uriel238

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

European aristocracy is scared of the working class. They will tremble...! < Bolshevik chorus swells >

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The proletariat is still sore about the ones in 2008. They revealed plain the stratified economic system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Deep Rock Galactic Galaxy's Finest!

I'm a greybeard with a crack crew but they get wreckless sometimes, and mining on Hoxxes is intrinsically dangerous. We don't always make it back.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

More specifically, Chinese state interests influencing Americans. US elected officials are AOK with US, plutocrat and commercial interests influencing Americans.

It's not about protecting the public, it's about who gets to engage in malicious action against the public.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unhiding extensions is one of the first things I do when setting up windows, but it will still hide the .lnk extension on shortcuts, so it's still a vector for phishing attacks (specifically, tricking the user to do something that runs malicious code).

Experienced pirates will get into the habit of taking precautions against malware attacks and will distrust downloads until they are sufficiently vetted,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It took decades before Hasbro Easy Bake Ovens were marketed in the US in Yellow and Black rather than Mattel Barbie™️ Fuchsia Pink (💕) which is still the standard in US department stores. Curiously gender neutral colors started from demand in Sweden and expanded outward.

In the nineties, Barbie was built like only a select few Playboy Bunnies (Jessica Rabbit's dimensions are physiologically impossible. A robot, maybe) and Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader action figures were ripped like He-Man (or soon-to-be Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Gender roles are (to me) extremely weird.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is dominance hierarchy, which expresses itself as patriarchy most of the time.

But not always, and places on this earth exist where a matriarchic hierarchy is similarly asserted.

Obligatorily, no war but class war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

...and a forgone conclusion (a Shakespearean phrase) used to mean a conclusion that could be ruled out as implausible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It raises the question. The reason begs the question has become acceptable is specifically because English speakers used the term in error often enough to make it common.

Which is to say, when the President of the United States uses the phrase ...which begs the question... in a speech, or a PHD academic uses it in a thesis in 2024, it's fine. But nineth-grade grammar teachers all across the nation cringe when they hear it.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's kinda like AAA game companies waiting for a couple of weeks after a title's release (and all the reviews are done) before rolling out the micro-transaction market (and the corresponding game-balance adjustments).

Funny how when Windows XP had dial-in activation we warned that this would drift over to games if we tolerated it, and then it did.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Funny. Not long after all the spyware was inserted into Win 10, they imported it into Win 7, and we got a general notice to not install those updates (or uninstall them).

Yeah, Microsoft was always a shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I meant similar to Joan of Arc, in that she chased the English out, but I'd be much happier for someone who wasn't a religious saint.

For now, it's Mad Sweeneys' day, more or less.

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