Snot Flickerman

Was this list written by Steve Small?

Yes, that is the goal.

That’s why they’re attracted to the job to begin with.

The food assistance one is especially dumb because it is already set up so that if you work they reduce the amount of food assistance you get, based on your income. So forcing work requirements in tandem with the existing rules will do nothing but reduce access.

Of course, that’s the point. They only “save” money if they are reducing the amount spent, and work requirements will absolutely reduce the amount going out.

Although I would argue the bureaucratic overhead required to check on employment status will offset most of the savings.

I agree but there’s actually a lot of work that has been done on training horses with compassion instead of the old ways of “breaking” them.

As long as the horses are treated right, have ample space to roam, healthy food, and aren’t exploited for work of some kind, I think it’s probably as okay as having any other kind of pet. Just sadly financially out of reach for most considering the land, food, and time requirements.

Obviously this place in particular is still raising them for racing, which is quite sad.

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

Finally got mine fixed, something in .config was breaking the desktop. Narrowed it down to a few items and just didn’t restore those.

I keep dual booting just because sometimes Linux does crap itself.

I have been troubleshooting what’s going on with my kde desktop (both x11 and wayland affected) for about 8 hours no with no success. I have a zoom appointment this afternoon so I am glad I can still boot into (retch) Windows.

Rey being too good at everything from the get-go with absolutely no character development to support that

I don’t know where you seem to feel like this was just a lukewarm response to that. Male fans were absolutely unhinged with hatred over this point.

The Wikipedia entry for Force Awakens literally has a portion dedicated to fan backlash, which also included backlash against Boyega with bullshit crybaby screams of “white genocide” and “cultural marxism.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens#Fan_backlash

It’s weird, Breen is so… forgettable to me.

To be fair, they both look like high school principals.

To be fair to Star Wars, the suits at Disney changed tactics because of negative fan reaction to the first sequel so we don’t actually know how good they could have turned out if we had just let the creatives in charge finish their vision that started in 7. 8 and 9 were weird specifically because Disney suits were afraid of pissing off fans and changed direction twice instead of committing to the original vision. Fans complained about the prequels as well but Lucas committed to his vision and now so many years later the prequels are viewed far more favorably.

Is the G-man the main villain? I thought it was always a little unclear. In HL it’s the Nialinth snd and HL2 it’s the Combine. G-man seems like he’s not clear on what side he is on, and it always felt that vagueness was intentional.

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

I mean my point was less about hidden kill switches and more about that Microsoft is widely used by a lot of people, especially people in governance worldwide.

Also, it doesn’t need to be “hidden” to be a “kill switch.” Microsoft effectively flipped a kill switch at the behest of the US government, just not a hidden one.

You mean like the UN chief prosecutor?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trumps-sanctions-on-iccs-chief-prosecutor-have-halted-tribunals-work-officials-and-lawyers-say

Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.

They literally have knife proof vests. What pussy ass wankers.

Yet they can’t find multiple jail escapees lmao lmao

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/us/new-orleans-jail-escape-inmates-manhunt

Looks like the system isn’t working very well.

Common American mistake, confusing abuse for an argument.

Did he, or did his team take advantage of a doddering, senile old man because they wanted to keep their cushy jobs?

With the release of his interviews over having classified materials it’s clear to me that he wasn’t making his own decisions and if he thought he was still competent and capable that’s because the people around him were lying to him and telling he was. He was clearly at a point where he could no longer accurately assess those kind of things about himself, and was thus relying on outside input. When that outside input is enabling the idea that he is competent, that’s not the fault of a man on the edge of senility.

Leave Brittany Biden alone, especially now that he is likely to die from a horrific disease. Blame this on the correct parties, those around him enabling the idea that he needed to run again, which were his aides who didn’t want to lose their cushy positions.