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Comment Re:Isn't that what Wikipedia already is? (Score 1) 62

Okay, I had to look that up (as I do so often in this place):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Never even heard the word before. And now I'm aware (unfortunately) of an entire new genre of weirdness.

[quote]Edgelords were characterised by author and journalist Rachel Monroe in her account of criminal behavior, Savage Appetites: ... Internet cynics lumped the online Nazis together with the serial killer fetishists and the dumbest goths and dismissed them all as edgelords — kids who tried to be scary online. I thought of most of these edgelords as basement-dwellers, pale faces lit by the glow of their computer screen, puffing themselves up with nihilism. An edgelord was a scrawny guy with a LARP-y vibe, possibly wearing a cloak, dreaming of omnipotence. Or a girl with excessive eyeliner and lots of Tumblr posts about self-harm. The disturbing content posted by edgelords was undermined by its predictability ...[6][/quote]

Godz :-(

Comment I Dearly Love Youtube, But ... (Score 1) 100

Yeah, those subtitles can be pretty 'orrible, no question. I've often wondered if there was work there for humans, until I remember that most humans' spelling, grammar, punctuation are pretty weak too. Still, better than nothing, and I do miss it when the subtitles are not available. And it's always a surprise when I turn them on for a particular thing, and find them to be in Russian (!) or Spanish or German or whatever. I leave them on (well, except for the Russian ones because I can't read the script at all): hoping that maybe more of the language will soak in through my subconscious or whatever :-)

Comment Ah, Jane, Jane, Jane ... (Score 1) 90

Are you sure that your joining this group of signatories is not doing them more harm than good?

I'm not one of the (I suspect quite large) group of haters, despite your most inappropriate (and possibly traitorous) appearances in North Vietnam. But you could find better ways to express your support of free speech, methinks.

Comment Seems Fair (Score 1) 200

I've never heard of Waze or any other system designed to defeat camera systems. And it's been my habit, for most of my life now, to push that "10 MPH over the limit" line. But this seems fair, now that I'm older and more moderate in my driving habits. Still, I have to wonder if all the tricks I used Back In The Day with my motorcycles (pigdog Norton 750 Atlas, and then my beloved BMW R75-5) to defeat radar (careful use of lanes, using other vehicles to block my much smaller radar signature would still work at all :-)

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