Wes_Dev

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't "woke" originally a good term until right wing screechers took it over at an insult? They do that a lot, every time some positive phrase or idea starts to gain traction. Seems intentional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh. Makes sense. To be honest, I really didn't care enough to bother checking their profile or any other comments. Just saw the response today and wanted to try and offer some sort of olive branch or something. idk

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So, let me unpack what happened, from my point of view. I'm not complaining or anything, just pointing out how it seemed from my end.

I made a comment that I personally didn't like the show because of how many times people around kept saying I was like the main character.

You replied directly to me implying that nerds should like the show because it normalizes dating them. (Which I agree is a good thing.)

I replied to say that doesn't apply to me, and I'm not sure why it was relevant to my comment.

Finally, you left a comment to call me names.

Do you see how that entire interaction makes no sense from my side of things? I said that I didn't like a show, and you inserted yourself into the conversation to complain that hot women should want to date me because of the show. Then, when I said that had nothing to do with what I was saying, you insulted me.

So, like, why?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

...I don't want to date women, so I know know how that's relevant.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (13 children)

"It's so funny! Sheldon reminds me of you!"

Yeah, never watched it, but heard this enough to hate the show with a passion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sitcom of chimps in the big city running a shady laundromat.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 7 months ago (4 children)

For those who don't know, In the US, the two political parties basically switched sides at one point. I only skimmed, but here's an article about it:

https://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html

But I'd rather look at what modern people are doing and saying, than muse about what older generations would have wanted or done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Cut to a younger me looking at HDDs in Walmart, and wondering why the fuck they were using much higher numbers than what the drive actually had. That's when I learned the difference, and started grow my hate for advertising bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

This creates a single backdoor for all sign-ons on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

When companies tell you they respect your privacy and you should give them your data, you tell them it doesn't matter. Because policies can change, and at the end of the day, your privacy isn't always up to an single company.

Wait. This was last year, so not the capitol riot. What happened in January last year? I'm in a decent mood today. Just going to skip looking deeper into this one. I have Factorio to play!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh! I think I see what you mean now. I think I get it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope so. It's more likely something infected Firefox itself, and didn't get into the OS. But when I checked the modem logs, it happened up to a couple of months after the fact. That's worrying.

What's even more worrying is that a couple of websites told me I had an IP address that didn't match my home IP, but would provide the correct one if I refreshed the page a couple of times. So some kind of covert proxy or VPN type of thing was happening.

I ended up just wiping everything, to be safe. Still a bit paranoid though.

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