Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor:

We do not have much in common, you and I - still, this encounter feels special. I hope you will not mind if I consider you a friend.

he/him

enthusiastically anti-nazi

RTs are *absolutely* endorsements unless I'm arguing with whoever got RT'd in the replies - and sometimes even then.

old mastodon profile: https://mastodon.social/@dave_cochran

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2026-03-05 21:35:27 UTC

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GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

2026-01-23 08:06:08 UTC

Stolen from the internet: Do you think Microsoft understands consent?

2025-07-24 19:34:41 UTC

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Kev.
Bro.
Amigo.
Muchacho.
I will buy the "screenreaders can OCR text in images" argument since I have no evidence to the contrary, but when there is a NON-TEXTUAL PART THAT IS KIND OF IMPORTANT then could we please consider that maybe adding alt-text in the year twenty twenty-five is perhaps an okay thing to do?

2025-05-09 04:36:55 UTC

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/shareholders-sue-united-healthcare-group-after-murder-of-ceo-brian-thompson-stock-overvaluation/89-eda14a34-7c0a-468d-97f2-199aec5f2308
"Plaintiffs argue that the public backlash that followed Thompson's murder prevented the company from pursuing "the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve" its earnings goals."
for the love of christ

2025-02-05 20:16:52 UTC

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so they had a viable opposition party, is what you're saying?

2025-01-05 23:03:29 UTC

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enough to click the link, not enough to watch the video (though the 2nd part is less about trust and more about me not caring about the subject matter

2024-12-05 06:30:02 UTC

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Straddling the seat on your tip-toes now? :)

2024-12-04 16:34:36 UTC

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it's almost like 400 million people are tired of getting fucked over by 10 rich asshats or something

2024-11-23 18:27:46 UTC

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love it. it's the dumbass shit that really gets me, you know?

2024-11-23 06:57:34 UTC

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okay so back in the day there was a program called "fortress"; they put it on the school computers so us rapscallions wouldn't access things like "C:\" or install games or etc.
Went through several versions though high school but the "best" one was found in my... junior? year.
1) navigate to the directory with the .exe in it
2) select the .exe
3) hit enter. a dialog box pops up asking for a password.
4) hit enter again. the dialog box closes without any input.
5) *hold down* the enter button. the dialog box opens, and immediately closes again over and over.
6) Wait a bit - times varied between a couple minutes and like twenty minutes.
7) A new dialog box pops up randomly: "Please enter the new admin password."
My hand to dog.

2024-11-18 06:20:16 UTC

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any chance the canada stream's up in watch-but-not-participate mode?

2024-11-12 00:05:25 UTC

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trump wouldn't know godliness if it punched him in the face

2024-11-06 22:56:50 UTC

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*raises hand*
Hi! I'm a biologically cis dude-shaped person who is incredibly single and knows literally nothing about the menstrual cycles of literally anyone on the planet.
May *I* use one or more if I pinkie swear to do so with gleeful disregard for realisticness, plausibility, or biological likelihood of the data I feed them?

2024-10-16 18:42:47 UTC

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Curse my sesquipidelian loquaciousness! 😉
(you're right, that's much better)

2024-10-16 18:18:43 UTC

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That is an entirely valid point that I had not considered - thank you for bringing it to my attention!
I would like to amend my previous suggestion to name-and-company of the exec, so that normies like me (apparently) know who the person is/was. "Heat Wave Bob" is less impactful than "Heat Wave Bob Smith, Exxon CEO 1980-1995" or whatever.

2024-10-16 18:08:37 UTC

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not good enough; i wouldn't know an oil exec if one kicked me in the shins. name 'em after oil *companies* with distribution weighted towards money spent on denying climate change (e.g. "Exxon, Exxon 2, ... Exxon 815, BP, etc)