Sunk With The Protorus

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[angremlin-deactivated20250312]

[escuerzoresucitado]

Good morning

[depsidase]

[dinosaur-ears]

The Epstein files are not just about pedophilia. Trafficking children for sexual abuse is deeply heinous, so it makes sense that it's captured our attention. But pedophilia is not the point.

The point is that we live with a global network of elites who have enough power to treat politics, laws, public opinion, international treaties, and all other people as personal assets.

The point is that nobody is truly safe or sovereign when a handful of rich assholes have access to this kind of power.

The point is that Epstein being dead and Maxwell being in jail does nothing at all to alter the power structure.

[livefromphilly]

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[evandorkin]

Hi Evan! You once posted a cartoon about Edgar Allen Poe, with his wife objecting to the term "Oblong Box". I thought this was part of the Dork collection, but I dug through my copy and I can't find it. Is it printed somewhere else? I wanted to show it to a friend who would find it hilarious, but I can't seem to track it down.

It's not in the Dork collection, it's more recent. I still do those four panel gags for my Patreon when I can find the time. I think it may have run in a magazine called Soft Wood, a humor one-shot from Heavy Metal, but I can't remember. Anyway:

[housepig13]

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[mckitterick]

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2025), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

[spudnuto]

[depsidase]

[brucesterling]

[ladythatsmyskull]

MAGAs and conservatives don't have the overwhelming numbers they claim they do. It always shows that much of the time when they try some grift or tour and none of their supposedly huge base they believe they control spends any money at all supporting them.

Their main power comes from no one standing up to their actions and their control over media.

[housepig13]

Checks out. At our local Tesla Takedown protests (still going strong), there is a pro-Elon / pro-Trump contingent that has about 3-6 people every week (but over a dozen huge flags, because flags are cheap), in contrast to the 30-60 regulars that come out for our side.

They're like a balloon - might look big, but it's hollow.

[republicansexscandals]

All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped

Their charges range from an unwanted touch from behind to aggressive, sudden kissing to fingers groping up their skirt and into their underw

Please share liberally.

[jilli1205]

Reference material and facts for those who feel truth matters.

[theconcealedweapon]

[disease]

John Waters "No Smoking" PSA [Landmark Theatres, 1982]

Directed by Douglas Brian Martin, and produced by Douglas Brian Martin and Steven M. Martin for the Landmark's Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles in conjunction with their screenings of Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS. Scanned from an original 35mm print from the collection of Chip Ordway.

[housepig13]

my favorite theater, the Trylon in Minneapolis, plays this one all the time, alternating with one from Melvin Van Peebles. So good.

[victusinveritas]

[housepig13]

DAMMIT

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