Happy Friday afternoon to those of you who identify as traditionally employed. This afternoon we’re exploring the scientific future we currently live in. A future where bullet points exist.
- Ted Williams would be happy to know that scientists have found a way to safely restore cryogenically preserved tissue. Now they just need to figure out the whole head transplant thing.
- The good news is that your sexbots will feel like the real thing thanks to this idea to have robots host human tissue for transplants. And when Skynet goes active, I hope the Terminator who comes for me looks like Summer Glau.
Cybernetic organism, living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. - There’s no glib way to spin this, genetic treatments appear to have cured a teen’s sickle cell anemia. His own bone marrow, removed, modified, and reimplanted is making whole red blood cells 15 months later. Science is better than miracles.
- There’s no un-glib way to spin this, someone has created a “smart” cock-ring that rates a man’s sexual performance. When time machines are invented, I’m going back in time and telling young me to go early into the field of teledildonics.
- Robots are even taking insect jobs now. Racist jokes about Africanized bees will get the catbutt. You’ve been warned.
If only I could get them to swarm like this when I get stopped for swerving.
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299 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links – The Future is Now”
All right, I’m first
1997 called. It wants its “first post” meme back.
Oh, snap!
I wonder if they will be able to bring back Disney now with the new technology. we just need to find out where they hid the head.
Trader Sam will “trade you two of his heads for just one of yours.”
What a great deal, that will certainly help me get ahead in life.
*narrows gaze*
Next to the Song of the South masters.
You call yourself Floridaman and don’t know where Walt’s head is?
Here, hold my beer while I climb the outside of Cindy’s Castle and show you …
After it’s discovered today that one of their staffers was arrested and accused of making terroristic threats to Jewish centers, The Intercept edits a headline. Fortunately, the Internet never really forgets anything.
Give me some of that old-time journalistic integrity.
Remember back before The Intercept caught TDS and actually seemed to have standards? I ‘member.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXUxLqqmhNs
Interestingly, they somehow managed to make the Internet Archive 404 on it and Google’s cache has already destroyed the old copy.
I don’t know how you pull that kind of voodoo off, but it is impressive.
The magic of bribery.
Heh, well the Internet Archive caught its own nasty case of TDS right after the election. They started trying to raise millions of dollars to move their hosting to Canada because they feared President Trump would try to destroy/edit Internet history, or something.
TDS is hugely strong in SF, where the Archive is located. Numerous friends and acquaintances are still suffering from it.
I remember back in 2009 I posted a Facebook Note calling out the Obama administration for their fascist “Service Corps” or whatever the fuck they called it. Army of lefty goons calling me a liar because the link didn’t say what I said it said, because it was changed after I linked it.
Lucky I found a screenshot.
NYT pulled it with McCaskill yesterday.
“NYT pulled it with McCaskill yesterday.”
Hiding or revealing?
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/03/nyt-caught-quietly-scrubbing-mention-claire-mccaskills-jeff-sessions-slander/
The WaPo, in contrast, went with the “defend, minimize, and explain” angle to carry McCaskill’s water.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/02/senator-mccaskills-misfired-tweet-on-contacts-with-the-russian-ambassador/?utm_term=.0b241b519db8
Newt, distant cousin to Mr. Lizard, last night on FOX (paraphrased): “The mistake you are making is that you are treating these organizations like they are real news organizations. They are not. The NYT, CNN, ABC, NBC, WaPo, they are fake news. It is all made up. They are lies. ”
Further:
“The left are destroying themselves. Every time Trump has a victory, every time we have a victory, every time the left loses, they feel their power slipping away. They know they are going to be crushed and the more this happens the weirder and more dishonest they are going to get”
Also, I am afraid they are going to get increasingly violent.
Nope not one of ours despite his name. However for those mammals keeping score at home. The daughter of the mammal with the hair is one of my people
Amphibian, not reptile, beotch. Sure, they’re your cold-blooded cousins but their eggs have no shells and have to gestate in water. Your type lay shelled eggs and do that on land.
Grats on first Zero!
“genetic treatments appear to have cured a teen’s sickle cell anemia”
Taking the sickle out of sickle cell anemia.
That reminds me, whatever happened to Mobb Deep?
There are definitely two kinds of people.
I’m in the “Summer Glau is smoking hot” camp. But apparently there is another camp.
Anyway, it is nice to know we are in the same group. That way when they come for the weirdos who don’t see it, we can hang together while we point and laugh at the poor unfortunates.
She’s a two-face.
I don’t know how she does it, but sometimes she looks attractive and sometimes she’s not so easy on the eyes.
Yeah, that’s me. I thought she was the 4th most attractive woman on the show. (5th, if you include Christina Hendrickson.)
Just for clarity, that is not meant as an insult.
Kaylee>Inara>River>SpaceConwoman/Whore With the Tits> Zoe
That’s the correct order
Bah. Youngsters.
Inara>River>Zoe>Kaylee>Mrs. Reynolds
Mrs. Reynolds>Inara>Zoe>Kaylee>River
/hetero woman
Kaylee anywhere lower than 3rd is simply erroneous.
Glau / River’s problem is her forehead is huge. Huge like her species uses it to violently contest mating rights.
Seriously, the fact that Morena Baccarin was given nothing to do on that show most of the time was a fucking crime.
Not only is she gorgeous, the woman has impeccable comedic timing, when given a chance. Thank heaven Deadpool exists.
She must be a pain in the ass to work with, or something.
Stunning and funny. What more could you ask for?
Looking at Buffy, Angel and Firefly, my theory is that Whedon will luck out with gorgeous, funny actress and then leave her with nothing to do because she’s not underfed, tiny waif with pale skin and thus he’s unable to write her.
