Seth takes a closer look at Fox News barring its own anchors from covering a billion-dollar lawsuit against the company that revealed their on-air personalities knowingly lied to viewers about the 2020 election.
‘You have to be dangerous back.’ Why some LGBTQ people in New Hampshire are taking up arms
n the corner of the parking lot of Pawtuckaway State Park, a half dozen people assemble on a recent Sunday morning, making small talk as they pull on gloves, wool hats — and gun holsters.
“I recognize the temperature is freezing, and this is not the most comfortable,” Fin Smith, today’s organizer, tells the group. “But if it’s raining, we’re training. If it’s snowing, we’re going.”
Amid the hikers and snowmobilers in the park today, these are members of a group called Rainbow Reload, an LGBTQ gun club that offers experts and the gun-curious a chance to practice firearms skills in a supportive environment.
Similar groups exist across the country, often under the name “Pink Pistols.” Rainbow Reload members stress that their mission goes beyond mere hobby: The goal is to prepare and protect themselves from a rising chorus of threats against LGBTQ+ people, including those stemming from hate groups.
“If the world is dangerous, then you have to be dangerous back,” says Smith, who, like everyone interviewed, requested some level of anonymity citing concerns about their safety. “And that very much has pushed me to where I am now.”
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DeSantis pushes ban on gender studies at Florida colleges and universities DeSantis fatally shoots Giant Smiling Mouse, Girlfriend, in the head. Claims “Stand Your Ground” applies because he is the Governor of Florida. Micky and Minnie have no comment, because their brains are scattered all over the Magic Kingdom.
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Smith & Wesson and their silencer company Gemtech are tweeting photos of armed Proud Boys as part of their marketing campaigns.
It was never about self-defense… https://t.co/ghX2So0556— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 27, 2023
They deleted it to add the brand making the clothing, to justify the “PB”https://t.co/asNShHlQyw
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) February 28, 2023
Oh, their market seems pretty specific pic.twitter.com/AMqcGAEL9q
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) February 28, 2023
Scott Adams forfeited some serious coin for being a racist jackass. He’s going to have to sell off most of his liquid assets this year if he wants to keep living the lifestyle of a millionaire. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
in the 90s I actually thought Dilbert was pretty clever in a dry-sense-of-humor way.
@SECNAV has renamed cruiser USS #CHANCELLORSVILLE CG62 to become USS ROBERT SMALLS. It was inevitable - this painting of Robert E Lee & Stonewall Jackson adorned the wardroom until not long ago honoring the Confederate victory. Smalls is a hero… https://t.co/Ta9ZamD7Cy pic.twitter.com/kPCSQjOa8p
— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) February 28, 2023
More on Smalls at https://t.co/Sk1DO4vRi1
— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) February 28, 2023
Scott Adams has always been loathsome. I find it interesting that he turned the shithead factor up to 11 after his 30-years-younger wife divorced him after less than two years of marriage. Big Divorced Guy Energy™, like Elmu.
re: #6 teleskiguy
in the 90s I actually thought Dilbert was pretty clever in a dry-sense-of-humor way.
Me too. I thought it was a clever take on Engineer Disfunction.
I worked with those people every day at my job and routinely slapped my forehead.
re: #9 austin_blue
Me too. I thought it was a clever take on Engineer Disfunction.
I worked with those people every day at my job and routinely slapped my forehead.
What is it about engineers? Some of the most socially inept people. Dentists, too.
If they haven’t done it yet, they’re getting ready to pull the plug on Tom Sizemore.
He liked to beat women, so I doubt anyone here will miss him.
Apropos of nothing, on the title of the last thread, I lived in Calle Andrés Segovia when I lived in Rota.
re: #11 Crush White Nationalism
If they haven’t done it yet, they’re getting ready to pull the plug on Tom Sizemore.
He liked to beat women, so I doubt anyone here will miss him.
He was effective at playing mean asshole characters. It came naturally to him.
re: #10 teleskiguy
What is it about engineers? Some of the most socially inept people. Dentists, too.
With engineers it’s Aspergers or Conservative Christianity.
With dentists it’s Conservative Christianity.
Those are the professions known for having the most creationists.
It’s cliché but if I could have dinner with one actor it would be Bobby De Niro. I’d ask him about Marty Scorsese, what makes a guy like that tik?
In the film Natural Born Killers Tom Sizemore played a corrupt cop bent on revenge. There’s a scene where he rapes and kills a prostitute, you can tell he really enjoyed filming that scene.
re: #4 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
So you’re proud nazis now?
— Woke means moral (@AAnswer8) February 27, 2023
re: #10 teleskiguy
What is it about engineers? Some of the most socially inept people. Dentists, too.
Smart as whips, but except for CE’s (We build targets!) can’t write a “How To” document for the life of them.
I can’t comment on Dentists, except for this:
re: #8 teleskiguy
Scott Adams has always been loathsome. I find it interesting that he turned the shithead factor up to 11 after his 30-years-younger wife divorced him after less than two years of marriage. Big Divorced Guy Energy™, like Elmu.
His fame came from a strip making fun of his coworkers. I enjoyed it, but it was at its base being a dick. He got worse since then, as dicks do as they age.
In today’s state news of hate:
GRAND ISLAND — A 36-year-old homeless man was arrested after police say he vandalized a church by drawing swastikas on the walls and then refusing to leave.
Seth Ketelhut was arrested following a brief standoff Thursday morning at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
Grand Island police said he had “defecated on Bibles, damaged crosses and drew symbols of hate on the walls.”
The symbols on the wall included a couple of swastikas, said police Capt. Dean Elliott. Several windows were also broken.
When officers first encountered Ketelhut, he was holding two knives, which came from inside the church, and he refused to drop the weapons, police said.
Religious symbols vandalized during Grand Island church burglary, standoff (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
Oh look at that, I still have a copy of a Dilbert book I got in college as a gift, entitled “Bring Me The Head of Willy The Mailboy.”
I enjoy my Complete Far Side collection much more.
Gary Larson and Bill Watterson did it right, folks.
re: #21 teleskiguy
Oh look at that, I still have a copy of a Dilbert book I got in college as a gift, entitled “Bring Me The Head of Willy The Mailboy.”
I enjoy my Complete Far Side collection much more.
Gary Larson and Bill Watterson did it right, folks.
Completely agree. And adios, amigos, sweet scaly dreams.
Be nice to each other, except for right-wing assholes, who deserve to be down-dinged, blocked, and ignored.
re: #22 Patricia Kayden
The NYT is a paper for a clique of New Yorkers who get together at each other’s parties and tell themselves they are so enlightened that they don’t have to worry about anything.
It’s not “centrist” to do both-sides. Doing both-sides is just lazy.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I almost went skiing at Lee Canyon, Nevada this weekend, just outside Las Vegas. They’ve exceeded their average annual snowfall by 50 inches already, it’s still February. It snowed two feet up there while I was in town. Alas, I had errands to run (drop off skis for a couple of pro athletes in Utah and Colorado for the company I work for).
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
re: #27 I Would Prefer Not To
John Oliver is a fucking genius .
…who has a team of incredibly talented and funny writers.
re: #26 teleskiguy
I had all my gear and everything, I could’ve gone! Hate it when work gets in the way of things.
On the contrary, Marge, it will mean that red state terrorists, antivaxx plague rats and child molesting Bible-thumper cultists will be barred from civilized areas. It will simply be self defense.
Marge is still at it: “We need a national divorce where we can split into red states and blue states. No, that doesn’t mean civil war. Doesn’t mean you can’t travel to different states. There would still be trade and commerce.” pic.twitter.com/xatamI93L5
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 28, 2023
That was the first time I’ve seen snowcapped mountains surrounding Las Vegas Valley.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s going to rain. And snow. And be very cold:..
Snow down to 1,000 feet? That’s way lower in elevation than we are, and San Diego is way further south. While we get lots of cold and snow, I feel for y’all: You aren’t equipped for this.
re: #22 Patricia Kayden
Here in Texas, Abbott had to introduce as mandate in August, 2020 because cases spiked massively, and it brought case rates down.
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
On the contrary, Marge, it will mean that red state terrorists, antivaxx plague rats and child molesting Bible-thumper cultists will be barred from civilized areas. It will simply be self defense.
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Brexit will be just fine i tell you.
After the concert I walked outside to temps in the 40s with high humidity… in Las Vegas. I acknowledged to myself - and those around me! - how refreshing and unusual that was. “Feels like home!” I yelled out.
Why not? DeSantis does what he wants.
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yes, in the big storm a few days ago some places in Riverside County got snow and said places were down to 1000’ above sea level.
Very unusual.
Cold will continue here until the middle of March. Eventually the atmosphere will change state and we won’t get any more cold masses from Alaska.
re: #37 Patricia Kayden
I hope Deathsants learns you don’t fuck with the Mouse. Somehow I doubt it.
Disney should sponsor Mr. M. Mouse as a candidate for Governor. He might just win.
First I want to thank @osmnactej - he keeps looking on the Pentagon website for these files every day and has found more than a dozen so far.
For an earlier thread about these Pentagon files - check out the link below:
2/nhttps://t.co/64vjVCGI5u— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) February 27, 2023
155mm fuzes, primers, charges: $43m
155mm rounds: $227.1m
155mm Excalibur: $202.6m
This is the first time the Pentagon spends almost as much on Excalibur as on standard 155mm rounds. It’s also more than double all of the previous Excalibur orders combined, which were $184,2m
4/n pic.twitter.com/aNM76U3J6q— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) February 27, 2023
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
On the contrary, Marge, it will mean that red state terrorists, antivaxx plague rats and child molesting Bible-thumper cultists will be barred from civilized areas. It will simply be self defense.
