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Politics Episode 8: WWF Edition
I'd count cross referencing reddit and facebook as putting in a fair bit of effort, at least considering how little is usually put in. I'd have a lot more satisfaction about a troll type buckling if it weren't CNN doing it and if the guy was more at fault. End of the day it's a wrestling gif that got exposure because Trump posted it, it was not an assault on the 4th estate and it is utterly trivial. Yet CNN is so self important that they had them tracking down its author as their lead item, and were both smug and hypocritical about it. Ultimately I end up preferring that something bad would happen to CNN, rather than some random redditor. Theoretically, if a site doxs or threatens to dox a reddit user by trawling their posts it's a sitewide ban for them from reddit as punishment, theoretically it's about the worst infraction there is. Doesn't have anything to do with quality, it being reddit quality doesn't enter into things. Happened to Gawker, for example. Won't happen to CNN though, as all the CTR Shareblue bots would throw a fit about it. Really? To me CNN is middle of road for mainstream media in the US but Reddit is just a cancer. Didn't know they have an issue with sites doxing their users, kind of rich that they do. But alright. Not quite sure the wrong kind of shills are that much in charge of Reddit.
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Politics Episode 8: WWF Edition
There's a fair bit of amusement to be had, starting with CNN having that as their lead story over DPRK's ICBM launch. Also, CNN's actions are potentially at least illegal and it ought to get CNN banned from reddit as well. Neither of which will actually happen, of course, but still. Indeed, it's a both hilarious and yet oh so depressing thought that CNN may actually have spent more time and effort trying to dox someone who posted a satirical wrestling gif of them than they put into fact checking the entire lead up to the 2003 Iraq War. Doesn't seem like all that much effort was needed (Reddit user being a careless moron, shock!), but certainly is weird that they'd waste time on it. Do get some satisfaction seeing some troll-type poster get squeezed a bit and buckling. Not sure why CNN would get banned from Reddit due to this, Daily Mail is still allowed to post there along with a lot of other crank sites (The Rebel is the one I'm seeing a lot of, go figure Canada has a lot of angry right wing cranks). So not like they have much of standards Hopefully the guy's name does get leaked, though. That'd make this comedy complete.
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The Weird, Random and Interesting Things That Fit Nowhere Else Thread
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article159682299.html Hard to tell if people joking or just more proof that Twitter is an ocean of idiocy
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Politics Episode 8: WWF Edition
I think that's pretty funny. They put the screws to some Reddit peon. Meh.
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Politics Episode 8: WWF Edition
And its all you guys fault! Need a popup here warning of loss of intellect with continued reading
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Politics Episode 8: WWF Edition
Careful, you're near single digits!
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Politics Episode 8: WWF Edition
I think most that have that label open that way, at least these days . Bars in my neighborhood have a lot of gay patrons but no one calls them gay bars. Related trivia http://www.history.com/news/how-the-mob-helped-establish-nycs-gay-bar-scene
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What's so funny right now?
Checking all the boxes for metal album art
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What are you playing right now?
Got that bug again in Deserts of Kharak so am giving that a rest for now. Not a bad game, only on mission 4. Probably not worth $18. I think I will go back to nailing off Cosmonautica's story just so I can cross that off the list
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/your-revolution-was-dumb-and-it-filled-us-with-refugees-a-canadian-take-on-the-american-revolutionary-war/wcm/b8a6b815-25de-4ea6-be42-a7af9d0323ed Probably will get a laugh out of some. Canadian take on the American Revolution (even if it is from the NP)
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What's so funny right now?
Pretty sure the first two are already present.
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What you did today
Pain is just weakness leaving the body, be alpha! But hope whatever's causing that pain gets removed (well, unless it's a person..maybe). Last day of my long weekend before I return to work and deal with the general atmosphere of : But first, going to sit out with my weiner dog, need to decide what to listen to. Perhaps the UT99 soundtrack
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What you having for dinner tonight?
Toast and apple jelly.
- Politics Episode 7: Remake of Episode 4
- Politics Episode 7: Remake of Episode 4
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
Gromnir got my obscure reference at least. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/in-attempt-to-achieve-youtube-stardom-woman-accidentally-kills-her-boyfriend/ Darwin Award, I guess.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
That photographer isn't helping the turtle. Why is that?
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What you did today
Long weekend here. So guess I can catch up on sleeping and cleaning. Probably will have some heavy cleaning task to do.
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- Politics Episode 7: Remake of Episode 4
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What's so funny right now?
Michael Douglas would make a good Tony Stark
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Politics Episode 7: Remake of Episode 4
Genocidal maniac? Don't get me wrong. I love and participate in good hyperbole and melodrama to spice up forum chatter. But that is a stretch. Let's see, Trump has been in office for five months now. He has ordered one cruise missile strike that killed 15 people according to Syria. The LA Times thinks is was more like 4 but whatever. Of course the attack was in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed over 70 including children in a US backed rebel group. Not that it was any better than the others but whatever. By July 4 2009 Barack Obama ordered drone strikes that killed over 241 in Afghanistan, Iraq, & Yemen (who we were not even at war with at the time. Of course we were not at war with Syria, Iraq, & Afghanistan either). 241 including non-combatants because air delivered ordinance does not know the difference. And he won a Nobel Peace Prize four months later! But Hitler and Arafat both had those in their trophy cases too so that does not mean much. By the end of 2016 the Obama Admin would order strikes that killed almost 4k people. Just to compare, in the first six months the body count of George W Bush, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Ronald Regan, and Jimmy Carter was 0. He is a buffoon and a fool no doubt. But genocidal maniac? Not even CLOSE! Obama came a lot closer. You liked him didn't you? But it's still early. Almost forgot, my source material: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/drone-war And he dropped MOBA IIRC Trump WOULD be a LoL player.
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What you did today
Project Manager is basically acting like Hudson in Aliens. Going to give me vicarious stroke.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
Will have a new sarcophagus this year, hopefully - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement But yeah, I would hope people would know that the reactors were decommissioned by 2000 (to be honest, I am surprised the other ones were kept running after the #4 reactor exploded, who'd want to work anywhere near that thing).
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