Well yeah. Officially TIA is a "point and laugh at Tumblr idiocy" subreddit, and a lot of that idiocy truly does need laughed at. However, it has increasingly drawn an anti social justice crowd, not just an anti-stupidity crowd.
I think most people with a cause are more likely to want to believe things that fit with their worldview, including completely made-up stuff that's supposed to come from their opposition. Look at how e.g. Republicans tend to fall for ridiculous "Lo…
Problem is there's no way to enforce it unless the harasser is stupid, like they use the same username.
TIA is increasingly falling for troll blogs, too.
They are. I live close to the flagship store and unless you're (a) cute as hell, (b) a complete fashion addict, you won't get a job there. Granted that's probably the pickiest store but still.
naney: but you can probably pick it up, wrt. womens' shoes. You do know quite a bit about men's fashion,and that probably means it'd be a quicker learning curve than for many.
I was always fascinated but from when I was about 9 to 13 or so we lived really close to the East Coast Main Line in Durham, and my brothers and I spent all our free time being mad trainspotters. We'd get the cheap kids' all-summer regional ticket …
One thing I've noted on the Internet is that all kinds of things can get people worked up enough to do shit like that. Politics and its bedmate religion are of course the biggest ones, though ...
And now I want to create a "Are metal models a good idea?" snowclone, and point out how whitemetal castings hold less detail than injection-molded plastic or even resin.
It still amazes me that 4.2BSD on a VAX 11/780 copied memory by writing it to swap and pulling it back.
Such a different world. Now, most of the time, we have more CPU cycles than we can use but disk IO is a bottleneck. Then, that VAX would be ser…
Yeah, the last few revisions of the Jargon File weren't good, though much of the carried-over content was alright.
The diskless workstation was a bad idea and stayed a bad idea, though. Netboot is great for installation, but really stupid for opera…