Is there a plan for refugees?
re: #43 Captain Ron
That entire string of tweets shows up for me as “age-restricted content,” so I can’t read them.
re: #43 Captain Ron
Artillery LADS systems: $38m
LADS is Location and Azimuth Determining System, essentially provides location and direction information to individual and group artillery systems.
Greatly increases down range accuracy
If you don’t believe the gun industry is now full-on supporting domestic terrorists…I give you the official instagram post for Smith and Wesson…I mean the Proud Boys.
Here’s to gun industry sponsored Seditious Conspiracy.
Better buckle up. pic.twitter.com/Vr0YYfja6s— Ryan Busse (@ryandbusse) February 27, 2023
re: #5 teleskiguy
Like I said…
Andrews McMeel Syndicate just “severed our relationship” with Dilbert.
The strip will no longer be distributed. It’s vanished from the GoComics site. This is the publisher of all his books and swag, too.
Dude just lost millions. pic.twitter.com/fIk8amw7Ci— Derf Backderf @derfbackderf@masto.social (@DerfBackderf) February 27, 2023
My reaction? lol
Scott Adams should be a cautionary tale of hubris for right wing fuckholes, but they’re already spinning it as discrimination against successful white people. They’re so gotdam transparent in their words and motives and yet the legacy media is all like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
All in the replies: “it’s not the Proud Boys. It’s a Smith & Wesson thing called Brand Perception.” A stupid fucking name that, when you Google it, is a term related to understanding brand awareness.
I hope it’s not too late to say Scott Adams is a no-talent asshole who can’t draw.
re: #54 jaunte
I hope it’s not too late to say Scott Adams is a no-talent asshole who can’t draw.
I read XKCD. Adams is a way better artist.
re: #53 Belafon
All in the replies: “it’s not the Proud Boys. It’s a Smith & Wesson thing called Brand Perception.” A stupid fucking name that, when you Google it, is a term related to understanding brand awareness.
Or related to a dogwhistle.
Another “wink” gun industry trick for idiots not smart enough to connect one dot. “The big igloo” rifle instead of the “boogaloo”. Man…the intellect is overwhelming but if ya try real hard you can see what they were going for. pic.twitter.com/QqJ2pqgsg4
— Ryan Busse (@ryandbusse) February 28, 2023
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Is there a plan for refugees?
Details will have to be worked out but it should be possible to house and support refugees with assets abandoned by, or confiscated from, the many tax cheats, MLM scammers, money-launderers, pulpit pimps, media stooges and other Republicans who will flee to the red state badlands as soon as they realize they have lost their political protection. One megachurch, for example, could be turned into housing for several hundred people, with the former sanctuary providing garage space for the refugees’ newly acquired pickups and SUVs. Where necessary, refugees could be retrained to do any legitimate work that the absconding repugs might previously have done.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lots of right wing women looking at that gun and imagining themselves blowing away libs and trans people indiscriminately. Like I said, their words, deeds, and motives are nakedly transparent, yet the legacy media treats this shit like a dispute over taxes.
MTG is the perfect example of legacy media treating extremists with kid gloves. She’s quite obviously a fucking fascist, but she’s got committee assignments now so we need to treat her as a serious individual.
re: #25 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The NYT is a paper for a clique of New Yorkers who get together at each other’s parties and tell themselves they are so enlightened that they don’t have to worry about anything.
It’s not “centrist” to do both-sides. Doing both-sides is just lazy.
The NYT is for people like Bill Maher, the asshole set who like to imagine themselves as politically liberal as they’re leaning out their limousine window to scream at the homeless guy to get out of the street and get a job because his tent is lowering property values.
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
On the contrary, Marge, it will mean that red state terrorists, antivaxx plague rats and child molesting Bible-thumper cultists will be barred from civilized areas. It will simply be self defense.
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Name a country where that’s happened, Margie. Because persons smarter than I have looked and there’s not a single country one can name where there was an amiable split between the government and a rebel group where the rebels were given all that they wished for without a fight.
As I promised myself, when I got home and sat down, the first thing I did was pull up the Segovia from downstairs. That’s a highlight of my night :)
Thank you Charles.
re: #64 Targetpractice
Name a country where that’s happened, Margie. Because persons smarter than I have looked and there’s not a single country one can name where there was an amiable split between the government and a rebel group where the rebels were given all that they wished for without a fight.
Came close in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
We’re not sure Marjorie has permission from @Sia to use her music so we found a more appropriate soundtrack for her workout video. pic.twitter.com/BQ2yiqcRp1
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) February 27, 2023
I consider myself more athletic than most. This is stupid.
This you?pic.twitter.com/olFqEAoeo1
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) February 28, 2023
re: #67 teleskiguy
She can flop around forever but she’ll never reach willowy.
This story from NBC News was turned into a defamation case by the person the article is about.
How anti-vaxxers target grieving moms and turn them into crusaders against vaccines (September 24, 2019)
Briefly, antivaxxers target newly-grieving mothers who’s infants died to convince them it was a vaccine. The infant in this article became the poster child (literal billboards across Minnesota) for the antivaxxers, who convinced their mother that vaccines killed her baby.
Her case of defamation against NBC News was thrown out with prejudice due to the statue of limitations on such cases expiring.
Catelin Clobes v NBC Universal Media (PDF, seven pages, US District Court for the District of Minnesota)
re: #66 William Lewis
Came close in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
I’d forgotten in my previous post that one of the key bits in MTG’s sales pitch is the dissolution of the federal government. So we’re not even talking a reversion to an Articles of Confederation situation, it’s more Balkanization in the belief that separate state governments will band together into one or more individual governments. Of course, how the splitting of federal assets of a unique value (counukesgh) would be handled in a scenario where the federal government ceases to be.
A warning to Colorado members … the Libertarians are coming to town.
Excited to spend Memorial Day weekend @LPMisesCaucus Take Human Action tour in Denver. Yours truly is leading the lineup, which means I’m either good at warming up crowds or I’m so bad they are getting me out of the way. There’s only one way to find out: attending the event! pic.twitter.com/Efp41nViU6
— Patrick Newman (@DrPatrickNewman) February 27, 2023
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A warning to Colorado members … the Libertarians are coming to town.
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re: #37 Patricia Kayden
Why not? DeSantis does what he wants.
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Not the first time Florida has done this.
Michael Moore had to find a new distributor for his Fahrenheit 9/11 when Gov Jeb threatened Disney’s special tax district if they didn’t have Miramax (their subsidiary) shelve it.
re: #76 sagehen
Not the first time Florida has done this.
Michael Moore had to find a new distributor for his Fahrenheit 9/11 when Gov Jeb threatened Disney’s special tax district if they didn’t have Miramax (their subsidiary) shelve it.
Disney should just announce they’re moving to Alabama and shut down the park in Florida. Leave it vacant for a few years. See how DeSantis likes that.
re: #77 darthstar
Disney should just announce they’re moving to Alabama and shut down the park in Florida. Leave it vacant for a few years. See how DeSantis likes that.
Disney has lawyers. DeSantis is going to lose in court.
That would cost more money than Disney thinks their freedom of speech is worth.
re: #77 darthstar
Disney should just announce they’re moving to Alabama and shut down the park in Florida. Leave it vacant for a few years. See how DeSantis likes that.
I was thinking in the Atlanta area.
re: #77 darthstar
Disney should just announce they’re moving to Alabama and shut down the park in Florida. Leave it vacant for a few years. See how DeSantis likes that.
And I would not be surprised if Il Duce gets a grifter like Ken Ham of the Ark Park to take over and turn Disney World into Jesus Land.
re: #77 darthstar
unfortunately the people it would hurt the most would be Disney employees and IIRC, Disney’s corporate legacy isn’t all rainbows and unicorns, sometimes good and sometimes bad. The thing is, Disney has to know that letting DiSantis push them around in the US opens them up to possible Fascists everywhere and having them dictate what they will find to be culturally relevant and possibly screw up their bottom line that DOES include the hopes and dreams of belonging to everyone, regardless of race, creed or gender.
Victoria Brownworth has gone on a weird “defend Oprah at all cost” string on Twitter. I guess she missed that video of her promoting the woman claiming she was in a Jewish satanic cult which sacrificed babies for rituals.
Reddit’s r/Qult_Headquarters still digs up the crazy going around Q-world.
Thread, seven tweets.
The US government apparently still has no clarity as to how the pandemic originated, and news reporting should make that clear at the top. A big reason the US response was such a failure in the early going was because Covid was quickly politicized. WSJ is inviting that again here pic.twitter.com/yIF8v36CV8
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) February 26, 2023
“We want special rights to be bigots.”
Christian and Muslim groups are raising concerns about a state bill supported by Democrats and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that seeks to include LGBTQ people as a protected group under a civil rights law.
Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and Republican leaders say that state Senate Bill 4, introduced last month, could lead to discrimination against religious people and groups, exposing them to potential lawsuits if they articulate conservative views on marriage and sexuality. They’re asking supporters of the bill to include a section that explicitly protects the rights of religious groups, something they said 22 other states included when they passed laws to add sexual orientation as a protected category.
