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I also learned during a "fake news/real news" so-called comedy segment that apparently there's a ride share app that requires the driver and the passengers to be armed. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/app-hires-rideshare-drivers-pack-211000305.html Black Wolf will now compete with Uber and Lyft to bring a different kind of journey to riders, and founder and CEO Kerry KingBrown told Atlanta News First, “We’re about security and safety at all times.” KingBrown, who is a private investigator and experienced bodyguard, told the outlet he wants riders to have “executive protection” during times of uncertainty. “Who are mostly on the news getting robbed, getting raped? The average person,” he said. “What I’m creating is a necessary evil. It’s a necessity.”
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HootTheOwl posted:Today the fill in for Dennis Prager explained how because we let gay marriage happen, polygamy is on the rise and also we let sm/furies at pride so that 1) there can be assigned human at birth dogs because we let trans people exist 2) that's just going to let us do beastiality 3) just before pedophilia is legal because the pc police make you say map.
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Panfilo posted:Marjorie Tyler Greene told a reporter how there's some city in Georgia where it's "mandatory" for homeowners to own a gun, and since this law was passed there were ZERO murders. The fact that she didn't mention the city by name or contrast the change in crime makes it sound like she's pulling the whole thing out of her rear end. It's Kennesaw, GA and while there is a law about compulsory gun ownership it's not actually enforced. People like her love to trot out the "everybody owns guns and it led to zero crime" bullshit but the numbers were already low, not everybody is walking around strapped at all times, and the entire state of GA experienced a drop in crime rates over the same period without any kind of similar law. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kennesaw-gun-law/
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The Islamic Shock posted:Do His evidence was some survey that said some percentage of somebody's were ok with a polyamours relationship. Or had been in one. I don't know I missed the middle of the rant because I spent an hour at the dog park and he was still going when we got back to the car and apologizing to the audience for still going HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 14:23 on May 27, 2023 |
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Panfilo posted:Next time some chud brings up the democrats crime blerg blerg talking point I'm gonna ask them to name a republican mayor of a city with a population of over a million... I'm not sure this exists. Jacksonville, FL is I think the largest city with an R mayor and it's just under 1m people and he was just voted out. Next largest cities per this Wiki page I'm using are Fort Worth (935k) and Oklahoma City (688k).
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The Islamic Shock posted:(really almost always in the US) wives. lmfao no but go off, american exceptionalist
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Oh he actually called that out: "It wasn't even one husband many wives like you'd expect"
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:lmfao no but go off, american exceptionalist I think you're reading that sentence wrong, there's not even a hint of American Exceptionalism in it, merely a limiting scope.
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Tree Dude posted:I'm not sure this exists. Jacksonville, FL is I think the largest city with an R mayor and it's just under 1m people and he was just voted out. Next largest cities per this Wiki page I'm using are Fort Worth (935k) and Oklahoma City (688k). 
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Is Colorado Springs the one that had self funded streetlights or some lolbertarian fantasy like that?
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Weatherman posted:Is Colorado Springs the one that had self funded streetlights or some lolbertarian fantasy like that? yep quote:Take the streetlights. Turning them off had saved the city about $1.25 million. What had not made the national news stories was what had happened while those lights were off. Copper thieves, emboldened by the opportunity to work without fear of electrocution, had worked overtime scavenging wire. Some, the City Council learned, had even dressed up as utility workers and pried open the boxes at the base of streetlights in broad daylight. Keeping the lights off might have saved some money in the short term, but the cost to fix what had been stolen ran to some $5 million. It's also evangelical capital and contributor to the Air Force being hella christian lunatics
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BiggerBoat posted:I also learned during a "fake news/real news" so-called comedy segment that apparently there's a ride share app that requires the driver and the passengers to be armed. To be fair, it's just another way to grift paranoid idiots out of their money. And if you're targeting people who are wealthy enough to afford to carry guns around with them, they're probably wealthy enough to want to pay a premium for their paranoia. That being said, driving around extremely paranoid armed individuals who are willing to pay a premium to be indulged in their delusion that the world is out to kill them seems like a hell of a liability.
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Dirk the Average posted:To be fair, it's just another way to grift paranoid idiots out of their money. And if you're targeting people who are wealthy enough to afford to carry guns around with them, they're probably wealthy enough to want to pay a premium for their paranoia. No way that doesn't result in multiple drunken murders cuz the drivers won't stop at wendys on the way home from the bar.
