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class is just one of the intersections that are used to disadvantage people. i urge you to synergize stupidpol and intersectionality and become woke2: |
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That was a great talk and I don't disagree with a single thing she said. I can't help noticing though that the nexus of wealth and power has figured out how to respond to and leverage this kind of discourse to its advantage. I'll DM you on twitter. |
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I have to get a new copy, my klepto friend pinched mine years ago. You'd think there'd be a decent epub floating around, but no! There's only a shitty scanned and converted one full of scanning errors. |
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i hope you're not knocking Shaun's The Bell Curve Shaun's God, basically |
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i like black mirror, it's fun when it's about bad people making bad decisions (boring otherwise) |
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two hours 39 minutes! could you transcribe it for me, tia |
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If you believe the right wing bullshit about jewish or globalist conspiracies, you are a fucking moron. I myself was a long time unemployed without a proper education, but i always knew, that this stuff was pure horseshit. Being a poor loser is not a reason to become a right wing jackass. Maybe i am just better. |
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"I'm sad!" she said, seeming genuinely hurt. "It's a bad mark on him. I feel bad for him." As she spoke, the crowd around the bar had already begun to thin out. Some shuffled across the lobby to have dinner at the hotel restaurant. Others headed for the doors. No one bought a round of drinks to commiserate. By 9 p.m., Trump was in the middle of his counterprogramming rally in Michigan, but few people were watching by the time Fox News broke in to cover it. Just after 9 outside the hotel, an older man in a black jacket walked briskly toward the entrance, shouting to no one in particular. "I want to know who stays in this hotel!" he said. "What kind of person stays in this hotel?" |
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youtube is now normietube. you vote for things with your time, attention, and money. dont like youtube? dont continue to be an enabler to it by using it. the only measure of ones convictions on the matter is if they can walk away from it. otherwise there is no point in saying words about things one disagrees with while putting forth no actual actions to remedy the problem. |
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that's actually quite on my mind. i use a proxy setup, most of my web is bounced through whatever, and google has gotten increasingly obnoxious about this. your address is not verified! please spend five minutes marking traffic cones for our AI training! i literally get that when i go to google.com, these days. i can get to it if i need, either by solving the captcha or shrugging off my privacy and going direct. google maps is middling. mostly it just lets me use it without hassle; sometimes it demands i do mechanical turk werk for their ends. i think ahead to a future where profit matters so much to youtube that they throw up that wall whenever anyone tries to view a video. you can feel the consideration happening at the other end: well, web search, ok, we're still the best, so we can throw our weight around here. maps, they have some competitors, so, alright, sometimes we'll give it a pass. youtube, however, is too fucking huge, and if we start systemically blocking people from youtube the plebs will revolt but that may not last. one day, youtube will repeatedly be all "solve this recaptcha" for every link, and at that point, i will properly hate it. it will have been a nice run -- to be able to be all, 'oh, yeah, try this track' and just link it. sure, i can always upload an mp3, and i might go back to that -- but the frictionless experience of being able to pull out a song from the back of your brain (even if you don't have it) and link it on the spot is wonderful and i will miss it. meanwhile, when it comes to politics, i fucking hope that happens and google annoys the piss out of everyone and youtube is over |
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There are loads of incredible YouTube content creators and I usually click the ads at least once to support their labor |
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*animated gif of sarcastically making jerking off motions with hand* |
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Do you even watch ContraPoints, brx? |
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it's better than having to read the book it is possible to just watch the last 40 minutes about the politics, but it's better with the rest, ofc |
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for example is a ten minute read and contains as much information as seven hours of vlogs. |
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is good |
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steven pinker is so funny |
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On a podcast some centrist was lobbing softballs at him and he responded with the most avuncular, gently exasperated smug patience. Like "Heh, I really shouldn't have to explain this to you, but because I am a wise and noble man, I will take the time" |
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he has a really punchable face/backpfeifengesicht |