“We strongly believe Michigan should include protections for religious organizations in Senate Bill 4 to avoid faith-based organizations, particularly those who believe marriage is between a man and a woman, from being targeted for litigation,” Tom Hickson, vice president for public policy and advocacy for the Michigan Catholic Conference, said this month to the Senate Civil Rights, Judiciary and Public Safety Committee. “Every state that has amended its anti-discrimination law … has included protections for religious organizations. Unfortunately, Michigan appears to be going in an opposite and unprecedented direction.”
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Christian and Muslim groups want faith protections added to LGBTQ rights bill (Detroit Free Press, February 26, 2023)
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thread, seven tweets.
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All I’m seeing is the usual GQP concern for “national security” in action, considering the source of these news stories is a classified DOE report that was delivered to Congress and then leaked to the press via two anonymous “sources.”
re: #87 Targetpractice
All I’m seeing is the usual GQP concern for “national security” in action, considering the source of these news stories is a classified DOE report that was delivered to Congress and then leaked to the press via two anonymous “sources.”
He’s calling out the misleading WSJ headline. The emphasis is on the Energy Department saying the source of Covid-19 was a lab leak, without saying until well down the article that the assessment was “low confidence” and other agencies having different opinions (meaning the government hasn’t taken a position).
He’s not opposed to the idea of a lab leak (those actually happen frequently around the world), just the idea of asserting the low-confidence assessment is the position of the government.
The Michigan GOP deleted this.
“The Democratic Party has become an enemy of religious freedom. … The Amendments to the Elliott-Larsen Act are a direct attack on religious liberty.”
👋 Proud Gay Jew here. This is a LIE. Amending ELCRA to finally extend equal civil rights for LGBTQ+ Michiganders like me will in NO WAY compel any religious institution in Michigan to perform religious rites and ceremonies inconsistent with their doctrine and practice. The end. https://t.co/MgiOt6mAIF
— Rep. Noah Arbit (@NoahArbit) February 23, 2023
They have one “joke.”
I’ve lost three careers to direct racism so far. Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell, and cartooning.
All three were perpetrated by White people for their own gain.
No Black person has ever discriminated against me. That’s partly why I identified as Black for several years.— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 27, 2023
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He’s calling out the misleading WSJ headline. The emphasis is on the Energy Department saying the source of Covid-19 was a lab leak, without saying until well down the article that the assessment was “low confidence” and other agencies having different opinions (meaning the government hasn’t taken a position).
He’s not opposed to the idea of a lab leak (those actually happen frequently around the world), just the idea of asserting the low-confidence assessment is the position of the government.
Yeah, should have been more specific, that all I’m seeing as far as a news story is concerned is that the GQP deliberately leaked the conclusions (and nothing else) of a classified report in order to springboard their latest public crusade against CHY-NA!. And the “liberal media” is happily providing that springboard because they want desperately to turn the public’s attention away from East Palestine now that their efforts to slag Sec Pete are getting criticized for politicizing the tragedy.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They have one “joke.”
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re: #1 William Lewis
‘You have to be dangerous back.’ Why some LGBTQ people in New Hampshire are taking up arms
Helter Skelter
once the shooting starts, they gain the upper hand
re: #6 teleskiguy
in the 90s I actually thought Dilbert was pretty clever in a dry-sense-of-humor way.
I was aware of his politics, but he generally kept it well separated from the strip. More recently it all started to leak through. I stopped reading it years ago.
re: #11 Crush White Nationalism
If they haven’t done it yet, they’re getting ready to pull the plug on Tom Sizemore.
He liked to beat women, so I doubt anyone here will miss him.
He was terrific in Saving Private Ryan, never paid much attention to any of his other roles
re: #92 Targetpractice
Wouldn’t be a “white guy nukes his own career being racist” without a helping of “I must be black because white guys are oppressing me!”
Scott Adams also tried to compare the Highland Park mass-murder to the death of his own son from a Fentanyl overdose. It is a typically libertarian nihilist response.
“When a young male (let’s say 14 to 19) is a danger to himself and others, society gives the supporting family two options,” he continued. “1. Watch people die. 2. Kill your own son. Those are your only options. I chose #1 and watched my stepson die. I was relieved he took no one else with him.”
He dismissed as “delusional” anyone who thinks that there is another way, involving tough love and government assistance, that “fixes” such a person. Adams rejected the notion that “services and ways to deal with such a teen” exist.
“If one more person hallucinates to me about some ‘program’ where teens are kidnapped and ‘fixed’ and returned to their happy parents, I might explode. No such thing exists. You have two options. Only two. No help is coming. Only death and suffering.”
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‘Dilbert’ cartoonist Scott Adams has a bleak take on our ‘dangerous young man problem’ (Los Angeles Times, July 6. 2022)
re: #37 Patricia Kayden
Why not? DeSantis does what he wants.
The defenders of Free Enterprise seem to be very much into interfering in what a privately owned company produces. I wish they would pay as much attention to toxic chemicals and dangerous foodstuff as they do to possible transgender content.
re: #91 Targetpractice
Yeah, should have been more specific, that all I’m seeing as far as a news story is concerned is that the GQP deliberately leaked the conclusions (and nothing else) of a classified report in order to springboard their latest public crusade against CHY-NA!. And the “liberal media” is happily providing that springboard because they want desperately to turn the public’s attention away from East Palestine now that their efforts to slag Sec Pete are getting criticized for politicizing the tragedy.
In the end it doesn’t make any difference. The trend now is clear Republicans are dying in larger numbers than Democrats from Covid-19, and that trend will continue to widen.
What does matter is reporting centring “Wuhan Lab Leak, Says Energy Department” rather than the more nuanced “Government still unclear of the source” will lead to more attacks on Americans of East Asian descent (and people they imagine are Americans of East Asian descent).
Wingnuts are already running with it across social media.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Scott Adams also tried to compare the Highland Park mass-murder to the death of his own son from a Fentanyl overdose. It is a typically libertarian nihilist response.
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‘Dilbert’ cartoonist Scott Adams has a bleak take on our ‘dangerous young man problem’ (Los Angeles Times, July 6. 2022)
Gee, I can’t imagine why his last wife chose to leave him after his son’s death…
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Incoming Dumpster fire of TERFs
They didn’t hit any of her vital organs, I see.
— Leon Dragonheart (@LeonDragonhart) February 27, 2023
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the end it doesn’t make any difference. The trend now is clear Republicans are dying in larger numbers than Democrats from Covid-19, and that trend will continue to widen.
What does matter is reporting centring “Wuhan Lab Leak, Says Energy Department” rather than the more nuanced “Government still unclear of the source” will lead to more attacks on Americans of East Asian descent (and people they imagine are Americans of East Asian descent).
Wingnuts are already running with it across social media.
If I checked, I imagine that the GQP’s COVID committee is meeting this week or next, with the usual suspects having already put together a slate of medical loons to tell us how the entire pandemic was the fault of Dem officials trying to hurt Trump. So look for this article to be cited at least once so the loons can “confirm” it and thus “vindicate” the CTers who will demand apologies because they are perpetual victims.
Don’t mind me… I’m just going through a Youtube playlist finding recordings that I think are exceptional for their listening qualities.
Some I’ve never heard before.
But recorded well enough to I think take notice.
Former Democratic candidate for GA-5 in 2020, and in the special election September 29, 2020, and current special educator in the DeKalb County GA School District in a long Twitter run justifying slavery. I can’t imagine why he didn’t win a Democratic Primary. He holds a Master’s Degree in African-American Studies from Georgia University.
He’s trying to tweet through it.
Ma’am slavery as an concept is biblical. https://t.co/l33SEN3MuK
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) February 27, 2023
Yes, we know the Bible is immoral.
It was common practice lol. You guys fail to understand this. You’re imposing a modem day moral compass on a something that was so common it was amoral. What gets me is that you’re all so virtuous about it when it’s easy to be against slavery, today. So easy. https://t.co/A0dmKPQ5Kt
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) February 27, 2023
Missed that whole period of American History between the Compromise of 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
How is it possible that certain metrics for blacks were better after slavery but are horrible now? The remnants of slavery skipped generations? How can that happen? https://t.co/D5hOmDcPBQ
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) February 27, 2023
As a white dude, I’m honestly at a loss on how to respond to something like this…like, I know it’s nonsense, but I feel like it’s not my lane to engage…even though I JUST ripped my daughter’s social studies teacher for saying the same bullshit. But she white, so that’s my lane
— DavidK (@RedClayDad) February 28, 2023
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Former Democratic candidate for GA-5 in 2020, and in the special election September 29, 2020, and current special educator in the DeKalb County GA School District in a long Twitter run justifying slavery. I can’t imagine why he didn’t win a Democratic Primary. He holds a Master’s Degree in African-American Studies from Georgia University.
He’s trying to tweet through it.
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We pass judgment on the past using modern morals all the time. Or does this douche nozzle want to suggest that we can’t pass judgment on the Nazis for the Holocaust because Germans during the period would be cool with it for fear of punishment for speaking against the Reich? That anti-semitism was not only acceptable, but mandated by the state during the period and to say otherwise was suicidal?
re: #110 Targetpractice
Well, some of his “you might likes” are Andy Ngo and Ashley St. Clair …
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here’s one of the people your dude likes to retweet:
“Only in the last 100 years of so has it become reviled by society” - that’s just false.
