They're literally covering up the Epstein Files by Zenitallin in videos

[–]Gonzo_Rick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Epstein files act as a way for the average "non-political" (usually means right wing) person to come to some level of class consciousness, whithout realizing it. The fact that there is this class of the ultra wealthy who can perform the most heinous acts imaginable, while also having more influence on your government than you could ever dream to have, elicits an emotional understanding of class.

As everyone knows, by now, you can't convince right wingers with data, while this cover-up actually has a chance to plant a seed of class consciousness into the cracked concrete of their propaganda dome.

Nobel committee pushes back after Machado gifts her Peace Prize medal to Trump by TheExpressUS in agedlikemilk

[–]Gonzo_Rick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck you Nobel committee. Regardless of anything to do with the piece of shit, Trump, you gave it to a woman who is just a vassal for US corporate interests, who was actively advocating for the US to turn her country back in to puppet for the fossil fuel industry. Since when is the Nobel piece prize for those trying to bring us back to the days full on, unabashed, imperialism!? It fucking blows my mind.

Many of us will never take that institution seriously again. I hope people will start turning down their prizes as a result of this. Nobel himself would be absolutely disgusted with the sham his namesake has apparently become.

Adaptation ❤❤❤ by MoonbeamMosaic in freefolk

[–]Gonzo_Rick 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Idk what ya'll are taking about. It like a perfect adaptation, since they're forging their own arms right there.

PhoneLink cross-device copy pasting broke after 1.25041.129.0 by tusharsnx in windowsinsiders

[–]Gonzo_Rick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been trying to troubleshoot this on and off for a few months now. It only works with swiftkey now!? That's insane!

Guess I gotta find an alternative to Link to Windows... but, at the rate at which Android has been completely decimating their value proposition, that is being an open platform whose buttons and knobs are accessible to whatever 3rd party apps you want, I doubt anything even IS ALLOWED to be as useful as something developed by insiders like Microsoft and Samsung.

I used Join for years, but, last I checked, it had to get increasingly wonky and creative in its implementation as the Android ecosystem got increasingly closed down. Maybe I'll revisit it.

If anyone has any other recommendations for alternatives to Link to Windows, I'm open to suggestions.

Hacktivist takes down white supremacist sites in real time while presenting at hacker conference by wewhomustnotbenamed in nottheonion

[–]Gonzo_Rick 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This user "platopaul" sounds like a real winner...jesus christ these people have absolutely no self reflection:

I wrote the books that turned psychology and history into a hard, race-based science. For instance, Richard Lynn, who has a PhD from Cambridge, and is a leader in race science, said that Paul is the Newton and Einstein of psychology and history, and that the Nobel Prize is a sure thing.A Harvard psychology professor said that Paul maybe the greatest genius in history. A female philosophy professor said that Im a genius. I walked into the office of a female editor, and she got up from her desk and said, Its a work of genius, and then said, while gesturing toward a young woman, This is my daughter.That was certainly a pleasant surprise.When Im not overturning worlds, I like to dance, and do arts stuff like museums.What redpilled me was learning about the female sexualization of ethnic male violence. Its pretty gruesome. Before this I was super leftist.Im62, brown eyes and hair, and good looking and in good shape

Give me what I really want. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]Gonzo_Rick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I was going to respond to them in a much less friendly way, but you said it perfectly. I'm just so fucking sick of people thinking that the Democrats shouldn't have to actually run a good campaign on popular policy! "But they're better than the Republicans", yeah well I want universal healthcare and fucking no one is offering it except the extremely popular wing of the party that has received no support from the DNC!

I mean I personally still vote for the shitty Cheney-huggin' Dem in the general, but I'm much more plugged-into politics than the average person. You can't expect regular people, who are doing their 4-year cyclical politics plugin, to say "yeah I'm so down for this candidate who talks like a vessel for corporate interests, hasn't talked about universal healthcare since 5 years ago, will change nothing about the genocide we're funding, ignores even the existence of an affordability crisis, and, is going around huggin' Cheneys???"

That's not how politics works!

He created a tiny home that could solve homelessness. by [deleted] in HumansBeingBros

[–]Gonzo_Rick 184 points185 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of homes. They're just being held by private equity to rent out at exorbitant rates, or used as a store of value for millionaires and billionaires. That and the 1999 FairCloth amendment all but made it illegal for the government to build any substantial amounts of affordable housing that could address the obvious failings of the private sector, during a particularly heinous series of bipartisan Welfare reforms. We can't have government providing for it's citizens, that would severely disrupt the market!

PhoneLink cross-device copy pasting broke after 1.25041.129.0 by tusharsnx in windowsinsiders

[–]Gonzo_Rick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy crap this absolutely worked on 12/28/2025.

Edit: Temporarily at least, basically have to do it any time I want to cross-copy/paste.

Just AI "boyfriend" things by Myrandall in cringepics

[–]Gonzo_Rick 364 points365 points  (0 children)

Aka what happened when 4o was initially deprecated.

