Snot Flickerman

@ SnotFlickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!

Very cool and hopefully that means the M4 isn't far behind!

6d ago

Consoles

Silly me, I was thinking of one of these:

6d ago

I love it

Initial release of dd was for Unix in 1974 and it's still updated for use in modern systems.

I used it just the other day and it was already installed.

6d ago

why?

It's the same with all machines. When I worked news production in television it was the same thing. Something breaks, call in the engineers, now it works once they show up.

7d ago

PISS

Eh glass jars can still fuck someone up pretty good.

I'd go with a water balloon but that's harder to fill with piss and more likely to break in hand.

Gotta be a happy medium like an easily breakable plastic bottle.

7d ago

Neocities deindexed from Bing

...people use Bing?

*checks browser marketshare...

Ha, Bing doesn't even have 5% marketshare.

Oh no, Firefox has less than half of Bing's marketshare. Fuck me, what's wrong with internet users. I know Firefox isn't perfect, but there's other forks of it for various use-cases.

7d ago

Rulechet Effect

The primaries for 2026 don't start until March, with some happening as late as September, so we're well within the time period to be critiquing various candidates before the finalized candidates are chosen. It's not like this is being said in October 2026 when all the primaries are already over, no, none of them have even begun.
As I may remind you, in 2024, we didn't actually have a primary for the Democratic candidate for President. So no voters really had a choice in the matter at all. Quite a large number of Democratic voters felt strongly that the national party heavily put their finger on the scale for the primaries in 2016 and 2020 as well, so there's a history of feeling like the primaries may have less real voter input than people would hope. (DNC lawyers never argued in court that they didn't put their finger on the scale for Hillary Clinton, they argued that it was legal for them to do so, and that since it was the lawsuit should be thrown out, which it was. We never got to find out if that was true or not, but they certainly hammered it in court that whether it was or not, it was legal for them to do so.)
I still have seen very little evidence that statements like this "disincentivize" voters as much as I see people claiming it does. Are there polls to back up this idea, that people choose not to vote because they have been convinced it doesn't matter due to Democratic inaction and people discussing that inaction?

I mean we're literally talking about a party that shut down the government over healthcare, one of the longest in history, and then rolled over for literally nothing at all. We're talking about a party that has members pushing to give ICE more funding while they're killing people and who fold and accept Tom Homan taking over as though he will somehow be better than Greg Bovino instead of kicking ICE the fuck out of their cities. We're talking about a party that gave police nationwide more funding after the George Floyd police riots where police nationwide brutalized peaceful protestors. We're talking about a party that codified, legalized, and normalized some of the worst crimes of the Bush administration, and literally set the stage for the surveillance state and police state that is now turned against us because they didn't want to appear "soft on terrorism." People like myself were screaming bloody murder during the Bush administration that these kind of tools could eventually be taken by a despot and turned against us, and those of us still paying attention kept saying so when the Obama administration didn't shut any of it down and instead kept it around for convenience because they were so sure such a despot would never be elected.

How is that the fault of voters who have the audacity to talk about those very real issues?

7d ago

🧸 rule

😭

7d ago

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

Oh wow a rich white gay man hid behind his sexuality to present faux-progressive values when he was actually pretty conservative? Funny how that keeps happening.

It's almost like class identity often matters more than social identity in respect to politics.

7d ago

The 40 Year Egg Thinks She Wants to Finally Hatch

~~Snot Flickerwoman~~

Maya Strogender

Best I've got so far, still workshopping it.

7d ago

Rulechet Effect

How does it help suppress the vote? I have had things to complain about regarding Democrats that are valid complaints for 26 years, since I could legally vote. I haven't just bowed out of voting due to those valid complaints.

I see this trotted out a lot, but I'm curious who you're actually referring to. Harris wasn't my cup of tea, I was especially upset that we didn't even get an actual primary because of Biden's idiocy and backtracking on his promise of being a one-term President, but I still fucking voted for her.

I see this sentiment around a lot, and it seems like it does little other than prevent Democratic voters from ever being allowed to voice their valid complaints about their own party and instead are supposed to suck it up and play pretend that everything is perfect like Republicans do with their party.

7d ago

Auschwitz could have been prevented if West acted sooner

Hmmm, I wonder if there's any current events that make this relevant.

Oh wait, there's like a multitude of countries this applies to at this point. USA is actually just catching up to some others that have been pretty terrible for a while.

So... Do something Europe instead of continuing to act like all this is normal. Ignore the USA, do it for Ukraine, for Palestine, for Iran, take down the murderous regimes and stop the brutality. Please.

7d ago

Rulechet Effect

MyPornViewingAccount

Just gonna go out on a limb and say jorking it to the animated ratchet effect is something worth kinkshaming.

1w ago

DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter

Honestly there should be punishment for when the story changes so wildly. Lost in a system crash to never recorded to begin with, both being complete negligence. One for not having proper backups and two for not having proper documentation to begin with. I hate this world where this will just be further brushed off with a wag of the finger from the judiciary.

1w ago

Tacos for dinner

I don't actually know if it is or not, just unclear enough to riff on current Trump admin food guidelines.

1w ago

Tacos for dinner

I see a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla and "one other thing." Sounds like a balanced meal to the Trump administration.

1w ago

Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

Maybe he's been in opposition of using the term because he's fucking fascist-lite himself. Fascist with half the calories.

1w ago

Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

"I resisted calling it fascism until it was too late and people were dying at the hands of monsters."

Get fucked. It was fascism when it was George Floyd and it's fascism now. It's been a fascism white people were willing to ignore because it didn't impact them directly for fucking decades, if not a hundred years or more.

Great job joining us in reality.

1w ago

I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do.