Outside first two Buffy seasons, Cordelia was completely useless even though Charisma Carpenter is the hottest actress he ever worked with. When she moved to Angel (where she had nothing to do either), he replaced her with Emma Caulfield, only to sideline and waste her as well. Inara could have been cut from the show, and it’d affect like one episode (making her more important than Book, at least).
Remember it was a series. They were going to develop her more.
I have no patience for Firefly would have got good in season 2 arguments.
He nailed the Buffy cast in the pilot, and in 13 episodes told a handful of cute horrish-stories, started, expanded and resolved one season-long plot, wrote some snappy dialogue, left some plot hooks for possible next season, resolved matters in satisfactory way if it got cancelled, implied a larger mythos to entice the audience with, and used every goddamn character in the credits.
I’ll be fucked if there was any more thought process to Book and Inara’s character than “a preacher and a hooker on a stagecoach? sounds like a Western thing to put in!”
Mine would be Inara/SpaceCon/Kaylee/Zoe/River
Kaylee > River > Zoe > Inara > Saffron
Mrs. Reynolds>River>Inara>Kaylee>Zoe
This may have something to do with Teenage Me being the one who watched Firefly, and the amount of skin exposed.
To me it’s Morena Baccarin… and then there were some other pretty nice women on the show who I remember slightly.
Your point being, Joss Whedon knows how to cast women.
It’s the only show of his I’ve seen, but I’d say the evidence is pretty compelling.
Go watch Dollhouse then try saying that. Let’s just say that Eliza Dushku is not a great actress.
What’s yer point?
Dollhouse had Summer Glau in it too. And Olivia Williams. I’m sorry, what was the question again?
Yeah…. wasn’t talking about Shakespearean theater.
His skill is finding smoking hot but not-in-the-mainstream actresses that give you the illusion that you have a chance. People like Alyson Hannigan….. First line was Charisma Carpenter, so Sarah Michelle Gellar is “accessible”, but then there’s the fallback of the super-cute girl next door in Hannigan.
Same thing with Inara in Firefly…. super hot, so the waif (Glau) or the girl next door (Staite) can be your “accessible” favorite. They are all stone cold 10’s, but they have the “girl next door” camouflage on. It is a very effective casting technique.
Dushku did a bit of A Midsummer Night’s Dream when she played an actress
in this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302654/
It was not good.
If we’re gonna be ranking the women of Firefly, we already have half the work done for <a href="https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscifiempire.net%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F05%2FStargate-Atlantis-Jewel-Staite-and-Amanda-Tapping-hot.jpg&f=1" title="Stargate” target=”_blank” >Stargate.
Unmangled Linky
The best question is Elizabeth Weir: MILF or no, and which version?
No love for Claudia Black?
I had quite the soft spot for John Crichton back in his Farscape days. Not quite as much by the time he got picked up on Stargate.
Black’s got the same deal as Crichton. On Farscape, hot damn, by Stargate things were going a little downhill. Voice was still great though.
Apparently the vocal thing she did for the Sabacean language was her and not done by the studio, which is why the flaps were always correct for it.
No love for Claudia Black?
Nope. Her prominent cheekbones had a “familial” vibe to me (reminded me of a relative), so she never got the motor running. I could appreciate her beauty from a logical POV, but between the familial vibe and the fact that her character was fucking annoying, I wasn’t a fan.
He was on Arrow a season or two back. He’s sporting the dad bod these days.
That angular face was amazing – esp with the hair. There was a girl in one of my poli sci classes around the same time with a similar look. Insanely enticing.
Of course…around that time in college, my ideal gal was Frank Potente (more “Princess and the Warrior” than “Run Lola Run” though).
Franka dammit!
Is that camp entitled “People who are blind and/or gay”?
Meh, I’m no John, but she’s too skin & bones for my taste.
Ballerina, comes with the job.
One of my coworkers is a quite straight woman. She’s not on the fence about Glau though…. she made it clear that she wouldn’t go gay for Summer, but she would definitely spend a weekend there.
Do you know who else wanted to put gay people in camps?
Fidel?
John Waters wanted gay people put in camp. Does that count?
Summer Glau did nothing for me.
Foursome with Saffron, Inara, and Kaylee please.
Yeah, I saw Inara in Deadpool. I know what you are thinking….
That movie insisted upon itself far far too much.
I had you pegged as a Deadpool fan.
You might want to watch Homeland if you have a thing for Morena Baccarin.
Of all the jarring elements of unreality in homeland, perhaps the most egregious to me was that she was clearly officer grade T&A.
^This
(In reply to DEG)
That cock ring must have been invented by a dude. Only a dude would think that his cock ring can tell him anything about his performance.
Anyone with a vagina knows that she’ll be making that determination without any input from outside technology, thank you.
Mine goes up to 11.
Centimeters?
Zing!
appropriate
You know that sending back Summer Glau would wreck any future John Conner.
Instead of the catbutt, can we go with lobster girl? I know, it kinda fosters more of a Brer Rabbit reaction rather than fear and loathing. But on the other hand, lobster girl!
New site, new Lobster Girl.
*salutes Tundra*
I likee the bootay.
Not bad.
Aaah, the star of my favorite fishing show.
Her swimsuit doesn’t match.
“Can I get some catbutt over here?”
/obnoxious prof
Speaking of lobster girls:
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/ny-professor-who-had-meltdown-over-gavin-mcinnes-makes-vile-lobster-porn/
I’ve seen Black Mirror, and I’ve seen what happens when you have robot bees. Be very, very afraid.
