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every single day some practicing attorney experiences complete & total brain liquefaction, and what follows is frequently a multi-year process involving combined hundreds (thousands?) of work hours just to reprimand & suspend them.

i wish i could concisely articulate how fascinating and demoralizing it is. watching wholeass Jedi Councils convene to do legal research and cite case law against a lone rambling guy whose entire defense hinges on the argument "women do be sanctioning me, amirite?!"

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE BUT CONGRATS

What a Wednesday, huh?

Captain, it's only week.

if you're watching a movie that isn't interesting/good, try turning on subtitles in a language you've learned a bit of. almost made endgame watchable

Strongly disagree with this

@ljwrites

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A sweet _bread_ made from (or based on) a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat.

Activision Blizzard is now being sued by their own shareholders for intentionally not telling them that the company's workplace culture was being investigated: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/activision-blizzard-hid-harassment-probe-from-investors-suit-says

The idea that landlords are a major part of the economy and we're going to suck a fat one economically if we don't make a huge chunk of people homeless is just such a backward statement. I can remember growing up in part in a condominium that had someone who managed the building, but didn't own the condos. He got paid for the upkeep and maintenance work he did, but he wasn't even in a position to evict people, he was seriously just the janitor and the guy holding the keys to the building. I suppose this was/is a horrendous drain on "the economy" because he wasn't swapping out tenants all the time.

"Bad things will happen if we stop shoveling money into the bottomless pit"

When life knocks you down and also stops your fall.

My phone has been consistently refusing to recognize my thumbprints lately so I figure now is a good time to embark on a life of crime

hot take: the idea that reactionary ideology is the natural outcome of "anything goes" internet forums and more then this how they have always been is an idea actively promoted by the alt right in order to convince you that places like this are inevitable and turn the history of them into shit

4chan was a very different bad place years ago, and understanding that actually matters so that we understand how communities go bad and how they get corrupted into hell and how we can protect ourselves

For example, places with an actively confrontational dirtbag vibe like it had are not necessarily Nazi bound, rather they are very easily taken advantage of BY far right ideologies. Similar reason that Nazis infiltrated punk subcultures, infiltrate all sorts of anti-authoritarian places.

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate

@Deiru well, as cliche as it is, i can point to hitler. or whatever mass-murdering dictator.

basically, my argument is that "prison abolition except for *really bad people*" isn't really abolition, because then you're just arguing over how bad you have to be.

@Ventronik I have decided to believe this was an intentional move on Janet Jackson's part and will die believing this. hack the planet

it's wild to think about how deeply influential 4chan is on like. Internet culture and all of my friend's brains in subtle ways

And then compare that to what 4chan is now as a website

I think a lot about the article that pointed out that like yeah this was 100% a purposeful thing, one powermod pushed the whole site into conservative reactionary ideology, it wasn't just the natural result of edgelords online

Tea in a Storm cup