[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Did they run out of monkeys?

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Imagine how difficult it is to try to tell people that you are, globally, the pre-eminent batman researcher...

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

The headline is technically grammatically correct but ambiguous. "...shot and killed unarmed black man" would have been better. If you absolutely need to stick to word/character count, "shot unarmed black man dead" would be less ambiguous and more in keeping with how people actually use "shot dead". I've watched a lot of westerns and I can think of quite a few where someone says "I shot him dead" but not one where someone says "I shot dead him".

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At a press conference today, Musk was quoted as saying:

Look at me. Look at me. Please, God, I need people to be paying attention to me and validating me all the time. Ever since I fucked it up with my hot goth gf I've been an absolute mess of transparent attempts to remain relevant. I tried to gain your approval by doing what I guessed would be cool guy shit like going on stage with Dave Chappelle and yelling at you small people about how rich I am. I did the meme thing with the fake money and the fun monkey pictures. I spent billions evading your blocks on Twitter. I give up. You don't have to love me. No one will ever love me. But I need you to always be looking at me.

Musk then produced an acoustic guitar and began to play a cover of Matchbox 20's "Push". According to reports, the entrepreneur who used his slave-generated wealth to build a private space program was on the verge of tears and within shouting distance of the key as he sang the line "Don't just stand there/say nice things to me/cuz I've been cheated and I've been wronged".

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He didn't get convicted of rape and being unlikeable. He was convicted of rape. The penalty being assessed is the penalty for rape. Whatever else he may have done, good or bad, he did the rape. He should pay the penalty for the rape that he did. If he collects money for disabled children on Sundays, he shouldn't be punished less, he should pay the penalty for rape. If he's a jerk who gets drunk on weeknights and starts his political opinions with "I'm not racist, but..." he shouldn't be penalized additionally for that. He should be penalized for rape. This thing where we make room for "He's a rapist, but..." is fucking garbage. It reeks of Brock Turner's dad trying to reduce the lifetime of harm his son inflicted on a woman to "10 minutes of action". If a rapist who operates a puppy rescue is less of a rapist than a rapist who does other things we all agree to be unpleasant then it's not about the harm inflicted, it's about how much we all generally like the rapist.

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't make them rapists by proxy, but it does make them someone who believes the rapist they like should be the exception.

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Condemn him? No. Judge him? Yeah, a little bit.

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Turns out that being against rape in 99.9% of cases isn't good enough.

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

What good does this really do south africa though? Id more expect his loyalty to be to himself and his own profit than any country regardless of where he's native.

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

literally every day. I don't want to sequester myself in my room to play on my PC, and I don't want to monopolize the living room TV and have a big desktop tower looking ugly in the entertainment center, so the deck essentially gave me PC gaming back. I debated whether to buy it for months and months, and I shouldn't have. My goal was nothing more than to be able to play PC games and to unlock emulation on a small screen with real controllers. I just finished playthroughs of metal gear solid 2 and fallout new vegas, and I'm starting red dead redemption 2 today (if the damn download ever finishes). The only thing I'd caution a new purchaser about is springing for the big hard drive and/or being willing to install an aftermarket one. SD cards seems like a reasonable sol'n but reports are coming in that the deck is hard on them because it does a lot of writing to the card, and that an SSD is a worthwhile investment.

[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

If the top makes you feel like Soyjack instead of Chad that's on you. There's no freedom like insignificance.

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