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You know what's fun? Making regressive looter shitheads lose their entire mind by asking them to rationally and logically explain their position without trying to claim "muh feelz" as a valid argument. Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them won't be able to do it and will lose their shit on the spot. The one left over will be able to but more than half the time they'll have some foundational assumption that cannot be chalked up to anything but feelz.

From The Guardian:

Intriguingly, the Ancient Greeks had a word for what’s missing: isegoria, which they thought must accompany freedom of speech, and which means equality of speech – people need to hear their own voices reflected in political discourse.

Well, we have Farcebook and Witter.

Back in the days when phones still had cords, they had twelve buttons; ten numbers, *-star, and #-pound. Owen Benjamin was kind enough to point this out in relation to pronouncing the #MeToo hashtag. You lot being the fine connoisseurs of comedy that you are, I felt the need to share it along to you.

H&M slammed for racism after showing black boy in ‘coolest monkey in the jungle’ hoodie

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/h-m-slammed-racism-coolest-monkey-jungle-hoodie-article-1.3744160

BY Christopher Brennan Kate Feldman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Monday, January 8, 2018, 7:35 PM

Clothing giant H&M has been slammed for racism after featuring a photo of a black boy wearing a “coolest monkey in the jungle” hoodie.

The hoodie, available at the store’s United Kingdom page as a “printed hooded top,” was noticed Sunday by social media users such as blogger Stephanie Yeboah, whose outraged screen capture of the offering went viral.

H&M has been accused of racism after it featured a young black boy in a "coolest monkey in the jungle" hoodie.
(H&M)

H&M, based in Sweden, apologized Monday morning for what many said was an insensitive association between the young model and a hateful slur against black people.

"This image has now been removed from all H&M channels and we apologise to anyone this may have offended," the company told the Daily News in a terse statement from its Stockholm headquarters.

Model recounts alleged sex assault by Terry Richardson

Musician The Weeknd cut ties with the brand after the photo went viral online.

"Woke up this morning shocked and embarrassed by this photo," he tweeted. "I'm deeply offended and will not be working with @hm anymore..."

http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2018/01/11/mom-h-m-coolest-monkey-ad-model-slams-critics-crying-wolf-tells-them-to-get-over-it.amp.html

RACHEL DOLEZAL RESPONDS TO H&M CONTROVERSY WITH HER OWN 'RACIST' SWEATSHIRT DESIGN

“Am the mum and this is one of hundreds of outfits my son has modelled,” Mango wrote, according to screenshots of the messages. “Stop crying wolf all the time, unnecessary issue here… get over it.”

“If I bought that jumper and put it on him and posted it on my pages, would that make me racist? I get pples opinion, but they are not mine,” she said.

She added, “Everyone is entitled to their opinion about this…I really don’t understand but not coz am choosing not to but because it’s not my way of thinking, sorry.”

H&M was forced to apologize on Monday for an ad featuring a black child in a "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle" sweatshirt. (H&M)

One amusing sidenote: Black boy? Shouldn't that be "black youth"? You can't refer to a black person as a black boy, even if he is a boy!

Those who want to be offended can easily find something to be offended about. Coolest monkey? FFS, the wife and I have referred to our own offspring as little monkeys. And, the grandchildren. The one with protruding ears gets the tag a bit more often than the others, is that racist?

Bella Emberg, aka Blunder Woman (Cooperman's faithful sidekick), has died at the age of 80.

Yes, of course it snows on cesspools, just as it snows everywhere else. So, you have special snowflakes in shitholes. Damn, Trump didn't know that? Now the snowflakes are going crazy, while pretending that they are going crazy in a rose garder? This is some funny shit!

This could get really interesting. About as interesting as a storm in a tea kettle, maybe?

Meanwhile, can we get back to the question? WHY DO WE WANT OR NEED IMMIGRANTS FROM SHITHOLES??????? (Mexico, I'm pointing at you!) If we're seeking immigrants, how 'bout we actively seek immigrants who are healthy, wealthy, wise, educated, or otherwise attractive?

And, oh yeah. Fuck the snowflakes. True, Trump ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he's sharp enough to understand that all that downtrodden masses bullshit is destructive for our country. We simply don't need a million more welfare recipients, from any country!

