I mean that's not a low quality fact, that's just real. If you stare long enough into the pyramid on the top of the $1 bill you would know that.
>Officials from the University of Waterloo said the in-house emergency alert system didn't work as expected after the stabbings, adding the WatSAFE app had sent an alert to students 90 minutes after the incident.
Your tax dollars at work...
"Warning!!! Someone tried to stab you an hour and a half ago!"
Your tax dollars at work...
"Warning!!! Someone tried to stab you an hour and a half ago!"
Pictured: two Hollywood pedophiles. (Sorry Jay and silent Bob fans, never go to Hollywood)
I think it might have been 10 years ago he last streamed? I remember he just got on stream and angrily told people not to tell him how to play the game.
It's a real shame, because spoony made legitimately funny videos and entertaining, but I think that like a lot of these folks the brain damage from huffing his own farts every day eventually took its toll.
It's a real shame, because spoony made legitimately funny videos and entertaining, but I think that like a lot of these folks the brain damage from huffing his own farts every day eventually took its toll.
Imagine training your AI on Reddit and thinking you're going to detect anything other than the AIs those AIs trained on.
I'm really disappointed seeing a lot of people that I generally like on the left cheering for what is obviously a politically motivated case and conviction.
I just have to flip the question: if Donald Trump did to Democrat politicians what is happening to Donald Trump, would it or would it not be considered an attack on democracy?
The reason that Justice must be blind is that it shouldn't matter whether you like the person or not with respect to their treatment by the justice system. If everyone is suddenly going after one person solely because they don't like that person politically, whether you like it or not that is an actual threat to democracy.
The first assassination in Rome was of a populist politician, and after that assassination became a common tool. Eventually, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon ending the age of the Roman Republic and beginning the age of the Roman empire, and the Rubicon would be crossed over and over again for centuries.
A few senators got together and thought that if only they could kill the one man, this Julius Caesar, then the Republic would be saved. After the assassination, another Caesar took his place, and another and another because the fundamental problems didn't really have anything to do with the one man, and instead pointed to a rot in Roman civilization.
Eventually, things would get so bad that the entire empire would collapse and everyone would be very happy that it finally collapsed because the lot of the common Man would be better then it had ever been.
Think about it for a minute, all of the democratic norms that were broken long before Donald Trump even entered politics. Both political parties voted for the USAPatriot act. Both political parties continued to vote to extend it. Both political parties kept Guantanamo Bay open. Both political parties voted to keep fisa courts running. Both political parties had a president in power who could have pardoned Edward Snowden, the hero whistleblower who spoke up when he saw widespread attacks on individual American civil liberties, yet definitively chose not to.
America has some big problems right now, and perhaps Donald Trump is even emblematic of those problems. But you can send many senators up to stab him in the back and all that's going to happen is another one's going to rise because the problems aren't him, they are America in decline.
Just like Julius Caesar, if you take out Donald Trump you aren't actually going to save the Republic because the problem with the Roman Republic was not Julius caesar, and the problem with the American Republic is not Donald Trump.
I just have to flip the question: if Donald Trump did to Democrat politicians what is happening to Donald Trump, would it or would it not be considered an attack on democracy?
The reason that Justice must be blind is that it shouldn't matter whether you like the person or not with respect to their treatment by the justice system. If everyone is suddenly going after one person solely because they don't like that person politically, whether you like it or not that is an actual threat to democracy.
The first assassination in Rome was of a populist politician, and after that assassination became a common tool. Eventually, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon ending the age of the Roman Republic and beginning the age of the Roman empire, and the Rubicon would be crossed over and over again for centuries.
A few senators got together and thought that if only they could kill the one man, this Julius Caesar, then the Republic would be saved. After the assassination, another Caesar took his place, and another and another because the fundamental problems didn't really have anything to do with the one man, and instead pointed to a rot in Roman civilization.
Eventually, things would get so bad that the entire empire would collapse and everyone would be very happy that it finally collapsed because the lot of the common Man would be better then it had ever been.
Think about it for a minute, all of the democratic norms that were broken long before Donald Trump even entered politics. Both political parties voted for the USAPatriot act. Both political parties continued to vote to extend it. Both political parties kept Guantanamo Bay open. Both political parties voted to keep fisa courts running. Both political parties had a president in power who could have pardoned Edward Snowden, the hero whistleblower who spoke up when he saw widespread attacks on individual American civil liberties, yet definitively chose not to.
America has some big problems right now, and perhaps Donald Trump is even emblematic of those problems. But you can send many senators up to stab him in the back and all that's going to happen is another one's going to rise because the problems aren't him, they are America in decline.
Just like Julius Caesar, if you take out Donald Trump you aren't actually going to save the Republic because the problem with the Roman Republic was not Julius caesar, and the problem with the American Republic is not Donald Trump.
