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The Fold is literally failing left and right [both left and right screens] and figuratively left and right.

My great great grandfather was a serf, a cottager.

Perhaps alternate phrasing next time? https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Cottager is one of the levels of serfdom in feudal societies, I can't help it that your mind is a sewer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

My great great grandfather was a serf, a cottager.

Perhaps alternate phrasing next time?
https://www.urbandictionary.co...

private prisons are looked on fondly because they keep the riff-raff out of your neighborhood. Most people are on their parents insurance until they get a job, job funded insurance until they retire and Medicare (socialized medicine for old people who are otherwise uninsurable) after that. There's also a smattering of ex-military who get socialized medicine from our Veteran's Admin by virtue of having served and, well, a lot of them are big on IGMFY.... Free taxes is just one more check box. Why should _I_ pay for the poors to get money back?

It's counter productive. Recently the right wing Dems and GOP are attacking social security and Medicare (they want to means test it, which in America is a death sentence for any program) and have even started cutting the VA under Trump (who can somehow get away with saying and doing anything without taking a hit in the polls). It'll bite them in the ass eventually, but some of them will die before it happens. And in the meantime it just feels so damn good to kick down.

We call it stigginit. I used to think it was a bullshit concept made up by bitter left wingers, but I've seen way, way too much of it to think that anymore...

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
v 4.98.1
$YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9stepprocess.sgml,v 4.98.1 2017/11/25 13:54:20 tsarkon Exp $

1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. To better enhance the pleasure of this whole process, defecation should be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, which soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda certifies that his lips, raw like beaten flank steak from nearly continuous analingus with dogs, are greatly soothed by witch hazel which makes it perfect for the anus after diarrhea.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Yoda Doll/Yoda Shampoo/Yoda Soap-on-a-rope. You may need your gay squire/lover to help with this since your fat corpulent ass cannot do a self-reach-around.
5. Put a n1gger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
6. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
7. Pucker and relax your balloon knot. Doing Kegel exercises several times actuating the sphincter muscle and relaxing it will help prepare your ass for what is to come.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's probably bigger than the dicks normally being rammed up your ass!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the Slashdot editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't select the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Suck and gag on a Dr. Who sonic screwdriver like it was the Doctor's dick in your mouth. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Toaster Oven. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that cheap-ass discount bin hardware works 'just as well' as the quality and premium hardware because you can't afford the real stuff. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for World of Warcraft. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful Star Wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal

Isn't this part of the plot of the "Girl with the dragon tattoo" books? Only it's a man, not a woman with the immunity from pain.

More likely, The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo. I hear Lizbreath Salamander is one tough dragon.

[ Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers) had some fun with this for Halloween. ]

A group of girls in silicon valley are dead? Horrific!

Priates

The world seems to disagree with you.

https://www.urbandictionary.co...

You want to present Urban Dictionary (or any crowd-written internet site) as an authoritative information source? Ahahahaha....

So he Jussied himself?

Slash, gees you seppos are crude https://www.urbandictionary.co... as for forward and backward slash, well, the mind boggles.

I have heard of concrete shoes https://www.urbandictionary.co... but brick ones, surely you feet would burn off first ?!?

Slash, gees you seppos are crude https://www.urbandictionary.co... as for forward and backward slash, well, the mind boggles.

I have heard of concrete shoes https://www.urbandictionary.co... but brick ones, surely you feet would burn off first ?!?

Thanks Elizabeth! That sounds like a really great feature. Tell your peeps at Microsoft to keep up the good work.

I had no idea what "Microsoft DSE support" does, so I looked it up. Here's a link for anyone else who was wondering.

> It's the reputation of the perps that matters. In other words, if no one
> paid any attention to people who propagate FAKE news, then the problem
> would be solved. Right now the best approach I can imagine to doing
> this would involve MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation).

Have you heard of "brigading"? https://www.urbandictionary.co... https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf... SJWs use it a lot on YouTube to knock out videos they don't like. When YouTube gets enough complaints against small users, the video is taken down. Sure, it can be appealed and re-instated a week or 2 later. But for fast-breaking news stories, that destroys the immediate effect, and people are not interested in last-week's news. Imagine if CNN programs were tape-delayed by a week. What do you think would happen to their ratings?