Indeed, it’s so false that either you are trolling or simply ignorant of the past.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) February 28, 2023
re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Missed that whole period of American History between the Compromise of 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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That’s very much a white apologist line, that things were better “immediately after slavery,” because the implication that always follows is those ex-slaves and their descendants immediately took their freedom and fucked things up. That you’re supposed to count all the things that the federal government did immediately after the war to help and empower the new citizens of America, but not the decades of Jim Crow and the terror campaign that followed when explaining why Black America has been in a sorry shape ever since.
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here’s one of the people your dude likes to retweet:
Even if it was true, the Appeal to Tradition fallacy remains a fallacy.
re: #110 Targetpractice
We pass judgment on the past using modern morals all the time. Or does this douche nozzle want to suggest that we can’t pass judgment on the Nazis for the Holocaust because Germans during the period would be cool with it for fear of punishment for speaking against the Reich? That anti-semitism was not only acceptable, but mandated by the state during the period and to say otherwise was suicidal?
I’d give an upding to someone who asked him.
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Another one your guy likes:
“Only 1% of Americans owned slaves. So there’s going to be A LOT of black Americans that don’t have slavery in their ancestry. ” - you don’t realize that your second sentence does NOT follow from your first, do you?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) February 28, 2023
re: #117 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
“Only 1% of Americans owned slaves. So there’s going to be A LOT of black Americans that don’t have slavery in their ancestry. ” - you don’t realize that your second sentence does NOT follow from your first, do you?
These people don’t do logic, just polemics.
Over at Reddit’s r/Facepalm, a woman berates people for allowing children to pick berries in a park. “I pay for this park” then out comes the “Go Back Where You Came From” line… . (3:48)
re: #117 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Another one your guy likes:
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That’s what happens when you get trained to regurgitate rather than think. The “Only 1% owned slaves” BS has always ignored that slavery was pretty much the root of the Southern economy in the decades leading up to the Civil War. If a business did not directly depend upon slave labor, then it either got raw resources harvested with slave labor or it provided goods/services to the slave owners. So far more than 1% of the South’s white population had a part to play in sustaining and expanding slavery in the US.
re: #121 Targetpractice
That’s what happens when you get trained to regurgitate rather than think. The “Only 1% owned slaves” BS has always ignored that slavery was pretty much the root of the Southern economy in the decades leading up to the Civil War. If a business did not directly depend upon slave labor, then it either got raw resources harvested with slave labor or it provided goods/services to the slave owners. So far more than 1% of the South’s white population had a part to play in sustaining and expanding slavery in the US.
Moreover, even if “only 1% owned slaves” was true, what was the number of people they enslaved? There were far more enslaved people than slavers.
On the “Canadian nice” go-back-where-you-came-from woman in a Manitoba park, it turns out she is an immigrant and the children she was berating were born in Canada.
1% owned ~ 100% of the black population in their preferred playground.
Following on the movie tropes from way back. My favorite are the ones where our beloved protagonist has been kidnapped or tricked and then shot up with enough tranquilizer to kill a team of horses, groggily arises from his predicament and moments later has the energy of the same team of horses.
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Moreover, even if “only 1% owned slaves” was true, what was the number of people they enslaved? There were far more enslaved people than slavers.
Using rough numbers from the 1860 census, the white population of the South was 27 million people. Assuming only 1% owned slaves, that’s roughly 270,000 slave owners before the war. And the slave population was just over 3.9 million, so divided by 270,000 means that the 1% owned an average of 14 slaves between them.
This is usually the point in the conversation where the white guy tries to further muddy the waters by sputtering about “black slave owners” and/or brings up indentured servitude as if to suggest that convicts being sent to the colonies to work off their debt to society was equal to being treated as a piece of property no different from a draft horse.
LOL my wife changed the description of our tiny team running BOINC projects.
Cynics for a Better Tomorrow is working with several BOINC projects working toward making the world tomorrow a better place - even though we know it’s hopeless and bound to fail. If we’re bound to fail, we really should work toward failing at creating a dystopia.
re: #125 Amory Blaine
Favorite movie trope:
Bad guys get shot once and fall over dead without bleeding
Good guy gets hit 14 times, takes 20 minutes to die only after giving stirring speech and professing his undying love for mother/wife/girlfriend/country.
I missed this last week.
Tulsi Gabbard on Fox just now: Biden efforts to hire women, minorities, LGBT+ etc for top administration roles makes him just like Hitler.
(she actually said this on live television not 10 minutes ago) pic.twitter.com/XSFGrz4GGU— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) February 25, 2023
re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I find this remarkably quieting in the wee hours of the morn:
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Reminds us that you don’t need words to be stirring.
I recall that from listening to Milton Nascimento, a Brazilian vocalist playing on a Wayne Shorter LP. Could not understand the words at all, but there was such longing in them I was nearly moved to tears in several places.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Favorite movie trope:
Bad guys get shot once and fall over dead without bleeding
Good guy gets hit 14 times, takes 20 minutes to die only after giving stirring speech and professing his undying love for mother/wife/girlfriend/country.
And if the movie studio approves a sequel, miraculously survive and are ready to go another round in as little as a few days. Or they’re so badass that they walk into the next film still dripping blood and favoring their wounded body parts, but snap back in time to start icing even more bad guys. Ex: John Wick.
You think you’ve seen the craziest of Russia propaganda yet? You think there’s no way they can sound crazier at this point? Well, are you sitting comfortably? Good, let’s begin:
Surprise! The Russians are actually brilliant for not capturing Kyiv in 3 days. Turns out annexing and controlling all of Ukraine would have cost a fortune and Russia’s economy is SAVING a TON of MONEY by losing this war. Checkmate NATO! pic.twitter.com/MNZBoBPkjC
— Jake Broe (@broe_jake) February 28, 2023
re: #134 Targetpractice
Surprise! The Russians are actually brilliant for not capturing Kyiv in 3 days. Turns out annexing and controlling all of Ukraine would have cost a fortune and Russia’s economy is SAVING a TON of MONEY by losing this war. Checkmate NATO!
Beau of the Internet made the point that the capture of Iraq cost the US fewer than 200 lives, but the ensuing occupation cost thousands.
And yes, even if Russia were to defeat the Ukrainian Army and topple the government, that does not mean that resistance would end there.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Beau of the Internet made the point that the capture of Iraq cost the US fewer than 200 lives, but the ensuing occupation cost thousands.
And yes, even if Russia were to defeat the Ukrainian Army and topple the government, that does not mean that resistance would end there.
If the Russians had achieved their original strategic goal of taking Kyiv and decapitating the civilian government in less than a week, then the following occupation would have been contentious but otherwise far easier. Yes, there would be a lot of very bitter Ukrainians, but most of the bitterness would be aimed at Zelensky and his supporters for getting them in such a position in the first place. The number of troops that Russia would have had to leave for occupational duty would have been far fewer and the puppet government would have quickly been put to the task of forging loyalist units into a workable army to speed up the process.
Now? Now the Russian Army would struggle to maintain a large enough force over the whole of Ukraine to do more than provide targets of convenience for the resulting resistance movement. Even if Putin got his wildest wish and Zelensky were killed, he would quickly become a martyr whose cause would further ignite demands for Russia to leave. And reprisal attacks on civilians, which is how Russia prefers to deal with rebels, would only further the desire to see every Russian soldier in Ukraine’s borders strung up by their scrotum.
The only way Russia could save money now is if they quit the field, they pulled out of all the occupied territories, and they negotiated an immediate cessation of hostilities in exchange for not having to pay any restitution.
Really pleased in getting the birbie. Had another .4 of an inch of rain yesterday, pushing us past 5 for the month and 10.35 for the year. Enjoy the final day of February!
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re: #136 Targetpractice
The only way Russia could save money now is if they quit the field, they pulled out of all the occupied territories, and they negotiated an immediate cessation of hostilities in exchange for not having to pay any restitution.
I really thought that they would simply paralyze power, communication and transportation and have the Ukraine rolled up within 72 hours, with only mopping-up operations to follow.
They are now totally screwed.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really thought that they would simply paralyze power, communication and transportation and have the Ukraine rolled up within 72 hours, with only mopping-up operations to follow.
They are now totally screwed.
When the war finally ends and a serious accounting of what happened begins, I think we’re going to learn that that was simply never within Russia’s capabilities. That critical gear, infrastructure, and training were never there to execute such a lightning strike. And that trying to achieve it did more harm to any objectives Russia started the war with than if they’d just settled for “securing” the disputed territories and forcing Zelensky to accept their annexation as a fact.
re: #139 Targetpractice
When the war finally ends and a serious accounting of what happened begins, I think we’re going to learn that that was simply never within Russia’s capabilities.
Or rather that Putin was deluded into believing it existed but most of the funding for it simply wound up lining the pockets of corrupt generals and ministers.
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or rather that Putin was deluded into believing it existed but most of the funding for it simply wound up lining the pockets of corrupt generals and ministers.
Potayto, potahto. Putin could have bloodied Zelensky’s nose and humiliated the West such that it would have begun to question the necessity of NATO by simply rolling into the Donbas and staking his claim. Rolling a massive fuck-off force to the declared lines and daring anybody to move them might not have been as flashy as sacking Kyiv, but the immediate goal of further splitting the West and weakening US influence would have been achieved. Instead of being hailed as a hero a year later, Zelensky would be see as a joke for allowing Putin to just walk in and take land-areas larger than many European countries without a fight. And trying to argue his case in the international court of public opinion would only burn political capital that Biden couldn’t afford to lose in the lead-up to the midterms.
re: #141 Targetpractice
Potayto, potahto. Putin could have bloodied Zelensky’s nose and humiliated the West such that it would have begun to question the necessity of NATO by simply rolling into the Donbas and staking his claim.
