I love the chuds losing their shit and blaming Kathleen Kennedy for ‘ruining Star Wars!’. She’s been involved with LucasFilm/SW since 1983. You’d think that forty years would be ample time to kill a fucking film franchise, even for C-Suite level talent.
It’s very easy to dispell this. … It’s not hidden knowledge that liberalism has been the primary enemy of fascism… I could respond with pages of reasoning and sources.
Or how about just one?
You have to swallow a little bit and vote for Joe.
I’m worried that planning reform isn’t really a vote winner.
Yeah, the Tories are projected to lose because folks are happy with the status quo.
But he’s getting the crap kicked out of him by Rumsfeld – satellite conferences all the time: “I need more intelligence. I need to know what’s going on. What is this thing you’re calling an insurgency?”
“When are you going to get this thing wrapped up?” is the phrase I’ve heard Rumsfeld use. “When are you going to get this thing wrapped up?” Well, sometimes things don’t get wrapped up. Sometimes crises last a long time. And the key is not to end the crisis, but to manage the crisis. I think that’s what the U.S. military has moved to now in Iraq in 2006. - source
My first thought was that it was done to take a swipe at the types that would be showing up for the Solstice celebration that claim that it’s all about spiritual connection with nature but turn it into a rave full of upper middle class anglo influencer types in the same vein as burning man.
Any reporting on stories of activist vandalism tend to downplay the fact that it’s never permanent damage by design. The reporting always present the story like the fact that the soup or whatever never made it past the protective glass as incompetence on part of the protestors, and not in fact a conscious choice since the goal was never to permanently damage the art.
I drove the PCH solo twice, setting up my $150 tent at a new campsite stop each night in five minutes, driving a '94 Pathfinder that cost me less than his tent.
I love the irony in the cognitive dissonance:
“Everyone believes they are immune to propaganda.” - Group of Redditors buying into blatant propaganda.
Yes, it’s Russian propaganda that caused Hillary to lose, and not her unmasked contempt for anyone not completely adherent to neoliberal ideology. The success of the previously unknown Bernie’s campaign should have been a wake up call to at least act like you could play nice with the more progressive folks. Bernie was never going to be the VP pick, but there were a handful of others that would have been at least throwing a bone to that part of the base.
Nope, she picks Tim “Pro Life” fucking Kaine, but it was Russian ops that convince those Michigan voters to pick Stein.
I feel like Butcher’s screenshot of Hewey’s files at the end of S4E01 was a direct shout out to this demographic.
How DARE Putler™ reiterate the ceasefire conditions that haven’t changed since the start of the conflict!
“He typically smoked crack every 20 minutes.”
Anybody who is smoking crack is smoking it every 20 minutes.
Until they’re out of crack
Not. A Single. One.
It’s a tradition that started because King Edward VII was too fat for his coat, so he stopped buttoning the bottom button. Not long after, the British aristocracy began doing the same.
It is silly when you realize that’s the origin, but most people don’t realize that’s what started it (especially on a leftist site). It’s just become one of those unacceptable faux pas when wearing a suit, and jackets today are tailored in a way that anticipates that the bottom button is never fastened.
I wouldn’t slam on a regular bro for any of these faux pas (except the beanie) when you see them at the one event in their year that requires a suit, but I’ll slam the guy who promotes ‘high value male’ bullshit for fastening the bottom button.
Now I’m trying to decide if the ignorance is willful or not, because I could absolutely picture Tim being advised and brushing it off because he’s a rebel.
I have wonder that while I have no doubt that Altman (a finance guy) has little to no actual understanding of “AI”, whether he truly believes these claims. The business relies on securing astronomical amounts of venture capital, practically requiring anywhere between bold embellishment and outright lies. So what’s the repercussions for the latter? As long as you let the real wealth pull out their investment before the bottom falls out and let the retail investors take the hit, probably zero. Even if you don’t do that, at worst you get a short stay in Club Fed like Holmes. On the other hand, I’m still fairly skeptical that any valley finance guy is actually that cognizant.