What they really mean is that they didn’t inherit their immense wealth, which means there was a time in their lives when they weren’t obscenely wealthy.

Yes, the system works, but it kinds sucks that it’s based on getting the biggest gorilla on your side, rather than which side is actually in the right.

I mean, they are calling it a “Hetero Awesome” event. Which is fine, as straight people are awesome! But so are the gays.

If these folks are so triggered by someone singing a pro-LGBTQ+ song, though, it makes me think it was never about how awesome anyone is in the first place. It seems more to be about “Gays are not awesome like we are” than “We’re awesome”. See how the message is different?

I bet if a Straight Ally showed up at a Pride event singing a song about how awesome Straight People are, nobody would have a problem with that, as long as it wasn’t trying to dunk on some other group in the process.

(Now, that is leading me to wonder what the most “Hetero Awesome” song might be. What song would you pick as the Straight People Anthem?)

So when you say something they don’t like they literally ban your eyeballs from the site?

You’re not wrong, in general. But in this specific case, in Tennessee, it’s specifically about the nudity.

Any materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse” are inappropriate for all students and do not belong in a school library.

It’s “nudity” of any type, which puts the Venus de Milo in the same category as Brazzers.

These people are going after anything that might imply nudity at all. I seem to remember Calvin had an immense hatred of baths. So once his mom finally got him in, poof, that now has to go, because he’s naked under all that water.

I’m surprised they don’t just ban all visual art that depicts humans, since everyone is naked under their clothes.

A bet isnt a bet until there are multiple opposing sides matched together. If there is no bookie managing it, then it’s up to the individual participants to do it. If someone says “5 bucks on the big strong guy” it’s not an actual bet until someone comes along and puts money down opposite it.

When the supporting character comes along and says “100 bucks on the other guy whose win moves the plot along”, it’s like he’s saying " I will match all the announced bets on the big guy so far, and everyone else’s up to a total of $100".

They could take the time to show that person taking out a wad of 5’s and physically matching the bets already thrown down, but it’s more expedient to just do the shouting and then cut to the end of it.

The only thing U2 has in common with grunge is that both were popular in roughly the same time period (give or take 5 years or so).

If your goal is to roll a 7, then no, weighting one die doesn’t help, because it doesn’t matter which side comes up in the weighted die.

(Another way to look at it is that you can place 1 die on whatever side you like, then roll the 2nd die: you still have a 1/6 chance of rolling a combined 7).

However that is only the case for a 7, because you can roll a 7 with any combination of the first die (and a particular value in the 2nd). If your goal is to roll a 12, then weighting one die towards 6 will affect the odds, because you need a 6 on that first die to roll a 12; any other outcome makes it impossible.

Oh, my sweet summer child. They were never your comments, you just wrote them. They belong to King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys now.

The goodest boy in Washington today

DOGE replaced the entire hurricane relief budget with a box of Sharpies

Isn’t “English food” just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?

There are less than 4 billion valid public IPv4 addresses. At 4 bytes per address, a table of banned IP addresses is no more than 16 GB, which is child’s play to store these days.

You can compress it further and make a lookup table with 1 bit per public IP address (because you plan on banning a lot of IPs) and the size is reduced by 32x, to 512 MB. Now they can store their ban list in RAM indefinitely

Furthermore, since it’s very likely that this author is not going to make really complex points, you could just go to the library, skim through it for an hour or two, and take notes on the two or three points worth quoting. (Or go all old-school and make photocopies of a few pages…). This way there is no record of your use of this book anywhere

Just give it up, she ain’t coming back

No, even Nazis are people. They may be horrible people whose hateful ideology needs to be forcefully purged from society, but they are still people.

Do you know how otherwise same people turn out just as bad as Nazis? It starts by dehumanizing their opponents.

(That’s not necessarily a statement in favor of the Reddit action, that was likely done by a bot anyway so no humans were involved.)