Yes, then he came out with his speech claiming that Ukraine has no historical right to exist as an independent, sovereign state. That tells us a lot about his long-term ambitions.
re: #68 DodgerFan1988
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“people like me who simply have different political views.”
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re: #143 Dangerman
I think I see your problem
“people like me who simply have different political views.”
What you think are legitimate political views
Again, one of the big triumphs of the Right has been to get blatant racism and fascism back onto the spectrum of “acceptable political views worthy of discussion”.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, then he came out with his speech claiming that Ukraine has no historical right to exist as an independent, sovereign state. That tells us a lot about his long-term ambitions.
Right, he basically shat the bed before the war officially began by making clear he felt Ukraine had no right to exist. But really, I don’t think anybody doubted on Feb 23rd that if Russia wanted Kyiv that they could take it. Hell, if he’d settled for just taking a third of the country overnight, his puppets in the West would have portrayed him as “merciful” and argued that he could still be bargained with. Certainly his customers in the EU would have been more open to settling for perfunctory sanctions that amounted to a sliver of Russia’s GDP if the energy exports kept flowing.
re: #145 Targetpractice
I think that Putin also underestimated the West’s reaction and was let down by the winter: had it been a hard, cold winter, the EU might have started to buckle.
As it was, I recall nothing colder than the low 20’s in Germany and most of the time it was well above freezing, positively balmy on some days. Today is cold and sunny, need to drag myself outside for a brisk walk.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As of 2020 a quarter of Germany’s domestic and commercial (offices, workplaces) heating was provided by oil and kerosene, sourced cheaply from guess where? (Source: IEA). A chunk of their electricity generating capacity is gas-fired but they had legislated the decommissioning the last of their nuclear power plants by the end of 2022. Luckily for Germany they still have a few billion tonnes of combustible dirt they can rely on to keep the lights on.
re: #147 Nojay UK
and they now have tons of incentive to further develop renewables and increase efficiency.
I really think that every new house should have at least passive solar: our neighbors simply have black rubber panels with pipes running through them connected to a pump. They can feed that into their washing machine for example whenever the sun is shining.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think that Putin also underestimated the West’s reaction and was let down by the winter: had it been a hard, cold winter, the EU might have started to buckle.
As it was, I recall nothing colder than the low 20’s in Germany and most of the time it was well above freezing, positively balmy on some days.
Yeah, I think the mild winter has also helped US exports of LNG to compensate for the lost RU exports. Was listening to a podcast earlier and one of the points was that if Putin’s desire was to further weaken Western unity and make the EU more dependent upon his generosity, then he has massively miscalculated to Russia’s detriment. Yeah, Beijing will happily take it off his hands, but nowhere near the price that he could charge the EU.
re: #80 Captain Ron
I was thinking in the Atlanta area.
oh boy, I can see that now: (six flags screaming impotently with rage): “We’ve still got the log ride, you fuckers!!”
P4 Stockholm has sought contact with Kommsyn, who is responsible for the mailing.https://t.co/1pCiNL5xt3
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) February 28, 2023
Here is a friend of mine & his rendition of CCR’s Green River, this is 13 years old, but Steve’s been rocking since the early 80’s.
I used to DJ in between sets of the band he was in at the time, “Wedgwood”, named after Michael Wedgwood, bass player for Caravan which was an early Euro prog rock band.
Nothing worse than a wedgie when you have wood
re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany has been developing its renewables capacity for the past decade or more, spending more than a trillion Euros on wind turbines, solar PV capacity and garbage-burning waste power stations. It was, at the same time, working with Gazprom to get the Nord Stream 2 pipeline working to deliver another 55 billion cubic metres of Siberian natural gas each year to keep the lights on and provide domestic heating energy. Part of that expected increase in gas consumption was due to the planned shutdown of its remaining nuclear reactors while at the same time ripping up even more of the German countryside to get at new sources of combustible dirt. Things have changed and now they have built new LNG-tanker handling and processing jetties at a couple of ports rather than accelerate their construction of “renewables” installations.
re: #152 Thanos
Here is a friend of mine & his rendition of CCR’s Green River, this is 13 years old, but Steve’s been rocking since the early 80’s.
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I used to DJ in between sets of the band he was in at the time, “Wedgwood”, named after Michael Wedgwood, bass player for Caravan which was an early Euro prog rock band.
This is the bass player from the band, Michael Wedgwood, still rocking in Denmark. 
re: #139 Targetpractice
When the war finally ends and a serious accounting of what happened begins, I think we’re going to learn that that was simply never within Russia’s capabilities. That critical gear, infrastructure, and training were never there to execute such a lightning strike. And that trying to achieve it did more harm to any objectives Russia started the war with than if they’d just settled for “securing” the disputed territories and forcing Zelensky to accept their annexation as a fact.
can’t remember which book on Leningrad it’s in, but apparently the German army showed up outside the city with tickets already printed with the idea that they would liquidate the civilian population, and with typical efficiency, they would do so by simply gathering the liquidated up and sending them by train to rear lines for the liquidation. In many ways, the Nazis were like the Mob, making people dig their own graves before being planted there. The reason Leningrad didn’t fall, as I recall, is because factory workers were handed rifles, and they provided just enough resistance to where the initial elite Panzerkorps wasn’t sure what they were up against, and they hesitated long enough for the Russians to generate a true defense of the city. It’s really sad, because if the Russians had just learned to milk their WWII history, the world would love an honor them as heroes who helped defeat fascism. Instead they milk their history for all the wrong reasons and come off looking like an Arizona Republican who’s lost an election soundly but won’t admit it.
‘Hoping Trump’s going to have a heart attack’ is his rivals’ only strategy: GOP insiderhttps://t.co/Pfjw4X1x1g
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 28, 2023
Yeah, pretty much. The only viable strategy when the other guy is getting nearly 50% of the party voters before the primaries have really started is hoping he drops dead.
Damn, fellas. This is version of @elonmusk is looking more and more accurate every day. #NAFOArticle5 https://t.co/UNikfAdiwC
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) February 28, 2023
Here’s the straight stuff on the antitank Vespa that was posted a while back.
The Vespa 150 TAP was an anti-tank scooter made in the 1950s from a Vespa scooter for use with French paratroops (troupes aéroportées, TAP). Introduced in 1956 and updated in 1959, the scooter was produced by Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et Automobiles (ACMA), the licensed assembler of Vespas in France at the time. Modifications from the civilian Vespa included a reinforced frame and a 75 mm (3.0 in) recoilless rifle mounted to the scooter.
The 150 TAPs mounted a M20 75 mm recoilless rifle, a U.S.-made light anti-armour weapon. It was very light in comparison to a standard 75 mm cannon but was still able to penetrate 100 mm of armour with its HEAT warhead. The recoil was counteracted by venting propellant gases out the rear of the weapon which eliminated the need for a mechanical recoil system or heavy mount.
The scooters would be parachute-dropped in pairs, accompanied by a two-man team. The gun was carried on one scooter, while the ammunition was loaded on the other. Due to the lack of any kind of aiming devices the recoilless rifle was never designed to be fired from the scooter; the gun was mounted on a M1917 Browning machine gun tripod, which was also carried by the scooter, before being fired. However, in an emergency it could be fired while in the frame, and while the scooter was moving.
re: #159 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
If a Toyota truck with a machine gun is a “Technical”, what would we call this anti-tank Vesper?
re: #160 Rightwingconspirator
If a Toyota truck with a machine gun is a “Technical”, what would we call this anti-tank Vesper?
Suicide.
re: #22 Patricia Kayden
Not even centrists.
Statists. They want the status quo, and will stop at nothing to disrupt anything that might affect their current lifestyle choices.
Fuck that. The Times is actively aiding and abetting undermining public health. They’re ignoring actual science and don’t care that most of the underlying studies involved have fuck all to do with covid, and that when you look at the covid-specific studies, they show that masking was helpful.
It’s same with all the noise about how the DOE found lab leak was plausible. Except that the DOE had low confidence in that finding.
In other words, there’s nothing new to support or reject what we’ve already considered to be a low chance of having happened. It also doesn’t address the fact that Trump completely fucked up the response to covid, and if Trump and GOP want to treat it as an escaped bioweapon, they made sure that it hit as many Americans as possible, maximizing the body count, the death toll, and economic harms - all while claiming that the economy was going great (it collapsed like nothing seen since the Great Depression).
re: #69 jaunte
She can flop around forever but she’ll never reach willowy.
She thinks she’s a Viking EuroMaiden out to save the white dominance. No willowy involved.
re: #139 Targetpractice
When the war finally ends and a serious accounting of what happened begins, I think we’re going to learn that that was simply never within Russia’s capabilities. That critical gear, infrastructure, and training were never there to execute such a lightning strike. And that trying to achieve it did more harm to any objectives Russia started the war with than if they’d just settled for “securing” the disputed territories and forcing Zelensky to accept their annexation as a fact.
