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  • @joshy said:
    Isn't viewing source the default thing everybody does whenever a government entity puts out a new website, because they _always _code something half-assed like that?

    Pretty much.

    Plus the whole idea of "Decoding the HTML source code" like he had to use special tools and run it through some kind of hacker decompiler. Nah, he just had to have eyes and recognize groups of 9 numbers.

  • On one screen I like to do view source on HTML pages and on my other screen I have a full terminal window running htop.

  • tl;dr: some companies fired me because they think I'm racist and UCLA is the most suable entity involved

  • @fenomas said:

    tl;dr: some companies fired me because they think I'm racist and UCLA is the most suable entity involved

    As soon as I saw that the URL had the name Bari Weiss in it I knew it was going to be some fake claim of damage by leftist cancel culture. That is her raison d'etre now. Which is a shift from when she used to get people cancelled for having any good feelings towards Palestinians.

    Regarding the article.... Honestly, the email he received from a student was patronizing. However, his response was ridiculous. I was half expecting there to be some mulatto/quadroon shit in there. Even without the suspension a law-firm that does any background checks was going to find publicity about that email if any student shared it on social media or other website.

    I'm also not sure that his comparison of a supreme court case about refusing to sign a pledge is going to hold up to his guess on what hurt his side-hustle.

  • The pundits who said Obama hadn't done enough to deserve the Nobel peace prize are remaining curiously silent about Trump's ninth-degree black belt in taekwondo.

    I'm not normally one to allege political bias, but...

  • "Lawrence County GOP shared KKK imagery by ‘mistake,’ chairman says"
    https://whnt.com/news/alabama-news/lawrence-county-gop-chairman-says-he-will-not-resign-from-school-board-over-controversy/

    Why would this image even be on a computer or device where a county Twitter account could have access to it?

    My guess? Because the person running their social media thought it was fucking hilarious, or poignant, or something cute to show the boys at their next social club meeting and had it saved.

    Remember that these are the same assholes that whine about how the Democrats founded the KKK and pretend that 1948-1972 never happened.


    Honestly though, I can't come up with a google search that has that image 'above the fold' without directly referencing this story. (It is possible that has poisoned the search results well, of course).

    Well, I should rephrase that. I can make the image appear very easily with some pretty disgusting search terms. But if I'm giving the benefit of the doubt its pretty hard to make them show up without typing something that referencing this story, so I'm curious.

    TinEye reverse image search reports the KKK elephant originated from a Mother Jones expose in 2020.

  • The picture was both unnecessary, and yet also appreciated.

    Shit, that thing is 20 years older than the man they removed it from.

  • Our old friend of the forum the Master Persuader has almost finished persuading everyone that he's too toxic to do business with.

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  • I'll bite: "friend of the forum"?

  • "Person we used to talk about"?

  • Ah, I thought maybe Vetis was actually Scott Adam's pseudonym, or some such.

  • @joshy said:
    Ah, I thought maybe Vetis was actually Scott Adam's pseudonym, or some such.

    Can we really discount that possibility?

  • I have a feeling that Scott Adam's rant was planned out, and for whatever reason, he wants to become a pariah.

  • @Bill said:
    I have a feeling that Scott Adam's rant was planned out, and for whatever reason, he wants to become a pariah.

    I donno... It's pretty on-brand with other things he's said.

  • edited March 2023

    He's been slowly inching over the line for so long that I kinda wonder if he was surprised when it turned out that he was way over it.

    I mean, I totally believe he was hoping to be "cancelled"... But I also don't think he expected his publisher to actually pull the comic. I suspect he was looking to gain some cred in conservative circles and then retire at the end of Trump's next term.

  • Speaking of "not expecting the publisher to drop the comic.... (Courtesy of https://somethingpositive.net)

  • @Bill said:
    I have a feeling that Scott Adam's rant was planned out, and for whatever reason, he wants to become a pariah.

    Not a chance. He's the political equivalent of those lonely single guys who tweet about "Alpha Male Mindsets" to other lonely single guys. He has the nuanced self-awareness of a raccoon.

    Oddly, I base that opinion on having recently read his thought experiment book, which was a sort of Da Vinci Code of philosophical science fiction. The author's belief in his own genius comes across unmistakably, but you get the feeling that he's cultivated that self-image by not reading or talking to smart people.

  • edited March 2023

    @fenomas said:
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    The author's belief in his own genius comes across unmistakably, but you get the feeling that he's cultivated that self-image by not reading or talking to smart people.

    Back in the early 2000s I bought a few of his books, because at that point I enjoyed his comics and had already bought a few collections of those.

    The first book I read was... OK. It was basically hopping on the trend of 'self help' books, and it contained a few comics and a bit of humor added in. But it was still basically just the daily-affirmation type shit that other authors have written better.

    The next book was... exactly the same. I became disillusioned.

    The last book was basically "everyone is stupid except me. Including my fans, but they're a step above everyone else" which worked fine when he was using 'Dogbert' as a stand-in for his news letter and "Dogbert's New Ruling Class" (fan club) stuff... but not when he is writing it as an advice or self-help book. It felt like MLM but it wasn't selling anything (yet?).

    I stopped being a fan at that point. I had an RSS feed pointed at his comic website for a few years, but stopped checking that about 8 years ago.

  • Yeah - I think once a certain kind of person gets famous enough, they start to see themselves as a kind of public intellectual purely by virtue of how much attention they're receiving.

    And a handful of such people grow into the role, but more often they wind up modulating their views into what gets the biggest positive reactions from their niche fans - and once that process churns for a little while you have Jordan Peterson turning into the king of the incels and so forth. It sounds like Dilbert guy followed a similar arc, but hitched his wagon to racialists and Trump fans for whatever bizarre reason.

  • I once ate a dilburrito

  • Also, every time I visit a grocery store and they have tamarind available I think of Jimbo's tamarind video. "Heroin like brick" floats through my head everytime.

  • I have grown to love tamarind candy and tamarind soda.

    But neither of those is apparently anything like what Jimbo ate.

    The videos are available on YouTube, although they weren't uploaded by Jimbo. The resolution looks so tiny now, considering I remember waiting forever to download those videos on a dialup connection. :)

  • I miss Jimbo.

  • @Bill said:
    I miss Jimbo.

    He's still around on various medias social.

    Even twitter, for now.
    https://twitter.com/jrssnet

  • That name makes me think of a man on a street corner offering you a random choice between two envelopes, one containing twice as much money as the other.

  • I'd give that 1/365 odds. :)

  • Expected value 1.5

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