the_frumious_bandersnatch

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Mr. Mertle, the eccentric recluse in town, needs a band of brave adventurers to help him deal with a problem. Goblins have taken up residence around the crumbling remains of an ancient fighting pit behind his home, and their presence is becoming increasingly disruptive. But what seems like a simple pest control job quickly turns into something far more dangerous - and more bizarre.

As the adventurers arrive, they discover the goblins are not what they seem. Instead of mindless marauders, these goblins are on a quest of their own: to retrieve a cherished artifact that lies hidden somewhere in Mr. Mertle's walled-off gardens without falling victim to the mysterious and dangerous creature that lives there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

A brain surgeon makes money by working on brains and therefore is in the working class; the person that owns the hospital makes money by extracting rents from the brain surgeon and therefore is in the capitalist class.

Upper class and middle class don't necessarily correspond directly with those terms.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The GOP’s self-styled image as the party of “law and order” has purchase insofar as it contrasts with the Democrats who turned a blind eye to crimes committed by the right people...

And that's enough fiction for today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, "capitalism" is when a the private equity firm buys the farm and now instead of producing enough to live on, or even just "as much as they did last year, now they must show year over year profits.. Every year.. Forever

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Here's some of those clear definitions

Cambridge Dictionary: "Net neutrality is the idea that Internet providers must treat all content equally."

Brittanica: "net neutrality, principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of content."

"Traffic congestion" is the reasoning ISPs use to defend subverting net neutrality, but it still results in certain viewpoints being favored over others. If Spectrum decides to throttle Fox News and not CNN, it doesn't matter if their reasoning is that Fox News uses more bandwidth, the result is still that the viewpoint that Fox espouses is throttled while that of CNN is not. Sure it's conjecture that is or will happen, but it is the case that the doctrine of net neutrality is what is standing in opposition to it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Replace "Netflix" and "Max" with "Substack" and 'Washington Post" and what you wrote absolutely applies to viewpoint.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

RFCs are Requests For Comment, published technical documents describing proposed standards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Two or three fingers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yep. I said it then and it's only become more true that Jan 6th was Trump's Beer Hall Putsch and we're set to repeat history.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Thanks for providing the link

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How many of them changed their minds when they were told that DJT is, in fact, over the age of 75?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This would be awesome. Give Harris a two hour uninterrupted prime time spot to let the former prosecutor make a case against electing a convicted felon and follow it with 2 hours of the oldest candidate in US history rambling. 😆

 

I guess you could say I swapped Bob a loo mop and got Pam's broom.

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