the narrative.
I’m a cis-het potato. If any of this sounds insensitive, I can fix it:
Guy who doesn’t meet the stereotype of a “drug guy” has to cook up drugs to make ends meet. makes him start making for , which turns out to also be used by for . At first he sees them as nothing more than the users he was profiting from in an hour of desperation, people who twist their sad lives around acquiring and consuming a substance, but over time as he gets further down this path he begins to understand them in a way that he (and most people) has never had to. “Upstanding-man-who-is-a-secret-chemical-man ally” can go in so many directions.
With all its many many faults, I remember seeing Dallas Buyers Club as a judgmental kid, and it was successfully able to split “queer identity” from “sexual perversion” for me. I think this understanding was beginning to spread before a tipping point in the past decade. Personally I think people saw a lot of (Western) companies really go all in on rainbow marketing, going directly from “queer identities exist” to “these are being celebrated openly” without the critical middle “this isn’t a sex thing”.
If you think it’s bad in the US or Europe (and it’s not always great, it’s not a competition) let me assure you the heightened negative attention has also made people who were able to be themselves under the radar here in the Middle East face more bullshit. The average person around me has gone from “This person gives me the ick but it has no effect on my life really, just stay away from me and my kids, it’s between them and God” to “This person should be fixed immediately before they shove their perversion down everyone’s throats.” The former is abysmal, but at that point they weren’t really seen as an active, growing threat. Unfortunately it’s not just “this isn’t a sex thing” that’s missing here, historically most people have thought “queer” = “perversion” = “pedophilia”, and this was fading slowly before being supercharged by all this torrent of negative attention.