modern revival of a similar invention featured at the 1970 Osaka Expo

Hurra.

I wasn’t seriously asking why, I was pretending to be offended that antifascists from eastern regions of Germany (“Ost”) are supposedly more important than those from western regions :) this whole affair is obviously ludicrous and nothing but an excuse to persecute and intimidate their opponents.

Antifa Ost

What, why specifically them? Are we not good enough? Time to burn some cars, comrades!

(dear friends in the US administration: this is a joke.)

I figured OP wants the former and who am I to deny them?

What do you mean, “using AI”? Did you vibe-code? Does the AI help with journalling? If the latter: who wants that?

Yes, Daleks are not robots, they’re squishy tentacle space nazis inside mobile battle casing pepperpots that they call War Machines. The Terminator T1 however looks vaguely like such a pepperpot if you squint and are Doctor Who brained.

Fyi: your title says Lilo, your text says Stich.

So they skipped the Dalek phase, huh?

Surely we can find welfare policies to cut. I mean, do your kids REALLY need to eat EVERY day? /s

Edit: Why’d you delete…? That was a valid question.

Well yes. But the person I responded to implied they’d be in favour of taxing the rich even if the money wasn’t needed elsewhere - in this hypothetical, utopian case I wouldn’t give a shit about their taxes. (Again, I know they were being facetious, I’m just mad at this woman right now and don’t want to see the humour in it)

I get the joke but seriously, I couldn’t care less how much money they hoard if it wasn’t desperately needed elsewhere. Taxing the rich is neither for shits and giggles nor for the sake of it.

Edit: man, I wish I’d learn to keep my stupid mouth shut instead of always inadvertently provoking misunderstandings.

Blablabla I don’t care about her life story, wtf does she mean “for the sake of it”? Nobody wants to raise taxes for shits and giggles!

I haven’t seen that type of response, at least not at any significant frequency, but let me speculate wildly while accepting your premise for the moment.

People in general are less mentally resilient than they were 6-10 years ago, what with The Everything And All That In The Everywhere At All Times. That might manifest in less patience and less willingness to indulge beginners. So I don’t think it’s a conscious thing meant to gatekeep anything, people just don’t have the capacities to explain things again and again in detail (especially when they think the answer is easily found using the search engine of your choice) and are more easily exasperated if things don’t go smoothly.

Again, this is all assuming your premise.

When your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and also can easily be manipulated by puny human technology into doing your bidding.

I do wear glasses and I came here to post exactly your first sentence. There probably is a difference, sure, but I personally can’t see it unless I put both files next to each other and really try to see it.

I’ve been digitising our movie collection so I played around with resolutions to minimise the storage space needed - I did settle on doing everything in 1080p but mostly because it feels weird to use a resolution the internet tells me is bad and I’m vulnerable to peer pressure (voice in the back of my head “oooh but what if anyone ever looks at those files?? What’ll they think???” type nonsense).

I also had a few files that came in much higher resolution that I re-encoded to fractions of their file sizes and honestly same effect.

That sounds absolutely plausible and is thus now incorporated as Truth into my memory of the goings-on.

Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.

Who’d’ve thunk that not only doing everything your userbase does not want but also actively bullying a large portion of that userbase into leaving wouldn’t create revenue? No, being quirky on main and self-deprecating every once in a while won’t change that.

Edit: this sounds like “bullying people into leaving” and “what the userbase does not want” are two different things. That’s not what I meant. I’m overthinking this. I strongly deny any accusation of ever having pissed on a poor.

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