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it's different genres, or media also i don't read fast as i need to digest stuff |
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steven pinker is so funny i'm sure i've written this here before, but i'm not sure if you saw it, so i'll write it again. when i was pretty young, my dad had a postdoc position at MIT. sometimes he'd bring me along, and i loved it, because there were all sorts of computers and tech, some of which i was actually allowed to use. this was where i was introduced to the stunningly good-for-the-time (and still good now) game "Crystal Quest" on the lab's Mac Plus. seriously, it is a great game so i'm playing it, and eventually i realize i'm never even going to crack the top ten high score. everyone else in the lab has thoroughly killed it already the top score was, frankly, inhuman. over a million points, while the number two was only a few hundred thousand. the name read: STEVEN PINKER "this guy must be great," i think. "who's steven pinker?" i ask my dad. he is confused (does your six-year-old ask you about steven pinker?). i show him the high score, and he promptly cracks up. "oh, no, that's a joke," he replies. "steven pinker would never play that game." "why not?" i ask. "..." "he's too uptight." |
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some vague memories are bubbling up. i also think i tried on one of the macs there, but i'm not 100% sure |
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when i got to "they're trying to take your guns" it was a genuine lol (tm) |
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Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican, declared that Trump had been given less due process than Jesus Christ himself. If Trump is a martyr, who are his persecutors? You could watch the debate with the sound off and understand. All day, Republican speeches delivered by old white men alternated with Democratic speeches from women, people of color and young people. White men make up 90 percent of the Republican caucus and 38 percent of the Democratic one, and the day dramatized the representational gulf in the starkest visual terms. as strange as this may sound, this was actually a vast relief to me. couple that with the that indicate that this demographic is obese, alcoholic, addicted to opiates, and putting a major dent in the US mortality-rate curve. however, i should check my jaundice -- i am white, in this age range, i drink too much, and i am a bit fat. not being a republican does significantly increase my life expectancy, despite this. this leads me to the bottom line: we may be in for a rough time, but eventually, these people will be outvoted via a combination of mortality rates and general statistics (e.g. hispanic people will be a majority in the US in X years, like it or not). as long as we make it another decade or so, humanity (and america) will likely maintain. |
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if you've never heard of cape cod, you are not missing out. in an engineering sense, however, it is a fascinating case-study. there are strange conclusions like "the air conditioner killed cape cod's economy, and the infrastructure is currently finishing it off. sharks don't help things" cape cod, along with ~the hamptons~, had been a popular vacation spot for decades. in massachusetts, in the summer, august can break 100F (~38C, via javascript algebra). water, oceans especially, act like a capacitor for heat. so while boston is 100F, cape cod is is 67F/20C. before air conditioners were a thing, everyone who had the money got a house out there to beat the heat. the same is true of nantucket, martha's vinyard, all that cape cod has additional problems. the only way to get in and out of cape cod is route 6, which is like trying to eat a steak through a straw. if you wanted to fix the economics of cape-cod overnight, you would bulldoze the tiny, 55mph limited-shit, and put in four lanes of 65mph-limit balls. but the old shits in cape cod do not want this. no, this will bring in too many people. the young folk will party, and they might even party late so you wind up with a slowly suffocating community of increasingly old, conservative retirees with no one flowing in to replace them. i deeply pity anyone who grows up in cape cod, frankly. being a summer/tourist town, the whole economy dries up in the winter. throw opiates into this, and you have bored people with nothing to do for seven months and a huge opiate problem. so, like, these problematic old white folk could fix things, but they really don't want to. when you start to realize they'll fall out eventually, you're not as stressed over their retarded fucking attitude |
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like, relatively small video of his could maybe done in 5 minutes and a small text, but i feel this is just devastating (the bell curve one is as well) it made Prager go on life support: also i have to point out that youtube is just an important battle ground, with all the right wingers trying to radicalize our angry youth. so you have to respect it for that. for the rest: i just like youtube (also might be a bit addicted) |
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, not even 2 hours and 40 minutes |
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it took me three days |
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might be smarter, though, because it's made from philosophy. shaun's debunking stupid stuff, so can only rise so high, intellectually |