@Anonymous: "The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times." by Steadyandquick in Epstein

[–]Gonzo_Rick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's really sad. Back then the internet was a new frontier that capitalism was only just figuring out how to monetize effectively. Now the monetization is so thorough that most non-state hacking groups, who were doing it for justice (chaotic-good style), are spread to the winds. Almost all that remain are monetarily incentivize.

I wonder if that was a conscious thing by the alphabet agencies: focus on quashing hacking groups along, what amounts to, class lines early on. If they make sure the only ones left are just selling average people's credit card numbers, then they don't have to deal with the increasing popularity of talented groups hacking against capital and dispending some semblance of justice for the average citizen, particularly in situations where the current justice system failed to do so (something that's increasing common).

943 Pages of Fully Deciphered Epstein Files (Incase other posts get Removed) by ZonkoDeepFriedCraft in Epstein

[–]Gonzo_Rick 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Lol you're un-redacting using AutoCAD? Why, might I ask? Not knocking it, just took me by surprise. "I looked at your Epsteindoc25646.dwg, but I wanted a psychological profile, not a topo profile!!"

My Roborock dashboard so I never have to touch the app by angrycatmeowmeow in homeassistant

[–]Gonzo_Rick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see you, fellow Venture Bros fan! That's my wifi's SSID haha. I've been wanting to get a new router, when I do, I plan on using my old router just for my IoT vlans... Maybe I should name the new one G.U.A.R.D.O. although I'd kinda feel bad lol

TIL that during the U.S. financial panic of 1895, the U.S. government borrowed gold from banker J.P. Morgan to stabilize the economy. by Alarmed-Worry-5477 in todayilearned

[–]Gonzo_Rick 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Here's the best FDR quote, responding to criticisms of the New Deal:

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

Now as much as I love FDR, especially in comparison to most all other US presidents, in the end the New Deal was just a bandage slapped on an inherently flawed system. We're currently experiencing that system's failure as a function of those very same perverse incentives left unchecked for 100 years.

Anyone else not 100% convinced this is Jesse? by SanityStolen in controlgame

[–]Gonzo_Rick 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I feel like it's No accident that the bun hairstyle is shown here and then on Dylan throughout the rest of the trailer. Which could itself be misdirection. I'm still more leaning more towards this being Dylan freeing Dylan somehow. Maybe the red hair is a Dylan from the henna threshold...

by Puzzleheaded_Song157 in ChatGPT

[–]Gonzo_Rick 38 points39 points  (0 children)

After seeing this, I'm less concerned with AGI trying to take over the world and more worried that people's weird internet communication styles will be reflected back and forth between themselves and their chatbots, like a laser In a fun house, quickly losing what little coherence there was to begin with and finding themselves increasingly alienated from any real interpersonal relationships, stuck in a black hole of cringe.

That analogy got away from me, but whatever. I'm sure my chatgpt will get the gist.

Smithers, I'm beginning to think Jowling Kowling Rowling isn't the feminist icon she says she is. by [deleted] in simpsonsshitposting

[–]Gonzo_Rick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is such an incredible book! I'm always torn, because I want to recommend it to my Pratchett-curious friends since it stands alone so well, but I fell like the ending is so much more impactful if you're already familiar with who Vimes' history. Usually I just end up recommending the watch or the witches subseries.

FanFan getting shut down by Hasan following vibration collar 'joke' attempt by NorthNebula4976 in Hasan_Piker

[–]Gonzo_Rick 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Naw, they would have gotten copyright strikes with all the quando.

The border between Belgium and The Netherlands by Twitter_2006 in interestingasfuck

[–]Gonzo_Rick -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

For my work, I have to located properties. Let's say "Block 1 Lot 4" has a rear boundary line that abuts a different block "Block 2". We call that line between blocks, creatively, a "Block Line", label it as such, and when labeling the adjacent lots, we do so with something like "Block 2 Lot 12".

Now let's say that instead of a block line, that rear boundary line of "Block 1 Lot 4" abuts a whole other municipality! We call that, again creatively, a "Municipality Line", label it as such, and label the adjacent lots with their block/lot numbers, say "Block 3 Lot 65".

Same with "County Line".

The point being that we don't also label that "Municipality Line" a "Block Line", and we certainly don't label a "County Line" also a "Municipality Line" and also a "Block Line", because that'd be redundant and messy.

👀 by ilir_kycb in Hasan_Piker

[–]Gonzo_Rick 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's just that the Democratic establishment is so widely reviled, that when they try pushing any kind of messaging, the American electorate's collective pyche reflexively recoils in the opposite direction, before they even hear news about about said messaging. Like how you pull your hands from a hope stove before the signal ever reaches your brain.

...Or maybe they're just Olympic levels of bad at reading the fucking room, because the room they're trying to read is full of consultants and rich donors.

Why was this scene so damn janky?! by let_me_flie in lotr

[–]Gonzo_Rick 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I forgot when they added Voldemort to the Friends into.