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CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2hr ago
Yeah she was actually on the verge of tears at one point. This whole thing genuinely got to her.
Jiro
2hr ago
This doesn't help. There's no amount of food that Hamas can't realistically take. There's an amount that they can't realistically eat themselves, but they'd just take it and destroy the amount they can't eat.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2hr ago
Yeah, I'd probably vote 'present' or whatever the neutral response is. Just the usual clown show nothingburger motion at the circus.
If someone came after me for neither supporting or opposing, I'd just shrug until they went away.
Uh -- did you find it funny?
Like, I'm all for funny jokes -- but isn't rule #1 of comedy that if you're gonna be edgy you do need to keep in mind that you also have to be funny?
Objectively speaking, that was not a funny joke.
Jiro
2hr ago
US/British troops post-war were in full control of Germany, so they didn't have to deal with Nazis who would forcibly take the food when they tried distributing food to German civilians.
stuckinbathroom
2hr ago
bush-league TV pundits
W or Bush Senior?
jkf
2hr ago
Just carpet-bomb the place -- make your $20M $200M and drop pallet loads of rice on chutes all over the place -- if people are literally getting machine gunned for food, they will figure it out if the odd bag breaks.
jkf
2hr ago
Have the past 5 years not taught you that medical credentials are no guarantee against lying -- indeed they seem pretty well correlated when the lies are in service of a cause that the professional hodls dear? I thought you were all about Noticing stuff?
"What's the difference between God and a surgeon?"
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
2hr ago
It's not structurally part of the joke, though? The joke, such as it is, makes perfect sense without the intro - thus it's clearly a throwaway lead-in. It's there as a transition. If you cut off everything before (2:15) "In between the finger pointing there was grieving... uh, on Friday the White House... (quote continues)" it still makes sense. Heck, you can even cut off everything before "on Friday" and a random viewer would perfectly understand. (Kirk is even introduced as the topic within the video clip; again, the intro is completely disposable).
Why is that relevant? No one is paying attention to his insinuation that Kirk's killer was MAGA, or at least most viewers aren't. It's not the same thing as a newscast where the main news headline is false, which is what the FCC might get mad at. Obviously the prominence of a claim should directly bear on the seriousness of a deception, and that's doubly true when the purpose is not to convey news. The purpose is, more or less, to have fun doing "boo outgroup", and that's allowed to happen on TV by a comedian.
Who was deceived, and how badly? Anyone who read the news certainly isn't going to throw out whatever facts they read because Kimmel insinuated something in passing. Anyone who doesn't read the news might get the wrong impression, but again, even a trivial attempt at fact-finding would quickly reveal the truth. And in fact, the very next day we DID get the truth, and in far more detail.
Is it really the betrayal of the "public interest" of an entire channel that a comedian subconsciously gave people the wrong impression about something? Because to be clear that's basically the full extent of it.
If it's not about the whole public interest thing, then it's not a conversation about factual accuracy, it's a conversation about what constitutes poor enough taste to take a comedian off the air. The FCC's Carr engaged in a deliberate bait and switch by conflating the two. And many of you here fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
jkf
2hr ago
Uh, do they actually idealize themselves as Christian warriors?
I mean I'm pretty sure that the Hell's Angels draw more heavily on the Christian mythos than neo-paganism or whatnot?
"Christian warriors" may not be quite the right label though, I must admit...
jkf
2hr ago
But the most likely problem's just the mainboard fan bearing.
Yeah -- did the, um, repair shop try replacing the fan at all? I could see just blowing it out on the first visit, but they cost like ten bucks -- just throw one in and see is what I'd do, but @striker gattsuru's test plan sounds good if you can make it buzz with the case off.
pigeonburger
2hr ago
"loose bulk will shift during flight and create dangerous center-of-gravity,"
Actually, I saw something about how dangerous it is for ships, I imagine it's similar issues for planes.
Browser
2hr ago
Christian, non-violent, tragically shot. I might not agree with everything he wished for but it'd be impolite not to memorialize him
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
2hr ago
Women often overreact.
But in Shoe's case, I think she's right to do so, in that social media influencers - especially political ones - receive death threats on a daily, perhaps hourly basis. You develop a thick skin for such things - you have to, if you want to keep your sanity - but even a slight increase in the probability of the threats being carried through suddenly gives that torrent a terrifying valence.
She has a child, and a husband, that she very much does not want to leave, and I think she is deserving of sympathy. The fact that Kirk was young and similarly at the beginning of starting a family makes it personal to her. Women are empathetic in that way.
AnonymousActuary
2hr ago
See I think words of radiance might be my favorite but the end of way if kings is wonderful.
I do love the see with Adolin in the Sadeas camp... And Adolin in general. What a baller.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
3hr ago
It’s a mean joke, I didn’t find it funny, but it absolutely is a joke. I’m not gonna go down that route and analyze it in depth unless I have to, but it follows enough of the rules of comedy that it counts, with the cadence I described. Much of comedy tiptoes a line of meanness, that’s not really new. To me a joke can be insulting, the two are not mutually exclusive at all.