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https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1662631123782979587?t=7IRALOA0_M1a3b9Hko26Zw&s=19 Everyone is outraged at the idea that a person could get away with being late so many times then sue their employer for being fired over it. People in the comments are saying "now nobody will hire black people because they're afraid they'll get sued!"  Pretty sure this is the garden variety racial discrimination issues at work twisted into "actually we fired her for being late, a totally reasonable cause for termination".
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I work in Social Security, recording hearings for judges. Typically disability hearings for people who filed, were denied, and asked for a hearing before a judge to appeal. I had a case recently where the claimant had been fired from his last job as a prison commissary guy (like a convenience store setting but in jail- he was not an inmate). The notes on his records claimed he slept on the job, tended to just stare in a rude/creepy manner, and threw things at the guards and inmates when bothered. For the first two, he had absence seizures that were undiagnosed at the time. For the last one, he had been in a car accident years ago and essentially did not have any arm strength- if I remember correctly his dominant arm was missing the bicep, soooo... It took the judge 45 minutes or so of direct, intense interrogation before they realized that the prison guards who reported him may have maybe been perhaps lying a teensy bit. Frankly the fact his case got to the hearing level at all was mind boggling. Evilreaver fucked around with this message at 06:54 on May 28, 2023 |
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1662631123782979587?t=7IRALOA0_M1a3b9Hko26Zw&s=19 Lol even in the right-wing circle-jerk that Twitter has continued to spiral into, Andy Ngo still gets fact-checked.
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Before Musk took over, I almost never saw that feature used anywhere except on the Trump tweets which put Twitter into a legally-questionable position. It was practically nowhere else, just on the absolute minimum amount of stuff to scare away the would-be regulators. While it appears as if that fact-checking notice would be a useful thing overall, that it is being comparatively overused so much is probably another sign of company-wide malfunction. It's almost ominous, in a way, that this one thing is working "correctly" when so much else is falling apart.
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Morroque posted:Before Musk took over, I almost never saw that feature used anywhere except on the Trump tweets which put Twitter into a legally-questionable position. It was practically nowhere else, just on the absolute minimum amount of stuff to scare away the would-be regulators. I didn't even know it existed pre Musk. The only time I see it now is to weaponize right wing narratives. It's rare I see it used to rebuke reactionary points. As a hosed up example, there was a video of a trans woman getting brutally beaten by police in Italy and the community notes were basically, quote:
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Morroque posted:Before Musk took over, I almost never saw that feature used anywhere except on the Trump tweets which put Twitter into a legally-questionable position. It was practically nowhere else, just on the absolute minimum amount of stuff to scare away the would-be regulators. I think it had been incubating for a while and the timing just sorta lined up with Musk taking over. The algorithm is open-source and seems decent. From what I can tell, it likes to show notices when a diverse group of people all agree that a note is appropriate. I think a lot of the feedback loops that normally appeal to lovely people don't really click, so you get a more "Wikipedia" vibe than we normally see in social media.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1662631123782979587?t=7IRALOA0_M1a3b9Hko26Zw&s=19 I saw something similar happen on Friday. (Content Warning. Dead children, medical neglect.) On a Twitch stream I watch there was a discussion where someone posted a newspaper article about "Somalian immigrant sues NHS for failing to tell her to feed her baby." The guy who posted this was using it as an example about how there are a lit if stupid people out there who want their hand to be held all the time. Upon fact checking the article, the background to it came out. This was a 21 year old woman who had given birth to a child. She wasn't monitored while in the hospital, she wasn't given enough information on how to breast feed her baby and as a result the child ended up dying within 24 hours of being born. She then sued the hospital and the NHS for this shocking example of medical negligence and was awarded substantial compensation. But the newspaper headline (from the Daily Telegraph an infamously right wing news paper) was one that was technically correct, but also hugely misleading. It is worded in such a way as to imply the person was awarded money for suing the NHS for not telling her "simple common sense stuff everyone should know" when really she was not given the care a new mother and newborn child require. It also had the right wing dog whistle racist element of "look this silly foreigner girl came here and took loads of OUR NHS money because she is too stupid to know that you feed babies." to enrage their readers. Not surprising the whole thing became a online squabble. But as a general rule, if a headline makes it sound like someone got a massive ammount of money for being stupid, then it's worth reading the article in full or another one. Since courts generally look at cases with a fine tooth comb and don't make snap judgments.
