[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago

We require more vespene gas

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 months ago

I know some things

The wrong things.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 months ago

That thread is fucking bizarro, and is itself unhinged.

The CEO seemed fairly reasonable to me (if someone were bashing my company on their blog I'd like a chance for rebuttal), though they did ignore the "please stop emailing me" request.

It almost feels like everyone involved from the blog post to the thread comments are in the middle of a manic episode. What in the heck is going on?

If anything I bet this results in a net subscriber gain for Kagi.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 26 points 8 months ago

I haven't seen this movie in a really, really long time, so I don't remember what the dad actually looks like, but in this frame and at this angle he looks like a weird morph of Tommy Lee Jones and Bob Odenkirk

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 31 points 8 months ago

Nice! Just in time for my yearly "I should finally learn rust" and then forget about it a week later habit.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 25 points 9 months ago

While I could hear "I haven't decided yet" in Garak's voice, and this is very funny, I don't think it fits with in-universe Garak. He's not a psychopath killing people at random — he had specific reasons to kill the people he did, and generally with surgical precision. I can't see him planning to just kill someone for no particular reason.

(sorry for being that guy and criticising a joke)

(I still upvoted!)

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago

And did she give you permission to post this here?

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago

I haven't been active on 4chan in well over a decade so I can't speak to the state of it now. Do you know anything about "Project Chanology"? Around 2008 a whole lot of us "/b/tards" decided to take on the Church of Scientology, and even went outside and protested in front of their churches. Given the reputation of 4chan-ers as being deplorable neck-bearded basement-dwellers most people were shockingly well-adjusted normal people in person. I would describe it as normal people who found it entertaining to be as shocking as possible online, almost as a form of satire (and possibly against the rapid commercialisation of the internet, would be my guess based on my own experience), but were nothing like their online personas (in the majority of cases). But every once in a while you'd come across someone who didn't quite pick up that it was satire, probably because they had pre-existing bigotries and were looking for like-minded people. (Think about how TheDonald started off as satire, but was quickly co-opted by people that took it seriously).

This particular screenshot reads like satire to me, but the problem is you don't know for sure and odds are good that someone will take it seriously, co-opt the conversation, and turn it into something very serious. That's part of why I starting avoiding 4chan, it used to be offensive memes for that sake of shocking like-minded people / friends, but it eventually became used as a propaganda or recruitment tool for people that weren't "in on the joke" and to "test the waters"

TL;DR: Probably not, but (depressingly) you never know

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

Everyone is a friend until they're not.

I am not blindly pro-anyone. I want everyone to be able to live in peace. I would give my life to save my Jewish (or Muslim) neighbours.

What I cannot abide is a massive online propaganda campaign orchestrated by a certain country's military to try and sway world opinion in favour of a genocide they're itching to commit in the name of self-defence. Now I'm not saying you're definitely part of that, but all of the hallmarks are there.

Israelis deserve to live in peace, as do the Palestinians.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago

Friend, based on your comment history this just feels like a bait post so you can vigorously defend Israel some more.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

Expect to see more posts like this. With a few projects announcing they're dropping support for TypeScript we're going to have developers worrying that this tech that they've sunk so much time into is suddenly becoming obsolete, so they're going to evangelise hard in favour of it as a defence strategy. Same thing happened when Perl went out of flavour.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

I'm amazed that this is still an issue years later, but here we are.

You can (or at least you used to be able to) get around this issue by going to the play store in your web browser (logged into the account you want the app installed under) and using the "install to my phone" tool. It'll eventually install the app on your phone, and it should display the correct payment options.

I have to do this myself soon as I'm having a similar issue with a different app, but it's such an annoyance that I haven't bothered yet.

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