SnotFlickerman

SnotFlickerman , 5 hours ago

As a guy who had lots of anxieties and was more comfortable reading a book of poetry, Binkley was an important character for my personal development.

He was never explicitly coded as gay, (that I am aware of) and I think that made him a stronger character. Maybe he wasn't struggling with his sexuality, but he was struggling with toxic masculinity that expected him to grow up to fit the nickname "Mad Dog."

Further, it touched on how many conservatives would read such admissions as meaning Binkley was gay. Which is why the major flips his lid here in response to what Binkley says.

Once, when I was young, I had someone sucker punch me snd try to start a fight because I was wearing a tie-dyed shirt and was drinking a root beer because I was the designated driver at a party. In their eyes that meant I was "queer" and needed the shit kicked out of me. I didn't go to a lot of parties after that.

Anyway, good for Binkley and his love of non-masculine coded things.

SnotFlickerman , 4 hours ago

This is everywhere in the modern world. There's got to be a word for it, I'm just unaware of the descriptive word for it myself.

This is the same everywhere. "Solitary confinement" has been redefined as "Restrictive Housing" and "Administrative Segregation."

Just name it something else! Poof, all your accountability is gone because none of your paperwork references "solitary confinement" anymore! Now that it's renamed you're totally not doing it even though it is literally the same set of actions with a new, "friendlier" name.

It's 100% like Trump saying "if we'd stop testing, we'd have fewer cases."

SnotFlickerman , 4 hours ago

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/loper-bright-enterprises-v-raimondo/

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/relentless-inc-v-department-of-commerce/

These are the two Chevron cases. We're not expecting a result from them until June probably.

They can still end up ruling against Chevron and make this ruling essentially pointless.

SnotFlickerman , 5 hours ago

Now we just maim them.

SnotFlickerman , 4 hours ago

Sorry, yes, I didn't mean to pretend that death wasn't part of it. I'm just broken by all this and sometimes all you can do is crack a dark and terrible joke in the face of the fucking evil farcical nature of it all. Cheers.

SnotFlickerman , 5 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

Finding sources about Bush and Cheney fuckery from 2000-2008 is getting increasingly difficult. Their crimes are getting memory-holed.

EDIT: Specifically, does anyone else remember the specific act that Bush wanted to hit Quakers with terrorism charges over? I remember it being a bunch of Quakers in kayaks doing a blockade of a naval ship, preventing it from leaving port to go to Iraq. I can't find a fucking word on it anymore, and I can barely even find sources on Bush wanting to hit Quakers with terrorism charges other than some broken links at the ACLU. Quakers, as a reminder, are the only religious group in the USA that are default conscientious objectors because violence is 100% antithetical to their religion. These are the kind of people they wanted to use "terrorism" charges against.

SnotFlickerman , 4 hours ago

Probably a good bit. I have a backup from my personal website from 2006 to about 2013. Along with a lot of media going back to my teen years. I'm really lucky I've been a good digital steward of my own data and haven't lost almost any of my personal digital history.

SnotFlickerman , 23 hours ago

Once a cop, always a cop. Eric Adams is a bastard.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/9c50e741-64cc-49cc-bb94-6618e532d9e5.png

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

To be fair to China, our top EV maker's (Tesla) CEO Musk claimed that COVID wasn't real and didn't want to shut down operations and Musk claimed he liked China more because of their propensity to lock the workers in the factory due to COVID restrictions.

The people who run US companies will absolutely used forced labor if they can get away with it.

I'm not trying to paint China as some glowing bastion of freedom (it's far from it, obviously) but it's weird to present this as though it's a "China" problem and not a "capitalism" problem. Companies like Nestle won't commit to removing forced labor from their chains of operation, hiding behind "it's too hard to find it all!"

https://www.reuters.com/business/hershey-nestle-cargill-win-dismissal-us-child-slavery-lawsuit-2022-06-28/

The lawsuit being dismissed is evidence the US government also doesn't care about forced labor. So China isn't alone in not giving a shit.

Every major world power is some kind of dogshit, essentially.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

But the status quo is more important than *checks notes... climate change! Won't someone think of the economy! /s

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

But you trust "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments" and "COINTELPRO" and "PRISM" US government?

I'm with Douglas Adams, if you want power you should explicitly be denied power. The only ones who deserve any power are those who don't want it because they understand the implications and care deeply about making mistakes that could hurt people.

People who desire power only ever want to Rule and Control.

There isn't a single world government that isn't currently filled with idiots who are only in it for power and power alone.

