Spike Milligan’s headstone reads, “I told you I was ill”

Boo fucking hoo.

Hopefully Apple will bump up the memory and storage because of this, it’s long overdue.

Karl Urban wants to do another. Maybe once Alex Garland is done with Civil War?

Love that movie.

The only snack my dog won’t beg for.

I agree. I was fine with it for Skyrim and Fallout 4 but after getting used to how gorgeous CP2077 was, the difference was jarring for a AAA title in 2023.

I should probably pick this up when it’s on sale. I bought it on release after playing CyberPunk with ray tracing and asked for a refund after playing for 20 minutes because it just looked like garbage in comparison.

I wonder how it runs on Windows for ARM running in a VM? Probably not well, if at all, but that’s how I get my Civ 4 fix these days.

Swift is open source, I don’t get the “lesson in corporate greed” angle.

How many in number, would you say? 100? 200?

Maybe? I don’t have a definite timeline and there were lots of groups talking to each other.

Woke means that if you’re in a privileged position in a society, more equality is a threat to your status and should be suppressed.

It’s a tale as old as time, just like the Judean People’s Front. Fucking splitters.

I have mixed feelings about Lemmy still being so small that I can recognize usernames and think, “oh, there’s that nut job again”

Hell I even had a transwoman assault me verbally one day while I was just reading a book in a cafe. Comes up to me and demands that I give her my table because I’m a white cis guy and I should give up my ‘privileged’ to her.

I’m betting this never happened.

Critical Race Theory, school libraries full of porn, caravans of migrants heading to the southern border, activist judges legislating from the bench, and so on.

I could be wrong but “defund the police” was just a discussion point for activists talking amongst themselves. In that context it makes sense. What happened was that this inelegant phrase was seized as a weapon by the right and then every Dem politician had to answer if they supported the idea of abolishing the police.

I’d imagine that many people would be receptive to the idea of taking some money out of police budgets so social workers and people trained in deescalation can be hired. For example cops aren’t a good fit when dealing with people facing mental health crises because they mostly turn to use of force and make a bad situation worse.

If you twist this into, “are you in favor of abolishing all police?” then most people are going to say, “hell no, what a stupid idea, you moron”.

Now any discussion about the rotten state of policing in the US had been effectively hobbled. Discussion is shut down. The right wing wins.

“Woke” started out as a simple acknowledgment that a person is conscious of the systemic oppression of various groups. Now the right wing has got its claws into the term it’s been effectively neutered. Now all it means is, “stuff that right wingers don’t like”

It’s like “defund the police” which quickly became “abolish all policing”.

It’s a useful strategy for them and it works to prevent honest discussion on how to solve societal problems by preventing people from having a shared understanding of the language needed for such discussion.

Voting causes autism, look it up sheeple.