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It took disgusting pallid Midwesterners 2.4 seconds before they started arriving at the smoking hole of Ground Zero for fun tourism giggles and to gawk at the dead bodies.
Then they went home and voted for fascism and empire while talking about how "scared" they were when 9/11 happened.
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Every 9/11, lower Manhattan becomes a circus of rightwing protesters carrying "God hates the USA" signs and liberal counterprotesters handing out "Coexist" flyers, on top of cheesy memorial speeches egging on more war and surveilance.
Barf.
Greatest-ever shredding company slogan: "The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed."
https://boingboing.net/2019/09/08/om-nom-nom-2.html
scipol, the weather, hurricanes
"This is the first time I’ve felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast"
"If we’re politicizing the weather what is there left to politicize?"
@melissasage It also took a really long time for people to admit "realistic" 3D games looked like ass. About until it started to look natural.
@melissasage I think we're just now starting to see people get into ugly early 3D, the way people are nostalgic for scanlines and video artifacts now
@melissasage Like Sonic Mania is retro, and it uses sprites and characters inspired by a 2D Saturn game, which is the same gen as the N64
@melissasage I know, right? I think at least partially it's because retro aesthetics in gaming means pixelly sprites, not blocky 3d models
@melissasage @dirtycommo Objective C is German because it is inordinately fond of long compound names, such as pageViewControllerPreferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation and HMCharacteristicValueCarbonDioxideDetectionStatus
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.