[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 1 points 4 months ago

@Artyom @seaQueue The American political system is in many ways supposed to be self-correcting. There's no real mechanisms. Except that which are enforced. I always used to wonder about this when learning about politics in school. It seemed like anyone could do anything but I just assumed everyone was smarter than me. So what happens is people do things and they expect you to be so embarrassed you bow out. And that's fine for most people except extremely insane people like Trump.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 8 points 4 months ago

@cyborganism @wreckedcarzz If you take internet reviews there are only three types of restaurants.

  1. Excellent places that deserve their Michelin Stars

  2. Excellent places that should have Michelin Stars

  3. Diarrhea fuel garbage pits. With food so disgusting you shouldn't even feed it to the stray dog that bit your baby.

On our national deal hunting website you can see all the "It gives you diarrhea comments" every time there's a coupon for McDonalds or franchised Shawarma

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@wreckedcarzz @cyborganism

this is hilarious fellow millennial, because I just went to Red Lobster today and had a great time.

Of course this was the first time I've been in 20+ years so it's not like I'm a regular.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 36 points 6 months ago

@radix @gregorum I can just FEEL how super useful that was many many years ago. How utterly brilliant everyone felt when they got it working. How depressed they must feel to know it's still going.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 8 points 8 months ago

@roastedDeflator I mean it is a funny piece of satire and I support satire. But did they? Reading the article? The only thing I can see is the tick tock has a lot of comments. Is that what it means When we say they fell for it? that tick tock has a lot of comments. I don't see any screenshots of articles where people were writing think pieces about it. Just three tiktok comments? This feels more like an ad for that satire website. And if so it kind of worked, I bookmarked it. I'll check it out.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 3 points 11 months ago

@JasSmith @FlyingSquid it was a public school. And they cited religious beliefs as for why they were so offended. That's a clear violation of church and state and while it's certainly not new or unique it's not defensible or right.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 15 points 11 months ago

@TheOneWithTheHair

"They had other people dancing in that video who were on the dance team that nothing happened to. He said she was punished because she is the 'hood ornament' of the school."

Based on the NY Post pictures it was probably awkward teenage white girl twerking too. This whole thing is just a nothing burger and it doesn't even seem like a private school. what the heck?

https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/honor-student-loses-scholarship-after-twerking-video-surfaces/

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 19 points 11 months ago

@TheOneWithTheHair good lord what happened to just punishments. Even if this was something to punish (which it isn't) anything more than a detention is kinda extreme? Ya'll taking away scholarships? That's a future by some measures. You're saying it's okay to take away her ability to get a bright future because she was at a party on her own time?

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago

@KidsTryThisAtHome direct replies include anyone in the thread chain by default. It's like Twitter in that way.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 3 points 11 months ago

@Pietson @TheJims @Decoy321 that wasn't what I heard but I didn't look too too far into it. I read a few of the light articles that discussed the viability of the butt plug cheat device, but aside from that I didn't really go back to the source or anything.

[-] wolfkin@mastodon.social 2 points 11 months ago

@Decoy321 @TheJims It was definitely a real controversy for months a while back. He won and his opponent iirc accused him of having a vib to help him cheat.

General concensus is that it's unlikely. The sheet complexity of communicating movements via vib patterns alone makes it a stretch.

Plus... ya know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCDc4I0cSQ

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