you’re going to get that when

a) western media and journalists are deathly afraid of being labeled antisemites for reporting on what the secular government of israel is doing and

b) cable news viewers skew overwhelmingly republican and conservative who are already antimuslim and pro israel to begin with.

these are the people who are keeping the current administration from telling it like it really is. because I honestly don’t believe that bibi would be as empowered to do what he’s been doing in gaza if the us government isn’t actively publicly condemning in plain language what has happened already.

there’s so much different I’d almost consider them related and not an adaptation.

would you like to know more?

who else but a genius would buy a social media company, remove the things that made it functional and useful, reintegrate and allow to overpopulate elements that made it worse, and destroy a multi-billion dollar icon and name render useless a word that the thing you bought created and is universally understood because he thinks calling stuff X is cool?

not only a genius but ta soooper genius.

just about every christian I know sees other sects and offshoots as a separate religion. it’s very sneech-like.

I wouldn’t buy one. good job. elon destroying your brand name.

believe it or not, the original best audiobook torrent site demonoid is still around. the variety isn’t as varied as it used to be but it’s probably one of the best public aduiobook torrent sites around.

+10 on graphicaudio. I’ll admit I liked them a little better when they were adapting pulp novels but everything they do is high quality.

www.graphicaudio.net if you are in the us.

yes because math. next week it won’t be a problem because it will be a milestone multiple of 10 age.

there’s a lesson that I learned in college that I still follow today: never eat lunch at lunchtime. unless I’m traveling I’m not eating at peak periods anyway so I really wouldn’t be affected by this pricing change.

I still don’t like it though. unless that wendy’s is the only game in town (literally) this isn’t going to be good for business.

what are the chances it would have been way overpriced compared to it similar competitors?

ho, hoe, ho

I called clarence thomas a removed. it got filtered.

not to me.

I stayed in a college town for a summer in a state college prep type program, so I would have been at the perfect age to really enjoy the “college town” experience. it’s not really for me. and it doesn’t really have much of anything to do with the town itself. I liked the place that I stayed in. however driving over 30 minutes to go to a place as middling as a japanese restaurant was not so appealing. having services around is important to me, so unless it’s a giant college town like lexington, ky I’m not going to be interested.

ps. I’m not going to live in lexington because lexington sucks.

the last time I was on an airplane was december 31, 2000.

nothing since that time has encouraged me to break that boycott.

not really because you would be breaking the law driving unlicensed even if you were driving the speed limit. so long as there’s no reason to pull you over the law isn’t being enforced.

driving the speed limit creates a driving hazard, so in that case safety trumps the law.

technically speaking yes. but what really matters is if the enforcement agency decides whether or not it’s worth it to charge and prosecute you.

if everyone got charged for breaking any law, there is an entire generation of people who would be locked up because they never paid for winzip.

I’m waiting for a kidney.

other than that, ehh. the world turns, the wind blows, and life goes on. same as it ever was.

I would have but I got caught up in the great recession before I could leave.

then when I finally got enough money to consider looking for a place, I received a very serious medical condition that wiped out finances and seriously affected my working ability. this condition also makes it almost necessary for someone to be around. so unless I hit the powerball or megamillions I’m going to be in my parents house for a while.

people are wondering if bluesky will end up like twitter. I’m not for one reason, twitter didn’t start going to shit until elon took over, fired the content mod team, and let the neo nazis, porn bots, and cryptobros run rampant. twitter before elon was fairly functional and useful.

when they eventually scale up I can see bluesky being what pre elon twitter was, especially with content moderation.