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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
2m ago
Sure, I believe an immigrant once went around stabbing people in the butt. I even heard about that one at the time. Because it was quite newsworthy.
birb_cromble
6m ago
One was in the York/Dover area, and one was around Frederick.
One would have been around 2005, and one would have been around 2008-2009. I had already left the area, so I don't have firsthand information.
erwgv3g34
8m ago
I can believe that illegal farm workers are poaching, maybe stealing small stock, but they'd butcher a cow and there wouldn't be a 'carcass' left(Hispanics are actually very fond of animal parts not normally eaten in anglo-american culture; poor unassimilated Hispanics[which farm laborers would be] are actually known for not liking steak very much in comparison).
Cow heart kebab is the bees knees, even if it upsets my stomach. I've never cared much for cow lung, but I'll eat it if there's nothing else. Organ meat is good for you; that's where all the nutrients are.
Amusingly, I've slowly assimilated into the American taste for steak. When I was younger I would only eat it well done, because I thought bloody meat was gross, and consequently I did not enjoy steak any more than I did chicken, and I found it distinctly inferior to fatty pork, despite being more expensive. But after years of getting bombarded by the medium rare meme, I broadened my horizons, and now I realize that the gringos were onto something with this whole steak thing.
ulyssessword
12m ago
Let's be very generous and say $0.07 per kilowatt hour (approximately retail prices). 1 gigawatt year is therefore $613.7M, while 5000 kg of gold (at $150k/kg, which is slightly high) is $750M.
So it's not even a powerplant that produces gold as a coproduct, it's a gold plant that also produces power.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
12m ago
It is about the idea spread by the words that are used in that organization's name.
That people should care about the lives of black people?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15m ago
But these stories never confine themselves to the plausible.
Neither does reality.
I don’t think it’s sensitivity reasons, it was that the algorithms on social media platforms deranked or demonetized content that had references to death or sexual assault. Presumably for advertisement reasons. You said it’s grown beyond just that, but I believe YouTube and other platforms censor it just like TikTok, so they’re just doing what the algorithms encourage.
So this isn’t an example of zoomer fragility — it’s an example of the power of advertiser skittishness and algorithmic content ranking to affect language on multiple platforms. (That sounded like AI, but it wasn’t. Promise.)
I could also just be out of touch on this, but I’ve never heard of someone who literally won’t say the word “killed” in an in-person setting. Rape is more sensitive, I guess.
Zephyr
22m ago
Have you heard of the use-mention distinction?
One of the reasons we left Reddit was that a user was explaining the (((brackets))) around certain names, and what it meant, and Reddit decided that using them, even in an explanation like this one here, indicates an endorsement of the position.
Now sure, if your ideological opponents pick a name that is obviously biased, you don’t have to use that - no one is saying you should call it “The Public Execution of the Innocent George Floyd by white supremecist cops, as endorsed by Republikkkans”. But calling it “George Floyd’s death” is, if anything, conservative coded.
Censoring his name, or censoring the name of the activist organization BLM, simply makes the arguments appear unserious - to me, they seem like someone who is so angry about the concept that they can’t think clearly about it, and as a result, are probably incorrect about it.
birb_cromble
30m ago
I like them now that I'm an adult who has learned how to cook them properly.
As a kid being served rice and beans boiled in the same pot so one is over cooked or the other is under cooked? Not a fan.
birb_cromble
33m ago
Also for @Amadan, who asked in another thread.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fairfax-county-butt-slasher-to-be-sentenced-friday/1924072/
Pimentel was arrested near a shopping mall in Peru, in January 2012. He was extradited to the United States in December.
zPvQINBQvfFR
35m ago
Was the Nazi-saluting pug guy calling for violence?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
36m ago
If you believe in the government as mother and father of us all. Outside that, over 99 times out of 100 you can avoid getting involved with fentanyl by not indulging in recreational opiates... which are, after all, illegal.
birb_cromble
37m ago
especially in the Baltimore -DC corridor
That might be a big part of the distinction here.
articles would be tantamount to asking someone to dox themselves,
I'll give some location details anyway. I'm not talking about Chevy Chase and Darnestown. I'm talking about Rocky Ridge and Harney. These were poor, fucked up areas that only got more fucked up. The people living between the beltways just assumed it was rednecks doing redneck shit and never looked any deeper. Given the age of the events and the crap sack quality of the local newspapers, I doubt that I could find anything without going to microfiche at a local library. Since I'd rather set myself on fire than go back there, you can retain your sense of disbelief.
hydroacetylene
38m ago
No. Rice and beans are cheap and tasty(although beans are not exactly quick).
