“Where’s the money, Lebowski?!”

I know that stock image lady is supposed to be laughing, but her expression looks a bit more like she just lost a finger and is in traumatic shock.

Haha, whoops! That’s just a typo on my part. Thanks for pointing it out. I basically took “adopt, don’t shop” and put it after a negation by mistake.

It’s not mob mentality. You’re posting from an artist who expresses support for a neo-Nazi, and that understandably makes users here feel unsafe. I got told the other day to “fuck myself with a chainsaw” because I haven’t banned Jago here yet (not really up to me), and I don’t even blame them for saying that. You gleefully and intentionally make people in minority groups here feel unsafe.

Yes, everyone hates them, they know everyone hates them (to the extent the community overwhelmingly supports banning the likely far-right artist they routinely post), they continue the behavior because it’s just in-bounds enough, and it single-handedly makes moderating here miserable. This is just one page of my reports across all communities:

What I said to them was unrelated to the contents of their comment; I just haven’t interacted with them before and am really sick and tired of seeing them. That’s not professional as a moderator, so I’m sorry for the outburst.

No, I don’t want them to censor themselves re: this comment, and I’m sorry if I implied that. I actually hastily changed it from “everyone here hates you” to “everyone here wants you banned” because of Rule 1 (I’m not really used to that strict level of politesse in communities). I even said they didn’t do anything ban-worthy; if I thought their comment was violating a rule, I could’ve just removed it (it was, in fact; Rule 1 for calling vegans cultists, but I didn’t want that to be seen as a conflict of interest). I’m just kind of pissy since basically everyone in this community does hate them and they work just enough within the rules that my hands are tied. Literally dozens of reports for Jago, who, after some independent digging (I’d never heard of them until moderating here), likely is a far-right bigot.

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Like they do with unwanted pets, they’d slaughter the lot of them.

This is oft-repeated anti-vegan propaganda, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. I’m sure I could have a prebaked, lengthy response for this if I wanted, but I’ll try to give you the bullet points (sources on request):

• PETA is entirely open about its euthanization at their Virginia shelter. (Note: Do not click on that link unless you want to see some serious shit.)
• The rate is so high because they take animals absolutely nobody else will. This especially includes so-called “unadoptable” animals that “no-kill” shelters can’t keep but don’t want to euthanize to preserve their squeeky-clean, bullshit, artificial “no-kill” status that makes them look good but doesn’t help the animals that need it. Unadoptable animals especially include the terminally ill as well as chronically, intractably, dangerously violent.
• They also provide free euthanization to pet owners, where most clinics would charge a fee that many pet owners cannot afford (and thus will simply let their pets suffer until they die “naturally”).
• Society creates this problem by adopting, not shopping shopping, not adopting (leading to excessive breeding), having extremely minimal protections for pets and requirements for pet ownership, failing to spay/neuter pets (a service PETA offers for free), treating pets as possessions (e.g. that you get somebody as a present), and so on in the ecosystem of an immensely profitable and deep-seated pet industry.
• However, they do legitimately try to adopt out the few animals that get brought to them who are able to be adopted.

TL;DR: PETA is not to blame for their rate of euthanization. Just because they take on the responsibility of the problem everyone around them created to ease the animals’ suffering doesn’t mean that they take on responsibility for creating the problem. The flak they get for this from animal agriculture propaganda is entirely created as a distraction to delegitimize vegans as evil, murderous monsters so omnivores don’t have to consider the unfathomable scale and depth of suffering they deliberately cause.

Welcome to today’s round of Vegan Bingo!

Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, identified the shooter as a 58-year-old man from the Russian capital, Moscow, and said he had used an automatic weapon to carry out the fatal shooting.

Interesting. If true, I wonder (read: speculate with absolutely no evidence; do not take this seriously) if he might’ve known somebody who died or was seriously wounded during Russia’s invasion. Could also just be fullthroated support of the invasion via outright terrorism.

Get three small snakes and make them into a turnstile.

Okay, please explain this one:

A new meta-analysis is now feeding the debate over whether modern childhood has become too managed.

Actual meta-analysis published online May 2023 and in a journal August 2024. Article likewise uses a slop thumbnail, titled child-playing-alone-outdoors-independence-resilience-768x432.jpg.

It’s just a shitty (plausibly LLM-generated) content mill. Nobody working on this site actually gives a shit.

Here’s the study. Whoever made that AI horseshit for this popsci representation of the remains should be fucking ashamed. (And why the hell is this content mill slop being published six months after the paper?)

Tony Soprano if his money laundering business were IT-related.

PCSX2’s GameDB is tied to a version just the same. If the DB file changes on GitHub between versions (stable or nightly), that’s reflected when the user updates. Coming to think of it, RPCS3 might just download its updates from the RPCS3 website. I use Flathub, so I’ve never checked.

It looks at a (very) quick glance like this is going to be a file that downloads from https://api.rpcs3.net/config/, not something shipped with RPCS3 by default like we ship the GameDB YAML file with PCSX2. Optional like ours.

Aside: Shame to see RPCS3 still on Twitter. They’re a great team and deserve better than that. While I was away for a while, apparently a couple contributors decided to restart PCSX2’s Twitter (albeit automatically syndicated from our Mastodon and Bluesky), which I’m not especially happy about.

Competition is the catalyst of innovation. Keep going, and you can make better-quality milk to sell.

No?? Oh my gosh, was there a second paragraph I forgot to read or something? Shit.