LazyPiranha

I can’t see the difference because there is no difference. If I choose to not give money to any business that pays Chappelle, I am inherently attempting to prevent anyone else from having access to that content. If he doesn’t get paid, he doesn’t make another special, if he doesn’t make another special, no one else gets to see it. The two cannot be divorced from one another because the only reason he makes these things is for money.

What is the functional difference between publicly saying you won’t support Netflix or anyone else who hires Chappelle then following through and just privately doing the same thing? Am I cancelling every single person I don’t actively support financially? It’s all bullshit. Nothing but lazy mental sleight of hand. Somehow it’s free speech to say out loud that Dave Chappelle is an obnoxious chud but to then say I’m not going to pay for anything featuring him is somehow different. Everyone is “cancelling” people every moment of their lives. There is so little space between not liking a thing and not paying for a thing to continue that light cannot pass through. Up until the very moment that people start taking actual physical or legislative action against someone, it’s all the same.

What other punitive measures are people seeking though? People are calling Dave an asshole and a bigot, some are saying they won’t pay for Netflix and others are encouraging others to not pay for Netflix too and… that’s it? Unless I’ve missed it, no one sane is saying he should be beaten, jailed, forced to apologize at gun point, expelled from the country, robbed of every penny he owns, whatever. The cancel culture Chappelle is bitching about is just having to be aware of the fact that people think the things he says suck and they don’t want to support it with money.

Please people, please. Superman is not human. He is not bisexual, he’s into beastiality.

I sure hope Kurtwood Smith finally discovers whether or not Bobbies can fly, the man deserves to retire.

I’m a huge Resident Evil mark, but the movies never appealed to me. This seems like a weird choice to kind of put RE and RE2 together in a blender. Between this and Kong v. Godzilla though, recent history has permanently put me off of any story where the conspiracy theorist is shown to be right.

Yeah it’s functionally the Zillow problem but with nothing instead of houses. If I own 100 of product X, and I buy one more product X at a million dollars, if I raised the price of a single product X by $20,000 I just doubled my money for nothing.

I can’t speak for everyone else, but I’m not making the argument that NFT’s have no practical function at all, just that they’re a needlessly convoluted and resource heavy way of solving a relatively minor problem. The amount of computational power, electricity, and infrastructure necessary to prove ownership of a collectible pair of sneakers is moronic, like carving a receipt for a dozen donuts into the surface of the moon. Besides even in this instance it ultimately “proves” nothing. If someone buys those fancy NFT shoes, then sells me the actual shoes with a paper receipt but NOT the NFT, what do you think the police and courts are going to do when they claim to be the actual owner of the shoes? Besides it does nothing to establish real authenticity of shoes, you can buy NFT shoes, then sell a repro along with the NFT, there’s no way to meaningfully connect the physical good to the non-physical token. The same goes for any proof of sale. Take your title issue for example. An NFT for a title to property doesn’t actually include any of the relevant documentation, it’s presumably a link to a different database that actually has that information on file. The NFT itself does practically nothing by itself it just serves as an arrow to a document with the actual meaningful information about lot number, owner, etc. if the NFT contains no real information and relies entirely on an outside database, then the token is only as good an reliable as the database is. If you still need the database and security of that database to prove anything, then what purpose does the NFT even serve? How does an NFT deal with potential future complications with property, if I have an NFT for title to 100 acres which I then parcel out into subdivisions, what happens then? I have an NFT for a title to something that no longer exists and the NFT itself cannot be changed or destroyed. So it just sits there forever as a part of an ever expanding resource hog utterly meaningless.

Stiff upper lip and all that. Keep calm and carry on.

Must have been leading death on and being a corpse tease.

Rest in piss

That’s just how Brolin smiles.

A classic example of Ligma protesting.

What a pointless sentiment. Everything that everyone accepts has some sort of “collateral damage”, nothing on this earth has an entirely positive outcome for one and all. People happily make this trade off all day and every day.

So there are things that are less weird on the page and more weird with human beings, like white ass Morpheus appearing dark skinned and African depending on who is witnessing him. Like do you keep that? Do you have a black actor with the white actor’s voice because it’s less confusing on the page because he had the spooky outline dialog bubbles? There’s some transgender stuff that’s odd as well if I recall correctly.

It will be very interesting to see what gets changed and what stays given different attitudes at the time of writing and now.

Sometimes I wonder if the people who run gofundme feel any sort of weird regret or remorse for the fact that they are now making massive profits off an easily avoidable parade of human cadavers. I know it was never the intent behind the site, but god damn.

Huh. I can understand not knowing about the slang but it doesn’t seem like that weird of a logical or geographical leap from regular oral.

Wait, had never heard of the euphemism or didn’t even realize the act was a thing that happened?

I think we can agree that the individual cops aren’t necessarily to blame as much as policing in general when it comes to these problems. Police hate dealing with DV stuff and they’re largely not equipped to handle it. They have poor options and very few resources so they try and do as little as possible.

I get it, I really do, but honestly at some point you get compassion fatigue. Sure part of me understands that these are badly mislead human beings whose suffering is no different or less tragic than that of my own friends or loved ones. I’m not operating under some delusion that they are lesser than me or I am somehow superior as much as I was just fortunate enough to be born into circumstances where I wasn’t lead down that path my entire life. I’m also not foolish enough to believe that there aren’t plenty of god damned idiots on my side who actively believe in things that are just blatantly untrue an unsupported by any combination of facts. At a certain point though, you can’t keep pushing the boulder up the hill without going mad. I’m standing on top of a mountain of corpses with a bunch of people who are telling me that in fact the corpses aren’t real while they have both feet firmly planted on the body of the last person who died telling them so. I can’t expend any more effort on people like this, not when they have a veritable army of people behind them urging them forward as the unsung heroes of history. What good is the truth against that? The only thing left to do is chuckle.

Completely ignoring guilt or innocence, if there was an angry mob shouting outside my house all the time because they thought I killed someone, I’d probably do my best to disappear too.

“Something is easier to bare if it doesn’t impact you personally” is worthy of being printed now?