by the logic of

I don’t mean to dismiss or deny that there is a lot of pressure on women to look certain ways, but I just can’t let bad logic slide.

A beauty product that doesn’t change your appearance in some way is of no value. Only a few very talented charlatans get away with selling $50 bottles of does nothing. By definition all beauty products make you “anything but who you are”.

The fact that there is no one unified beauty standard that everyone should try to copy, and that people can choose to look however they want, is to be celebrated, but OOP frames it as some sort of hypocrisy. It’s not clear what outcome OOP would prefer - presumably they want it mandated for everyone to stick with whatever they look like first thing out of bed, whether they like it or not? Or do they just not like the variety, and would like the rule to be that everyone should look like Kate Moss?

I was thinking more like confirmation bias. There is no such thing as the one single beauty standard, people just remember the stuff that made them feel insecure.

If you bought a PC in the 90s you still paid Microsoft even if it was shipped with no OS at all.

Microsoft illegally leveraged their near-monopoly to force vendors to either pay them per processor shipped regardless of operating system, or they wouldn’t be allowed to OEM any MS products. This forced anyone who wanted to offer an alternative such as OS/2 or DR DOS to charge more for it since they’d be paying both MS and Digital Research or IBM for the same machine. Eventually the DoJ gave them a tiny slap on the wrist and told them to stop, but not until they’d finished off all potential commercial threats to Windows.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/Pre_96/July94/94387.txt.html

Every now and then I end up on that site (usually from searching for something and then absent-mindedly clicking to the homepage from there) and get whiplash at just how horrific the whole front page is even on its default logged-out setting for racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, and other far-right talking point news stories.

The sentiment is all very well and good, but I’m pretty confident that we’d get better results if they put their energy into improving the many, many mature open source projects that already exist to do the same things.

it didn’t seem worth asking. Presumably she switched it off before going to bed and then later decided that a photo shouldn’t need that much maintenance.

just gave me a flashback to when we bought mine one of those digital photo frames, and loaded lots of family pictures to it for it to display as a slideshow.

She picked her favourite picture and made us disable the slideshow and set it to only show that one.

Next time we visited it was no longer on the mantel.

Only one way to find out

I run a site that only advertises itself in one country and is of no interest to anyone else. Cloudflare’s threat monitor lists the three countries that it’s blocked the most attacks from are:

1. USA
2. South Africa
3. Israel

…and I’m supposed to be scared of the Chinese?

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Women don’t poo

I don’t know why the meme has the highest IQ person say

Every time I see the midwit meme format, it reads like OP imagines that they’re the 145 IQ guy who is above it all, when all other evidence suggests that they’re closer to the 55 IQ guy.

This annoys me every time it comes up

that’s why the repost bots keep posting it, because it generates engagement. Sadly Lemmy is no more immune than the rest of the internet. OP is a new account that started 12 bait threads in the space of under an hour, so they’ll be getting blocked now.

I’ve got a theory that they’re using an algorithm to track IPs written by a complete incompetent who never learned about either dynamically assigned IPs or the birthday paradox.

I had one, A: is where the CP/M boot disc lived and B: was for all the actual stuff.

Pedalling before a chord change instead of after

“I think we can get them to brush their tongues”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmwB-biQpc

the interesting thing with the votes on that comment is how many of them downvote for disagreeing with it as a direct statement and how many don’t like you calling out the tankies

seconded, every now and then the way I notice I’m not logged in is that there’s suddenly a load of absolute dogshit on my feed.

You don’t owe anyone a second chance if they post something dumb, it’s your feed, block block block. No need to announce it or have any great ceremony, just block and move on.

did someone say beans