Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Key Lawmakers Announce Government Funding Deal Framework
Secret Service, ICE secretly coordinated with FBI to strip gun rights, emails show
Lawmakers unveil bipartisan bill that aims to ban TikTok in the U.S.
New FTX CEO says company’s collapse worse than Enron, calls it ‘paperless bankruptcy’
Sam Bankman-Fried denied bail in Bahamas
DeSantis to investigate Covid vaccine-related injuries
Deportations Plunge Under Biden in US Interior
US Army investigates ‘incidents’ of soldiers posing in uniform with fetish gear
Male-to-female transgender hockey player concusses rival at Team Trans event
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Lawmakers unveil bipartisan bill that aims to ban TikTok in the U.S.”
Good.
Everyone knows it’s just CCP spyware.
That’s why they let it go on so long. Most of the political and money class is in hock to China because China holds the key to all the money they made over there by selling us out over here being repatriable. These fucks are starting to realize China is gonna fuck em over and keep the money anyway, so now many of them are trying to save face.
They really can’t handle Libs of TikTok anymore, hmm?
On the one hand free speech. On the other psy op from an enemy country
Banning ink that causes cancer isn’t an issue if free speech.
I thought they just slapped a Prop 65 label on the Ink.
Meh. If people are stupid enough to voluntarily allow CCP spyware on their devices I say let them. It’s no more nefarious than what our own government does through social media websites and search engines.
I think it would be reasonable to make it a condition of employment (private or public) given the security concerns. No different from other malware, imho. That’s as far as the feds should push it, yeah.
This. It is a free speech issue, there is no remit for banning it on private items, and so on. Banning it on gov’t connected items? Hell yes, and about time. Along with every other social media platform: FB, the ‘Gram, and so on. Gov’t parasites shouldn’t be doing this on time I am paying them anyway.
Itâs quite a bit worse in that the app is actively capturing keystrokes if you use the appâs browser.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tiktoks-in-app-browser-can-monitor-your-keystrokes-researcher-says/
How’s that any different than what say, Google does? I don’t believe for one second my every key stroke, regardless what website or search engine, isn’t being filed away in some database, somewhere. Even if it never gets a second look it’s being recorded…maybe I’m just paranoid.
Keylogging is pretty egregious. You basically never see it in legitimate software, outside of maybe exam proctoring. All of Google’s apps collect and warehouse things like your search strings and queries, but even Google probably isn’t outright keylogging.
I’ll take your word for it. I’m sure you know far better than I. Regardless, as a general rule I’m not too keen on the using the law to save people from their own stupidity or ignorance. Even if the danger comes from a hostile foreign nation.
Don’t mistake me, I wouldn’t be all that shocked if Google was doing it surreptitiously, I’d just want to see some evidence first. I agree with you on the rest, although as I said, I just can’t get it up for opposing a law killing TikTok at this point in my life.
collect and warehouse things like your search strings and queries, but even Google probably isnât outright keylogging.
Important to note is that you don’t have to hit “enter” in most browsers to send the search string. If the browser does that progressive search thing as you type, each keypress goes to Google. If you type “German scheizze porn” and then clear it out and type “my little pony” before hitting enter, Google has record of “g”, “ge”, ger” and so on.
I’ve had search prefetching disabled for so long, and haven’t queried Google directly in so long, that I had forgotten that even existed.
Searx or Startpage if you need Google results, kids. I can’t believe I forgot to include that in my privacy schizo series.
It’s an egregious overstep on the part of the federal government, but I can’t really bring myself to give a shit. It’s like if Vine and Twitter were crack addict first cousins and had a baby.
You mean they’re not?
Nope, donât like the idea of banning access to websites that donât deal in illegal content,. It sets a terrible precedent.
What about sites whose conduct is illegal even if the content is merely weaponized derp?
Have they actually tried addressing the conduct or did they jump to banning first?
We’d have to execute large numbers of them as spies if we did.
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Sounds like a good start?
If they actually tried to enforce privacy (you own your devices and all records of how you use them) it would adversely affect some of their biggest donors. So they just ban the worst offender and ignore the rest.
It’s more of an app than a website.
There’s no such thing as a website anymore, everything is an app.
Except this place.
Out of curiosity, I decided to disable JS and see if the site still runs. It does!
(Mostly)
Key Lawmakers Announce Government Funding Deal Framework – Uncle Sam gets his due
Another omnibus. Appropriations is an annual must do that Congress pushes to crunch time so it is easier to slip in items without debate.
“Sam Bankman-Fried denied bail in Bahamas”
I guess the “depressed and vegan” excuse didn’t fly.
I wonder if he can organize a polycule in prison…
He does have a purty mouthâŚ
You know this guy is an ally of the ruling junta. That they arrested him right before he was due t go talk to congress and denied em bail tells you the junta needs this kid silenced and access to the kid controlled so he doesn’t go as soft and starts spilling the beans. I give it 4 to 3 odds he gets Epsteined sooner than later, cause they need to cover their involvement.
Right?
The timing is too perfect. This story is all kinds of fucked up.
Male-to-female transgender hockey player concusses rival at Team Trans event
“Man pretending to be woman concusses woman pretending to be man.”
“Girls who check boys who check boys who check girls who want boys to face off girls who want girls to puck slap boys… all I want is for someone to play the gaaaame…”
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Didn’t Ozy say that the concussion was unrelated to any contact, that the injured party simply fucked up and faceplanted on the ice?
I remember reading that also.
Yeah, well, you’re not going to get any clicks just reporting that.
Even the concussed player tweeted out later that they fell and hit their head. No mention about getting checked. But, as WTF said, that won’t get no clicks!
The worst on-ice concussion I’ve ever seen was during a pick-up game. Guy went back into the corner to pick up a puck, caught an edge and went down hard. No one near him. Blood everywhere and his pupils were all fucked up and he couldn’t talk. Pretty goddamn scary.
They would have said that regardless.
It may have been a trip – video isn’t very clear. But it wasn’t a big hit.
The giant (former) dude may have – MAY have – brushed the other player, who was just coming out of the box onto the ice and the puck was in the area.
My in depth video analysis suggests that the most likely cause of the faceplant was that the giant dude – as he was pivoting to get the puck – may have accidentally gotten his stick in the skates of the (former) chick’s legs.
The cries about “tackles” and “checks” and size difference are all kayfabe; in fact, the whole thing – the brouhaha over it – puts me to mind of the cases that BLM and the race-baiters pick WRT cop shootings.
I am virulently on the legal record on the issue of transgender (i.e. M2F “Ts”) in women’s sports. It’s insanity.
BUT – this is not the case to be making claims about that issue because it had nothing to do with Xirs’ size difference, bone density, etc. It didn’t.
Which raises the question of why THIS is suddenly being publicized, when Lia Thomas, or – even worse, Fallon Fox literally kicking the shit out of women – got a complete pass.
Because of the woman-cum-trans-man as the victim silly.
The Bro said it First.
Also, it was a trans league. Everyone involved agreed to the arrangement. It’s not the same as some bureaucrats forcing women in women’s leagues to play with male-to-female trans.
