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Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates by Redhotkurt in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 65 points 2 years ago

Firefox

Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction by Redhotkurt in c/politics@lemmy.world

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 94 points 2 years ago

Yeah, a marketing ploy by a fascist organization:

While SkyTree Book Fairs presents itself as an independent non-profit organization, it appears to be a hastily assembled offshoot of Brave Books, which publishes children's books by right-wing pundits and pseudo-celebrities.

Fuckin gross.

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This is a family air loom that I inherited from my mom. Oh, thank you, she's not dead, she lives in Jacksonville. I don't know if it's an original or a knockoff, I just want to know if it's worth anyt (media.kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Redhotkurt@kbin.social to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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Before mom moved to Jacksonville, when she was still... deep breath I'm sorry, this is hard. It feels like it was just last week. She used to....what was that, honey?

It was last week. Anyway, mom used to tell me she was a big Connie West fan until this happened, whatever this is, and Taylor deserved better. I remember one time I tried to comfort her, I was like, at least Connie is rocking that shiny dress, right? But she just looked at me funny and put it in a safe deposit box after that.

I'll be honest, I don’t even know where Jacksonville is.

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Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Redhotkurt@kbin.social to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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"We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."

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Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Redhotkurt@kbin.social to c/gaming@kbin.social

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"We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."

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Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Redhotkurt@kbin.social to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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"We know it's a necessary thing for us to hit our new and needed goals. So overall, good progress and we push on."

Layoffs have been one of the defining events of the games industry this year, with thousands of jobs being cut across dozens of companies, all attempting to slash costs as the rapid economic growth of the pandemic years comes screeching to a halt. No company is more emblematic of both these extremes than Embracer Group. In the last few years, Embracer has embarked upon a frenzied spending spree, snapping up studios like Gearbox, Crystal Dynamics Eidos Montreal, and many more, all apparently to stack the decks in a deal with an unknown partner worth at least $2 billion.

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I bought this at an estate sale. It was leaking out of a box labeled "Goo cities." It's been in our living room for years, but we...we don't really know what it is or...why it is. We've been using it (media.kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Redhotkurt@kbin.social to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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I asked my great grandfather about it, and he just kinda wept for a minute, stared off into space and said it belonged to his friend Jen Ex or something. He held my hand in his bony decrepit booger hooks, and I could see the years, the decades of joy, heartbreak, triumph, and pain flash across his eyes, and he was... more alive, really present, you know? than I'd seen him in years. Then he peed his pants.

Johnson & Johnson is trying to file for bankruptcy. They are taking it to the Supreme Court for protection against the litigation results of their products potentially causing cancer. by Redhotkurt in c/news@lemmy.world

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 224 points 2 years ago

What a crock of shit. Johnson & Johnson netted $17 billion USD in 2022, so it's not like they can't afford to pay any settlements. They just don't want to. In the last 5 years they netted 84 billion dollars, and that is all profit. Yeah, fuck you, J&J

JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns by Redhotkurt in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s just the kids reading her books 20 years ago didn’t recognize all the problematic shit she wrote till they grew up.

Adult here who was an adult when the books came out and recognized all the awful racist and sexist imagery. I have nothing new to add to the conversation, I'm just gonna vent. There were quite a few of us here and there who spoke up when the books were published, but we were significantly outnumbered and immediately drowned out by the "shut up and stop complaining" crowd. Yes, all this talk of "problematic" issues in the Potter books are old observations we've been rehashing for two decades...the goblins who run the banks are a horrifyingly obvious Jewish caricature, Chinese character Cho Chang's first name is actually a Korean last name, the one black guy in the whole fuckin series is named "Shacklebolt" (seriously wtf), the one Irish character goes by "Seamus Finnegan," the main female character Hermione is constantly referred to as "bossy"...just to name a few. JFC, what a shitshow.

Ok, one more example that got a lot of attention years back but sort of faded away from public consciousness: in the first movie there's a bigass six-pointed star on the fuckin floor of Gringotts, of all places. You know, Gringotts. The bank......where the undeniably Jew-like goblins work. No fuckin shit, it's right there, plain as day. That one still boggles my mind. I mean, what the fuck, man. https://i.postimg.cc/Jzx2hr31/happry-potter-1-star-of-david-gringotts.png

EDIT: Hey everyone, it's been abuot an hour now and I just want to apologize for all this negativity. I've given this a lot of thought, and I've come to realize all the anti-this and anti-that complaints are really unfair and show only one side of JK Rowling. So I feel compelled to balance this out and remind everyone that she is also pro-slavery. Especially the kind of slavery that forces its slaves to work completely naked, and no one in the book has a problem with it except for the bossy lib girl that everyone hates.

New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels by Redhotkurt in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago

It's not a question of "Can you read the book?" It is a question of, "Did you extract information from the book? Can you connect the dots asked in the question based on the information that you read?" Lots of people who identify themselves as literate have a lot of difficulty doing these kinds of things.

I'm really sorry if this comes across as a TL;DR, but there's a name for that. I'm positive you already know, but for the benefit of those interested, it's called "functional illiteracy." And it's wild, still blows my mind to this day. Like, if you're functionally illiterate, that doesn't mean you don't know how to read...it means you can read but can't understand language written beyond the basic level. There are a lot of variables involved and I'm oversimplying a lot, but that's it in a nutshell. It's fucking terrifying, to be honest, especially because it's so widespread.

Read to your kids, folks! And talk to them about it afterwards!

New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels by Redhotkurt in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

How do I block all of Hexbear from All? by Redhotkurt in c/meta@lemm.ee

[-] Redhotkurt@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

sarcasm

edit: if you dig deeper (and I don't blame you if you don't), you'll find a lot more than just annoying posts over there. It's full of right wing propaganda