I upvoted you because you’re making an interesting argument, but I’m definitely more in the Charlie Chaplin camp on political satire, and that ridiculing fascism is a productive thing to do - The Great Dictator was released before the US entered WW 2. Although Chaplin put a lot of work at the end of that movie to make sure everyone knew it was satire and Colbert was a bit less diligent.

Hm. A bunch of media illiterate conservative dingdongs watched the Colbert report and politics now visually looks like that… but nationalism to it’s extreme tends to look like that and Colbert’s team knew that. Fascism and nationalism look like that and I’m not sure satirizing it normalizes it (in general) but neoliberalism and that ‘working across the aisle’ politics (and journalism) that was also trendy at the time did actively normalize it.

Don’t fuck ICE agents.

I’ve seen a screenshot of a Minneapolis cop on Grindr who was bitching about nobody wanting to sleep with him. Praxis!

So you wander in off All, which is one of my biggest pet peeves on here, into a trans community, you paid no mind to which community you were actually in and spouted off in what should have been a conversation by and for trans people, ignoring community rules, and you shared a vid from a known transphobe. All of this bullshit about Drag is ignoring that so much of the conversation was that even if Drag is a troll, Drag’s pronouns should be respected anyway. It was the worst conversation you could have gotten involved in as a clueless cis person.

NEEDS actual alternate pronouns for legitimate mental health reasons.

Jesus fucking Christ dude. There’s no charitable way to interpret this. This is heavily into the medicalization of trans people as written and very much a “trans people are mentally ill” statement, and even if you claim you “worded it poorly” you’re still saying “there are true trans people and fakers, and I, a cis person, get to decide which is which, and who should get their pronouns respected or not” which is also a gatekeeping argument in line with historic abuses of trans people. Fuck right off with this shit.

(Is Drag a troll? IDK. Drag probably needs therapy either way, and it’s easy to either respect Drag’s pronouns or block Drag. All of this discourse is just letting transphobes go mask off on neopronouns in general which is part of why Blahaj went with the rules they did.)

Musk has a daughter that seems to have turned out okay, clearly they don’t all suck.

Meh, the transphobia is gross and I’d like to see him banned entirely for that bullshit, I’d hope any world user would get banned for going into a trans space to harass trans people. I think that action is flirting with irredeemability, at least sufficient for a proper ban.

That said, the icon with his picture isn’t appropriate, I agree. He’s fully up front with his irl info and it’s weird and arrogant and terminally online but we really, really shouldn’t be feeding that kind of self-harming behavior. Maybe someday he’ll realize he’s been awful and by being this public about his irl identity it’s going to be a lot harder for him to walk away from this.

r/Minnesota referenced the Windows version

I grew up near the one in Kissimmee FL and drove past it all the time, I always wanted to check it out but never got the chance to because my parents weren’t interested.

damnit i want to go to space but I’m one of those kinky aces

And a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

Probably my top played song after Eurovision this year, it’s either Zjerm or Wasted Love.

That’s true, but Disneyland is still the place to be if you want to skip the line in a wheelchair - there’s some rides that just can’t be made into ADA compliant queues because of space limitations, or at least that’s what I heard from other Cast Members when I did Studios in a wheelchair with a friend after I got injured.

Harvey from Stardew Valley energy

IIRC vr is still a bit of a mess on Linux.

Mastodon question, because I’d like to sign up to participate - does Sharkey federate in the way I’d expect, namely I’ll see toots and comments from all of the Fedi corners my instance federates with, or is it best if I just make an account on the instance where most of the #monsterdon chatter is taking place (probably mastodon social?); or is there some issue with Sharkey that discourage this but I can pick any reasonably federated Mastodon instance?

Keep us updated, this is fun

I had Racket as an intro class language but haven’t really gone beyond the beginner level (I also took another beginner class in Fortran, long story but I don’t hate Fortran, lol) but at that level I enjoyed it. How similar is it to Clojure and what’s my next steps to actually being competent-ish (and maybe employable) from here?

That’s really only decent for 2-3 pics, then it gets a bit ridiculous imo.

I was drinking some blue raspberry flavored sparkling ‘water’ while reading this and… holy shit it is banana pineapple and cherry. O_O