I just always assumed they made it back by stealing the absolute shit out of your data (which to be fair, they almost assuredly do).

#justiceforDenny

Hopefully my edit helps.

archive.today

That’s a terrible reason to use one of the trashiest mainstream rags in modern journalism. If you’re concerned about a registration wall, archive.today exists.

Hey OP, maybe you should mention anything about how this was Hausner interviewing Tyson because he was a boxing journalist? Tyson’s a rapist, but this had fuck-all to do with this picture of him and Hausner.

I’m not disputing the facts in this specific case not having investigated it, but you should really never use the Daily Mail as a source for anything.

Not necessarily true. More money at that level isn’t about more material possessions or even more services: it’s about more power and influence. It’s playing toward oligarchy.

You should probably do that before you post the memes you find.

It’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy.

You don’t have to, though? 1) The E2EE Signal protocol is well-audited to be robust. 2) The app itself is FOSS, and there are a lot of eyes on it. 3) The server code is FOSS. Even if they’re lying about what code they use, it doesn’t matter because it’s E2EE. 4) If you think Signal might be bait-and-switching by building from different source code, you’d be provably wrong. They have reproducible builds, so were they to actually try this, it would be like sending up a flare to the entire security community. 5) Literally every single time OWS has been subpoenaed, the only information they’ve been able to provide is extremely basic metadata like server connection times.

You have no idea what you’re talking about, I’m sorry. There’s functionally less “trust” here than any messaging application on the planet. The network effect remark is at least valid and can be debated (although I personally have zero friends who use Telegram and at least several who use Signal). This one is just so, so wrong that it’s not even up for debate.

A platform that values my privacy? Or stickers? Tough choice, I guess, except Signal has both.

I promise to be conservative with the meta jokes, but Johnny saying “Oh, yeah” in the background off-screen while Denny munches an apple was the hand I was dealt today.

It’s not a show. It’s from a 2003 movie called The Room, and I’ve been posting a meme every day for every single line of dialogue from the movie. It’s commonly seen as “the Citizen Kane of bad movies”. Even though every scene could probably be its own separate lecture on what not to do when making a movie, the film is so fascinatingly multilayered in its terribleness and done so, so earnestly out of a desire to make a serious, dark, generation-defining indie drama that it’s wrapped around to, in my opinion, becoming one of the greatest movies of all time.

I can’t recommend it enough, but be aware that there are four sex scenes, so it’s not something you necessarily sit down to watch with coworkers. Still, though, it is more fun if you watch it with friends. It’s gained a cult following where it’s still shown in some indie theaters today, and people will crowd the theater to perform rituals like throwing plastic spoons at the screen at certain points.

I don’t know why the hell people are downvoting this. AOC is quoted in the article talking about why this exact sort of thing is necessary.

• Washington, D.C. has a 50% higher cost of living compared to the rest of the US. Even just for the rent, you’re already down a considerable amount for something that’s strictly extraneous and only done for your job.
• Generally speaking, you’ll maintain a residence in your home district as well. There are plenty of practical reasons for this. Maybe you have a family which doesn’t want to upend their lives to live in DC. Maybe you want to run for re-election, in which case the US Constitution is extremely clear that you must reside in the state at the time you’re elected. Maybe you want to be able to go home when Congress isn’t in session. Maybe you want something to fall back on if you get voted out. This isn’t bourgie; it’s pragmatic and makes your job at least somewhat bearable. This sets you back a fair bit as well.
• As a politician in a national legislature, you should at least ideally have attained higher education (looking at you, Boebert and MTG). There isn’t technically a requirement for this, but most members do, and furthermore, members should be encouraged to be highly educated. That is, you should seek to attract highly qualified candidates, even if the US right now is backsliding on that. The job of a national politician, done right, is extremely tiring, stressful, complicated, high-profile, and thankless, so you want to at least be competitive in a way that doesn’t make taking this job feel like a sacrifice. (Done wrong, of course, and we end up with fascist Republicans and neoliberal dinosaurs pocketing millions. But that’s not a problem of the salaries being ineffective; that’s the result of things like Citizens United, failing to disallow stock trading, defunding public education, etc.)
• If you have a family that lives back home, you’ll have a situation where your spouse is functionally a single parent, and thus costs for childcare etc. will be astronomically higher.
• The job is inherently unstable, thus not giving most members a reliable long-term financial plan unlike what you might have, say, in a highly skilled position at a company.

Still not a drag queen.

Meanwhile, Gym Jordan:

I didn’t realize killing pond scum was a crime now. Home improvement stores are about to find themselves in deep shit.

Please don’t bring pigs down to their level.