Collapsed to the ground? Weren’t they playing on ice, which was probably the first problem – ice is hard, and slippery.
Obvious to a child? Hmm, what other apocryphal tale do we have about what was obvious to a child?
Obvious to a child
I’m actually shocked that clip hasn’t been banned.
The dumbass broad who got on the ice with a man is partially at fault for getting on the ice and playing with men. Unless they game was supposed to be a no contact/light contact outing.
Secret Service, ICE secretly coordinated with FBI to strip gun rights, emails show – I trust the FBI to do what is right, so no worries
Much like white women – I don’t trust the FBI, but I trust the FBI to be the FBI…
“This one is unusual in the sense that literally there is no record keeping whatsoever,” Ray said at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday. “The multi-billion dollar company used QuickBooks.”
Investor dollars go *poof*.
Investors: Hey, you stole our money!
FTX: What money? Prove it!
âThe multi-billion dollar company used QuickBooks.â
Wait, wut?!
Why not, our one-time treasury secretary Tim Geithner used TurboTax.
Are you saying it was intuitive for them?
Well, tried but it was too confusing for him.
I have to give the young man credit for losing/stealing 7B (or whatever) with no attempt to hide anything. Of course the taxpayer will pick up the tab, most likely, but still, genius to steal so much so fast from those that thought they would get rich quickly.
The Somalians that got 250M in a phony feeding program in the Twin Cities were good but not on the scale of SBF. That little scam seems to have disappeared from the news. Too local.
To be fair, they weren’t born with the same connections that this asshole and his weird looking gf had. I’m sure they could pull way bigger numbers if they were deeply embedded in the ruling class.
That’s right up there with Twitter doesn’t have a SDLC and everyone has access to Production.
Sensible business practices are for the sheep.
Using Quickbooks to do the public books makes it as easy to get rid of the evidence as it was to get rid of Epstein’s list of clients…
This is so when they Epstein his ass, the recipients can deny having received anything and won’t have to pay any of the money back.
whaddup doh’
Deportations Plunge Under Biden in US Interior – no human is illegal. Also the least you can do is add Romania to visa waiver…
Look, we’re just not set up for that many coffins full of dirt at our customs checkpoints, okay?
Just imagine all the Romanian blood worms and invasive coffin fungus that could be hitching rides on those things.
â US Army investigates âincidentsâ of soldiers posing in uniform with fetish gearâ
I was wondering – even without a name tag, is the constellation of ribbons and devices on the LtColâs uniform unique enough to identify him?
I would be happy to start the rumor that it’s Vindman. Let him find out what it’s like to be the victim of a baseless smear campaign.
I would not be surprised you start the rumor, then we find he was into much worse… He sure as hell projects that vibe that he is into real fucking freaky shit when he lets down his guard.
Narrowing down the colonel should be easy with what is displayed (rank, branch, unit, regiment, awards). The other would be more difficult. No unit patch. The regimental crest is branch not unit specific. Awards are mostly generic participation except low level AAM and ARCOM for merit.
US Army investigates âincidentsâ of soldiers posing in uniform with fetish gear – are the US army chicks as hot as the Israeli army chicks (though I suspect the Israeli army chicks may be propaganda )
With the Biden admin? I suspect the “chicks” are mainly in the Thailand sense — only looking like “Admiral” what’s-his-name.
I’m sure he’s much better looking with the dog mask on.
There were no chicks involved. It was a bunch of guys, jealous that that Biden admin nuclear regulatory entity baggage stealing guy had outdone them on the crazy scale, documenting themselves out of uniform in a way to get a court martial. You have to wonder if they thought things had gotten this bad or if there is an agenda to cause more damage to military cohesion/discipline.
There were no chicks involved. It was a bunch of guys, – eww gross
Every woman in Israel has to join the military which includes the hottest ones.
The hots ones play dress up for propaganda Instagram videos. The ugly ones get sent to patrol Palestine.
SBF is still alive?
Hillary Clinton was sorry to hear of his passing next week.
Nice one.
(Palpatine voice)
For now.
(/Palpatine voice)
His body double at least
Heâll be played by Brad Pitt at the trial.
He can’t be. I’ve already contracted Brad to play me in my life story.
But I hear Bobcat Goldthwaite is still around.
Not true. He is playing me.
Bold choice going with Bobcat.
It was him or Dave Chappelle.
We need a version of http://www.abevigoda.com/ for SBF.
Much like our election system, even if there’s some “there” there, the entire process by which the vaccines were tested, approved and deployed was deliberately designed to be impervious to investigating. And ultimately it doesn’t really matter anyway: the vaccine makers have blanket immunity from liability, and the victim compensation fund the feds set up as a backstop when they granted them said immunity is in worse shape than the “social security trust fund.”
The effort should be to shame the pols into doing something. The only way to do that is to build public outrage, and DeSantis is assisting here.
If the pols turn, the liability shield will evaporate as it doesn’t cover fraud. The government will never admit wrongdoing, but they will absolutely turn on Pfizer and Moderna if it becomes politically expedient to do so.
I’d love to see it, but after the lockdowns and 2/3 of the country clamoring to get their 16th booster, I don’t think there’s quite literally anything that could convince a lot of people.
I don’t think it’s anywhere near that many still getting boosters. I seem to recall a recent Fauci interview where he was bitching that only 11% (this number could be wrong it’s been awhile) had gotten the most recent booster.
I think you are correct. Even if there was a serious attempt to investigate, the data is so thoroughly corrupt that any attempt to tease signals out would be pointless.
The data being corrupt *should* be the crime in a sane world. Too bad we live in clown world.
And if a ‘there’ was there, and they found it, the left would just say that it’s a nothing burger and we always knew there were side effects, but it’s better than killing grandma.
Just like with the Twitter files: deny anything exists, once confronted with overwhelming evidence, pretend like you always agreed it happened, but somehow it’s irrelevant.
People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study
https://fortune.com/well/2022/12/13/covid-unvaccinated-greater-risk-car-crash-traffic-accident-new-study-says-canada-government-records-pfizer-moderna/
I hear the unvaccinated spill their beers more often as well.
I heard unvaccinated children are more likely to choke on Lincoln Logs.
Don’t know why — but on first read I found myself picturing those poor unvaccinated chickens trying to choke down Lincoln Logs and was quite puzzled….
You have your ways to choke your chicken, I have mine.
I think the Lincoln Project types are more likely sporting twigs than logs.
Not mentioned — elderly more likely to take vaccine, young/healthy adults more likely to assess the risk and opt out. Elderly drive less, younger males known for more hazardous driving.
And that’s just off the top of my head compared to “They’re more likely to distruct the government and therefore ignore the rules of the road, MAN!” from the article.
We learned about confounding variables in freshman math in high school.
The actual journal article says that after adjusting for “age, sex, home location, socioeconomic status, and medical diagnoses” that there was still a 48% increase (as opposed to a 72% increase without adjusting for those variables).
FUCK YOU.