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Mellow Seas posted:Jacksonville and Colorado Springs were two cities notable for being Republican dominated and just both recently (like, within the last month) elected D mayors by big margins. Everyone wantin' the D these days
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The Question IRL posted:I saw something similar happen on Friday. The same insidious poo poo that we saw with the McDonalds' hot coffee lawsuit, but through the lens of right-wing rags instead of corporate misinformation. Cool. 
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Dirk the Average posted:To be fair, it's just another way to grift paranoid idiots out of their money. And if you're targeting people who are wealthy enough to afford to carry guns around with them, they're probably wealthy enough to want to pay a premium for their paranoia. I guess. I know I always feel much MUCH safer in a car filled with people I never met all carrying a loaded firearm. Bonus feelings of safety if I have my 12 year old son with me.
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BiggerBoat posted:I guess. I know I always feel much MUCH safer in a car filled with people I never met all carrying a loaded firearm. Bonus feelings of safety if I have my 12 year old son with me. Technically, if your 12 year old son is with you, one of the people in the car carrying a loaded firearm is someone you've met.
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Zamujasa posted:The same insidious poo poo that we saw with the McDonalds' hot coffee lawsuit, but through the lens of right-wing rags instead of corporate misinformation. Cool. The people demand tort reform!
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I remember back when RWM was exploiting the death of NFL player Pat Tilman. Stumbled onto this article that's a nice little summary of who he was versus what AM talk radio tries to make him out to be https://deadspin.com/this-memorial-day-let-s-honor-the-real-pat-tillman-1847001614 This Memorial Day, let’s honor the real Pat Tillman quote:What the USA! USA! Propaganda machine doesn’t want you to know about Pat Tillman are these things: That he enlisted in the Army 9 months after 9/11, largely because he didn’t believe it was fair that defending the nation fell disproportionately on marginalized communities and Americans of color. As SI’s Gary Smith wrote in perhaps the definitive piece on Tillman’s military service, “The foisting of all the dirty work onto people less fortunate than an NFL safety clawed at his ethics.” Tillman wanted to serve in Afghanistan, but was sent instead to Iraq (he was later re-deployed to Afghanistan), a war which he would eventually call “so loving illegal.”
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This is the kind of great comedy you get from this website https://twitter.com/krangtnelson/status/1663561304299425794?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is the kind of great comedy you get from this website The embed really buries the lede on Joey Mannarino. Spoilering this response because of screencaps of repeated transphobic slurs: https://twitter.com/SunkenFlower/status/1663534025749692417?s=20 Dude thinks a lot about cum. ZZT the Fifth fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 30, 2023 |
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FWIW Chik-Fil-A has been walking back their support of anti-LGBT organizations
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Well I can't read it because of the paywall but the subheading is something like "LGBT rights organizations say they should do more" Also isn't the issue that the CEO kept donating his money to kill-the-gays groups even after the corporation stopped doing that officially, not sure how this solves that. Like cool that the company isn't donating to Fellowship of Christian Athletes, but is washing the donations to even worse groups through the CEOs compensation and capital gains somehow helping gay people compared to just giving the money to anti-gay lobbyists directly? VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 30, 2023 |
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It's funny, because the damage is already done. I don't eat a lot of fast food as it is, but Chick-Fil-A is at the bottom of my list of places to eat at, and I don't see much of anything ever changing that ranking.
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This should be viewed with strong skepticism, as Chik-fil-A has done this "walking back" press round repeatedly over the years. At root, a big part of their business model is real estate investment integration with Southern megachurches; unless that changes, the walkbacks aren't particularly material.
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chikfila is pretty standard chicken and ill never understand why it draws such a large crowd they sometimes slow down regular traffic with their drive thru lines
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How does Raising Cane's feel about trans rights? Their chicken ain't amazing but it's made up by the dippins
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AtomikKrab posted:I have walked through the streets of baltimore well after midnight, in some of the "bad" areas, and been completely fine despite being nearly see through. Otakon doesn't count.
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Who knows? People went ape poo poo for Popeyes chicken sandwich a few years ago too. It’s fine but it is pretty crazy how busy they are. I think people just get it in their head that it’s so good they have to have it every time cause they’re so bored of the other fast food. Then a decade later they’re just humming along like all the others.
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Jaxyon posted:Every chicken dipping sauce people rave about is mayo, ketchup, mustard, and some sugar.  Dirk the Average posted:It's funny, because the damage is already done. I don't eat a lot of fast food as it is, but Chick-Fil-A is at the bottom of my list of places to eat at, and I don't see much of anything ever changing that ranking. Can you really say the damage is done when they are immensely popular and got more love from conservatives than boycotts from progressives?
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