Because publicity.

Because they tried AT&T's 5Ge and the patient ended up with a limp.

Guess you're going to deny the democrats play the rotating villain also (works in both directions). Too bad you actually take their kabuki seriously. You're being fished in by tag team wrestling.

And you should be very happy with all the money Bernie kept in the democrat corral. They don't call him a sheepdog for nothing. To wish him ill is most ungracious of you.

NEWS FLASH: Every place on the planet spends half the year in darkness. It's called "night".

NEWS FLASH: That "half the year" you're talking about is spread out evenly over the whole year, meaning that THOSE SAME PLACES SPEND HALF THE YEAR IN A THING CALLED "day"

Halfwit

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
v 4.98.1
$YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9stepprocess.sgml,v 4.98.1 2017/11/25 13:54:20 tsarkon Exp $

1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. To better enhance the pleasure of this whole process, defecation should be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, which soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda certifies that his lips, raw like beaten flank steak from nearly continuous analingus with dogs, are greatly soothed by witch hazel which makes it perfect for the anus after diarrhea.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Yoda Doll/Yoda Shampoo/Yoda Soap-on-a-rope. You may need your gay squire/lover to help with this since your fat corpulent ass cannot do a self-reach-around.
5. Put a n1gger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
6. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
7. Pucker and relax your balloon knot. Doing Kegel exercises several times actuating the sphincter muscle and relaxing it will help prepare your ass for what is to come.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's probably bigger than the dicks normally being rammed up your ass!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the Slashdot editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't select the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Suck and gag on a Dr. Who sonic screwdriver like it was the Doctor's dick in your mouth. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Toaster Oven. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that cheap-ass discount bin hardware works 'just as well' as the quality and premium hardware because you can't afford the real stuff. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for World of Warcraft. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful Star Wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal

This is more than relevant because of how Trump trolls manufactured the original issue. Not to mention violently ironic. "To cover up her corrupt dealings." As a further embarrassment of the Trump crime family, this ranks right up there with Yeti Pubes.

Air quality levels throughout the Bay Area are in the âoeunhealthyâ range of 151 to 200 on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyâ(TM)s Air Quality Index

Can we get that in hobo power?

I worked in IT 30 years ago, and there were plenty of incompetent people back then as well.

I am skeptical that the proportion of incompetents has actually gotten worse.

This appears to be a case of Golden Age Syndrome.

Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.

They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense.

The chilling proof of this statement can be seen by the fact that literally no men are now CEOs or Senators, judges, professors, doctors, etc.

Nah bro. There's always something to offend a feminist. The goalposts always change. When the entire culture is based on gaining power and prestige by taking offence, offence will be taken.

They spend more time on facebook and slashdot compaining than working even when they do choose to show up. Don't hire them and you won't get your career ruined later when they witchhunt you for using the word "Dude" in your username or having a penis, or other not-woke-enough nonsense.

Exactly that, one company selling something it doesn't own to another company on false pretenses. As far as I can see it's more an implementation of the electric monk https://www.urbandictionary.co... for advertisement than a case of fraud.

in case anyone's wondering what's being referred to here.

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
v 4.98.1
$YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9stepprocess.sgml,v 4.98.1 2017/11/25 13:54:20 tsarkon Exp $

1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. To better enhance the pleasure of this whole process, defecation should be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, which soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda certifies that his lips, raw like beaten flank steak from nearly continuous analingus with dogs, are greatly soothed by witch hazel which makes it perfect for the anus after diarrhea.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Yoda Doll/Yoda Shampoo/Yoda Soap-on-a-rope. You may need your gay squire/lover to help with this since your fat corpulent ass cannot do a self-reach-around.
5. Put a n1gger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
6. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
7. Pucker and relax your balloon knot. Doing Kegel exercises several times actuating the sphincter muscle and relaxing it will help prepare your ass for what is to come.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's probably bigger than the dicks normally being rammed up your ass!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the Slashdot editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't select the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Suck and gag on a Dr. Who sonic screwdriver like it was the Doctor's dick in your mouth. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Toaster Oven. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that cheap-ass discount bin hardware works 'just as well' as the quality and premium hardware because you can't afford the real stuff. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for World of Warcraft. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful Star Wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal

Did I say a single fucking word defending the NSA, the CIA, or any other of the alphabet of agencies and their tactics?