You're beautiful,
You're beautiful,
You're beautiful it's true
I saw your face
But you're an inferior race
And I don't know what to do
I can never date a jew
You're beautiful,
You're beautiful it's true
I saw your face
But you're an inferior race
And I don't know what to do
I can never date a jew
People think that voting absolutely can't change anything, but even up here in Canada people don't realize the 5% of the vote The People's party of Canada got wasn't enough to sway the election, but it was more than the green party got, and I do strongly believe that it helped tilt the mainstream conservative party towards Pierre Poilievre, somebody who's been outspoken about the right things unlike his predecessors who ran on being liberal lite.
A lot of things in life are a matter of faith. Why do you work hard? Why don't you go out and do drugs everyday? Why do you try to do right by your family and by your friends? There's no guarantee that any of this will pay off, but there is a guarantee that if you don't then it won't. In the same way, there's no guarantee and perhaps there's a high likelihood that voting is not going to help, but not voting has a 100% chance of not helping.
A lot of things in life are a matter of faith. Why do you work hard? Why don't you go out and do drugs everyday? Why do you try to do right by your family and by your friends? There's no guarantee that any of this will pay off, but there is a guarantee that if you don't then it won't. In the same way, there's no guarantee and perhaps there's a high likelihood that voting is not going to help, but not voting has a 100% chance of not helping.
I'm not saying she'd look like the wicked witch of the West if you put her on a broomstick and gave her a pointy hat, but.... Actually that's exactly what I'm saying and she's got a personality to match.
"Imagine" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, but it was written by a shortsighted idiot who died young and thus barely had to live with any of the consequences of his actions.
It's been a recurring theme for me, watching people I care about self-destruct because they chose living for the day over fighting for tomorrow. Often involving drugs, and often involving letting bad people have way too important a role in your life.
It isn't easy trying to live a good life, but you have to give it your best every day, and when you fail to live up to your own ideals you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try to do better tomorrow. You don't need to be ideal to be good or even to be great, but on the balance you need to get it right more often than you get it wrong. Many extraordinary results come from ordinary men choosing to do ordinary things every single day.
Many people talk about someday writing a book, I actually accomplished it. I didn't do anything so amazing, I just chose to write every weekend, and make it to the end, then push it over the finishing line with a few touches and now it's on sale and has sold more than the 12 copies many books apparently sell (not quitting my day job!)
I'm on my fifth chapter book with my toddler. That sounds insane, but one chapter a week is all it takes to finish multiple books a year.
Terry Fox is a Canadian hero who walked half way across the country on a prosthetic leg from Newfoundland to a city in northwestern Ontario. Even driving, that's a huge distance, but he walked, and he did it one step at a time.
In the same way that virtue stacks on itself, so does vice. People typically don't just wake up with cops battering down your door or living in a trap house or friendless and alone. It's a nation you walk through one step at a time.
It's been a recurring theme for me, watching people I care about self-destruct because they chose living for the day over fighting for tomorrow. Often involving drugs, and often involving letting bad people have way too important a role in your life.
It isn't easy trying to live a good life, but you have to give it your best every day, and when you fail to live up to your own ideals you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try to do better tomorrow. You don't need to be ideal to be good or even to be great, but on the balance you need to get it right more often than you get it wrong. Many extraordinary results come from ordinary men choosing to do ordinary things every single day.
Many people talk about someday writing a book, I actually accomplished it. I didn't do anything so amazing, I just chose to write every weekend, and make it to the end, then push it over the finishing line with a few touches and now it's on sale and has sold more than the 12 copies many books apparently sell (not quitting my day job!)
I'm on my fifth chapter book with my toddler. That sounds insane, but one chapter a week is all it takes to finish multiple books a year.
Terry Fox is a Canadian hero who walked half way across the country on a prosthetic leg from Newfoundland to a city in northwestern Ontario. Even driving, that's a huge distance, but he walked, and he did it one step at a time.
In the same way that virtue stacks on itself, so does vice. People typically don't just wake up with cops battering down your door or living in a trap house or friendless and alone. It's a nation you walk through one step at a time.
Just because I write a really long post doesn't mean I'm right, it just means I want to unwrap what I think. Maybe I end up wrong -- who knows?
https://youtu.be/rkyj1U0n2TA
I came across this video of a man calling customer support at Pepsi to complain that when he ate a 30-year-old bag of snacks he found in a locker at a store it wasn't very fresh.
I found the whole video just hilarious and hopefully someone else does too.
I came across this video of a man calling customer support at Pepsi to complain that when he ate a 30-year-old bag of snacks he found in a locker at a store it wasn't very fresh.
I found the whole video just hilarious and hopefully someone else does too.
Many, if not all, of these protests at universities that are the impetus for much of the discussion are astroturf campaigns paid for by NGOs, often established in the US to help reduce the amount of heat if funding is coming from places other than the US. Many protests and the like are similarly false grassroots.
This funding can take a few different forms. In some cases, it's paid professional protesters, or paying for logistics -- you ever been to college? When I was there I struggled to buy a box of macaroni and cheese for the week, forget about a bunch of camping supplies, flags, props and signs so I could camp out at school to protest for weeks about a geographical location I couldn't point on a map, while chanting about a river I can't name and a sea I can't name.
