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Wayne Knight posted:Looks like the tweet was deleted Apparently there's a big rundown via extremism researcher Chad Loder that goes over more of it.https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1607849146878246917?t=NRtBKejAhl0JtJIUYVPeNQ&s=19
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The substatck article had to be revised *twice* to remove anti-semetic dogwhistles. Which is irritating, as other than dogshit like "Chaya Ratick and Ben Shipero knew each other because they're both Jewish" it has a lot of good information.
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Young Freud posted:Apparently there's a big rundown via extremism researcher Chad Loder that goes over more of it.https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1607849146878246917?t=NRtBKejAhl0JtJIUYVPeNQ&s=19 Of loving course she was there.
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I think in the right wing chudosphere being at the Jan 6 riot is becoming a mark of pride for the true believers. You'll have new right wing media personalities pop up in the next 5-10 years trying to Rannazzisi themselves saying they were super there and were right next to Ashli Babbitt when she was shot. edit: USCE Winter will be opening up soon, probably right after New Year's.
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meanwhile, probably surprising no one https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1607603002805731330
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I think the explanation I've come up with that squares the circle of "Elon Musk is a complete moron," "Elon Musk is a chessmaster," and "usually competent conservative money has poured into Elon's purchase and isn't visibly withdrawing yet" is that Elon Musk's purchase of twitter was intended to both inoculate him against sources of online critique and also give the Republicans/conservative backers of Elon the 2024 elections through control of arguably the most influential media platform...but Elon is so poisoned by both his own issues and twitter's echo chamber and feedback problems that he's managed to gently caress even that up on an unimaginable scale.
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What if the GOP controlled Twitter... but each tweet now has a giant goatse pop-up?
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Is there any rule that a giant image of goatse can’t run for president?
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pencilhands posted:Is there any rule that a giant image of goatse can’t run for president? Christmas Islander and therefore ineligible.
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Nameless Pete posted:Christmas Islander and therefore ineligible. blast!
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The domain is Christmas Island, but was the photo taken on American soil, or by an American citizen?
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Nameless Pete posted:Christmas Islander and therefore ineligible. Precedent established by Sonic the Hedgehog.
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pencilhands posted:Is there any rule that a giant image of goatse can’t run for president? It was born in 1999 so not quite old enough.
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Discendo Vox posted:I think the explanation I've come up with that squares the circle of "Elon Musk is a complete moron," "Elon Musk is a chessmaster," and "usually competent conservative money has poured into Elon's purchase and isn't visibly withdrawing yet" is that Elon Musk's purchase of twitter was intended to both inoculate him against sources of online critique and also give the Republicans/conservative backers of Elon the 2024 elections through control of arguably the most influential media platform...but Elon is so poisoned by both his own issues and twitter's echo chamber and feedback problems that he's managed to gently caress even that up on an unimaginable scale. Yeah but you're dumb as poo poo so (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Lib and let die posted:Yeah but you're dumb as poo poo so In news that does not have to do with Elon Musk or other irritating people in online venues of various levels of deadness and gayness, I haven't seen anything about the Southwest shitshow ITT: https://gizmodo.com/outdated-software-southwest-airlines-cancelations-1849933946 For anyone not aware: The recent storms have precipitated a total meltdown for Southwest's ability to be a functional airline (other airlines have not experienced this). The proximal cause, from my understanding, is that their antiquated scheduling system simply assumes crew are in certain locations at any given time, and does not use the information that is readily available to Southwest as to where the employees actually are. The storm threw enough of a wrench into this that the rest of Southwest Airline's human and capital systems could not compensate as they did in normal situations. Whatever the exact details, this seems like just another casualty of the MBA-ification of critical infrastruction and institutions - similar to the ongoing JIT-induced disasters of the supply chain. This IT infrastructure is a "cost center," and clearly they punted maintenance on it. What looks like a good business decision out-of-context and in normal operating conditions becomes a disaster.