Of course not, that would wreck the concern trolling. You know, where you claim to support someone or something but have all these Concerns about how they are doing it.

but he can't continue to pretend to be upholding the highest standards of journalism

Still fucking that chicken? When did Assange claim to be the ultimate journalist, carved in marble by the gods themselves on Mt Olympus? What is this talking point supposed to accomplish, what does it change? Not the fact that Assange is better than any hundred journalists you could name from rags like NPR/BBC/FOX/MSDNC/CNN/WaPo/NYTimes.

But Assange is not Snowden, not even close

Because he's released far more secrets than Snowden ever did.

Plot twist:
YOU are actually a loaf!

*SPOILER*
I thought I was aloaf, but it turns out I was brown bread all along.

Hmmm. Interesting variant on a dark noun. Thanks for sharing!

FACTOID;: Negroes are sometimes referred to as Negroids. This has led to the derived word GROID.

He did you see those jive turkey GROIDS?

See them? Hell, I smelled them first! Peeeeuuuuuw!

Slashdot's owners not listening to users during the beta fiasco spawned SoylentNews.

"Get woke, go broke" of the new Slashdot owners has maintained and even allowed Soylent to grow.

'You walked in front of the screen and a 10-year-old in Wyoming shot me dead so now I'm taking the house'

Pretty sure it's more like "you spend more time yelling racial slurs at 10 year olds than acknowledging that your spouse exists."
Fortnite could be Madden, Call of Duty, et cetera. They were called 'Everquest widows' back in the day.

When all you've got is the tired and frayed "racist" card in response to referenced arguments

Your referenced racism, you mean. No bigot in history has stood up and said, "hey, I'm a loser who hates people based on stupid bullshit I pulled out of my ass". They all have reasons for their opinions - yours is taking a fifty year old shooting and using nutpicking to delegitimize and entire movement. See reply to DNS for why this is BS that's only insulting your own intelligence.

The New York Times is partisan. It clearly leans left.

The paper that shilled relentlessly for the Iraq war and then sat on Bush's wiretapping scandal until he was re-elected? You are clearly deranged - and wouldn't know left if the entire Soviet and Chinese armies bit you on the ass.

But even they admitted BLM is based on an incorrect narrative -- blacks were not more likely to be shot by cops.

Laughably false. It's a numerical fact that a black person is far more likely than a white person to be shot. That the majority of those killed by cops are white does nothing to change this fact. You should get together with the equally stupid racists who claim police violence doesn't happen to white people, and all move out to a deserted island where you can be full of shit together.

Did it occur to you that maybe that were brought in alive because they didn't resist arrest?

Did it occur to you that none of the people murdered by cops in the parent's examples resisted either? More dumbfuckery isn't helping your case.

The vast majority of police deaths are caused by shootings.

Unless they literally beat your brains out on the street for no reason. And get away with it. And that guy was even the son of a cop.

Does it bother you when a white person is unlawfully killed by police?

Yup, any more stupid questions? The aforementioned son-of-a-cop who was beaten to death happened to be white.

And what about the black-on-black murders, that absolutely dwarfs deaths from police?

More dumbfuckery. Most murder victims were killed by members of their own race, whites included.

And what about police deaths by blacks, just going to turn a blind eye?

Look, dumbfuck, when a black person commits a crime, everyone expects that black person to jail. Whereas cops are free to murder people with impunity, with the odds of one going to jail about the same as your chance of retiring on a Powerball ticket.

Thus, Black Lives Matter. Because to people like you, they don't matter.

You didn't actually refute anything that was said.

You mean aside from everything, categorically? You know playing the stubborn jackass card doesn't work in real life.

All you did was make excuses for a murderer who fled justice to live in a real life communist country.

