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Flying-PCP posted:The obvious solution is to actually start WW3, people won't dare switch presidents in the middle of that! Destroy the country via nuclear fire, or let it destroy itself with Orange ineptitude and hard-fascism. How very 2020s But seriously someone has to make something happen before these idiots sleep walk the US back into the hands of the other idiots, the ones who were A-Ok with the coup last year
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Orthanc6 posted:But seriously someone has to make something happen before these idiots sleep walk the US back into the hands of the other idiots, the ones who were A-Ok with the coup last year Chances of this happening are pretty much nil. What was required was a hard shift toward socialistic policy to restore faith that the government can improve people's lives. That didn't happen because capital and the people beholden to capital didn't want it to happen. Corporations have a lot to gain by ushering in an uncontested far-right government which is extremely hostile to America's new labor movement and has zero issues with inconveniencing business owners with safety restrictions or sending workers out to enrich shareholders and die in a pandemic.
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Has this been weaponized into a right wing talking point yet? https://twitter.com/CNBCtech/status/1482083244669648898 BIDEN-FLATION!!!! (shakes fist)
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Eric Cantonese posted:Has this been weaponized into a right wing talking point yet? Why in the world would the rightwing care about netflix pricing when the costs of everything else are far more salient (and frightening) to voters? You need to evict them from your mind unless you're getting federal rent relief, in which case they can stay an extra six months. vvv Yah, if anything the rwtp will be to go along with the increase to support "canceled" artists like dave chappelle. Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Has this been weaponized into a right wing talking point yet? The only time the right wing cares about Netflix is for culture war bullshit and screaming about how woke everything is becoming now because women and black people are showing up on their TV screens more often and it makes them mad.
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Speaking of inflation, this was the graphic used in the AP's story about year-to-year changes the other day: eta: That figgie for rent seems kinda low, but could be due to the moratoria. I know I've read elsewhere (and cited in these threads) increases of 40 percent just for the first nine months of 2021. Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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I bet you can get some real bargains on leaded gas right now
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Bacon and related products.
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Interesting Politico article. To note, it's not your regular Politico gossip, it's a piece by some Duke academics. We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/14/we-found-the-one-group-of-americans-who-are-most-likely-to-spread-fake-news-526973 quote:Whether it’s anti-vaccine messaging or falsehoods about the 2020 election, it’s easy to blame conservatives or Republicans as a group for spreading misinformation, as many in the media and academia have done. But this message is oversimplified, and anyone who wants to fight back against the very real scourge of fake news in American politics should look more closely.
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nine-gear crow posted:The only time the right wing cares about Netflix is for culture war bullshit and screaming about how woke everything is becoming now because women and black people are showing up on their TV screens more often and it makes them mad. While there's always great fodder in entertainment for the culture war, streaming services are actually a huge victory of the free market. Even with the glut of streaming services, it has never been cheaper to watch something that appeals to you on TV, and they have done what free market evangelists have claimed "should" be happening for years, and eroded the market share of the (FCC-protected) cable monsters. So even with some inevitable price hikes, it's the kind of thing Republicans should be celebrating, not denigrating, and I think they realize that. (Obviously this breaks down completely when you are talking about the necessities of life and not flickering pictures.) Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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How are u posted:Second, our research makes clear that anyone trying to reach LCCs needs to experiment with interventions that go beyond fact-checking. We believe the onus falls primarily on social media companies. There is plenty of evidence that a user’s personality and political ideology can be inferred based on their social media activity. If these companies can identify LCCs, that means they can also be proactive in making sure LCCs are presented with reliable information, and not with falsities. Brilliant idea! Have social media further curate & censor info based on profiling lefties' information consumption as well as righties'. What could possibly go wrong?
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How are u posted:Interesting Politico article. To note, it's not your regular Politico gossip, it's a piece by some Duke academics. A tremendous amount hinges on how the studies operationalize their group variables. I can't access the article, but on twitter one of the authors states that their operationalization of "conscientiousness" was based on part of the below: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-17156-001 I'll try to get access and dig into this further over the weekend.
