You’re missing the point. It’s likely that he never held those views to begin with. He was just a kid doing and saying what he could to get reactions from people. Clearly it worked, 'cause we’re still talking about it.

A tangent, if I may: it’s important that entertainers be allowed to joke about things society deems offensive. It allows us to process such ostensibly offensive content in safe environments, to shine a light on the absurdity of such negative ideas. We laugh at nazi jokes not because we agree with naziism, but because they’re so wildly divorced from reality and our own views as to be absurd to even consider.

Or a super-duperlative.

Tubgirl.

Not a term, but a lack thereof:

People I have to regularly interact with for work have been excluding “to be”, especially with “needs”, and it’s infuriating.

This issue needs escalated. That report needs fleshed out. Let me know if anything needs cleared up.

Whoever wins…

We lose.

Ha! I use it because I just don’t want the use of “languid” in the language to languish in anguish.

Like I’m lying in the backseat of my parents’ car in the 90s watching the powerlines and the clouds languidly roll by.

It was the “refusal to learn” bit that threw me.

Nothing wrong with not liking a language or having no use for it, but “refusing to learn” implies that there are good reasons to learn and resources to do so, but they refuse to, regardless. Or maybe that’s just my own inference.

Anyway, sorry for being presumptuous. Hard day at work followed by a hard day at home. It’s safer to be rude to strangers online than to people I have to deal with regularly IRL.

Wait, you prefer someone who’s willfully ignorant and intentionality hampers their ability to communicate with most of the world?

Do you also prefer someone who proudly proclaims that they don’t read books?

While I do agree that unity is the way to go in the fight for rights, I can understand why one would want to separate the T from the LGB. It’s an issue of consistency - L, G, and B all describe sexuality, while T describes gender. The two are related, but ultimately separate concepts - one does not inform the other, and grouping them can hypothetically lead ignorant people to think that they are directly related, which could hypothetically lead to non-straight cisfolk experiencing more oppression than they would have otherwise experienced due to the perceived association with transfolk, as non-conforming sexuality is more generally accepted today than non-conforming gender.

That being said, it’s all hypothetical, and what matters is the reality that people from all spectra of nonconformity are regularly oppressed, and in many places, the oppressors treat anyone LGBT+ with the same disdain. So grouping them is vital for the sake of the most oppressed.

The creator of the format is documented as having confirmed the pronunciation is “jif”, but I don’t care. Once he created it and put it into the world, he relinquished his control.

Like we did with Occupy Wall Street or are doing now for Palestine?

Oh, we’ve known. There just isn’t anything we can do about it.

$14 billion. That’s actually pretty hefty. Go, EU regulators! Do what my regulatory-captured country won’t!

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg mushroom overlords.

Gestures broadly

This is the most succinct, unbiased explanation I’ve seen for this change. Thank you for this! It’s good to know there’s an unintended security improvement in their otherwise brazen attempt to kill ad blockers on Chrome.

Fuck Google.

My old job doing systems design for a predatory mobile game. I quit that job, moved half a state away, and got a job that pays half as much in a company with integrity. Best decision of my life.

The toys-to-life trend ended, as it wasn’t making enough money. The games remain playable, but they have no support and are old enough they they require hardware that I no longer have.

Toys-to-life video games. I went on a Skylanders spending spree less than a year before it officially died. $5-$15 figurines got sold at garage sales for $0.25-$3 each.

I had tons of fun getting into it and I was young enough that I could afford to waste the money, so I regret nothing.