Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.

I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.

How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?

Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”

I read the first bullet point and immediately had a prophetic, future-sight vision of the comments before even scrolling down. I’m so sorry, man, haha.

Oh! This was an ad! Those cocky sons o bitches.

Is that the table?

Now, we all have the future generations of them in our pockets.

And nothing bad ever came of this. That’s true, that’s true.

Which applications?

Sick. What’s the button combo for this one?

I’m surprised I haven’t seen it yet.

https://youtu.be/fibDNwF8bjs

Doesn’t call out libertarians specifically, but it’s appropriate. :p

Also, hello Piped bot.

I had a job that was kind of like this. I spent pretty much all of my down time writing a web game that later got me a software job.

I wasn’t bored, though. I miss working on that thing.

I know, I know, it’s so ridiculous. I can’t believe these are my actual beliefs without any nuance whatsoever.

If that helps you not to think about anything being said, sure.

Out of curiosity, what do you think a hate group does with information on their particular bogeyman?

Um, Charlottesville?
Regular lynchings from the 1800s?
I don’t really understand the question.

Do we really need to keep rehashing the same stuff over and over?

Okay, but you realize this is a different argument. Remakes are being made, so it’s weird to cut certain people out of it.

I have a laundry list of problems with the Disney live-action remakes, but the fact that Halle Bailey is in some doesn’t count for one.

The fact that these remakes often completely misunderstand the story they’re supposed to be telling counts for like 5.

You can if you squint your eyes. I don’t think about how Peter Parker has shaken hands with his successor nearly as much as I think about Spiderman’s new name being Miles Morales.

And also because I am perfectly comfortable with a black Spiderman. This resistance to thinking of them as the same person is just not felt in my brain.

This is a learned skill, by the way. Or unlearned, maybe. I.e., you should think about it.

I used to think I had a problem with Nintendo just deciding for some game that Link would be a girl now. Not a different canon, not a different timeline, not Zelda in disguise: just “Linkle.” In the years I’ve had to think about this, I’ve realized I do not give two shits about it. I might even welcome the sensational 5-gum freshness of it.

And yes, the reason they failed is because they were lazy, but if they weren’t lazy they wouldn’t have been just bland raceswaps.

You’re confounding two variables, though, so this example is incapable of proving anything. Is this the result of half A and B? Just A? Just B? It’s not possible to know.

Further, even if it was true, that audiences just can’t handle black Ariel, I don’t think that means there isn’t a problem. If we’re not allowed to race swap characters, then that means we can’t really hire black actors. “We can just write new characters”? Yeah, we can do that. But you’re basically saying that the last 80 years of shared, televised cultural history, even past all of the racial segregation of the 50s, the 60s, and on, is just inaccessible to the “other kinds.” Like, is a black woman not allowed to write a Cinderella?

I don’t think the complaints could’ve been that many,

Last thing: You should go looking for these people more often. Not so you can be like them, just to see them. I used to think that we lived in a post-racism world years and years ago. You don’t really get a sense of how the public behaves until you survey them. It’s good for you, though; know thy enemy.

Is that why it works, or is that just how they did it?

Subscription services still get worse. The arrogance Cable TV must have to show us ads—cable was the ad-free service back in its day. The same is happening with Netflix. The same will happen with Spotify. This thing is a snake eating it’s own fucking tail.

I want something without perverse incentives. Donations, maybe. Taxes, possibly. I get free roads, why not a free search index.