I used one just yesterday when my skybox file was too large and was taking a couple moments to load, and I compressed it a bit with JXL and presto chango goes more quickly now. Although still imperfect because a slightly larger size PNG loads faster. (Kubuntu in respect to the virtual desktop “cube” interface, 32gb of RAM, 8gb video RAM, neither even halfway filled, source files on NVMes)

But now when isolated incidents like the above happen, the internet amplifies them into being a bigger deal than it really is on a population scale.

You sound like this guy:

There’s always room for improvement. Like I thought that was the entire basis of Critical Theory is that there is no end to history, there is no perfect society, we can always improve, and improvement must come through rational and thoughtful critique of the status quo, whatever the status quo may be, forever and ever. Marx’s society in perpetual revolution within itself.

Sure crime may never be zero, but acting like the solution is to just throw up your hands and say “what’s the big deal if some women are mentally scarred, it’s only a few of them! The world is doing better than it ever has, the arc of history bends towards justice! (editors note: barf) Why would we make the world better just for them?”

The answer to that question is because they are a part of that world too. Also, these are not the only crimes enabled by how the Dollar empire operates.

Zitron is a pinnacle of you can be smart and foul mouthed. Part of the reason he succeeds at this is he actually knows where to properly put cusses in sentences and doesn’t overuse them (like me, for instance).

There was evidence part of the reason people gravitated to Trump was that his foul and odious way of speaking seemed more “honest” because of the vulgarity. As someone who worked in local television news for 10 years, I can say that I think that’s true because it was always so clear that our newscasters were putting on a show and often had very few feelings whatsoever about what they were reporting on, or worse, genuinely were dismissive and cold to people in real tragedy. People have responded to that over time by realizing that all that faux-professionalism just really comes off as covering your ass and/or just using buzzwords to sound like you know how anything works at all when you don’t. It doesn’t come off as sincere, knowledgeable or, most importantly passionate.

When we heard Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Mamdani speak, we can hear the passion they have in the way they speak. When we hear Centrist Dems like Chuck Schumer speak, we automatically hear the work of strategy to get people on their side, not that they really believe or care about what they’re doing. I don’t hear passion in Schumer’s voice for anything but Israel. Sanders, AOC, Mamdani, you can hear that passion that they have for citizens and protecting and lifting them up.

Trump is passionate about himself and his followers are passionate about him, too, I guess. It’s that their is spurred by delusion and unaddressed mental health issues.

Anyway, people need to speak more plainly and with more passion, Zitron is a prime example of doing it well. Other than Doctorow and maybe WIRED, I don’t know of any other really hard hitting evidence-based journalism on this stuff, and Doctorow is a little bit too up his own ass on coining fucking words. (In my humble opinion, Doctorow comes off as way too extremely online to connect his ideas with regular people, he’s just too much of a fucking nerd who can’t stop being a nerd long enough to jive with average people)

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We have idiots out here everyday tryna catch pedophiles (“the call is coming from inside the house!”) but nobody steps up to try to catch and break motherfuckers like this.

It absolutely makes me want to start a Dollar Watch where we basically wait around outside of dollar stores and wait for this kind of incident to happen so there’s someone there to tackle these chumps as they try to get away.

Unfortunately, for types like this, the only meaningful thing that ever works is consequences to their actions… and often that’s not enough either.

EDIT: Also decent men should be infiltrating these groups and tipping off the fucking cops… and noting when the people they are rooting out are cops themselves! to ensure they’re not handing the case over to people who will bury it.

For people who hate gender affirming care they really do nonstop gender affirming care for straight men.

Those are rookie numbers!

They also don’t want the public getting the idea that they do have power so they have to downplay the publics real power.

This is a good question, in my opinion: What are the countries with the best trans rights protections and ease of access to immigration? I want to know so I have better answers when this comes up.

Username checks out.

You know this guy huffs his jenkem.

Off the freeway there isn’t such a thing as a “passing” lane because people need to turn left and right constantly. Neither side is functional for passing.

Backroads don’t have passing lanes, they have passing zones where you go into the oncoming traffic lane while it’s empty to pass someone.

Am I wrong or is Pragmata technically not on the list of supported games yet?

EDIT: It’s worth noting that REFramework hasn’t had an actual release-release in over a year. It’s been nightlies only since last may. Finally, all of the games have their own builds for REFramework and I simply don’t see a build that supports Pragmata on their github. I could be wrong though, I don’t really play the games built on this engine.

New Clod same as the old Clod.

The Mr. Hands monkeys paw curls one more finger…

Oh shocker, she tried to prevent this very thing from happening and the justice system ignored her entirely and allowed him to keep being violent with impunity.

Motherfucker should never been allowed to breed, let alone had shared custody of his daughter. What a fucking nightmare of a person

That’s really sad. All I remember thinking was they did a bad job on the CGI and that it was further indicative of how badly the show was beginning to fall apart despite the best efforts of all the actors involved.

Did he forget they were struck down and that they had to do a flat 10% tariff for everyone under a different rule?

Or is he just forcing “tariffs” anyway that are actually just bribes?

Both sound plausible.

Meanwhile me, still maintaining my dad’s old bicycle he got in the 80s.

Edit: wrong kind of bike, thought I was on the Fuck Cars community

Willem cheating on Marty, sad to see

that was literally going to be my first suggestion before I looked closer and looked their other posts.

It’s wild to see an IP and port with no domain in 2026. Which also screams “An I made this for me” because they may not have any idea regarding the security implications.