Until they’re deported to a prison death camp in El Salvador … Assuming you’re from America

I stopped using Spotify long ago because of their shitty business practices. Producing a product they killed support for within just a couple years without reimbursing customers and producing huge amounts of e-waste. Jacking their subscription prices twice in one year. Apparently, they also donated to Trump despite not being an American company?? That’s to say nothing of their shitty recommendation algorithm, which just plays your most played tracks over and over. Good riddance.

For those interested, I use Tidal now. I’m satisfied with, their recommendation algo is fine and the higher quality streaming is really nice but nothing I’ve used has ever been as good as Google Play Music, I found so much good music though that service and could upload whatever I was missing. Once Tidal inevitably pisses me off, I’m going to move on to self hosting.

I can’t see this host’s stupid face without thinking of that clip where his own mother berates him for being a hack on air for everybody to see

Authorities: Quit complaining and get back to work, peasant!

Welcome to the 2020s! Fun times all around.

They’re not capable of that level of introspective thinking, as basic as it is

My optimism for the future is dead at this point. Even if we miraculously have a collective pivot into sustainable practices tomorrow, this train ain’t stopping in my lifetime. Maybe it’ll be better for future generations, I sincerely hope it is and I’ll keep doing what I can to ensure that. But my future is doomed to dealing with the mess that unchecked greed and exploitation has wreaked upon our world.

As a software engineer, definitely. Things that might have taken days writing a boilerplate framework and reading through docs to find out how to configure certain things could take hours now. Now I don’t have to spend hours learning how to use the data visualisation library in order to fix the one donut chart on my company’s site, I can ask AI to do it in minutes and make edits where needed.

It’s certainly not perfect or infallible, it spits out garbage a lot still. But since I have a deep understanding of the stuff I’m working on, I can recognize when it’s spitting out garbage and recalibrate.

*Executed, extra judicially

Ain’t no way these fucks are going to let up at the opportunity to unload their mags into anybody who shoots at them.

I used to live up in NE and it was pretty much always faster to just walk or find a scooter to get anywhere within a couple miles. If I wanted to get to the city center it was either a 15 minute Uber or 45 minutes via bus. Public transit downtown is great but we really need better service on the east side to connect the whole city.

Try parking in the Bay Area and you’ll never complain about parking anywhere else ever again

So are you saying that because George Floyd had a criminal history he deserved to be slowly murdered without due process, face down in the street with a knee pressing into his neck so hard it prevented him from drawing breath? That all despite him serving his sentence for his convictions, reintegrating into society, and expressing regret over the wrongs of his past (source).

Don’t you see what you’re doing? “He had a rough history so no wonder he was the victim of unjustified police violence. Surely that would never happen to anybody who’s never done a bad thing in their life like me.”

Edit: It’s totally fair to approach news reporting with a healthy level of skepticism. But justifying authoritarian violence based on the fact that news outlets sometimes withhold information seems like poor judgement to me. When they violate anybody’s liberties, they violate yours too. And when they do come for you, how will you feel about the public reaction being, “meh, they probably had it coming”.

It’s a defense mechanism. If people are having their liberties stripped away and are being subject to violence over something so little as a harmless meme, then it could happen to anybody including yourself.

But if there are details not being reported on that would give the border agents a legitimate reason to assault the victim here, like real threats against government officials, being a menace through customs, or otherwise something any normal person would not do, then the victim deserved it and normal law-abiding people can continue to feel secure knowing they’re safe from this treatment so long as they don’t do whatever the victim did to deserve that treatment.

There’s a similar effect for sexual assault victims: “They were asking for it because of what they were wearing/who they misplaced their trust in/where they chose to walk alone at night”. It’s all designed to put fault on the victim in order to maintain a false sense of security for the average person.

For the people in the comments who either won’t or seemingly can’t read the article: The paint on the top of the caps is plastic-based and before they’re put on the bottle they’re stored in a big jumbled up pile where the paint chips off and coats the caps in tiny flakes. When the cap gets put on the bottle, the flakes on the bottom of the cap get washed off into your drink. Studies show that washing the caps first dramatically reduces the micro-plastic contamination.

Imagine the irony if Bethlehem is his set spawning point and every time he tries to return he ends up getting murdered by Israel before he can form a coherent sentence.

I think it’s more that he knows many in his base are pissed that he’s dragging us into another war that’s going to kill the kids of the people who voted for him. So his desperate consolation is that no Americans died in the first strike.

Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there’s “green apple” flavored candy, I’d consider it a part of the noun.

*Allegedly ICE

Those could totally just be plain old kidnappers

Remember when the craziest news was that Trump nominated him for Attorney General?