Alternate take: “We really want our social credit score and thought we’d get it with the vax passports! Waaah!”
That’s the meat of the story right there.
Same bullshit social engineering they do with
smokingnicotine use.No they won’t.
Certain minority groups also are vaccinated at lower percentages.
Good point.
Which means they will implement it and then it will bounce around the courts for a few years while wrecking a bunch of lives.
Recall insurance is 50 state regulated. Plus DC and PR.
So you’d have prove that this rating variable is significant and non-discriminatory to each state.
It’s not worth it. Credit rating which is used as rating variable by just about every one is basically going to capture this. My WAG is that there is a high correlation between vaccination status and high credit rating.
In my family, the higher the credit rating, the lower the probability of having been injected with a clot shot.
I don’t have data points beyond that.
I’m thinking “Karen”.
Don’t let the vocality of a small minority skew your perceptions.
We need better data.
I’ve that I’m well aware. Hence the WAG qualification.
They’ll just add a discount for that. Just like women pay less for car insurance in the U.S.
It’s been decades, but I believe that is no longer a rating variable in most states anymore.
Now you only get a discount for installing a tracking device so you can be spied on.
Yanno, if they’d just do a study showing that the vaccine made your dick bigger, they’d get a lot less resistance.
Probably very true
Pfizer — hire me to do your experimental design. I’m really cheap at $10MM/yr + per study bonuses.
If your clot hard on lasts longer than 4 hours please see your physician.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics…
These asshats show you they are deceptive cuntes or can’t do basic math/stats. The reason you have more unvaxxxed people having accident is the same as the reason you had more vaxxed people die: the numbers. When a majority of people are vaxxxed, especially high risk people, you will have more casualties if you don’t control for those discrepancies. Similarly, you have more unvaxxxed people having accidents because they are far more likely to be doing most of the driving in these days of everyone just staying home. The fact some asshole actually wrote this shit up though, is proof we need to start hanging some fucks from lampposts.
The Canadians put out studies like this, but when 80+ young vaccinated doctor die mysteriously within a few months its ignored.
Interesting. Women and Asians seemed to be demographics more likely to get the vaccine.
Conformist tendencies
In 10 states and Guam, declines of greater than 80 percent were recorded. In 33 others, drops of 60 to 80 percent were recorded. In the remaining states, declines of at least 23 percent were recorded.
If the usual suspects (Haitians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, etc) are walking or taking makeshift rafts to Guam, I say we let them stay. Something tells me that it’s Pacific Rim / Filipino types overstaying their visas, though.
Enoch Burke to remain in jail as he refuses to purge contempt
Teacher pleads for release for Christmas, saying he is ânot a thief, a murderer or a drug dealerâ
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2022/12/13/enoch-burke-to-remain-in-jail-as-he-refuses-to-purge-contempt/
“Enoch Burke will remain behind bars for the festive period after he again refused to obey a court order to stay away and refrain from teaching at a secondary school where is employed as a teacher.
The school brought High Court proceedings against Mr Burke over his alleged failure to comply with the terms of his suspension on full pay from the school.
The school, represented by Rosemary Mallon BL, obtained the order committing Mr Burke, who had been suspended pending the hearing of a disciplinary hearing into allegations of misconduct against him, to prison over his failure to comply with the terms of an injunction requiring him to stay away from the school until the disciplinary process has been completed.
Mr Burke, a History and German teacher, was suspended on full pay late last August pending an investigation into alleged misconduct.
The school claims that his refusal to comply with the injunction was disruptive to the schoolâs students.
In a counterclaim Mr Burke says he should never have been the subject of disciplinary process after he expressed his objections to the schoolâs direction to its staff regarding how to address a student who wishes to transition from male to female, seeks various orders and declarations against the school.”
This sounds so weird… if he is suspended he cannot go teach as I assume his classes are suspended as well or done by someone else. Eh the Irish they are probably all drunk anyways
German teacher? Scheisse porn violations!
/Scumbags looking to punish someone they don’t like
I don’t believe this that’s crazy, can’t they just have him trespassed off the property like a normal person? I guess the judge just had his authoritah boner raging.
The Angel of Layoffs has passed over my department. I remain unraptured.
Good thing you marked your office door with the blood of those interns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYjHNFzeeg
Hell, just hang a BLM sign and a rainbow flag. No way HR is going to invite the legal mess that comes with laying off that person.
I have a suspicion that you might be wrong about that in this particular case. It was supposed to be 5% of the total workforce, 10% of the executive titles, and <<5% of the manufacturing force.
Did you have to sprinkle the blood of an intern on the walls of your cube?
(More seriously — congrats. Haven’t been visited in my neck of the woods, but certainly aware it could start happening as the market cools across the board, but especially in tech).
Good news. Just saw today that Cisco was doing a round of layoffs.
The new place I was interviewing for has put all hiring on hold for the remainder of the year, and will be revisiting positions come the new year. They’re hopeful that they’ll be able to provide a written offer early January.
No layoffs in [insert my current tech company here], but they’ve been in a hiring freeze/reduced hiring situation for over 6 months. We’re struggling to keep up with all the work.
I gave 2 companies an ultimatum to offer or GTFO, deadline today. They’ve been dicking around for weeks and I only have so long I can undo the internal transfer I’ve been offered. Otherwise, I’ll take the meager raise and department transfer internally and then piss and moan until they give me fully remote.
I got caught up in that one on Monday. Merry F’ing Xmas.
Sorry, dude.
We’ve got about 200 open reqs, many/most of which are remote.
Hit me up at my handle at protonmail.com if you’re interested.
swissservator – at – gmail.com
I halp!
You sound suspiciously like STEVE SMITH.
My employer is still hiring, and has gone so far as to implement some stop-loss policies to
bribeencourage current IT staff to stick around.Good morning, Banjos!
You just can’t make this up. Also, I’ve noticed that the money laundering part of this scam has completely disappeared.
Think the little fucker will see 2024?
Yes, in an article telling us it is unfair that he committed suicide in custody, after all the cameras failed and on the one day the records for which guards were on duty was missing, from an attempt to hang himself that resulted in 2 bullet holes to the back of the skull, because of something…
I think the Netsuite commercials for next year are going to be great!
For those who might be interested in practical shooting:
While I do not own a TV [/hipster] There is apparently a cable network called Outdoor Life Network, and on this network is a show called “Shooting USA.” Tonight they will be broadcasting footage of the Race Gun Nationals and PCC/Production Nationals. I assume my back and/or left arm will be in frame as there was a camera guy following me as I was the guy timing the “super squad.”
I occasionally watch that show. Maybe I’ll remember to tune in tonight.
https://www.outdoorchannel.com/show/shooting-usa/1631
The watch now option is not working for me.
So, what ethnicity will you be in the NetFlix adaptation?
How much is Big Man Tyrone these days?
I now remember that time OLN broadcast the PSP Paintball World Cup in like 2002…
“While I do not own a TV”
Is it the heroin habit, or your job as a hitman?
