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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plus, there are contrarians everywhere.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think that's fair. Plenty of people in this world do not know much about computers or the internet or anything in that area and just need a printer. So they go to their local big box store and there's the HP printers and they're a good deal, so they buy them.

Consumers do not get what they deserve when companies treat them like shit just because they don't have certain knowledge.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism.

That is putting it very mildly.

"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

He said that in *checks notes* 1971.

Worse, it was in response to criticism to an article he wrote that was justifiably criticizing Israel at a time when it wasn't so popular to do so. And when he was accused of the old "you're anti-Israel, so you're anti-semitic" nonsense, he decided to go, "hell yeah I am!"

 

He would say, "the power is yours!" Then he would fly away. Where did he go? Is there like a PlanetCave he just hangs out in and crochets until all the rings get used?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

So basically, everyone involved in this incident is a terrible person. Lovely.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I assume if he had shot Palestinians like he thought he did, DeSantis would have given him some sort of award.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Looking at their post history, I suspect they're American. And not recently emigrated to the UK American like me.

I'm thinking one of the poshest places in the UK wouldn't be 30% Muslim. With a large proportion of that 30% being immigrants. Something tells me most non-white immigrants aren't that lucky.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Blackburn is one of the poshest places in the UK? What are you even talking about?

https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Blackburn-salary-and-unemployment.html

The only reason we're even staying here is that it was cheaper to stay here short-term than almost any other place in England with an urban population.

 

Blackburn with Darwen borough currently has seven rough sleepers on its streets the council’s leader has revealed.

Three weeks ago, I was living in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Terre Haute has a population of less than 60,000. Blackburn and Darwen has a population of over 150,000.

Terre Haute has an estimated 500 homeless people.

It will get down to 1°F/-17 °C there on Wednesday night.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Clearly, Putin should just be allowed to take whatever he wants. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Yes, but it's something he and Harry's late racist grandmother would agree on. So there's that.

 

I know nothing should surprise me with these fucking people at this point, but my mouth still dropped open when I read that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Please delineate the differences.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly what that they are doing is not a distraction? Because every single time they say or do anything, someone on Lemmy says it's a distraction.

Now even announcing they will invade Gaza is a distraction?

Literally what is not a distraction?

 

I was walking by a chain bookstore in the local mall where I just relocated and I got hit with a 'bookstore smell' when I walked by it and it was just such a wonderful smell to me. It's definitely a book smell, but not the same smell as you would smell in a used bookstore or a library. It's the smell you only smell with new books.

Since it was just a quick hit as I walked by rather than me being distracted by the actual books, I realized how much I loved that smell, but I had never thought about it before. If I could make my home smell like that all the time, I absolutely would.

Now I'm only wondering if I love the smell because I love bookstores or if I love the smell independently of bookstores.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yet again, you said that both Russia and Ukraine were lying about the children. You still have not explained how they can be kidnapped and not kidnapped at the same time.

 

They're like that in this apartment we're renting and I keep seeing them elsewhere. I don't get it.

 

This has apparently been going on for a while. And wow does it all sound stupid to me. It apparently also helps them bypass broadcasting rights (and paying players of course).

The NFL, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon teamed up to bring SpongeBob and plenty of slime to a "kids-centric" telecast of the 2024 Super Bowl, for example. ESPN and Disney presented a "Funday Football" Toy Story animated game in 2023, and another with The Simpsons in December, featuring the canonical yellow characters on the field and sidelines, pre-recorded segments and the show's theme song and jingles.

The NHL has done several such projects dating back to February 2023, when it collaborated with ESPN and Disney for the NHL Big City Greens Classic — a live, animated telecast of a Washington Capitals-New York Rangers faceoff, with players modeled after characters from the animated comedy adventure series, which it reprised the following year.

It also presented the MultiVersus NHL Face-Off, a partnership with TNT Sports and Warner Bros. Games that brought beloved characters from the MultiVersus video game — including Bugs Bunny, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Steven Universe — to an animated matchup between the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights, officiated by the Tasmanian Devil.

 

A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage owners to protect their own content from being scraped or can be deployed “offensively” as a honeypot trap to waste AI companies’ resources.

Registration bypass: https://archive.is/3tEl0

 

Warning, this story is really horrific and will be heartbreaking for any fans of his, but Neil Gaiman is a sadistic [not in the BDSM sense] sexual predator with a predilection for very young women.

Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/dfXCj

 
 
 

"We thought we were eating for the Face-Eating Leopard Party, not the High Tariff and Crazy People Party! How could we know just because they told us?!"

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