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Jonny 290 posted:The problem with accepting or normalizing any watchlist/no-fly-list/blacklist/IP ban/twitter ban is that now that precedent has been set by a few of the absolute most extreme right wing nazis on the planet, every TSA/ICE/Twitter/FB entity in existence now has carte blanche to suppress a ton of poo poo coming out of the left. otoh accelerationism seems pretty cool when sweetened with a bunch of nazis being the first to go. also an entirely uncontrollable process for now, so might as well enjoy what one can.
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i really genuinely hope it happens, but also realize what a hilarious joke history fact it'll be in even 10 years if trump is forced out of office like 8 hours before the end of his term. the era of symbolism.
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no no no, we need to argue about this until we have correctly determined which of the only two possible categories this belongs to: the extremely correct and good, or the very evil and terrible.
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if you want a break from worrying about how things may turn out very bad all you need to do is stop reading twitter and threads like this. logging on to ask people to please not post about how things may turn out bad is not good strategy. foreign policy getting worse is real bad, but i don't feel very stressed out trying to sum it up with everything else that might happen to precisely place it on a badness spectrum.
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bump_fn posted:six new pages overnight what the gently caress happened nah, that is backwards for this kind of thread. what really drives them is nothing (good) happening.
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Jan 23, 2021 13:28
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man, i really hope that foreign policy is actually set to improve with the rhetoric on yemen (and afaik the only thing to actually happen so far is a bit of talk puzzled together by an optimistic media). but i still very much suspect that it is a return to the rhetoric being better, but the actual actions much worse.
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Jan 23, 2021 18:44
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or just jail every president after their term regardless. not like it'd cause a dip in quality or anything.
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Jan 25, 2021 19:07
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:You can't arrest me for drunk driving! I'm sober now! more like "while i'm still drunk i've fallen out of the car".
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Jan 25, 2021 19:20
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i sure will with interest continue to follow these extremely vague reviews of rural and extremely obscure cities like östersund (52k people as of 2019, 370 kilometers away from the next larger city, and that one barely breaks 100k).
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the talent deficit posted:oresund, not ostersund. it's copenhagen + malmo endlessmonotony posted:Östersund and Stockholm both get a "jesus no", ask your Norwegian coworkers to the why when the Swedes can't hear. 
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Jan 26, 2021 01:19
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and i am sure it isn't because öresund is the region with the most immigrants, and as such often gets called out by rightwing dipshits as a supposed example of society fraying, than e.g. all of norway, finland, östersund, and most certainly riga, capital of a country so xenophobic that it fails to recognize a significant chunk of its historic population as citizens?
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Jan 26, 2021 01:35
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jesus WEP posted:buying meme stocks actively hurts the organised crime that is hedge funds etc, which rules it is hugely optimistic assuming that wall street as a whole wont make a good deal of money on this, the individual hedge funds got hosed up, but redditors would have to on average actually exit at a profit, and i doubt that is how it'll play out. not least, as often harped upon, they control some key levers, and they have better information (e.g. the robinhood order flows).
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Jan 29, 2021 17:04
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qirex posted:dumb theory: cnbc is madder than anybody because wallstreetbets is a direct competitor to them. despite all their window dressing they're not an actual serious financial media outlet, the fact that jim cramer even exists should tell you that. it's financial entertainment for aspirational types and they're getting undercut by something even more entertaining and interactive. actual traders get all their news through bloomberg, even the trading robots designed to parse press releases via machine learning. by the time something is on tv it's too late to be usefully actionable yeah, if any good is to come out of this at all it is certainly outing a lot of charlatans making a living randomly assigning a piece of news to a market movement and calling it news. e: beyond the obvious good that every part of this is funny and every victim perfectly deserving of what misfortune they get.
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The_Franz posted:their collective losses at this point are becoming substantial, with the interest alone on those gme and amc shorts shooting up over the last two days. they're selling their existing long positions to cover them afaik we don't know what losses have actually been materialized in the short trades (the big failure of a fund got taken over right? presumably by someone with deep enough pockets to wait out a drop in gme). but bigger than that is easy money from fees, and some places will have jumped in on this in various ways. ranging from some hft places just going long early comfortable that they'll be able to get out before reddit manages to launch robinhood, to easy safe money from volatility trades (i.e. anyone who saw gme rush to $100 on monday had a real easy time predicting that it would not be at $100 in a week, so they buy a spectrum of puts and calls which let them make money whenever the price moves, whichever way it is). and most notoriously anyone who puts money in and goes "i might lose it but at least i'm sticking it to wall street" does not understand where the money they lose is almost invariably going.
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take this anti-ethanol bullshit to the watuary thread
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all us foreign policy and anything related to it is monstrous. lots of other things wrong with the us, but that is the perennial entirely-terrible thing.
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Feb 2, 2021 10:09
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bump_fn posted:there are two types of people with doctorates - the insufferable ones who believe they are smarter than everyone about everything because they know a lot about phospholipid bilayers and liposome formation and people who realize that no one knows anything because all scientific discoveries are two years of data taking away from being found to be just statistical fluctuations and the latter state is pretty likely to wind up qanon'ing too. start examining all the things we don't know and you'll find yourself with less and less guidance in what explanations to reach for. so everything is actually made of fire, and the world is ruled by a pedophile elite.
