I fucking hate the way Facebook changed how the site works so that clicking on an image no longer puts it in your browser history. Earlier today I saw a post where the swimmer whose track was shown in this specific image responded to the comments. It was actually quite an amusing interaction and I wish I could go back and share it here.

But also: the swimmer was a she, not a he.

edit:

wait I found it:

Sophie's link: https://sophie-adaptive-athlete.com/2023/01/18/2023-channel-swim-introduction/

My surface reading of this is that it's making fun of how Israel has killed thousands of Palestinian children as part of their genocide, and that they therefore hate kids, in contrast to the paedophiles who "love" them.

But in fact, Israel has provided a safe haven for paedophiles from America and other countries, protecting them from conviction. So Israel is doubly guilty.

We can blame the religious organisation as much as we want, but the fundamental problem here is payment processors. They should be common carriers. Content-neutral middlemen who facilitate payment to anything that isn't literally unlawful. This is no different to an ISP throttling access to Netflix because they operate their own streaming platform. If the storefront, the developer, and the buyer are all ok with a transaction, there's no good reason for a fourth party to stand in the way of that.

Fake and gay.

No way the engineer corrects the mathematician for using j instead of i.

The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It's a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.

• Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders
• Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products
• Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done (some might say normal businesses do this as a matter of course...)
• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible

And I hope youhave learned to ~~sanitize your inputs~~ not fucking use generative AI for grading

Ftfy

apparently he didn’t even get paid and covered his own travel costs

Holy shit that's bad. Can't even try to claim the excuse of "a job is a job" and claiming there's no politics to it.

the feminine species

Anon is a Trans Inclusive Radical Sexist.

He probably should have been honest and upfront about it, but he also named their kid after something he obviously loves, and I think that's great. If she loved the name before knowing its origin, she should love it even more for being associated with something that at least one parent thinks is beautiful.

Safe, sure. Efficient? Not even close.

It's far, far more expensive than renewable energy. It also takes far, far longer to build a plant. Too long to meet 2030 targets even if you started building today. And in most western democracies you wouldn't even be able to get anything done by 2040 if you also add in political processes, consultation, and design of the plant.

There's a reason the current biggest proponents of nuclear energy are people and parties who previously were open climate change deniers. Deciding to go to nuclear will give fossil fuel companies maximum time to keep doing their thing. Companies which made their existence on the back of fossil fuels, like mining companies and plant operators also love it, because it doesn't require much of a change from their current business model.

The meme says "IRS", so it's obviously intended to refer to America.

But outside of that context, they'd fucking deserve it for their shitty dark pattern UX trying to export American tipping culture into the civilised world. If people want to tip, they can do it using cash (so the money actually goes to the person you intended it to!). Or at most, there could be a little "tip" button in the corner somewhere that then takes you to a page like this. It shouldn't be shoved in our faces like this.