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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Alex Jones has been freaking out about FEMA since at least the Obama years, including Walmart. They've been reusing old stuff for a long time now. His bird flu, ebola, and covid coverages have been similar over the decades to, always antivax and exaggerated. With Civid, he finally had a leader who did the wrong things to address it so he got to milk it far more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Didn't Bill Ogden already claim the desk?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Pentaprisms from SLR cameras have a similar but slightly different function, so personally as an amateur photographer who doesn't use a SLR but learned about em, I think it's pretty easy for photographers who used such tech to relate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, say it ain't so, not fawking Marky Mark!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

He still thinks the "Central Park 5" should have been executed even though they were exonerated. 5 young men who share a certain skin color with me...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I linked it in another comment, but it depends on how pedantic you are. This video does agree the battle flag had growing popularity, but it isn't technically the same as the currently used Confederate flag (nor was the Navy Jack). The battle flag was more square and not as wide, the Navy Jack had a different blue.

Though if you say "close enough" I wouldn't fight it.

Edit on second read through, your statement was only on the battle flags popularity affecting the fi al design, which does make your statement correct.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

CGPGrey has a video on this. He also points out the battle flag had a different color blue than the lags used today, so the Confederate flag everyone uses was never a flag if you include color accuracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ffxiv also, has both native and steam, which is useful for steamdeck even if you don't have it for steam. FFXIVLauncher does the login then uses the fully functional steam demo to play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Don't let them hear that. ExJW, but of course considered all other flavors wrong, especially catholics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's also a reference to a movie for the olds. Big with Tom Hanks. Lots references to it in popular media I'm sure. Evidently Tom Hanks also did a joke about it on a Colbert show(forgot which).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Agreed. I once tried to look up nearby supermarkets that didn't donate to antilgbt stuff (or just not GOP) and it wasn't feasible to avoid it with what was in range back then, especially if I wanted any quality. It felt like I had no choice, so accept and live with it is also what I did. I still tried to avoid egregious examples, of course. Tesla now counts, not just because of his personality, but also because of some of the cost cutting practices and regulation skirting he has done.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't track down and listen to CEOs. I don't know most of them. The pedo sub thing was generally the first negative I heard about him also, just from general impressions that came off if you didn't search for him specifically. I also heard about the Type E and Type 3 thing, and how he wanted to have the cars spell out SEX. I thought it was a bit immature, but didn't read much further into it back then how much of a manchild he was.

If you're not dialed into specific types of content, you just didn't hear it. It's not simply opening your ears as you said. It would involve having enough interest in looking up a CEO of a company, and many of us don't do that. I don't know who runs Kroger, though I have some negative opinions due to the price fixing. I don't know who is the CEO of Aldi, of Nissan, of AMD, of cuisine Art, etc. I use products from or purchase from the previous companies either daily or weekly, but knowing the CEO generally doesn't affect me.

What he's done since then does now affect much more, but back then it wasn't that important for most to know.

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