maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

@selectric A 63-year-old coworker once asked me, staring pointedly with his arms crossed, "is this like, a 6-7 thing?"

And it took me a full minute staring back at him trying my best to hold my shit together that he was asking if what we were seeing was an off-by-one error.

i can no longer hear the phrase "six, seven" used as an off-the-cuff estimate. god fucking damn it

Look, banning trans women from sports is total bullshit, but at the very least you can see why hundreds of years of propaganda and misogyny in sports would make people assume trans women have an unfair advantage. It's bullshit of course, but at least I can follow that flawed logic.

But darts? Motherfucking darts? You're throwing objects weighing 12-32 g (depending on preference) at a board designed specifically to be penetrated by darts. Fucking children play this game.

If you ever needed proof this was never about protecting women, just think of how these nazis are banning trans women from darts.

DARTS.

Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?

TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework

talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Cant Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)

you ever think anyone who ever had $250 on hand go "ooh, I have enough money now to buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune"?

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