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Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




a vital notice for cspam

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Watching Robert Altman's Secret Honor, there's a bunch of threads there just waiting to be pulled

John Doar as a Kennedy hatchet man
Murray Chotiner as a connection to Meyer Lansky and the rest of the mob
The Committee of 100 and the Bohemian Grove
The CIA's "54-12 Group"
the Shah of Iran was a pedo

The central thesis seems to be that Nixon was working at the direction of the Committee of 100 ever since he entered Congress, and that they'd been planning his political life ever since. He won with such a landslide in 1972 that the Committee ordered him to use that popular mandate to amend the Constitution to let him take a third term in 1976 so that he could keep the Vietnam War going well into 1980, including bringing back the draft, because the heroin trade coming out of South Vietnam was yielding billions for the Bohemian Grove and the Mob. He refused, so he had to leak the Watergate tapes to find a way out.

I don't know how much of this Altman had just written himself, but it does have a parallel with Tim Weiner's recent book laying out the case that Nixon was taken down by the CIA.

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Smoking cessation aid pharmaceutical.

weird, i started taking bupropion for mental health, but it’s also marketed a smoking cessation aid and it ended up doing both. I had no plans to quit smoking, but it made the cigarettes not do anything so I just kind of stopped without really any intention

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

inferis posted:

weird, i started taking bupropion for mental health, but it’s also marketed a smoking cessation aid and it ended up doing both. I had no plans to quit smoking, but it made the cigarettes not do anything so I just kind of stopped without really any intention

I smoked cigarettes on bupropion for like 7 years. Try smoking harder and you’ll find it’s possible to make it through

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Fun Shoe

Laterite posted:

What's that? A slight pinging sound, you say?

Scandal_(1989_film)

"Scandal is a 1989 British drama film, a fictionalised account of the Profumo affair that rocked the government of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. It stars Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler and John Hurt as Stephen Ward, personalities at the heart of the affair.
...
"Boyd and Thomas joined forces with Palace Pictures who invested nearly £200,000 by 1985; a further £184,319 of development funding was raised from Robert Maxwell.
...
The controversial nature of the story, as well as its sexual content, appealed to Bob and Harvey Weinstein's independent film company, Miramax.[5] The Weinsteins agreed to pay $2.35 million for the North American distribution rights.[4]"

:staredog:

just found and ordered a copy of this because lol. i will post a watch summary after it gets here and i watch it

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Fun Shoe

Tubgoat posted:

What the poo poo? What the gently caress is in Chantix, Ambien??

wellbutrin

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:

Shageletic posted:

Why would Assad have death camps. Why did Saddam gas the Kurds. It loving works. Assad won the war and we shouldnt be there but im grossed out by ppl trying to make him not look like the disgusting killer he is.

hell yeah this thread just got bappin


drat I was hoping this meant actual anime avs, at least you could potentially correlate those to active or inactive accounts

Dr. Killjoy has issued a correction as of 16:44 on Aug 5, 2020

lobotomy molo
May 7, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

u anime-loving sicko

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Dr. Killjoy posted:

hell yeah this thread just got bappin

i recently had someone try to convince me that china was gearing up for global war and was going to wipe out india for some reason

people are dumb and get caught up in 'good guys' vs 'bad guys' narratives

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Communist Thoughts posted:

The corps can just normalise and sell pedophilia

FTFY. Lol if you think this is new.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1291055733966962691?s=21

oh wow

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

did I miss the posts about the silicon valley VC guy setting up private teaching for his kids also being in Epstein's black book? lol

nishi koichi
Feb 16, 2007

everyone feels that way and gives up.
that's how they get away with it.

no it isn’t?

zyban = bupropion = wellbutrin
chantix = varenicline

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
Wellbutrin is also used a smoking cessation aid but yeah it's not Chantix.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Fun Shoe

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

no it isn’t?

zyban = bupropion = wellbutrin
chantix = varenicline

gaddamnit i hate being wrong on the internet

nut
Jul 30, 2019

Spergin Morlock posted:

gaddamnit i hate being wrong on the internet

at least ur not taking chantix

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

yeah that stuff sucks real bad :/

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

even the algorithms are pedophiles!

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
Someone on Reddit suggested starting an Epstein wiki.

You know, so people can use virtual red string to connect everything together.

Here’s the thing: There’s a .ping TLD. So one could, were they able to register it, host this wiki at https://crack.ping.








You’re welcome.

gregday
May 23, 2003

eschaton posted:

Someone on Reddit suggested starting an Epstein wiki.

You know, so people can use virtual red string to connect everything together.

Here’s the thing: There’s a .ping TLD. So one could, were they able to register it, host this wiki at https://crack.ping.








You’re welcome.

it's controlled by the company that makes Ping golf clubs

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Centrist Committee posted:

even the algorithms are pedophiles!

Microsoft's chat bot Tay died too soon, she'd be a Qultist by now

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U-7L1tmBAo&t=1s

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


blackstone is going to buy ancestry.com and i have to assume they are going to be up to some sinister poo poo with all that DNA

snoo
Jul 5, 2007




this is probably a better place for this article

https://twitter.com/MkUltrawoke1917/status/1280945102190510081

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

I was trying to find info about the First Reddit Meetup day, because I remember a post in here about how a US military base had one of the biggest events in the first few years.

