@Aqua-Letifer said in Overreacting?: The comments in that thread are all the proof you need that the internet has been an utter failure in expanding worldviews. @Aqua-Letifer said in Overreacting?: The comments in that thread are all the proof you need that the internet has been an utter failure in expanding worldviews. Did you have hope that it would?

Facebook announces $40 Billion stock buyback: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/facebook-parent-meta-announces-40-billion-stock-buyback.html

@Axtremus said in Sage’s Law: @LuFins-Dad said in Sage’s Law: The very fact that schools FOR ANY REASON withhold information from students legal guardians and custodians is so completely outrageous and is a complete violation of the compact made between educators and parents. Exceptions are reasonable when legal guardians/custodians are reasonably believed to be the abusers inflicting harm on the students. This is one of those cases where you like talking out of your ass because you think it's fun to piss people off by peddling your simpleton propaganda. We do actually have a system in place to determine whether information should be withheld from legal guardians and it sure as fuck isn't, "whatever the Math teacher thinks is okay." None of this has anything to do with gender, but their making it so led to this tragedy.

Oh, hey, what do you know, another very serious implication coming out of technology no one is fucking paying attention to until after it causes problems.

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@jon-nyc said in The view out my window right now: No filters, just a straightup shot on an iPhone 11. That's obvious. The window bumped the blacks by about +50. Nice one.

Good luck.

MLK day, hooray!

I figured he wrote it.

In a statement Tuesday, the embattled congressman thanked the speaker for “allowing me to take time to properly clear my name.” He misspelled “change”

It's shocking how many of those are one hit wonders. Even more shocking is how many I've never heard. I'll get off your lawn now...

idiots

@89th said in Stupid Cellphone Question: Sorry, not helpful, I know. Luddite.

Tried to trace it to the source (Philly Fed paper) but the link was broken.

https://m. Link to video https://m. Link to video Actually, that last one is from 1987 in London. But I figured somebody would like the sax solo.

I honestly don't get any of this. It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? Really, it's those two things? That's life? Build your career and be a saint? "Lips" Kudlow from freaking Anvil even has a better perspective: "All you've got are your relationships and your experiences." Separate that out a little more, and you've got: are you learning what you need to learn to be helpful to yourself (and then by extension, other people) are you building on your professional skills so that you don't stagnate, and you learn to contribute in greater ways to and for others are you doing right by your friends and family are you having fun by doing constructive things with your time If you're at least attempting to get on some kind of upward trajectory with those, those two silly pop morality notions of virtue work themselves out.