kescusay

kescusay , 1 month ago

It’s always the people you must suspect. I mean, seriously, the guy legit looks like a sexual abuser.

kescusay , 1 month ago

I remember when Adobe was a cool company that built art tools. Now it seems like the art tools are an afterthought, tacked onto a money-siphoning scheme.

kescusay , 1 month ago

That’s a good point. I gotta be honest, I’d forgotten that Adobe bought Photoshop.

kescusay , 1 month ago

But what if they want to notify you about great deals and coupons? DON’T YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GREAT DEALS AND COUPONS?!?

kescusay , 1 month ago

Maybe so, but at least you guys aren’t Russia or Cuba.

kescusay , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Would upvote for the news. Will downvote for the picture.

Picture removed. Upvoted.

kescusay , 1 month ago

I think that’s actually the goal. If they can get a single core OS working on all their devices, that cuts down a lot on the difficulty of things like application development and security patches.

kescusay , 1 month ago

That’s… basically what they’re doing. “ChromeOS” is basically just going to be a desktop-friendly UI on Android.

kescusay , 1 month ago

If it’s personal behavior, there is no line.

Seriously, we need to internalize this: If you support Donald Trump in 2024 at this point, there is no goddamn line. There is nothing too atrocious or puerile or insulting to his own base that he could do or say to lose them at this point. He owns them.

I used to joke that he could literally eat a baby live on stage at one of his rallies and not lose supporters, because he’d insist it was fake news even as the blood dripped down his chin.

It’s not a joke anymore. He really could do it, and far too many of his supporters would believe him over their own lying eyes.

Trump support, at this point, is a mental health crisis in this country.

kescusay , 1 month ago

The thing we as a planet need to recognize is that Russia is waging a propaganda war against everyone, and it’s currently winning.

kescusay , 1 month ago

…with voters endorsing a plan to break up the country in just a few years…

What the actual fuck! These extremists just… don’t want to be a country anymore? Putin must fucking love them.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Hey, uhh, Europe? Can we talk?

Look, I know the way the left has been handling immigration has you upset, but could you please take a closer look at the absolute freaks you’re electing today?

I mean, just take a good look at the United States, circa 2017 through 2020. Did we look like electing an absolute freak worked out for us? Did it fix our own immigration problems? Did it make electing your own Donald Trumps look like a good idea?

kescusay , 1 month ago

It’s truly bizarre. Every couple of decades or so, either the United States or significant chunks of Europe decide, “What the hell, let’s give the right-wingers another chance, they say they’ll fix immigration,” and then we end up cutting funding for services and giving tax cuts to the rich. They pull this shit every goddamn time, and we keep falling for the bait-and-switch.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Exactly. And they won’t fix immigration, they’ll just enrich themselves as much as they possibly can.

kescusay , 1 month ago

But the freakiness is still 100% present in their platforms and ideologies. They’re just dressing nicer now.

kescusay , 1 month ago

“Why do you hate freedom? And America? And puppies? And apple pie?” -Republicans, probably

kescusay , 1 month ago

Jeez, he’s lucky to be alive at all.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Yeah, Agile isn’t really at fault here. If done right - if you’ve got a scrum master, a proper product owner, proper planning and backlog grooming, etc. - it works really well. The problem is some companies think Agile is just “give the devs some pie-in-the-sky hopes and dreams, let 'em loose, and if they don’t give half a dozen execs exactly what they want (despite their massively conflicting ideas on what they want), cancel the project.”

kescusay , 1 month ago

This isn’t a case of No True Scotsman. There really is a right way and a whole lot of wrong ways to do Agile development. Any team that calls itself an Agile team that doesn’t actually follow the processes properly is doing it wrong and will fail.

That doesn’t mean any team that’s doing it right will succeed, but it’s like riding a horse: If you only climb halfway up the horse and try to hold on while at a 90-degree angle, it’s not going to work, and it would be stupid to declare that the concept of horse-riding is broken. No, it’s not broken, you’re just an idiot who thought you could ride a horse while only halfway up, clinging desperately to its side.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Sounds like some deeply, deeply internalized self-hatred going on there.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Holy shit, he actually said that.

This, right here, is a prime example of a political headline that looks like it comes from The Onion.

kescusay , 1 month ago

New motto:

Linux: Still An Operating System, Not An Ad Platform

kescusay , 1 month ago

Wow. This is… wow. OK, look… I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can’t name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that’s literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.

There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah… We’re saturated with those enough already.

kescusay , 1 month ago

What a coincidence! I’ve been testing something myself! I call it, “Not using Instagram for anything ever in any way whatsoever.”

kescusay OP , 1 month ago

I mean, I’m not gonna dispute that reality has been resembling The Onion more and more, but it’s important that the headlines convey that Onion-y goodness, and too many lately haven’t or are really borderline. People come here to say to themselves, “Holy shit, I can’t believe that’s a real headline!” Not “Holy shit… now I’m depressed. Oh, and that headline… is depressing.”

kescusay OP , 1 month ago

Those were examples of actual Onion headlines to serve as guidelines for the headlines that would fit well here. But yeah, actual Onion articles wouldn’t fit here, because… This is Not The Onion.

So… Please drink some coffee.

kescusay OP , 1 month ago

I’ll allow it.

kescusay OP , 1 month ago

No worries. I’m utterly incapable of basic logic until I get my coffee.

kescusay OP , 1 month ago

You do raise some valid points, but the problem here is that if we go that route, we might as well rename this community from “Not The Onion” to “Politics But Focused Mostly On Hypocrisy”.