I think we’ve known for a while that Russia’s logistics has sucked. It sucked before their 2014 invasion of Ukraine, and it sucked before they again invaded last year. Biden tipped the world off that Russia was massing troops, and had given everyone enough advance time to get defenses in place, and once Russian forces entered Ukraine, it turned into a stalemate from the get-go. Putin badly miscalculated at every step of the way, and he continues to do so because he had no exit strategy other than liquidating Ukraine and millions dead.
Russian tactical doctrine likewise fails because they revert to overwhelming firepower to just level cities, and when you do that to an entrenched enemy, it doesn’t demoralize - it energizes them because they’re fighting to defend their homes and very lives.
Logistics serves the tactical, and we quickly saw that Russian troops were flailing about without gear and arms to fight a sustained conflict, and where any disruption of the Russian logistics could disrupt fielding forces for weeks and months. That’s precisely what happened when Russian rail lines were sabotaged or failed from heavy use, where palletized cargo is nonexistent, and requires more effort to get equipment to the front lines.
A parallel would be the Nazis’ Ardennes campaign, where they thought they could win by encircling Allied forces and thought they could get the fuel supplies in the process to sustain the campaign back into France. Nazis failed, and reinforced Allied forces broke the encirclement. Ukrainian forces have repeatedly held the line and even counterattacked in places to push back the larger Russian forces.
IMO, the US and NATO should provide Ukraine with longer range weapons, designed to hit the more distant airbases and logistical hubs where Russia rallies their forces - to whittle down the numbers. This is a grinding battle at this point, and we’re doing just enough to keep Russia at bay. That’s insufficient IMO.
re: #156 steve_davis
… It’s really sad, because if the Russians had just learned to milk their WWII history, the world would love an honor them as heroes who helped defeat fascism. Instead they milk their history for all the wrong reasons and come off looking like an Arizona Republican who’s lost an election soundly but won’t admit it.
Send in the Cyber Nizhny-Novgorodskis to check the ballots for traces of bamboo!!!
re: #157 Targetpractice
Hoping Trump’s going to have a heart attack’ is his rivals’ only strategy: GOP insider
Anyone running for GOP nomination is either positioning themselves for 2028, or hoping for a VP nod or Cabinet position
Drudge headline: murderers have 50% chance of getting away with the crime.
Reality: cops have historically been awful at closing homicide cases. Before DNA, before Miranda, etc., they were not only awful at closing cases, but often put the wrong people behind bars - especially persons of color.
As much as law and order types love to claim that more cops and more security tapes/close circuit/ drones, etc, deters or catches those involved in crime, the reality is that cops still need to catch those involved, and they’re still pretty awful at it.
Closure rate for homicides is actually higher than most other kinds of crimes, especially sex assaults and things like car theft.
“There are three times as many black people in jail per capita than white people!”
This is statistic is often presented indicate that the crime rate for blacks is three times higher than for whites..
When it simply means that blacks are three times as likely to be arrested and convicted.
BREAKING: Rupert Murdoch and Fox colluded with Jared Kushner and the Trump campaign and provided Kushner with access to “Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads, along with debate strategy” and gave Kushner a preview of Biden’s ads before they were public. pic.twitter.com/RkB3WZyhtS
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) February 27, 2023
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“There are three times as many black people in jail per capita than white people!”
This is statistic is often presented indicate that the crime rate for blacks is three times higher than for whites..
When it simply means that blacks are three times as likely to be arrested and convicted.
When the inputs are that blacks are disproportionately stopped, arrested, charged, and prosecuted for crimes, the arrests/convictions follow.
Blacks aren’t more likely to speed or have drugs in their possession than whites, as we know from the LEO own stats - they repeatedly find that blacks stopped on suspicion of drugs have no higher possession rate than whites, but blacks are stopped far more frequently due to profiling and institutionalized racism.
On the weather front - after having had less than 4 inches all winter (2022-2023) and most snows this year being the trace variety, we finally had a durable snow. We doubled our snow total for the winter - nearly 5 inches here.
That’s far below the usual averages for this time of year (or season). It’s just been too warm, and most of the precip has fallen as rain, not snow.
re: #172 lawhawk
We had freezing rain yesterday that made things pretty treacherous. The afternoon was warm enough that I was able to hack the ice off the sidewalk, and now it’s going to snow again tonight into tomorrow. We sorely need it; last fall was so dry, it is possible we may still not have had enough precipitation to be ready for spring.
re: #55 jaunte
So what would have happened if those blowhards had run into migrants? Were they going to throw them back over the border? Threaten to shoot them? What exactly? It’s all a show for Republicans. They cannot govern.
re: #175 jeffreyw
If a Nazi or mansplainer doesn’t beat them to it.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I thought conservative Christians were at least supposed to pretend they were against extreme moral relativism as an ethical principle. I stand corrected.
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) February 28, 2023
re: #178 gocart mozart
Slavery was common practice. Not all slaveowners beat or raped their slaves. Not all slaveowners broke up families by selling off husbands, wives and children.
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Slavery was common practice. Not all slaveowners beat or raped their slaves. Not all slaveowners broke up families by selling off husbands, wives and children.
Then, as now, there were assholes who delighted in the suffering of others. The difference is, nowadays, they are considered legitimately mainstream, as opposed to extremists.
re: #167 lawhawk
Drudge headline: murderers have 50% chance of getting away with the crime.
Reality: cops have historically been awful at closing homicide cases. Before DNA, before Miranda, etc., they were not only awful at closing cases, but often put the wrong people behind bars - especially persons of color.
As much as law and order types love to claim that more cops and more security tapes/close circuit/ drones, etc, deters or catches those involved in crime, the reality is that cops still need to catch those involved, and they’re still pretty awful at it.
Closure rate for homicides is actually higher than most other kinds of crimes, especially sex assaults and things like car theft.
I’m told one of the powerful reasons for not talking to cops when arrested is because without someone’s actual confession, your chances of skating go up exponentially due to often shitty police work.
re: #178 gocart mozart
These idiots do know there are literally millions of slaves on this planet RIGHT NOW, don’t they?
re: #183 Eclectic Cyborg
These idiots do know there are literally millions of slaves on this planet RIGHT NOW, don’t they?
According to the white base of the GOP they are enslaved by Gawdless liberals.
re: #81 Joe Bacon
And I would not be surprised if Il Duce gets a grifter like Ken Ham of the Ark Park to take over and turn Disney World into Jesus Land.
That would draw less than 1% of Disney’s visitors.
Finally Rasmussen did something constructive.
Their rigged poll destroyed SKKKott Adams career.
Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” cartoon strip which has been yanked from newspapers across the country due to his racist comments, has only himself to blame for his troubles because he relied on a highly dubious poll when he attacked Black Americans.
That is the opinion of Slate analyst Aymann Ismel who pointed out the Rasmussen poll that the controversial cartoonist used in his diatribe can, at best, be viewed as an attempt to troll non-conservatives. Instead it appears to have ended Adams’ career.
Adams quickly lost his syndication deal and watched as newspapers lined up to pull his strip after posting a video where he claimed, “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people—according to this poll, not according to me, that’s a hate group,” before advising his fans to “get the hell away from Black people.”
According to Ismel, “I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is that Scott finally filleted his reputation in full over a trolly Rasmussen poll. If you’re not familiar, Rasmussen is a right-leaning pollster that produces semi-mainstream polls but is noted for its murky methods and what the New York Times has called ‘dubious sampling and weighting techniques.’”
“Rasmussen said 13 percent of poll respondents were Black, so about 130 people. If we take the results entirely at face value—which I’d discourage—that means it found about 34 Black people who answered ‘disagree’ or ‘strongly disagree’ with the statement ‘It’s OK to be white.’ We have no more information about why. (Adams got to his figure by also including Black respondents who answered ‘not sure.’)”
Russian propaganda channels having a normal one.
⚠️CW/TW: N💣⚠️
Russian propaganda channels having a normal one pic.twitter.com/MdbdGLXnP3
— Mira of Kyiv (@reshetz) February 28, 2023
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The defenders of Free Enterprise seem to be very much into interfering in what a privately owned company produces. I wish they would pay as much attention to toxic chemicals and dangerous foodstuff as they do to possible transgender content.
DeSantis is a fascist wannabe asshole. With that said, Disney’s sweetheart deal is anti-competative, and puts other business in the area, like Universal, at disadvantage.
Cartoonists across the country are applauding editors and publishers for condemning Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, after his recent tirade against Black Americans.“I’m proud and happy to see publishers, magazines, and newspapers are dropping him because there should be no tolerance for that kind of language,” said Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
“It’s a relief to see him held accountable,” she added.
Hundreds of newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, announced they will no longer carry Adams’ work. On Monday, Adams’ distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, said they are severing ties with the cartoonist because the company does not support “any commentary rooted in discrimination or hate.”
The Penguin Random House imprint, Portfolio, also will no longer publish Adams’ upcoming book, Reframe Your Brain, which was set to release in September, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The fallout was sparked by a YouTube livestream posted Feb. 22, where Adams referenced a Rasmussen poll that found only a slim majority of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s okay to be white.” Adams went on to accuse Black Americans of being “a hate group” and advised white people to “get the hell away” from them.
But cartoonists say Adams has a long history of spewing problematic views. In the past, Adams has inaccurately described people who are not vaccinated against COVID as the real “winners” of the pandemic. He also questioned the accuracy of the Holocaust death toll. Another of Adams’ claims is that he had lost multiple job opportunities for “being white.”
