gAlienLifeform

gAlienLifeform , 4 days ago to Memes in Atrakcyjne wynagrodzenie

Looks like mądry Polak po szkodzie isn't always the case

gAlienLifeform , 14 days ago to Interesting Global News in German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors

“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.

So, there's a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don't know the context here, but just taking this article's description at face value,

[Paraphrasing], "Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it's my job, no really)" seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it

gAlienLifeform , 17 days ago to Lefty Memes in Nice Guy

They get worse every time they lose elections because they're able to sell their voter base on all the "we need to do these horrible things to win" arguments. Step one of solving our problems is electing shitty Democratic lawmakers, step two is primarying them for failing to do what they campaigned on (with community organizing and mutual aid throughout these two steps and just as a general ongoing thing).

gAlienLifeform , 17 days ago to Lefty Memes in Nice Guy

I'd rather hear the "Trump is worse" arguments than listen to people try to gaslight us into believing Biden's been good, at least "Trump is worse" is true

gAlienLifeform , 20 days ago to Lefty Memes in Country

Yeah, just as an example -

Marty "Big Iron" Robbins released a song in 1966 called "Ain't I Right" that said people who came down to southern towns last summer to show people a new way of life were actually a bunch of secret Communists who didn't care about America and just wanted to sow discord.

Some context: in the summer of 1964, a bunch of civil rights activists went down to southern states to register people to vote for an event called "Freedom Summer," which led to them being harassed by local police and eventually at least 3 of them being murdered by the KKK. This was a huge headline dominating story that made the American mainstream actually start paying attention to the civil rights movement and start looking at how bad racism in the south had gotten, so Robbins was totally reacting to and trying to push against that change in popular opinion when he released that song.

gAlienLifeform , 1 month ago to 196 in [not a meme] anyone I should add?

Mike Duncan seems like a pretty cool dude, and the Revolutions podcast is incredibly good

gAlienLifeform , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Congregation

Thank you for this, updated my comment. I totally deserve a small bit of hate here because that was a disservice to people who need alt text and screen readers, but for whatever it's worth a) learning to format things properly for screen readers is just something I still need to learn (and if you could point me towards a good resource for that I would definitely be interested), b) I was reacting to a comment that had been in here earlier (seems to have since been removed) that was claiming to be a transcription but changed the actual text of the OP, so I really just wanted to get something more accurate in here, but I should have said that was my best attempt at a transcription instead of just saying it was one.

gAlienLifeform , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Lefty Memes in Congregation

Transcribed accurately (thank you to spujb@lemmy.cafe for correcting my earlier attempt):

Thembo
@OnlyAWorldAway

Liberals: oh you care about palestine? stop tweeting and do something

*people organize nation-wide protests and actions at great personal risk*

Liberals: you swine. i hope the police beat you into a fine red paste. i hope they come after your families. how dare you

gAlienLifeform , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to 196 in so be cool rule

wrestle with jIMMY

gAlienLifeform , 2 months ago to 196 in yeah

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=t_lpSSTIbpM

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago to Technology in After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines

The devices should be returned to inmates immediately, prison administrators should then slap themselves in the face one time for implementing them poorly to begin with, slap themselves in the face several times for overreacting to a viral story without having any reason to believe there was an active or imminent problem with any of their inmates, and deliver a tooth-loosening punch to their own faces for thinking they could punish these inmates by taking away their education to cover their screw up.

After that, hire a real IT person who knows what they're doing by paying them decently allowing remote work and not drug testing, and then listen to them.

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago to Technology in After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines

Not victimizing all of the student inmates because the prison invested in a poorly designed system that could potentially be exploited when none of the students have attempted that exploit or were likely even aware of it

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago to Technology in After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines

Every prisoner who knew about that password

Meanwhile, back in reality

Wright confirmed no one incarcerated in Washington prisons had attempted to unlock their devices but said the decision was “made out of an abundance of caution.”

gAlienLifeform OP , 2 months ago to Technology in After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines

They were taken for reasons that inmates had nothing to do with, they have not been replaced, and it's unclear when they'll be returned. Inmates who are enrolled in college courses are having to handwrite papers that are due soon.

gAlienLifeform , 3 months ago to Memes in Leftist game be like

I have never felt so seen by a piece of media as I did when I got the solution to this thought