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Comment Thanks Bungie (Score 2) 20

After iconic actor Lance Reddick died, leaving the central role of Zavala vacant in Destiny 2, there were fears that Bungie would try this, or kill the character off.

Fortunately they hired another excellent actor with a similarly interesting voice, dodging yet another ethical bullet (so they can carry on with addictive reinforcement channelling into microtransactions and subscription-rentier value extraction, but eh whatever).

Comment Re: With racist agitprop, all roads lead to Mosco (Score 1) 132

Remember that the Blackshirts were famous for their slogan hinting at the ever present disdain and trolling underlaid with violence: "me ne frego", or 'it's nothing to me, your opinion doesn't count' --or 'get fucked' as it was used.

SOP

If people don't want to be called fascist, they should stop quacking like one.

Comment Re: Based (Score 1) 132

Ethnicity, culture, nationality, language are all useful and somewhat neutral distinctions. Race is a bullshit term that only makes sense in the context of historical abuses that it was used to justify, like slavery or disenfranchisement.

So no, that isn't the question, unless you believe that race isn't a bullshit term... and then you should ask, which side am I on, humanists or racists?

Maybe rephrase the question with non-bullshit terms and go from there.

Comment Methodology: same lyrics, different tune (Score 1) 132

It's a well-developed fascist strategy of destabilization.

Here's a choice excerpt from "Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A Tale of Three Elections" recently published on emptywheel.net:

From trial testimony, regarding hashtag hijacking....

"Itâ(TM)s like if you have a hashtag â" back then like a Hillary Clinton hashtag called âoeIâ(TM)m with her,â then what that would be is I would say, okay, letâ(TM)s take âoeIâ(TM)m with herâ hashtag, because thatâ(TM)s what Hillary Clinton voters are going to be looking at, because thatâ(TM)s their hashtag, and then I would tweet out thousands of â" of tweets of â" well, for example, old videos of Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton talking about, you know, immigration policy for back in the â(TM)90s where they said: You know, we should shut down borders, kick out people from the USA. Anything that was disparaging of Hillary Clinton would be injected into that â" into those tweets with that hashtag, so that would overflow to her voters and theyâ(TM)d see it and be shocked by it."

"In the 2016 election, this methodology served to take memes directly from the Daily Stormer, launder them through 4Chan, then use Twitter to inject them into mainstream discourse. Thatâ(TM)s the methodology the far right still uses, including Trump when he baits people to make his Truth Social tweets go viral on Twitter."

Submission + - Kidnapped by a runaway electric car (bbc.co.uk)

RockDoctor writes: Regardless of their other potential benefits, modern cars, and modern electric cars in particular, involve complex networks of computer code, hardware, and servo systems cooperating (?) to deliver services to the user, like acceleration, steering, and braking.

Slashdot nerderati know better than most that such complex networks can never show unexpected, non-designed behaviour, due to the infallibility of hardware, program coders, and system designers.

Yeah. Right. "I'll have some of what he's been smoking!" That's Musk-grade optimism.

On Sunday evening, a middle-aged driver in a "brand new" vehicle found it would not decelerate below 30mph (50kmph). He retained steering control, and avoided crashing until police vehicles "boxed in" his vehicle and helped him exit into a police van (most have sliding side doors) from the moving vehicle. The police then "carried out a controlled halt" on the unmanned vehicle, stopping it from driving away with the van's brakes until a roadside assistance technician arrived 3 hours later and managed to shut it down.

"when the [technician] got to me [...] later, he plugged in the car to do a diagnostic check and there was pages of faults".

By inference, the vehicle did not have a mechanical brake ("hand brake" : English; "parking brake" : American), which should gave been able to keep the vehicle halted regardless of the motor's actions (even if a "clutch" did get burned out). From the only time I've been inside an electric car, I can't say if that is normal ; it's certainly something I'll look for if I ever rent another.

Had the failure happened at 10 in the morning, not 10 in the evening, the body count could have been ... substantial.

My WAG : a sticky accelerator sensor. See also : "bathtub failure rate curve".

A dumb question, stemming from my only use of an electric car : do they have a weight sensor under the driver's seat that locks-out the main motor unless there is (say) 30kg in the driver's seat? Most have some such sensors — they trigger the "seat belt not fastened" alarm, or silence it for empty seats — but whether they can override the drive system ...?