How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide
Uber came up with an ingenious tool to deny rides to nanny state fucks who were trying to entrap their drivers with sting operations.
Apparently the market, like life, uh… finds a way.
I see an escort service app in the near future.
That’s ballsy as fuck, and notice of course the good little stukachi inside the company ratting them out to the pigs. Good for Uber.
Hilarious. Cops are gonna have to buy burner phones!
And of course the Times portrays this as a bad thing.
Evil KKKORPORATIONS subverting the will of the
bureaucratspeople!The left has aligned against Uber. You see them appear in droves over on Ars Technica, for example, to attack the company relentlessly.
They hate that the market has provided a new method (independent contractors) that subverts the union extortion racket that Taxi medallions has been and that people engaging in voluntary business exchanges without a traditional business-employee relationship circumvents a lot of laws that stifle competition.
They claim that they’re altruists and only looking out for workers. In reality, it’s plain as day: they want to make it clear that the brave new world of technology obviating the functions governments traditionally control with at iron fist will not be built without a fight. It’s a warning to others: pay your protection money and play by our rules, or we’ll wreck your face.
I don’t think that’s entirely it… for the most party, the SJW’s have left Lyft alone.
That’s because Lyft bent the knee during the MOOSELIMB BAN with a company statement of virtue signaling. The Left will get to them in due time.
Lyft has managed to buy itself a little bit of cheap grace by going full SJW itself.
But SJWs always eat their own, so I don’t think it’s going to last forever.
Wow, if they’re still doing this I might move my business to Uber over Lyft.
*Gilmore signal is lit*
Just like his mom.
I’m still proud of successfully transplanting that meme.
So the Donald Reddit is all abuzz about this FoxNews article http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/01/gop-wants-to-eliminate-shadowy-doj-slush-fund-bankrolling-leftist-groups.html
Basically, the Obama DOJ would sue a bank or a corporation for “discrimination”, the bank or corp would settle, but the Obama DOJ would graciously allow said bank to donate the settlement money to “community organizations” instead of putting the money in the federal treasury. Then the “community organizations” have lots of money to boost the Democratic Party.
That is a pretty huge story. I wonder why the NYT isn’t on top of it?
Reason and others did mention this (WSJ?) in past, as well as some bloggers. But once the program is ended, maybe the whole story can be told.
Yes, this isn’t the first it’s been reported, but considering the ramifications it’s definitely been kept fairly quiet.
There is nothing I could find on it. Probably need a FOIA request to get at the information, which under the last administration never got filled.
There’s a 100 page report linked in the Fox News article. I have not gone through it, but I assume there’s some meat there.
Isn’t that money laundering?
Only if you or I do it.
Money dry-cleaning.
Laws are for you and me, not them.
ARE YOU AGAINST ALL THE GOOD THINGS THOSE NONPROFITS SAY THEY DO??!??
Yes.
I first heard of this when a couple of banks settled over the last couple of years. However besides a couple of throwaway lines about how some of the money would be diverted to “charities” there was no mention of what charities they were or how they decided beyond the fact that the money would be spent by the gov. It was upsetting.
It’s unfair to pin this on Obama in particular. The slush fund ramped up during the Clinton Admin and pretty much plateaued in the Bush Admin. Unlike Trump, Bush wanted to get along with progressives even though they equated Bush with Hitler (remember Bushitler?) no less than they now do Trump.
I still loathe Trump but, damn, he’s getting some good stuff started.
From the article…
Yeah! Just like if I give my wallet to someone instead of them beating me to a pulp and then taking it, I’m making a voluntary donation!
It’s almost conference tournament time. Plenty of unofficial work holidays on the horizon in the Commonwealth
Ok–since 88% of you guys are Canadian, im taking the wife and 3 young kids up north to watch the Yankees play the Blue Jays this summer. If i have one other day up there, what should i do?
Niagara Falls.
The American side is hilarious.
I was going to stop there on the way up, im looking for something right around Rogers Centre.
I don’t know what you mean by this ‘Rogers Centre’, but if you’re looking for something around the Skydome you could always do the glass floors in the tower, or a walkabout the distillery district.
Hockey HoF. My wife only likes hockey by marriage and even she enjoyed it.
If you’re driving from the New York City area, take a detour to go to the Corning Museum of Glass.
And if the kids are old enough, hiking up the gorge at Watkins Glen is pretty easy. The rest of the place is a fucking tourist trap, though.
That Corning Glass museum is prettu cool.
Royal Ontario Museum with kids. Floor of dino bones is awesome. Also, check out the version of Death of Wolfe they have. JT will get to that event eventually, but it’s a pretty seminal moment in Canadian, and, slightly less so, American history.
I am told I am not the person to ask for family-friendly entertainment.
In Toronto, drop by the Bata Shoe Museum. It is cooler than it sounds.
You guys are the best–thanks!
Summer Glau……….a dream boat.
Would…
take the helm!
You should buy a boat.
For the implications?
I saw Tundra and UnCivilServant talking about Hyundais on the morning links long after the thread died.
The Genesis is not bad. It has quirks that annoy me. The entertainment system has the world’s worst music randomizer. The touchscreen “stuff” is based on Windows, probably the same exact bit of MS software that Ford based Sync on and then dropped. My Genesis is an early Genesis, and is sized for South Koreans. If I go over a bump on the highway at the right speed, I’ll hit my head on the ceiling. I’m 5’11”.
As for the styling, I read Hyundai poached some German talent. It shows. I once mistook a Mercedes Benz C-Class for my car. I was walking towards where I thought I parked my car, and saw what I thought was my car. I could only see the back end. When I got close enough that I could see the whole car, I saw the Mercedes hood ornament. Oops.