Bring back fucking sortition, we've shown we're not capable of handling a democratic system without it.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Because bombing the future into burning rubble is preferable to burning it into rubble or something I guess.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Thanks for the well considered reply. I agree that the US's political system is part of what has held it back from going rogue, but the problems I referenced were all growing cancers that may very well lead to an autocratic Trump empire.

Just the Trump cases alone are absolutely destroying any credibility the legal system had left, and when people in a nation start to lose trust in their "justice" system... well, things tend to get pretty bad when people stop trusting authority and turn to Mob Justice.

Even without Trump as President, that's where we're headed because he has firmly shafted regular people's trust that the legal system is in any way fair or just. We all know for fucksure now that the only thing that matters in the US is having money and connections.

When Trump was elected, it was because he was seen as the outsider to shake things up. People are still waiting on things to be shaken up in favor of regular ass people instead of corporations. That includes conservatives even if they're too stupid to understand that's what they are actually mad about. Don't expect Trump's wiping his ass with the legal system to not have long-term impacts.

That's not going to end well, Trump as President or not.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Too right.

🤝

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Yeah, the EU is where I hold out my hopes, too.

Good luck out there, it is indeed scary.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

No shit they need to stop it. Do you or I have a choice in making that happen?

Short of a nationwide labor strike in every industry in both nations, no one citizen exactly has the power to make this stop, and all the legal avenues to make it stop are denied by both governments.

I love it when people complain shit needs to get done when there is no legal avenue to getting it done. Cool, what's your plan chucklefuck? We're supposed to just magic this better world into being by willing it so like The Secret or some other dumb shit?

They both suck because they fucking do. Part of the reason they do is that there is no recourse for regular citizens to stop this kind of thing from happening except boycotts and labor strikes. Boycotts do fuck-all because they're busy selling the fruits of their forced labor to the rest of the planet, meaning they won't lose enough money from the boycott to impact them. Meaning only labor strikes have meaningful impact.

Let me know when you've got all the laborers from both countries ready to go on strike. I'll wait.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Brilliant rebuttal.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Because the best way to handle stupidity is to coddle it like Trump, right? That's been working out just gangbusters, right?

Sometimes people say something fucking stupid and need to be told why it's stupid.

Even if it's just so other people don't have to suffer these fools.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, which pretty much says it all. This is exactly the kind of person Thiel would hire.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Won't someone think of the economy! /s

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/bc3ef587-3c0b-43e1-96a7-cc797890b471.png

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

404media has done some of the best in-depth tech journalism there is lately, but I guess paying them for that is a bridge too far for most (or even making a free account...).

It's literally a worker owned cooperative and your first response is to block them at the DNS level? Great research there, boyo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_Media

The publication covers topics such as hacking, sex work, niche online communities, and the right to repair movement. The publication is worker-owned.

404 Media was founded in 2023 by former staff of Vice Media's Motherboard after it filed for bankruptcy.

During the Taylor Swift deepfake pornography controversy, a 404 Media investigation discovered that the images originated from 4chan and were being distributed on Telegram before making it onto social media platforms.

In an article about 2024 media industry layoffs, the Financial Times highlighted 404 Media as a successful new media venture amid an "existential crisis" in the industry. The article stated that the publication has been noted for "publishing an eye-catching range of stories about the tech sector", and noted that "Not only is it producing good stories but its founders say it is breaking even".

Sorry they're trying to actually get paid for real journalism. I guess you'd prefer clickbait from corporate owned bullshit company that pays their writers squat and uses AI to write articles?

Finally, this is arguably a really important subject to be having journalists look at, but I guess clickbait is more appealing.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Also: "That was just an AI hallucination, it's not admissible in court" when it was absolutely not an AI hallucination when the cop shot someone for mouthing off.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

But that would require research, reading, and most importantly, actually giving a shit.

Far easier to just swallow AI generated swill, apparently.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

How the hell am I supposed to solve for X when I haven't been given the rest of the equation?

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Ah yeah, Romneycare with no public option and my friends with kids still can't afford to actually use the doctor because the deductible is so high.

Soooooo glad that they spent all their political capital on a handout to the insurance companies.

Love it when they just pass Republican legislation and call it a "win" for Democrats.

If my eyes rolled any harder they'd be on the floor.

The ACA was a numbers game so Democrats could pat themselves on the back at the number of "insured" people ignoring whether or not that "insurance" actually got those people access to medical care. "Insured" means nothing if you can't use it.

But good for them for being able to point at some numbers and pat each other on the back for a "job well done" I guess?

