[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 39 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps the file is missing an extension, and those are the only apps OP has that accept files without an extension?

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 month ago

If I lacked morals and self respect I'd be a very wealthy man indeed.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 months ago

No explosion, just radiation and heat. Everyone nearby is dead, just not instantly.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 months ago

I'm speedrunning this shit.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 months ago

I disagree. Memes are powerful tools and by denying ourselves the use of popular memes we grant "the enemy" an enormous advantage. Better we acknowledge that the issue is not the meme itself, but how it is used.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 30 points 3 months ago

The whole point of the meme is contrasting tiny ineffectual lifestyle changes with actively targeting the people responsible for climate change. Changing the "meatless mondays" panel to "going vegan" ruins the meme by replacing what's supposed to be small and ineffectual with something that's actually radical.

If you want a vegan meme then make a vegan meme.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A trick for easily shifting your perception:

First imagine the cube is sitting on the ground and you are looking down at it from slightly above and to the right (this is the way most people will initially perceive it, because it is the most familiar).

Then imagine the cube is instead attached to a wall or perhaps a ceiling and you are looking up at it from slightly below and to the left.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 34 points 7 months ago

There are 6 people who've had gay sex that I could find and all but one of them are bi (or at least bi-curious). That seems like a statistical anomaly.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 36 points 8 months ago

Here's a quote from Martin Luther King that I think is very relevant:

First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 29 points 9 months ago

For your sake and everyone else's, please grow up.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 29 points 11 months ago

It's more likely you're getting those hyper-targeted ads because of location tracking and relationship tracking than because they're listening. It's much cheaper and easier than running voice recognition on shitty audio clips from a mic in your pocket, and honestly much scarier.

People only ever have anecdotes to support the claim that tech companies are listening in on their conversations, but these companies openly admit to targeting ads based on your location data and specifically who you've been associating with.

It's more likely that others in your congregation searched for that verse, so it was suggested to you based on your proximity to others who already searched for it.

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 year ago

The problem is that you're being extremely naive and ignorant of the rapidly worsening material conditions the majority of people in the west are experiencing. Your suggestion that "there must be something you can do to improve things, why are you whining?" comes across as tone deaf and dismissive.

People are struggling to keep their bills paid, and most are doing everything they possibly can to try and improve their situation, yet are still failing to keep their heads above water. It's like someone is screaming "Help!! Help!! I'm drowning!!" and you're screaming back "I'm swimming just fine, isn't there something you can do to stay afloat? Why are you panicking?"

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