Not regulating information flow on the internet is just as negligent as not regulating firearms. I’m not saying that we should be doing our own Great Firewall, but it’s clear that social media does a lot of societal harm and shit like unhinged conspiracy theories should be censored from it, and algorithms should be adjusted not to promote them.
Why? Ask the author.
I’m not the author so I’m going to speculate wildly that this may be an artifact from back when the button was introduced. SMBC wanted to encourage its readers to vote for the comic on “top webcomics” listings, and the extra comic panel was introduced as an incentive to do so - you would see it after voting. Since SMBC became popular enough that doing that was redundant, the author kept the extra panel around but took out the requirement to vote to see it.
oh whoops
The feds have, I think since the 50s, discouraged new public rail
Whenever talk about US infrastructure comes up, this is an important point to bear in mind. The current road-centric infrastructure was created over the course of decades as a very deliberate political project - trolleys were torn up, dense neighborhoods were paved over, working class people were pushed out of the cities into suburban developments, etc. To transition back will take an equally dedicated political project and a similarly long amount of time.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it, of course.
TBF, the teenage years are when many kids become fully aware of the shitty aspects of life (although some get it earlier and others stay sheltered forever), and they’re still developing the capacity to deal with it.
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This, and the really long late night Girls Gone Wild commercials on Comedy Central. I think the first thing I ever pirated was a GGW video, lmao.
The upside to using ad blockers - no ads!
The downside to using ad blockers - not knowing what any of the movies currently in theaters are.
Same. Buster is my most recent must-have extension for this reason, auto solves like 95% of CAPTCHAs for me.
Yeah the most recent version of CAPTCHA is completely seamless for the end user because there is no more value to be had gathering this kind of data. Instead it runs in the background of the web site, looking at your mouse movements/clicks/keystrokes, and determining whether or not you’re a bot based on that information.
The problem is a lot of websites still use the old version, or their own hacked together CAPTCHA alternative, which decent bots have been able to beat for a while now.
Never worry about Nazgûl again!
True fact once I was getting a drink with my younger brother and he asked me to get him a Prime, kid took about three sips before he gave up on the rest and got a glass of water, lmao.
Holy shit that article has, like, every decent chocolate bar.
2001 came out in 1968, so a year before the actual moon landing. As long as you were economical with your shots, you could definitely do some realistic-looking microgravity and spaceships with 60s tech - what you couldn’t do with 60s tech, as a commenter above pointed out, was a long flat shot of people moving convincingly on the lunar surface, which is what the Apollo films show.
tbh this post made me double check my calendar.
Liberalism and fascism are two sides of the same coin, like a “good cop” and a “bad cop,” the only thing that distinguished the fascism of mid 20th century Europe was that it was being applied to Europeans, rather than its typical targets.
But that doesn’t actually matter in this case, because both of the options on offer for Americans have participated enthusiastically in bringing fascism to American communities. The Dems are the ones currently backing Israel’s genocide and escalation, the Dems are the ones who built the cages and the Dems are the ones currently throwing kids in them.
Biden could shoot someone on fifth avenue and you liberals would still think that he’s somehow better than Trump.
Imagine for a moment that you are a pacifist. But then you join the military, go overseas, and kill hundreds of people. Should you get to call yourself a pacifist? Of course not!
Same theory here. If you think socialist thoughts, speak socialist words, and then support capitalist parties - then you my friend are a capitalist. There are plenty of ways to do socialist praxis within a political system where the electral system has been entirely captured by capitalist interests, so don’t you waste your tears crying about “gatekeeping”.
socialists in the US vote for the democratic party
If you’re voting for the democratic party then you are not a socialist. Politics aren’t just a feeling you have or something you say you believe in, they’re actions that you take.
I thought that’s what you were talking about, only just now see your username
in terms of their foreign policy
but also, regardless of whose president I feel like things for the drag community will continue getting worse in red states while staying the same in blue states. It’s not like the Dems have given us any reason to believe that they will intervene from the federal level to protect minorities of any type.
Jews are not Israelis, and the Ottomans are not Palestinians. Conflating these things is an important part of how the Zionist entity justifies itself.
Also, the 29 “massacre” killed and wounded less than a hundred people. It was part of a larger wave of violence that killed over a hundred Jews, but also killed over a hundred Arabs, and the Jews in Hebron were taken out of the area by the British, not driven out by the violence. Conflating these sparse and disorganized religious riots with the massive and highly organized ethnic cleansing that took place in 48 is a politically-motivated lie perpetuated by Zionists to insist that their claim to the land they’ve stolen is anything but fraudulent.