It dates back to when I realized that I was spending all of my spare recreational time playing World of Warcraft and decided the TV bill would be better put to use as pizza money.
I realized I wasn’t having fun in World of Warcraft before I realized I wasn’t watching the TV.
Playing video games to have fun? You must be daft.
Be honest. You used it to invest in NFT’s.
A word of caution – much like fucking, USPSA is a lot more fun to do than to watch.
I am hoping the play-by-play commentary going on at the time was a joke, because if not, it’ll be dishonest.
From memory:
*golf play-by-play voice*
“…and she hits the activator, oh! A tuxedo bobber! She’s not going to like that presentation.”
For those of you not in the game — the shooter knew exactly what kind of target was going to be presented by the activator, there’s no surprise whatsoever.
âNot Adahnâs Left Armâ is now an available Glibs handle.
SJWednesday: Rubbing One Out
Short version: “We should be more hedonistic. And the US is baaaaad!” ? Other than that, it is word salad and strawturtles all the way down.
They really are running out of things to grievance monger over, aren’t they?
So is the call for more land whales to have to be rubbed down?
*lights the Tres signal*
When you hear the word âmassage,â what comes to mind? One of the most popular images is of a thin, white woman relaxing on a table – yeah in my image the thin white woman is not relaxing
Tell us more….
I must have spent too much time around libertarians. The first thing that comes to my mind is a fresh-off-the-boat Filipina catching a solicitation charge when the local Keystone Kops finally have to show something for all the undercover happy endings they’ve been getting at Lee Ho Fooks Asian Massage Parlor.
Banner over the place says “We always deliver happy endings”?
Same here, except in my mind she was Thai.
Christian nationalists are systematically depriving trans people and women of bodily autonomy
Show your work.
Abortion bans and trying to keep kids safe from perverts = Christian nationalism.
Deus Vult!
Yeah. Tell that to Deshaun Watson.
“offering sliding scale rates especially to folks of color”
How is that even legal?
Because equity! That’s why!
In my mind I like to imagine that it’s free if you’re the blackest on the scale and as you get lighter and lighter the price goes up.
As a massage therapist and sexuality educator
Military intelligence, jumbo shrimp…
What are things that don’t go together?
“I am from the government and I am here to help you”.
The Mrs. and I are into the sports and such, so what comes to mind is decidedly not sensual. It’s more like physical therapy. Our massage lady is going to cause some pain until she fixes what need fixin’.
“Professional massage might be financially inaccessible;”
People who don’t have money in their budgets to buy a thing don’t get the thing? This is going to require lots and lots of research.
‘Orning ‘ordles — preliminary round sucked great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts… main event was tolerable, though as per my usual… not up to the standards the rest of y’all hold.
Chumptown remains in turmoil as their Dictator For Life continues to avoid the city center (for the round that counts).
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Weâre Slowly Killing The First Amendment
Leftists: So TL;DR — The Long March Through the Institutions worked?
Beyond their wildest dreams.
The First Amendment is not a suicide pact. hate speech is not free speech. Protect our Democracy. We cannot tolerate intolerance.
“We cannot tolerate intolerance.”
20 years ago I was hearing this from the idiot leftists in highschool(most students). Things are finally coming to fruition for the left.
Slowly? Accademia has convinced a couple of generations of brain dead idiots that words are violence – an idiotic belief only someone that has never experienced real violence could entertain – and these morons now believe they have a right to not only never feel offended, but of punishing anyone they accuse of offending them with permanent cancelation from society.
words are violence
My response to any idiot stupid enough to say this: Let’s do an experiment, I’ll say mean things to you for 10 seconds, and then I’ll punch you in the face for 10 seconds. Then see if you can tell which one is violence and which one is not.
The proper scientific way to conduct this experiment and get a final and indisputable answer, is to then repeat it enough times to confirm the results. So, when doing this, repeat it at least a dozen more times, to make sure the idiot can’t accuse you of biasing the whole thing. After having a dozen or a score of people talking mean to them and then bitch-slapping sense into them for 10 seconds each, they will have no scientific leg to stand on with their claims…
That’s not exactly fair. How about YOU say mean things to me to hurt my feelings, and then I punch your nose really hard. Then we can compare what hurts the most.
You can add a few of these as controls to the experiment I recommend…
I’m not the idiot who can’t tell the difference between the two.
I didn’t mean you, but the you in your proposal.
Americans don’t have principles just wants. They want by any means necessary.
This. Free speech was a valuable principle when communists were being persecuted. Just like Erdogan’s trolley, they’ve reached their stop and it’s time to get off.
The âStochastic Terrorâ Lie
The Leftâs latest gambit for suppressing speech is built on preposterous grounds
https://www.city-journal.org/stochastic-terrorism-is-about-suppressing-free-speech
In an opinion piece for Scientific American, writer Bryn Nelson insinuated that my factual reporting on Drag Queen Story Hour was an example of âstochastic terrorism,â which he defines as âideologically driven hate speechâ that increases the likelihood of unpredictable acts of violence. On the night of the attack, Nelson argued, I had appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss my reporting, and, hours later, the alleged attacker, David DePape, radicalized by âQAnonâ conspiracy theories about âDemocratic, Satan-worshipping pedophiles,â broke into the Pelosi residence and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer.
This is a bizarre claim that, for a magazine supposedly dedicated to âscience,â hardly meets a scientific standard of cause and effect. There is no evidence that DePape watched or was motivated by Tucker Carlsonâs program; moreover, nothing in my reporting on Drag Queen Story Hour encourages violence or mentions Nancy Pelosi, QAnon, or Satan-worshipping pedophiles.
As soon as you hear some person or entity is dedicated to science or scientific consensus is brought up, assume you are dealing with propaganda. Real science comes only from reverence and adherence to the scientific process, which by its nature demands any hypothesis to stand against brutal scrutiny and challenge, or fall by the wayside. That’s the one system that prevents human motivations from polluting any real scientific discovery. If you can’t challenge the bullshit peddled, even if peer reviewed by a circle jerk of like minded drones, it is propaganda and not science.
scientific consensus
Nature doesn’t care how a group votes.
Talk about an oxymoron. Science is not done by consensus, it is done by hypothesis and testing.
Akshually, while you are describing the scientific method, science is done as a social activity.
“broke into the Pelosi residence and attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer.”
Because we know that’s what happened?
I heard Stochastic Terror opening up for Tosca and Sarah Longfield. They were okay.
It’s so sad to watch a once-respectable journal descend into political hyperbole and incoherence.
Hunter Bidenâs Laptop and 2020âs First Big Lie
âno evidence that Joe Biden profited from his sonâs activitiesâ
A common maneuver. Thereâs no evidence because there has been no investigation. And there has been no investigation because there is no evidence.
Move along, comrade. Nothing to see here.
I heard that in Sir Humphrey’s voice.
I mean, there’s the emails, and unusual financial transactions between the two, and a former business partner and witness who has testified otherwise, but yeah, other than that… absolutely no evidence worth further investigation.
“The seriousness of the charge warrants an investigation.” Oops, forgot who the target was.
