ConstipatedWatson

I know it's a meme, but I can't resist saying that if you check his website out, you'll see he has all of his books and drafts available entirely for free and he also says he's agreed with the publisher to cap the book's price to something reasonable (which used to be true, I haven't checked now).

He's also nice in person, if you talk to him!

It's too bad that the meme is right and his legacy will be not having given solution to any problem 😁

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Brutal (and awesome)

Hey dude, I've been looking for you for so long, since my Dad stole your bike and that was a turning point in my life, since I made a point of stealing your son's bike.

It is said that this will continue for generations until the seventh son of a seventh son, who'll transform into an upside down toothless vampire who likes garlic.

In order for this prophecy to come true, please ensure all your progeny keeps buying bikes.

PS Welcome to Lemmy!

When I receive things like this, I make sure to open Gmail from within Firefox with all extensions meant to defend me (like NoScript, unlock origin, privacy badger, https everywhere) and then I hover over the gigantic button "check my activity" and see if it leads to a accounts.google.com link.

Either way, I then copy the link address without clicking on it, and open it in a private window to see what happens. If it's a scam, the page it opens has a legit looking, but wrong google address (aka, it cannot really end with google.com). Then I just stop having fun and don't continue nor type anything

What does it look like in your case?

You're certainly right about observing this incongruity. It's probably one statement that feels so obviously correct that people upvote it without even bothering to read the article.

Goddamn you, I started laughing loudly and people stared at me. Have an upvote!

"TurboTax must die"

That would be the perfect title of a multi billion dollar franchise about rebels from the IRS tryijg to thwart known scammers from Intuit.

For those who need some background music while they read, here's Peter Gabriel's take on this topic

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Até we 100% sure of this?

I've seen all the movies from 1 to 7 at the theater (4,5,6 when they were remastered right before Episode 1). I like the old 4,5,6 though they're not perfect, but they are enjoyable. I tolerated 1,2,3 and applaud their existence since they made me discover Mr Plinkett and Red Letter Media. When I saw Episode 7 I had to stop. It felt too much of an insult to the viewer's intelligence (it wasn't enough to have two Death Stars in Episodes 4 and 6, they had to have a Mega Super Death Star in Episode 7... But this was very much not the only awful thing about the movie). I've watched Episode 8 on an airplane and I still have to watch episode 9

The internet is fine, it's social media and the people using it that are toxic (aided by algorithms pushing people to give their own worst for all sorts of reasons)

I've read it this year for the first time. It's fantastic. So short and so powerful.