Comment Re:I volunteer as tribute. (Score 0) 381

Only there have always been fat people

Some have been fatter than others, but only to a point and only in places and times where it was possible to eat to excess.

You do know that fat isn't a magic substance that appears out of nowhere, don't you? It is a product your body creates from *excess* calories it can't use for any useful purpose and stores the energy for later use in times of scarcity.

Obesity is the result of there being no time of scarcity for the people making the rest of us suffer from it.

We have paintings of obese people from 4000 years ago

No, we don't. Chubby, maybe, but not obese. In any case they were not the fucking norm as they are today due to the overabundance of food coupled with the entitlement and lack of self-control which are defining features of the obese.

It isn't basic physics.

Yes, it absofuckinglutely is.
Fat is created from excess calories and not from magic. Get all the piggies to admit that fact and then we can talk about tangential issues.

"What causes the cravings"

Irrelevant. What causes the fat to hang off you is eating too much food. That is the state of the argument. Overwhelming numbers of obese people are saying that that is not true and that their weight has zero to do with how much they eat.

This is why there is such a huge pushback against the wave of fat fucks clogging our medical system.

If you're one of the couple hundred people in the entire world who actually Prader-Willi syndrome, than that sucks but it still doesn't change the fact that extra adipose is caused by eating more food than you need.

If you do not have that condition, then you are a whining lying cunt.

If you were to force yourself to act like a human being instead of a pig, then you would be capable of resetting your hormones so your hunger pangs only trigger when you actually need food not when you've made a tiny bit of space that you've always crammed with more shit.

Act like an adult, not a whiny entitled fat fucking child.

Comment Re:I volunteer as tribute. (Score -1, Flamebait) 381

"Different body chemistry caused by the gut bacteria and behavior could cause your body to store more fat and rob you of energy until you can't stick with your current regiment and you start packing on pounds. "

Bullshit you retarded pile of pig shit.

If your mewlings had any value whatsoever then answer this:

How come nobody as fat as your dumb ass ever existed prior to several decades ago?

Jesus fucking christ you butter huffing pigs are retarded.

Obesity is a new thing based solely upon the availability of too much food and the ease of getting it.

You're fat because you eat too fucking much for the amount of energy you require. This is basic physics.

If you forced yourself to act like a human being for a month you'd see changes in your hormones that would make you want to act like a human being instead of forcing yourself to do it.

Comment Re:I volunteer as tribute. (Score 0, Flamebait) 381

"It should be plain to anyone who's met more than a couple of people that people can differ in body shape and muscle mass even with basically the same diet and training."

This is 100% bullshit and anyone with even a high school level of understanding of physics knows this.

People fucking lie about how much they eat or they do not understand how much they actually eat.

"I have no idea why some people have become so eager to deny that, but it doesn't seem to stem from a deep seated belief in equality."

It's because it's idiot retarded bullshit that is in direct conflict with the basic laws of physics which govern all interactions in this universe you moronic fucking dolt.

Comment Re:I volunteer as tribute. (Score 0) 381

Do you hear yourself, piggy?

"Derrrr it doesn't cure my fatness if I don't actually do what I'm supposed to cure my fatness because I'm too much of a lazy glutton to actually work toward a simply achievable goal Waaaaaaaaaaa I blame society"

Get a grip.

*Your* failure to adhere to a reasonable eating plan based on your actual needs is just that:

*Your* failure.

Grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your own shitty choices you fat fuck.

Comment Re:I volunteer as tribute. (Score -1, Flamebait) 381

Shut the fuck up you worthless fucking pig.

Thin people are thin because they have not spent their entire lives eating far more food than they could possibly use.

The laws of physics prove that you're a delusional fat fuck.

Hot tip, one of the many negative consequences of being an obeast is lowered intellectual capacity.

Looks like you're suffering from that one.

Comment Re:I volunteer as tribute. (Score -1, Flamebait) 381

"If 98% of people can't "follow the proper regimen", then it's not a proper regimen,"

It's not "can't" piggy, it's "too fucking lazy and entitled to".

Pull your head out of your ass, quit looking for excuses and put down the god damned fork until you get your hormones back in balance which *you* fucked up by being a fucking piggy.

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