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Yes, but, how does one actually develop “a good bullshit detector”? We all think we have one of those. Especially people who don’t. And thinking that when it’s not true is the hook, line and sinker that gets people deeply into dangerous conspiracies.

Hey, I resemble that remark.

We need a spy on Weibo to come report back to us here

I don’t keep a spray bottle around but I do keep some canned air (electronics duster) on my desk and that pretty much accomplishes the same thing without making anyone damp

A loud PSHHT sound and some harmless wind is a good analogue for “No” and he seems to get it

A little of this. A lot more of, truck manufacturers are now either uninterested or incapable of making vehicles that exist inside of legal emissions restrictions, so they blow up the wheelbase to class it up to SUV class. The bigger the vehicle the less restrictive emissions laws are.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180263/epa-tailpipe-emissions-loophole

[…] that feels like the internet of old.

But this shit, this hatred, does not belong here.

Buddy I got some bad news for you about the internet of old, flame wars are some of the first things we ever got up to on the internet.

To be clear, I agree with you, fuck that noise - but I don’t think this is a hill you want to get too comfortable on. It’s best to just ignore them, or block them if you feel strongly about it. People have been and will continue to call each other stupid assholes on forums from the beginning until the end of the internet era.

Local speech to text has been easy to do for at least a decade and then you’re just firing off a text file to HQ to add keywords to a user file. These days an AI will likely parse the text to find recommendable products, ten years ago you’d have just had a gigantic list of all your partners’ brand names and desired key trigger phrases in a database and run the conversation text against the database and look for matches. Super easy to accomplish. Updating someone’s ad preferences 15-30 minutes after they talk about a product may as well be considered real time.

I think you and I might have different definitions of “convincingly”

• Conservatives are doing [X]

• They pre-emptively go on TV and loudly blame democrats for [X] before it becomes a major story

• When it comes to light that [X] is in fact happening the public is already primed to blame their opponents for it

It’s the sort of thing a 5 year old might do to try and blame the cat for a broken cookie jar, it’s baby’s first con, it’s stupendously obvious what’s going on, but, here we are.

How tf did this ever become a thing

Like I know obviously it’s just a funny excuse to punch your friend the same way a VW Beetle is but like,

“make a ring with your fingers and hold it near your dick and then call for your friend’s attention and then when he gives you attention, proving that he’s a good friend that listens to you, laugh at him and then punch him in the kidney”

Does this not seem insane to anyone else, I have to know the etymology of this but I don’t know how to look it up

“Voters have not been voting for progressives."

What this actually means is “we have not allowed the voters any progressives to cast votes for”. The people who really most care about voting for progressives are doing so, and are voting third party. This is by design. If the DNC fielded any actual progressives they’d likely receive such a flood of record voter turnout that the Dems would then have their hands forced into actually accomplishing something to the detriment of their campaign donors. This can’t be allowed to happen because then the money faucet turns off. They’ve been controlled opposition, running on a platform of “at least I’m not that guy”, for as long as I’ve been alive and I can only assume several decades prior. The momentum of the two-party system blocking out viable third party candidates is what safely allows this for them.

Implement ranked choice voting now and we can rip this entire ugly weed up by the roots. Making the two-party megalith vulnerable will light a whole lot of fires underneath a whole lot of asses in the existing structure, as well as actually enable more than two political parties to exist in America.

Unfortunately this change must come from the bottom up, because the DNC from the top down benefits from the status quo and won’t shoot themselves in the foot with this. This can’t happen until a suitable number of leftist/independent/third-party representatives are already elected for local and state office to successfully make the push for this in congress, which puts us in a fine catch-22 where we probably need RCV in order to elect independents but we probably need to elect independents to implement RCV.

I hate it here.

I have never, ever in my entire life aspired to any sort of political office. I figured I wasn’t well suited to that, I don’t have a law degree, it’s just not for me.

These days that opinion is now “well I couldn’t possibly do a worse job than the ones actually getting elected for this”, so…

Fuck around, and y’all might catch me running for local office soon.

Is this a normal thing that normal people do when their fascist government is looking to have them bagged off the street and dropped at an offshore blacksite?

We no longer live in a normal world. Nothing can be assumed anymore. The Wikimedia foundation is in real danger.

Luckily, as a firearm owner the choice then becomes “go quietly with the men who claim to be from the government”, or to cancel the home invaders’ life subscription. Especially in a castle doctrine state. If they can’t or won’t show identification then you have carte blanche to start blasting. Not only that but doing so is a morally good act.

If they’re practicing proper Read Only Fridays then we won’t hear about it from them

Right. So it told you objectively wrong information while the correct answer is freely available from technical documents that it ought to know how to read.

So imagine if that was something actually life threatening.

And don’t forget his second channel, https://youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre

Dollar stores deserve the hate

Fuck that, take my ideas.

I’ll donate $50 to the legal defense of anyone who rids us of this turbulent billionaire, and I’m not the only one who would