I can’t decide if calling Sam Harris a philosopher is an insult to Sam Harris or philosophers.
Hunterâs activities were not illegal
Um.
Crack and prostitution are legal in most states now, didn’t you hear?
the NIMBY political compass or something
https://twitter.com/IDoTheThinking/status/1602455827847122944
applies to Old England
That someone spent time doing this and has not been locked up and medicates is proof a s a society, is proof we are heading for Ragnarok.
that is what a suburbia supremacist would say
OK, I’ll play: I suppose my real answer centers on the one called “Market Urbanist”, with big helpings of the ones above and below it – “Aesthete” and “Private Property Absolutist”.
In the category in local news a Romanian girl one one of those Italian beauty shows I occasionally link. What is weird is the age of 15. I always thought they are over 18, though some looked young, given they were parading in front of old men in skimpy bikinis. Apparently not. I mean 15 seems kinda young though.
That is too young.
“parading in front of old men in skimpy bikinis”
No foul, no harm. No judgment, please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d25tXdJSedE
No, not Winger.
Also not WInger.
What is worse, curiosity got the better of me and I had to look at the linked photo.
https://cdn.g4media.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/La-Bella-di-Fe.-9.12-241-768×512-1-640×400.jpeg
Apparently, second from the left
Unless it’s changed, the modeling business is still rife with ephebophiles.
and actual groomers…
There are tons of underage fashion models. Some as young as 13. Abuse is rampant. If I recall that Calvin Klein ad some people were upset about the girls were 11 and 12. That was 30 years ago and nothing has changed.
I know a girl who achieved great success as a fashion model. She started in her early 20s and said that she was often far and away the oldest. She also said she would not let her daughter anywhere near the business.
old men in skimpy bikinis
That’s not something I want to see.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/woman
“an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth: ”
hmmm
So, the Cambridge dicionary has decided to be worthless, got it. Never accept their definitions for anything.
Orwell described this already in 1984:
âEvery record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.â
Ironically enough, that’s Dictionary.com’s word of the year.
If they were coercing people to sign these self-reporting forms, that’s awful.
On the other hand, if a person has a known diagnosis of unstable mental conditions, and chooses to self-report to prevent himself from lawfully buying a firearm in the future out of a concern for what he might do in a bad state, I’m fine with that. As long as the individual has the right to retract the request in the future–but that would probably require some sort of medical certification to mental stability from a professional, which is likely going to be impossible to get.
Never. Talk. To. The. Cops.
Even if you have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, suicidal major depressive disorder, and prescribed antipsychotic medication: Never. Talk. To. The. Cops.
Without a lawyer…
The lawyer is there to do the talking for you.
I would go with “Especially” rather than “Even if”.
Same here.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1602884304086106113
Yup. And when some entity actually has members that do things like write books and throw plush parties in ultra rich setting where these elite regularly fly private jets to regularly meet to talk about how they plan to destroy existing society and replace it all with a return back to a feudal one, so the credentialed technocratic class and the super wealthy doing this shit can become a hereditary aristocracy, it is no longer just a conspiracy theory.
I wish I had just a little bit of cancer to feel really healthy, said no one ever.
Fucking cunts.
https://twitter.com/LibertarianInst/status/1602924117480513536
It’s all theatre.
Look, if we don’t have our dicks stuck into multiple forever wars around the globe, how the Hell are they supposed to keep laundering all that fucking money?
Infrastructure spending? Drug war?
It’s just a couple hundred thousand Yemeni civilians.
But Putin bad!
The Saudis just helped us negotiate the release of Brittney Griner. A national treasure is back stateside because of our trusted allies in the desert. Now you want us to abandon them as they fight off the endless aggression of Yemen?
Bernie might be the biggest cuck of all time.
If Scott is accurate, he’s got some company.
I can’t figure out Lee and Paul on this one.
What the fuck?
Listen it has nothing to do with population control.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=faDlsX98hZw
Now they are just rubbing our noses in it.
*barfs*
Related.
Yet another reason to avoid Best Buy.
Good to know. Disgusting.
Tells you who their big donors are…
But if those guys donât teach those kids what color lipstick goes with what color rouge whoâs going to do it?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fjzwk5pXEBgiDUE.jpg
LOLOLOLOL
I’d rag on this being another stellar Trump hire, but hell, none of the politicals really know what is going on, nor do they actually run their departments. That falls to the SES and senior Civil Service people, which is what makes the Sam Brinton hire interesting. I thought he was an appointee, but it turns out he was an SES hire. SES hires are NEVER supposed to be politically driven (the professional bureaucracy at GS-15 has first dibs) and yet that is exactly what he/they was, because he sure as shit was not otherwise qualified for that level position.
Trump had no experience with the revolving door of government corruption and ineptitude. That hurt him bad. He would have been better off just picking random people in the public at his campaign meetings and put them in charge.
Anyone that has been in any government bureaucracy’s unelected office in the past should be considered to heavily tilt towards ineptitude and corruption, and not be allowed near it again.
Theyâll look the other way for certain politics, obviously. If he dressed that way but had a fetish for donât tread on me hats heâd have lasted about five minutes.
No, SES hires are usually pretty rigorous. I mean we can quibble about how they are still a product of the bureaucracy, but they don’t tend to just randomly hire people like the political appointee level does. This was obviously a purely political hire, and in fact some GS filed a grievance earlier this year. No doubt that will now be closed out as moot.
“At the @OversightDems hearing on white supremacy, Rep. @NancyMace asked witnesses if extremist rhetoric on social media is a threat to democracy. Trans activist Alejandra Caraballo @Esqueer_ said, “Yes.” The congresswoman then presented Caraballo’s tweets.
Far-left activist Alejandra Caraballo/@Esqueer_ calls for the censorship of the right, including pushing for Yoel Roth to ban being able to call someone a groomer on Twitter. Today Caraballo was made to account for their extremist rhetoric targeting judges.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1602723204207886342
https://ngo.locals.com/post/3202998/trans-activist-alejandra-caraballo-esqueer-asked-at-congressional-hearing-about-their-extremist-twee
PWND
That kind of pwnage isnât effective when the other side has no shame and doesnât care. It might even help himher in their future career.
That’s different. The judges deserve the hate.
Yesterday, I had someone complain about hearing Wham!’s Last Christmas so many times during the holiday season. So I wondered: who has the best version of the song?
It turns out, there’s a list with 436 covers of Last Christmas, including versions by Gwen Stefani, LeAnn Rimes, Taylor Swift, the Cheetah Girls, Jimmy Eat World, Carly Rae Jepson, The Osmonds, Backstreet Boys, Meghan Trainor, Mary J. Blige, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra w/ Ricky Martin, and of course, The Gentlemen of St. John’s College Cambridge. At roughly 4:30 per song, you could listen to “Last Christmas” for nearly 33 hours straight without hearing the same version twice!
So who here wants to take one for the team and figure out which cover is best?
Is there a dirty rap version?
Cause “Bad Santa” is the best Christmas movie.
Perfect Glib article.
