Pointing out hypocrisy isn’t whataboutism, nor is recognizing that the news media (in basically every country) is to some degree producing propaganda.

As opposed to other countries where that advice is merely implied, by making enforcement of anti abuse laws a joke, and not doing a thing to address the systemic issues that keep people in abusive environments.

The best thing he could do for the world would be to take up a fentanyl hobby.

I hadn’t, but I also meant this guy:

But so has Bubbles.

The point is, if 10% of guys in a given population are unspeakably awful, that’s the 10% who you will hear from on a dating app. You don’t get that from fems because they are typically being pursued on all dating and social media apps, because we still largely hold to the cultural norm that men/masc presenting people are responsible for asking the other person out.

It seems worse on Grindr because the majority of users are cis men-the very people who have been told since birth that it’s their job to pursue sexual connections. Of course that leads to poor behavior.

Not that difficult. “Pay up or GTFO” scrawled on a napkin and given to google, amazon, and Microsoft seems like it would be pretty easy to manage.

Maybe the best example of someone who needs a Walter Sobchak in his life.

Just a big guy who won’t go away and keeps telling him to shut the fuck up.

Because Spotify is trash for everyone other than (maybe) its stockholders?

It’s what we do. Look at how Colin Powell was basically eulogized as a black general who was somewhat critical of the worst excesses of the bush administration, with zero discussion of the war crimes he committed in Vietnam, as well as the cover-up he attempted of the My Lai massacre. HW Bush was a CIA ghoul who got whitewashed as a doting grandfather and statesman.

The base game is $60 on the PlayStation store for me 😭

Apparently people have had “assaulting a federal officer” tossed into their prosecutions for things like “ICE thug twisted his ankle when chasing someone.” So a sandwich throwing is definitely on the table.

“I had a castle, then I got ruined in the S&L collapse in the 80s. I did eat a few of those bankers, though.”

A doctor, didn’t you read the book?

Remember kids, Juggalo makeup defeats facial recognition. Woop woop!

If you have to be in Bluetooth range, why the fuck does it need to talk to a cloud service?

I frequently miss calls I’m expecting because of the shit anti-spam. Carriers have been allowed to just ignore the problem of spam calls since they started because we don’t have a functioning regulatory apparatus.

Just consider the source for that information. The US is particularly aggressive in propagandizing its citizens.

This is true of plenty of western “democracies” as well. Shit, there’s a story of cops using a privately-run camera cluster to track a woman who crossed state lines to obtain an abortion. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down

China isn’t some socialist paradise but let’s be honest about how bad our own countries are and not try to depict China as a special case.

You might like Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band. Country but with clever fun lyrics.