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MonkeMischief

@ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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  • Excessive handicap spots at church

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  •  > Be me.
        
> Post a meme. 
> It's not even an actual image. 
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> Don't let your memes be dreams.

  • Excessive handicap spots at church

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  • I used to think this too, and it's going around because it's excellent and plausible outrage bait.

    ...But as of now, that is not how it works. They are simply a collection point for the nonprofit / charity / whatever, and cannot use customers' donations to offset their own taxes.

    I agree though, folks should just donate straight to good causes, but these "round up" campaigns actually generate a lot of money for charity organizations, and villainizing them is counter productive.

    A few articles about this:

    https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/

    All that said: Yes, scumbag corpos should be strongarmed to pay their damn taxes, and those taxes should go to the public good instead of warships and corruption!

  • Excessive handicap spots at church

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  • That's lovely there's still churches like that, which actually do measurable things to protect their communities, and give to one another freely without pretense.

    These are the kind of groups that capitalists systematically dismantled and replaced with profiteering megachurches.

    If you wanted to game the system...

    This part makes me kinda sad though. I know Lemmy doesn't have a huge reach but it can't help but taste a little sour that everything you said sounded awesome until it ends with a "jus between you an me pal" nudge-nudge about how to take advantage of freely given generosity and communal resources. That's called being a scumbag.

    Like the people who got kicked out from my local foodbank line because they were trying to get free ingredients for their restaurant.

    Such behavior sabotages the struggling remnants of genuine humanity left in this world.

  • Tourists from 42 countries will have to submit 5 years of social media history to enter U.S. under Trump plan

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  • "Sir, the memes are coming from inside the house!"

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • Feels like 8 viruses were standard with any Limewire / Kazaa install! Lol

  • Did you get your Limewire Wrapped?

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  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • Like the other reply said, when you go to a bar you're just showing your birthdate to some guy at the front for a few seconds.

    Now, if the bar demanded to make a scan of my ID and uploaded it to some server, and reported my entry to said bar to the government or some privatized authority, then handed that data to some algorithm to cross reference everywhere else I've been to build a profile on my behavior, then established various metrics based on who I was seen hanging around....then probably sold all of that to a bunch of marketing firms...

    And on and on. Now imagine it's been doing this since you were like 16.

    If this sounds far fetched and overblown, I invite you to look at how US law enforcement uses dragnet surveillance like "stingray towers" to hand information to ICE, then make a decision as to whether "The Good Guys" or anybody else should be allowed to follow your footsteps across the Web.

    Edit: quick side tangent:

    The hilarious part is how the parties pushing for this "fOr ThE ChiLdReN" surveillance capitalism will also be the first to cry "Leftist Nanny State tho! Muh personal responsibility!" When people want something like universal healthcare.

  • Preparation, preparation, preparation

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  • In a lot of modern guides on dungeon design, they stress thinking this stuff out. Yeah you should definitely have some idea why the inhabitants are here and not elsewhere, where their supplies come from, and how they interact with whatever else calls this place home.

    They should have a place to sleep, eat, maybe recreation even. While the PCs poke around, the dungeon denizens shouldn't just be waiting around in preset rooms, fully ready to fight like MMO mobs. They could be on patrol, raiding their neighbors, sleeping, arguing, partying, whatever.

    There's even fun things you can do with this like inter-faction conflicts between floors or other regions. Do the Orcs fear the dragon at the bottom of the dungeon?

    Do the bandits have an uneasy non-aggression pact with a lich? Or are they constantly embattled with seemingly limitless undead because they're struggling for a legendary artifact?

    Somebody's gotta reset all those traps, too.

    Players should definitely feel like trespassers in a living place. Few people enjoy that ancient style of dungeon delving anymore, where you slay a band of kobolds, answer a sphinx's riddle, then bust in on a vampire who's as confused about why they're there as you are!

    Where are the toilets?

    Maybe the hallway but the local gelatinous cube roombas it up. (Eeeeeww) ... Or a room has holes dug dropping into an underground river. Or just a really deep pit, or a convenient portal to the Abyss LOL.

