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stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Wasn't that what a lot of people were quietly hoping for? And wasn't this a "big" deal (lol) in the Manafort docs?

Almost seems like this was deliberate

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stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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This column from the ABA gives a good history of PDF redaction. Written in response to the fuckups with the Manafort docs

And yeah, it's generally either highlighting in black or putting black bars over things without removing the text


quote:

Do I think this column will prevent future embarrassment caused by ineffective redactions? No, I have no such illusion. As the task of redacting falls to others in the future, we can expect more mistakes similar to those described above. Those errors will lead to embarrassments for the principals, which will lead to . . . well, you get the point. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, the digital age is upon us and has an appearance that promises permanency; however, for now, nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and redaction failures. We will hear more about all of them in the future.

stringless has issued a correction as of 10:52 on Jul 31, 2020

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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https://twitter.com/screaminbutcalm/status/1105577845642878976

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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eshock posted:

Did Dersh's grandson go to Harvard? There was a Cum Town episode where they told a story they heard from someone at the Harvard Lampoon: they had a friend who lost their virginity on Little St. James, and he flew there with his grandfather on the Lolita Express. I don't remember anything else about the episode sorry.

yep

also has a staff page for the Harvard Lampoon

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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FizFashizzle posted:

I always liked Chomsky's quote about going to the MIT labs to figure out what technology would be like in 15 years.
yeah, uh, about that

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Victory Position posted:

she is going to escape this mortal coil

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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inferis posted:

the 5g stuff drives me crazy because obviously the claims about it have nothing backing them up, but what people object to is being suspicious of new technology and implicitly trusting that the government wouldn’t pursue dangerous technology if it serves their interests

crazy eyes mustafa posted:

It’s apparently millimeter wave radiation (same as the airport scanners that are supposed to be kept at a lower frequency but the TSA cranks up to actually be able to see anything- and yes they can see everything in great detail and share the images amongst themselves) which I don’t think the effects of being bathed in it all day every day have been studied enough so we get to live the experiment instead. If it comes down to just not wanting to be a part of an experiment (similar to being a pedestrian on streets where self driving cars are plowing through crosswalks) where the effects are literally unknown then I can understand that.

i remember reading about how 5G was going to interfere with weather satellites since it can get close to the frequency used to detect water vapor, did anything ever come of that?

besides "money said 'no'"

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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The Saucer Hovers posted:

drugs are entirely unnecessary but can be helpful for beginners and the impatient
yo they're called entheogens not endemongens

my most notable trip had me scampering around my apartment because i could just feel the boundaries of the sphere i was clearly being kept in Matrix-style, i could feel an opening at the top and i could feel that there was something attached to the back of my head -- my hands could pass through but with resistance

then i sobered up

the time i did a dozen hits of acid just introduced me to basically Nurgle with fancier patterns because i kept feeling like i needed to poo poo and the bathroom had lovely ventilation

drugs are a land of contrasts

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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as a result i'm rewatching the 4k remaster of The Bridge On the River Kwai and Alec Guinness' role is exceptionally British

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Marzzle posted:

what's mall world

a shared dream-space

think "the backrooms" except playing around with the idea of a conceptual mall as setting for dreams

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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OutOfPrint posted:

Aliens that look like white people have been reported since at the latest the 50's, but that is most likely because white people are descendants of the first human/grey breeding program. Just like how the Hollywod ideal of beauty for women is white with large eyes and small mouths to subtly guide standards of beauty toward alien/human hybrids, which is actually a thing people actually believe.

Anya Taylor-Joy exists

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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OutOfPrint posted:

And Zooey Deschanel, and Emma Stone, and it's totally not some weird pedophilia thing because babies have proportionally larger eyes compared to their heads than adults and human brains are hard wired to find that cute so we don't kill our kids.
They're both fairly normal-looking while being more attractive than average.

What about Thomas Brodie-Sangster, a male co-star that can see the main character eye-to-eye?

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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buddy, i'm just adapting from a half-remembered meme i couldn't find so i had to paraphrase

that said i'd probably have few qualms about copulating with a consenting alien

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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poo poo POST MALONE posted:

spoiler: he's a she
Delta-Wye is referring to Vilerat lol

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Delta-Wye posted:

thanks but naw, i got owned lol
super weird coincidence then

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Proust Malone posted:

I know people who do this and it is very clockwork orange even without being domestic gladio. The assessment portion is pretty straight forward. the plethysmograph is a ring like a blood pressure cuff around the duck and the person is shown various forms of porn, the point being to distinguish how much a person is turned on by say adult consensual behavior vs non consensual or kids vs adults, boys vs girls etc. The “treatment” though is making the dudes jerk off while like mantra-ing appropriate sexual encounters and then after they cum, continuing to jerk off their now flaccid dick to inappropriate fantasy scenarios. “I am touching the buttocks of a ten year old boy...I am touching the buttocks of a ten year old boy...”