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Feb 4, 2021 11:48
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The events of the past year should aptly illustrate that Americans do not value their own lives in any way. the strangest thing to me is that every cspam thread (this affiliate thread included) is, no matter how doomy, either fail to understand this, or like to feign outrage about the value of human life. and it is not just americans really.
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Stringent posted:seems to me like they value their own lives to the exclusion of anything else but i'd love to be proved wrong i really don't believe this, rather i think a lot of people are struggling with the lack of a question being asked or choice of relevant action being offered. so there is nothing to really be *correct* about. to a fair extent it is just an uncontrollable bad thing happening, and while there is a lot one can and should do there was never a clean win available. outside of a world so different that it is not really easily imaginable. which is not meant to make excuses for those loving things up, just noting that the feeling of powerlessness as things predictably get hosed up is pretty corrosive.
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Roosevelt posted:no, i don't. i do think changing the order of the letters is some petty, catty bullshit. just don't let the shitheads bring you down. casual encountess was already making that point, but with more eloquence and the addition of personal experience. so your post that went little more than "lol who cares about words" did not exactly substantially contribute.
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Feb 7, 2021 18:40
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pretty sure it was mostly a convenience rule to make the excuse "aw shucks, didn't mean to post that i was drunk" not be something the mods would ever need to consider as an excuse. account sharing is at least partially the same.
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just imagine how much cooler things would be if biden last moment gave buttigiegs post to his favourite horse. i don't think biden even plays the fiddle.
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the three stigmata of palmer eldritch is the only realistically possible vision of space colonization, where people are as a project shipped off to live in freezing bunkers on various moons, taking a lot of drugs and spending all their income on imaginary goods simulating a materially good life on a healthy planet earth.
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Feb 8, 2021 18:47
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Sagebrush posted:good for shingy making a living but it's more honorable to be the king's chef than his jester in that screenshot shingy is not only accurately predicting cancelling being a social movement, but also what would take the world's most powerful and heard person into irrelevance within days of his forced "unfollowing". pay some respect.
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bump_fn posted:six new pages wtf happened 240 posts of people making distinctions without differences
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i am convinced literally no one understands what an actual conflict between superpowers not entirely determined by icbm nukes would look like. stuff like the f35 is idiots just trying to repeat 1940s ideas of combat but ostensibly more-better, and i am equally sure that won't be it.
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hobbesmaster posted:the f-35 isn't just for superpowers. everyone in the middle east has S-300s now and S-400s are being sold to anyone that can get money to russia. those can murder f-18/16/15 from very long ranges. so you need stealth strike aircraft to do SEAD at least this is the dumbest possible informed response.
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self-medication and the impact that has on mental health (more in how it badly papers over problems than any direct effect of the drug) is my main concern with weed legalization. luckily pretty much everywhere does such a poo poo job on mental health care that it is moot point, might as well paper poo poo over.
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kitten emergency posted:this would be a good argument if alcohol and cigarettes weren't legal a mindless consistency etc.
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mystes posted:Oh no, the new firefox logo is more minimalist, why do social justice warriors have to ruin everything?! They should have made it a sexy female firefox like the bible and the founding fathers wanted. you must really love the firefox logo to drag this bad dumb thing into this: 
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Mar 6, 2021 17:53
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usability would probably overall improve from having all icons/logos be furry porn rather than indistinguishable generic colored geometric swirls.
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thread finally officially out at (burger) brunch
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Mar 8, 2021 22:49
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kitten emergency posted:this is basically indistinguishable from the people who photoshopped trump's face onto the wh40k god-emperor nah, trump as the god emperor was actually kind of insightful (the dying regent, mind almost gone, on his golden throne), where this dog poo poo is just pointlessly moronic.
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Mar 12, 2021 15:23
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shoeberto posted:That said I wish humans were mature enough to separate "CCP, the state power" from Chinese people (or people of Chinese descent) who are just trying to, yknow, live a normal life, but as we're finding out, that's apparently too much to expect of Americans. while it may be useful for you day to day to compartmentalize your part in a system that is causing untold suffering around the world it for sure is not some sign of maturity.
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hobbesmaster posted:the cth episode on this is good yep. latest episode retreading the marvel reality was also real good. cspam thread complaining as usual, but chatting a bit about politics against a movie backdrop is a real good cth staple.
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Mar 20, 2021 17:56
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SmokaDustbowl posted:call me a coward or whatever for not objecting but I'm on disability and getting in trouble with the pigs could probably gently caress with that nah, *that* for sure is not the moment to gently caress with the police, they'd be thrilled to get an excuse to mess you up in any number of ways.
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Mar 26, 2021 00:06
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still more likely to be an idiot, as greedy cynics and sociopaths are unlikely to go around *telling* people that they're conservatives unless that is what people clearly want to hear.
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don't matter what you choose, we'll all live in infinite amazon warehouse anyway
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hobbesmaster posted:if the handoff was in person that probably was it, masks aren’t anywhere near 100% masks are generally getting way way overestimated by people. not that they don't help, but if you have the choice of going within 2 feet of people with a mask and going within 6 feet of people without i think the latter is likely better (but, again, 6 feet and mask is better still). science not there though, but the weakness of mask results in the past still stand, they are no replacement for distance.
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if you're worried about the cruelty of slaughter you should not (or possibly should) look into the cruelty of all the steps leading up to there.
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