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
39m ago
Yep, it's a surprisingly healthy and really cheap and easy to make meal. Even if the money is no issue it's still a good staple meal that should absolutely be in your cooking rotation.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
41m ago
Not only have you disseminated the concept but your additional tortured censoring likely results in the mind of the average reader lingering on the concept longer than the plaintext, rather than glossing over the meaning of the words. Quit fooling yourself, no one here has been saved from learning what "black lives matter" says due to your blurring.
hydroacetylene
41m ago
None of these statements sound like believable or normal behavior for poor unassimilated Hispanic migrant workers. Public urination, drunk driving, catcalling getting a bit younger than gringos would go, bar fights, poaching, cockfighting- all sounds like the sort of thing that might happen(and which is just generally a hazard of importing male-skewed unskilled laborers in large numbers). But these stories never confine themselves to the plausible.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
42m ago
Serial butt stabber sought in Fairfax County
They did get him, he indeed was an immigrant
I don't know about there being two more.
hydroacetylene
44m ago
I can believe that illegal farm workers are poaching, maybe stealing small stock, but they'd butcher a cow and there wouldn't be a 'carcass' left(Hispanics are actually very fond of animal parts not normally eaten in anglo-american culture; poor unassimilated Hispanics[which farm laborers would be] are actually known for not liking steak very much in comparison). I can believe there were cockfighting and maybe dogfighting rings set up by illegals but the rash of ass stabbin's doesn't sound realistic to me- do you have a news article? Obviously I have no trouble buying a one off floridaman-type serial offender, but you'll forgive me if just this one guy shitting in truck beds doesn't sound like the sort of thing to paint with a broad brush over.
I am not afraid of saying anything. I am avoiding disseminating the concept because it's harmful.
There are any number of people and organizations we all hold in disdain or worse. Inventing euphemisms or derogatory epithets to avoid naming them is the level of response I expect from young teens.
This is not about that organization. It is about the idea spread by the words that are used in that organization's name. And about people forced or compelled to say those words and thus contemplate that idea.Even if that organization did something really admirable and I wanted to praise the organization, it would still be justified to avoid saying those words.
phailyoor
51m ago
If they actually made the letter themselves then there's a remote but real chance they get sued into oblivion and back. But if some "anonymous source" provides the letter then wsj is in the clear even if the letter is quite easily identified as fake under detailed investigation.
if a whistleblower snuck the paper out of the files, showed the journalist, and then snuck it back in and they don't want to leave any hard evidence behind the security violations while still getting the info out. Hell maybe even a journalist got snuck in to see the files directly
If the letter is real, transcribing it and publishing that is still absolute proof that a security breach occurred. I don't see how posting the text but not an image covers any source's butt more.
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
52m ago
From my perspective, America has outperformed its economic peers in Europe and Asia over the last forty years despite this supposed "anchor".
Being the best of a bad bunch isn't good enough (and it isn't as if the EU and commonwealth don't also have tons of immigrants, so we can't blame nativists for their poor performance). Unless I'm missing something, real GDP growth in the US was worse in the 2000s (and far too much of that growth went to the healthcare sector) than it was in the 80s and 90s and has been thoroughly mediocre since. Aside from the post-covid rebound in 2021 the average Millennial has never seen real GDP growth exceed 3% during their working lives.
Of course, thanks to the fact that federal spending has grown far faster than the economy during the last 25 years, VA-7 is doing better than most.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
59m ago
Oh good. The worst parts of the books so far have l been Sanderson’s various pathetic attempts at insult humor, which he apparently considers the height of wit, and that entire mini-arc brought out the nadir of it.
Beans are just an inferior legume; chickpeas and lentils are much better side dishes to go with rice. As for protein, you should be getting that from meat and eggs and fish and dairy, not from plants.
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