Enought people agreed with you that they were able to be parted from their money in great amounts
This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____.
Enought people agreed with you that they were able to be parted from their money in great amounts
This dude is from Latvia and is on Putin’s shit list for popularizing a conspiracy theory that the Putin we see in public is actually a revolving series of highly trained impersonators. It’s actually kinda credible tbh.
Dude has a room temperature iq
Women are not multilingual you can’t be a good person overall.
Wtf
They are certainly tricky. Very vicious critters, but are shaped like a friend.
When I first came across this, I thought it was so cute I sent it to everyone I know irl. They got mad at me for sending them furry shit. 😿
Fun fact about pinnacle pizza: You have never had pineapple pizza which was made correctly. The original recipe calls for the pineapple to be cut into wafer-thin slices so that they dry out and caramelize while the pizza is cooking, sort of like fruit pepperoni.
Whoever it is, I would like to speak to their manager
Nah that’s different as well. What they are filtering out is
Et cetera. Humans are much noiser than anything a python script will spit out. Of course there are ways to get around this, like recording and reenacting a human mouse movement, but the point of any capcha system is to make it significantly more difficult to bot, not impossible.
Fairly sure those are called Visigoths and they sacked Rome in the 5th century
Pretty much everything I liked as a kid I am lukewarm to now. However, there are a number of kid’s books that I didn’t “get” as a kid that I adore now
Ok. Since you have clearly been living under a rock for the past 10 years, here’s the deal with Rowling. It’s not really a political divide here, it’s an age divide.
Harry Potter was a formative experience for almost all of Millenials and Gen Z. That’s 40 years worth of kids right there. A lot if Gen X parents were fans as well. There’s a lot of gay/trans people who credit Harry Potter for helping them figure out their identity and come out to their friends and family. And Rowling is a master of cultivating a fandom; ask anyone between the ages of 40 and 12 what their house was, and I’m pretty sure you’ll get an answer. My point is, there are a lot of people (people who are adults now) who have formed their identity around Harry Potter, and Rowling made sure that it was seen as normal to get so invested in her books.
Problem is, Rowling is a Blairite Conservative, and you can see this all over her writing. As kids, we didn’t pick up on details like how the plot bends over backwards to not have any change happen in the world, how few girls there and how all the bad ones are ugly, the house elf slaves, etc. So when Rowling started to be more loudly TERF-y, we collectively went through a few phases of realization about how wrong we were about her:
To address another thing that might confuse you, I know that I’ve been using TERF and conservative somewhat interchangeably. To define my terms, when I say “conservative” I mean Rowling thinks the world was perfect at some point when she was a young adult and any attempt to change how the world works from that point is Evil and Bad. The Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist movement was seen as progressive in the 80s and 90s but has remained almost exactly as it was back then, so now it only contains “moderate” conservatives. To be fair, her political beliefs are pretty in line with most members of the Democratic party in the U.S., so I understand if you thought she was left-wing. But she is very clearly a conservative, and more importantly her whole fanbase was at minimum progressive liberals and many are much farther left because, you know, millenials and gen z have on average only been moving further left as they get older. Another thing exaggerating this is a fun little statistic that 67% of all book readers are girls, and guess which subset of Gen Z is most likely to be anticapitalist?
If she had just stayed quiet about hating trans people, I think Harry Potter might have been remembered as one of the most world-changing works of fiction, at least up until Gen Alpha gets old enough to enter academia. But she just had to use her platform to try to spread her beliefs, and now she’s so hated by her own fandom that attaching her name to a project is sure to make that project never sell, and any actually successful Potter-related project has to constantly reassure potential fans that they do not hate trans people, they are not associated with Rowling, Rowling has no involvement in their project, and a portion of our profits will be donated to a nonprofit that helps Trans kids. For example, Hogwarts Legacy did all of these things, and despite its good sales and despite most fans enjoying it there was an abstract dread looming over the project as if the fans expected Rowling to interfere with their enjoyment at any moment. It honestly just makes me sad that there are so many adults that feel so wounded and betrayed by their favorite author.
The way I reacted to this was to stop joining fandoms altogether, and I still feel icky when something I like has a fanbase. I don’t think this is healthy. Maybe I will work through this someday.
He’s really experiencing his food in there
Most people cannot see lemmygrad
In all seriousness, if you want to be helpful the best thing you can do is spend some time with him in person. He can tell you what he needs, and you can show him you care. If I got seriously crippled like this I probably would start thinking that none of my friends will make time for me because I have become a burden. Prove that nasty self-talk wrong!
Ublock origin
When I was twelve, I was bicycling downhill on a residential street, and while I was talking to a friend beside me I slammed into the back of a parked jeep at full speed. Looking back on it, I definitely had a concussion, but I think the spare tire on the back spared me from the worst possibilities of my bad decisions
Earlier today I tried to swat a fly with my car door, but since I was looking down at the fly I only managed to slam that door into my head with all my strength, stunning me for several seconds
Why subject you and those around you to such a torture when you can have native plants and landscape that barely requires any maintenance.
HOA compliance
Friendly reminder that HOAs require their council members to be elected. You can run for HOA president and potentially change many of these policies
I don’t get it