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1yr ago
from what i heard pelosi's security detail was with her and there was no security team allocated to her husband at the time.
I agree it's surprising but just chiming in to say security wasn't out getting coffee or anything.
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1yr ago
Incompetence is a way better cover story than an attack vector. Actual incompetence is unpredictable, so for something as important as a hypothetical election rigging scheme why would you risk sending a bunch of gomer pyles when you could send a bunch of super cool spies who just pretend to be retarded.
The motte here is that conspiracies require some number of agents to facilitate them and there have been 0 vote switchers discovered, idunno what the bailey even is. From my limited perspective the rightists, especially the trump aligned, are the ones constantly building up fantastical narratives about the vote and then retreating towards reality when questioned.
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1yr ago
third option: masculinity has been being shaved down from its original form for thousands of years.
In the 1800s men were legally able to tell their wives to stfu and get in the kitchen, or bend over, or whatever. In the 800s some cultures probably let you stone a woman to death for being a slut or something. Go far enough back and being a man is literally just grabbing a rock and smashing the skull of everyone who you dont want to fuck.
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1yr ago
i for one hope to see some Desantis vs Trump debates, i can only imagine them being entertaining.
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1yr ago
I'd argue that some people probably think that an outward facing surface is part of what makes traditional social media, the idea that you can tweet out to whoever the retweets take you to or that you can be looked up by randos on facebook. Discord kinda doesn't have that, its all invite based, its mostly not used to send 1 message to a large audience, and you can't really look someone up unless you know their discord ID.
It's still social media in the broad sense but its more like myspaceified IRC than chatroomified twitter.
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1yr ago
I remain disappointed that so many people have huddled around mask wearing as such a significant political symbol. I was hoping the US would adopt a mask culture similar to what Japan has, where wearing a mask is common for people that have the sniffles but need to go out and get groceries, and its not weird to put a mask on when you are on the train with a bunch of gross randos.
Instead we are getting kindof the opposite, where its mainly hypochondriacs wearing masks in public and sick people wont wear them because they dont wanna look like a pussy. pretty lame all around.
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1yr ago
worried about traditional family formation
this genie is out of the bottle and isn't going back in. A retvrn to Christian moral hegemony isn't happening, the tide is going in the exact opposite direction. Furthermore why do we care so much about the psychological impacts of prostitution when we don't care about how the feelings of garbage men or plumbers are affected by their jobs?
And to be clear, we aren't "turning sex into a commodity", we would be treating sex formally as an interaction or transaction between two people. Right now it is that, but we just pretend it isn't because it makes us feel good.
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1yr ago
if russia starts reaching for its nuclear gun, it probably ought to shoot. Gesturing in that direction is gonna solidify opinion against russia in a way i don't think i've ever seen in my life, aid$$$ will flow like coors light at a nascar tailgate from around the globe. Fucking joint action committees with every swinging johnson except for russia would be happening. The nuclear card is the end of russia, and russia likely knows not to use it unless the end is nigh.
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1yr ago
there are already people that are micro famous for doing video tweaked by that old google deepdream image manipulation AI thingy from like 2016. I imagine some insanely talented artists will use this new stuff to make stunningly beautiful works before too long.
The thing is, AI still has a long way to go to replace someone like Android jones , but not very far to replace 80% of all fan art and furry commisions.
I look at jones' work and i don't even see how AI would help it be any more ridiculous, but maybe he does. Maybe he can make 20 of these a year instead of 10. Maybe the 10 he makes are 10 times larger next year. Idunno, im excited for the possibilities and think the effort to assign low status to AI generated art is sour grapes.
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1yr ago
i watched 2000 mules when it came out, IIRC the best evidence they had was video of a grandpa dropping off 10-20 votes for his family, which is a lot of votes but not quite the type of proof one would hope for when the crime in question is supposedly systematic and widespread.
They also had some phone telemetry stuff showing that some people came and went from the area of a polling station repeatedly, but i don't think they have any way to know the difference between a door dasher and a secret squirrel.
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1yr ago
nod along when Trump
I don't think the dems should get too cocky quite yet but when you let a capital P Populist be one of the main unifying draws for an entire presidential cycle, its gonna have a lingering effect. The q-anon truthers and Trump loyalists aren't going away.
Lets play with a hypothetical: is it actually good for republicans in 2024 if trump gets hung out to dry by the court battles he's entangled in? Is it possible we see Desantis backers and trump supporters battling in the usual online spaces (or does that already happen, i don't frequent the trenches of serious republican think tanks)?
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1yr ago
How exactly would make-work generate meaning? Can't a person get all the benefit (or more) of make-work by like, working out? I just fail to see how any of the positive feelings people associate with a job well done or a step forward in a career path could come from a job that is essentially a placebo.
Also i find the sentiment distastefully close to "the plebs need to be reminded of their place (working, even if it is literally meaningless work) lest they become restless and uppity"
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1yr ago
i can agree with the idea of trump being somewhat centrist in his own political leanings but only for social policies. His personal preferences for economic policy and especially taxation are way out of line with the leftist overton window. I can't imagine the guy standing for anything that would mess with his bottom line in any substantial way.
