The Gallery of Just Plain Assholes (Part 2)

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I’m gonna guess NOT a drag queen.

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Angry Fuck Me GIF

Wanna bet there is a red hat at his house? But yeah, let’s keep demonizing LGBTQ folks.

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This has been pretty well documented for years. I used to idolize him for his contributions, but the more I learned the less I wanted anything to do with him and his projects.

I was really involved in free software years ago, and it’s not a friendly place to be anything but a white male, which thankfully I appeared to be at the time. I still support the idea that software should be free and readily modifiable, but the behaviour of many of the leaders of the movement, RMS particularly, is reprehensible. It turned me off my involvement and while I do still use a lot of FOSS, the communities are largely toxic dudebro situations.

Beyond the GNU project, it’s also pretty bad. I worked on OpenBSD around the turn of the millennium and got out of it when I realized it was pretty much an old boys club. If you weren’t in the club, they’d belittle you and only grudgingly accept your contributions.

I hate to think of the amount of talent (developing and fully-fledged) that’s been pushed out of the community by toxic behaviour, and how much further things could be along if it wasn’t for that unpleasant environment surrounding so many FOSS projects.

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It’s been known for a while in some circles that RMS is like a lighthouse: you want to know where he is at all times, so that you can be sure to stay far, far away from him.

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What The Hell Wtf GIF by Saturday Night Live

Yeah, that’s super-fucked up, but seems true. Which sucks, given how important such FOSS principles actually are.

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Penn has an endowment of $22 billion. Which is about $916,000,000 per undergraduate.

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“It’s not a hate crime, it’s stupidity,” Lewi said.

While I can understand this, also important to note that no one else in the restaurant knew this. Damn, I will never understand how people can be this stupid. “How was I to know that some folks would take offense at a Nazi SS uniform?” :man_facepalming:

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They have 25 undergraduates? Or is that an old-school British billion?

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Did I misplace a decimal point?

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I don’t know the exact error, but 916m is very close to 1bn, so you don’t get many of those in 22bn. Looking up the numbers, 22bn is right, but they have ~24000 undergraduates, so just under 1m each. 1m here, 1m there, soon you’re taking real money…

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Tesla Spotted Driving Down Highway with Windows, Windshield Covered

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/tesla-spotted-driving-down-highway-with-windows-windshield-covered/ar-AA1sscj1?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=985cd90e01e14d5b8334207d320099f5&ei=47

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Mitchell said that she then discovered from her own research that baby oil could be used as “a conduit” for date rape drugs such as GHB or Rohypnol and that it was her “personal belief” that Diddy had used spiked baby oil to subdue Parham.

AFAIK getting chemicals trough human skin isn’t easy thing to do.

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Posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, Alan posted: “I don’t know when Strictly Come Dancing are going to run out of contestant gimmicks. I would not be surprised if they had a AI mechanical robot next year. [sic]” Chris, who is the show’s first blind contestant, replied: “I am sorry my gimmick offends you oh mighty Lord. #YoureTired.”

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