Article? It should be a Glibpaper presented at Honey Harvest.
I heard that fucking Paul McCartney Christmas song the other day. I’m now ded.
I’ve heard it twice over the Walmart PA this season. Still better than All I Want For Christmas Is You. Mariah Carrey is an untalented fucking hack. Sorry, kids.
Pat, what have you done. Wonderful Christmastime is the worst of the worst. Absolutely terrible.
All I Want for Christmas is You is a banger.
That may have been an overstatement, although I do loathe All I Want For Christmas Is You.
In general I don’t really enjoy pop Christmas music. I’ll make an exception for Fairytale of New York, but they don’t play that anymore because of the word “faggot.”
Mariah Carey was my first celebrity crush. Definitely no longer my first choice, but I guess I am a sucker for childhood nostalgia.
Pour toi. (Matt Dillon!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
I had never seen the music video before. Nice cameo.
Drew not Jim.
I don’t think there could possibly be a better of highlighting that typo. Thank you.
*better way. I don’t think there’s a clever way of highlighting that typo.
I block that terrible fucking song out of my head after every holiday season, only to be reminded of it, and have to deal with its terribleness again. On the bar crawl Saturday, I think we heard it four fucking times.
JET! WOOOOHOHOHOOOHHOOHOOH!
https://twitter.com/LuckyMcGee/status/1601680441404424192?s=20&t=XVZjCoG8ddztlwlI8Rdung
I’d buy that.
Is it worse than the Lennon abomination, though?
I dunno, I thought this was cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt1_-rC9kac
“What’s the best type of cancer to get?”
If this doesn’t kill you in seconds you are already dead.
Melanoma, it’s easiest to detect and has a high survivability rate.
Breast is a good second as it’s also easier to detect and that’s where all the research money is going.
The one someone else gets?
A real cover would be the appropriate choice
Best? I hate that song. “Least worst” is the top price.
Maybe a speed-metal version so it’s over quickly.
*Paging KK*
I never heard of it.
You never leave your house if Last Christmas has never entered your ears.
Or maybe I’m just very good at ignoring things?
Thicc head?
This one, obviously
+1 hottie in a red dress tapdancing
A very stupid Twitter thread
How Cartesian, I refuse to permit you to exist and you vanish!?!
It’s a coordinated attack.
Listen, there would be fewer people in existence if I could refuse to permit them to exist!
If I had this power there would be a lot of real estate looking for new occupants along the coasts, and Trump would be the leftwing candidate in 24
This is getting graphic.
Perhaps if we approached from another Axis.
Just get to the point.
That’s the way, stay on him. Don’t let him curve you.
I punned in the wrong vector.
I’m a duck!
Deny it and you’re oppressing me!
Stop, you’re quacking me up.
* looks up recipe for orange sauce and begins sharpening bleeding and pinning knives.
Social Security Numbers are a social construct. You can choose to be identified by any Social Security Number you like. It doesn’t matter what Social Security Number you were assigned at birth, all that matters is what Social Security Number with which you choose to identify. If you choose to identify with a 14-digit Social Security Number and your employer insists on forcing you into the 9-digit Social Security Number paradigm, they are exercising supremacy and denying your lived experience.
Related
Say your name is Joe.
I believe your name is Joe because thatâs what you just said.
Then one day you tell me that your name is Josephine and youâre now a female. I say fine, you do you. But you get pissed off because you donât get a rise out of me. You assert that I donât understand you, but the truth is I simply donât give a shit. You know this, and thatâs what really bothers you.
Letâs play this out in other ways. Again and again, you establish meaningless and fantastic ways to identify yourself: You say youâre proud to have 11 fingers, when I can see you only have 10; you say youâre a proud Native American, but youâre as lily white as my ass in winter. What is that?
Iâll tell you what it is.
Itâs sanity.
Itâs knowing that there is an objective reality.
Say your name is Bruce, then one day you tell me that your name is Caitlin and youâre now a female. I say fine, you do you
But I am still curious how you win woman of the year and avoid any scrutiny over that fatal car crash.
That road is dangerous. I don’t get why Malibu is so popular.
I call your stupid Twitter thread and raise you a stupid NBC opinion piece.
Travis Rieder, Ph.D, is the Assistant Director for Education Initiatives, Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program and Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
I reraise with a big contradiction:
What this shows, to me, is that all of the current leftism is based on a belief that the entire world is nothing more than a struggle for power over others. This, by the way, is what critical legal theory and its bastard child critical rac theory propose. It is a seductive Single Unifying Theory of Everything, as such theories tend to be.
So the question is, who is supreme over who? Am I supreme over you because I insist on calling you by your former name, or are you supreme over me because you insist that I call you by a new name? Critical theory provides no basis for choosing who gets their way, here, as there is nothing but power dynamics.
I tend to say that when I insist on saying what I want, that is not an exercise of power over you, but when you insist on controlling what I say, that is an exercise of power over me, but in the world of critical theory, there is no such thing as an action which isn’t an exercise of power over someone else.
It’s funny because the last of the true Marxists dismiss all of this because it strays so far from dialectical materialism, which is the heart of their belief.
Two of my 1L teachers were founders of critical legal theory, so I got a good look at it in class. I had majored in philosophy, so I was better equipped to look at it than most of my peers. Two things struck me about it:
(1) There was something to it, in the sense that looking at the law as a means for the powerful to maintain their position is not the least bit nuts. You can see the Marxist DNA (the profs were both Marxists to some degree), as it was an explanation for the durability of perceived class oppression.
(2) Treating it is a universal solvent, a Single Unifying Theory of Everything, is a mistake, as the world is never that simple. But such theories are seductive because they simplify the world for you, and people love that.
Now, when the doltish 2L, who was not doing well in law school, BTW, converted that to critical race theory, most of what value it had evaporated, and it became a self-licking ice cream cone of fail.
Exactly this.
The postmodernists have successfully removed all objective truth from the political sphere. Without any pretense of objectivity for multiple parties to argue and eventually compromise over, the only metric left for resolving disputes is power.
The success of leftism is mostly based on non-leftists continuing to act as though there is objectivity, facts, people of good faith, etc. so that compromise is possible. When that road runs out, shit is going to get red-in-tooth-and-claw real.
You mean “Coercively Assigned Joe At Birth.”
A doctor assigned me male at birth. Is this science or anti-science?
Please help Plato.
Parents are oppressive!
Yes, they are. For your own good in oh so many ways.
Today in Idiots in Cars.
1. Unaware left lane bandit who posts video.
2. Road rager.
3. H&R
Driver brake check and get a reward
You have your ways to choke your chicken, I have mine.
This is why I come here. And references to marking the door of your office with the blood of interns to keep the Angel of Layoffs away.
I follow James Woods on Twitter. Heâs long been one of my favorite actors, and he really got my attention when it emerged that heâd reported the 9/11 hijackers doing a trial run of their scheme on a flight he was on a few weeks before the real thing. He has since doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on government ineptitude and culture wars.