The ACA has helped the insanely destitute (in states that even use it, so not everywhere), but it has not helped the general US public nor even come close to solving the medical insurance crisis and high cost of medical care crisis.

But tell me more about how we're supposed to be so happy for half-assed plans copied from Republicans.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

I don’t see why we don’t try to actually fix shit.

Because then they can't keep kicking the can down the road for the next election.

Gotta keep that voter base involved somehow, and when you aren't actually gonna give them anything to be happy about, you've got to trot out nice little lies you'll never follow through with to make them get out to vote.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

Keep patting yourself on the back. I'm sure it will suddenly make healthcare affordable somehow.

It's not like medical bills continue to be the number one reason for bankruptcy or anything.

I found a photo of you:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/59523a36-a7ca-4e2c-a22c-f7141354b93d.png

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

username checks out

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

-Karl Rove

They know this is how it works and they abuse it freely and are open about what they're doing. Democrats are fucking pussies in the face of it.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

This would be possible in the US also if the government was willing to put money into bullet trains but like whatever I guess.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

Neat implementation.

This along with Microsoft's in-house adaptive controller, (which sounds cheap at $99.99 for the base, but you often need a lot of extra peripherals for it, which cost more) gives disabled gamers a lot more opportunity to be involved and not so limited.

It's always disappointing that these things are so costly for the disabled, compared to a normal controller.

But I suppose it's similar for many disabilities. Braille displays for the blind often start at around $2,000!

The disabled are often the people with the least capabilities to afford such things.

Hopefully they can at least be embraced by charitable organizations and maybe be present in hospitals and things like that.

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Strapping Young Lad / anything Devin Townsend

Zimmer's Hole

Dethklok

Mindless Self Indulgence

Punky Bruster's Cooked On Phonics

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Das Racist

DANGERDOOM

Handsome Boy Modeling School

The Lonely Island

MC Paul Barman

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Big Dumb Face

Mr. Bungle

Lovage

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Man... Or Astro Man?

Electric Six

Ween

Dead Kennedys / anything Jello Biafra

Mean Jeans

Flight of the Conchords

Presidents of the United States of America

Reverend Horton Heat

The Unicorns

EDIT: The Chats

EDIT 2: Atom and His Package

EDIT 4: Voodoo Glow Skulls

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Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine

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Chromeo

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Only Some Funny Songs:

Mountain Goats

Tom Waits

EDIT 3: Beck

EDIT 5: Flaming Lips

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A League of Their Own:

GWAR

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Most Importantly:

Weird Al Yankovic, because he fucking rocks god damn it.
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SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

I don't care for MC Fronalot except that he wrote the Achewood theme song.

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

Way more so, and it's not even an argument.

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

I will never stop being sad over when the Primus website stopped being primussucks.com for primusville or what the fuck ever.

Real heads remember that "Primus sucks" is the clarion call of people who fucking love Primus.

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

...and the world screams "Kiss me, Son of God!"

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

Beck is a tough one because he does have a lot of goofy songs, but they're mixed in with ones that are strange and surreal but less goofy.

Debra is a great example of a funny Beck song.

Girl I want to get with you / Only you / And your sister / I think her name is Debra

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

I can never decide if this song is silly or incredibly touching and sad or all of them at the same time.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream / don't expect him to thank or forgive you

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

You are indeed correct, sir or madam or other.

Although with the explosion of new music styles, I'd argue that Primus needs its own categorization. Funk-Metal or something akin to that.

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

If it all goes right / I'll be in your arms tonight / but I'm wavin' my dick in the wind

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

One Vision is a hilarious song. It's a whole ass song about what brings the world together, and they tell us: fried chicken.

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

make me wanna dance

That's how I feel about this:

Is he a dot? / Or is he a speck? / When he's underwater does he get wet? / Or does the water get him instead?

Nobody knows / Particle Man

They're just nerds, through and through. Music, science and history nerds, even.

They've also just always had good values. Their first show was at a Sandinista rally.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago

Does music that is unintentionally funny count? Like how you laugh at a bad B-movie?

Because if so...

Rod Stewart.

SnotFlickerman , 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Weird Al has literally done covers including style covers of many of the bands listed in this thread!

Presidents of the USA cover: Gump

They Might Be Giants style cover: Everything You Know Is Wrong

Devo style cover: Dare To Be Stupid

I'm sure there's more, that's off the top of my head.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Gangstagrass is very underrated.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

I hadn't thought about Pink n Brown for years...

SnotFlickerman , 3 days ago

Thanks so much for the update!