it creeps me the gently caress out but apparently the recidivism rate is much lower
i got dick metered as a young teenager

it was an elastic wire ring that measured my physical response to various spoken word sexual situations (which were mostly "deviant" or that other similar term that starts with a "d" that nazis are super concerned about but i can't currently remember)

it was incredibly creepy then and in retrospect it's fully horrifying, super happy to recall this, thanks

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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well he could have named it

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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paul_soccer12 posted:

broke: the vietnam war didn't happen
woke: the gulf war didn't happen
bespoke: 9/11 didn't happen
9/11 wasn't a domestic terror attack

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Excelzior posted:

RIP to Melinda on her impending suicide
"I have information that will lead to the divorce of Bill Gates"

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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DARPA funds Boston Dynamics which develops robots for DARPA, for entry-level

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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ram dass in hell posted:

It's not specifically drug trafficking the book but Killing Hope is a classic and contains lots of drug trafficking content
highly recommend, it's basically the outline of how the US took all the goodwill of the world post-WW2 and used it to gently caress everything up

plenty of CIA and CIA-related stuff in there iirc

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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imo the best bit is how the Veiled Prophet in 1972 was unveiled by a protester (who accomplished this via a rope descent) to be the VP of Monsanto

(it's in the Atlantic article)

quote:

The 1972 Veiled Prophet was unmasked in what was one of the most dramatic guerrilla protests ever organized by local civil-rights leader Percy Green. The Ball that year was held in cavernous Kiel Auditorium. Activist Gena Scott, dramatically sliding down a power cable a la Mission Impossible, unmasked the enthroned Prophet. It turned out to be the then-executive vice president of Monsanto, Tom K. Smith. Scott’s car was bombed and her house vandalized.

https://twitter.com/devintoshea/status/1283123649902514176

stringless has issued a correction as of 07:04 on Jun 1, 2021

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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animist posted:

what is it with the cabal and weird rituals
secret societies are all about rituals that you'd sound crazy for revealing

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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every day i thank myself for never quite getting around to mounting a corkboard on a wall

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Riot Bimbo posted:

poo poo at least Bezos is leaning into being Lex Luthor On A Budget
ol' JB is currently worth two and a half times Lex Luthor's highest valuation

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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I read Killing Hope back in the LF days and it's only been downhill since.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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way too tall for a gang tag



or

stringless has issued a correction as of 14:39 on Jul 4, 2021

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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regarding the quoted tweet, i didn't know what it meant so in case others don't either:

MENA = Middle East(ern)/North Africa(n)

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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obviously it should be used as the plate for the cursed grilled cheese sandwich

stringless has issued a correction as of 16:48 on Oct 7, 2021

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Laterite posted:

"Ranger Rick is a CIA cutout," I tell my 10-year old self before stepping back into the time portal cackling like a madman
"And then everything keeps getting worse", I tell my 10-year old self after slapping down a copy of Killing Hope then shouting "everything suuuuucks" as I hopefully fatally backflip into the wormhole

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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lovely biblical literalism almost always leans into the antisemitic + detached from reality zone so maybe they split the difference?

like the Serpent Seed doctrine is 100% "Jesus was white and The Jews are descended from Satan"

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Perry Mason Jar posted:

Please stop trying to hurt my feelings, I never insult anyone here when I disagree with them or tell them to shut up or any of this stuff.
no one has accused you of any of that

just strong recommendations to take a few days off

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Ziggy Smalls posted:

The trick is you just put Wikipedia's source in your bibliography.
that was always the trick

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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"joke's on you i was only pretending"

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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*waves vaguely at the Jimmy Saville journalistic cover-up*

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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dunno, i'd do crimes if Mignola had to be the court artist

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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for instance: how many of Epstein's accusers have loving died?

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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Cabbages and Kings posted:

i listen to phish when i get stoned at a friend's place and he tolerates shpongle and Go_A here. Detante.
i will always fondly remember a moment of being in a joint-passing circle, high off my rear end sitting just in front of and facing away from the TV, grooving to the music that was playing on it

when i asked what was playing, a dude was like "that's widespread, man" like this was some huge and important revelation

instead i said something like "oh, yeah, that makes sense."

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stringless
Dec 28, 2005

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like what does anyone expect to happen here

ain't like she grew vampire teeth when she started growling, I'm just surprised she didn't get shot

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