Here he retweets someone elseâs observations on the not-so-nice bits of our society.
https://twitter.com/realjameswoods/status/1602724619512909824?s=46&t=oNxoDeGXfLCsxVEhP6obqg
The 9/11 thing (published 9/19/2001)
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/story?id=102372&page=1
What?!? (Seriously had not heard that… oh the bloody incompetence at best of the Feebs.)
“At best” is doing a good bit of work there. I suspect 9/11 was a lot like 1/6, or the Whitmer kidnapping, or the “Draw Muhammad” shooting: The feebs orchestrate their own terror plot. Worst case scenario it goes bad, the terrorist event they orchestrated actually takes place, whether deliberately or because they’re that fucking incompetent, and they arrogate more power for themselves. Best case scenario it goes well ,and they give each other medals and bathe in fawning media coverage for “foiling” the plot their dupes had no chance of pulling off without the feebs providing the means and opportunity.
That Las Vegas shooting still seems like a massive goat fuck.
What Las Vegas shooting? There was no Las Vegas shooting.
Something to give you a smile and a grunt of “I did not know that.”
Driver Percy Gordon Hendy was serving on Gallipoli in November 1915 when he sent Christmas wishes to his family back home in Melbourne, written on a hard tack biscuit.
On the back, Hendy wrote simply, ‘Gallipoli Nov, Wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a happy New Year, George.â
More than 100 years later, the biscuit is on display in the First World War Galleries at the Australian War Memorial.
Full story here.
âŚAnd itâs just as edible now as it was then.
Awww.
My Aussie friend told me this story yesterday (by email):
And if Greece and Turkey keep spitting at each other and draw NATO into it…. we can do it all again!
Both are NATO members, that would be interesting.
Pick teams? Skins vs. shirts?
If you want to see live kangaroos in the wild, they are right behind the Australian War Memorial.
Paywalled NYT is absolutely pandering to its readership. I love the chipper tone!
Itâs Time to Wear a Mask Again, Health Experts Say
Replace the word âmaskâ with âcodpieceâ and that story becomes much more amusing.
“Tiger Repelling Rock”
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E23/280763
We need something like the “millennials to snake people” plugin for this.
For one thing, remember that no one is thinking about you as much as you think they are.
Fails to appeal to raging narcissism of NYT readers.
High-risk households would include those with adults over the age of 65, pregnant women, people with a pre-existing condition such as heart disease, diabetes or lung disease and anyone who is immune-compromised.
Are those groups ever low risk
” In fact, you might find yourself the only person in a store or on a plane whoâs wearing one. Donât let that discourage you.”
But I was assured that masks protect other people, not yourself. I guess that’s why I’m not some big-brain professor.
“Masks are back”
Nope, go die in a gutter you communist.
*the face you make when javascript executes differently on Mac and Windows*
Write once; debug everywhere.
Fortunately or unfortunately, it isn’t my code that’s failing.
But it’s breaking my customizations…. arrrrgh
“The face I make when I have to code anywhere near JavaScript” is more like it. Blech. Give me x64 assembly any day.
“This is going to be a surveillance study usingâworking with some of our medical examiners in Florida. Weâre also going to be working with the University of Florida so there will be a component that has more of a research or research forum to it, but we will answer this question.
Why do I get the feeling that this investigation will be shanked?
Under military law, officers are prohibited from engaging in conduct that “disgraces them personally or brings dishonor to the military profession.”
The men involved could be found guilty of violating Article 134, which covers “conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.” The photos could also be found to be in violation of Article 133, which covers “conduct unbecoming an officer.”
There are a range of potential punishments. Even though @PupRavage has retired, he could be brought back to active duty to be court-martialed or re-retired at a lower rank.
Prediction: “We investigated ourselves and determined that procedures were followed.”
Sounds like the old days at Happy Hour, Officer’s Club
“A brief selection of positions from our cherished Fourth Estate: This entire story is a âdudâ (The Washington Post) â no bombshells here! (Forbes). The Twitter Files, in which a handful of committed partisans enthusiastically censor large swaths of the conservative base, including a former president, actually prove the company was not politically biased. It is, however, now biased against Democrats (New York Magazine). Elonâs exposĂŠ is a flop that doesnât matter. It has also placed multiple âtrust and safety expertsâ in mortal danger (The Verge, predictably). Then, my favorite: it is good to finally see the blacklist tools I have been curious about for many years, which we have by the way always known existed, and therefore donât matter (The Atlantic).
The charge of shadow banning evoked uniquely loud jeering from the press, including Charlie Warzel in particular, a man formerly of the position âTwitter isnât shadow banning Republicans.â Now, in the face of evidence the company absolutely shadow banned Republicans, the official position is we are using the term âshadow banâ incorrectly.”
https://www.piratewires.com/p/the-fifth-estate
in mortal danger
Then that is a very defective safety expert.
” It has also placed multiple âtrust and safety expertsâ in mortal danger”
If only.
It’s not shadow banning, it’s penumbra banning.
âI think itâs a good time to mask,â she said. âGiven where we are right now with hospitals being at very close to capacity, especially in pediatric hospitals with R.S.V. and with flu, I think that anything that you can do to slow down community transmission is going to be helpful.â
Maybe R C Dean can help me out, here. Hospitals should want to run at full capacity.
just as an illustration, the last few passengers on an airplane are essentially pure profit. Once the cost of getting the plane from A to B have been covered, you start to make money. Variable costs of treating patients are obviously different, but you still don’t want a big expensive building full of high priced employees sitting around gathering dust. Why else have hospitals been disappearing over the past couple of decades?
Hospital administrators should be out there releasing viruses in crowded public spaces to get revenue up.
+ 1 Certificate of Need.
You need a rather high baseline of occupied ICU beds to have a profitable department. There is nothing evil about that. Constraining competition to accomplish that is another story…
Membership is at capacity!
Original Sin
Minnesota science teacher claims cell biology lessons are part of ‘capitalist indoctrination’
Wow.
Lysenko could probably help her with some lesson plans that use goodthinkful metaphors for cellular metabolism.
People want to make that hockey thing a transgender issue, but in my experience it’s just a matter of personal responsibility. Sled hockey is full contact so you are allowed to hit, just not with the front of your sled, not in the head, not a few feet from the boards, and similar things that can be dangerous. Teams are divided mostly by skill so they’re completely coed and there are different sized players on each team. It is up to the individual to make sure they aren’t playing in an unsafe way.
Personal example: I only weigh about 130, and at one time I had two teammates who weighed about 220. During summer practice one of them, a newer player, and I were chasing a puck near the boards. I was a few inches from the boards, and he slammed into me at full speed. Messed up my shoulder pretty bad and it took almost 2 years to completely heal. The other 220 player has played longer than I have. He’ll go full force into other players his size, but he knows how to hit smaller players like me with just enough force to knock me over. There’s no point in smashing into someone and causing an injury.
At least not someone in your team. đ
That’s definitely part of it.
Gremlin with 500 ci Cadillac motor
I kind of want one. Except it should have a manual transmission.
Sadly unavailable at work.
