I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person.

Let me give you an example…

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

I’m chilling on the sofa listening to the birds outside while casually browsing the internet, I couldn’t be much further from angry if I tried.

What’s wrong with back alleys? It’s pride month after all!

You won’t hear it from the users here obviously

Are you not a user here? Are you a figment of my imagination?

This place may be the right fit for some, but a lot of people are here because they don’t fit in elsewhere.

Ah, okay, so is that why you’re here? Nobody likes or wants you because you’re an asshole, so you thought you’d come and be an asshole over here instead?

Some even claim that it’s the way they like it, but niche communities fail while copies of reddit communities are the only ones with engagement.

This community has engagement. Is it a copy of a Reddit community?

Lemmy/PieFed and Mastodon will probably carve out a tiny base of users over the next few years, but it’s doubtful that they will ever be mainstream.

Is that the goal of the Fediverse?

I miss when trolls used to put effort into their posts.

A suggestion:

Dual boot!

Call the Linux partition “Mom’s speed machine” and the old Windows 8.1 partition “Dad’s slow shitheap”.

Make the Linux partition as easy and intuitive to use as possible. Let the Windows partition rot.

I’m sure dad will come around pretty soon when he sees mom’s sleek setup and he gets a pang of jealousy.

Good luck!

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

• Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas

I don’t think the term “drive”, which you used in the first comment, is generally associated with cycling.

I understand what you’re getting at about using your head, but unfortunately we live in a society that needs to cater to the lowest common denominator.

At 3am, when there’s nobody around, and you’ve slowed down and can see for absolute certainty that’s it’s clear then yeah you could perhaps justifiably run the red light.

But then that concept gets normalised, people start pushing boundaries. Trying it at midnight when there’s still some traffic and pedestrians around. Trying it at 4pm because “it was quiet”. Guess what’s going to happen? Baring in mind how many terrible drivers you witness every single day.

With driving we need to apply Kantian principles.

“I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.”

Or more simply: “What if everybody did this?”

The purpose of the lights is to remove the requirement for everyone’s judgement at junctions, because human judgement has been shown to often be poor and result in collisions. Yeah, sometimes it may be unoptimised and you have to wait an extra minute, but really, what’s the rush?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics

And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same

And there’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school

And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same

https://youtu.be/XUwUp-D_VV0

Remember when the singer was a Zionazi? Fuck this guy.

He has described himself as “a very, very strong supporter of Israel”. In 2019, he described former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters and other activists seeking to boycott Israel for human rights abuses as “Nazi comrades”.[26] In October 2023, he denounced the attacks on Israel carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups as acts of terrorism.[27] In June 2024, he posted photos of himself visiting Israel Defense Forces troops serving in the Gaza war and writing “Fuck Hamas” on a 155mm artillery shell.[28][29]

Some members of the audience booed Draiman during his appearance at the Back to the Beginning concert in July 2025, which was linked to his support for Israel during the Gaza war. Draiman blamed the booing on “a few Jew hating morons” and said “I am STILL UNAPOLOGETICALLY A FIERCELY PRO ISRAEL JEW”.[31] He called fellow musician Tom Morello “shameful” for praising the Irish hip-hop group Kneecap, saying Morello was “virtue signaling for those who support terror, and incite Jew hatred”. Draiman said “All innocent lives lost in this conflict are due to Hamas using their own people as cannon fodder”. Kneecap replied, “We don’t care what religion anyone is…signing bombs to murder kids and other people’s families just makes you a straight up cunt”.[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Draiman#Political_views

https://lemmy.ml/c/ManufacturingConsent

Crass? So what!

God damn DLSS 5 upscales removing artistic intent! There’s supposed to be no meat on Skeletor’s bones!

A nitpick but the Gestapo were just a part of the SS.

The two main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of the combat units of the SS, with a sworn allegiance to Hitler. A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; “Death’s Head Units”[2]), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organisations. They were tasked with detecting actual or potential enemies of Nazi Germany, neutralizing the opposition, policing the German people for their commitment to Nazi ideology and providing domestic and foreign intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

“miss”

For those struggling to see the rainbow

https://metal-archives.com/

Fucking GOAT.

I’ve had that shitty copy saved for about 2 years now, it’s good to have a slick clean version instead <3

Come at me bruh!