proposal to replace every political cartoon with a block of text saying "omg Tr💩mp and his goons are SUCH AMAZING IDIOTS / WHY ARE THEY STILL HERE / please take them somewhere else NOW", or words to that effect
Maybe all the lakes should be "Lake Epstein"...
...but that's kind of giving short-shrift to all of his other crimes.
...which are surprisingly difficult to remember, because they've been so normalized by the media and also because there are So Damn Many of them.
...although at this point I can't think of any snark that would be adequately sharp and pointy and yet of sufficient heft to get through the thick skulls of whoever makes these decisions at Google.
RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/116346827217945139
I guess it's time for me to do another one of these...
@rnd Yeah, the word "conservative" means a completely different thing outside of politics (where it means pretty much the opposite). :blobcatupsidedown:
My only nitpick would be that it's kind of a relative term -- like... most people embrace some changes while resisting others; how do we compare those, or even measure them?
That said, it's still fair to say "most people are conservative" in the sense of "most people will resist or reject a fairly large set of possible changes".
@artemis That phrase, "solid rock"... my partner had difficulty accepting the idea that I could be overwhelmed and need help...
@artemis My parents "helped" me to deal with feelings by explaining why those feelings were wrong or unhelpful. ...so, yeah.
@artemis I relate to that worry of "I've always been not-X, so if I'm ever too X then that's truly terrible" -- and thinking about it, now that you bring it up, I realize what the fear must be: that people always valued me specifically for being not-X, so if I end up being too X, then they won't like me anymore. I'll have lost That One Thing That Made Me Acceptable.
@Tengu Amazing how they keep coming back with "this sounds like a threat" despite even the slightest indication of one. I have to wonder if they really perceive it that way, or if that's really the only retort they can think of.
To be fair, there was that one person who retorted by saying how much they like Neovim -- completely (intentionally?) missing the point.
@dianea ...responded to wrong post? (I've seen this happening more, recently; maybe a UI change or something.)
@MsDropbear42 Naah, they're just unhappy because ICE made a mistake and grabbed one of the good people. Leadership at the Face-Eating Leopards Party will be held to account* for this!
(* i.e. they have to come up with a thinly-plausible excuse for why this abduction is okay and necessary, but everyone else in the FELP is still completely safe from having their faces eaten.)
@somecat @catzilla One thing I remember is they would often leave out the "chance of" and just say "rain today 35%, tomorrow 70%" or something similar.
(From the same era: Have you heard the latest weather report from Mexico? It's going to be chili today, and hot tomale! [uproarious giggles from all ~8y.o.s present])
@catzilla That has bothered/confused me since I was a kid listening to weather reports on the car's A.M. radio while being driven to school.
@NanoRaptor Little-known fact1: the slots to the right of the screen, which appear to our modern eyes to be floppy drives, were in fact to allow the insertion of specially-sized pancakes2 which could be prepared while the toast was being cooked. (The deluxe "pro" version included dispensers for molasses and butter.)