Came across this promoted interview on the Reddit blog in 2011 lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEiJ24FfKzg
http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/rep-anthony-weiner-answers-your-top.html

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

2011 was a different time

http://redditblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/pimping-and-other-ways-to-find-new.html

quote:

Pimping and Other Ways to Find New reddits
Posted by Erik Martin (hueypriest) at 05:35 |
Labels: a new reddit is born, pimp my office
One of the secrets of reddit's success is that anyone is allowed to create any new reddit they can imagine. This allows for redditors to dream up ways to use the reddit platform that we at reddit could have never imagined. When the first (sub)reddit(/r/programming) was created, no one would have predicted that a few years later there would be reddits for IAMAs, Weird Bug Identification, First World Problems, Imaginary Monsters, Lady Boners (Mostly SFW), Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Space Porn (SFW), Forever Alone Dating, and yes even a reddit for Vogon Poetry - Ohfreddled gruntbuggly!
...
*All reddit pimping decisions will be the sole discretion of the Pimp Counsel.

who would have thought a website with this culture would develop a community of weird predators

Also Reddit corporate was really into the "Really to Restore Sanity"

quote:

Update on the Colbert-Stewart march / rally
COMMUNITY Reddit Originals • October 1, 2010
Now that 2010-10-30 is less than a month away, it’s probably time for an update. First off, you guys have given nearly $300,000 in donations to the Truthiness in the Classroom project. That’s unbelievable, but we think you can do even unbelievabler, so we’ve worked out a deal with Stephen Colbert: if we can bring our total up to $500,000 by the end of the month, he’ll let reddit interview him. No word on whether it’ll be text or video, but I can promise that we’ll browbeat him as follows: “Come on, Colbert! We raised half a million dollars for needy schoolchildren — comb your hair and give us a little face time!”

As a reminder of how attainable this goal is, we raised over $100,000 in the first day. Let’s see how fast we can do that two more times.

Donate here!

Now back to the little get-together at the end of the month… The DC rallies are going to be like reddit’s Woodstock, and we want every last one of you to be there.

Need to arrange transportation? The reddit community has taken care of that: /r/RedditCarpool is organizing carpools to the rally.

Need a place to stay? There’s a reddit for that, too.
https://redditblog.com/2010/10/01/update-on-the-colbert-stewart-march-rally/

edit:
oh neat they mapped out the social networks and connections of every reddit user who attended. that's not creepy at all considering subsequent developments of social media.
https://redditblog.com/2010/11/12/buy-shirts-remember-the-rally-question-colbert-and-smile/

quote:

Graphstravaganza

We borrowed a computer that looks like this and mapped out all the connections you made with your QR codes.

With the use of graph theory and a few well-placed PMs, we were able to identify which cluster was DC and which were the satellite rallies. We also found a few suspicious submissions, but to the suspects’ credit, every one of them openly admitted to cheating when we asked about it. Thanks for your (belated) honesty!

Okay, so we were talking about graphs… Let’s start with the big one, the Washington DC rally. 1909 redditors reported in from there, establishing 12,987 connections amongst themselves! If you’ll forgive our hubris, we’ve put ourselves at the center of the graph in red and colored everyone based on how many hops away they are from us. It’s a very tight cluster, which makes it a good model of the actual rally, where we were embedded in a ten-by-ten tent surrounded on all sides by an ocean of people.


Interestingly, everyone was five or fewer degrees of separation away from us with the sole exception of RainbootedRobot (bottom of graph, in purple), whose tent number of 6 qualifies for a special trophy variant.

The graphs for the satellite rallies follow. Post a comment about which constellation / chemical / Zelda dungeon each one looks like!

Atrocious Joe has issued a correction as of 18:03 on Aug 6, 2020

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Perry Mason Jar posted:

My impression is that Bourdain killed himself, no foul play.

suicide is not real

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Bip Roberts posted:

suicide is not real

Kamikaze attacks during World War II were cover for OSS mind control beam experiments.

Hitler was murdered by his Jewish clone.

Vincent van Gogh's demonic possession spread to his other ear.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

The Paris Review was founded by the CIA lol

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

blackstone is going to buy ancestry.com and i have to assume they are going to be up to some sinister poo poo with all that DNA

theyre trying to decode the True Name of humanity so they can at long last work the great spell that unmakes all humankind and all the fruit of its work

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Squizzle posted:

theyre trying to decode the True Name of humanity so they can at long last work the great spell that unmakes all humankind and all the fruit of its work

Wait, I thought Blackstone was bad, but this sounds good

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Squizzle posted:

theyre trying to decode the True Name of humanity so they can at long last work the great spell that unmakes all humankind and all the fruit of its work

how can i donate to this

Giga Gaia
May 2, 2006

360 kickflip to... Meteo?!

Squizzle posted:

theyre trying to decode the True Name of humanity so they can at long last work the great spell that unmakes all humankind and all the fruit of its work

T R M P
R M P T
M P T R
P M R T

Fiend
Dec 2, 2001
If I had a large geneology database and not moral quandaries, what could I enable? Someone with deep pockets and needs the ability to find an exact tissue type for a rich client with a failing organ?

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

Fiend posted:

If I had a large geneology database and not moral quandaries, what could I enable? Someone with deep pockets and needs the ability to find an exact tissue type for a rich client with a failing organ?

targeted facebook ads

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

targeted facebook ads debt bondage

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

Fiend posted:

If I had a large geneology database and not moral quandaries, what could I enable? Someone with deep pockets and needs the ability to find an exact tissue type for a rich client with a failing organ?

improved margins on addiction epidemics

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

you might genuinely cause enough deaths of despair to constitute significant evolutionary pressure, the idea of psycho firms having this kind of information is genuinely horrifying

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Fiend posted:

If I had a large geneology database and not moral quandaries, what could I enable? Someone with deep pockets and needs the ability to find an exact tissue type for a rich client with a failing organ?

I am thinking either a geneological matchmaking service (find a mate who will improve your bloodline!) or a DNA background check but for disease risk so that insurers can price in increases to bad DNA.

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bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

there are 1,000,000+ terrible ways to monetize eugenics

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