That said, i wouldn't mind if trump had run as a dem, he's good at riling people up and i think he is unprincipled (flexible? creative? choose how charitable this adjective should be) enough to say most stuff democrats would like to hear if that was the most realistic path to power for him. Like you say though, i think clinton vs trump in a dem primary is a way worse matchup than jeb, who trump basically ridiculed off stage.
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1yr ago
I literally don't know. In a vacuum that sounds like a lot of cell phones but i have absolutely no context for whose phone or what these paths look like. Can you show that these cell phones aren't cars that simply pass the geofence closest to the nonprofit, then pass a fence near the poll, all while never getting out of their car?
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1yr ago
surely he's advocating for government funded communal sex and drug raves that last for 72 hours once a year. guaranteed babies every time. The abortion clinics will literally not be able to keep up with demand.
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1yr ago
I'll admit thats way more ridiculous messaging than i had seen from them elsewhere, mea culpa i should look before i speak in that regard.
Disagree to some extent, my highschool friends would get some salvia from time to time, as it was completely legal and sold in gas stations. The first time i tried it was on a balmy friday night before i was to attend the archetypal highschool party. The experience was so intensely unpleasant and extreme that i was left bewildered. I decided i'd rather go home and think about what the fuck just happened rather than go talk to people who didn't know that there is an entire universe of recursive car seats you can get trapped in on the passenger side of my friends camry.
DMT on the other hand is similar but somehow not so uncomfortable or jarring. Salvia is like being shown the truth of some alien universe but any joy or laughter has been edited out, DMT is like seeing beyond the veil in its terrifying and hilarious entirety.
So yeah, salvia was fun as a kid in that its a bonafide hallucinogen with low risk of chemically bad stuff happening, but its also widely regarded as kindof an unfun experience unless the idea of hallucinating is novel enough that you would want to just for the sake of it.
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1yr ago
See, you are arguing that monogamy is preferable to hypergamy or whatever else, and i dont disagree. American culture values individualism too much for marriage and even monogamy to a lesser extent, dedicated relationships almost categorically will require sacrifice for and acceptance of someone else. These are just not highly valued traits in modern popular culture. My problem with your argument is that you will have to change how people value others for change to happen, or to put it more bluntly it won't happen. You can't legislate what people want. If people want multiple partners or freedom from commitment, be it financial or otherwise, how are you going to change that?
Legalizing prostitution may even highlight why people would want a real relationship in the first place. If we decouple sex from the partnership of a relationship then peoples incentives can align way more closely in the dating market. letting all of the sleaziest and most animalistic urges get taken care of leaves people who want more with a more like minded pool of people to choose from.
Even further, if the dating market stays effed up or gets more so, prostitution may be the best some guys are gonna get, and i feel like its kindof a dick move to stand between a willing whore and a guy who legit will not get laid without her.
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1yr ago
i legitimately think the idea has crossed more than a few minds before.
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1yr ago
eww? my friend, when someone coughs on the bus its eww for everyone, my point is that the person who is coughing should have as much of the cough localized to them as possible. yes eww, but it's the guy who's coughing thats gross to begin with.
What are you asking for here, studies that show that the particulate from coughs can contain viruses? That you can catch a cold by being coughed on?
im not saying that if we adopted voluntary masking at 100% uptake the cold would be gone, im saying that i bet it would reduce the spread of cough-transmitted sickness.
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1yr ago
You can't be a trump fan or pro-US-republican if you aren't american? I disagree with your observation that Desantis (i assume) is Trump-but-different. I also would argue that some quantity of trump voters aren't republicans in the traditional (pre 2016) sense of the word, and probably wouldn't vote if it wasn't for Trump.
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1yr ago
I get what you are saying, that risk taking behavior is common in young men and the risks available these days might have less reward associated, but its still unreasonable to compare a risky yet possibly rewarding strategy (striking out on your own to make a new life out on the frontier) to literally just killing yourself. Likewise, some people use drugs to escape their reality, this is not the same as permanently giving up on reality by ending your interactions with it.
Young men deciding they have nothing to live for is a universal phenomenon, how it is expressed is different
I think theres a few different "nothing"s being bundled here, the threshold for "i have nothing going for me in this town, i'm out of here even if it means joining the circuis" is pretty far away from "i have nothing to gain in this world that i can possibly reach and i would rather die than make any further attempt"
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1yr ago
the overlap probably seems bigger when you are inside of it.
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1yr ago
i that the case? Heres one from 2010 https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/201/4/491/861190
We observed significant reductions in ILI during weeks 4–6 in the mask and hand hygiene group
tough to speculate without looking like a fedpost but i kinda assume that most avenues of serious planning to assassinate someone will trip some invisible alarms somehow or another. That said, i don't really have any proof that the secret police ever stop anyone from killing people, so maybe in reality people are just less willing to die for their political beliefs in america.
Worth noting, that Japanese guy who shot Shinzo Abe with the fallout gun was prettymuch an archetypal head on assassination, so it still does happen.
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