Yeah, that was my point. The Genesis really belongs by itself – which I think they are kind of doing, no?
I understand the Hyundai has actually done that. All their luxury/performance stuff. Like Honda/Acura, Nissan/Infiniti and Toyota/Lexus.
And not like Ford/Mercury.
It makes sense. If you are buying the most expensive cars in the line, you don’t want to have to rub elbows with the unwashed.
Yes, Hyundai has split the luxury division off. Genesis is the make, and then there are two models if I remember correctly. One for the old Hyundai Genesis and another for the old Hyundai Equus.
If my mom is looking at Japanese luxury cars, is the Genesis good enough for me to recommend she test drive?
Nice size, good engines, rear or AWD. I would absolutely drive one.
Hyundai is South Korean.
I’d say give it a try. Despite the quirks, when I bought my Genesis it was a great value for money. I haven’t looked at current prices, but given what Hyundai had planned, they can’t drive the prices up too much.
Price is similar to the Lexuses she was looking at ($42k-$47k MSRP). May as well. She’s saying it’s going to be the last car she’s going to buy for a long while (she has a 2012 Lexus IS with only 22k miles. She doesn’t exactly drive a lot). Features look good for the money. Couldn’t hurt.
So will Hyundai call the next model the Exodus?
*polite applause *
My Mini has a terrible MP3 randomizer. if you reset it – or if it magically resets itself – the tracks will play in the same “random” order as before.
“Ted Williams would be happy to know that scientists have found a way to safely restore cryogenically preserved tissue. Now they just need to figure out the whole head transplant thing.”
And his career .344 BA.
Will the robots vote Democrat though?
Of course they can, anyone can vote team blue including the dead.
My dad voted Republican until the day he died. After that he became a Democrat.
It’s never too late to change your mind.
Yesssssssssssssss
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2017/03/03/mob-attacks-middlebury-prof-and-controversial-speaker-charles-murray
A professor that tried to shield Charles Murray from a violent left-wing mob is now in a neck brace. Tolerance
I still would move to VT tho.
For the beauty or the maple syrup?
Both, tbh.
Honest condemnation of #middlebury violence must also condemn those who invited him.What’s point except baiting n inciting in Trump’s America?
/hack
Soave, is that you?
I really have zero interest in watching the Barves this year.
But they have that beautiful monstrosity of a stadium that Cobb County raped local taxpayers for.
That whole area is an even bigger cluster fuck. I’m so glad I don’t live on the North Side.
I feel raped every day when I drive anywhere near the area.
Is the plural of Barf “Barves” or “Barfs”?
It’s Atlanta Braves is the plural of Barf.
Not only did students at Middlebury College shout down a speech by Charles Murray, but apparently they assaulted Murray and his faculty host after the speech
I blame the Southern Poverty Law Center. Really, I do.
I think someone will got shot at some event like this. This will not end well.
Yeah, they really have a dangerous moral authority, because all the MSM cites them as a source on hate groups. So they include political enemies on the hate group list, the lefty professors tell their classes that a “
Class enemySPLC classified hater is on campus right now!” and then off go theRed GuardsConcerned Young Progressives tosmash the wreckers and kulaksfight racism!Well, as we all know, honest condemnation of leftist violence MUST include condemnation of those who invited Charles Murray to speak.
Not now, Shikia.
Rage levels rising.
Most expensive places to vacation in the USA:
https://priceonomics.com/the-most-and-least-expensive-cities-for-vacation/
I’m shocked, shocked!
I’ve been meaning to bring this up for a while, but since Imgur made it only a temporary thing it’s not even possible to prove anymore.
Anyway, on Reddit’s /r/The_Donald, there were a couple of collages of images linked from that subreddit to a page hosted on Imgur. The collages were screenshots of various headlines of left-wing news sites, but edited by a simple extension to replace the word “white” with “black” to show how racist the headlines are if the races are reversed.
So Imgur demonstrated about the sneakiest thing I’ve seen in use by a web site in a long time. For those of you who don’t know HTTP (the protocol by which web sites are requested and delivered to browsers), there is a lot of hidden data sent between the browser to the server when requesting content. This is done to facilitate a lot of features we all take for granted. One such piece of information is called HTTP_REFERER (the misspelling is part of the standard since the very beginning and never got fixed). When you link to a web site from a page, the browser will tell the other site in the request the URL of the page it came from.
Imgur specifically made it so that they could censor any content they liked from being linked, and they did it via a technique called “error banning.” Here’s more info on that. What would happen is if you clicked the link to Imgur that Imgur doesn’t want people to see, the site will automatically return an “Imgur is over capacity” error instead of the image requested. However, I noticed that if you opened the image in a new private browser, it opened just fine. I noticed that every other image linked from Reddit and even from The_Donald sub still worked. Since I’m a long-time web dev (back from when CGI still roamed the earth as the only way to code for web sites), I immediately had suspicions as to what they were doing. I installed an extension that blocked the referrer and, sure as shit, the pages worked just fine, no more errors.
Of course, doing it like this means plausible deniability for Imgur. They can claim they had a server misconfiguration, and since most users are not technical, they’d disbelieve exposure of the trick as genuine censorship. Add to that the fact that the next day their error ban expired and the pages loaded correctly, so there isn’t even an example to point to.
The left is really turning up the heat on stealth techniques to attack any political content they hate. Twitter’s been blocking large numbers of tweets from appearing when they come from accounts with low numbers of followers, as well as implementing slow-bans (also mentioned in the article above). It’s like they got together and decided on a dirty tricks playbook and are hell-bent on rolling it out everywhere. I don’t doubt Facebook is doing the same.
