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Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

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  • This is exactly the dumb shit take from y2k.

    I Still hear people go on about how “it was supposed to be this big thing and then nothing happened! Smart people are so dumb!”

    Yeah nothing happened because a lot of smart people worked very hard to fix the goddamn problem, you fucking shitwaffle.

    Here? “You dum dums got so worked up thinking it would pass and then it didn’t, so the freak out was for nothing!” yeah it didn’t pass because a lot of Europeans got very upset about their governments trying to spy on them harder than ever.

    I’m not European, so I can’t say how people talked about it openly on the metro with random strangers, but online? People were vocal and pissed. A PROPER government (lol can we have some of that functioning democracy please) listens to its people. This was them listening to the people.

    The people’s reaction was appropriate, and necessary. And shouldn’t be lessened just because “lol you guys got so propaganda’d and it was obviously never gonna happen and I knew cause I’m so smart” is quite the take on things.


  • I love seeing the “FRENCH GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES” headlines.

    Like… A governmental collapse and this gestures broadly at France are two VERY different things.

    And if I’m being honest, when I first saw the headline I wondered if they floated raising the retirement age again and got rioted into a burned down parliament.

    France will be okay, they have protocols for this sort of thing.

    … Right? I don’t know nearly as much about the current French government as I do pre-napoleonic France. Am dum American.






  • Damn, that’s the same bass-ackwards logic that record companies use to say piracy makes them lose money.

    Spoiler alert: the majority of people pirating your stuff would not have otherwise purchased it. You have lost nothing.

    Similarly, the majority of people using gamepass to play the game would absolutely not have bought the game, especially since it’s the same game as last time, with new names and skins.

    For instance: the last call of duty game I bought was MW3. I only played black ops 2 when someone got two copies for their birthday and gave one to me I only remember playing for the zombies. I have played a total of less than 30 minutes, from startup screen to shutdown, of all the call of duties since then. Absolutely no chance in hell I’d buy another one. But I’m sure Microsoft would have included me trying it out as a potential lost sale of every one of them.