I can't help but feel like this joke image is almost redundant now that we have this:

Like, when the reality is even more on the nose than the satire we used to make of it... it's almost nostalgic to remember when we had to join the dots to show that he was a nazi.

Also the witch hunts were part of the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism. It was about limiting women's access to birth control and growing the workforce. "Witches" were usually the midwives of their villages. Women had to be alienated from control over their own bodies before they could be forced into subservient roles as housewives and baby making machines.

Disenfranchising minorities, and especially women, has always been part of the capitalist playbook to keep us oppressed and attacking one another rather than uniting against them.

That's my favourite line, "I'm sorry we can't do that because of how our system works."

"But you're ripping me off and that's illegal."

"I'm sorry, the system won't allow me to refund you."

"So you're admitting that your company built a system that rips people off and breaks the law as a matter of policy? You realise that's worse, right?"

The whole point is that at some point somebody can check, and you can have a higher level of trust in that than proprietary software.

And if someone does something like this then it has to be disguised as an innocuous bug, like heartbleed, they can't just install full on malware.

It's a different beast entirely.

They've been conditioned to respond to certain key phrases with certain responses.

So the trigger goes trans women -> care -> women's sports but you don't get women's sports -> care.

Or veganism -> care -> nutrition but not nutrition -> care.

Our brains are weird things, they have to develop links between ideas in both directions or else they stay one-way. It takes real work and discipline to develop critical thinking practices, and even then you have to keep working at it to minimise this kind of cognitive dissonance, and you'll never get rid of it entirely.

Of course it helps if you're not miseducated by authoritarian schooling practices and conservative media.

It isn't flirty, "super cool" sounds like she's taken a pic of a sunset or a cat or a party or something. "Hot" is a good start, or something like "wow", or "omg" or any combination of 😍🥵😳💗🔥💦🍆 works. You could try making a joke but the punchline has to imply you like what you see.

The recovery was actually pretty good though, it's funny and it makes it clear that the person wants to flirt, because they regret not flirting and they actually would like to sex. I would go on to say something that implies my brain short circuited because I wanted to sex her that badly. Something like, "In my defense I've heard people can't make words good when they're extremely horny, so please take that into account".

Nexusmods is a pretty reputable, long-lived site to my knowledge, and they have an enormous catalogue of mods all maintained by their creators on the site. I don't know why you wouldn't want to make an account there specifically unless you have some aversion to making accounts in general.

They also successfully worked to negotiate with the hostage takers when the police didn't.

After they negotiated their own release they criticised the police in the media, and the police realised that since the hostage leading all of this was a woman, they could just employ a standard abuser's tactic and call her crazy. Apparently it worked.

The article doesn't say what arguments were disallowed: he is not allowed to cite the public interest as a defense for his actions, because the Australian military supposedly must follow orders over considering the public's wellbeing.

They just said out loud that the military are goons that serve the ruling class.

There's a story from WWII about an injured British bomber making it back home and discovering unexploded 20mm rounds in its fuel tank, that certainly would've destroyed the plane had they exploded.

When they looked into it, they found the shells were empty, with a note in one of them written in Czech, that said, "This is all we can do for you now. Using Jewish slave labour is never a good idea."

Seems like maybe this has happened again. Despots never have the level of control they imagine.

I know I used to know a word for this, but I'm not sure what it was.

If you read this meme without inferring any drama, it's just a dude accurately describing a situation and then exclaiming his confusion for unknown reasons.