For so many of us, Steam made switching to Linux frictionless and they’d have to do something pretty fucked up to loose my appreciation.

Andrew Tate is wild to me. Did y’all know he’s a black Muslim from Chicago?

Fieri makes perfect sense as a chud. But I don’t get how you become Andrew Tate when your biography looks more like Malcolm X.

I looked this up, and honestly pretty tame.

one of the stories:

Struwwelpeter describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.

Devastating. In Irish lore, ghosts appear to be phantasmagorical dancers in the forest and if you join in, YOU JOIN IN. As I mentioned elsewhere, a trespass unto the wrong part of the forest or even stepping in a fairy circle might provoke the faeries to kidnap your infant.

The Irish stuff is less cautionary tale and more explaining why terrible shit happens for no reason.

EDIT: another story from Struwwelpeter

Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben (“The Story of the Inky Boys”): Nikolas (or “Agrippa” in some translations)[7] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.

Based.

For starters, Irish faeries are not like tinkerbell. They like to play pranks. Like kidnapping babies and replacing them with mimics. The creature we’d recognize as the Headless Horseman is Irish folklore, as well as the whole concept of Halloween. Bram Stoker, an Irishman need not have borrowed from Eastern European traditions, because the Irish had a bloodsucking undead monster too.

I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.

People already put rent on their credit card to pay it off in chunks. This is just Klarna tapping in that market

People using CC to pay rent isn’t reassuring, it’s more alarming. Paying for housing on short-term, high-interest credit is financial insanity and implies profound dysfunction if not desperation.

You forgot the part where Mulder losses his gun. It’s a plot point in like half the episodes.

Sometimes the betrayal is not so subtle. Did anybody who played “Days Gone” trust

for one second? I mean that name by it’self is evidence of guilt.

They don’t need you to use AI to make revenue. They need you training AI to make it into a profitable product… that will replace you.

The cliche about how if the service is free, then you are the product is only half true. The other half is that participating in social media is also unpaid labor generating valuable IP without compensation or ownership.

I don’t care about mods or FPS in the hundreds. I care that the games are discounted to a reasonable price, include all the content, and fully patched/ optimized.

Y’all realize that the Odyssey is fiction, right? Are you going to be upset if the Charybdis isn’t period accurate? What about the 6headed dragon? Look too much like Tiamat?

This is reddit level media criticism. Mindless contrarianism over focused on trivial details. At least we’re not arguing over the race/gender of the cast.

so that when men wash their hands

I have no idea what the context here is, but using your “love and respect for women” as a shield against accusations of misogyny is identical to “I have black friends” defense against racism. cringe.

People focus on the trouble AI is causing in schools, but the real tragedy is that young people today can live their whole lives without ever composing any type of long form writing. Asking them to is like asking someone to do long division when a calculator is right there.

Some people will still love to write, but for the majority, creative writing is dead as disco.

The use case is it’s going to introduce gamers to Linux. And it’s going to prove that in PCs, just like consoles, you don’t need Microsoft to game.

Everybody picks on Freud for his crazy ideas. But when you consider the lunacy that his methods overthrew, he doesn’t seem so crazy after all.

For example, before Freud many mental illnesses in women were diagnosed as “wandering womb”, where the uterus was supposed to have migrated to different places in the body to escape a stinky vagina. Where the uterus moved to, explained the particular malty. Treatment was incense and perfumes for the vagina as to lure the uterus back into place. This was a standard in Western medicine from the time of the ancient Greeks.

Psychotherapy doesn’t seem so weird now does it?