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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (28 children)

Always wear non-descript long-sleeve black shirts. Loose fitting and easily moved in black pants. Non-descript black face-mask. Non-descript black safety sunglasses. Non-descript black gloves. Make sure tattoos or other identifying marks are covered. Never take off your mask. If you can, the best option is to thrift these options and buy them with cash.

Yep, they don't even care about hiding it anymore. The Russian concept of vranyo has come to America where the liars know we know they are lying but expect us to nod our heads in agreement anyway.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

How is it a judgment on his whole life?

It's more that Billy Madison was the first to put down the Sandler formula of lovable idiot faces challenge that attracts a beautiful woman way out of his league. It's more that basically every comedy film he's made since then has followed that same formula, which just makes them highly derivative of the stellar original.

Also, it's notable that Billy Madison featured Chris Farley, and the loss of Chris Farley to future Sandler films was honestly a huge blow. He could have potentially been in Happy Gilmore but wasn't, and by the time Sandler was making The Wedding Singer Farley had passed.

I am fairly sure it was also the only one that featured Norm MacDonald as well (but I'm not 100% sure on that, didn't follow the more recent ones as closely).

Steve Buscemi, on the other hand, has been a staple in Sandler film casts since the beginning, and his role on Billy Madison was one of the best.

So it's really more that Billy Madison built the formula, had the best cast overall, and was just lightning in a bottle that it felt like he spent a career trying to recreate the exact conditions that made Billy Madison so good.

EDIT: One final piece of why Billy Madison works where other Sandler films don't work as well (except maybe The Water Boy): Billy Madison's real villain isn't Eric Gordon, who wants to stop Billy so Eric can take over the company. The real villain is Madison's own loser past, where he has consistently shown himself to be a contemptuous, boorish fool. His own past behavior is why nobody has faith that he will succeed, and he has to overcome people's prior expectations of him to succeed. Some of the only people who have faith in him are the young children that he befriended while he was in elementary school. Happy on the other hand has that epic swing and all he has to do is practice the rest of golf. Shooter McGavin is also a more sympathetic villain because he's an actual professional being showed up by this jerk amateur who acts like he's king shit because he can hit long drives. Billy Madison just works better thematically, overall, because Billy is actually, genuinely awful at everything and has to start at the absolute bottom where Happy comes in already halfway good by pure chance.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How I imagine this browser engine works.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Piers Morgan.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Because money. Nostalgia prints money.

Breast... Breast... 1... 2... 3?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right, sorry, wasn't trying to imply that them having fun was a bad thing or saying they shouldn't have fun... It's just more like... Who wouldn't have fun doing that??

More likely that this will just kill the x86 market and ARM will fully take over because of those chips' reduced power consumption in comparison.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean... Do you really think they care? The optics are dogshit for anyone with a brain but they keep making it worse anyway. I have zero doubts that they care about making a pattern or people noticing a pattern. They haven't cared one iota for how stupidly and nakedly transparent anything else they have done is.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sounds like my headcanon sequel to Sneakers where Bishop (Robert Redford) uses his newfound anonymity to start over in a small town where he accidentally ends up the high school basketball coach to a bunch of skinny nerds. They make it to the state championships through a combination of phone phreaking and social engineering.

 

I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage

Called the blood of the exploited working class

But they've overcome their shyness

Now they're calling me Your Highness

And a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

I destroyed a bond of friendship and respect

Between the only people left who'd even look me in the eye

Now I laugh and make a fortune

Off the same ones that I tortured

And a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

I look like Jesus, so they say

But Mr. Jesus is very far away

Now you're the only one here who can tell me if it's true

That you love me and I love me

I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage

Called the blood of the exploited working class

But they've overcome their shyness

Now they're calling me Your Highness

And a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

Yes a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

 

I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage

Called the blood of the exploited working class

But they've overcome their shyness

Now they're calling me Your Highness

And a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

I destroyed a bond of friendship and respect

Between the only people left who'd even look me in the eye

Now I laugh and make a fortune

Off the same ones that I tortured

And a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

I look like Jesus, so they say

But Mr. Jesus is very far away

Now you're the only one here who can tell me if it's true

That you love me and I love me

I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage

Called the blood of the exploited working class

But they've overcome their shyness

Now they're calling me Your Highness

And a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

Yes a world screams, "Kiss me, Son of God"

 
 

Hackers leaked thousands of files from Lexipol, a Texas-based company that develops policy manuals, training bulletins, and consulting services for first responders.

The manuals, which are crafted by Lexipol’s team of public sector attorneys, practitioners, and subject-matter experts, are customized to align with the specific needs and local legal requirements of agencies across the country.

But the firm also faces criticism for its blanket approach to police policies and pushback on reforms.

