bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's already managed to remain untouched through the tariff farce so I'm not holding my breath.

But even if something crazy does happen, a major financial crisis should not conjure images of the economy running off a cliff and hovering in the air for a few seconds making running motions with its legs before noticing its mistake and promptly falling in the canyon and making a hole shaped perfectly like its spread out silhouette. A financial crisis is a serious matter completely unlike an enormous ACME brand anvil falling down the same hole and a crude white flag of surrender feebly popping out of it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There's nothing funny about stock market crashes. S&P 500 falling flat on its face is not a laughing matter. Do you think it's comical when NASDAQ steps on a banana peel and does a double backflip and there's drums and cymbals and a horn honks as its nose hits the ground? I think it's sick to laugh at US dollar getting a grand piano dropped on it and then having its teeth replaced by piano keys which play a little ragtime lick before falling off.

Anyway here's a statement from the chief of US Federal Reserve considering threats made against him by the US president https://youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a stupid fucking name alright. I guess it's a bit like any old scandal being noungate despite the Watergate scandal being named after the building and having nothing to do with water.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

How to neither downplay the death of Renee Good nor the uncountable number of people, mostly people of color, who were murdered by near equally fascist police forces without the public outrage her murder finally rightly elicited? I am tired and yet I feel bad to even complain about it because look at this shit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think it's a spin on Y2K. A hypothetical moment when quantum computing will break cryptography much like the year 2000 would have broken the datetime handling on some systems programmed with only the 20th century in mind.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

My condolences, that truly sucks :(

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

slaps roof of episode This bad breast can fit so many bad penises in it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Somewhat interestingly, 194 decibels is the loudest that a sound can be physically sustained in the Earth's atmosphere. At that point the "bottom" of the pressure wave is a vacuum. Some enormous blast such as a huge meteor impact, a supervolcano eruption or a very large nuclear weapon can exceed that limit but only for the initial pulse.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

A simplified diagram showing the development of various latin scripts

pointing at the blackletter scripts Look how they massacred my boy!

Clickhole headline edited to say "Heartbreaking: 15th Century Italian Humanists Just Made A Great Point"

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the conversion. Real scanlation enjoyers will understand.

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