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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think he would be confused regardless. The fact that she's biracial compounds it. People love to categorize others into boxes they understand. It often results in racism, but it usually results in a kind of obstinate ignorance. There are many people who fundamentally cannot seem to understand that Indians are Asian, even if they're pretty brown. They also don't understand that a Jamaican who's a descendant of slaves is African-American. That someone can be both of these impossible (in their mind) things is just outlandish.

I know a guy who's black and British, and I have heard him explain how he isn't African-American so many times. Whatever white person receives the explanation never really believes it and always treats it like it's a trick. I know someone else who has a seeing eye dog that's a mutt, and not some movie-groomed golden retriever. Confusion abounds.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I hate this approach to business.

Coupling subscriptions with forced obscolecence is a nightmare. If HP made the best printer money could buy, using it with a subscription model would be a hard sell. But they make shit printers that die at the drop of a hat, so coupling them with a subscription is asinine.

Logitech makes a decent mouse, passable webcams, and shit keyboards.

Just in case anyone from Logitech ever reads this, I own 2 MX Verticals, an MX Ergo, and an MX Master 2S. I love them all, but I'd rather use an OEM bog standard Dell mouse than pay for a subscription.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Intel has been on the i3, i5, i7 naming scheme for a while though. I think the oldest ones are probably ~15 years old at this point.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

For real. Childish Republicans are the problem. I mean, if there were a point in the past 15 years where Democrats had controlled the presidency and both houses of congress, they would have increased it, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, but when they took the Harry Potter sorting quiz, it told them they were a Ravenclaw, so you know, their IQ is easily 300+.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I like to frame Mr. Beast in the context of the NFL.

The Super Bowl had 123 million viewers this past year. A 30 second ad slot costs $7 million. This is something we can all wrap our heads around. It's a big deal, and that's a lot of people.

Mr. Beast puts out a video about every 2 weeks. Most get more viewers than the Super Bowl. Some almost double. If every video he makes essentially prints him $20 million in ad and sponsor revenue, I wouldn't be surprised.

That's why he can give away $1 million in a video.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Nothing better than a meal deal A.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Truly one of the worst adaptions ever made. It's astonishing that people might have actually tried and worked hard to make this heap of garbage.

Usually, in trash movies/TV you can see the vision at least and understand how maybe studio executives, or lack of technology, or even lack of ability destroyed the project. The kernel of what originally sold it is still there. But with Halo, I didn't see any of that. Everything was bad. Nobody cared, and nobody tried.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had a family member once tell me that I have to hate the people that God hates. I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The problem is that Biden and Democrats won handily in 2020 by promising a path forward, but here we are 4 years later with not much path forward, just more treading water. Democrats didn't groom or build up any new candidates, they didn't make pushes in local government or the judiciary or any significant reforms. They've pushed a handful of executive actions that have been blocked and compromised badly with Republicans on so much else.

The current Democratic leadership is trying to get walked to first, but we need them to swing for the fence.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Considering that taking the red pill causes you to awaken to the realities of the world around you, and you could describe that as being woke, I'd say they're idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Obviously, we need to arm teachers with TOW missiles.

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