Misc Chat

[blazing depot]

Listen man, I've seen many shit versions of Windows come and go. It's an up and down

[hoary charm]

we're on the shit version rn so windows 12 will save us

[blazing depot]

I will say that there have been far worse versions than Win11, but yeah

[hoary charm]

vista

[blazing depot]

[hoary charm]

actually in hindsight

vista wasnt as bad as 8

[blazing depot]

Vista and 8 definitely existed

XP best

[hoary charm]

i miss xp distros

[last eagle]

same

"Windows XP Ultra HD Remastered Red 2025 Edition"

[young saffron]

I only fw win 95

https://tenor.com/view/microsoft-windows95-bill-gates-windows95vaporwave-start-up-gif-14688826

[blazing depot]

Ah yes

The bluescreen of death factory

[eager parrot]

at least she had an emergency brake

most new cars' parking/emergency brakes are just a button that work only when it wants to work

even the gear shift is buttons or dials in so many cars

[blazing depot]

Don't new cars still have hand breaks

[eager parrot]

many don't here now

[blazing depot]

That feels like a massive oversight

[eager parrot]

in fact you'd be hard pressed to find them at all in anything but the lowest tier of the lower models

was at a mazda dealership with my brother last week, not a single model with hand brake

I take that back, the miata still has it

[blazing depot]

Like, you don't need hand breaks often in driving situations but when you need you really need it

[hoary charm]

new cars are too expensive

[eager parrot]

but that's a 2014-present model

[hoary charm]

problem solved

[eager parrot]

they really are too expensive

european manufacturers are finally importing their hatchback or station wagon models to the US but are charging 90-120K for it

[fringe juniper]

Volvos are pricey as h*ck

[eager parrot]

like I've wanted an audi wagon for a long while, but now that they import it, way out of my comfortable price range ...

and just in time for them to kill the ICE engines for heavy AF electric models

[hoary charm]

i want a supra but they cost more than i make in a year

very cool

[eager parrot]

I really liked that limited edition orange color they did for the supra, but I don't know if I'm cool enough for a coupe sports car

I'd probably crash it

[fringe juniper]

Everyone here just gets Subaru. They're like half the price of other station wagons and probably more reliable

[hoary charm]

by the time i do make enough for one, i'd probably be required to RTO

so no point owning a car in auckland

[eager parrot]

#kiwiproblems

everybody I know who looks like they can afford expensive cars turn out to be financing it for 80 months or something, everybody overlevered to hell and back

[hoary charm]

yeah financing a car sounds like a terrible idea

at least with my phone its interest free

[fringe juniper]

I just want reliable with good mpg. Mid-life crisis car someday tho

[eager parrot]

just wait for the stingray corvettes to drop in price when boomers die

only ones who can afford it anyway

[fringe juniper]

Waiting for a 60s Mustang to be more affordable. The explosion risk makes to more exciting.

[eager parrot]

at least it's a fire that can be put out

unlike getting BBQ'd by lithium ion battery fires

[fringe juniper]

Sounds like the modern day way of attaining superpowers

[eager parrot]

[fossil basin]

Joker 2 got fucked up

https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1841966739648630955?t=-hJG2OcBHaIMZohVCUoJIA&s=19

I will say this, pretending your musical is not a musical, is a bad way to market the movie

But also, the movie's failure is not solely because it is a musical

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/empyrealviolet/status/1841930782350454817?t=yFm9HvP-4qOZc2AIki6hRg&s=19

[trim flicker]

lol

[eager parrot]

maybe they could try creating new original content instead?

just a thought

[trim flicker]

but that requires taking risks

why would they do that when they can just keep doing the same franchises and rehash similar stories again

[eager parrot]

clearly the non-risky options aren't working out well recently though, but I suppose the losses need to get a lot worse before they get the hint.

[trim flicker]

i think the only recent star wars propriety people liked was Andor

[eager parrot]

but what did they expect, co-opting longstanding rabid fandoms into their new visions for a story in existing franchises...