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I'm still amazed that structuring an economy on playing hot potato by quarter with necessary expenditures somehow became the dominant ideology of the planet. Especially since everything is further underpinned by the religious devotion to the belief that economic growth is eternal and unfailing under the benevolent invisible hand of the market.
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cat botherer posted:Looks like someone has a very poor grasp of Poster Analysis and Criticism!
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Gyges posted:I'm still amazed that structuring an economy on playing hot potato by quarter with necessary expenditures somehow became the dominant ideology of the planet. Especially since everything is further underpinned by the religious devotion to the belief that economic growth is eternal and unfailing under the benevolent invisible hand of the market. It's such a visibly stupid system and it's been so for a good while. It's obvious that any such system needs regular maintenance but the whole capital class are all convinced they're some sort of genius and it will be someone else holding the bag. And they're right: even the idiots in charge of this mess will likely get away with just a slightly smaller bag of loot as they're bailed out/the public pays for the fix. I have seen remarks from various congress critters and Secretary of Transportation Butt about investigating but...who knows if anything will happen.
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I think I read that they are probably violating a bunch of FAA regulations involving flight crews/pilots but I highly doubt that they will face more than a small fine
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This certainly answers all questions and in no way raises any more. https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1608101971495628801 FlamingLiberal posted:I think I read that they are probably violating a bunch of FAA regulations involving flight crews/pilots but I highly doubt that they will face more than a small fine They of course being the corporate entity, not anyone who actually made the decisions that broke regulations. Nothing is ever going to change until the executive suites begin to be frog marched out in handcuffs/are personally fined millions for the illegal actions the cause the company to take. Gyges fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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I’m genuinely curious if this whole fiasco led to any real life whacky odd couple situations where two or more strangers teamed up to get home by alternative methods a la Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Gyges posted:This certainly answers all questions and in no way raises any more. who is this shell of a man, he is an absolute onion
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pencilhands posted:I’m genuinely curious if this whole fiasco led to any real life whacky odd couple situations where two or more strangers teamed up to get home by alternative methods a la Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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pencilhands posted:I’m genuinely curious if this whole fiasco led to any real life whacky odd couple situations where two or more strangers teamed up to get home by alternative methods a la Planes, Trains and Automobiles I did see a tiktok about 4 strangers who rented a car to go from Florida to the north east somewhere. Didn't see how it ended up though.
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Normy posted:I did see a tiktok about 4 strangers who rented a car to go from Florida to the north east somewhere. Didn't see how it ended up though. Editing: it wasn't strangers but I was WTFing at their path. Found it: Trying to get from Tokyo to Portland, so they flew: Tokyo to Detroit, to Salt Lake City, to Amsterdam, and they're stuck there until the 29th. Apparently they're flying on employee standby. Involuntary Sparkle fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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nine-gear crow posted:"Did Not Vote" is still far and away the #1 winner for Millennials, handily beating out any rightward or leftward drift that can be detected. They are getting mildly more conservative for various reasons, but that drift is still cancelled out by "I didn't vote, but here's my 80,000 word Reddit thesis on why you should listen to my opinions about..." Do you have any proof of this?
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pencilhands posted:I’m genuinely curious if this whole fiasco led to any real life whacky odd couple situations where two or more strangers teamed up to get home by alternative methods a la Planes, Trains and Automobiles I don't know if it was over a Southwest cancellation, but UTEP's men's basketball coach rented a car to help get some Pitt football players to El Paso in time for their bowl game.
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VorpalBunny posted:Do you have any proof of this? It's not the individuals getting more conservative, it's the liberals being more likely to die early.
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Judgy Fucker posted:I listened to an NPR segment and read an article somewhere so don't remember which details came from where but here's what I remember aside from what you already posted: I applied for a job as a software developer for Southwest a few months ago. I did not get the job because some ancient developer decided the best way to test one's software engineering skills was to quiz the various differences between all the java versions. Anyways, the point I was making is, Southwest knows about it and was describing how all of the code that runs their scheduling software is incredibly ancient and is held together by tape, spit, and hopes and dreams. Had this storm happened next year, it might not have been quite the shitshow, but right now, their software is poo poo.
