mindbleach

mindbleach , vor einem Tag

K bye.

mindbleach , vor 2 Tagen

Addressable.

mindbleach , vor 8 Tagen

That's like serving a hamburger patty beside a slice of cheese and a squirt of ketchup, with the bun on a separate plate.

mindbleach , vor 8 Tagen

Mit pommes frites should be on the pommes frites. The whole thing belongs in one mess of a bowl. Deconstructing a kebab like this is a travesty.

mindbleach , vor 8 Tagen

Probably not Ankh-Morpork, because Vetenari is nothing if not competent.

mindbleach , vor 10 Tagen

Linking to another instance is kind of silly.

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/6e34f865-490b-4ac4-a9c8-0bee6f6394cd.webp

mindbleach , vor 16 Tagen

And she's the kind of woman Spike Spiegel loves: she'll fucking kill you.

mindbleach , vor 16 Tagen

Exploiting trust is worse. That parasocial z-list celebrity isn't recommending something - they were paid to read corporate propaganda.

The most painful version of this is Lindsey Ellis's video on "Manufacturing Authenticity." It ends with a deep sigh and an ad read. The brand knew she was doing a video about how brands pay the popular kids to shill their whatever, and they did not care, because all that matters is getting a known face to say the words.

mindbleach , vor 16 Tagen

Advertising shits in your brain.

mindbleach , vor 23 Tagen

Whoever downvoted this needs to look up the UN definition of genocide.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

As I've been putting it: software is made of labor.

Unfortunately the actual reason Agile got big is that the cult of MBAs saw daily meetings putting scores on estimates and absolutely creamed their slacks.

mindbleach , vor 29 Tagen

What did this sentence mean before Autocorrect ate it?

mindbleach , vor 29 Tagen

So I should be perfectly safe to mention any awful shit that allegedly leftist states did... right?

No possibility this comment gets removed for saying leftist states can also fuck up, or implying any of them are only allegedly leftist.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

'In practice, specific people in power are abusing it.'

'Impossible, read this theory.'

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

'This site's mods and admins censor dry criticism.'

'We the users handle criticism just fine.'

That was not the subject.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

'They'd be bad if they did this.'

'They do.'

'Asshole.'

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

Here's that thing you think doesn't exist. Straight-up 'the Soviet Union did nothing wrong and the holodomor didn't happen.' With people cheering him on. In an anarchist community.

Re-reading it now, he also insists the USSR saved Poland... y'know... after they split it in half. If people want to celebrate the Soviets' role in defeating Hitler, by all means shout it from the rooftops, but nobody got out of World War 2 completely innocent.

I just blocked that guy instead of getting into it - even though I apparently fucking adore getting into it - specifically because of past moderation on this instance. I will bicker and have it out with people for days, when I feel a topic is important, and continue having it out with the mods themselves if they want to intervene, and even I have simply written off most of this instance as an exclusion zone. Too many broadly-agreeable spaces are policed to enforce very specific opinions about really fucked-up topics.

You are mocking people's honest experiences of this instance. Its reputation is not some conspiracy. New users incidentally mention obvious problems with certain geopolitically important countries, get their comments erased or maybe eat a ban, and are told by old users - 'yeah, that'll happen.'

It's a broken stair.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

For posterity:

Convenient that the censorship concerns get raised just after the an adversary of to an a in square. Any correlation Here?

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

Long means correct, apparently. Nevermind what's being said.

you’re notably not banned from .ml

Strawman. Not all bans are permanent, not all bans are global.

And 'I never see what you're talking about' / 'it can't be what you're talking about if I can see it' is a catch-22.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 28 Tagen)

You don’t like leftists

Arguments are easy when you just make shit up.

Good day.

edit: And pre-empting any posturing about 'well I made up a challenge and it went unanswered,' you can check the modlog. Check mine. You don't need me to hold your hand for it. See where one of your mods misspelled "orientalism" because someone dared call China a dictatorship. I don't see any point pressing the issue with you when your hot take on counterfactual nonsense is 'but where's the detailed disproof? the Gish gallop is correct by default!'

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

I am literally agreeing with something this user said and quoting the insult they lobbed at me.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

lobs insults

Didn't.

mindbleach , vor 28 Tagen

You are grasping.

Reevaluate.

mindbleach , vor 27 Tagen

Because the admins and several major mods have a history of censoring disagreement. Especially when it's criticism of "those very left states." Often just for saying those states are left... or aren't.

mindbleach , vor 29 Tagen

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't have to feel the same way about everyone. You can have different opinions about a fascist punching a lesbian and a lesbian punching a fascist.

A lot of snippy comments go 'well how would you feel if it was different?' I might feel different. Do you think that's a contradiction?

mindbleach , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

An uncharitable conservative reading would be 'buying off votes.'

An uncharitable progressive reading would be that you have to pay these people not to become fascists.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

But getting hormones is a bitch and a half.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

Source is CenturiiChan.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

ProJared: "The E stands for Developer and the A stands for Graveyard."

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

Everyone was on vacation!

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

Sleve McDicheal for MVP.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

"Stop trying harder to prevent our invasion!"

Fuck along.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

But the government is doing an investigation against universities to root out “wokeness”.

Which is a course of action rooted in politics.

Specifically, fascism.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

"Those countries reflect poorly on socialism."

"How dare you, they're not really socialist."

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

Words mean what they're used to mean. Even the word "government" is wildly different between Europe and the US. We flip out over headlines like the government of Belgium has collapsed! and it's only as much of a kerfuffle as the House trying to elect a Speaker.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

But when the same things happen under other systems, that's different.

mindbleach , vor einem Monat

... would you be happy in prison, on the basis that there's food and housing and you can take correspondence courses?

• and most importantly no fascists in government

Like it matters what color the Secret Police's armbands are. But hey, your kids will be taken care of! Even if... something happens to you.

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

ITT: That doesn't count!!!

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

'We're only defending the imaginary ideal!'

That's not how words work. Things mean what they are used to mean.

Y'all understand this perfectly when describing "capitalism." That word becomes synecdoche for every level and aspect of modern reality. By definition, capitalism is only really the part where having money makes money, but nobody has any trouble understanding what you mean when you refer to its consequences and implications. Nor would you respect if libertarians split hairs about "corporatism." Like oh, this isn't capitalism, because it lacks X and Y and Z, which have never existed, so how dare you talk about bad things that actually happened.

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah sure dude, existing in a context is why people condemned police states.

'People who don't know the difference between these terms must be using the more-recognizable one as an oblique criticism of the gap between theory and practice' is the most .ml take I have ever seen.

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

... do you understand that criticism can come from outside your own belief set?

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

Ignoring what other people mean is not a yes.

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

Making up what you'd rather hear is worse.

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

You have repeatedly ignored explanations of what people are doing and why, to instead engage in scoffistry at opinions sourced from the vicinity of your pelvis.

Repeated efforts to highlight how that's what you're doing, and get back to what people say and mean, led you to dismiss people entirely. "Perhaps what you mean isn’t worth much?" is a confession.

mindbleach , vor 2 Monaten

More boring projection. Good night.

mindbleach , vor 3 Monaten

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