Bonehead

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I noticed in all of this that you haven't done a fsck on the partition yet. This will tell you more than fdisk and likely fix the problem for you.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Whether the threat is real or perceived, the end result is the exact same. Society blames a particular trait shared by a group of people even though a very small percentage of those people pose any sort of threat due to that trait. Gay people were literally killed because of that perceived threat. And often no one was punished.

You also have to remember the time when this movie was released. Gay people had only just started being accepted, and there was a concerted effort by certain religious groups to try to derail any legal recognition of gay people. Don't Ask, Don't Tell was still a very real thing in the military. The entire trilogy is an allegory for gay people. The original comics may have been about race, but these movies were for a different audience. It was a commentary on exactly what was happening during that time.

You can criticize the sloppy writing of the third movie, but don't dismiss the efforts by people trying to get a message across to the general population.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because app developers have to jump through a lot of hoops to get into the app store, and even if every single app was pulled then the developers would have to jump through all those hoops again. And this time, Apple won't make it easy. Meanwhile, they are hemorrhaging money for every minute their app is not on the app store. On the other hand, Apple would give incentives to new applicants to replace everything that was pulled, and the app store returns to relatively normal within 24 hours since there are tons of apps out there that just aren't popular enough to be on the app store at the moment. Would you want to be the first developer to pull their app?

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Tell that to the gay kid in the 80s during the AIDS crysis when everyone was scared of gay people, who just wanted the thing that makes everyone hate them just go away.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

I may have accidentally implied that all mutants are just a stand-in for gay people, which the scene in question very much IS about gay people since no one talks like that about a disability. But at least I didn't just brush them off as just crying victim.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I would bet real money that these toothpicks have more nutritional value than Cheetos.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Let's do some hypothetical scenarios. If you're making $80k a year, your take home pay is roughly $5k a month. Spending $2k a month on rent leaves you with $3k for everything else. If you make $200k+, your take home pay is closer to $10k a month or more. If your rent is $4k a month, that leaves you with $6k for everything else that pretty much costs the same as the area where you're only making $80k. Even at $6k/month for rent, you still have more money. Automatically, it's better to take the higher paying job with the higher rent.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's funny is that I know someone who has done this for 20 years. He just doesn't register it in his name when he buys them. Consequently he doesn't have insurance either. Or a valid license. He's not a sovereign citizen type, just the cheap unemployed type that just can't be bothered to get any of that. And that's really the difference. He doesn't actively challenge the government to recognize his disregard for laws or participating in normal society. He just does it. Quietly.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (48 children)

To be fair, mutants are just an allegory for gay or otherwise non-heterosexual people. This scene makes a lot more sense when you factor this in.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Brand is HP/Samsung.

There's really only one solution. Dump it and buy a old Brother laser jet. HP printers are specifically designed to make it as difficult as possible to use unless you use it exactly the way they want you to use it. And you're trying to use it in a way they don't approve. Specifically, you're trying to use a Samsung branded printer in an area where only the HP version is sold. I know it's convoluted, I know it's a minor distinction. But this is just how HP works. And it's best that you accept it and move on before you waste anymore money on it.

Edit: Proof...

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

It's not representative of the majority of the population because that's not who that ad was targeted towards. It was targeted toward the minority that happen to be good at soccer and also have down syndrome. It's telling those people that they are allowed to participate in the college experience too.

I know it's sometimes shocking to not be a part of the target audience for advertisements, but it's something that you just need to accept.

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