You can stop trying to make this delegitimization/deflection happen. It's not going to happen. I can tell you're so dense your head could take a direct hit from the Death Star and you wouldn't even notice, but lets use your argument with different variables. Teabaggers and MAGA hatters have been wearing this T-shirt of late, which celebrates Pinochet throwing thousands people out of helicopters over the ocean. Numerically speaking, that's 40,000 times worse than than citing a fifty year old shootout.

Since you believe in guilt-by-any-association, all Teabaggers, Libertarians, Trump voters and Republicans have to answer for this celebration of fascist mass murder. But of course they don't, because this entire line of reasoning is nutpicking, which is always an exercise in dumbfuckery.

Dumb.
Fuck.
Er.
Eee.

Put down the shovel and stop embarrassing yourself.

Reimer: "a very nerdy child, usually sitting in his room playing world of warcraft. a reimer is also referred to as a lv 60 gnome warrior. :)"

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
v 4.98.1
$YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9stepprocess.sgml,v 4.98.1 2017/11/25 13:54:20 tsarkon Exp $

1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. To better enhance the pleasure of this whole process, defecation should be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, which soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda certifies that his lips, raw like beaten flank steak from nearly continuous analingus with dogs, are greatly soothed by witch hazel which makes it perfect for the anus after diarrhea.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Yoda Doll/Yoda Shampoo/Yoda Soap-on-a-rope. You may need your gay squire/lover to help with this since your fat corpulent ass cannot do a self-reach-around.
5. Put a n1gger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
6. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
7. Pucker and relax your balloon knot. Doing Kegel exercises several times actuating the sphincter muscle and relaxing it will help prepare your ass for what is to come.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's probably bigger than the dicks normally being rammed up your ass!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the Slashdot editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't select the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Suck and gag on a Dr. Who sonic screwdriver like it was the Doctor's dick in your mouth. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Toaster Oven. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that cheap-ass discount bin hardware works 'just as well' as the quality and premium hardware because you can't afford the real stuff. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for World of Warcraft. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful Star Wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
v 4.98.1
$YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9stepprocess.sgml,v 4.98.1 2017/11/25 13:54:20 tsarkon Exp $

1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. To better enhance the pleasure of this whole process, defecation should be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, which soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda certifies that his lips, raw like beaten flank steak from nearly continuous analingus with dogs, are greatly soothed by witch hazel which makes it perfect for the anus after diarrhea.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Yoda Doll/Yoda Shampoo/Yoda Soap-on-a-rope. You may need your gay squire/lover to help with this since your fat corpulent ass cannot do a self-reach-around.
5. Put a n1gger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
6. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
7. Pucker and relax your balloon knot. Doing Kegel exercises several times actuating the sphincter muscle and relaxing it will help prepare your ass for what is to come.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's probably bigger than the dicks normally being rammed up your ass!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the Slashdot editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't select the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Suck and gag on a Dr. Who sonic screwdriver like it was the Doctor's dick in your mouth. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Toaster Oven. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that cheap-ass discount bin hardware works 'just as well' as the quality and premium hardware because you can't afford the real stuff. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for World of Warcraft. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful Star Wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal

You are in bad company with those kinds of irrational beliefs. Especially given your obsession with labeling, segregating yourself from others, and casting dispersions about evilness about without actually demonstrating any harm done.

LOLWUT?!?!

There's even a fucking Wikipedia page on Chinese spy cases in the US.

And ANOTHER one covering Chinese espionage in the US in general.

Is your phone ringing? That would be Planet Earth calling.

Nobody is happy with their ERP .

Link to the definition for those unfamiliar with that term.

Live and let live.

"Live and let live" is itself a political viewpoint, and not a very popular one. The Libertarian Party which espouses that philosophy gets about 1% of the vote.

That is because the Libertarians failed to provide safe places for those poor victims

You mean 'wikador'.

It's uses PUBG because PUBG is what people use, while PLUNKBAT is, well...

