I don’t think you’re wrong, but I think you expect too much from people. Some people don’t have more to offer than virtue signaling and proviking outrage. Not everyone has the capacity to write a thoughtful and compelling argument. We’re hanging out on Lemmy writing comments to each other. It’s an open forum. There’s no entrance exams or rules against slacktivism.

And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a slogan or a chant or a meme or a bumper sticker or a tshirt or a hat or a button or a plaquard or a tweet or an emoji being the summary of your message. It’s easier to share and easier to remember. Calling it “slacktivism” is itself a clever portmanteau to convey a much broader concept, instead of a thoughtful and compelling argument. But I’m not mad, because I understood what you were saying and do not need additional convincing.

If you’re reading yet another article about police protecting a criminal because the criminal wears a badge, then “ACAB” is sufficient to share your point of view. It would be really cool if we didn’t live in a society where the term had any relevance, and nobody knew exactly what it meant. Sadly, the things we have shorthand for tell us the things we see a lot.

ACAB is not an insult, it’s shorthand for an ideological shift in how we perceive civil servants. It’s a reminder, or a clue for those who haven’t seen it before, that we have a very real problem.

Similarly, references to the guillotine should serve as a reminder that the social contract applies to everyone. When the rich devalue the lives of the poor, enriching themselves at the expense of human suffering, they need a reminder that they are outnumbered. The downtrodden need a reminder that basic human decency is a reciprocal requirement.

I’m with you on personal insults, even against shitbags like Leon, but I also enjoy clever or novel insults, so it’s more about how repetitive they are for me.

“The company to which I’ve always given my money because I trusted them to make good products has started taking advantage of my trust and is producing shitty products. How do I avoid this?”

Stop buying their products the moment they stop making good ones.

I feel your frustration, but I think you already knew the answer. Any workaround or jailbreak or open source firmware update would just be avoiding the problem, not fixing it. Stop buying Logitech products.

Salty, sweet, greasy flour and egg mush. Mmmmm

I don’t know enough sign language to say for sure, but I do know that signers are often expressive and mouth words along with signing. It’s actually something I’ve noticed that fakers don’t do, because they don’t have hand motions to match their mouths.

Edit to add, it would help to have audio, because I knew a few of those signs and it might match up with the speech.

Compare this lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNPKwz4Ghw

Or this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CujDuBthnOw

Or this guy who seemed to actually know a few words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWJwIs3pbI

and here’s some real ASL interpreters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlxsY1lbSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byToG9ZWSM4

Notice the expressions match the tone and specific words.

Three things happen during baking that change the flavor of a cookie.

Maillard reaction, caramelization, and the melting of fats. There are more, but those are the three we’re going to talk about.

The maillard reaction takes raw flour and turns it brown. It absorbs some of the sugar in the process, and creates a more complex, nutty flavor. Caramelization also browns some of the sugar, giving it a smoky, bitter flavor. They also give the cookie a firm or crispy texture.

You also melt any fats, like butter, that are in the dough. Melted butter separates and spreads throughout the cookie.

There’s also often an egg that helps build structure for the baked dough, and sometimes baking soda for fluffiness.

This means uncooked dough is sweeter than a baked cookie. It has a soft, dense, and moist texture that disappears when fully baked. It’s butter and sugar held together with flour and egg, and it’s delicious.

For any free-market capitalists out there, this is called “market manipulation.” It’s the same as spoiling a product and letting it go to waste rather than selling it at the market price, or giving it away, because you’d rather keep the price artificially high. It’s part of the grift. They make more by price gouging in times where passengers are desperate than they lose by flying with empty seats. If they were to lower the price to the point where people would actually want to buy them, then the gouging would be too obvious.

Still working for me.

I expect it to be like every other season, some good and some not. It’s an edgy show that tries to explore weird concepts. I like that it is experimental, but that means sometimes the experiments don’t always succeed.

She definitely said this, in 2007, when describing a law passed in San Francisco requiring the safe storage and handling of guns in the city. The law did not lead to any surprise inspections of the homes of gun owners, and the law has withstood several challenges in every level of the courts. It’s pretty clear to me from context and how the law was enforced that she was speaking about the right to privacy vs the responsibility to follow the law. She was not actually threatening to enter homes without cause and inspect anyone’s gun safe, although I can understand why it is being interpreted that way (especially by those motivated to create attack ads).

There was also a provision in the same bill prohibiting gun storage in public housing, but that was ruled unconstitutional in 2009.

I feel like this has been done. There was an AI generated “debate” between Biden and Trump that was mostly swear words. But it was trained on their speeches and was mostly gibberish and insults.

Edit: It was on Twitch, and users could add inputs and questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDKBtAWtTfg

Good point.

The game mechanic is incredibly simple, and has been cloned a million times. The graphics weren’t anything special, so really the only thing special about Flappy Bird is the name Flappy Bird.

Every time I get close to buying a smartwatch, I discover some reason why it isn’t going to do exactly what I want it to do.

My hope is that, when the show comes on in a few weeks, they don’t even parody Trump. The actor who plays him reads his statements verbatim, because he’s so far beyond parody.

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The $2 bill exists to give people the superpower to win arguments with minimum wage retail workers.

Normally, it really bothers me, but in this case I can understand that the explanation wouldn’t fit in the headline. “Rookie QB is the first to suck so bad he threw for more than 25 receptions for less than 100 yards and no TDs and his team still won” has a bit of a Knopian quality to it.

There was some dubious history made in Williams’ first start, as he is the only rookie quarterback to throw 25+ pass attempts and record under 100 passing yards in his first start and win the game. Of the seven other rookie quarterbacks that have reached those numbers in their first start, all of them lost the game.

Saved you a click.