The system leaves us with a binary choice. Even the third “option” of inaction is essentially leaving it up to fate at best, and at worst is just handing the controls over.

The room you’re in is sealed, filling with water, and you can access a snorkel or a fire hydrant.

In this instance, the moderators specifically refused to be fact checkers and declared that fact checking would be left to the candidates. It was a bit of a missed opportunity that Biden didn’t refute more of Trump’s falsehoods.

thank mr skeltal

I’m afraid all we can say for sure is that it’s not a caterpillar.

50/50 that or it gets sexualized and women are told to put it away

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I can only think of one. The original movie of The Barnyard. It’s a kids movie, of course, and it was never going to be great, but kids were asking to leave that movie. That’s impressive.

And your business is highly successful but never profitable because you’re always in debt and so are most of your employees and customers.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales x BNA. Of all the superheroes this is probably one of the best crossovers, being a city-bound teenager with animal-themed powers grappling with the establishment.

Haha, because it’s in c/autism

I think top comment is a reference of some kind.

I heard something similar; the studio didn’t think the movie would be popular if they used too many computer terms so they made them change the function to “battery”. Initially the reason Neo has powers is because his node happens to have admin access.

Cynicism is a symptom of a broken system that either breaks promises or fails to meet needs.

You’re talking about nihilism, not atheism. Atheism does not preclude humanism.

I think the difference is that when you pay discord, they stop advertising to you.

Haha, the whole image is what was generated, including the monitor and surroundings.

My boss’s favorite saying is to just make logical decisions.

I can’t take him/her seriously because he/she is a Mormon and that’s the least logical decision you can make.

The ramblings of an absolute madman. This is what they’ve been demanding your respect for.

Unfortunately it’s burned into my memory one way or another, yet it still blends into the surrounding years.

One of my best friends moved out of state and we went to Colorado to send him off, I got back and my dad was sick (not COVID at least), he passed away exactly a week before my birthday. The next month I went on a trip to Vegas through work (I was encouraged to keep the plan despite the circumstances… Ultimately it was a positive experience overall).

A remarkable year personally in good ways and bad, but another stone in the stream of upheavals in recent years overall.

A little bit of cultural linguistics going on really. Even though the texts are also calling OOP gay and queer, and doing so with the same amount of vitriol as with the f-slur, they aren’t recognized as emotionally charged in the same way. All the other cursing is not hate speech per se as it’s not directly targeting any immutable characteristics.

A great multiplicity of the English speaking population does not put nearly so much thought into their grammar as does the online commentator.

I don’t have any interesting secrets or facts from my current ex-jobs, so I’ll share an interesting fact from a buddy’s. It’s one of those companies that offers automated phone systems (and chats, nowadays) that listen to your options rather than taking number inputs.

This may no longer be the case, but these systems were not actually automated. There are entire call centers dedicated to these phone systems, whereby an operator listens to your call snippet and manually selects the next option in the phone tree, or transcribes your input.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if advances in AI have made this whole song and dance less in need of human intervention, but once upon a time, your call wasn’t truly automated - it was federated.