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I’m not a Mac user (and don’t know any Mac users) so … what’s a “dongle” in this context?

People who shamble off the top of an escalator slowly while the machinery behind them shoves more people at them.

Self-driving cars.

They’re one hack away from being a mass murder machine that kills thousand to hundreds of thousands (depending on the size of the hack) all around a nation (or possibly even the world).

I’d probably go with a huxian (狐仙). I mean look at the benefits:

1. Shape-shifting out the door. That’s always fun.
2. Since they’re on a path to becoming an immortal (仙) there’s less of that morally grey area that the huli jing (狐狸精) bring with them. I mean sure, seducing scholars to trick them could be great fun (geeks and nerds are my type), but it’s not really conducive to immortality, is it?
3. As a huxian I’m revered by the people who encounter me (as opposed to the huli jing who is often villainized and chased out).
4. Through “inner alchemy” (内丹) I cultivate in myself ever increasing magic powers like weather manipulation, herbal mastery, and astral projection.
5. In the end I become an immortal worshipped by scholars and others and can even start mentoring scholars who are cultivating themselves.

And all that without the tediousness of tending to Inari’s whims (kitsune) or being in a predatory cycle with no form of cultivation or improvement (gumiho). I’m just a well-regarded philosopher-fox.

People owning phones and no computers is the norm here. It’s reached the point that half my colleagues do BUSINESS on the phone only; their PCs rarely turned on.

Battleship.

Going by the strictest of interpretations of your criterion, my expectations for Battleship were “ninth circle of Hell”-abouts. The actual film was only the eight circle. Still utterly dire and worthless, but not quite as dire as I’d thought it would be.

That looks like it could be a fun (albeit really heavy) instrument to play.

Ooh! That IS interesting. Half-harp, half-piano.

I don’t get it. It’s a piano built sideways? The person taking the video isn’t really showing the context of all the details they’re filming.

They bounced three. In one of those links they cited SIXTEEN who openly used Nazi symbolism just in their avatars and whatnot.

Substack is still a Nazi bar.

But of course you didn’t bother to check, did you?

You’ve (collective) got the information. And the solution to it, no less, in the last link. What you (collective) choose to do about it is on your head. But given what I’ve seen in the USA’s so-called “left” you’re going to cheerfully continue using a service that profits from Nazis.

You do you, boo.

Substack is a leftist platform? Since when?

• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/
• https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/substack-nazi-content-policies-controversy/
• https://www.theverge.com/24040685/substack-newsletters-nazi-content-moderation-policy
• https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/substackers-against-nazis
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/business/substack-nazis-content-moderation.html

There’s more. Many more. And a list of literal (as in swastika-flaunting) Nazis being hosted on Substack would be far longer. (Oh, and you might want to have a look at the dates on those articles. This is not new information.)

What do you call a bar, again, that lets Nazis openly associate? And what do you call the other patrons also in it?

Maybe the non-Nazis should read this: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/

The irony of using a fasc-friend platform to talk about resisting fascists when Ghost is right over there.

I am not sure what you mean by saying the CPC isn’t Communist anymore.

The CPC has never been communist.

It’s socialist.

The number drops a bit when the polls are done in secrecy. Still far higher than any western government, mind.

To clarify for any pseudo intellectual who happens to be reading:

“<X> is true for <reason> you utter idiot” is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

“<X> is true because you’re an utter idiot” is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

Glad to be of service.

Have you considered taking a communications course so you don’t sound like a pretentious, obfuscating jackass?

Eschew gratuitous obfuscation. (See what I mean?)

In AI alone, we lead the world.

*Deep Seek has entered the chat.*

This is the precise problem with these kinds of empty actions. Back in the '70s and early '80s, when this was still new, companies would panic over this kind of action. Then they noticed it didn’t even register as a blip on the stats. A mild anomaly, maybe, if it was held on the last day of a month, but completely buried in annual statistics.

If you want them to actually take notice, you’re going to need to have more than a day. And that means going without. Which most people are unwilling and/or unable to do.

I’m specifically talking about the one day economic blackout.

These have been done dozens of times over dozens of issues and have had zero impact ever. A one-day blackout won’t do shit except give the Ralph Wiggums of the world that “I’m helping!” feeling. If you want them to feel it it has to be longer-term. A week. A month. A year. And that’s sadly, something that people in a consumerist culture lack the stamina to do.

These “one day no purchase” things don’t work. It takes sustained effort to “vote with your wallet”.