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Not actually US news, but saw the news about the school shooting in Izhevsk and it took a minute or two to sink in that "Oh, that's in Russia!" and not in the US. I like to think it's because of the lock that the US has on mass shootings ( the US has had 17 in 2022 vs Russia's 4 ) and not centerisim. ( with a dash of brain fog. )
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Jaxyon posted:17? LOL, it's way more than that I was pulling the list from Wikipedia's mass shooting list, which explains the discrepentcy.
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Sep 26, 2022 19:20
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Tibalt posted:From a content creator perspective (as observed by an outsider) it seems that moving away from slaving away for The Algorithm and producing content that you enjoy and patrons will support directly seems to be a much more fulfilling life. I think it will be less content creators being able to make stuff - there's too many folks that are just scraping by right now to afford it. I'm pledging $3 on Pateron right now, and that's pretty much all I can afford.
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Sep 27, 2022 19:35
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The US politics thread is talking online creators and the online creators is talking about banking. This is a werid day on the Something Awful forums. ANYWAY, the content creator whales on Youtube tend to be the first couple of people who find a particular niche first and keep making things without burning out. I'm less sure about Twitch, but it tends to come more down to niche + wide circle of like-minded folks since a ton of streamers follow one another + ability to talk extemperanously to stranges for hours. I think all the folks I follow on Twitch except one musican on Twitch have day jobs, since it's harder to capture the market on "playing video games." I barely listen to podcasts and I don't watch tiktok for the fear that it would become a massive time sink so I have no idea how to get popular on those platforms.
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Sep 27, 2022 22:08
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I think it's more a case of "we are taking a stand against Nazis!" and then it gets abused by people who think "Nazis" is "people we dislike." Which usually turns into "how can we use this tool to hurt queer people?" almost always. EDIT: See also, "how all queer content is porn in some people's hosed up minds." Twincityhacker fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Oct 3, 2022 15:45
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In a nicer world, the FDA would regulate dietary supplements, but I think it's too baked into right-wing grifts to regulate right now. =/
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Oct 3, 2022 16:24
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...I miss Geocities. It might not have been morr than the barebones of a website, but it was mine.
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Oct 3, 2022 19:19
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The DoD is going to remove and rename all government property named after confederate generals. I wonder how they picked the new names? But this is unambigiously a good thing, first with renaming any public feature with the native slur sq** and now with refusing to honor literal traitors.
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Oct 7, 2022 22:49
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haveblue posted:It says in the memo this is the result of each base holding its own local process ...dammit. I swear I can read.
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Oct 8, 2022 01:03
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Zwabu posted:I wonder what could possibly ever change someone’s alignment these days. Can the GOP screw up badly enough for people to decide they aren’t a Republican anymore? My Dad was a Republican for decades. I'm not sure when he jumped ship and started voting Democrat, but the absolute latest had to be 2008.
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Oct 9, 2022 00:12
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1579472512735645697 While not a rural dweller myself, I do know several people who live in rural areas. ( All hail fandom, the great connector of people. ) One of them in particular is a cattle rancher and for all the work that the entire 3x generation family does they pull in a tiny amount of money. And everything besides beef is more expensive. Their satellite internet is twice as expensive for half the service than someone on the same fandom message board who lives in a more populated area gets. I really hope that this goverment dude walks the walk and does something about this.
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Oct 10, 2022 17:11
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Eric Cantonese posted:Regardless of how the midterm elections go, it looks like we'll continue to live in interesting times. Welp. Hopefully if a strike happens it will be seen as "greedy excutives" vs. "the agreived workers." =/
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Oct 10, 2022 20:58
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HonorableTB posted:I am Native and I have no idea what you mean by sq** Squaw. The article I read, which I cannot now find of course, censored it like that. I just figured I'd copy it - even though I wasn't sure either what slur it was either. Here's a article from Reuters about it: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-completes-renaming-650-places-remove-derogatory-term-2022-09-08/ Twincityhacker fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Oct 12, 2022 |
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Oct 12, 2022 01:38
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Of all the current issues that are going on, "the election officals can accidently blew themselves up" was NOT something on my election shenanigans bingo card.