I’m guessing the short wheelbase and front weight bias are going to make the AMX seem like a handling dream.
While it sounds like an oxymoron, we just had a productive meeting. The key was it was only three people, all of whome had worked together for years, looking at a single problem. So all of the common clutter that fills meetings didn’t crop up.
AOC climate change documentary earns only $80 per theater despite rave critic reviews
Audiences do not want to date her.
“Less than $10,000”, I wonder how much less. Even at $10K, that’s $83.33 per screen, or about 9-10 tickets.
And that’s per screen, not per showing.
I smell another money laundering op.
An odd correlation, to be sure.
“despite rave critic reviews”
Despite or partially because of?
“audiencesâ increasing distrust in critic scores”
Wonder why. Must be the audience’s fault.
We should find a better class of audience.
That’s deader than she was on Jan 6th.
Iâm guessing the short wheelbase and front weight bias are going to make the AMX seem like a handling dream.
You might not want to just fling it into turn one at COTA.
“Anti-LGBTQ hate has increased on Twitter since Elon Musk officially acquired the company
Media Matters has found that prominent anti-LGBTQ accounts’ âgroomerâ rhetoric has exploded in reach since Musk’s takeover â retweets of their use of the slur have increased over 1200%
Anti-LGBTQ accounts that saw substantial increases in both retweets of and mentions in tweets with the slur included Tim Pool, Jack Posobiec, Jake Shield, Gays Against Groomers, Blaire White, Allie Beth Stuckey, Andy Ngo, Seth Dillon, and Mike Cernovich. ”
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/anti-lgbtq-hate-has-increased-twitter-elon-musk-officially-acquired-company
OFFS!!
So this person is asserting all alphabet people are groomers, therefore an increase in calling out child grooming is hate against all alphabet people?
What a bigot.
Decades of trying to convince people that “gay/lesbian” was not automatically “pedophile” has been wiped out in the last year or so.
Yep. The crazies hitch themselves to someone else’s wagon and ruin the whole thing. Gay people and women hardest hit.
Except it’s not just that they hitched their wagon it’s that so many of the LGBT (our residents excluded of course) didn’t say “NO! these people aren’t like us”. Many in the activist and left wing openly courted this.
The fact that their list of people espousing “anti-LGBTQ hate” includes a bunch of “LGBTQ” people ought to clue them in to something.
SPLITTERS!
Just wait, groomers.
Just ignore that pre-Musk Twitter didn’t ban accounts that posted pedo content, just deleted some of their pedo content. And that when Musk started banning those accounts, he found tens of thousands of them almost immediately. Oh,and that the guy in charge of “trust and safety” was pretty clearly pedo-curious, at a minimum.
Clearly, accusing people on Twitter of being groomers is totally unfounded.
“he found tens of thousands of them almost immediately.”
And a large number of them were Antifa.
Shocker.
Not real journalism
Musk and his allies promote these tweet threads â dubbed the “Twitter Files” â as bombshell revelations proving that Twitter intentionally muzzled conservatives because of their political views. That’s a long-running claim by Republicans who are convinced social media companies censor them, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Twitter’s internal researchers, for example, have found its algorithms favor right-leaning political content.
But many tech journalists, social media experts and former Twitter employees say Musk’s claims are over-hyped, given that the documents shared so far largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.
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Musk has given exclusive access to a small group of independent journalists including Matt Taibbi, formerly of Rolling Stone, and Bari Weiss, a former New York Times opinion columnist, under the condition they first post about the documents on Twitter.
The selection of Taibbi and Weiss, who both share Musk’s criticisms of the mainstream media and what they see as progressive censoriousness, has itself caused controversy. Other news outlets have not been given access to the original documents, which have been presented only in screenshots and excerpts in lengthy tweet threads, often without context.
NPR haz a sad.
Matt Taibbi, formerly of Rolling Stone, and Bari Weiss, a former New York Times opinion columnist
Couple of wingnuts, no wonder they found bias.
We found ONE!
Our narrative!
/Whiney crying…
The USSR’s internal researchers, for example, have found its food distribution programs favor Ukrainians…
Just look at all the grain or reports say there is.
Now just go ahead and ignore the starving children, it’s all right here in the report proving there’s plenty of food.
“often without context.”
This is a real shame, no one is flying interference for forget Twitter employees to cover up what they were up to. They’re just mad they don’t get to control the narrative alone.
NPR readership’s biases confirmed. Film at 11.
The Twitter Files might not be the bombshell Musk teased in popcorn emoji-laden tweets â but they offer an illuminating glimpse into the sausage-making of content moderation.
They show Twitter executives and rank and file employees grappling with difficult tradeoffs, questioning the company’s rules and how they should be applied â and in some cases, getting things wrong.
Heroism is hard.
I am waiting for the bombshell that shows how the government propped up Twitter with cash payments. Unless the best forensic data cleaners worked on those books, Elon will find proof of this.
On Tuesday, Dorsey weighed in on the Twitter Files, saying the company had made errors in how it approached content moderation.
“I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time,” he wrote. “Of course mistakes were made.”
Nobody’s perfect.
Just like when the IRS seemed to be going after tea party organizations. Sure, mistakes were made, but it was purely accidental, and everybody was acting in good faith. Which they could totally have proven, if a bunch of hard drives hadn’t mysteriously crashed and been destroyed.
WTF?
The latest Ukraine propaganda is fucking weird.
The third chick is pretty solid, though.
They will cast a spell on you that will make you fall of stairs and shit your pants!
Is this tied into them shutting down churches?
Good question. Seems pretty hot on the heels of that.
Reports have them losing something like a thousand men a day in Bakhmut while posting nonsense.
Two men, pet dog missing at sea for over a week found safe on sailboat without fuel 200 miles off Delaware
Having sailed these waters I don’t get much of this.
Bad time of year to take a 30 foot sailboat to FL. Plus it’s a “sail” boat. You should be able to make land somewhere.
No EPIRB? No battery radios? No reason to use the 12V redundant batteries aboard to work the ship radios?
Morons…
That was mentioned in the morning dedthread.
Lucky-ass dopes.
That was freaky. I prepare better when I go for a walk around the block.
Hong Kong demands Google bury protest song in online anthem search results
“Don’t Be Evil”
Juicing the numbers
Long Covid leaves some people with long-term symptoms, but it can be deadly, too. It played a part in at least 3,544 deaths in the United States in the first 30 months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report says.
The report is the first official attempt by the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs National Center for Health Statistics to quantify the number of long Covid deaths in the United States.
Some experts say this finding is probably a significant undercount, considering that up to 30% of people who get Covid-19 go on to have long-term symptoms, according to the CDC.
The most pernicious and deadly plague ever!
WTF is up with the use of “learnings” instead of “lessons”?
Stupid corp-speak.
Your attitude is problematic.
WTF is up with the use of âlearningsâ instead of âlessonsâ?
Stupid corp-speak.
That’s hillbilly-speak.
“I’ll learn you to backsass your elders.”
Right? Sounds downright backwoods. Idjits.