Anyone else remember reddit’s r/RandomActsofPizza and how within six months of there being news stories about the subreddit that Mars Inc. had copyrighted/trademarked “Random Acts of Chocolate” and turned it into an ad campaign to convince people to buy an extra candy bar to share.

Pepperidge Farm remembers corporations co-opting communities to make a buck.

Also they explicitly call it sharing size so when people get fat as fuck from eating a whole bag they can claim it’s not their fault and that people should have more self control with their addictive sugar bombs.

https://x.com/miliondollameat/status/684877647705423872

Non-Twitter link:

https://nitter.miningtcup.me/miliondollameat/status/684877647705423872

They literally credit this tweet from 2016, ten years ago, for inspiration.

I think you’re remembering the original twitter post but somehow didn’t notice it’s actually credited already.

You can’t do this to me on the day Patrick Stewart died!

brutal, sorry about that! thanks for making it easier for other mobile users to see!

Well as if it wasn’t enough bad news already! Shatner is still alive! /s

This comic is about ICE.

I already got my invitation 🙂 I hope I can afford it at some point, too.

Isn’t it a paid service, though? I trust Mozilla more than Proton as well… but I also can’t afford a paid service at the moment.

Tuta is based in Germany, so they are more likely to have to comply with information requests as Germany is part of the 14 Eyes international information sharing network. Thus countries like the USA may be able to get your info from Tuta legally.

Other than that? Honestly I’m not sure.

I’m an older person so I could be wrong, but it seems allusions to cussing is now more regularly accepted as long as it isn’t the cuss word itself.

This is sort of how it used to be with “bullshit” and “BS”. The shortened term lets you know what they think without actually uttering the cuss word. Same with “Pissed off” becoming “PO’d” or “Put Out.” The abbreviation was viewed as more socially acceptable, at least when I was growing up.

My go-to example for the modern era is from The Amazing World of Gumball, in which “what the what” is a common phrase used in the show and an obvious replacement for “what the fuck.”

Thus I think @oxideseven@lemmy.ca has it right that younger people probably say “AF” a lot to get away with not actually saying the curse word itself.

Wow, artist has come a long way, especially in regards to how they draw people of color.

https://archive.mercworks.net/2019/11/27/tgif/

Same characters, 2019.

EDIT: Thanks to @greenknight23@lemmy.world:

more like COVID hiring.

in June 2019 they had 144,000 employees.

2020 163,000 employees

2021 181,000 employees

2022 221,000 employees

now they have around 230,000 employees

the spike in hiring coincides with the rise of COVID and moving the whole world online

after losing 60,000 they will have 170,000, still almost 30k more than 7 years ago.

Be careful though, just like “Trump Derangement Syndrome” got swapped from meaning people crazed for Trump to meaning crazed against Trump… AI psychosis could be twisted by the media (tech bro owned) into “people who dislike AI are crazy.”

…and I still miss her all the time.

When the things they have in common all seem to benefit fascists, you have to stop and ask whether that means something or not.

Always has been. Richard Stallman is a fucking creepy shitbag, but he was also right about a lot of things regarding software and software freedom.

There may be no “after Trump”.

People thought there was going to be an “after W. Bush” and then the democrats legalized and codified some of the worst excesses of Bush’s War on Terror.

The things put in place by Trump that are dangerous will not be removed, just like the things that Bush put in place that are dangerous (DHS, ICE) will not be removed.

This is what I mean when I say “both parties are the same” because by and large both are totally on board with wholesale spying on the US populace (and by extension treating us all as potential criminals/terrorists on no suspicion whatsoever) as long as they can make a buck along the way.

There are very few Ron Wyden’s, who has essentially made his career trying to get people to understand how dangerous this mass surveillance is. He recently pointed out that there’s still classified legal interpretations from the Bush admin that even back then he claimed the US citizenry would absolutely lose their shit if they found out existed. He can’t tell us what it is, but he’s been warning us about it for 25 years.

voiced by Levi Stubbs! also voiced Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. such a great voice actor!

They trapped Snowden in Russia and then called him a Russian spy by cancelling his passport, but this guy is fine I guess.