The data, a sample of which was given to the Daily Dot by a group referring to itself as “the puppygirl hacker polycule,” includes approximately 8,543 files related to training, procedural, and policy manuals, as well as customer records that contain names, usernames, agency names, hashed passwords, physical addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.

https://ddosecrets.com/article/lexipolleaks

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puppygirl hacker polyrule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

https://ddosecrets.com/article/lexipolleaks

Source: puppygirl hacker polycule

Lexipol, also known as PoliceOne, is a private company based in Frisco, Texas that provides policy manuals, training bulletins, and consulting services to approximately 8,500 law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and other public safety departments across the United States. This leak contains the policy manuals produced by Lexipol, and some subscriber information.

Founded by two former cops that became lawyers, Lexipol retains copyright over all manuals which it creates despite the public nature of its work. There is little transparency on how decisions are made to draft their policies, which have an oversized influence on policing in the United States. The company localizes their materials to address differences in legal frameworks, depending on the city or state where the client is based.

Lexipol's manuals become public policy in thousands of jurisdictions. Lexipol's policies have been challenged in court for their role in racial profiling, harassment of immigrants, and unlawful detention. For example, Lexipol policies were used to justify body cameras being turned off when a police officer shot and killed Eric Logan in South Bend, Indiana in June 2019.

 

I've been suggested Carvana, and I may end up going that way if it is indeed the simplest route.

I'm driving an older car, it's in many ways in very good condition, but the head gasket is starting to go. It hasn't gotten bad yet (no coolant in the oil... yet) and could be fixed, but the cost to fix is about three times the value of the vehicle. It's got relatively low mileage for it's age and I've barely driven it anywhere during the time that I've owned it.

I don't expect to get much for it, maybe a $400-$700 bucks, but I really don't know the best way to go around it.

Like 15 years ago I would have just listed it with pertinent info on condition and photos on Craigslist. I'm not so sure Craigslist is so viable now.

Thanks for any help you can give me, Lemmy!

 

I began to consider this as my mouth filled with the flavor of pineapple as I remembered the flavor of a pineapple.

Do other senses suffer from the same issue?

 

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said during a government meeting that cocaine is “not worse than whiskey” and that it's only illegal because it comes from Latin America.

Colombia, the world's largest producer and exporter of cocaine, has spent decades fighting drug trafficking, but the country's left-wing president claimed the drug was being scapegoated by American politicians, who have waged the war on drugs for decades.

“Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey,” Petro said during a six-hour-long government meeting.

“Scientists have analyzed this: cocaine is not worse than whiskey,” he added, suggesting that the global cocaine industry could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized worldwide.

The thing is, he's absolutely right. There was a suppressed 1995 study by the World Health Organization on cocaine and its effects. The US threatened to pull out of the WHO at the time since the findings didn't match US drug policy. Instead of losing the US, the WHO quietly shelved the study.

https://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/cocaine/181-who-cocaine-study

https://web.archive.org/web/20090618160146/www.tdpf.org.uk/WHOleaked.pdf

From the conclusions section:

A continuum can be identified for cocaine use, which includes:

  • experimental use
  • occasional use
  • situation-specific use
  • intensive use
  • compulsive/dysfunctional use

Experimental and occasional use are by far the most common types of use, and compulsive/dysfunctional is far less common. Compulsive or dysfunctional users often have serious relationship, work, legal and health problems.

 

If approved, FADPA would allow copyright holders to obtain court orders requiring large Internet service providers (ISPs) and DNS resolvers to block access to pirate sites. The bill would amend existing copyright law to focus specifically on ‘foreign websites’ that are ‘primarily designed’ for copyright infringement.

The inclusion of DNS resolvers is significant. Major tech companies such as Google and Cloudflare offer DNS services internationally, raising the possibility of blocking orders having an effect worldwide. DNS providers with less than $100 million in annual revenue are excluded.

While site blocking is claimed to exist in more than 60 countries, DNS resolvers are typically not included in site blocking laws and regulations. These services have been targeted with blocking requests before but it’s certainly not standard.

It's aimed at DNS resolvers, so folks better start busting out them Pi-Holes and setting up unbound.

 

Sam "wrong side of FOSS history" Altman must be pissing himself.

Direct Nitter Link:

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/jiayi_pirate/status/1882839370505621655

 
 

I have cancer. I'm open about it. This medicaid funding shit could literally kill me.

I am so sick of people suggesting I should "pull a Luigi" or "go out like a hero" because they still have things to lose so they don't want to stand up and lose them. So because I'm gonna die, I should say fuck it and risk it all for a bunch of jerks who wouldn't and haven't done the same for me?

Do you have any idea how disrespectful that is to people who are already suffering? When nobody is standing up to sacrifice themselves to save the weak, broken, sick, and disabled? Why's it our job to save the able bodied? Why can't these people see that even though they think their heart is in the right place, they're still basically telling us "your life sucks anyway and will end soon, you should throw it away for the rest of us who never did anything for you" or more simply "kys."

I'm officially tired of this inconsiderate and frankly ableist bullshit.

Honestly, I wish some mods or admins would make some rules about it since it's ableist.

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