#NeedsMoreLikes

[Sally_Mahoney]

Moral panic article from 1984 about the demise of slide rules

Maybe we did lose something when we moved from slide rules to calculators. We lost a visceral understanding of what it’s like to manipulate numbers, but we gained so much more. Consider how humanity chanced when we moved from memorizing epics to writing them down. Minstrels needed to have an unbelievable amount of memory to recite these poems. Very few people these days have a memory like that. Our minds have gone to mush in a way. That being said, I prefer what we have now.

[FSogol]

KathyPartdeux

(Odd Stuff (Part 3) - #4545 by KathyPartdeux)

National Park Service

@NatlParkService

You know it’s cold outside when you go outside and it’s cold.

12:50 AM - 18 Jan 2023

Still laughing at this one.

[Melizmatic]

@DukeTrout

If you don’t mean what you’ve said, then say so. If you have been misunderstood then make your point clearer. But just repeating the cycle of asserting a point, denying it, and acting aggrieved by my disagreement is rude. It’s called gaslighting; you’re trying to tell me (and the community) that words don’t mean what they mean; that my objection to your words is based on anything but their meaning; that you are somehow the victim of some injustice in my insistence as to their meaning and as a result, that your position is deserving of some kind of privleged immunity from disagreement.

In case you haven’t noticed, I have poured a lot of time and energy into this online community. I care deeply about the quality and civility of discourse here. That doesn’t give my words a privleged place here anymore than anyone else’s; what it does mean is that I will freely spend my time and energy to keep making this place a good place for people to discuss topics. And I find cutesy rhetorical dodges harms that effort.

So you can expect that I won’t just let them go, and that I will challenge them every time. And you don’t get to dictate that. If you want to engage with this community, be aware of the standards and have respect for all of us when you contribute to it.

Emphasis, mine.

[milliefink]

This Is Fine

Too true. It’s getting more than a bit insulting that we’re considered too stupid to understand the game they’re playing. Some of their moves are more obvious than others, but they also brag about most as accomplishments. Controlling people through underemployment and low wages while increasing their cost of living isn’t new. Remember all of the media reports about the average worker being two paychecks away from homelessness? Next came the rise of payday lenders and repealed/relaxed usury…

[smulder]

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day!

[IMG_0475] I hit this rock a few years back while biking to work. It flattened both tires. I took it home. It was on the mantle for awhile, but I don’t see it anywhere. Now I’m worried. I don’t trust it. I don’t trust it at all.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Odd Stuff (Part 3)

Suddenly jet packs and taco trucks become synonymous with the future.

[Murgatroyd]

Fuck Today, Continued

…and then keep running as best you can at 90 degrees to the wind direction if you are even a bit downwind. When there’s H₂S in play, “up” is a good idea too… …that stuff settles. Edit: PSA/TIL Now available for free as a handy Android or Apple app.

[Sally_Mahoney]

The concepts of freedom, liberty, and equality were developed by enslaved people and women, not the elite

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

[Akimbo_NOT]

Odd Stuff (Part 4)

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[Mindysan33]

Bizarre Arkansas senator gets personal with witness and asks, "Do you have a penis?"

Partly. The fascist playbook also needs to create group adhesion by finding a powerless outside group to demonize. Nazi Germany wouldn’t have flown, politically, without scapegoats, and Europe was already a mostly anti-Semitic place. Forty years ago, publicly reviling gay people was cool, and could be used as a rallying point. The fascists have lost that group as a target, and need others. This is where trans people come in. Lawrence Britt’s “14 Characteristics of Fascism” is an opinion and, …

[MerelyGifted]

Fourth thingy shot down entering U.S. airspace

The Galactic Tourism Board has warned travelers that Earth can no longer be considered a safe place to visit. “Over the years, many of us have enjoyed our visits to Earth, with its unique opportunities to marvel at their primitive politics, technology, and social habits,” said a spokesbeing for the Board. “Unfortunately, during the past few rotations of the planet, the Earthlings have become unaccountably aggressive. While the reasons for this change of attitude have yet to be determined, it is …

[nosaj]

More than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism

Absolutely this. Yeah, they have lots of experience in doing that, like those versions given to enslaved people: https://www.history.com/news/slave-bible-redacted-old-testament

[MerelyGifted]

Musk manipulates Twitter to ensure the world sees his tweets at the top of their feed

It’s good to hear that those on the inside are saying it though - instead of just accepting their new lives of fear, surprise, ruthless “efficiency”, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Dope.

[Immutable_Mike]

Came here to post this and very pleased to see I was beaten to it!

[Sally_Mahoney]

CNN's Don Lemon says women in their 50s are past their prime

People are no longer in their prime at 50 but then they are again at 53 and 59. This is very basic mathematics.

[chenille]

I think that has plenty of likes for a dumb pun, but thank you.

[smulder]

[smulder]

@Shuck

I think he pretends to be dumb, but is also actually dumb

[MerelyGifted]

Far from dumb, Darling, I assure you,

[smulder]

@ClutchLinkey

@ghostbloke

Tesla’s response really shouldn’t be called a recall.

Tesla’s Full Self Driving mode really shouldn’t be called full self driving mode