Cartoonists say a rebuke of ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams is long overdue (NPR)
re: #185 JC1
That would draw less than 1% of Disney’s visitors.
Doesn’t matter as long as it is tax subsidized. They can make it a mandatory destination for all Florida school field trips.
re: #186 Joe Bacon
Finally Rasmussen did something constructive.
“Rasmussen said 13 percent of poll respondents were Black, so about 130 people. If we take the results entirely at face value—which I’d discourage—that means it found about 34 Black people who answered ‘disagree’ or ‘strongly disagree’ with the statement ‘It’s OK to be white.’ We have no more information about why. (Adams got to his figure by also including Black respondents who answered ‘not sure.’)”
Scott Adams is a reason that many think it is not okay to be white.
But seriously. What the fuck kind of poll is this and what is that statement even supposed mean?
That there is something inherently wrong with belonging to a certain race?
Well, this sucks as I love Bai drinks. Looks like erythritol isn’t all that safe after all. Granted, from my understanding, the amount you need is very high, but given my history I’m not taking any chances. Sigh.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Scott Adams is a reason that many think it is not okay to be white.
But seriously. What the fuck kind of poll is this and what is that statement even supposed mean?
That there is something inherently wrong with belonging to a certain race?
“It’s OK to be white” is a racist campaign slogan put on by the trolls at 4chan. The whole purpose was to put up signs with this seemingly innocuous statement, and then when people pulled them down, accuse them of being racist against white people. This garbage poll is attempting to do the same thing: Frame Black people as being racist against whites, by claiming that they don’t think it’s OK to be white. Scott Adams took this and ran it to its logical conclusion.
re: #195 Dopamine Fish
“It’s OK to be white” is a racist campaign slogan put on by the trolls at 4chan. The whole purpose was to put up signs with this seemingly innocuous statement, and then when people pulled them down, accuse them of being racist against white people. This garbage poll is attempting to do the same thing: Frame Black people as being racist against whites, by claiming that they don’t think it’s OK to be white. Scott Adams took this and ran it to its logical conclusion.
Like “White/Blue Lives Matter”?
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like “White/Blue Lives Matter”?
Or “All Lives Matter,” the version I’ve heard most often, yes.
Truth is, it’s not OK to be white, in the specific sense that it’s not OK to demand to receive special treatment because “that’s the way it’s always been.” The fact that white people have historically been in control of the levers of power, and have received preferential treatment at every turn, does not mean that it’s OK for that to continue. It’s OK to have white skin, it’s not OK to be a stereotypical white person.
re: #197 Dopamine Fish
Or “All Lives Matter,” the version I’ve heard most often, yes.
all just race baiting and dogwhistling
Odds on Scott Adams becoming a Fox News contributor before the week is out?
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
Odds on Scott Adams becoming a Fox News contributor before the week is out?
I’m surprised they haven’t already announced a deal. My money is on him going full Jon McNaughton or whoever that one Trump-humping cartoonist is.
re: #77 darthstar
I’d like them to move to a blue state — not Alabama which is as hateful as Florida.
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
Odds on Scott Adams becoming a Fox News contributor before the week is out?
Only a matter of time before Scott goes on the Stewpid Peters show and he wears the bedsheets and hood.
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Slavery was common practice. Not all slaveowners beat or raped their slaves. Not all slaveowners broke up families by selling off husbands, wives and children.
The serfs of Europe were never chattel. Their legal status was attachments to the land.
Their day-to-day lives were much like American plantation slavery, except that families didn’t get broken up and sold away. If the landowner killed or disabled too many of them, he couldn’t just go to the market and buy more. He couldn’t acquire new territory and move them there.
Sad news chez nous:
*Sigh* (w/ tears)
We’ve lost another one: we had to send our surviving senior cat, Edina Over the Bridge yesterday. She had turned twelve in December, and had seemed more-or-less OK for a Senior Cat: but in January, she suddenly declined: the vet found intestinal issues which we treated with some steroids, which seemed to have worked. However, last Friday, we noticed her absenting herself, and peeing on the floor - colorless and odorless, a sure sign of kidney failure: which the vet confirmed.
RIP Edina Rose (12/23/10 - 2/27/23).
Heartbroken.
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Yes! (Pumps fist)
re: #186 Joe Bacon
Even if millions of Blacks had responded to that question the way Adams said they did, that would not justify his claim that we are a hate group. He has always been racist (among other bigotries). I wonder why he still has a Youtube channel.
re: #205 Jay C
She was a beauty. So sorry for your loss.
re: #205 Jay C
Sorry, man. I know it sucks.
re: #201 Dopamine Fish
I’m surprised they haven’t already announced a deal. My money is on him going full Jon McNaughton or whoever that one Trump-humping cartoonist is.
Ben Garrison.
Oh, I expect Adams to go Garrison quite soon.
re: #205 Jay C
Sad news chez nous:
RIP Edina Rose (12/23/10 - 2/27/23).
Heartbroken.
She was quite glamorous indeed, Very sorry for your loss.
re: #204 sagehen
The serfs of Europe were never chattel. Their legal status was attachments to the land.
Their day-to-day lives were much like American plantation slavery, except that families didn’t get broken up and sold away. If the landowner killed or disabled too many of them, he couldn’t just go to the market and buy more. He couldn’t acquire new territory and move them there.
Wage slaves have it worse than most serfs. At least the serfs are guaranteed a place to live.
Germany has a term for that class of people who live from paycheck to paycheck, the Prekariat
re: #205 Jay C
So sorry to hear, Jay. Such a pretty kitty.
re: #197 Dopamine Fish
Or “All Lives Matter,” the version I’ve heard most often, yes.
But Blue Lives Only Matter if they’re oppressing non-whites. Because if they are enforcing laws on white folk (1/6 forex) then they’re race traitors who deserve to die too.
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Meanwhile back at the CPAC Soap Opera
CPAC founder Matt Schlapp’s fall from grace appears to be accelerating as employees of the organization he heads are coming forward with complaints about a “toxic” culture he has fostered that’s leading to an “exodus” of staffers. That was happening even before he was accused of sexually assaulting a campaign worker in Georgia.
As the annual CPAC confab prepares to get underway in Maryland, with a multitude of high-profile Republicans avoiding it this year, there is a cloud over its founder who has been pushing back at his accuser, a male staffer on Herschel Walker’s failed U.S. Senate campaign who accused the influential conservative of groping him while he served as his driver.
re: #218 Joe Bacon
Meanwhile back at the CPAC Soap Opera
Schlapp is the German word for “limp”, as in a Schlappschwanz (limp dick) or simply a Schlappe in the sense of a washout, a total failure.
re: #170 Dangerman
BREAKING: Rupert Murdoch and Fox colluded with Jared Kushner and the Trump campaign and provided Kushner with access to “Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads, along with debate strategy”
I saw this story. I suppose Murdoch could have access to “confidential information about Biden’s ads” through ad buys on Fox, but how would he have access to “debate strategy”?
re: #167 lawhawk
Closure rate for homicides is actually higher than most other kinds of crimes, especially sex assaults and things like car theft.
re: #218 Joe Bacon
So it’s cool if CPAC creates a hostile environment for liberals, transgender people, POCs, etc. who aren’t part of the group but not so cool when the hostile work environment hits CPAC members. Cool. Cool.
Hoping for a complete collapse.
re: #224 Patricia Kayden
So it’s cool if CPAC creates a hostile environment for liberals, transgender people, POCs, etc. who aren’t part of the group but not so cool when the hostile work environment hits CPAC members. Cool. Cool.
Hoping for a complete collapse.
This is the issue with modern Conservatism: they don’t know when to stop being overbearing, aggressive assholes. Because they enjoy it so much just for the braggadocio, aggression and general toxicity of it all.
re: #224 Patricia Kayden
They’ll just boot Schlapp, slap a new coat of paint on it (Freedom Conference, Patriots Conference, etc.) and keep on keeping on.
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
They’ll just boot Schlapp, slap a new coat of paint on it (Freedom Conference, Patriots Conference, etc.) and keep on keeping on.
of course, but the (ass) cracks are really showing
re: #224 Patricia Kayden
So it’s cool if CPAC creates a hostile environment for liberals, transgender people, POCs, etc. who aren’t part of the group but not so cool when the hostile work environment hits CPAC members. Cool. Cool.
Hoping for a complete collapse.
Just remember when it comes to Conservative Perverts Are Creepy, er, CPAC…
And there’s one place where all terrorists belong! A four letter word that begins with…J…
This is Tuna. You have once again taken him to the vet instead of the park. Fool him once, shame on you. Fool him twice, even more shame on you. 12/10 pic.twitter.com/sJaaNjj82u
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) February 27, 2023
re: #228 Joe Bacon
Just remember when it comes to Conservative Perverts Are Creepy, er, CPAC…
“We’re all domestic terrorists!” is right up there with “If you’re all going to call me a racist (for holding and expressing my racist views), then yeah, I’m a racist!”
And now they have added terrorism to white supremacy, theocracy, secessionism and fascism as things that are considered part of the spectrum of “acceptable political positions”.
The GQP Nazis are so desperate to pwn the libz, they are now citing Chinese propaganda as “fact”:
Matt Gaetz busted for pushing China’s ‘propaganda’ at Armed Services hearing https://t.co/llNITzlFQy
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 28, 2023
Bad news for T Mobile customers — hackers able to use T-Mobile employee tools to spoof sims, data breaches and worse.