Supah_Schmendrick
3hr ago
But this has been the case for at least ten years, and the so-called "fascists" remained remarkably unshot until about a week ago.
Ehhhhhhhh...
"Opposing Obamacare is Killing People!" -> Congresional Baseball shooting where, but for the grace of God and Hodgkinson's bad aim, a nontrivial part of the GOP congressional caucus could have been killed.
"Opposing BLM/supporting Trump is fascist!" -> Killing of Aaron Danielson, the kidnapping and torture of a white mentally-disabled person (incidentally, I just found out when digging this back up that the animals who did this all got less than 10 years in prison and one only got 4 years' probation and 200 hours of community service, and I'm horrified all over again), and having a philosophy professor bash your head with a bike lock.
"Right-wingers should be killed!" -> Killing of Cayler Ellison
And that's just the obvious cases that actually made the media - there's plenty more attempts and foiled plots, including the two attempt on Trump during the 2020 campaign, the wacko who flew out from California to try and kill Justice Kavanaugh, the "Ruth Sent Us" firebombings, BLM riots, etc.
It's not like it's all been sunshine and roses out there.
daguerrean
3hr ago
My neighbor's youngest, older than my oldest but close, started public pre-K this month as a boy and came back this week a girl. The mother of the family seems to think the school knows best
I have nothing meaningful to add. This is just so insane to me, it is hard to believe we ended up here and normal functional people are just accepting this
daguerrean
3hr ago
His videos were fine when they were twenty minutes long, but as they grew to one or two hours I lost interest. They just became obsessive recountings of every change to the record over time. “But then, in June 2017, a Canadian runner named MisterPoop69 did the impossible and had this run…” which proceeds to shave maybe half a second off the record and will subsequently be beaten one week later.
In his obsession to accurately detail every change to the record he neglects to tell any kind of story at all and he buries the interesting parts in two hours of meaningless microimprovements.
He is more or less unwatchable to me these days
MathWizard
Good things are good
3hr ago
I've never perceived the Socratic dialogue to have much of a point at all. It's mostly one of the following (or a combination), depending on how kind we are being to the writer:
1: Attempting to get away with strawmanning an opponent by presenting someone who starts disagreeing with you but then immediately caves and agrees with all of your counterarguments as soon as you present them.
2: Attempting to leverage pathos to trick the audience into agreeing with you more than your logical arguments alone would by building them a character who starts in their position (opposition or ignorance) and build empathy with them before the character switches to agreeing with you (causing the audience who identifies with them to subconsciously follow suit).
3: Trying to explain something in a way that's less boring than a monologue, by simulating characters and counterpoints and a skeleton of a narrative to the explanation so the explanation is presented in a more engaging way.
Theoretically if your characters are intelligent and aren't just strawmen meant to prop up the MC in the most shallow way this can work, but basically the only example I've ever seen of something like this is in some of Scott Alexander's works. The vast majority, including and especially the classics like this one, are shallow and pointless.
AvocadoPanic
3hr ago
No. He was shot and killed by his girlfriend during a domestic dispute Halloween night in '89.
Then let some UN or NGOs do it.
Yes, let the organizations that are actively trying to secure a Hamas win distribute food. That'll definitely fix the problem.
An explicitly pro-Israel NGO doing it would have better results, because they will genuinely attempt to make sure that does not occur, but their work would be frustrated because of (and by) the above.
Is it really so hard to believe?
Western society believes women are (for a variety of reasons) definitionally incapable of molesting children, and as a result we have no words to describe what it looks like when children are molested by women. Parents come up with a variety of justifications to look the other way, especially when they're part of the priesthood (churches and schools/priests and teachers are very similar in their social roles in modern times, and churches have been around sufficiently long to be present in humanity's genetic memory).
We pattern match it to "literally fucking" because of our modern pretense that men and women are the same- and in its majestic equality, the law prohibits both genders from engaging in molester behaviors overwhelmingly preferred by men [be they perpetrator or victim].
It is completely natural that the sex that receives sexual gratification from being an oppressed social token should perpetrate its sexual interference by trying to turn little boys into oppressed social tokens. This is why they believe it necessary to try and induce that identity. It's really not about encouraging the sex, it's about inculcating submissiveness to, and the sexual excitement of, being under the thumb of the
patriarchyBig, Bad Men.In this case, he most likely acted different, and different =
submissive and breedableoppressed by default, so why shouldn't he be introduced to the sexual arousal that comes from being in the uniform of different? It's also absurdly heteronormative if you think about it for 5 seconds- it's just that instead of "men can't wear dresses, dresses are for women, it is not for men to wear", it's "men can't wear dresses, dresses are for women, therefore anyone who wears a dress is a woman"- but female sexuality is just as heteronormative as male sexuality is, so...More options
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