Notices by Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)

@aral

As much as I wouldn't actually want to test it, are we sure the US has this wonderfully lethal military, given that it seems to mostly be a way to shovel public funds into private arms companies?

A lot of people are going to find out the hard way that you're never pure enough for a regime that requires enemies, and acceptability is a circle that shrinks until you're on the outside.

Oh, but you're white? Male? Straight?

You're the wrong class. You're not manly enough. You haven't married a woman early enough. You haven't had the right amount of kids. Hey, is one of those kids disabled...? Says here you watched the wrong sort of porn that one time, you degenerate...

Here is my rebuttal to Russell Brand's 'magic amulet' using a quantum mechanics textbook. 👍

Pretty much everyone under 50 right now: Hey, maybe killing a six year old by riddling a car with bullets then killing the paramedics trying to rescue them is a bad thing, and we should oppose it?

Alastair Campbell: Young people should get off their high horse about this.

"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."

I have seen some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

#Excel

It's always "you need to build up a tolerance to crop failures" and never "billionaires should build up a tolerance to not having yachts".