PhazonLink posted:

Do pseudo casino game apps count as regressive media? I recently had to help some old family(oh and their friends) set up their hardware some account help and lol at a few things.


0) its a pure money black hole and chip number = go up up skinner box, no way to get money from it, just microtransaction spending.
1) lol at several Lets Go Brandon and Donnie Won stuff.

CommieGIR posted:

Scott Adams does it again

https://twitter.com/banalplay/status/1521130676795453440?s=20&t=jiuoQ5PC6kapffznZw05gw

FMguru posted:

Scott Adams, the supergenius master manipulator who got fooled by the Wallet Inspector seven times?

https://twitter.com/BlakeTapper/status/1521119644488290304

(I assume the real story is "camgirls")

CommieGIR posted:

Scott Adams does it again

https://twitter.com/banalplay/status/1521130676795453440?s=20&t=jiuoQ5PC6kapffznZw05gw

Murgos posted:

Also, his implied comment is that it's the one paper who won't carry his racist and bigoted strip that's wrong.

Aramis posted:

The funny thing is that Scott is blatantly and publicly assuming his followers are dumbfucks without memory and/or attention span.

Aramis posted:

Look at the dates between of the two tweets. The funny thing is that Scott is blatantly and publicly assuming his followers are dumbfucks without memory and/or attention span.

Xakura posted:

I don't get your date point.

Xakura posted:

https://twitter.com/CritterJams/status/1521171487553724416

Xakura posted:

https://twitter.com/CritterJams/status/1521171487553724416

BiggerBoat posted:

I also have to surrender to the argument that Biden and his administration have been an utter disaster but, again, it's never for the reasons they assume or automatically think I agree with when I say that Biden sucks rear end.

If anything, to me, Bongino made the point that the people most poo poo on by the pandemic actually spent all that extra money they were given and it trickled right back up into the pockets of billionaires. He was very close to making arguments for wealth redistribution, which is obviously what we have to do, but I doubt he nor his audience are self aware enough to realize that that's what they're bascially arguing for.

Mainly what I heard is that the people at the bottom are getting hosed over the most and, again, he's right. But somehow the blame landed on "too much socialism" or whatever. I have to assume it did and, to be fair, the ones in charge catch the blame. I didn't stick around long enough to learn why it was Obama's fault for sending out those stimulus checks that caused inflation and led to 9/11 but what struck me was how similar Don's arguments were to the complaints and grievances of the so called radical far left.

He was effectively saying how hosed up it is that all the burden of the C19 economy was shouldered by the working class and how obscene corporate profits were during all of it but somehow the problem was "See? The Radical Left!" I didn't listen long enough to get to the "why".

Panfilo posted:

https://twitter.com/repdarrellissa/status/1520908432710279168?t=EY9Qu136yJvNmk8R0S-OOg&s=19

Angry_Ed posted:

Wish Issa would gently caress off and go back to stealing cars and burning down his own businesses for the insurance money.

Angry_Ed posted:

Wish Issa would gently caress off and go back to stealing cars and burning down his own businesses for the insurance money.

nine-gear crow posted:

I legitimately thought he'd resigned or lost his job in Congress. Are you telling me this snake is somehow still around?

Panfilo posted:

I'm not familiar with this, care to elaborate? I'm curious.

The New Yorker posted:

A member of Issa’s Army unit, Jay Bergey, told Williams that his most vivid recollection of the young Issa was that in December, 1971, Issa stole his car, a yellow Dodge Charger. “I confronted Issa,” Bergey said in 1998. “I got in his face and threatened to kill him, and magically my car reappeared the next day, abandoned on the turnpike.”

Bergey died of lung cancer in 2002, but his widow, Joyce, recently said to me that she remembered her husband telling the story of the stolen Dodge Charger. She laughed when she heard that Issa is now a prominent member of Congress. “Well, he probably figured he was borrowing it from a friend,” she said. “But now we’re discussing politicians, so we all know how honest they are. When I meet a good one, I’ll let you know.”

On March 15, 1972, three months after Issa allegedly stole Jay Bergey’s car and one month after he left the Army for the first time, Ohio police arrested Issa and his older brother, William, and charged them with stealing a red Maserati from a Cleveland showroom. The judge eventually dismissed the case.

quote:

At 2:35 a.m. on September 7, 1982, the phone rang in Issa’s house. The Quantum and Steal Stopper office and factory was on fire. Issa got dressed and drove the seven miles from his house, in Oakwood Village, to his workplace, in Maple Heights. He arrived by 3 a.m., to find blue flames shooting from holes in the roof. Four fire engines, a helicopter, and forty-three firefighters from three departments responded to the alarm. When the firemen entered the building, they encountered black smoke so thick they couldn’t see their hands in front of their faces. The fire took three hours to bring under control.

A lieutenant in the Maple Heights Fire Department noted in his incident report that the “cause of this fire appears to be electrical.” The fire had started at a workbench where light bulbs for bug zappers were tested. Almost everything of value was gone. Fortunately for Issa, he had recently increased his fire insurance.

***

Issa was soon suspected of doing something worse: burning down the factory. The initial notion that an electrical socket had caused the fire was challenged. The science of determining whether a fire was caused by arson can be flawed. But a fire-analysis report commissioned by the St. Paul insurance company, and dated October 19, 1982, a month after the incident, concluded that the fire was “incendiary.” The report cited “suspicious burn patterns,” such as “two separate major areas of origin,” and it said, “No accidental source of heating power was located at either of these two major areas of origin.” The manner in which stacks of cardboard boxes burned was inconsistent with an accidental fire. A flammable liquid appeared to have been poured over the boxes. The blue flames seen emanating from the roof were evidence, according to the investigators, of burning carbon monoxide that is produced when an accelerant like gasoline ignites. The black smoke was also a clue. “Such black smoke normally occurs in a fire only when a hydrocarbon is burning,” the report said. When investigators tested burn damage from inside the factory, they found “the same identical mixture of flammable hydrocarbons” in four samples taken from diverse locations

FlamingLiberal posted:

Fox was on in my office break room and they’re just losing their minds over this ‘terrible crime of leaking’

FlamingLiberal posted:

The leaker just gives the Right a smokescreen to scream about something completely inconsequential to the fact that a court is about to remove a right that is like 50 years old

BiggerBoat posted:

FlamingLiberal posted:

Fox was on in my office break room and they’re just losing their minds over this ‘terrible crime of leaking’

Astrofig posted:

Soooo bye-bye abortion rights apparently. Any guesses what they're gonna axe next? Gay marriage? Women's voting rights? Desegregation?

Astrofig posted:

Soooo bye-bye abortion rights apparently. Any guesses what they're gonna axe next? Gay marriage? Women's voting rights? Desegregation?

Astrofig posted:

Soooo bye-bye abortion rights apparently. Any guesses what they're gonna axe next? Gay marriage? Women's voting rights? Desegregation?

moonmazed posted:

no better time to just kill myself and get it over with i guess

BiggerBoat posted:

I doubt the emphasis will move to contraception but definitely same sex marriage.