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Editing: it wasn't strangers but I was WTFing at their path. Found it: Portland, ME or Portland, OR? I’d take my chances driving a rental from Detroit if it was ME.
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Gyges posted:I'm still amazed that structuring an economy on playing hot potato by quarter with necessary expenditures somehow became the dominant ideology of the planet. Especially since everything is further underpinned by the religious devotion to the belief that economic growth is eternal and unfailing under the benevolent invisible hand of the market. That's what happens when no one in charge ever suffers any penalties or backlash for doing this over and over and over. We'll never, ever nationalize offending companies or directly penalize the people responsible when the jenga tower inevitably collapses, so there's literally no incentive for the executives in charge to not just keep slashing everything to the bone and making incredibly short sighted decisions to make number go up this quarter. It will only end when the people pushing the policies start suffering meaningful consequences for doing so, and that's not going to happen any time soon.
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Kanos posted:That's what happens when no one in charge ever suffers any penalties or backlash for doing this over and over and over. We'll never, ever nationalize offending companies or directly penalize the people responsible when the jenga tower inevitably collapses, so there's literally no incentive for the executives in charge to not just keep slashing everything to the bone and making incredibly short sighted decisions to make number go up this quarter. Yeah, why would anyone stop doing the thing that constantly rewards them with millions of dollars, especially when the only punishment for failure is being constantly rewarded slightly less millions of dollars?
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Hey if anyone wants a fun quick read here's a 3 page letter from 38 states Attorney Generals begging Congress / the Department of Transportation to please loving do something about systemic failures with the airline industry from August. https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-08-31-Airline-Accountability-and-Increased-Consumer-Protection.pdf
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Normy posted:I did see a tiktok about 4 strangers who rented a car to go from Florida to the north east somewhere. Didn't see how it ended up though.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Portland, ME or Portland, OR? I’d take my chances driving a rental from Detroit if it was ME. Oregon. They also could have driven from SLC to Portland but they didn't want to hang around in SLC waiting for I-5 to clear up. So they flew to Amsterdam....
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Kalli posted:Hey if anyone wants a fun quick read here's a 3 page letter from 38 states Attorney Generals begging Congress / the Department of Transportation to please loving do something about systemic failures with the airline industry from August. Christ, you know a situation is disastrously, comically bad when you get broad spectrum bipartisan agreement on it in 2022. The airline industry has grown especially pernicious in recent years because they've realized that they're considered critical load-bearing infrastructure that cannot be allowed to completely fail, so they can basically deliberately run their companies into the ground and gently caress over every customer they possibly can because when poo poo goes south the government will almost assuredly bail them out. Again, the normal solution to an issue like this would be to nationalize the offending companies to clean them up, replace the offending executives, and ensure uninterrupted service continues, but that's icky socialism so we'll just let them keep issuing billion dollar stock buybacks and then sobbing about how they have no liquid cash available to handle the slightest downturn in business so can they please have a bailout?
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The airlines are in many ways a special case of capture because they have been corrupt from the ground up and have simultaneously always, always required massive subsidization. They're also resistant to federal takeover because it was one case where the feds did try to take over the industry, and the administration that did so got absolutely wrecked for it- and everyone involved at high levels remembers that episode. I've got some effortposts somewhere around SA about the "Air Mail scandal" floating around the forum if you want to search, but you can also just google it.
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Kalli posted:Hey if anyone wants a fun quick read here's a 3 page letter from 38 states Attorney Generals begging Congress / the Department of Transportation to please loving do something about systemic failures with the airline industry from August. Thank god Secretary Pete is on the job. https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1608209549034655744 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, what can't he gently caress up?
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