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https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/kdka-investigates-downtown-pittsburgh-developer-demands/ The Foxconn and Amazon boondoggles were such a success that businesses are openly telling state and local government that they expect bribes before they’ll build anything.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/kdka-investigates-downtown-pittsburgh-developer-demands/ Local governments aren't doing enough for the rent seeking idle rich. After all the times the wealthy stood by Pittsburgh though thick and thin the past 100 years.
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Internet Old One posted:Or how these things have managed to pump out doom and gloom predictions about the future that never come to pass and never question if they should stop listening. When I was a kid I knew a bunch of kids from the local private school (no busing black kids!) were all taking Spanish because the AM radio was telling their parents we'd all be speaking Spanish by y2k and yet so many of them still took up their parent's ridiculous politics 20 years later.
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Internet Old One posted:but I've always been mystified how fash media can roll out memes and talking points that directly contradict every day observations and people still buy it. like fifteen years ago, goonfleet peeps were sitting in RISE system chat, spewing bullshit propaganda about how we had spies in their corp and their directors were stealing from them and treating them like serfs. Was it true? Who the gently caress cares! Them, I guess. They got mad. They said stupid poo poo back. They started internal fights over nothing. Idiots believed it and went on witch hunts. They decided they couldn't freely trust their peers and restricted access to shared resources. Their morale crumbled and they couldn't muster up enough people to fight back. Of course we said that poo poo. We crushed them. It was fun. my point is, you've heard poo poo like "words are just weapons" and "the cruelty is the point" right? So... why are you "mystified?" They do not "buy it", they see, clearly, with their eyes, that their words confuse and frustrate and anger you. They smile and do it some more.
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crazypenguin posted:like fifteen years ago, goonfleet peeps were sitting in RISE system chat, spewing bullshit propaganda about how we had spies in their corp and their directors were stealing from them and treating them like serfs. Was it true? Who the gently caress cares! Them, I guess. They got mad. They said stupid poo poo back. They started internal fights over nothing. Idiots believed it and went on witch hunts. They decided they couldn't freely trust their peers and restricted access to shared resources. Their morale crumbled and they couldn't muster up enough people to fight back. Of course we said that poo poo. We crushed them. It was fun. I’ve been watching and re-reading Shogun so I read this in a Japanese warlord voice.
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Shogun was the first real novel I read when I was a kid. In hindsight an 11 year old probably shouldn't have been reading that
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Shogun was the first real novel I read when I was a kid. In hindsight an 11 year old probably shouldn't have been reading that Generously Endowed
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Enderzero posted:I’ve been watching and re-reading Shogun so I read this in a Japanese warlord voice. rofl
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new dod report says the dod is not lying about uaps
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misread as "new dad report"
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new dad report says turn off that nintendo; mow the lawn
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New dad report says to "ask your mom"
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new dad report: thermostat temperature nominal. all is well
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new dad report: sorry son gotta miss your match again, work has been crazy!!
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new dad report: has anyone seen sleep
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SardonicTyrant posted:New dad report says "what did your mom say?"
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Is her friend named Kiryu, because that's a Yakuza sidequest.
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I wonder how often people think she’s middle eastern and if that makes her as mad as it makes some of the local Italians when someone speaks Arabic to them lol
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crazypenguin posted:
Ahh the ole I'm only pretending to be stupid. No maybe the ringleaders are like that, maybe online trolls are like that (Sartre quote here) but these were often friends and I'd often have no way of refuting what they were saying except waiting. and they'd be wrong but seem not to care. Eventually I became totally dismissive of any conservative talking points. I don't talk to those people anymore, just maybe look them up and see what they're up to. But I can tell the people I dismiss these days get upset by it. "Snobby liberal", "This is why I voted for Trump" all that. Dropping the Sartre quote on them gets them foaming at the mouth. No they're just loving stupid.
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lol way to go political science establishment there was originally a pdf link here but it seems to expire, so here's the abstract https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4749322 i wrote a paper about this ohh, idk, about 18 years ago, around the time when SCOTUS started making noises about adhering to originalism. the title was even substantially similar "is constitutional originalism bullshit?", but i had a conservative professor at the time and he gave me a C+ because "while well argued and researched" he "fundamentally disagreed with the premise and usage of profanity" lol glad too see my theory validated finally i guess, but c'mon this poo poo was obvious decades ago e: not sure why it keeps kicking to a login page for the pdf, but this should work code:Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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Acknowledging that obvious bad actors are obvious bad actors would damage the legitimacy of the system and also result in a lot of lost “journalism” jobs
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Beeftweeter posted:lol way to go political science establishment congrats on getting published!
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Mr. Nice! posted:congrats on getting published! it's not my article. mine was written circa 2005-6, was about half the length (it was for an underground course), and there weren't nearly as many "originalist" scotus decisions to analyze e: i guess i'm just kinda mad that it's finally reaching mainstream validity and all it took was another almost two decades of bullshit decisions Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Mar 10, 2024 |
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oh i thought you were linking to your paper. was all ready to give you props. you could have lived as michael smith for as long as you wanted to keep up the persona.
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lol https://www.nbcnews.com/news/kate-uks-princess-wales-issues-first-message-undergoing-surgery-rcna142641quote:Photo agencies issue removal notice on first photo released of Kate, Princess of Wales, since abdominal surgery she's right in the center of the frame, waving at us https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1766750995445387393
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gdi^^^^ lol the british palace released a super photoshopped photo of kate middleton that was so egregious that the ap sent out a kill notice for it which is not usual  
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but seriously she must be dying or something lol why else would they do this
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i think the most probable thing is that she had abdominal surgery, it sucks, she looks like poo poo, and she's taking time to recover
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mediaphage posted:i think the most probable thing is that she had abdominal surgery, it sucks, she looks like poo poo, and she's taking time to recover to the extent i care about the royals at all im more curious about whether charles' cancer is like really bad, there were rumours that it made them kickstart succession planning
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if they discovered the cancer while checking his prostate, my guess is it’s colon cancer and the outlook on that is pretty grim
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mediaphage posted:i think the most probable thing is that she had abdominal surgery, it sucks, she looks like poo poo, and she's taking time to recover 3 months seems like a pretty long recovery time for her to still be hidden away though. like, regardless of what the surgery was for, by now she should be at least able to pose for a picture for a few minutes without them having to photoshop it
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I guess it could be a few different types, but none of them have great prognoses
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:if they discovered the cancer while checking his prostate, my guess is it’s colon cancer and the outlook on that is pretty grim really? your first guess wouldn't be prostate cancer?
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Beeftweeter posted:really? your first guess wouldn't be prostate cancer? they specifically said it wasn’t that
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