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I'm a stupid moldy donut.
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Sex work is work.
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Borders are also made up.
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It's AT&T, so presumably DSL or fiber. And those exterior boxes are often locked.
But even discounting all that, they disconnected the service 10 minutes before they went to the door, did their fascist thuggery, then waited 15 minutes to put it back? Why?
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He said they weren't helpful. That could mean literally anything. Even assuming it's a trackable outage, (networks can fail in lots of ways), I would be unsurprised if AT&T doesn't save data on past outages.
The story about his buddy is silly too. You don't need wifi to record someone.
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Or, more likely, he has a typical shitty American ISP that has random outages.
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The options are physically tampering with it, which would leave obvious evidence and need to be fixed, or telling the ISP to turn it off, which would almost certainly require paperwork. And they'd STILL need a jammer for any cell phones if they're trying to stop communication.
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Honestly, the wifi feels coincidental. I doubt they hung out for 10 minutes beforehand and then 15 minutes after jamming his wifi signal. And if he's using "wifi" to mean "internet connection," it's not easy to turn off a hard line internet connection without a paper trail.
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It's time for a moratorium on people afraid to call fascism what it is.
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Honestly, the oppression and racism are a quite compelling backdrop for a fantasy world about a wide-eyed child thrust into a brand new magical world.
Or they would be if the heroes (and the author) didn't think that oppression and racism are, in fact, good.
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I see I did not put sarcasm quotes around centrist the first time, whoops.
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Oh he's not even sort of a centrist. That "radical center" shit is his phrasing. But JK Rowling was a big Labour supporter back when he was around. That's why I bring him up.
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I mean centrists that pretend to be progressive free-thinkers but are actually barely removed from the people that chemically castrated Alan Turing.
You know, like Tony Blair and his "radical center."
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Vapid liberal brainrot tends to transform into outright bigotry when confronted.
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Even if Harry Potter were amazing, not supporting TERFs is more important than engaging with a franchise.
And Harry Potter is garbage.
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Bigots should in fact change or fuck off into the sea.
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One affects ad revenue I assume.
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"I value ideological diversity,' always means, "I want to let Nazis talk."
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To be clear, sign language is also acceptable and encouraged.
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I mean, Columbia is about revenge, so I dunno how applicable it is to other places. But obviously literally everyone with a functioning voice should tell Trump to go fuck himself at every opportunity.
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Imagine giving someone who gave up a reward for courage.
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When's the paying the tax bill subathon?
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idk Dante feels very much like a weird wahoo pizza clown man trapped in the middle of a grimdark hellscape.
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The metaphors are (possibly accidentally) updated, but it's still mid.
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Ah yes, the "ackshully new yorkers are afraid of the subway" part of the conservative news cycle. I assume "portland sucks because of antifa" is next up.
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Savannah probably isn't a guy.
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HAH
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Yeah, the choices are Signal sucks, and they're incompetent for using it, or Signal doesn't suck, and they're incompetent at using it.
Signal doesn't suck for the record.
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How could the right support thing they like and not support thing they dislike even when it's hypocritical and lacks any sort of principle? Damn, it's a good thing that the New York Times is looking into this mystery.
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True, but never forget: fuck Ubisoft.
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They didn't run on hope and joy. They ran on, "Hey, at least we're not the other guys." Hope and joy would have been cutting off Israel's arms shipments.
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She's right.
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ok
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Democratic principles - not leftist principles, mind - are orthogonal to morality. The closest they get to a thought about right and wrong is thinking something is uncouth or classy.
The left actually cares about morality and talks about it all the time.
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When they are poor, a minority, or actually want anything to change in a positive way.
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This headline is misleading. A game director at NetEase whose team did "R&D" work on Marvel Rivals was laid off. The actual director of Marvel Rivals was not.
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It wasn't the actual game director. It's a game director at NetEase whose team did some work on the game, but wording it this way is super misleading.
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who could have foreseen
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You do understand that she lost because people stayed home, not because there was some massive shift to Donald Trump, right? Her campaign ignoring the concerns of her actual electorate in favor of getting endorsements from Republicans was a disaster.
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That video was hilarious.
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DS9 presents the idea but also unequivocally calls it incredibly wrong. Section 31 is never the hero.
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I mean, cannibal space Hitler is kind of a cartoon character anyway.
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Literally the definition. It's even measured by taking a collection of things and seeing how much they cost. Inflation is not some magical concept that goes up when the bad team is in power and goes down when the good team is in power.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
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Inflation is the result of lots of things since the definition is literally "thing cost more" for some thing.
Not even the school Milton Friedman was a part of supports monetarism anymore. But also lol Milton Friedman.
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Never mind that's not how inflation even works.
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Ah, yes, the old "Democrats spend more than Republicans" canard that was just as stupid in the 90s as it is now.
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The fact you think Democrats are left of center is telling. The fact you keep assuming how I act and what I think based on the fact that I understand people that didn't want to vote for anyone in this election is too.
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Bro, I get that harm reduction is your religion, but if you literally cannot scrape up one shred of empathy or understanding for people that didn't want to vote for genocide, I don't know what to tell you. Enjoy more lost elections, I guess.
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Also federal abortion protection never fucking existed despite Democrats having full on majorities for multiple years in a row. What magical quality about this particular election makes you think they'd have a change of heart even if they did win it all?