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grue, (edited )

As far as I can tell, this is about an Israeli government propaganda effort spending Israeli taxpayers’ shekels against Americans. While it’s true that your comment could be validly copy-pasted to threads about all sorts of things that the US government has done, this thread isn’t about one of those situations.

Edit: sunzu makes a good point.

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Hmm, good point!

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https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Shrek-the-Third---The-Big-Bad-Wolf---01Edit.jpg

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A: 3 B: 3
C: 3 D: 3
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…fandom.com/…/Cause_And_Effect_(episode)

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My favorite example of how to lie with statistics:

“Of the 117 billion people who have ever lived, 8 billion of them are still alive. Therefore, the chance of dying is not 100% but rather only 93%.”

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So, they’re gonna tax synagogues too, right?

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjOG5gboFU

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I think the good ol’ Alt-Right Playbook can shed some light on that one.

I linked to the specific part of the video that explains the particular point I want to make, but I recommend watching from the beginning anyway. Also, the extra-short TL;DR is basically that the Democratic party is structurally predisposed to continually give the benefit of the doubt and assume good faith, even when it is not only blatantly undeserved but also being actively exploited by their opponents.

Samuel Alito’s Mysterious Absence From Supreme Court Raises Questions (newrepublic.com)

Samuel Alito was again absent from the Supreme Court on Friday after skipping out on Thursday. No information has yet been provided by the court for Alito’s mysterious absence, which comes as the court is issuing decisions before the end of its term and leaves nothing but questions on his whereabouts....

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Is he ducking out to delay the decision on Trump’s presidential immunity case?

Fuck that! If he’s absent, the Court should simply be required to decide the case without him.

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The version I’ve heard is “coup cucks klan”

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What a neat coincidence that both this and the rule book for the other Star Trek TTRPG have both been posted within the last few days. Are there any others we should know about, LOL?

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Why is T’Ana standing in line for a replicator in the first place? She’s senior staff; she not only should be eligible to eat in the officers’ mess, she probably has her own private replicator in her quarters.

(Or is the Cali-class even shittier than I imagined it to be?)

Also, why can’t they just replicate some more replicators and install them everywhere?

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We tried, but then VW had to go and blow it.

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Turning things up to 11 just gets you discredited as “radicals” in the media.

Radicals need to exist in order to make the less-radical activists look reasonable by comparison. Otherwise they just get painted as radical no matter how milquetoast their protest is, and the Overton window moves away from their cause.

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First of all, this is great and deserves its own thread.

Second, there’s a fatal flaw: authoritarians and capitalists (same difference) are predisposed in favor of fascism, and that’s why the behavior of fuckwads like Trump keeps getting free passes and attention. When leftists try the same thing, they get ignored, censored, COINTELPRO’d, or even just straight-up murdered.

In other words, it’s a good strategy and should work, all things being equal, but all things are not equal and that makes it a high-body-count strategy (even if there’s no better one available).

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https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ypw0qX59HUE/So-nPl6KxDI/AAAAAAAAA8M/FTdxMtHcIW4/s400/IMG_00095.JPG

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Definitely not. Which country the activist is in is one difference, but what they’re an activist about is another. Here in the US, some activists get shot by police while other activists get police marching with them, for example.

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and keep your style of speech different than your “real” one

Good luck with that!

I kinda feel like you’d need to run your comments through a style transfer LLM in order to do that successfully and consistently.

Campaigns Can Now See What You Watch on TV. (www.notus.org)

Televisions that can stream platforms like Hulu or Max usually come loaded with technology that collects information on what viewers are watching, and buyers consent to have their viewing tracked when they open their new TV and click through terms of service agreements. Sometimes, data firms can connect those viewing habits to a...

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*Sceptre, not spectre.

(I misspell it almost every time, too.)

When my parents got a new TV, I made sure they bought a Sceptre. So far it’s working fine.

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Three out of four of those corners (including the one in which the gummies are a misdemeanor) are also within the Navajo Nation. Kinda feels like that tribal jurisdiction ought to matter.

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If I see something packaged like this, I expect it to be really fruity, not just vodka and lime.

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So TL;DR, the XKCD method, but with six words instead of four and using a larger wordlist?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength_2x.png

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Who gives a shit what the perp thinks? Report on the investigation itself, not some fuckwad’s reaction to it.

This bullshit is just a way for Newsweek to inject spin without making it seem like an editorial.

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“Starting?”

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You say that as if Skyrim was revolutionary, but I never saw it as anything other than an evolution over Oblivion (and in some ways, a step backwards from Morrowind).

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Je suis en retard dans la discussion, mais tu as raison, les ordinateurs ne tiennent pas compte du contexte.

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Doesn’t matter; I still get triggered by it every time anyway.

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Did Janeway really have over 17 separate violations, or was she going for quality over quantity?

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Wow, that’s some terminal right-wing privatization going on there. Government not only completely shirking its responsibility to build a public street, but even abdicating its authority to ensure that the developers it delegated the job to did it properly.

“However, council cannot force landowners to develop their property.”

Asked if council could force developers to build two sides of a street, the spokesman said it could not.

Motherfucker, what part of “eminent domain” do you not understand?! Building a public street is exactly what that power is for!

That said, everyone involved also deserves a bitch-slap for their failure to comprehend the concept of one-way traffic circulation.

Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices (www.npr.org)

LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in...

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“A good thing” is too strong a statement, but I could agree with “not worse than the status quo.”

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He needs to be convicted for his Jan 6 treason first, of course.

The fraud convictions only warrant prison.

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In other words, they’re Hell-bent on crashing the fish population lower and lower down the food chain.

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You say that as if they ever broke more than one of them.

Canadian warship sharing an anchorage with Russian vessels in Cuba (www.cbc.ca)

The Royal Canadian Navy now finds itself in the unusual position of both shadowing Russian warships as a threat in the Caribbean and sharing an anchorage with them as a guest in the port of Havana — because Canada accepted an invitation to send a patrol ship to Cuba while the Russian navy is in town....

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Yeah, but before 2014 that wasn’t a good reason to embargo them.

grue,

Embargoing countries because they’re aggressors in war of territorial expansion is valid.

Embargoing countries just because they’re communist is not valid.

Let me know if there’s something you still fail to understand about it.

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the citizens are upset they are only trying to clean up the river for the Olympics not for the people that live there

But they are trying to clean it up for the people that live there, though? I’d heard that it’s supposed to remain clean after the games and that they’ll be opening swimming areas for the general public and stuff.

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Nah, you’re thinking too “Old Testament.” Nowadays you can behave as shitty as you want as long as you buy an indulgence “repent” for it.

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Why the fuck does a survey need a loading screen with a progress bar?

Holy shit, people, some HTML with input fields and a submit button does not need to be this over engineered!

grue,

It shouldn’t be all blue cheese though; you’d want to also include shreds of some mild melting cheese so the sides stick together properly.

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…as they pleaded with a bankruptcy judge not to let someone else take over his finances.

Just in case anybody was wondering what legal consequence he was trying to weasel out of.

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The dumbfuck thinks he’s actually important and is trying to cosplay as some kind of persecuted martyr.

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You don’t have to be a furry yourself to find it funny.

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Again?

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“Woke” just means “not bigoted” and is thus never a problem, by definition. It’s only the “elite” part that’s a problem.

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Because guillotines aren’t.

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No, it’s the children who are wrong.

grue,

And remember, it only takes one side to start a war. Once that happens, you fight to defend yourself or you die.

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