Interesting, you’d expect them to be backing away from doing things like this considering the mainstream media is currently running around like a chicken with its head cut off after losing its credibility during the election.
I think it was a dry run more than anything to see if anyone noticed. I don’t think they were counting on the fact that someone like me would.
I started a thread about it and it was being swamped with downvotes. Worse, after the error ban expired I ended up deleting it because I could no longer prove what was going on and figured that leaving it up for people to stumble across would do more damage than good.
There was some fuck who ran around everywhere I linked to the post (where people were complaining about the over capacity error) claiming it wasn’t censorship. He spammed the shit out of me, which makes me suspicious that he works for Imgur and just didn’t like their shit being exposed. Several other web devs put that asshole in his place though and agreed that I had found genuine stealth censorship. It’s upsetting that billion dollar companies will use their entrenched service in this way to attack the politics of people they don’t like.
The Donald Reddit is convinced that there is an organized campaign of downvoters, along with possible collusion from Reddit admins.
I gotta say, when a thread in The Donald has 1400 comments, but somehow is at zero karma or 3 karma, I find that hard to explain.
Stuff gets voted up, it shows up in /r/all, people who aren’t “locals” see it, and they immediately downvote. Repeat ad infinitum.
I have two working theories about that. The behavior is real, for sure: mass downvotes all the time of anything in the new queue.
Theory 1: It really is just pissed off leftists and paid shills. They’ll downvote heavily to bury something they really don’t like and upvote everything else. Then they go back to downvoting everything else when a particular choice has been buried. That tactic is called “forum sliding” and it’s well-known disruptive behavior that has been employed a long time. It leaves the content that makes it past at a much lower quality than if it were picked by the actual users who want to consume it.
Theory 2: Someone operates bots who is actually on the side of team T_D. The bots downvote constantly specifically to create a bunker mentality. They want everyone pissed off and fired up and upvoting en masse to achieve constant high upvote counts. If this is the case, it’s a psychological trick more than technological, and ingenious.
Didn’t something like this come to light regarding Digg? Which basically killed them?
Imgur’s done this before.
Part of me doesn’t care, because TD is really, really awful. But it isn’t a good thing.
T_D may be awful, but it has a valuable function. It helps aggregate links for positive news about the Trump administration that libertarians and conservatives may like, and it sometimes exposes crime and corruption that the media would rather people not know about. Certainly stuff they would quietly shuffle to the “back page” (or its digital equivalent).
My suspicion about “pizzagate” getting so much attention is partially based around the simple fact that Reddit banned their sub, but also because of an ulterior motive: constantly making it clear that the sub hates pedophiles. That is insulatory behavior. A common tactic by leftist activists on Reddit to get subs shut down that they hate is to post child pornography in them while the mods of the subs are asleep and then contact the admins about it. That was how they took down /r/transfags (which was an even worse shithole, but not violating any site rules, it was just not politically correct). I know about that tactic because I was a mod of a non-political sub but know other mods of some of the questionable ones.
One thing that supports my belief about that is that, unlike many subs, T_D has specifically scheduled their moderators to have 24/7 coverage. They’re vigilant against people posting illegal or unethical content that violates site-wide rules that will get their sub destroyed. The other common leftist technique is to post doxx.
Doesn’t doxxing violate TOS on Plebbit?
Yes, it does. That’s why the left can send in sacrificial sappers bearing doxx, report them and get the place annihilated.
The repetitive script of Trump-Russia ties
Shit, squirrels rethreaded it.
I have only ever gotten downvoted on that stupid fucking site.
“shadow-banning” i think will be the preferred method in the future in most places. Let people go through the motions of participating, but ensure no one actually sees their content.
Aye, that is partially what Twitter already has by letting users block one another, as well as stealth-hiding tweets using machine learning. That is the real threat to the future: bubbles and shadowbanning using algorithmic determination and no human interaction. At least with biased human moderation groups, there’s someone to appeal to when you’ve been targeted for censorship. When it’s secret and done by machines, false positives are going to exist, and it’s going to make people feel isolated and unwanted and leave the platform, which is the goal. The whole point of social media is being social, and if it looks like nobody will socialize with you, why participate?
They really should have the sense to not tell people when they’re trying to communicate with someone who has blocked them, but I think the genie’s out of that bottle and changing it now will piss off a lot of their users.
How long would it take for the, “Save the Tissue Bots” group to emerge and fight for the rights of the new human tissue growth bots?
Thanks for quoting that – super interesting. We’re starting to recognize that mechanical gradients play at least as much of a role in cell development as chemical gradients. Howeved it was always hard to measure because tissue mechanical properties can only be measured by deformation and we are only recently developing the needed tech like cell optical stretchers. /nerd
Subtle (very) ‘gay moment’ in new Disney film generates buzz
shitty-headline-writing. It sounds as though it were “very gay” rather than “very subtle”. Apparently it was so subtle the cast and directors needed to tell the press about it, so they could preen about how Wokeish they is.
I don’t recall much about Disney stuff from the past, but i feel like it must have had at least 20-30% gay stuff in it before. I mean, it was just so *campy*.
It was very, very heavily implied that he was romantically interested in Gaston in the animated version. So they made it clear. Big whoop.
Unfortunately people have lost their ability to understand subtlety, so now these things need to be handled in the most ham-fisted manner possible.
Greetings Florida Mammal. It has been a long time, how is the airboat?
Fine, although I may have hit some of your relatives with it. In my defense they taste delicious.
