Absolutely. I can’t know what has gone wrong inside him, but even if this particular brainworm was eating him up 20 years ago, he could have just said something vaguely apologetic and let it blow over. Instead, he decided a trans hate crusade was more important than his family or his career.

Series 3, episode 4, “The Speech”. Sadly, it’s also the episode where they convince Jen a box with a flashing red light is the Internet, but it has a subplot where Reynholm un-knowingly dates a trans woman. He finds her stereotypically masculine behavior attractive until he finds out she is transgender and a physical fight erupts between them.

It’s not even on the upper end of offensive comedy about trans people, but when the episode was criticized, Linehan doubled down and has kept doubling down harder for 20 straight years, to the point where he now spends all of his time harassing, dead naming and doxing trans women on Twitter. His wife left him, writing jobs dried up, he’s just a miserable has-been Twitter checkmark asshole now.

Except for that one transphobic episode that Graham Linehan has ruined his whole life over instead of going “Yeah, I’m sorry, that was a bit insensitive.”

Is it not obvious that this is the first half of a sentence and has been selectively edited to mislead?

I don’t have video of the Montana rally, but Sanders has talked about this issue repeatedly at the Fight Oligarchy rallies, and here is what he said in LA:

“Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism, but it does not have a right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people… to kill 50,000 people, injure over 100,000 and destroy the entire infrastructure.”

“And as bad as that is, Trump wants to expel the 2.2 million people in Gaza in order to create a playground for his billionaire friends,” Sanders added, referring to Trump’s proposal to “take ownership” of the Gaza strip. “That is beyond insane, and we will never, never let that happen.”

Certainly, there are many who disagree with this half of the sentence, and that’s fine, but it should at least be presented with context.

I can’t see a way for this to be anything but a Producers situation. Calling it literally anything but Fyre Festival 2 would increase the odds of success, if the event succeeding was ever the plan.

Not a criticism, but that way of phrasing it is funny to me. Makes me imagine it was like a Doctor Who episode.

SCENE: INT. OFFICE BUILDING

Camera pans over standard office equipment, characters
making copies, having lunch in the break room. We hold
on a phone operator, female, Mediterranean appearance,
mid-30s. Her name is GIANCARLA. She is engaged in a
pleasant phone conversation in Italian. The other side
says something which makes GIANCARLA look confused.

    GIANCARLA:
      (Italian, English subtitles)
        Huh? I think something's wrong with the line, I
        can't understand you. Is that even Italian?

Wobbly blue energy wave (SFX) passes over GIANCARLA. She
is now female, Asian appearance, mid-30s. Other end of
phone continues speaking.

    GIANCARLA:
      (Chinese, English subtitles)
        That's better! Everything's back to normal, now.
        For a moment, it didn't even sound like you were
        speaking Chinese!

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the old URLs (with the subdomain blog) will no longer work…

if you’re trying to open an old URL, just swap “blog” with “news” in the subdomain.

This seems pretty fixable, doesn’t it? Once the old blog shuts down, can’t you just redirect the subdomain so that the old links redirect to your current blog and everything is fine?

Mostly every Rare game.

• Diddy Kong Pilot (the voxel version)
• Dinosaur Planet
• Donkey Kong Racing
• Twelve Tales: Conker 64

I know 3/4 of these sort of got released, but the mode-7 style Banjo-Pilot is fundamentally not interesting to me, Star Fox Adventures is fine but was a lot more ambitious when it was on weaker hardware, and while Twelve Tales looked generic, Conker’s Bad Fur Day is the least funny thing to ever attempt humor.

I didn’t forget Donkey Kong: Coconut Crackers, I just don’t mind missing out on that.

The problem I have with that is that it probably means I’ll end up unknowingly rewarding the clickbaiters/blanking the more thoughtful creators who deserved the view. Somewhere, somebody in the world will think I deliberately clicked on a dumb thumbnail and that’s too great a burden to bear.

The worst is when the painting actually has interesting composition but I have to waste my time looking for a similar work where nobody is making a stupid face, to avoid rewarding artists who paint overly dramatic self-portraits.

Surely this means Lemmy has finally reached critical mass and we’re slashdotting other sites now. /s

Full disclosure, I upvoted and agree with you.

Still, this leaves open the question of how you reached your idea of sensible defaults. Are these just the most popular in each category (e.g. most successful search engine, highest user-count Lemmy instance, etc.)?

Limited Run Games does some really cool stuff if you don’t have your own CD burner.

You never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice.

XCancel equivalents:

Note that while you’re not visiting X directly, media (avatars, images, etc.) is loaded from Twitter’s server, so they may still track you.

EDIT: This Markdown works fine over here on Mbin but not over on Lemmy. If you know what I’m doing wrong by Lemmy standards, please let me know.

EDIT2: Testing if Lemmy wants an extra line break after ::: Spoiler …

Both things are technically true: the article is primarily made up of content literally written by the company or people contracted by them for PR purposes, and it is a Good Article (Wikipedia jargon for having passed a review of certain quality standards around writing, coverage and sourcing, but not the higher standard required to be classed as a Featured Article).

How much of a problem this is probably depends on the subject. Does Juniper Networks have any bad practices which the article omits because the people who researched it (i.e. Juniper Networks) didn’t think they needed to go in the article? You’d basically need an independent observer to research anything that potentially should be in the article but isn’t there, but how many people that aren’t getting paid are invested in researching a corporate networking business?

There’s absolutely merit to Wikipedia having articles that are written by people paid to write them by their subjects, because a lot of it would otherwise be missing from Wikipedia entirely. But it’s also good to know that many articles are not necessarily written by impartial authors.

I don’t know about Wisconsin specifically, but some jurisdictions legally classify explosives as WMDs, alongside all the nukes and chemical weapons and stuff that people think of ordinarily.

The movie with Jet Li and Jason Statham? I get it.

I’ve played enough RPGs to know that if you encounter a god, it’s for the express purpose of killing them, so you probably just need to bring a big sword.