The way I see it: Corporate web apps (like Microsoft’s) are evidence that the maker is putting administrative concerns ahead of user experience concerns. They’re catering to the people who actually pay for this stuff, not to the users.
Years ago I when I wrote software for a living, I had an argument with a colleague, and I tried to explain to him:
The “supported” closed-source library he wanted to use was pretty popular because it was marketed by a huge company with a marketing department, or because it had a first-mover advantage, or because there were training events and books built around it, etc.
The unsupported free open-source library I wanted to use was the most popular library of its kind in the whole world. And it got to that position without any of those advantages.
What does that suggest about their relative usefulness? The world of open source is closer to being a real meritocracy. The number one app or library is probably number one for non-structural reasons.
I don’t know about paint exactly, but
On one hand, I would guess the current talk is about newer games, but on the other hand, it’s not a brand-new innovation, either.
If you’re going to sneakily change what the creator drew or wrote, why stop at the creator’s name? Why not fix up a dull punch line or tidy up a drawings weaknesses?
How would we know you aren’t doing that already?
Oil wrestling shows up in the classic heist film Topkapi.
George would have some confusion about the “planet Vulcan” bit long before Star Wars, though.
You give somebody who’s used to living paycheck to paycheck a few million bucks and they will spend it.
So they become job creators?
Is the goal to become a rich asshole? Or is the goal for everyone to make $19/hr?
Well I guess those are definitely the only possible outcomes, aren’t they?
Knee Deep In The Underbrush
The Shores Of Sawdust
Inferno
I never consented to this portrayal. Or it’s distribution.
…presumably violations of existing law … changing policy … They are not the same.
This is kind of bonkers. Women’s advocacy doesn’t split this hair, gay advocacy doesn’t split this hair, trans advocacy doesn’t split this hair, racial advocacy doesn’t split this hair. The challenges facing any identity or demographic group are often only weakly affected by the law.
All of the problems listed are cultural problems, problems caused in no small part by men’s own values and attitudes about what manhood should be.
The first time I saw one of these was at a Fourth of July gathering in a public park. I saw the high blue lights and I figured it was marking some kind of portable police resource center. I had imagined some basic first aid and some officers ready for emergency assistance. I had imagined something that was partly a service and partly community outreach. I had imagined something with positive features.
I was so disappointed to find out it was just cameras. Quite an emotional trip in my head there, from “We’re here to help!” to “We’re watching you, fuckers” in the space of a moment.
But I guess the cops in my suburb are no better than the cops in any other suburb.
🎵 And Iran, Iran so far away-ay-ay 🎵
Isn’t this one just cropped?
We’ve all heard the crack, right? “You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.”
Nah mate. “Bone walker,” innit.
You see conservatives are infinitely more tolerant of opinions they disagree with than the left is. I support deportations of illegal immigrants their is no way u can possibly say that without getting called a Nazi or fascist by a decent percent of the population who will go to extreme measures to fuck it life up.
Our actual right-wing government is out there offcially arresting journalists, beating bystanders, observers, and protestors, even killing some of them. They’re terrorizing people they disagree with.
The rest of us correctly recognize this as “fascist.” An act of free speech with no threat or consequences attached.
You’re observing this situation and declaring that “conservatives are infinitely more tolerant of opinions they disagree with than the left.” Because the infinitely tolerant right is normalizing summary executions as official policy, and because the intolerant left is capable of reading a dictionary.
This is the traditional conservative two-tiered system of intolerance. A deliberate conflation to allow the bullies to paint themselves as victims whenever that’s convenient. “He called me a Nazi, just because I want his neighbors to be brutalized. He’s the intolerant one.”
85% of Americans support deportation of illegal immigrants charged with a violent crime. And 55% support deportation of all illegal immigrants.
This just isn’t germane to what ICE is doing on the ground today, because
They’re not focusing on the criminally charged or even the undocumented, they’re kidnapping just anyone, documented or otherwise, they think they can get away with shipping overseas.
They’re not operating in places that host lots of undocumented, they’re instead terrorizing states that have the smallest “problems” with the undocumented. States that voted against the president in the 2024 election.
They’re not following any kind of legal process, so there is no evidence that they’re doing any of the stuff they claim to be doing.
It’s not incoherent to support immigration enforcement and also be appalled by what ICE is doing. Indeed, if one values the rule of law, this is the position one must take. Because it would be incoherent to assert that on the one hand, due process doesn’t matter, but on the other hand, borders and citizenship do.
I am an American and I completely agree, the flag is everywhere. You would think it was required by law, like portraits of Dear Leader in communist totalitarian states, but no, the flag cult is voluntary. “Cringe” is exactly right. Some people just plaster the flag on things as a substitute for any sense of style or design. We’ve been indoctrinated into the flag cult throughout our childhoods, where there was a flag in every room in our schools, and a coordinated prayer-to-the-flag moment every morning.
I went to Canada in the summer of 2025. In reaction to the insanity from Washington, Canada was experiencing a possibly-unprecedented wave of nationalism, businesses were advertising that they were proudly Canadian, there were even “flag stores” just like we have in the US, but with Canadian flags. In spite of this, Canada had something like 5% as many flags flying in public as the US does. It was possible to be out in public for many minutes at a time without seeing any flags at all. That doesn’t happen in the US.
Americans don’t understand how propagandized they are.
Edit: Cringe example: The Boulevard of 500 Flags. The notion that it’s a memorial to 9/11 is a modern revision, it goes back to the 90s. That is, this was built, by a large group of supposedly grown-up men, before the wave of post-9/11 nationalism.