Oh, yeah, I wasn’t saying this guy was a hero or trying doing anything other than being a vindictive crook. I’m pointing out the wild disparity in punishment for things like “we crashed the whole economy and made off with billions” (no punishment and in fact gifts of tons more money) versus “I got mad at my employer and fucked up their computers for half a day” (ten years).
Pure gold lol
ESH
@Unruffled: MBFC is absolutely terrible. Plenty of people have given examples, but just to name a few:
Contrast with:
And so on. It’s just, basically, one person’s subjective opinion of what he thinks about various news sources.
If you want to do this task of categorizing news sources, just use the Wikipedia Perennial Sources list. That one’s peer-reviewed by a huge team of people who care a lot, qualified feedback is taken seriously and used to improve the list, there’s a ton more transparency, it is just better in every respect.
@Deceptichum: As with almost every time someone gathers mod action, it’s not what you said, it’s how you said it. You were abrasive and insulting for no reason at all. You’re not wrong, but IMO you pretty much deserved the mod action because you were being a cock. I think if you’d responded to the pretty reasonable (if phrased a little bit hostile) question by just answering the reasonable question, you would have been fine. The mods here seem fairly reasonable in most cases, but most people will respond poorly to being cursed at and insulted out of nowhere.
Organize to steal the people’s money through fraudulent charges, and give it to rich people: All is well
As one of the people, organize to fuck up the rich people’s operation, even if you’re not even stealing their money or anything: Panik
I don’t know what happened that I can’t easily find full text for the story, but:
https://archive.org/details/lccn_425022749
Skip to “Shall the Dust Praise Thee,” page 369.
“This story was written some years ago, and all I remember about it is that my then agent returned it with loathing, and told me I might possibly sell it to the Atheist Journal in Moscow, but nowhere else.” -Damon Knight
Or, just read the whole book. It’s the real deal.
Bureaucracy is one of the super-powers of modern civilization. It keeps the water clean, it keeps the food growing, it makes sure that someone who knows the right people can’t just drive drunk because everyone in a position of power can keep them out of trouble. Having an organized system for things, and then consistently applying it so that problems can be fixed systemically and then the fix can stick in place, is the only way we have billions and billions of people on the planet right now instead of little chaotic scattered settlements.
Like any superpower it creates new problems that it introduces. Some people might say the settlements would be a better idea. But it solves a whole bunch of problems too, and the idea that it’s inherently an evil thing is along the exact same lines as “the servers always run fine, why do we pay an IT department?”
“Listen, Jessica: If you decide to put a damn balloon collar on me, you’re going to hear about it.”
The black box algorithms are not designed to show you what you want to see.
It reminded him, the briefing says, of “fleeing arbitrary detention in Syria and forced disappearance of his friends in Syria in 2013.”
My brotherman, there is a reason for that.
Agreed. The outlandish stuff is actually a little bit safer. Actually dangerous geopolitical stuff that might kick off something he can’t control, because it might realistically happen, he avoids like the plague unless it carries some kind of strong benefit to him personally. He just likes to talk shit because it’s fun. I don’t think it is any more complicated than that.
I suspect that this is why Musk was brought in. Musk is actually willing to take an axe to the main pillars of the building, in a lot more energetic and systematized fashion than Trump would be inclined to.
Ha, fair enough. I won’t say you are wrong about someone doing that. My observation has been:
My advice would be to avoid the places where group 2 likes to congregate, because they tend to be silly places that will give people a distorted view of what’s real after a while.
Your quote marks and your original question sound like you’re really trying hard to find something offensive about the way I am saying it. Good luck! I hope you find some enemies you can be performatively anti-racist against, if that is in fact your goal. If that’s not your goal, then I would modify your language, because you’re making it sound like that’s your goal, and there are better things to be upset about in the modern day than being hyper-vigilant about anything that sounds offensive and then then proudly pointing out to everyone that it’s offensive.
(Well, I mean yes, the nature of the system is offensive, and I’m aiming to be direct about how it behaves, so in that sense maybe my language is offensive. I think it is extremely clear that the system is meant for Khalil, though, and he’s not Hispanic. He is brown. I said what I said, the way I said it, for a reason.)
Yeah, now looking at it again, it’s clearly fake and I feel dumb for being taken in by it. I definitely wanted it to be real, though. I will delete the post.
Wait, really?
Noo… I think you are right. Fuck.
I think mostly it is revealing about Schumer’s priorities. He has a government job. If everything within the buildings in Washington DC is mostly still working the way it’s supposed to, then at the end of the day he still gets a paycheck and some important stuff to do every day. Lots of people across the US going through upheaval, losing their jobs, maybe getting detained indefinitely or not, journalists getting threatened, all that stuff isn’t, like, good, but it’s also not an existential threat to him. The government shutting down would be.
And so, avoiding that is a key priority of his. It’s urgent. All that other stuff is not.
“The Republican bill is a terrible option,” Schumer said in his remarks. “It is deeply partisan. It doesn’t address far too many of this country’s needs. But I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option.”
You fucking twat
These white people:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/04/world/german-detained-ice-intl-latam/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y3yx1jdyo
The point that I’m making, pointing out that they’re white, is that the news is all of a sudden concerned about them, because they’re white, because the news is racist. Brown people have been going through that same horrifying system for years and years now, and because they “belonged there” or something, unlike those pretty white girls who do not, no one gave a shit.
(I mean, no one in a position to free them cares about the white girls either, but the news is at least acknowledging that it’s something bad that this is happening to them. They talk to family members, emphasize that they didn’t really do anything wrong, that kind of thing. It’s like some kind of confusing terrible mistake that the system is suddenly being weaponized on these innocent people. When brown people are reported to be suffering those same abuses, or much much worse, they’re reported on in a much more abstract way. Like animals that are having trouble surviving in some particular environment, but not like a problem.)
You had me in the first half lol
PTB