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How are u posted:Interesting Politico article. To note, it's not your regular Politico gossip, it's a piece by some Duke academics. Accelerationists are an actual thing now i guess lol
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HonorableTB posted:Accelerationists are an actual thing now i guess lol To me it kind of reads like people who are predisposed to anti-social worldviews and anti-social behavior, 'shitposting', so to speak, are more susceptible to consuming and regurgitating fake news.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:which ones did you read as loaded? closest one to loaded I see is the "many restrictions, like New York" one, but that's an artifact of no state in the country having any real restrictions. yes, the media trumpeting the state where the governor's open, explicit policy was "Kill the elderly and I'll cover you from any legal consequences" as a paragon of liberal response is insane, but what state would you hold up as a state where Democrats implemented restrictions well? Every single question and framing op.
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How are u posted:To me it kind of reads like people who are predisposed to anti-social worldviews and anti-social behavior, 'shitposting', so to speak, are more susceptible to consuming and regurgitating fake news. But enough about this thread… (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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How are u posted:Interesting Politico article. To note, it's not your regular Politico gossip, it's a piece by some Duke academics. Well maybe the ones with an appetite for chaos will tone it down with the 18.6% increase in the price of bacon and related products.
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How are u posted:To me it kind of reads like people who are predisposed to anti-social worldviews and anti-social behavior, 'shitposting', so to speak, are more susceptible to consuming and regurgitating fake news. in a way, it is my posting enemies who are responsible for covid/trump/
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Willa Rogers posted:Speaking of inflation, this was the graphic used in the AP's story about year-to-year changes the other day: 6% for dining out must be heavily counterbalanced by big chains. Every local place I’ve been to recently has been just straight up bodied by supply chain issues and having to increase prices 30-40% to stay afloat. I know anecdotes aren’t data and all, but it has me severely incredulous.
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Pobrecito posted:6% for dining out must be heavily counterbalanced by big chains. Every local place I’ve been to recently has been just straight up bodied by supply chain issues and having to increase prices 30-40% to stay afloat. chart starts in december 2020, p sure a lot of restaurant prices started going up a lot earlier
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haveblue posted:I bet you can get some real bargains on leaded gas right now Coincidentally the EPA just announced, earlier this week, that they "will evaluate whether emissions from piston-engine aircraft operating on leaded fuel contribute to air pollution that endangers public health and welfare". https://twitter.com/EPAPressOffice/status/1481343157774303232
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haveblue posted:I bet you can get some real bargains on leaded gas right now Wasn't lead an additive to gasoline?
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Looks like DeSantis is at least testing the waters to see if he can run against Trump while trying to straddle the line of not being outright anti-Trump just yet at least: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/desantis-trump-covid-response/index.html Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said one of his biggest regrets in office was not speaking out "much louder" in March 2020, when former President Donald Trump advised the nation to stay home to slow the fast-spreading coronavirus. DeSantis, a close ally of Trump, said he was involved in the early days of the White House's pandemic response and had been offering advice to the President. But he was surprised when Trump made the decision that led to much of the US economy shutting down. "I never thought in February, early March, that (coronavirus) would lead to locking down the country," the Republican governor told the hosts of the conservative podcast "Ruthless" during an episode recorded Thursday. "I just didn't. I didn't think that was on the radar."