    You can have fun with this stuff.

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • Hahahahahhahaha! 😂😂🤣

    Yep. Pretty much. 😐😞

  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • Some pearl-clutches said “won’t somebody think of the children”, and then made the social media companies figure out how to implement the ban.

    Bingo.

    It's never about "the children." It's a way to normalize handing over biometrics and anonymity to an assumed authority to use the internet.

    It's always about control, control, control. It's about tying real identities to online activity, then it's about wholesale harvesting your secrets you didn't even know you were keeping.

    Then it's yet another instrument to make sure you shut up and don't step out of line or else.

    First they take us away from our kids by necessitating that entire households need full time careers to survive.

    Then as a substitute for education and actual parenting we're so eager to offer up our childrens' futures in the name of "protecting" them from the inevitable consequences of parentless households.

  • Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

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  • As a millennial I honestly just miss how something like MySpace was basically a micro blog, and otherwise, we just chatted with friends-only programs like Yahoo! Messenger / MSN / ICQ/ whatever. There wasn't really some motive to "connect" you to a million "randos" and make you slavishly compete for their fickle approval.

    Growing up in a weird kinda rural/suburb hybrid area, the Internet was my gateway to the world outside of school.

    It definitely had its problems and drama, but mostly we chatted with people we actually knew (Yahoo chatrooms notwithstanding. Yikes lol) and didn't care about what was "trending" across the world. Algorithms didn't control and force perception of our reality then.

    It was literally just about enabling communication.

    Outside of that, there was also a much better culture of maintaining privacy and anonymity online, and that everything you see online is BS until proven otherwise.

    Of course, this was before techbros decided we should use our real identity everywhere for all to see.

    Nowadays it seems like every service is about using your friends as bait to connect you to some hivemind of toxic manipulation to farm you for ads. It encourages creating cults and scams and brainrot bullshit because it's all about harvesting people's already-strained attention for profit, instead of just being a communication platform.

    TL;DR: I remember the Internet as a place to log in and hang out, then log off, when meeting with friends outside of school was a logistical nightmare reserved for things like birthday parties if you were lucky.

    A lot of damage is already done, but I think if we obliterated the Facebooks and Instagrams and TikToks of "social media" and instead it focused on augmenting existing relationships rather than siloing people as a billion lonely socially-starved individuals in a crowd, we'd see it much differently...

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  • This. I feel so bad for teenagers.

    They're at a time in their lives where community and free association are vital to them, and yet since they're not necessarily a profitable demographic, they're kicked out and shunned by everywhere that's not home or school, because all that's left is "commercial spaces."

    People then wonder why teenagers flip off society and get up to no good, and then maybe wonder why we all turned out to be lonely adults with like maybe one long term friend if we're lucky...

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  • "nice" is what you exclaim after discovering what your colleague meant by "I put a little something special in there just for you." with a wink.

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  • Better arrest me too since riding the bus is proof of murder now

    "Bitch I might!"

    --American Law Enforcement

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  • Yeah like, everybody needs a hobby. Sheesh!

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  • This is true.

    Source: I'm Luigi.

  • Journalist Reveals FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”

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  • "We'll get around to the first hearing in about 15 years." (Gavel pounds)

  • A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it.

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  • Oh that's really cool! I'm gonna search for that! Maybe my library has it, or I can bug them to get it. :)

    EDIT: Is it the BBC one you're talking about?

  • A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it.

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  • That's awesome! Thanks SO much for pointing me to that! I too wonder what the 2GB size is. It looks like they have two different sets of packages, one being a "source archive" that's just a raw CD dump.

    I can see it, since the game was on like, 4 or 5 CDs back then, and involved a lot of heavily compressed video!

    I have a fun feeling that maybe I can run this really well in Bottles, it ScummVM alone doesn't do the trick. :D

    Here's a link I found to the soundtrack in "CD Quality", with a download link, if you're interested.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSFnTrLHtkp8Yj7bSdaN_jQUy7iOXscq

    That 90's crystal-synth is the most gorgeous thing...it reminded me very much of the soundtrack to Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. :D