I only ever saw it as controlling the spread of the horrific and anti-human terrorist philosophy of “believing the mass internment and murder of Palestinians is not a good thing actually”
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87·19 days agoI never heard of this phenomenon. What on earth? Do you just shit next to your bed like a prisoner (I don’t even want this for prisoners?)? I don’t see any photos on the site. Surely this isn’t that common?
I’m one hypnotic frenzied writing session away from a giant winding post about how magazines gave us curated, focused cross-sections of the world around us, and how we interacted with them before the dopamine reptile brain event horizon era. I really have a lot of thoughts on this.
I don’t know if this is real and I almost don’t want to
He’d have a guy with a bunker full of 1952 Tylenol, which “still had mercury and opium so you know it worked”.
It’s like you people don’t grapple with conspiracy culture and its tireless army of very well adjusted people.
Maybe not word for word then, you got me there
I heard this word for word but in Arabic back in like 2006 about Yasser Arafat. What’s old is new again.
You ought to really bite down on that filter, give it a good satisfying crunch, just give it a real manly squeeze using your masculine man face working man muscles, just to make sure no particles go anywhere. You’ll be fine, trust
The asbestos is probably the healthiest ingredient in that cigarette.
Not clicking on the link, but this is right up my alley. Would love to host something like that locally, some sort of convenient museum of emulated stuff.
I have a whole ass case of assorted fine Lebanese wine for Natenyahu, stashed away in my family’s old home in the mountains.
Here’s hoping he doesn’t get to it before I do.
71·3 months agoDankPods my beloved as well. He’s not very technical with software so it’s quite interesting to hear him talk about it.
Wouldn’t even call it a pun, as someone pointed out already. I’m going to sacrifice the joke in the name of explaining it.
brief Arabic cultural lesson for those who care
You have your Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace, صباح الخير) in English. In Arabic we have more variations. The standard reply to this first one is Morning of Light (صباح النور). Basically wishing each other a good day by describing what makes it good. There’s a couple but these first two in this order is the standard (and secular *) greeting.
* you’ll see why that is even worth pointing out in a second
Then you have more abstract ones that imply a good day by referring to something (commonly a pleasant smelling flower), like Morning of Roses (صباح الورد) or Morning of (a specific type of) Jasmine (صباح الفل). All of these have a musical quality to them in a way I can’t write out.
You’ll get older relatives sending you standardized photos with these greetings in groups or just to text you to invite you for lunch (or to fix their phone). Here’s the google images result for Good Morning (≈Morning of Peace):
I’ve highlighted the religious stuff in red and the roses with blue, to see how common they are. The religious stuff is mostly variations with Islamic Duas (prayers asking for something - in the case of all of these it’s basically “asking” God to give the recipient good health / a good day / a pleasant path in life - it’s really just a “good luck” phrased in the only way a religious society can express it.
FWIW I’m (mostly) not from a Muslim family so I get secular or Christian versions of these. Often the photos I get are flowers, traditional breakfast food, coffee, a nice breakfast table set in a shaded garden. And often there’s very few pixels. Sometimes an aunt will just take a photo of her coffee and that’s basically a greeting. But it’s usually garbled old jpegs from 2007.
Critical subtext: these are literally forwards from grandma. Well-meaning, but eventually obnoxious, especially back when phones had 8GB of storage.
This meme says Morning of Strawberries (صباح الفراولة) which is both clunky (Arabic’s got a poetic quality and these two words put together just intuitively do not work that way. It has the meter of a punchline if that makes sense) and silly, but with the textured elephant and the 13x12 resolution as you can probably guess it’s just a surreal meme.
But now you know why it’s a surreal meme.
Come back next week for the much less wholesome next episode of Arabic forwards from Arabic grandma: videos alleging the Jews invented homosexuality, cancer, and sex
Well, eating > restaurants > a list with potential promoted entries.
I really don’t think the intention of integrating this “intelligence” into Facebook is explicitly to make us dumber. I think the only real purpose is to supercharge marketing. Eroding the mental capacity of functional human beings is just a happy little accident.
I have a special bottle of cognac for Kissinger, but I was abroad for work when he returned whence he came so I didn’t get to enjoy the occasion. I haven’t opened it yet given how shit the situation everywhere is, but maybe celebrating small wins is vital even when important stuff is happening.
I was taken aback when I heard someone I expected better from use “matrix”, although it was used in a “some people call it x” context and not the regular one dripping with… let’s call it baggage.
Outhouse Perilous is an absolutely spectacular username.
I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.
And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.
Punchline Situation is Diabolical
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2·7 months agoOh yeah. I’ve poured months of my life into Nomifactory (formerly Omnifactory) and will one day play the even longer Nomifactory CE as a finale. This might be the first time I forget to mention modded MC in this context.
When I played it the first time in 2019 there were a few modded mods to make some tasks easier on setup and on the CPU, since the original mods weren’t made with the sheer volume of automation needed in the pack.
When I replayed it again five years later, there were even more helper mods. Sure setting things up the harder old way was more satisfying the first time, but when you have to build the same setup another eighty times? Give me the streamlined stuff please. It was much less tedious, although I was still vaguely familiar with all the mechanics, which also helped a lot. So did my CPU being like 10 generations newer.
That said, if we’re talking about avoiding shithead devs, Microsoft has finally been included in mainstream boycott discourse, and Notch has always been a bit off. Although I’d assume most people into this stuff must have already gotten the game before. It’s not like I’ve given them any money for it over the past decade+.
This is news to me as well.
Flicking through my Steam now, may I suggest Satisfactory (AAA-style first person Unreal Engine automation game, devs seem cool, probably the highest profile game after Factorio), Timberborn (beaverpunk, nature themed, less automation heavy), Dyson Sphere Program (Chinese-developed space-themed interplanetary automation), Shapez (minimal 2D automation game, there’s a less minimal sequel), Mindustry (haven’t played it, but seems to be another Factorio-lite).
Distant honorable mention to WRSR, a Soviet themed city building game with so many production chains and interlocking systems that I’d consider it more of an automation game than a city builder. Although it won’t appeal to you if you aren’t into city builders. And I think it especially won’t appeal to you if you’re from a country/family that had an unpleasant Soviet era.
I’m so vehemently opposed to using their euphemism for it. “Age verification” is just the marketing name for it, it’s identity verification.