@hkrn so it happens at every office hahaha

US Army officer reply-all E-mail chain causes pandemonium
L: https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2023/02/09/army-officer-email-chain-caused-pandemonium.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747481
posted on 2023.02.10 at 18:29:57 (c=1, p=3)

Apple no longer allowing iPad as Home Hub, to increase TV and HomePod sales
L: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/22/ipados-16-no-ipad-home-hub-support/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34687507
posted on 2023.02.06 at 20:53:35 (c=1, p=5)

👋🏻 After much unnecessary angst, I've decided to make myself at home on macaw.social (going back to my roots as a long, long ago Twitter employee), so, hello! It's me again!! Happy to be @sommer once more, too! 😁

As per usual, you may expect posts about 💙 accessibility, 📱 iOS, 🎪 circus/performing arts, and 💭 just general life musings. I try my best to tag things so you can filter out the topics you don't care about.

Going to check off some boxes in there.

Metal Gear Solid 5.

Going to risk it all and play some video games tonight instead of quietly melting into the couch as a movie plays.

Nice midwest sunset

I saw it over my work yesterday.

@onelson i see a secret steamdeck

Here we go again

@oceanotter draw a female sonic OC with this hairstyle!

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@hannu_ikonen “An employee may not use his public office for his own private gain or for that of persons or organizations with which he is associated personally. An employee's position or title should not be used to coerce; to endorse any product, service or enterprise; or to give the appearance of governmental sanction.” https://www.justice.gov/jmd/misuse-position-and-government-resources

Finally my watercooler for my 5800x3D is here! Thanks for the open box deal from #ebay #arctic 100$ 420mm watercooler AIO is a steal!

@Greengordon @Melody @servelan @Faithinbones @oldmanmike @Raven47 @nitrofurano @therobburgessshow

Indeed so. The point I tend to make here is this:

If you ask white liberal America to name their primary icon for civil rights the chances are pretty good they'll say MLK. They will mention 'I Have a Dream' as a turning point in American history, as though every racist grinch heart in America suddenly grew three sizes upon hearing that speech and bam, Civil Rights act.

The problem? MLK made his 'I Have a Dream' speech at a gathering in Washington in August of 1963 that was meant to pressure Congress into passing Civil Rights legislation before they recessed that year. Which they did not do. No one in Congress that was against the legislation changed their tune after 'I Have A Dream'. Congress went back home without doing anything at all in response to that speech.

Then Congress came back into session the next year and they still didn't pass the act. There was lip service and then filibustering. Filibustering with no apparent end in sight.

You know when the filibustering stopped? About a month after Malcolm X made 'The Ballot Or The Bullet' speech. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shortly after that. And the President signed it into law on the very same day.

I think Dr. King was a great man. I fundamentally agree with him. His place in history is deserved and his martyrdom remains a terrible injustice. But he, and his dream, are not the reason white America grudgingly acquiesced to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They did that because Malcolm X scared the everloving shit out of them.

They raised MLK on high. pretending to revere him, and renamed a bunch of civic property after him and indeed even gave us MLK day as a federal holiday hoping and praying that it would be enough to make black America forget about The Ballot Or the Bullet. Just scared shitless over the sentiments it contained, which were that blacks ought to arm themselves and learn to use those arms in their own self defense and then tell white Americans that they were bound to have their freedom, and if they couldn't have it via the ballot, they had a plan B ready to go. Within a month of hearing that speech Civil Rights legislation finally became a reality. The math is inescapable.

And indeed today Malcolm X is relegated to little more than a footnote by the American establishment, and The Ballot Or The Bullet isn't a speech most of us ever encounter in our lives unless we go looking for it.

Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.

SCP-4981 was playing Jailbreak on ROBLOX, saying he's "immune to cops haha", then SCP-3284 was able to spawn NPCs as cops, then SCP-4981 loses a 1v1 in a Fortnite match, and then locates SCP-3284, and then SCP-4981 gets triggered, only to get stabbed by SCP-3284's scissor blade.