Related = Once they learned there was some gay in it, an Alabama Drive-In Theater said, “No Thanks”
Why do i get the feeling this whole thing is being planted by Disney executives to hammer home the idea that “WE ARE COOL AND DIVERSE = UNLIKE YOU KNOW WHO”?
basically, it doesn’t make their (what should actually be entirely normal) casting decisions “brave” unless they’re doing it in the face of cultural-opposition, right? So they need to gin up some of the latter to ensure that the former is recognized by the right people.
UNLIKE YOU KNOW WHO
Hitler?
Not Happy With Merely Oppressing Mexicans as a Whole, Trump Aims To Split Up Families And Use Children As Hostages
Have not read story; i presume, like many things that have been “stories” in Q1 of this year, that the reality is something more like,
“Obama passed EO towards the end of his tenure which, while having Nice-Sounding and politically-correct goals, imposed massive complexities on enforcement; Trump regime aims to get rid of legacy Obama rules, and is welcomed with a flurry of headlines declaring that he is a Nazi creating awful new punitive rules, when in fact he’s actually bringing things back to a status quo that prevailed for most of the previous decade”
Could be wrong about that in this case, but i’ve seen that formula repeated like 3-4 times so far. I think the entire “Tranny Bathrooms” issue, fwiw, is sort of like this. No one *really* cares about actual trans-people. its all simply about signaling that “I AM PRO GOOD THINGS”, and forcing your opponent to go, “uh, but its sorta dumb” so you can go, “SEE!!! THEY ARE HATERS WHO HATE””
shit. bad threading.
Close. He was looking for the synonymous “PewDiePie”.
Meh, the actor who played the role was bummed that the information was “leaked” so it wouldn’t be a surprise. From what I’ve read it actually sounds well done, but probably not well done enough for me to watch a live remake of a Disney animated classic.
Seven dudes living together and only the retard tried to sleep with the smoking hot chick? Totally straight.
Beauty and the Beast probably is the gayest of Disney movies.
Like this sort of gay Disney stuff? https://usercontent1.hubstatic.com/8320082_f520.jpg
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39123085
University of Alberta scientists study urine levels in pools.
Is it still funny to make R Kelly jokes?
Is he still in the closet?
Trash panda gets bold
Surprised she didn’t give him a whack with the oar.
She can whack my oar.
Florida opportunistic thumbed cats.
Welp, guess its time to start up some rowdy interest group to combat this anti-trash panda propaganda…
…Nah, screw it, can wait til Monday.
AP PUN FAIL
US snuffs pot fans’ plans to party on Indian land near Vegas
I challenge Glibs to demonstrate superior punmanship here
“Us breaks promise again, will not smoke peace pipe with tribal leaders”
“Smoke signals put extinguished on sacred ground.”
putI’m off my game today. *waits for 5 o’clock smoke break*
“People leave in trail of tears after government issues orders to Indian tribe.”
+ Always bonus points for “Trails of Tears” reference
“Govt Calls In The Cavalry on Tribal Smoke Signals = No Peace Pipe For Protestors“
Redskins Red-faced over Blanket Ban
THIS WHOLE CONGRESS IS OUT OF LINE
In Bizarre Judo-Move = Trump Accuses Schumer of Himself Conspiring With Russians
It’s interesting to live in a world where lying to Congress matters again.
When Rand Paul made that comment that it wasn’t productive for Republicans to investigate other Republicans (stupid statement) a leftist friend of mine who refers to himself as a moderate wrote this statement: “This is why whenever someone tells me Rand Paul is for civil liberties and restraining executive authority I shake my head. This guy is a fall in line partisan without an independent bone in his body.”
This is the same guy who got enraged when Paul did his filibuster a couple years ago because he was disrespecting the office of the Presidency and also made a million excuses for Obama’s civil liberties violations. He’s one of those sorts that when he opens his mouth about politics, I just stay quiet. What’s so crazy is that he’s incredibly partisan but thinks of himself as a moderate.
Most progressives I know consider themselves moderates because they do the typical progressive thing and redefine moderate to mean, “people who agree with me.”
Yep. Moderate is such a bullshit word anyway.
They also seem to exist in an echo chamber. When the bulk of the people you talk to agree with you, your position is “moderate.” Anyone who disagrees is some sort of radical lunatic. It’s political tautology.
Calling yourself “moderate” and calling your opponents “extremist” is also an attempt to flabbergast your opponent without actually addressing their argument at all.
Rothbard said that the truth is often an extreme position. The “progressives” are certainly extreme on issues like gay marriage and abortion. Ask them how they’d feel about some “common-sense regulation, reasonable limits, and legislative compromise” on these issues!
It’s just so amazingly obvious. The left has created a calendar somewhere (undoubtedly Obama’s new mansion). They’re crossing off the days until they can try to recapture Congress and throwing out spurious scandals as delay tactics to keep the administration mired in controversy and not operating at full capacity.
Your friend is an idiot.
Oh yeah. I used to call him on his partisan bullshit and he would throw a fucking fit so now I just stay quiet. They don’t care about the abuses of power, they care that they don’t have the power to abuse their power.
They don’t object to the jackboot, they merely object to the person wearing it.
Does he join in with Antifa to bash the fash? Did he vote for Stein when Hillary stole the nomination from Bernie? No? Well, then, of course he’s a moderate.
