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Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Can't wait for some sweet political deepfakes to pop up this year, though with clips that editable maybe they'll just refine the technology more before unleashing it.

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Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
How are you gonna pay for universal healthcare when we have to fight this war?

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Holy poo poo having world leaders tweet stupid poo poo at one another is the loving stupidest development in international diplomacy in a hot second. Nothing like calling out your dipshit rival publicly and in the immediate moments after an event.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Iran's actions + tweets were all pretty bombastic, and they know Trump is an idiot. How likely is it that they were attempting to bait us into kicking things off?

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Yeah I'm just feeling a little bit excitable I think. The fact that things have escalated so quickly from the other day is pretty disconcerting

To be clear I didn't mean Iran baiting the US to kill their top guy but some kind of lesser response. I realize that they like to talk poo poo but tweeting about how President Trump can't respond to your aggression seems like such an obvious mistake. Goading someone as petty as Trump without wanting him to respond doesn't make much sense.

Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 3, 2020

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

joat mon posted:

Considering the tweets/etc. were from 2018 to early 2019, they probably weren't much of a factor.

Ah there it is, for whatever reason I was under the impression they came within the last week or so. Thanks for clarifying that.

Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jan 3, 2020

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Sometime during the next administration, whoever is running it.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
On the international stage the USA is quickly coming to resemble all those trump supporters who post their white bread / hot dog xmas dinners because their families disowned them

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Midjack posted:

Adversary gets on the phone then uses pictures and messages harvested from the phone to send targeted deepfake porn videos featuring the phone owner’s spouse or SO and someone else in the unit every 10 minutes nonstop for a week.

Wouldn't it be cheaper / easier to just access the videos Jody has been making on their phone and send out the real McCoy?

Phone -> spouse Facebook -> Jody's Facebook -> Jody's phone -> distribution

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
loving stupid motherfuckers

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

fknlo posted:

https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/1214705584337031168?s=20

Thankfully we have a sane and competent government that's not run by a brain worm infested reality TV star.

Launching ballistic missiles is definitely behavior I associate with a reticence for war

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Cadet Bonespurs says "no thanx" to war with Iran, military service, rational thought.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Everyone doxxing each other is a fantastic return to helldump form

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Milo and POTUS posted:

What are you wonderfulling

The complete dissolution of any faith they had in American institutions.


Miracle it took this long.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Go Baltimore

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
All the teams I root for lose.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

BigDave posted:

Lions - Bills Super Bowl

coming to the thunderdome in 2055

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
If you were gonna do trial by combat why wouldn't you just use a gun?

Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jan 14, 2020

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Chichevache posted:

And sully the honor of my family?

They suggest blades, you escalate to guns, they pull their suggestion. It's a classic maneuver, you just call their bluff.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Listening to Joe Rogan for the science and medical advice

*Cue Twitter post about explosive carnivore diet BMs*

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
That lady is a great argument for the complete denuclearization of our military and planet.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

joat mon posted:

By setting them all off?

By any means necessary. We can't afford to take any option off the table at this point.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

colachute posted:

do you think murderers vote out of spite or something?

because boy howdy do i have a major political party for you!

They'll vote themselves out of jail!!!

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
If by eco madness they mean profit incentive then yes, it is at fault.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
I'm not sick I swear, just let me in!

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

I dunno, with whatever that poll posted by that republican pundit about how Bernie voters who would vote trump if he lost the primary, I don't think this is totally off the mark.

Voters are loving stupid. Expecting politicians to turn down endorsements from popular media figures is counter productive to getting them elected. This seems especially true when your candidate has a great shot in the General but is placed 2nd in the Primary.

mlmp08 posted:

Winning people, ones who have reactionary social views, over to the left.

This is far from beyond the realm of possibility. People get interested in a popular candidate like Bernie, get some exposure to sources of political thought they were previously unaware of, etc etc etc. Literally taking votes from trump, instead of simply having his supporters stay home, is a great characteristic for Bernie's candidacy.

Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 24, 2020

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

FAUXTON posted:

Oh absolutely - the fact that this virus was genome sequenced quite early after identification means that people who'd otherwise be treated as regular-rear end flu patients are being questioned about their travel and then being tested for confirmation which presumably makes the public affairs people more comfortable with reporting each case as it's identified.

On one hand, flu kills tens of thousands each year but that's out of tens of millions of cases. This is like what, 40-50 out of less than a thousand? Yes it's dangerous but no it's not sweeping the loving globe like an unstoppable tide of croupy death.

It's not sweeping the loving globe like an unstoppable tide of croupy death yet.

Edit: Early 20th century France was a nation owned and operated by white nationalist colonialists just like everywhere else in Europe. By today's standards they were pretty poo poo w/r/t human and civil rights

Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Jan 24, 2020

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Guy that cut food stamps def not a member of the "business class telling the poor to get hosed" party. No siree.

Edit: a twitter post reporting the contents of a stupid loving subreddit posted on SA. Yuck.

Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jan 25, 2020

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Vasudus posted:

I mean maybe I'm just an idiot but usually the government does whatever action out of "an abundance of caution". Like giving people reduced price flu shots, or setting up hand sanitizer stations in public transport hubs. That's what you do when you say "an abundance of caution" and actually mean it.

You don't quarantine a city, let alone at least ten cities. You don't build two dedicated hospitals specifically to handle this event if everything is fine, nothing to see here.

Normally you don't quarantine cities at all for public health epidemics, because it fosters distrust of the government and makes the clear transfer of information and resources more difficult as you have the majority of the population who aren't sick fighting to get out, rather than effectively assisting in dealing with the public health crisis.

Taking two weeks to set up some kind of containment hospitals is also real loving dumb. This whole thing is a mess and the government response seems to be making it worse.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Lake of Methane posted:

I forgot that Sec State requires confirmation by the Senate only, not House and Senate.

I don't think any confirmation of any position requires a house vote. There is a very real possibility that I'm wrong though.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Oh boy Joe rogan and trans-athlete chat. That coronavirus can't come quickly enough

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

not caring here posted:

Well, how many million down the toilet there?

Well everything is a training opportunity if you think about it, and in that context this isn't even a particularly expensive training operation, relative to some of the wargames we participate in with our allies. I'm sorry what was the question again?

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
That's a great clip.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

bulletsponge13 posted:

Double Post, because I need to vent at how loving disgusted I am at this poo poo.
He admits guilt publicly. GOP Senators admit he did it. We've indicted numerous people who were complicit. Yet these ballless fucks would rather ensure their pay than the Republic.

I hope everyone of them gets painful, untreatable cancer.

Eh, probably not the most corrupt thing that's happened in our nation's history, though it might be the most brazen

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Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene
Peta has tons of well intentioned suckers donating to them.

Hell they set up shop on my campus twice a year soliciting donations and volunteers. A lot of people think they're legit

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