Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg 75 points 4 days ago

Had me ready to rant until the last frame... well played.

[–] Arghblarg 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Small price to pay for standing up to fascism.

[–] Arghblarg 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Don't worry, once he's dead and can't stop it Hollywood will thoroughly sh*t over this IP as well with prequels, sequels and spinoffs. They're very patient if there's potential for a cash grab.

Then again, Spielberg isn't so pure -- he CGI'd the guns with walkie-talkies in the re-release didn't he? Can't depict our loving government agents as anything but benevolent, right?

Wasn't it Terry Pr⍺tchett who specifically put in his will that all of his unfinished works (on hard drives) were to be crushed with a steamroller?

Ah yes

[–] Arghblarg 1 points 4 days ago

I think governments and billionaire oligarchs (but I repeat myself) have been using Huxley to distract us from Orwell for quite a while, now. :(

[–] Arghblarg 8 points 5 days ago

Show me where you pee from!

Pants on the ground and dresses in the air!

If I see one underwear I'm taking you all in!

  • D. Trump, heard behind-stage at Miss Teen USA Pageants
[–] Arghblarg 8 points 6 days ago

Are there any minor failures in your Tesla that you can claim warranty against? I wouldn't begrudge anyone stuck with one now who bought in the past, but a sort of civil disobedience, aimed at costing the company as much as possible, would be an ethical imperative here. Claim any warranty repair you can. Be a 'picky' customer. Make support and sales spend extra effort and money in any way possible for your property. After all, you paid for it, make them spend as much money as possible.

[–] Arghblarg 27 points 6 days ago

Excellent. Resist.

[–] Arghblarg 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like it is truly time to station troops in Greenland to defend against the US. The issue will need to be forced, so Drumpf either backs down, or crosses the line into hostility so the world will wake up from its denial of the danger.

[–] Arghblarg 54 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Stochastic terrorism and signalling his followers should no longer 'stand back and stand by'. How does he get away with this? Good lord.

[–] Arghblarg 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Let them, wait for them to violate any law at all, and re-charge them with new crimes. Stick 'em right back where they belong, in prison.

[–] Arghblarg 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Used to -- I think both ftp:// and gopher:// have been removed by the big browsers (eg Chrome and Firefox).

Can't have competing standards that might let us avoid ads now, can we?

 

Marked NSFW just in case :)

 

Our girl cat brought a rat she'd either killed or found already dead to our patio (she hasn't done this for a few years).

As the wife and I discussed how best to dispose of it, we saw to our horror 3 large, purplish-black (2cm x 1.5cm?) fat larval things emerge from the rat's abdomen. A quick web search ('Vancouver Island rat botfly') shows matching images. Eyyyyyych.

I bagged the carcass and captured the larvae in a jar for the moment... there's a burn ban at the moment, so I can't do that, but I don't just want to throw them in the trash either so

  • Is burying them sufficient?
  • Are our two cats in any danger of infection? (I phoned our vet, no answer from them yet)
  • Should we notify the town pest control dept.?

There are lots of cats in the area besides our own, so we thought rats weren't a big problem on our street. Now I'm not so sure.

EDIT: We didn't want to wait any longer to deal with it, so I dug the deepest hole I could under some back bushes and squashed every larva I could find, in and out of the carcass, then buried everything. I hope that's the end of that. Yuuuuuuuck.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Arghblarg to c/accessvirus
 

https://archive.org/details/access-virus-b-c-roms

Why would you need these?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1665374

This is a great tool to overwrite your posts with random words and a link to get others to consider doing so as well.

Once my comments are all gone, I'm gonna delete the posts too.

EDIT: ..and I'm perma-banned :). Guess they don't like mentioning lemmy.whynotdrs.org ("... attempting to pillage the community to start another"). Yeah, that's kinda the point. Buh-bye rexxit.

 

This is a great tool to overwrite your posts with random words and a link to get others to consider doing so as well.

Once my comments are all gone, I'm gonna delete the posts too.

EDIT: ...and I'm perma-banned :) They didn't like me mentioning lemmy.whynotdrs.org in my farewell blurbs.

 

One cannot even mention 'SS' much less 'why not drs'. I am so F'ing glad we're moving off of that shithole platform.

 

Credit to rexxit user RedditIsOwendByTheWS

(Text below, linked site has annoying auto-play videos.)

July 11, 2023 / 12:00PM / CNN

By Matt Egan and Jeanne Sahadi, CNN

NEW YORK - Federal regulators said Tuesday they found that Bank of America harmed customers by double-dipping on fees, withholding credit card rewards and opening fake accounts, all of which are violations of various consumer financial protection laws.

As a result, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Bank of America (BAC) to pay more than $100 million to customers and $90 million in penalties. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also ordered Bank of America (BAC) to pay $60 million in fines.

The bank is the second largest in the United States, serving 68 million individuals and small businesses.

Some of the charges are reminiscent of the Wells Fargo scandal last decade that involved opening millions of bank accounts without customer authorization.

"Bank of America wrongfully withheld credit card rewards, double-dipped on fees, and opened accounts without consent," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a statement. "These practices are illegal and undermine customer trust. The CFPB will be putting an end to these practices across the banking system."

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submitted 2 years ago by Arghblarg to c/main
 

Anyone else seeing this?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Arghblarg to c/gmecanada
 

Now as a Tourist Attraction rather than an Historical Landmark. Let's see if they take it down again.

 

MapleApes are Everywhere

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Arghblarg to c/[email protected]
 

I know the sign's not there anymore, but it's fun that it has been preserved for posterity in Google Maps (and Google accepted my edit for the website link to point to drsgme.org!)

EDIT (July 26 2023): Reposted yet again, as a tourist attraction. If you leave a review, please keep it relevant to the actual site and the reason it's there (mr boost's sign), not random meme pics like last time :) Hopefully it'll stick this time. https://goo.gl/maps/2EMbUwc442KvByyt6

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