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Wasn't lead an additive to gasoline? Yes! Developed by Thomas Midgley, leaded gasoline had positive effects for engines but horrendous effects on health. Lead has been a known toxin since the time of the Romans, but that didn't stop Mr. Midgley! He went on to later develop chloroflourocarbons, better known as Freon, which were one of the primary culprits of depleting the ozone layer.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yes! Developed by Thomas Midgley, leaded gasoline had positive effects for engines but horrendous effects on health. Lead has been a known toxin since the time of the Romans, but that didn't stop Mr. Midgley! He went on to later develop chloroflourocarbons, better known as Freon, which were one of the primary culprits of depleting the ozone layer. Ugh, Midgley. What a raging rear end in a top hat.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yes! Developed by Thomas Midgley, leaded gasoline had positive effects for engines but horrendous effects on health. Lead has been a known toxin since the time of the Romans, but that didn't stop Mr. Midgley! He went on to later develop chloroflourocarbons, better known as Freon, which were one of the primary culprits of depleting the ozone layer. I might be remembering this wrong, but I think this was an auspicious fork in the road of human history where we could have chosen to go with ethanol instead.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yes! Developed by Thomas Midgley, leaded gasoline had positive effects for engines but horrendous effects on health. Lead has been a known toxin since the time of the Romans, but that didn't stop Mr. Midgley! He went on to later develop chloroflourocarbons, better known as Freon, which were one of the primary culprits of depleting the ozone layer. Didn't this guy end up getting polio and dying in an overly complex machine that turned his body by wires? Anyway we'd probably still be using leaded gas if not for Clair Patterson, who spent his whole like obsessively exposing the harm it causes despite it killing his career at the time and his legacy for all time going forward ((he discovered it was going on because he was dating fossil samples and anything recent kept coming up as saturated with lead)he was the one who finally figured out how old the Earth is)
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Sinteres posted:Looks like DeSantis is at least testing the waters to see if he can run against Trump while trying to straddle the line of not being outright anti-Trump just yet at least: He sees the potential wedge in how Trump wants to take credit for the vaccine, and the antivax demo that might have mutated beyond Trump's sphere. Whether or not that ends up being enough to knock down Trump's sizable lead in a future primary remains to be seen, but he does still have three years to needle on it. Not like the virus is going away any time soon.
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PhazonLink posted:thats hell of a needle thread, so he saying the first locking was bad and should not have happen? It took him awhile to even pass emergency measures in 2020
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Epic High Five posted:Didn't this guy end up getting polio and dying in an overly complex machine that turned his body by wires? I wasn't aware of this, but yes, apparently.
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haveblue posted:I bet you can get some real bargains on leaded gas right now Eh, AvGas is sitting around $5 a gallon.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/14/black-walnut-tree-ohio-siblings-charged/ TREE LAW A 250-year-old walnut tree was chopped down in Ohio. A brother and sister were hit with felony charges. For over 250 years, a black walnut tree lived in what is now a nature preserve in northeast Ohio, growing alongside wildflowers and ferns and the snaking east branch of the Rocky River. Its trunk grew unusually wide — 5½ feet — making it a rare specimen in the Cleveland suburbs. Yet in just two days in September, that tree was cut down with chain saws, turned into logs and hauled away, according to witnesses interviewed by police. The lumber ultimately sold for just over $10,000. Now, two suspects — a brother and sister, Todd Jones, 56, and Laurel Hoffman, 54 — have been indicted in the felling of the tree that prosecutors say sat on Cleveland Metroparks property, just feet away from Jones’s land in Strongsville, about 20 miles south of Cleveland. The siblings face charges of grand theft and falsification — both felonies.
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LorneReams posted:Now see if they were just incorporated they would have gotten away with just a fine and a promise to commit future resources to conservation efforts.
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SubG posted:I know it's currently fashionable to be performatively cynical about the justice system in the US but it really isn't that simple. In order to get that kind of treatment they'd have to clearcut and sell at least an entire forest. yeah compared to that, what they did is more like stealing a sandwich from 7/11, which is a 5-25 year kind of crime
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PhazonLink posted:I mean we getting clips of Donnie himself getting booed for softest provax stuff and Fox and regressive propagranda machines arent changing their antivax poo poo. Desantis is a wienie, I don't think he has the spine to confront or stand up to Trump directly. I was very surprised to hear what his voice sounded like. Of course, we live in the worst possible timeline so he'll be seen as the reasonable centrist by a population that's tired of covid and mitigation efforts, and coast to victory
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