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Oct 15, 2022 22:12
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Fart Amplifier posted:As entertaining as the Twitter ordeal it is, it's kind of disheartening to see so little discussion about the GOP's likely legislative takeover. It's so close to the election, with a ton of people voting early, so there's not really much to discuss until the results are in.
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Nov 5, 2022 12:49
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Actually it's just hosed up that a terrorist mass shooting is barely mention and instead we are arging about Hunter Binden who *at worst* has done very low level corruption and is a drug addict. Should there be better laws about drugs and sex work? Yes, but "yelling about Hunter Biden" does jack poo poo to accomplish them. I just... IDK. This shooting has hosed me up a lot, probabalt the most since Uvalde and the one at the Buffalo grocery store.
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Nov 20, 2022 23:40
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FlapYoJacks posted:Ok but that won’t happen this time because… Racism. When was the last time you see the military fire on a group who is majority white men? EDIT: IT's happened, but it's been quite some time. EDIT EDIT: Wikipedia says 1979, and that was because the union crossed racial lines and five organizers were killed by the Klan and Nazis. So there were definately cops there. The last *offically* sanctioned union murder was 1959. Twincityhacker fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Nov 30, 2022 |
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Nov 30, 2022 00:36
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Repealing Defence of Marrige Act is good and cool. Also, I know Schumer is a politcal ghoul but the part where he mentioned wearing the same tie he wore at his daughter's wedding to the vote touched my blackened heart.
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Nov 30, 2022 01:00
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projecthalaxy posted:If it were 90 years instead, what would change? I don't know how to tell you this, but "things were bad in the past" and "things suck less now" are two ideas that can co-exist at the same time.
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Nov 30, 2022 17:32
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selec posted:I would say things suck pretty bad right now if you’re working class. It’s just different kinds of suck. And you can still get shot for protesting, or killed by the cops for whatever reason, and most of the time they get away with it. We're gonna go with a non-labor example for a quick second. Remember the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020? Remember how while plenty of Bad poo poo happened to protesters and how leadership were murdered, no cop machinegunned down the crowd and the facists that did kill people were punished? Why the gently caress do you think that "cops are gonna machinegun down railway strikers" is going to happen?
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Nov 30, 2022 17:53
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cat botherer posted:Do you remember the BLM protests, the pipeline protests, or have you just generally seen how cops behave? Yes. And, shockingly, they still did not involve machinegunning down the crowd.
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Nov 30, 2022 17:56
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selec posted:Well, you don’t have to gun them down when you can blind them (ask Linda Tirado) or kettle and mass arrest them or give them a rough ride (Freddie Gray) or just beat the poo poo out of them in the streets or pepper spray them from a few feet away (Lt John Pike). Twincityhacker posted:We're gonna go with a non-labor example for a quick second. Remember the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020? Remember how while plenty of Bad poo poo happened to protesters and how leadership were murdered, no cop machinegunned down the crowd and the facists that did kill people were punished? EDIT: AKA, no, I think it's loving bad, it's just not "mass murder" bad.
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Nov 30, 2022 18:10
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Dietrich posted:Not sure why that's your take away but you're kinda proving her point. I didn't realize "rape jokes aren't funny, especially when you are a person who's group is the one getting raped" is controverisal take. ... Also RE: Disney bond issue: You can see what happens when a theme park *doesn't* have a special liscene to do their own infurstructure by looking at the issues surrounding Universal Studios building their third gate and the people of Orange County are on the hook for a surprising amount. Such as a $125 million USD for 1.7 miles of road.
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Dec 2, 2022 17:42
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Turns out company towns are great when the only people who live there are people who can afford $5 million USD houses.
