I think my bank manager has a kink, keeps texting me about “transaction”??

Patient 1

I wanted to try Brave a couple of years ago. I ran the installer, and it was one of those pieces of shit installers that just goes ahead and installs without any input from the user, dumping god knows what onto your system, and it puts everything in some obscure AppData subdirectory that can’t be deduced without right-clicking the desktop shortcut. I uninstalled it without even launching it once.

If a user is 50/50 on whether or not they just installed malware, you might wanna check your programming practices.

If you say it in the same tone of voice that Muhammad Ali used to tell Joe Frazier to sit down during that television chat show altercation, and while slowly unzipping your trousers in a manner similar to when a cop places his hand on his holstered Glock, it works pretty well.

I can tell by the flavour that a new love interest will come into your life imminently.

Baby Damien is the real enemy, he is the Ratatouille mouse who makes Musk do the horrible things he does. Like Grimes.

Say what you will about Musk, but you gotta hand it to the man; for someone who has sired so many bastards with so many different women, he has somehow remained the world’s biggest virgin.

Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t realise loving the white race and wanting a secure future for white children makes me a BIGOT.

/s

Believers: God exists, look at the wondrous complexity and beauty of life!

Snails:

I’m convinced Epstein killed himself, but I’m also convinced that MAGA’s top brass pewter are overrepresented on those lists.

The first time I ever heard or saw Mastodon (the band), it was a live performance on Letterman that genuinely sucked balls. It put me off the band for about a year before I gave them a proper listen (they’re now in my top 5 bands of all time). Anyway, on that first clip I saw on Letterman, I thought the bassist was Keanu Reeves and that this was another of his weird side projects. I remember thinking “stick to acting bro, this sucks”.

This is the clip in question:

https://youtu.be/ktw9XCpDS2M

Fucking awful performance. But tell me that’s not Keanu’s twin brother on bass, perhaps after a stint of sleeping on Oscar the Grouch’s couch 👀

I could never 😭 my heart sinks when I look in a mirror, I don’t need a mirror that specifically highlights and exaggerates my flaws.

I wish I had the balls and emotional security of the people who get this done and then laugh about it! They’re inspiring, in a way. Something to try to emulate.

“Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children devs!?”

The last refuge of a dying argument 😴

No we don’t!

/PIPs assessor

Nazi ideology, OP OP. There was a nice little thing we had once, until you cunts took it up like a hoard of malignant nihilist pussies 😒Now we can’t even bring up the Third Reich’s many incredible qualities in conversation without someone rolling their eyes! n-chan numpties ruin every fandom.

/ss

Potatrick Tuberman

I’ve been reading about the Holocaust a fair bit of late, and it’s interesting to see the debate around the functionalist/intentionalist view of how it happened. OP’s story seems to lend credence to the former version, in that the Nazi state was a patchwork of warring factions that were each trying to take power for themselves and in an effort to do so, tried a little too hard to do what they imagined Hitler wanted of them, namely more and more murder and ruthlessness and general mayhem, eventually culminating in plans for wholesale extermination. This is the functionalist view, where things happened almost in a bottom-up fashion, whereas the intentionalist idea is one where Hitler planned the Holocaust from day one in a top-down approach. I personally think it’s more likely to be the former though, at least from what I’ve read about it anyway.

Growing up in the '80s and '90s, I never really learned much about the Holocaust aspect of WWII. I knew the broad strokes, of course, but the finer details of the Nazi state’s operations are where the true horror lies. Even without WWII or the Holocaust, it was one of the purest examples of a nightmarish dystopia run by corrupt, amoral, incompetent, petty, narcissistic lunatics and sociopaths. The parallels with certain modern governments is terrifying…

I don’t really care? Is that allowed? 🤷‍

I’m old enough to remember when computers started to be used for art, and how traditional artists were complaining about how soulless the end product would be, and how unskilled people could ‘fake’ being good artists because the computer does most of the work for them. I mean the undo function of a computer on its own is putting incredible creative power into the hands of even the most useless digital artist, power that da Vinci himself would have creamed his little loincloth over. And the copy & paste function - and all of the other everyday functions all PC users depend on - cut down the production time by orders of magnitude compared to traditional painting/drawing. This isn’t even getting into the incredible transformation tools on offer in Photoshop (or even MS Paint 1.0).

Remember matte painters who painted incredible photorealistic chunks of the screen in films? Do Photoshop users of today feel any qualms about having extincted the fuck outta those people? Would they have even entertained the woes of those artists if they were around at the time? Would they have been calling for government intervention to prevent non-traditional matte painters from taking those jobs?

What about sculptors and stop-motion pros? Movies have been riddled with worse-looking CGI replacements for those things for half a century. Any shits given about those artists who spent their lives perfecting their craft only to be supplanted overnight by a cunt with a Pentium who produces objectively worse results?

AI is just the latest sabot-magnet disruption, and it won’t be the last, despite the apocalyptic language around it. Either find a way to live with it and exploit it, or lay down in the Artists of Christmas Past mass grave and pull the clay in over yourselves. Or, you know, go ahead and try to uninvent it or whatever it is you’re proposing 👍 And if you really wanna go hardcore, uninstall all of your digital art tools, get yourself an easel and see what you can do in the “real world” with your “real talents” without recourse to time-saving, labour-deleting, instantaneous bespoke-brush-manifesting technology.

I bet it’d also cause a huge comeback for those rub-on tattoos you used to get with bubblegum.

The film and its follow-up set of miniseries:

• This is England (2006) (The film)
• This is England '86 (2010)
• This is England '88 (2011)
• This is England '90 (2015)

From the same writer/director (Shane Meadows), I also recommend The Virtues (2019) miniseries.

Both projects are semiautobiographical. They can be a tough watch in certain episodes, so check doesthedogdie.com for possible triggers.

One of Shane Meadows’ earlier films is often recommended, so it’s probably one you’ve already seen, but Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) is worth a look if it’s new to you.