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Not Happy With Merely Oppressing Mexicans as a Whole, Trump Aims To Split Up Families And Use Children As Hostages
Have not read story; i presume, like many things that have been “stories” in Q1 of this year, that the reality is something more like,
“Obama passed EO towards the end of his tenure which, while having Nice-Sounding and politically-correct goals, imposed massive complexities on enforcement; Trump regime aims to get rid of legacy Obama rules, and is welcomed with a flurry of headlines declaring that he is a Nazi creating awful new punitive rules, when in fact he’s actually bringing things back to a status quo that prevailed for most of the previous decade”
Could be wrong about that in this case, but i’ve seen that formula repeated like 3-4 times so far. I think the entire “Tranny Bathrooms” issue, fwiw, is sort of like this. No one *really* cares about actual trans-people. its all simply about signaling that “I AM PRO GOOD THINGS”, and forcing your opponent to go, “uh, but its sorta dumb” so you can go, “SEE!!! THEY ARE HATERS WHO HATE””
-1 60-something British sex tourist in Pattaya
The libertarian me sees that, and part of me goes, “people should be free to do whatever they want” and its actually a healthy thing that its out in the open..
Another part of me sees that and thinks there’s something deeply sad about it. These things coexist perfectly fine with each other fwiw.
They may have a mental illness. I’m not qualified to judge, and in the psychiatric world the jury is still out.
Still, if they do have a mental illness, it is tame, it is non-violent, and it is not destructive to anyone but themselves. In that regard, like anything else a libertarian would tolerate even if not condoned.
The real problem comes in when they get political about it. Using the force of the state (violence) against others to get their way. For example, that proposed law in Canada to make it a “hate crime” with stiff penalties to refuse to use their preferred pronouns. Fuck that shit. Fuck people who hate Free Speech. Fuck the black bloc/antifa/leftists/Shikha Dalmia/wharrgarbl/etc.
The real problem comes in when they get political about it. Using the force of the state (violence) against others to get their way.
This. This is why statism is so pernicious. It is completely antithetical to true tolerance: the ability to disagree with somebody but not force them to cater to your disagreement.
I wasn’t talking about “Ladyboys” being sad simply for being ladyboys – i was talking about youth-prostitution.
Ah, didn’t click the link.
Given trans people’s high rate of suicide, it’s still sad in general.
Is anyone else having trouble fitting into a post-Trumpocalypse political environment? The whole thing is like if the left were a writer of Hollywood blockbusters who ran out of ideas, but had to hit a deadline so it just went into its closet and dusted off its Bush the Lesser script and made a few really retarded tweaks, added in a few more explosions and called it a day. The resistance against Trump is the Independence Day II of political movements.
Yeah I didn’t like the last two seasons of L O S T , either.
I find it irritating but hilarious at the same time. The Left and Democrats are so incompetent right now that Trump won’t have to do much work to win reelection in a couple of years. The problem was that the Left and media lowered the bar so much on Trump that he barely has to do much accept exceed those low expectations.
Considering at this point the bar they set has been Hitler, I think it would be very difficult for him to actually manage to fail.
Poor Mao gets no credit after all these years. Sad!
Why would the left use one of their heroes when trying to compare Trump to a horrible dictator?
I’m using that (or some version of that) in the future.
But you’re right. They don’t actually have any real ideas that they’re dinging trump for. Its just endless pretending that he’s “Anti-Gay, Anti-Woman, Anti-Black” and that somehow “russia” is involved.
Or wearing pussy hats. My wife’s aunt (who is a liberal) made a great point about that. She said that we can wear all the pussy hats in the world and protest every weekend, but if we don’t reconnect with the white middle class and stop being clueless, Trump and the GOP will be in power for a while.
When I meant we, I meant people like her.
It’s amazing (to me) how many women were completely turned off by the vagina march. I didn’t expect that reaction, but many apolitical women like my wife are still fuming about it a month later.
How do vaginas march though?
Like snails?
This is my biggest complaint about third-wave feminism. The first two waves had legitimate gripes and I support everything they fought for to achieve equality.
The third wave is a problem specifically because it’s exactly what happens to a movement once it has gotten everything it wanted. It becomes a bull in a china shop. It doesn’t make any damned sense because all the women and men who helped feminism to get to where it is today who had any sense have since left the movement satisfied with the results. What is left is a group of people who still want to feel “unity” of a social movement, but no concrete goals they can convince anyone of that are worth achieving. So now it’s mostly really nasty misandrists hell-bent on punishing men who had nothing to do with what their intellectual forebears experienced (i.e. reparations).
They’ll fix that with the next march, which is co-organized by a real, convicted, Palestinian terrorist who has murdered people.
Judicial Watch Fight for 74-Year Old Veteran Prosecuted for Memorial Day ‘Posting’ of American Flags on Veterans Affairs Center Fence Continues
There was a time in my life where I would’ve dismissed this story as being completely outrageous and said “The guy has to be lying. There’s no way it happened the way he says it did.”
I know better now.
This caught my eye
Mischief in the Capitol as GOP rebels stir up trouble
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Capitol is suddenly awash with troublemakers and rebels — and that’s just the Republicans.
Features a photo of a bored-looking Thomas Massie.
Trump Strives To Kill More Innocents Than Obama
Don’t quit on me now. A true domineering species understands that a foul tasting enemy eventually runs out. And the sooner the better
We’re not getting rid of “drone the terrorist” anymore then we will see the American people say “Hey, look at this, a standing army is unconstitutional!”
If Trump continues to let the Hellfires fly, but he works out a rapprochement with the Russians and Chinese, disentangles the ground troops from the Sandbox, and actually gets rich allies like the EU and Japan to pay for their own fucking defense, that’s a huge win. If he does it, which who knows if he will. But I think the drone strikes are here to stay along with a 10 carrier Navy and three different kinds of strategic nuclear forces.
