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[LockeCJ]

Urinating Dog Statue added to the Fearless Girl facing Wall Street Bull Statue

You know what? I’m sorry this has been taken down, because it should keep going. I want someone to add a caricature of a Nazi sculpting the dog. I want a copy of The Thinker with a thought bubble reading “Whoever made this is stupid”, then another statue with a shirt that reads “No YOU’RE a stupid!” I want an Abraham Lincoln facepalming at them all, and a Richard Nixon giving him rabbit ears, and a crying Statue of Liberty, and a grave labeled REAL ART. I want this park to become a gallery crowd…

This is masterfully executed.

[Archon]

I agreed, and so I went and liked. Nice one @chenille!

[gadgetgirl]

Our so-called president

I’m hoping Canada’s Parliament will vote in favour of building a wall along our southern border with Hillary Clinton’s emails because a huge swath of Americans can’t get over them.

[LockeCJ]

Idiot Anti-Diversity Broflake Sacked From Google - and becomes a hero to idiots everywhere

I think, by recognizing that it’s inevitable. The trade-off to having progressed is recognition of the ways in which others have not. Either you’re behind the curve, or you’re frustrated at those who are. The only world in which there are no crazy alt-right conservatives is the one in which you’re the craziest alt-right conservative, in which case you’re wasting your life getting upset about fluoride and the gay agenda. Sad! The problem with the 'net is that it’s constantly calling attention t…

[teknocholer]

On differences

I’ve come to a new understanding of my feelings about the BoingBoing BBS. I think of it now as the old Greyhound bus station on Cahuenga in Hollywood. They had these rows of black plastic molded seats with small coin-operated TVs built onto the armrests, the one time I rode into Hollywood on Greyhound (a 20th century rite of passage I wouldn’t recommend). Anyway, so yeah, I imagine some buddy of mine recommending a particularly talented busker who typically plays at the bus station on weekday…

[Pogo]

Perspective people; they ain’t all USAians or from Canadia.

Andy's Put-Wealth-in-Check Global Emporium

Tell that to the girls who can’t go to school because someone in the family has to walk many miles every day to get water and/or the fuel (wood, peat, dung, etc.) necessary to boil it. Yes, people manage. But when you ask them, they’ll tell you they’d like to have a turn themselves at the conveniences we take for granted.

[gadgetgirl]

Yes. Some of them live in places designed for walkability, or that have usable transit systems.

North America (most of it) is not the pinnacle of urban design and transportation.

[Pogo]

Whole swaths of humanity live in places not designed for walkability, nor is there any public transportation.

[gadgetgirl]

That’s true. That’s why I’m not against cars entirely. I just don’t see them as an end solution for all cases where they are currently needed.

[AndyHilmer]

That would be why Europe, China, and Japan use trains?

Anyway, apart from some folks still trying to polish the Insufficient Intelligent AI fece, there’s been some good discussion.

[gadgetgirl]

Toward Better Communications on the BBS

I mean consider. Think about what you do and where it doesn’t work well, figure out what you can to improve it, and certainly ask as needed. But that has to be with the honest intention of making communicating with you easier for them. For instance, this question doesn’t count at all because it is evidently rhetorical – you’ve started talking about how you want your communications to work before even hearing me answer. It’s all well and good to say communication is between equals, but that doe…

[MrMonkey]

I don’t know if this is appropriate game etiquette, or not, but I really enjoyed these posts.

I literally (as in the literal meaning of “literally”, and not the figurative meaning, over which I will fight you) laughed out loud. More than once.

Redoubtable Downtown Space Abbey - Turn 1 - Welcome to Weatherby!

[VenomandVirginity] “Oh, for heaven’s… sir! That is… I mean, Ssskidwish! Ssskidwish, present yourself immediately!” “Whaddaya want, Lieutenant?” “Ahem… sir. We’re in public now. Ixnay on the iplay. I’m the social superior now, remember?” “Ah, right, right… (ahem). 'Ow might I be o’service today, your lizardship?” [whispering] “Sir, I think we might have miscalculated a bit. I thought it a sure bet that we’d maximize our investment by infiltrating society in the role of fetching and innocen…

and

Redoubtable Downtown Space Abbey - The Leviathan Club

"A pleasure to meet you, Dr. Franksenketchup (@Old). Your ‘biological creations’ idea reminds me of an awful rumor I’d heard recently, from the Historical Society. The story — although only God knows its veracity — is that someone, when asked for their heraldry, provided a drawing of a coat — that is to say, the garment — with humanoid arms growing on it. "Can you imagine? I can understand messing up the tinctures and mistakenly ending up with armes à enquérir, but in this case, the owner mu…

[Nightflyer]

Marjins Þridus

After all, to other up (“Fuck you pig!” from a poor PoC) is awesome and is a fundamentally different act than to other down (“The poor are stupid.” from a rich white lady). No. No, no, no, damn it, for the love of all that’s good in the world, NO. The rich white person who thinks that people on welfare thinks that they’re punching up. The “free speech advocates” who quote Strom (and attribute to Voltaire) and say, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to cri…

[gadgetgirl]

Race relations

I think it might just be the journalists making mistakes, but I can’t tell without more details. Because of the way these are presented, I’d say that the listed variables are the most highly correlated ones in each category- these all being variants of the same underlying variable would make sense in that case. I think the actual model will be different. If you read the article closely, it doesn’t actually say that these are the characteristics that make up the best model, just that these are t…

[MrMonkey]

There’s something about this post…

Oh, how I dream of a place for me

Oh, it would be one hell of a miracle. When I was a kid, I used to design my own… well, superhero lairs. I mean floorplans containing everything I could think of that I’d want. Huge garages, laboratories, libraries, observatories, secret passages, gymnasia, theaters. Kinda like those myriad cutaways of the Baxter Building (home of the Fantastic Four) they used to periodically publish: [baxterbldg1] [baxterbldg2] [baxterbldg3] [baxterbldg4] …except mine were always just floorplans, not isom…

[MrMonkey]

This kind of dedication to craft is what I love about the people on this site.

Redoubtable Downtown Space Abbey - The Leviathan Club

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[Nightflyer]

I don’t get it.

[smulder]

It’s a text message piped through base64.

It’s like putting spoiler tags around something, except it takes slightly more work to read it, and the reader has to recognize the output format in order to know what to do with it.

[Nightflyer]

Now I got it.

[MrMonkey]

I don’t get it.

It occurs to me that my enthusiasm is a little in-jokey, which is kind of sucky for the folks who don’t recognize the reference, so here’s a hint: https://www.base64decode.org (copy and paste).

The encoding bit was the visceral, in-character, icing on the cake, but mostly my admiration was for the commitment to the characters from the RDSA. In my imagination, someone serendipitously ran across an interesting image¹ that reminded them of our little game, and then shared that in a way that was kind of both a puzzle and a treat. (I don’t know if that’s really what happened, but I like my version).

cc: @fintastic

1. or maybe not a real image? I have a certain affinity for old-school sci-fi paperback cover art, to the extent that I buy books I’ve no intention of reading based purely on their covers, but I’ve so far been unable to determine if the referenced tome is real or imaginary.

ETA: Doh! ninja’d.

Now I got it.