I don’t think most of the people in this community want this to be a politically-focused community to the exclusion of everything else. We don’t want every article on the front page to be yet another “Trump did/said something hypocritical again.” That’s not Onion-y.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Hey, I try to keep a hands-off approach to modding as much as possible, but you’re right, this has indeed gotten out of control.

I’d appreciate it if people would report posts that don’t belong here more, because otherwise I’m not likely to see them until they’ve already gathered a ton of comments, and I’m hesitant to remove posts at that point.

So… Thanks for posting about this.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Hey guys, this one’s… borderline. The idea that Trump never said that is silly enough that I’m going to allow this post to stay, but its onion-y flavor is pretty weak.

kescusay , 1 month ago

It’s always the people you most suspect.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Every time I encounter the “don’t vote” brigade, my first thought is that it’s a Russian or Chinese troll trying to get Trump elected again.

My second thought, which is a bit more nuanced, is some introspection on what Biden is actually doing. He has three options with regards to Israel, none of them good.

1. He could deny them weapons, which would inevitably lead to outright war with Iran and an increase in Russian influence in the region, as well as a loss of an ally.
2. He could fully commit to Netanyahu’s madness (i.e., what Trump wants to do), fully empowering genocide while using no political leverage on Israel. This would also ultimately lead to broad regional warfare, which will also likely increase Russian influence in the region.
3. He could try to limit the damage by imposing conditions on weapons sales and attempt to thread the needle, recognizing Hamas for the grotesque terrorist organization it is while using political pressure to prevent as much needless death of civilians as possible. This is what Biden is trying to do.

I don’t know that Biden is doing a very good job with #3, but #1 would be a catastrophe, and #2 is what Trump wants.

This is a shitty situation in every conceivable way. Our ally, Israel, is currently being run by a corrupt and genocidal freak. There are no good answers to a situation like that beyond Israel coming to its senses and throwing Netanyahu in prison. But there are plenty of really bad answers, and Trump would be the worst.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Why?

Because Iran is a Russian ally and Russian proxy.

Biden is doing this - he is threatening the ICC and ICJ

No, he isn’t. Where in the world are you getting the idea that he’s literally “threatening” either?

Biden is not doing this. We have not stopped weapon shipments and have clearly been unable (more like unwilling) to stop or prevent Israel’s genocide

Dude, we temporarily halted shipments earlier this month to put pressure on Netanyahu. Were you sleeping?

Also, Israel is not our ally. Their geopolitical interests align with Putin. Which is why they are trying to get Trump elected so that they can destroy the remnants of the “rules based international order” and begin in earnest their conquest of Greater Israel

Netanyahu’s interests may align with Putin, but only insofar as both seem hell-bent on destabilizing the region. Putin would gladly let Iran stroll right into Israel and slaughter everyone in it. Israel’s own actual interests do not remotely align with Putin’s.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Assuming “hast” is supposed to be “heat” and “dinner” is supposed to be “summer,” then yep… I’m starting to wonder when we’ll see people literally fleeing north to save their lives.

Texas is becoming uninhabitable.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Stop using Xitter, people. Let it die.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Perhaps it would make more sense to describe it as an intentionally mistaken understanding.

We’ve been a fragile, fractured country since that day. Al Qaida - and Saudi Arabia - did us lasting, potentially terminal, damage.

In 2001 before 9/11, George W. Bush was clearly going to be a one-term failure of a president, a mistake of the electoral college brought about by complacency, never to be repeated. He would get the boot, be replaced by a better and more competent president in 2005, and that would be that. No Patriot Act. No Department of Homeland Security. No TSA security theater. No war against Iraq, no formation of ISIS, and likely no Tea Party, let alone the travesty that was four years of Donald Trump.

Saudi Arabia may have actually dealt the killing blow to this country, causing the ongoing, slow-motion disaster in politics we see today.

kescusay , 2 months ago

That’s where my optimism lies, too. The kids, by and large, are all right, and it’s high time we let them have their turn running things.

I just hope that we have democracy at all after November.

kescusay , 2 months ago

No it doesn’t. (My PC runs Linux.)

kescusay , 2 months ago

The Republican claim on hard-nosed, reality-based reasoning is just so astoundingly mendacious. I find myself legitimately perplexed over the whole thing.

I mean, the guys who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old, trickle-down economics work, ectopic pregnancies are a gift from God and mustn’t be stopped, vaccines are poisonous, life doesn’t evolve, and Donald Trump was a good president are the down-to-Earth realists? Is this performance art of some kind?

How do people like that survive to adulthood?

kescusay , 2 months ago

Just out of curiosity, I looked up both their weights. Harrison Butker is a slim guy, weighing in at 199 lbs. Carl Nassib outweighs him by about fifty lbs.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Just as a reminder: Bigoted trolling is a one-way ticket to Bansville.

That is all.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Oh, trolling the bigots is always allowed.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Okay, just so I’m completely clear on this, are they a) claiming that CRISPR is some kind of danger to the world, or b) debunking such claims about it?

kescusay , 2 months ago

I take it from your non-answer that it’s exactly what I suspected.

For the record, CRISPR is an amazing technology that is producing potential gene therapies for otherwise-untreatable illnesses. Just yesterday, Nature published an article detailing a promising treatment for HIV.

And fear mongers would try to scare terminally ill people away from treatments like that.

So no, I will not just “scroll on by” when I see something that tries to make people mistrust the medical science that could save their lives.

kescusay , 2 months ago

I asked for a description of the video and its content, and the OP refused to actually answer.

I’ll watch the video if you’ll confirm it’s not an attempt to attack CRISPR technology.

kescusay , 2 months ago

Maybe they’re making more money now from ads shown in pirated copies of Windows than they do from actually selling Windows.