TheFriendlyArtificer

joined 2 years ago
[–] TheFriendlyArtificer 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was in South Texas a few months ago (not my idea).

At a local H.E.B. There was a rack of Pride merchandise including t-shirts and bumper stickers that said "Y'all includes 'all'"

They were on clearance so my cynical brain leapt to the conclusion that nobody was buying them. Nooope. They were being destroyed and otherwise vandalized while on the shelf. This was happening so often that the manager decided that it was costing more to keep them on the shelves than the goodwill of the queer community was worth to him.

Wake me up when a corporation does more than the absolute minimum during Pride. Otherwise it's just more sociopathic virtue signaling from organizations that would happily sell Khmer Rouge branded glasses if they thought it would increase shareholder value.

[–] TheFriendlyArtificer 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It has all of the hallmarks of a successful media franchise.

OG Jewish Christianity: The one-off movie that unexpectedly took off.

Pre dogmatic canon: That time you let Sony try to make a CD ROM version.

Post dogmatic canon: Bought out by a major corporation. Maintaining continuity becomes compulsory.

Islam: Darker! Edgier!

Gnosticism: A writer attends a cocaine party with his Neo Platonist buddies.

Crusades and Inquisition: DMCA for a different millennium.

Reformation: Fan fic writers rejoice!

Counter Reformation: Nuh uh!

Anglican Schism: What if we made this into a light hearted cartoon?

Mormons: Somebody tells a producer's son, an aspiring writer, that there is no such thing as a bad idea. As it turns out, this is incorrect.

Modern Evangelicalism: Judge Dredd and The Punisher make tender love.

[–] TheFriendlyArtificer 1 points 2 years ago

"Let's not tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color determined that," Walters said

This is also his stance on the Civil War. And Jim Crow. And Apartheid.

[–] TheFriendlyArtificer 5 points 2 years ago

I think Florida schools are way ahead of you.

[–] TheFriendlyArtificer 26 points 2 years ago (10 children)

First comment. Looking forward to the new(ish) community full of familiar faces.

I have a weird request to the other Redfugees: I had considered going through and nuking my entire post history for all of my accounts. But then I realized that a lot of the advice that I've given on /linux and /python would be lost. I'm not a master at either, but I like to think that I've helped people out.

So before deleting everything as a (justified!) middle finger to a terrible CEO, take into account that what you've written is a part of a tapestry of internet history. 99.99% is trite. But you never know what future generations will find interesting or useful.

Just my $0.02.

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