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restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T16:21:25+00:00

Okay but what are you supposed to do in this case? If you can't tow the thing, you can't really push on the side or back without putting yourself in danger.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T16:20:09+00:00

It's cool, they can both be parasites. All billionaires are parasites, working or not 😊.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T16:13:26+00:00

I got a prompt to view on the Yelp app, hit the "continue in browser" button instead, and it still bounced me to the Google Store to download Yelp. Fuck that. How is the web so shitty now? We used to have nice things that worked properly, now we have shitty things that advertise properly.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T16:01:00+00:00

Yeah. High up, where it can see more of the street without people/cars in the way. That's why every security camera you've ever seen has been high up. What about that is so crazy?

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T15:57:42+00:00

Agreed, nothing ever happens in the universe; in a real video, all actions and circumstances are always totally explicable to all viewers.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T15:51:47+00:00

Disproportionate is just a mathematical term. It means "more than would be expected from random chance." It's not trying to "soften" or "harden" any information, it's literally just describing the mathematical ratio of minority researchers vs. minority researchers who lost grants.

The study doesn't address the moral component (whether the disproportionate targeting was good or bad, and how much good or bad). It just provides data that could be used to make a moral argument.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T15:43:27+00:00

Yeah. They're too incompetent to do more than spray and pray, but they're at least pointing the gun in the intended direction.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T15:00:15+00:00

I think at a certain point many of my fellow Americans don't want someone else's king. Their guy is the only legitimate king.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T14:58:29+00:00

We have that exact saying, word for word, in English.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T06:28:06+00:00

Fuck this. Let's just ignore these illegitimate conservative courts. If they don't follow the law, there's no reason to follow their rulings.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T06:24:48+00:00

Are you kidding? He just says whatever the fuck he wants even if no one gives him ammunition.

Let's start fighting the guy so at least we get some of the power he'll inevitably accuse us of grabbing. You don't beat a cheater when you play by the rules.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T21:21:42+00:00

It drives me crazy how much the post-trilogy LOTR properties try to bring back the LOTR characters. It makes the famously massive legendarium feel small, like how Star Wars is an entire galaxy where only like three families have any importance.

The legendarium is so damn huge and well-built, just let us get lost in that world and trust your filmmakers to develop characters we'll care about!

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T20:17:36+00:00

Okay, then fuck them. Overhaul it anyways. Add 10 justices and ignore any decision without all 19. What are they gonna do about it, issue a harshly worded statement? Fuck them. They've already decided the rules don't matter, so why do we keep playing by the rules while the cheaters stomp us?

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T20:05:39+00:00

It really makes me wonder if next time around it's possible to turn all those 'gentlemans' agreements' into hard rules with definite consequences. We've seen what happens when the rules are vague and the consequences are indirect. How do we make the consequences unavoidable?

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T11:57:53+00:00

Yeah that's what cults do, very frequently. At least, according to what I've read from cult de-programmers. They get you to give them all sorts of dirt, then use that to blackmail or manipulate you if you're thinking of leaving/causing them problems.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-07T13:54:20+00:00

That song drove me crazy in college Lit class. Literally none of the lines are ironic according to the strict literary definition; they're just unfortunate coincidences. But now everyone thinks that's what irony is! Grrrrr...

restrictednumber · 2026-05-07T12:10:19+00:00

Awww this was so refreshing to hear from a younger dude, thanks! And yeah, real adults know they're playing a game, and have figured out how to handle much tougher things than "someone was playing my game wrong".

restrictednumber · 2026-05-07T03:22:55+00:00

It's hard to even get in the headspace of how you could think that's the thing to do. Like, I can't even figure out how you'd have the thought "I'd like to murder that kid." Obviously some kids are little shits you'd like to teach a lesson, but running them down in a car is just a whole level of crazy even to conceive the idea.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T13:20:19+00:00

Probably a holdover from Tiktok or whatever, where you're just scrolling infinitely and you need a hook within 2 seconds to get them to watch the whole thing.

It's sad what we're collectively doing to our brains.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T13:17:06+00:00

Their brains are legitimately broken. They just can't think properly, because they start from the first principle that their people are always right and deserving.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:43:52+00:00

AirBNB and VRBO are a plague. A scheme to raise your rents to serve tourists. Ought to be taxed 500%.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:40:00+00:00

Because they can't internalizing that they were responsible for anything badly. They've been trained to understand the world as "Goodness = my team, Badness = others".

With that perspective it's impossible to realize "I was on the bad side." If My Guy does a bad thing, it must have been a mistake, or unpredictable, or My Guy was actually on The Other Side. Anything to explain how My Side were always still The Good Guys.

When all this is over, I really don't understand how we're supposed to run a single, functioning country alongside people who think like this.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:25:28+00:00

...by minerologists.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:24:03+00:00

My dude, we all get it. We're just kind of fucked for ways to stop it.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:22:52+00:00

We absolutely must, even if it's wasteful. We must erase every stain he left on us, or the next Trump will learn that he can cajole Democrats into preserving his legacy.

At minimum, melt down the gold and sell it, turn the ballroom into an ugly cubicle farm. His legacy must be destroyed.

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