A Jekyll-Hyde Existence: Inside the CIA’s 1980 Manual for ferreting out Homosexuals
Guess I’m gay.
I usually show up late and with a massive hangover. So that makes me straight. But I also drive a Nissan. Hmmm. I guess that makes me bi.
If they had just waited until the invention of the Miata and the Subaru Outback in the 90’s it would’ve made their manual so much simpler.
This is still my favorite official government document about ferreting out homosexuals.
I must say representative of large forest mammals…that is a very agressive beard
Most gracious of you to notice. It significantly improves my chances of mating, which seems to have limited bearing on my reproductive fitness.
Well that is understandable, but your motivation to get-it-in is recognized by creatures throughout the Galaxy. Except for the floating ribbon squid from Omicron 13. Their mating habits resemble a writhing dodecahedron that confounds most of our scientists.
Don’t get the mammals going on their mating habits.
Mating is foreign to us muppets. We’re all smooth down there.
Not clicking – does it involve richard gere?
Random thought of the day (not to be confused with JATNAS):
I’m sometimes amazed at the virulent spread of casual vulgarity. Not that I’m particularly offended by cuss words, but I am initially skeptical of people who have an incessant need to inject a 4-letter word into wide-audience fora. It’s one thing to have an adult environment on a specific website (like this one) and for people to act in the theme of the establishment, but the number of people who are unable to communicate in more general circumstances without being vulgar has caught my eye.
The specific recent occurrence stuck in my mind was when a guy posted a pic of his 2-year-old kid having the time of his life at a basketball game on a sports blog, and another commenter replied with an expletive-laden cheer because the team won the game. It seemed really inappropriate given the context, and the original owner of the pic said as much in reply. Of course cussy mcswearsalot took umbrage at being called out.
I’ve always believed that swearing and vulgarity is like steak seasoning. The better the steak, the less seasoning you need. Similarly, if your contribution to the conversation is worth the electrons it’s carried on, then you only need sparing vulgarity.
Anyway, people are assholes. Fuck ’em all.
Yes but your species is entertaining so keep up the good work
FYTW
Heh, I prefer to use cursing tactically. When you see me do it, you’ll know there was a reason for it. If I feel like insulting you, I’ve got the vocabulary for it, and I’ll probably do it in a subtle way that leaves plausible deniability. There’s nothing funnier than insulting an idiot in a way that he doesn’t even realize he’s been insulted.
The worst thing really is just getting the cold shoulder. Refusal to interact with someone is a sure sign that I don’t like them. Not to be confused with the fact that some people are just good thread-enders, though. I think most people who are know they are and aren’t offended that they don’t get responses when they leave nothing left to say.
There was a comedian from back in the late 80’s (I think… it was on Comic Strip Live IIRC) who had a whole bit about that. It involved him getting into a fender bender with some in NYC, and then calmly discussing what was said with euphemisms. There were some that included things such as, “then I suggested that he had relations with his mother, who may have been a canine.”
Woody Allen: “Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.”
That’s similar, but it wasn’t Woody Allen. It was some short guy with long hair who was balding, he looked a bit like a cut rate Gallagher. I remember he also did the fake commercial for grill shoes, with the tagline “It cooks the meat by the heat of your feet.”
Bruce Baum.
That looks like the guy… unfortunately I can’t find the bit I was referring to. I’m glad my description jogged the memory in someone else at least. 🙂
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-10/news/ol-2634_1_baum-laugh-props
“I’ve got a shoe called the Broiler. You stick meat into the patented tray and the Broiler uses the heat of your feet to cook the meat.”
I spent most of my life using casual vulgarity. My parents were non-religious (as am I) and basically let me cuss whenever I wanted as long as we were at home or in some other informal setting where nobody would care.
But I’ve made an effort in recent years to stop cussing so much unless I’m seriously enraged. One thing (among many) that spurred this was hearing a guy at my old job talk about going for a bicycle ride: “So I got all my shit together and peddled my fucking ass off; it was fucking beautiful out there this weekend!” For some reason, this guy made me realize how UNINTELLIGENT people sound when the most ordinary conversation is “fucking” this and “goddamn” that.
Oh shit. Shut the fuck up.
Eat shit, asswipe! Fuckin’ hell!
I’m on drink #2 – gin ftw
I’m drinking the second half of a bottle of this. First half I drank last night.
I started with a Hop Juju before moving on to attempting to put a dent into my keg of homebrewed Imperial Stout (8.4%, brewed last summer, sat in the keg and conditioned until December).
Mr. Lizard is a top tier poster
Hmm. One could be a top-tier shit-poster or a shit-tier top poster.
“Science is better than miracles”
Anyone recognize this quote?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Yeah, that. IOW, it’s all science, it’s just the observer’s ability to recognize it as so.
I don’t recognize the first, but I recognize the second. Arthur C. Clarke.
It was one of them glibertarians who made the first. Or borrowed it from somewhere maybe.
Anyway, Clarke was spot on. Imagine a person from 1000 years ago seeing a smartphone, automobile, aircraft, or any number of modern day ‘miracles’. They would be convinced that it’s magic. To them, it would be, because they would have no reference from which to comprehend what they’re seeing.
I just made that up. I think.
Having a new girlfriend is taking up a lot of the time I used to waste among you reprobates, but I will try to drop in when I can. Congratulations to everyone who, remarkably quickly, made this place the new, hip destination.
Congratulations or condolences; whichever is more appropriate.
Oh, it’s congratulations. She’s a blast and we’re very taken with one another. No pics, sorry.
Pics? ?
Is she visiting from Canada?
Ha, no, she’s quite real. Lives in Marin.