I recommend you change T Mobile website passwords at minimum if you use them.
Raskin: Trump on more than 20 different occasions defended the performance of the Chinese government in terms of COVID.. so if there is a problem with the Chinese government unleashing the virus.. you would have to pin that on your favorite President Donald Trump not Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/S2d0jflOeq
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 28, 2023
American corporations don’t give a shit about the people who work for them, part #1583:
Over 100 quality assurance testers at Electronic Arts’ Baton Rouge, LA office were abruptly laid off during a surprise Zoom call on Tuesday, three sources familiar with the meeting tell Kotaku. They worked predominantly on Apex Legends, the publisher’s hit battle royale developed by Respawn Entertainment.
QA testers, who were all on contractors, were invited to an unscheduled mandatory Zoom meeting at 8 a.m. CT today, and encouraged to join from their personal smartphone or computer. According to three sources, who wished to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to press, management at the Baton Rouge studio laid off the entire testing staff.
This news apparently came as a shock not only to those let go, but also full-time supervisors who were not told in advance or given time to prepare. Those impacted were apparently allowed to collect personal belongings from the office only under the supervision of security. They will be provided 60 days severance, though that won’t cover the length of many people’s contracts, sources said.
While the Baton Rouge office previously provided QA support for many different EA-published games, in recent years it had come to focus primarily on Apex Legends following its debut in 2019. Some current and former testers there worry this abrupt shift in operations could impact the quality of testing in the near future, given the experience and training the Baton Rouge team had built up over the last several years.
re: #233 Joe Bacon
I love the receipts:
Trump praising Xi and predicting “it will all work out well.” pic.twitter.com/Fvx2fMxD9X
— ⭐️ Merrily awaiting ⭐️ (@MerrillLynched) February 28, 2023
re: #232 Thanos
Bad news for T Mobile customers — hackers able to use T-Mobile employee tools to spoof sims, data breaches and worse.
I recommend you change T Mobile website passwords at minimum if you use them.
Changed. ( I do home internet through them. Good service.)
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
American corporations don’t give a shit about the people who work for them, part #1583:
EA’s continued existence is grounds for piracy.
re: #232 Thanos
Bad news for T Mobile customers — hackers able to use T-Mobile employee tools to spoof sims, data breaches and worse.
I recommend you change T Mobile website passwords at minimum if you use them.
Working from home, my mobile data use is low, and Tracfones have gotten good enough to do everything a smart phone needs to do, so I left T Mobile once I realized that I would not be returning to the office any time soon.
re: #237 William Lewis
EA’s continued existence is grounds for piracy.
I don’t think that’s true, but there are reasons not to buy games from EA. Cutting testers is just one more reason.
Justice is a dish best served cold, if it were served warm it would be justwater.
🚨🚨Texas Republicans just introduced a new bill to block WEBSITES and make it even HARDER for women to access reproductive health care — after they already passed one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. https://t.co/ry3PKAH2r5
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) February 28, 2023
re: #198 Dopamine Fish
Truth is, it’s not OK to be white, in the specific sense that it’s not OK to demand to receive special treatment because “that’s the way it’s always been.” The fact that white people have historically been in control of the levers of power, and have received preferential treatment at every turn, does not mean that it’s OK for that to continue. It’s OK to have white skin, it’s not OK to be a stereotypical white person.
And how many of the “It’s OK to be white” disagree that “It’s OK to be black/brown/whatever group I want to rail about”.
Had a sociology class back in college and the instructor spent a bit of time on data collection, polling, etc. since it’s an important part of getting information. And they stressed quite a bit the need to seriously analyze the polling question for inherent bias and also having a sufficient and broad sample size to make a valid conclusion.
It essentially gave me a BS detector towards phone polls, internet polls, etc. Especially when the questions themselves pretty much declare that the polls goal is not analysis but finding “statistics” that will support a goal already decided upon.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
VPNs to the rescue.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) calls out GOP hypocrisy when complaining about politicians pressuring media:
“Donald Trump, on numerous occasions, tried to get Twitter to take down people’s material he considered offensive. A famous actress called him a P-A-B … He didn’t like that.” pic.twitter.com/m7wIw4vShL— The Recount (@therecount) February 28, 2023
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
Substitute Texas Republicans for authoritarian regimes and see how that sounds. Republicans are fascists — pure and simple. We ignore this at our peril.
re: #237 William Lewis
EA’s continued existence is grounds for piracy.
Tell me about it. That’s why I quit doing game coding because of all the times they stiffed me with “work for hire” and then outsourcing.
re: #245 Patricia Kayden
Substitute Texas Republicans for authoritarian regimes and see how that sounds. Republicans are fascists — pure and simple. We ignore this at our peril.
Yeah, this is the sort of shit that we call out China and Iran for all the time.
re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the issue with modern Conservatism: they don’t know when to stop being overbearing, aggressive assholes. Because they enjoy it so much just for the braggadocio, aggression and general toxicity of it all.
American conservatism sells its participants the notion they should be little kings.
Abuse of granted authority is inherent in the sales pitch.
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus
Well, this sucks as I love Bai drinks. Looks like erythritol isn’t all that safe after all. Granted, from my understanding, the amount you need is very high, but given my history I’m not taking any chances. Sigh.
Study has a lot of limitations, some of which they note. They don’t show causation. I would be extremely surprised if these findings hold for the simple reason that artificial sweeteners have been studied quite a bit in the past. Erythritol is a major filler/component in many popular artificial sweeteners.
re: #246 William Lewis
Well now, this could be one of the more interesting things Disney has done in a long time.
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Cue the chorus of complainers about “woke culture.”
(Note: An acquaintance of mine is revising the Peter Pan musical to fix the Native American/indigenous elements for a national tour; she, too, expects pushback, but this is the sort of thing that can be changed without affecting the main story).
re: #232 Thanos
Bad news for T Mobile customers — hackers able to use T-Mobile employee tools to spoof sims, data breaches and worse.
I recommend you change T Mobile website passwords at minimum if you use them.
Switch 2 factor authentication away from SMS regardless of the provider. Use an authenticator app instead. Or an email, if you must.
Republicans continue to make assholes of themselves part 1
Republicans continue to make assholes of themselves part 2
re: #251 JC1
Study has a lot of limitations, some of which they note. They don’t show causation. I would be extremely surprised if these findings hold for the simple reason that artificial sweeteners have been studied quite a bit in the past. Erythritol is a major filler/component in many popular artificial sweeteners.
True. But if you’re using them instead of sugar for purposes of things like diabetes than this study sort of pops right into the wheelhouse. Not a serious increase of risk, but even a moderate increase of risk is something to take into consideration.
re: #252 A Cranky One
The (illustrative) explanation kills me.
One more conservative denial of reality.
re: #240 jeffreyw
You are a bad, very bad person.
Here is another reason to not move to Florida:
Another ridiculous stunt from a party full of ridiculous performance artists. FL State Senator introduces bill to ban the Democratic Party since it was once for slavery 160+ years ago. https://t.co/LJdGYJ7Dz7
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 28, 2023
re: #254 JC1
Switch 2 factor authentication away from SMS regardless of the provider. Use an authenticator app instead. Or an email, if you must.
But wouldn’t I just be giving my passwords to whoever made the app?
re: #256 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
True. But if you’re using them instead of sugar for purposes of things like diabetes than this study sort of pops right into the wheelhouse. Not a serious increase of risk, but even a moderate increase of risk is something to take into consideration.
The study didn’t prove that erythritol caused the increase. It also didn’t compare the overall risk of using sugar vs erythritol. It’s one study vs 100s that didn’t find any issues. Meanwhile, we know that sugar use is bad for diabetics. We use erythritol quite a bit since my GF can’t stand the aftertaste from other artificial sweeteners; won’t be changing anything unless other studies replicate this and show causation.
re: #253 gwangung
Cue the chorus of complainers about “woke culture.”
(Note: An acquaintance of mine is revising the Peter Pan musical to fix the Native American/indigenous elements for a national tour; she, too, expects pushback, but this is the sort of thing that can be changed without affecting the main story).
I was wondering about that WRT to this version. Hard to tell much from the trailer.
re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg
But wouldn’t I just be giving my passwords to whoever made the app?
No. Authentication via an app does not involve your password.
re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg
But wouldn’t I just be giving my passwords to whoever made the app?
No. I don’t mean a password manager. I mean an app to generate the 6 number code every 30 seconds. With SMS, if someone is trying to hack you, and they know your phone number, they can (comparatively easily) get your SMS sent code. There are many attack vectors.
If you use MSFT’s authenticator app, for example, the attacker would have to compromise MSFT’s authenticator system, which is much harder to do than compromising SMS for a know user.
re: #265 JC1
No. I don’t mean a password manager. I mean an app to generate the 6 number code every 30 seconds. With SMS, if someone is trying to hack you, and they know your phone number, they can (comparatively easily) get your SMS sent code. There are many attack vectors.
If you use MSFT’s authenticator app, for example, the attacker would have to compromise MSFT’s authenticator system, which is much harder to do than compromising SMS for a know user.
If you don’t like microsoft, you can do Google authenticator, or use Apple’s built in vault with facial recognition.
re: #137 TarHellion
Really pleased in getting the birbie. Had another .4 of an inch of rain yesterday, pushing us past 5 for the month and 10.35 for the year. Enjoy the final day of February!
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re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
Here is another reason to not move to Florida:
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— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) February 28, 2023
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