Notices by all work and no play (3am_drunkpoaster@poa.st)

@EvolLove @sargoysmuck @PNS I saw a clip earlier of a bunch of black kids ransacking a convenience store. They made small efforts to not only steal things, but also to knock over and destroy merchandise on their way out. Trailing them was an old black woman with a walker, telling them that they'd pay for it somehow, in the future.

It's like there was a window of time when some proportion of blacks could be high-functioning and moral, but only because they grew up in a normatively white society and had to abide by our rules.

We don't live in that kind of society anymore.

And to be clear, there's no need for apartheid or anything that could be read as "cruelty" toward nonwhites. We just offer them some amount of money to renounce citizenship and leave the country, and even if that amount is something absolutely insane like $500,000, that's still less than what the average black costs the country over his or her lifetime.

@BowsacNoodle @burner @chad Dilate.

@BowsacNoodle I revisited a particular scene and saw that the trannies who've come to run everything are mostly regulars from the old days, and not commissars or entryists bent on asserting political control.

At least, not initially.

They became forum moderators as confused young men, and probably assumed further control as the older guys moved on to family and career stuff, becoming ideologically trannified along the way.

And then at some point the forum rules change, the software has pronouns added to it and— oops, somehow the mods and admins are all faggots! Various regulars made their last stand for being able to express sane ideas in the "off topic" area and got banned. The rest either agree or hold their noses.

tl;dr the communities around these hobbies lacked "gatekeeping" even when it was legal to do so. The ideological vacuum was filled with trannyism.

@troubledturtle That's the "transmetal" form of rattrap that they introduced in season 2 or 3. I think the writers felt (particularly by that point in the show, with the power inflation that was happening) that this "spy" style character didn't have enough going for it relative to the rest of the cast, and that too many characters lacked mobility.

Like, they had to keep writing stories where rattrap, cheetor, rhinox and dinobot were stuck where they were, or had to hoof it across miles and miles of empty terrain, or else needed Optimus to carry them to the action.

I suspect they had originally given themselves the constraint that "rattrap must be cool for reasons other than pew pew" and needed to design more compelling toys, but didn't want to do so by buffing him along intimidation/firepower lines.

So they gave him wheels, lol.

@theorytoe Cancel each other out...?

@theorytoe tfw toasters do not cancel each other out

Just a reminder that bullshitters are putting bullshit on the internet to make all information unreliable. This isn't scifi or a prediction; it's already here but not yet fully distributed.

Because of this, globohomo's top minds will soon devise a suitable punishment for you.

https://gab.com/shadowknight412/posts/111773728959114510

@lain Yep, it sure is great that millennials never devolved into the sort of sanctimonious cartoon stereotypes that they ridiculed as teens.

@Moon I'll take needing to read a manual to understand how my equipment works over most of the problems we have now.