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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4hr ago
After giving it 30s, I can confidently say I have never heard that song in my life.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
7hr ago
In my experience of the 90's "I made you a mixtape/burned CD" would have been kind of wierd and overly personal. "I made one for all of us to listen to in the car", OTOH, was normal and exciting.
And FWIW, I remember my goth friends in the late 90's early 2000's talking about Joy Division, which I think I have still never listened to in any capacity.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
I could have sworn you said something about The Motte overuse when on ADHD meds, but I can't find it again, so just saying this here. I have found success using LeechBlock NG extension on my PC (especially Lockdown Mode), and the StayFocused app on my phone (which does have a small monthly subscription fee).
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
How much more important is the “dog” element compared to the previous, evidenced cases of rape in Israeli prisons? Does the “dog” element move the needle?
Yes. It adds a blasphemy angle. It moves the needle for the exact reasons you mentioned earlier in the post. Dogs are contaminated. It's a much more horrifying and enraging provocation. Consider the comparative propaganda value of:
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The enemy sometimes rapes our people!
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The enemy consorts with demons and has institutional programs to feed the demons rape victims!
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
but then if you think the NYT would make this up or eat it up from a source without properly verifying it by whatever means they have available
They have a history of being extremely credulous when making these sorts of attacks, like with the Russian Bounty story.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
Abu Ghraib seemed more like "assholes taking an opportunity to do sadistic shit". Rape dogs seems like the kind of thing you'd need training programs for, with like, budgets and performance evaluations.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
(net approval rating now under -20%)
That's the upper end of the polling for the Democrats, who are less favorable than anyone except Iran.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Generic Dems always outperform real Dems. People tend to imagine a nice Leslie Knope and then flinch at the inevitable Jean Ralphio.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
This is going to be "fine people"d for years, isn't it?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
What draws people to these sorts of bunk medicines is the vibes.
The vibes are strong and time-tested. AIUI, acupuncture is a very powerful placebo.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
I don't know what the fuck kind of shuffle algorithm could result in that, but it rinsed several tracks so bad I can't listen to them anymore.
There is a new function that will go back through your whole listening history and find songs that you listened to a lot at one point, and then stopped playing. I think it just heavily weights skips as "I don't actually like this song" rather than "Not in the mood just now, but there's a reason it's on the playlist."
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Winner of the Most Schizophrenic Timeline Challenge.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
The videos I saw were regular (hot women) streamers, though I don't actually watch any of them, and didn't note names well enough to mention.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Keep the dumbbells by your computer. Work in a few reps when you pause to think or switch tracks.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
And acts like a child. There was a viral video of a lady streamer melting down because the android drawed you a pictur.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
and are now including the pedophilia accusation in their attacks on evil gamers.
Simpler answer: Many of the people lobbing this are just ahistorically narcissistic freaks who fail to grasp a fundamental part of human nature. If you're wierd enough to genuinely not know what a "man" is, then art depicting the Protector role will just come off as alien and disturbing. And if you're a gooner, then obviously it just gets parsed through a sexual lens.
Similar to the women who mainline romance slop calling Sam and Frodo gay because they've never had a real friendship.
And this one became high octane culture war fuel because of all the videos of women streamers having their ovaries take the wheel on stream while playing the game. Of course deep blue types will feel attacked; reds would act the same way if there was a game that had the chuds openly feeling gay-curious. I'll go ahead and note that the latter won't actually happen because it's an apparently inborn trait for a small, sticky slice of the population whereas the former is arguably the literal purpose of cellular life.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
Ok this alone makes me think you're disconnected from the world. The average government worker, like the average worker, doesn't give a shit about "the mission". They want to go in, do their job, get paid, go home. They aren't there for pleasure and passion, they're there to make money. Some people may find joy in their job, but it is a job at the end of the day
Most people will not rock the boat in order to "do what is right".
I think I may have completely misinterpreted you there as "care first and foremost about the ostensible purpose of their jobs". My bad.
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11d ago
Personally I don't take the stance that we can only trust the official word of the state, tons of important stories come out precisely because people are willing to leak things but don't want to immediately destroy their careers.
No, that's the story journalists tell about themselves. More commonly, it's the method used to launder libel so as to protect the journalist from lawsuits.
Careerists not wanting to upset their upcoming boss spike indictments that they worry would upset him.
This is pure speculation.
Soon after Trump took office, the lead prosecutor, Jorge Matos, was told by a supervisor to take the investigation no further, according to four people familiar with the case.
This is the sort of weasel-wording you have to learn to parse when reading the news. Was told by "a supervisor" (Why not name the supervisor?). "To take the case no further". Further than what? The vote fraud stuff had already been dropped. A normal phrasing there would have been to "not go back to the old stuff" or something. And why? There's no discussion of the actual evidence that the vote buying even happened. Choosing to prioritize resources on easily provable drug offenses is very common. That's the case for most people in federal prison for "drug" charges.
Also worth noting, because it's much more pertinent, but this was soon after González-Colón took office, and she has much more direct relevant and influence over an unimportant province like PR. But "territorial governor possibly implicated in vote buying scheme" wouldn't have this article doing rounds like tying it to Trump does.
The average government worker cares for their job first and foremost obviously.