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Dec 2, 2022 17:52
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Rigel posted:Biden is taking a bold stance against Nazis. The anti-semite Majory Taylor Green, she of Jewish Space Lasers fame, just got re-elected to Congress. And I'm sure there's more. She's just been the most open about it. Having the opinon "killing Jewish people is bad" should be said more often.
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Elephant Ambush posted:He's just virtue signaling to the Israeli government I've already have a long day, and I litterally cannot tell if you are shitposting right now.
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Dec 2, 2022 18:28
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Elephant Ambush posted:Not a shitpost. To people like Biden, antisemitism mostly means "opposed to apartheid imposed by the Israeli government" and he's making sure Israel knows he has their backs I think selec is wrong, but we disagree on more of the process than end result. You, however, are a piece of radioactive garbage. The difference between Ye and you is thinner than a beam of light. Ye has said in clear language that Jewish people should die. You are couching your hatred in progressive terms, but you and Ye agree on the end point: Jewish people should just shut up and die already. No one who harms Jewish people first asks about their opinion about Zionism and go "oops, my bad" and leaves them alone if they support the dismantling of the Isreali state. Also, anyone who agrees with you can gently caress off right into the sun. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Verus posted:Israel is an apartheid nation and should be an international pariah state. And somehow saying "the state sponsered genocide of Jewish people was bad" is somehow related to modern Isreal how exactly?
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Dec 2, 2022 22:10
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When we went to vote early in Wisconsin, we had to have our names verified by the poll worker, fill out the ballot, put it in an envelope, and then write our names on the sealed envelope on front of a different poll worker. Presumably day of voters just needed to visually compare IDs to voter roll.
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Dec 4, 2022 07:37
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The only thing I am surprised about terrorists targeting electrical substations is that tbey used guns to do so. I didn't think small arms fire would be enough to take one out. =/
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Dec 4, 2022 21:01
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This whole thread is about the consequences of the power being out in Moore county after the terror attack. I found this one to be the most interesting: https://twitter.com/A_Wilkins_/status/1599876400026378240?t=iOdQIWhGQmbnK9pFHxJynA&s=19 So, uh, at least the person who claimed to know why it happened got yelled at?
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Dec 6, 2022 01:41
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Maybe it's just in their town? IDK, the dude was interviewed by the New York Times, so I just know he a) exists and b) from there.
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Dec 6, 2022 03:05
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is potentially a massive breakthrough if the results are confirmed. I assume they already have or they would not be having a press conference about it. That's so cool! Hopefully the news conference is confirming it. = )
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nine-gear crow posted:https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1604631246470287360 Elon Musk has done something amazing - he's brought the Qutari royals and Saudi royals together in saying that he's a loving moron who couldn't manage to get out of a wet paper bag, let alone a multi-national company.
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Dec 19, 2022 03:52
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...I'm going to take away from this "cars got so much safer" because I feel like I can influence car safety more than outlawing guns at this point.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Twenty years ago or so now I spent a summer working in a liquor store. I worked the register. Yep. = (
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The law says that it only applies to performances with "prurient interests" and Shapespeare wouldn't count. It only counts when they want it to count.
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Dec 22, 2022 00:15
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I AM GRANDO posted:This kind of thing is why they outlaw homemade Chewbacca costumes at Star Wars land at Disneyland. Disney has had a pretty hard and fast "no cosplay for people over 12" for some time now. If cosplaying is allowed, it's spefically mentioned ahead of time. To my knowlage, the only time you can cosplay in the parks is during the specially ticketed Halloween events. Even then you aren't allowed to wear full face masks. This is to prevent small children from walking up to non-castmembers and thinking that they are really Belle or Chewie. Both for the child's safety and so the adults and teens don't get harrassed. There's a whole thing with Disney fans called "Disneybounding" where people dress as close as they can to a specific charecter before being asked to change or leave the park.
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Eveytime I hear "national debt" I just hear people complaining about "hand-outs to the dirty poors" and nothing that would actually help increase revenue - like properly funding the IRS.
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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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