That’s just a repurposed West Virginia/Kentucky joke

When are you guys gonna come up with new Ohio jokes, these ones were old two decades ago

I’m in favor of AI being developed further as long as there is economic interest in it

Yeah fuck the planet, children, women, students, teachers, artists, and the myriad of other people currently actively harmed by AI, won’t someone think of the economy?

Wait, which is it? I shouldn’t believe any extraordinary claim without extraordinary proof? Or just the ones that were made during the cold war? You still haven’t given your definition of “extraordinary” either. And how is a layman supposed to obtain “extraordinary proof”? Is “extraordinary proof” different from “external validation”?

What are you actually trying to say here? Because it sounds like you’re tacitly implying that laymen shouldn’t believe scientists, but that would be asinine, so please correct me if I have that wrong.

Is it not an extraordinary claim to say that a giant flaming ball of plasma millions of miles away is responsible for our day/night cycle, seasons, and in a large part, weather?

Is it not an extraordinary claim to say a large, spherical rock hundreds of thousands of miles away is responsible for the tides?

Is it not an extraordinary claim to say we’ve launched astronauts into orbit around the earth, where they’ve lived for months at a time?

Is it not an extraordinary claim to say that all things with mass warp the very fabric of our reality, to the point where large enough masses can bend or even permanently trap light?

Is it not an extraordinary claim to say that light is actually made up of particles that have no mass, but travel at a measurable speed and interact measurably with other particles?

Is it not an extraordinary claim to say that tiny, basically invisible organisms are responsible for a wide variety of ailments and sicknesses that have affected all life on earth for billions of years?

Like seriously, what’s your bar for “extraordinary”, and why does the moon landing meet it?

So are you claiming that it’s irrational for a layman to believe anything they cannot prove themselves?

I feel like Earthsea is appropriate for middle-school-aged kids (so like 11-14ish), right? Maybe our definitions of “grade schoolers” is different, but I was trying to give examples for a wide range of ages

The world building is weak because Rowling is a bad fantasy writer, not because it was written for grade schoolers. There are tons of series aimed at grade schoolers with incredible world building - Redwall, Warrior Cats, Earthsea, just to name a few, all have way better world building than Harry Potter.

She didn’t embrace gay people, she used them as a prop for profit, to generate buzz, to get people taking about her and her books again. She did the exact same thing with black people when she tried to claim Hermione has been black the whole time, after a black actor played her in the Cursed Child play.

JK Rowling has always been a terrible person, and it shows in her writing and her actions if you look a bit more than surface-deep.

Well now I have to see some Italian pussy

Self censorship makes a platform more attractive to an advertiser

The Resident Evil games (at least the few I’ve watched/played) have an inventory management system where each item takes up a certain amount of space, and you have to organize it efficiently in order to maximize how much stuff you can carry.

I’ve been using Pop!_OS for gaming for a couple years now and it’s been great. It’s Ubuntu-derived like Mint, and I haven’t had much difficulty troubleshooting it, since a lot of the stuff on Ubuntu/Mint forums will work for Pop.

So Trump can invoke the Insurrection Act and/or martial law, which puts him s step closer to totalitarian control of the country. It would also weaken the country greatly, leading to societal and economic collapse and chaos, potentially even collapse as a world superpower, opening the door for Russia or some other dictatorship that Trump is friendly with to fill the power vacuum.

I’m not getting mad, and it doesn’t seem like anyone calling the meme out for being censored is mad either. The top comment in this thread used the “fuck” word in an excessive, tongue-in-cheek manner to poke fun at the censored meme, not to express real anger.

The one getting mad seems to be you. We’re pointing out that we don’t want to see corporate censorship on our corporate-free platform, which seems pretty reasonable. But you’re getting mad at people calling out that corporate censorship.

You may be right that it doesn’t really matter, and posting these shitty memes does more good than harm for engagement on the platform. But I don’t think you can honestly argue that posting uncensored memes, or taking a couple minutes to toss the image in paint and decensor it, is some monumental, unreasonably difficult task that the people who… checks notes spend all day scrolling social media for memes can’t possibly take on.

Doesn’t have to be censored here though. Reposting shitty censored memes from shitty platforms that require censoring is absolutely bait.

What a weird thing to worry about in a world where some of the most recognizable products have silly, unserious names like Google and Twitter, and where the slogan for one of the most popular media players of all time is “it really whips the llama’s ass”

Gimp. A word used to refer to someone with a lower extremity injury or deformity, or a synonym for the word “hobble”

You could try typing the term used to refer (usually derogatorily) to a person with an injury or deformity in their lower extremities, or the term used as a synonym for hobble.

Boomer is a state of mind