Unfortunately, a massive amount of this goes on and has for a long time. Not just on the left, but on the right as well, and stuff that has no inherent political connection -- protests have been purchased by ad companies to promote different media. Famously, Electronic Arts paid for protesters to attack a video game based on Dante's Inferno and was caught red handed.
Then the media ends up supporting narratives that they either want you to believe or that are presently useful for their masters agendas.
While previous protests were wholethroatedly supported by the media because they were so useful, today the astroturf is mostly useful insofar as if people are paying attention to protests about a country most people can't point to on a map, then there won't be as much oxygen in the room for the fact that record numbers of people are losing their homes, using food banks, or living in the tent cities that are showing up in virtually every large city.
I'll never forget one case of protests that weren't useful to the establishment. People forget that both political parties in the US voted to invade Iraq and it wasn't until later that things ended up different with the Democrats pretending they never supported it and the Republicans continuing to support what had become a deeply unpopular war. The eve of the war in Iraq saw some of the largest protests in human history, which were barely covered by establishment media sources, but when they were then they made sure to find spots where violence broke out so they could pooh pooh the anti-war protesters for violence.
Some of these NGOs may just be filled with useful idiots. As an example, some of the disruptive climate protests are funded by oil companies because disruptive protests and absurd genocidal demands will also help suck the oxygen out of the room for specific, achievable, relevant reforms that could be much more impactful than demanding things that just aren't going to happen such as the abolition of fossil fuels.
So a follow-up question might be "how do these NGOs get their money?", and that's a legitimate question. In part, NGOs are funded by the governments they're protesting. In some cases it's directly, but usually it's in a sort of darker web where big NGOs get money and pass that money on to smaller NGOs which eventually get a degree of plausible deniability. In other cases, it's other governments. Some of these protests are being funded by NGOs who got money from sources such as royalty in the middle east. In further cases, it's billionaires with certain agendas. I'd say it's quite rare for the actual data to come out such as what we saw with the canadian trucker convoy gofundme hack and for it to end up being many small donations from individuals who support the cause.
This funding can take a few different forms. In some cases, it's paid professional protesters, or paying for logistics -- you ever been to college? When I was there I struggled to buy a box of macaroni and cheese for the week, forget about a bunch of camping supplies, flags, props and signs so I could camp out at school to protest for weeks about a geographical location I couldn't point on a map, while chanting about a river I can't name and a sea I can't name.
Unfortunately, a massive amount of this goes on and has for a long time. Not just on the left, but on the right as well, and stuff that has no inherent political connection -- protests have been purchased by ad companies to promote different media. Famously, Electronic Arts paid for protesters to attack a video game based on Dante's Inferno and was caught red handed.
Then the media ends up supporting narratives that they either want you to believe or that are presently useful for their masters agendas.
While previous protests were wholethroatedly supported by the media because they were so useful, today the astroturf is mostly useful insofar as if people are paying attention to protests about a country most people can't point to on a map, then there won't be as much oxygen in the room for the fact that record numbers of people are losing their homes, using food banks, or living in the tent cities that are showing up in virtually every large city.
I'll never forget one case of protests that weren't useful to the establishment. People forget that both political parties in the US voted to invade Iraq and it wasn't until later that things ended up different with the Democrats pretending they never supported it and the Republicans continuing to support what had become a deeply unpopular war. The eve of the war in Iraq saw some of the largest protests in human history, which were barely covered by establishment media sources, but when they were then they made sure to find spots where violence broke out so they could pooh pooh the anti-war protesters for violence.
Some of these NGOs may just be filled with useful idiots. As an example, some of the disruptive climate protests are funded by oil companies because disruptive protests and absurd genocidal demands will also help suck the oxygen out of the room for specific, achievable, relevant reforms that could be much more impactful than demanding things that just aren't going to happen such as the abolition of fossil fuels.
So a follow-up question might be "how do these NGOs get their money?", and that's a legitimate question. In part, NGOs are funded by the governments they're protesting. In some cases it's directly, but usually it's in a sort of darker web where big NGOs get money and pass that money on to smaller NGOs which eventually get a degree of plausible deniability. In other cases, it's other governments. Some of these protests are being funded by NGOs who got money from sources such as royalty in the middle east. In further cases, it's billionaires with certain agendas. I'd say it's quite rare for the actual data to come out such as what we saw with the canadian trucker convoy gofundme hack and for it to end up being many small donations from individuals who support the cause.
Just imagine some marketing manager going "you brilliant son of a bitch! Ship it! We're all gonna be rich!"
Either going all-in and saying "We're taking over so you guys stop doing this shit" or going all-out and saying "We're not paying both of you to blow each other up anymore" would in my view be better than the half measures we see. Both would probably be cheaper, too.
In this video singing 5 monkeys bouncing on the bed, my friend and I immediately thought the doctor looked just a little like Hitler due to a tiny moustache, and as the song goes on he gets angrier and angrier and by the end we couldn't stop just screaming fake German and falling over laughing.
