Edward Snowden has struck me for a very long time as one of the most prominent cases of stopped-clock theory. It doesn't surprise me at all that he's a coiner.
Reminder that doing something extremely cool and good once doesn't make you immune to posting cringe
You know, one of the things I resent the most about shits like Thiel and Andreessen and Altman going around with ideas like supervillains from a Saturday morning cartoon is that whenever I try to talk to other people that aren't familiar with them about their ideas, those ideas are so excessive and ridiculous that I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.
I kind of feel like dating apps are sneer-worthy in another context anyway, but this comment does a decent job of summing everything up:
Wow, a new way to rip whatever joy was left in dating through the pursuit of profit!
As I've mentioned before, software "engineering" all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.
But then, I've had a reverse snobbery about the term "engineer" for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I'm really a technician.
James Bond vs. George Smiley
That moment when you pretend to fight against imperialism - by implicitly supporting imperialists in the PRC.
inb4 "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people"
Contrarily to the general opinion, I found this a turgid and unpleasant experience to watch; there was a single moment in the film that amused me in passing, but they ended up taking that joke and beating the dead horse so hard you could use it as a dynamo.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
Well, yeah. They're also partially responsible for the anti-choice movement in Ireland.
"LibsofTiktok" is clearly just a right wing actor making liberal viewpoints look stupid, yeah?
Yes.
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raktheundead
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King of England, beware!