Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

Profilie -> comments tab -> sort by controversial

It would also be interesting to see which comment is most disliked (which one has the most net negative score), but I don’t think there’s a sort that does that.

short(-ish) term

That’s optimistic.

Republicans believe they can flout the law with impunity. Democrats refuse to teach the lesson that destroying the Rule of Law harms the Republicans too, by treating them as the literal outlaws they are.

After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.

I have a Costco membership. I don’t buy things like this or frozen vegetables there because they cost more per unit than they do at Kroger (let alone Lidl or Aldi).

No, that comment was just the last straw.

Perhaps you should define “blue maga”

Weird, dishonest fanboyism for liberal politicians.

Digital music really hasn’t caught on much.

I just found out that modular synths are a thing and it looks pretty fun to me! It’s like half music and half electrical engineering, LOL.

(Don’t get me wrong, I knew about keyboard synthesizers and whatnot, but the concept of making music with a bunch of oscillators and random voltage generators patched together is 🤯.)

(Also, shout out to !obscureinstruments@sh.itjust.works for putting me on the Youtube random walk that lead to that video.)

seaboard

This? That is… holy shit, really cool! I didn’t think there was anything beyond velocity and polyphony in terms of expanding the capabilities of what a keyboard controller could do. I kinda want one myself, now.

Also, LOL at the the other thing they sell that looks like a Theremin but actually uses computer vision to turn your hand gestures into MIDI commands. I don’t know what drugs that company’s product designers are on, but it’s the good shit.

or if it even works under linux

The only MAGAs in this thread are the “Blue MAGAs” trying to gaslight us into thinking that merely administering the existing law is some heroic act and not a goddamn baseline expectation.

And that’s saying a lot, because I fucking hate the “Blue MAGA” accusations. I’ve always considered it dishonest ‘both-sides’-ism, not a real thing.

But nope! This thread, right now, has finally proven to me that it is indeed real. You have managed to sink to that level. So congratulations, I guess, for extinguishing the last shred of faith I had in liberals. That’s what your bad faith bullshit has accomplished. I hope you’re happy.

The fact that you’re not refuting me makes me know you know I’m correct.

He “focused” on fuck-all because this is not an expansion! No expansion happened. The claim that anything was expanded is a LIE.

The debt always supposed to have been forgiven under policy that has existed for more than a decade. Biden did his job and nothing else. It’s only notable because his predecessor didn’t.

How much clearer do we have to make it? Why are you liberal apologists acting like MAGAs?

These programs exist but bureaucratic hurdles prevented people from actually having their loans forgiven.

Biden bypassed all that and just forgave the loans.

Biden didn’t to jack shit except to undo Betsy DeVos’s sabotage and administer the program in good faith. That’s not heroic; that’s the basic expectation of the job. It only looks heroic in comparison to the previous active sabotage.

Unless these programs that existed before trump are suddenly stopped when he didmt stop them last time

He did stop them last time, though. Or rather, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos did. I mean, obviously they didn’t officially cancel the program/change the policy, but they definitely did do everything they could to illegally obstruct the process.

That still doesn’t mean Biden deserves to be fellated for (checks notes) merely ceasing to obstruct, though.

ITT: liberal apologists getting BIG MAD that the rest of us aren’t buying their spin trying to give credit to Biden for merely enforcing the existing law.

From the article:

The 150,000 new beneficiaries announced Monday include more than 80,000 borrowers who were cheated or defrauded by their schools, over 60,000 borrowers with total and permanent disabilities and more than 6,000 public service workers, Biden said in the release.

These are all loans that were ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN under existing law.

🖕IDIC, bitch! 🖖

At first I mistook that for “Terra Nova” and got really confused.

SINGLE-FAMILY CAR-DEPENDENT ZONING

The biggest contributing factor to our obesity is how our built environment itself facilitates a sedentary lifestyle.

It’s also a major contributing factor to:

• poor mental health (because of both commuting road rage and lack of “third places” to socialize)
• the housing crisis
• wealth inequality
• climate change
• plastic pollution (a lot of which comes from tire dust)
• crime (as a knock-on effect of inequality and poor mental health, plus the legacy of leaded gasoline)

This cat is thoroughly out of the bag. People have been building computer vision powered automatic sentry guns that shoot paint balls or nerf darts or spray water for a while now.

See, for example, this video from 2012, which was probably about one of the first ones.

In comparison, here’s a new video from a few weeks ago as part of “YouTube Maker Secret Santa” where the guy built a very good working Nerf replica of a TF2 level 2 sentry gun. He didn’t even bother talking much about the motion tracking part because it was already a solved problem (see timestamp 17:50), so instead he spent the video talking about the ammo chain design and the aesthetics (and playing with the Secret Santa gift he had received from another maker).

That’s the state of automatic AI turrets in 2025: trivial enough to omit discussion of the tracking tech and cheap enough to build to fit in a Secret Santa gift budget.