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Salt your stink, miss?

my ex used to get pissed off every time i showed them this video they would be like "that's not how a train works" really angrily and storm out of the room

smalllfieldmouse

everyones gotta stop reblogging this bro they're gonna find it and get so mad they try to strangle me again

wayneradiotv

Breaking news

prince-luffy

Learning that Pokemon Go was using user data to build model of the world that was then being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning system for the newest generation of military drones has been incredibly heartbreaking. The more details that come out the more disturbed I become.

While this article is a lot more pro-military than I'd prefer (though unsurprising given the source) it still gives a pretty good summary of the situation.

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with V

A snippet:

sodom-hussein

Like so many people, one of my fondest memories was Pokemon Go with my friends in Summer 2016. This feels like a betrayal.

dataandphilosophy

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

myfootyrthroat

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

bbcwhereareyou

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

segamascott

awesome

whosurisold

billions and billions of WASTED taxpayers money

posttexasstressdisorder

Not to mention all the dead and maimed-for-life service personel.

segamascott

two prime examples of why people hate americans 👍

fairycosmos

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

anexperimentallife

enbaluka-tokyo-drift

markodragic

I love love love saying "I scavenged a working microwave in the boylands" but nobody ever knows the reference and it breaks my heart

markodragic

like, the first time I ever saw this I laughed so hard I started choking on spit but it's just not the kind of thing you can share with the average person in your life. this world is so cruel

sniperct

whiteshakira

1 time i watched this youtube video called "every time a person of color has had a line in the harry potter movies" & it was only like 10 minutes long but also the "person of color" with by far the most lines was this shrunken head with a jamaican accent

dopamine-direwolf

"Making a better burger is literally so simple, I don't know why McDonald's doesn't do it this way. First we're going to begin by craft dry-aging this A5 wagyu beef with the sho-shu-ryuba technique that I learned at a restaurant you're only allowed to work at if your parents are bluelinked on wikipedia..."

dopamine-direwolf

This post continues to occasionally strike a nerve in the trust fund baby influencer fandom.

burger-reviewer

okay but legitimately just. season the beef before you shape the patties. just salt and pepper, and an egg if you can. blend in a stand mixer. form 1/3 lb patties from a heaping #12 scoop and maybe 2/3" thick if memory serves. cook like a fucken burger. plate on a shitty dry bun and serve

pausebreakalex

I was under the impression that the only reason you would need to put an egg in there is if you're using beef with too low fat content for binding it together - even then you could technically just knead it some more to get the myosin to come out and get it all sticky, right?