This is unbearably naive, and just embarrassing to say about PR.
Taking a group that votes you and bribing even more people in the group to.vote for you is actually still bad.
Sure. But right off the bat, it seems more probable that it would have been an inducement to vote in the first place, again, if indeed this even happened.
Considering the careerist lawyers rightfully predicted the investigation would be stalled and decided to drop the case early to prevent further backlash, it doesn't seem like Trump is excited to latch onto this example of election fraud.
Again, this is pure speculation. Do you honestly believe that Donald Trump is particularly invested in the local primary politics of a territory? I know the guy gets autistically fixated on random shit, but I can't recall him ever caring much about PR. And while the governor loves him, the article itself mentions it's a very one-sided obsession.
There are much simpler explanations for this, again, assuming it even happened. I suppose we'll see if he says anything about it. I give high odds that if he does, it's something bombastic and vague in support of the governor just because she says nice things about him.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
11d ago
massive
MASSIVE. You know what else is massive?
four people with knowledge of the case told ProPublica. They requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Oh, look, it's the red flag for bullshit reporting.
But as federal prosecutors prepared an indictment against the inmates and staff in November 2024 — just days after Trump won the election and González-Colón clinched the governorship — they received a surprising directive. Their bosses in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico instructed them to exclude the voting-related counts against the inmates and all charges against the prison staff, an investigation by ProPublica found.
Trump getting up to shenanigans with his time machine again.
Inmate votes were especially key in the 2024 gubernatorial primary as González-Colón, a longtime New Progressive Party member, was challenging the incumbent governor of the same party.
She won the primary by fewer than 30,000 votes, according to the State Elections Commission. Local news reports said that an estimated 5,000 prisoners voted territorywide.
Seems worth mentioning that the election being referenced was a primary. She went on to win the general by 130k votes, with a 10% lead in the popular.
Inmates have been aligned with the party ever since, political analysts said. Political parties in Puerto Rico differ dramatically from those on the mainland. They don’t adhere to a straight divide among Democrats and Republicans. Instead, the two main parties center much of their focus on whether Puerto Rico should become a state and so have Republicans and Democrats within each.
It’s not unheard of for politicians of all parties to court the inmate vote, but the New Progressive Party has made it a “stronghold,” said Fernando Tormos-Aponte, a political scientist with expertise on Puerto Rico and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
“It’s been a huge advantage for them particularly as elections in Puerto Rico have been decided by small margins,” Tormos-Aponte said of the New Progressive Party. In the 2024 general election for governor, the party won 83% of the inmate vote, according to a ProPublica tally of voter returns on the State Elections Commission’s website.
And they were being bribed to vote for the same party that always wins the prisoner vote?
Wow, that is a lot of effort to daisy-chain tie this to Trump, in spite of not having any evidence.
Fun fact: the walking stereotype author of this piece was a Pulitzer Prize winner for investigating child care scams in Wisconsin, but all of the wiki citations about it go to dead pages.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
Professional Managerial Class. People who work in jobs that require advanced degrees, or hold high level positions, considered as a class in the Marxist sense.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
Similarly, a disproportionate share of the cited murder victims are usually sex workers, an already at-risk demographic even leaving transgender identity aside.
Back in 2019 I looked up one of those lists of ALL THE MURDERED TRANSPEOPLE THIS YEAR, and searched each name. Every single one that I could find news articles about was a black transwoman sex worker killed by a black john in what was presumably "trans panic".
And even with that, the actual overall murder rate for trans people was comparable (probably lower) to the murder rate for wealthy white women.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
Part of it was probably the guys who I've heard articulate this were pretty socially adroit/attractive, but framing things as "this is a me thing" vs. "this is a sex thing in general" seems to be pretty effective in avoiding criticism.
Step 1 and Step 2 with a fig leaf.
The close friend who went furthest in the PMC is extremely controlling in his relationships, to a point that even seen from a remove it would be hard to defend him from the "abuse" tag. That's one of the reasons I'm not too sad that friendship dried up with time and distance.
But his charisma and attractiveness were a meme even in high school. And when you're a tall, handsome executive living in a swanky DC suburb, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy in front of their friends. You can do anything.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
FWIW, men commonly report that women are the ones who asked them to try it. We tend to be a bit more focused on, uh, other things.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12d ago
I think this is focusing too hard on the BDSM element. As others have mentioned, very few women want an erotic master 24/7, especially if it involves menial labor. OTOH, most women appreciate a man who is confident and commanding most of the time - especially if he can escalate that in a darker direction during sex.
It's a difficult line to walk, and I think most advice for men leans way too hard in one direction or the other. Somewhat ironically, I think the meme trad Christian approach might work best, but only if you never acknowledge that that's what you're doing. Act like you're the captain of the relationship, with her as your trusted first mate (and tolerate her lack of a Riker beard), but never make that explicit.
And kindly insert a bunch of tedious throat-clearing about spectrums and Not All Women, etc, etc. Thanks.
Yeah, I went through adolescence right during that transition. There was a kind of an awkward midpoint where downloaded songs were very common, but only a few people I knew had a proper CD burner, so having all that newly accessible music in a portable format (or for anything other than computer speakers) was somewhat more special. This was especially relevant as we started getting cars.
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