[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Remember a few years ago when a teenager took an interstate trip to play cop and threaten black people with a gun?

And then he ended up killing some people and cried a lot in the trial ("I'm the victim" tears, not "I regret murdering those guys" tears)

And he became a conservative star.

Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 61 points 10 months ago

That's assuming you'll meet literally every person on earth

Let's say you will have a meaningful interaction with 1000 people ever, 1% of that leaves you with 10

If you're not bi make it 5 before you even start considering wether you also find those people attractive back, if they're single and in the right age range

So get that confidence back down. Statistics are a bitch

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 173 points 10 months ago

Google: mind if we put a keylogger on your browser for spellchecking?

You: don't

Google: OK, we won't use the keylogger data for spellchecking

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 65 points 10 months ago

But we still check every time, just in case

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 79 points 10 months ago

Unpopular opinion: obvious stuff that 99% of the people here will agree with.

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was disgusted by the XML at first, but it's a readable query returning a sane JSON object.

Meanwhile, I'm mantaining Java code where the SQL is a perfectly square wall of text, and some insane mofo decided the way to read the resulting list of Object[] 🤮 is getting each column by index... so I'd switch to SQXMLL in a heartbeat.

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used to get myself into traps like that a lot, "I need to get that impossible achievement", "I need to play only at the highest difficulty", "I need to get 200% completion".

At the end of the day video games are just toys, play them as you like and if you're not enjoying it just do something else instead. After I realized that games are fun again.

This ghost achievement in particular is a very hard challenge run, the kind of thing you go for after you finished the game and want more with an extra twist, trying to force it on your first time playing is guaranteed to be frustrating

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 106 points 11 months ago

Meta has no interest in being part of the fediverse, it only wants to eliminate any posible competition.

The usual MO of buying the competitors isn't posible on the fediverse, so the way to do it is embrace, extend and extinguish

Defederating is important because is Metastasis is allowed in the fediverse it will consume the fediverse, and then we'll be right back at the corporate social media we're trying to break away from, with the surveillance, ads and nazis being welcome as long as it's profitable

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago

I will never stop being mad that "literally" got a new dictionary definition that's literally not literally

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

"You only have another 2 or 3 months of unconditional support for your genocide before we start calling you out"

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 year ago

(But that's not mastodon's fault)

[-] somePotato@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 year ago

No, he didn't "let people die".

He actively contributed to those deaths.

Right wing media spent the entire pandemic fighting against distancing, masks, vaccines, against science. And pretending horse dewormer was a miracle solution for everything. But it turns out reality isn't a political opinion, and millions of people died because of those lies.

When humanity was fighting against covid, Republicans were fighting on the virus' side

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