The guy (Deroir I think is his name) replied to this with a suggestion so insultingly simple it deserved scorn. He was polite, but it was a REALLY condescending response. Imagine you drive a truck on a really tricky route and write about all the things you contend with. You've been doing this successfully for years. Then someone says, politely, but meaning to educate you, "if you turned the wheel and used the gas at the same time, how about that?" That's a thing deserving only scorn.

He made the insultingly simple suggestion because ArenaNet wasn't doing it. By your analogy, it's like you've been driving a truck successfully for years while operating the wheel or the gas one at a time, but never at the same time. Then someone suggests why not try using both at the same time.

The problem the guy was getting at (the dialog choices don't have any consequences in the plot) is much older than MMORPGs and even CRPGs. It existed back in pen-and-paper RPGing. It's called railroading. The GM (or devs) have a set idea for how the plot should progress, and forces your character down that path. Pretty much all computer RPGs do it, with free-form games like Skyrim or Fallout (outside the main plot) being the rare exception. Mainly because it's a helluva lot easier to write one plotline, than to write a choose-your-own-adventure type plotline with multiple branches and possible endings. A proper, respectful reply would've been simply to state that while a branching plotline is desirable, it would require an order of magnitude more resources to produce. And so it becomes an economic choice between players getting only one new branching plotline each year, or multiple linear plotlines throughout the year.

I discussed RPGs a lot with Raph Koster when he was working on Ultima Online. I threw a lot of suggestions at him, some good, many dumb. I developed a tremendous respect for him because he always responded to my suggestions politely (the dumb ones only needed a short reply to shoot down). He was never insulting, and always provided thought-provoking responses which usually demonstrated why the problem was much deeper than it seemed at first glance. He didn't view dumb suggestions as an insult. He saw them as an opportunity to teach the person making the suggestion, so they themselves could perhaps become better game developers in the future. And that ultimately is what allows our civilization to advance - by helping pull people up to your level if you're clearly higher up. Not by getting offended and trying to tear them down because you think their suggestion is insultingly simple.

"hackers" are people who hack systems.

"crackers", on the other hand, are southern rednecks.

learn the difference. Few crackers are hackers, and few hackers are crackers.

Talk behind closed doors who will take the fall guy/gal.

It's called 'Rotating Villain'

Ayuh.

https://www.urbandictionary.co...

https://www.urbandictionary.co...

What? You don't recognise de facto standards that are in common usage? Doesn't mean they're not standards.

Ok, soy boy.

Ok, sonny boy.

Ok, gramps.

This was an administration openly elected to inflict cruelty on those that expected anything meaningful from shared governance.

Uh... not it wasn't. Grow up.

Fake information to support absurd lies is kind of their "thing".

This is not specific to the current administration, and in fact there's a move afoot to remove, or "drain", the current situation, or "swamp", of people who abuse the system. Especially of people who abuse the system for political gain.

Outrage SHOULD be expected, but we're being trained to turn off all our mental alarms against everything important we used to care about.

And of this I agree. This is a serious breach of trust in government, and while I've generally been giving Ajit Pai a pass because of TDS, this is where we can reasonably be outraged and call for his removal.

1) First order of business: Is this report true? There need to be an unambiguous case of intentionally misleading the public, exposed by the E-mails and with no reasonable other explanation.

(I somehow doubt that this is the case, since it's so obviously easy to uncover, but it would be nice to get some consensus analysis, and maybe an admission and apology from some people at the FCC.)

2) Secondly, who actually did the lying? It's entirely possible that this was done at a low level and not reported to Ajit Pai. It's entirely possible that this was done by appointees from another administration/FCC chairman, and so on.

It's also possible that Ajit Pai knew and condoned it, but let's find out the facts.

3) Thirdly, assuming we have actual people and actual infractions (possibly including Pai), what steps can we take in response?

FCC policy is not the biggest issue on everyone's minds right now, immigration is. Using this to bring down the president is a non-starter, and backing anyone who is also against the president's immigration plan is a planned failure.

With that in mind, what concrete steps can we take in order to yank the FCC's leash?

I've never felt that Change.org petitions are worth anything, but with enough support they do get a response from the WH.

Is that the logical next step?