Time Magazine Person of the Year is for the most influential person of the year. Not the best, or most admirable. Merely the greatest agent of change.

Correct on both counts. To make it even better, there exist some creatures that primarily mate and reproduce sexually, but can also reproduce asexually if the situation requires it - I think ants, and some reptiles, if I remember right.

I walked in to a chiropractors’ office once to try and see if they’d take me for an appointment, found a brochure proudly proclaiming that chiropractic treatments can help cure autism and cancer, and turned right the fuck around and walked back out.

If you think you need a chiropractor you actually need a physical therapist and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is lying to you.

Nah it’s this guy

I wouldn’t even really call this a private forum, though. Anybody can join for free with minimal effort.

Now, SomethingAwful is a private forum, I paid them ten bucks to join. And to be honest I like their style. It’s a cheap one time payment for permanent membership but if you’re being an asshole and get yourself perma banned, you’re going to pay another tenner to rejoin. It’s a great anti-troll and anti-botting feature.

I don’t think that strategy would work well for the Fediverse and I don’t recommend it as such. But that’s what I’d consider a “private forum”.

“An aggressive commitment to non-commitment” pretty well describes all the bisexuals I know, so you’re in good company at least

According to Adblock Plus’ own blog post about the matter:

With Manifest V3, Adblock Plus is required to limit how many filter lists we have available to users. We’ll have the ability to offer up to 100 pre-installed filter lists that you can turn on and off depending on your preferences. From these available filter lists, users will be able to choose 50 that they can keep turned on at any given time. We’re working to ensure that popular filter lists our users love are supported by us, and that any updates to these lists are brought to you by frequent new releases of the extension. This does mean that initially, our users will no longer be able to subscribe to any filter lists outside of what is provided in the extension.

Re: Element Blocker:

The Block element feature will continue to exist even after the Manifest V3 version of Adblock Plus officially launches. Manifest V3 does require us to adhere to limits with filter lists and user created blocking rules, so there’s a chance things may change in the future. However, we don’t have details quite yet! If you have any more questions about this or anything else, our support team are the best people to ask at support@adblockplus.org.

So this says to me that baked in filter lists are now required, custom lists will not work, and Block Element is probably functioning illegally if it is indeed still functioning though that may change in the future in either direction.

Changing blocker behavior on specific sites is the only thing in that list that I see UBO disallow and ABP not mention at all. Not sure why that was changed.

Musk will be champing at the bit to own a controlling share of both of these. It disgusts me to agree with them but they’re right. This is the single worst possible time to try and push this through.

In a better timeline this is one of the many things a Neuralink could be good for

The fact that they’re not even good at being evil somehow pisses me off even more at the whole situation

I know WoW guild leaders that turned that experience into a resume point. “Managed a large group of disconnected people to accomplish group tasks”

If they can pull that off then you can pull this one.

The ghosts of 3,000 dead canaries have been screeching at us for decades

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/16/nx-s1-5297117/50501-movement-presidents-day-protests-explainer

There are active protests at every government building in every state, today. There was one on Jan 21 and Feb 5 as well. There will be more later.

But Trump was able to graduate?

Allegedly, yes.

The second part I don’t know about. But I would be entirely unsurprised to find that the Trumps simply purchased his diploma.

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

William T. Kelly, Wharton

This came to light immediately after Trump tweeted about Kelly calling him “the smartest student I ever had”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-shared-a-fake-quote-from-his-professor-who-actually-thought-trump-was-the-dumbest/ar-BB1m2TxH

I also wasn’t familiar so I looked them up.

Reality Labs is Meta’s VR/metaverse branch.

Mapillary was previously a crowdsourced maps program like OpenStreetMaps, which was acquired by Meta in 2020. Presumably they’re looking to EEE it and fold it into Meta proper.

Beluga is a Twitter clone, I can’t find anything objectively bad about it other than being a Twitter clone.

Lots of new cars just give you a bottle of fix-a-flat and a “fuck you”

I agree with this. A wedding exists to celebrate love and happiness. I could never be upset at someone bringing additional love and happiness to my celebration of love and happiness. People who are have missed the point of a wedding, I think.

If they’re an asshole about it and completely take over the wedding with it, sure. But that doesn’t really happen. Your wedding has an invite list, everyone you invited came here to see your wedding, presumably they aren’t all itching to go see this other extra proposal/wedding that cropped up out of nowhere.

Hi, white guy here,

Kendrick seems like he’s becoming, for black people, what artists like Johnny Cash and Woody Guthrie were for white people. I don’t think that should be minimized. Artists may not be out fighting on their own, but they bring people together and I think music in particular has a really powerful effect of bringing people together for a purpose. Musicians have become the faces of movements many times before.