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living in cape cod, about cape cod, and the sort of people there. the place was terrible for my mental health, an lewis's too when he was there too |
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cape cod is, however, where i ultimately began to mess about with trackers for the first time in almost a decade ultimately leading up to me vomiting text in umbroman3's knife thred |
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donald trump going mental in a dustbin of pseudoephedrine |
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trump is a vocal teetotaler so if this quote “Trump snorted Adderall all thru the day on ‘Apprentice’ he also ate UK. Sudafed like candy,” is anywhere near accurate, well, lol. frankly, it fits. but it's too perfect. this article is a spank fantasy indulging the idea that it was drugs that made donald trump, and that humanity can't possibly be that horrendous on its own without chemical help |
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i have to say i prefer george w. bush on ambien over donald trump on pseudoephedrine |
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, ben stein -- yes, that ben stein -- writes an article chewing out george h. w. bush for taking halcion. and on and on |
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I have been taking prescription tranquilizers since 1966. I have used almost every kind imaginable: phenothiazines, chlorpromazines and others I cannot recall. But Halcion, a chemical firstcousin to the tranquilizer Xanax, is in a class by itself for mind-altering side effects. It is not a classic sedative, which basically just slow things down. No, benzodiazepenes are described by Halcion's maker, the Upjohn Company, as "anxiolytics," meaning they literally cut the anxiety in your brain. When Halcion hits you, it's as if an angel of the Lord appears in your bedroom and tells you that nothing is important, that everything you were worried about is happening on Mars and that nirvana, Lethe and the warm arms of mother are all waiting for you. People who have used heroin tell me Halcion is better than heroin for making bad thoughts simply disappear. --ben stein and we've wandered back , as i now must link an orbital music vid via... youtube. |
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I could do with some of that |
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Does anyone know where I can get a sparkly fairy sticker saying 'I just went to the dentist' or similar? Like it's basically a non-green version of tinkerbell, sparkley background or hilights |
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Tua madre? |
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In his speech, Trump mocked Democratic challenger Pete Buttigieg, the Indiana mayor, for having what he said was an unpronounceable last name, and told attendees Democrats were waging war against religion. “These angry radicals want to impose absolute conformity by censuring speech, tearing down crosses and symbols of faith and banning religious believers from public life.” He got a big reaction from the crowd when he promised to bring religion into U.S. schools. A clause in the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from promoting one religion over the other, which means public schools don’t promote prayer or religious symbols. when i was in first grade, it was the lingering tail era of the days in which the school-wide intercom would squawk, and we'd all -- kindergarten through fifth grade -- get up and put our hands over our hearts and say of the pledge of allegiance, and then sing my country tis of thee or whatever. it was cloying and homogenizing and it bothered me even before i knew politics existed. i liked the singing together, actually... but, like church, the message of it all felt very controlling. even at six, i had my doubts about pledging my undying loyalty to the school intercom. thank god the jesus freaks didn't get a spot on the program; let's please keep it that way |
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Guillermo Maldonado, the pastor, who is known for speaking in tongues and performing miracles, summarized their worries during a sermon on Sunday, describing a congregant who asked: “How can you bring Trump to church if there’s people who don’t have papers?” i have nothing to add. |
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Trump's scary Also, don't forget the big infight |
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meanwhile, the other show i remember from the era when "Dragnet" was still on TV here and there, is Get Smart which was, in retrospect, a parody of james bond, with some definite dragnet lifts too. don adams, who played the lead character, is the voice of inspector gadget , chief i will remember this man forever because, seeing this show when i ten, i thought, "lol, it's like FUCK HENRY" and the name was stuck in my brain forever |
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whoops actually |
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headlines go something like: impeachment trial shortened to two days per side! trump signs bullshit trade agreement with no concessions from chinese! macron and trump settle tax dispute! kellyanne conway claims martin luther king jr. wouldn't want trump impeached it's like the phase of the movie Hackers (1995) when The Gibson is being assaulted by virii. there's more than i posted. lev parnas. the spam cannons ring loud tonight |
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alex jones cruises in infowars 'battle tank' at virginia gun rights rally |
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