WizardOfFrobozz

Cool. I guess all those ICE agents are also just fundamentally decent people, deprived of education and economic opportunity. They just don’t know any better. I guess because we all purchase goods from retail locations we’re just as bad.

People like you are the reason your country is where it is. Get yourself some real values.

Hey, I won’t stop you if you want to take the position that poverty turns the decision to carry water for an empire built on coercion, colonization, and violence into a virtuous one. Knock yourself out.

Did they willingly enlist in the US military during the last 50 or so years?

Again, fuck them. It’s not as if they had anything noble “in mind”

Oh, no, the volunteer soldiers who are willingly taking orders from pedophiles and Nazis aren’t feeling COMFY and eating gourmet food???

Fuck’em. This is better than they deserve.

But isn’t that like 99% browser fingerprint and also the case with just about anything you do online, not just captchas?

How does that work?

The QR code thing I understand, but what about the “select all the fire hydrants” captchas?

It’s not like Americans have been dining out on a national identity of “personal sacrifice to fight tyranny against great odds” for a couple centuries or anything, right?

If they’d spent the last 50 years of obnoxious flag-waving about “let’s all not make waves and chill out so that we can continue to keep our shitty jobs and maintain our relative comfort,” then I’d give them a pass.

But no- putting down authoritarians and fascists is exactly the thing Americans have spent the last 70 years belligerently insisting they’re especially good at. If they don’t have this, they have fucking nothing and they deserve whatever MAGA gives them.

Except Americans are fucking cowards to the last individual

A bullshit false equivalence that only serves to amplify alt-right messaging? Yeah, I’d downvote that garbage, too.

The Grapes of Wrath.

MAN, that book was NOT what I thought it would be.

Small private uni. I’m pretty hands-on with my classes.

Correct.

Uni prof here- the one that continues to plague me is Google Classroom. It may as well be the default for my department, which means if I switch to Moodle, Canvas, etc., I also have to manage all the student headaches that come with requiring them to use unfamiliar software. Also have to dip way into my budget for features I’m currently getting for free. Would really like to make a clean break from Google but this one hook is still in me. Blarg.

On the regular I still fire up Zork 1-3, Ultima 4, StarTropics, OG Metroid, and Maniac Mansion.

I’m 10 years without a smoke-

I still want one every time I have a beer at the bar or a morning coffee.

“Democratic National Convention: 90 year old Donald Trump waves from his seat as the DNC gives him a standing ovation for not liking President Fuentes”

More and more I see that a lot of people who think they’re “nice” are just lazy and largely uprincipled people who assume that they’re doing good simply because they have good intentions and they’re not actively creating problems.

You don’t know what the alternative is? Come on.

How dare you

My ban was for expressing “extreme indifference” about Kissinger taking a dirt nap.