When ya put it like that, it makes capitalism sound kinda like Roko’s Basilisk.

Funny, they always have these weird recordings from a deranged Australian.

Honestly with my social anxiety, self checkout works perfectly for me. I feel a hard to describe tension when being rung up by most folks that I don’t feel when ringing myself up, and if I’m just popping in for a few things I’d rather not stress myself out more than I need to.

Germans speak deutsch, whereas the Dutch speak Nederlands. The German language is just called German in English, and the Dutch language is just called Dutch.

It’s like Roko’s Basilisk playing out in real time, except instead of building a malignant computer out of fear it’s accelerating a fascist takeover.

Evidently, yes.

What a horrid perversion of the very human experience of art. Miyazaki would want nothing of this.

Oh wow, little strange to see Pulsar’s account outside certain furry circles :o He ain’t wrong tho.

The far right is, quite literally, removing the freedom for undesired people to do what they want. If a woman needs an abortion to survive an ectopic pregnancy or a trans person wants HRT, the far right says no.

Look up the Four Humors, it predated germ theory.

Over the years Sony had engaged in several media storage format wars. Just a few off the top of my head:

VHS vs Sony Betamax

HD-DVD vs Bluray

SD cards vs Sony Memory Sticks

DVD-R vs DVD+R (two competing standards of writable DVDs within the DVD format)

On top of that they were behind or otherwise involved with other successful formats such as the 3.5" floppy disk and the CD.

Spoiler alert: If your media format is successful, you get passive income via licensing. If some company wants to print Bluray discs or manufacture Bluray players, they have to pay licensing fees, leading to further profit for Sony (and anybody else involved in the making of said media format.)

Pop Team Epic, a proper shitpost of a show.

More Bob Page, if you’ve played Deus Ex.

Oh I need it for my band.

That’s cause you need a hot pink button up with “Badman” emblazoned on the back to truly state your masculine dominance to the world.

Ah yes, the titpuddle scene.

I do the same thing, but mostly because I develop Doom mods for fun and it’s just an easy place to dump sprites and audio files. I can drag a file directly from my desktop to the modding program I use, and then just clean up once I’m finished working on what I’m working on. Otherwise my desktop just has a few shortcuts.

The MP5 we got at home: https://youtu.be/BkMjoM2z6co

Plz don’t groth on my dieck, that’s just rude.