UPDATE: TheMightyBuzzard clarified that I did not need all that I was seeking here. Many thanks to those who read/replied. And, it looks like it unearthed a bug in our UTF-8 implementation!

I started down the path of writing tests for one of the bugs that was fixed in the upcoming rehash release. Specifically WRT how SoylentNews handles Ordered List (OL) and Unordered List (UL) elements, and while I was at it, I was going to toss in Definition List (DL) elements, too. I'd have these defined with various attributes all at the top level, and then with nested versions of these. It's a relatively straightforward (though time-consuming) exercise.

A quick stab at getting started on this for UL elements can be found in this comment on our dev server instance.

Then I realized "Am I the very first person who has wanted to do this?" I'd think that any HTML-consuming application would already have gone down this path. FireFox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, etc.

A quick search has failed to produce what I am looking for. It seems that if I were to download the development version of FireFox, that there is a set of automated tests that I might be able to leverage, but that would be a huge hit on my limited bandwidth cap, so I'm holding off on that approach -- I'd like to think that I should be able to just download the test cases themselves.

So, I ask my fellow Soylentils: Where can I find an exhaustive set of tests of UL, OL, LI, (and, ideally, DL, DT, DD) elements?

User gets free reign of Russian bank's ATM by pressing shift five times.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1960584.html

In the old, good Opera browser, holding down the shift key is used to select links within the page via the keyboard. I disabled Sticky Keys on my laptop(s) by removing the file SETHC.EXE so that I would stop triggering it unintentionally.

Well, I sat down at a computer which I haven't used in a long time. More than a year? I'm really not sure when I last logged into Facebook with it. For some reason, I thought I'd click on Facebook. Firefox has my saved password, I should just click and be in. Ooops - I'm not in. It wants me to enter a password, or click the "forgot password" thingy. Well - actually, I didn't want on Facebook very badly. It's far to much trouble to go to my own computer, and retrieve the password. I remember now that I changed the password about a year ago, give or take a little.

NOTE: I did NOT click the button to ask for a new password or anything. I loaded the login page, entered an invalid password, and was redirected back to the login page. End of story - the page was then closed.

So, a few days later - not minutes later, or hours later, but DAYS later - I check my email, and Facefook is offering to log me in. Hmmmm? Fact is, I've logged in, from this computer, since then. I wanted to check up on a group of veterans, and checked their Facebook page.

From: Facebook

Guy, get back on Facebook with one click

Hi Guy,

It looks like you're having trouble logging into Facebook. Just click the button below and we'll log you in.

Get Back on Facebook

If you weren't trying to log in, let us know.
 

Now, I might understand this email, had I received it within a few minutes of the failed login. The system noticed that someone failed a login, and automatically generated an email - that seems like it might be a "feature". But, this email is days, almost a week, after the fact. WTF? Doesn't look like an automagic script thing to me. Worse, as I say, I DID log in, and check the page that I was interested in, then logged out. That probably should have turned off any automagic actions that the system was working on.

The email APPEARS TO BE from Facefook, but I'm sure as hell not clicking the link provided.

So, who thinks that I'm being phished, and who thinks that Facefook (or someone at Facefook) has chosen to give me some personal attentio? Shit looks weird to me!

Oh, before anyone asks, I'll decline to provide the actual email with identifying information. True, those identifiers are false, but I'd rather not associate them with this, or other accounts using this username, etc.

So, I went and saw Episode VIII today at noon. I figured, screw opening night; I'll catch it Saturday in the daytime so I don't have to stand in line, fight for elbow room, or listen to a bunch of shitheads talk through it.

tl;dr: I wish I'd just given up on the franchise.

I'm not going to bore you with a lot of detailed analysis because that's not how you watch a movie for enjoyment. I'm just going to tell you it wasn't good and boil the "why" down to the most crucial bit: the dialogue.

If you ripped out the voice track from the movie, rewrote it, and re-recorded it, VIII could have been about as good as VI. As it stands, the dialogue was worse than I or II. Yes, even considering Jar-Jar. After mostly enjoying VII and the much better Rogue One, this was to me the biggest let-down in franchise history.