[eager parrot]

and it was the least star wars of them all lol

best work though for sure out of all the D+ stuff

other than the animated clone wars continuation

[trim flicker]

Because corpos are silly and forget that star wars should only be the environment they use to tell a good story

instead of trying to make everything be like empire strikes back or whatever

[eager parrot]

mhm, everything about the new trilogy was just "remember star wars?"

[trim flicker]

star wars has a lot of potential as a world to just have cool narratives on but they keep choosing to make grand blockbuster narratives that rehash the same thing again

[eager parrot]

marvel somehow figured it out by just making movies and stories that happen to have super heroes and take place in marvel universe mid-way through their movie cycles. that eventually wore out too, but compared to how badly disney f'ed up with star wars, it was a lot better.

[trim flicker]

think marvel could've done a lot better if a lot of those shows weren't connected to the whole narrative they were leading on w the mcu

[eager parrot]

the D+ stuff, yeah they didn't do well with those, a lot of people just stopped watching and following, and the movies needed all this background from D+ shows, so those didn't sit well with audiences either

[trim flicker]

Yeahhhhhh

All the compliments i saw to the dr strange movie is just that Sam Raimi is a good director lol

[eager parrot]

meanwhile disney going in on first strike and calling the entire expanded universe of star wars, 40+ years of content they could have borrowed from non-canon was just a great move on their part /s

[trim flicker]

Loki was also very well received but it tried to lead to Kane as the next main mcu villain

Which has now also been scrapped

For Dr. Doom

So 🤷 Idk nothing really worked

[eager parrot]

bringing back RDJ is such a desperate move on their part, but all the more power to his bank account lol

everything marvel that came since covid started until now just hasn't connected with a larger audience the way it used to

they should have shelved it for a few years after endgame and everything that wrapped it up after.

let people crave superhero slop again

but in typical hollywood fashion they just had to try and milk every last drop and run it into the ground

[fossil basin]

Joker 2 was a "nmixx change up" attempt that failed

Which is not a rare risk while trying to adapt other sorts of series/movies into musicals

[trim flicker]

I think making a sequel to joker was a dumb idea in the first place

[half heath]

it made too much money they got greedy

[fossil basin]

For all Vivzienne being weird, it's faults and pacing issues, Hazbin did recieve record demand on TV and streaming, while committing to being a musical, and had generally favorable reviews.

I do not like musicals overall, i liked the series though, i also like going to live theater plays on a different matter

[dire canopy]

I expect Gladiator 2 to be a massive dumpster fire as well

[valid magnet]

who tf even asked for a Gladiator sequel

[dire canopy]

investors

[blazing depot]

See: Andor, one of the best shows in recent years and not just best SW, but best in general

[trim flicker]

yeah that's what i was referring to basically
they just put a really good narrative on a star wars setting

In a more serious note:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dv18l03n1o

"[..] a "precise strike" on 21 September.
It killed 22 people, including 13 children and six women"
Surgical precision from the most moral army in the world

[blazing depot]

idk why they put that in quotation marks, they precisely hit the school full of children they were aiming at

[valid magnet]

clearly this was not an attempt to kill the children it was obviously that one Hamas one

this is insane

[pale flower]

BBC is not the best source but this is still awful if true

[marsh oracle]

The source is the gaza health ministry

It pretty much always is for gaza casualty numbers

[trim flicker]

Yeah it hasn't been reported only by BBC and CNN has a pretty graphic video of it (which I didn't post for obvious reasons)

[blazing depot]

Whose numbers have been correct for the most part as per independent sources checking them as much as possible

[marsh oracle]

Eh

[valid magnet]

Quds News Network also reported that it seems

[marsh oracle]

"For the most part" doing lots of heavy lifting here

Quds news network is even worse lol

[blazing depot]

I think the heavier lifting here is implying it's all made up to make this thing look less bad

[marsh oracle]

Nobody is implying any such thing

[pale flower]

It feels silly to argue over if this particular strike's casualties were true or not Schmali

I think it's fine to question the source and the Gaza Health Ministry has reported false numbers before but it just doesn't really absolve the IDF of the civilian casualties that no doubt exist regardless

[marsh oracle]

Im sure children died there, bombing schools generally pretty dumb for some random hamas dude when theres lots more out there

[trim flicker]

If your first reaction to Israel bombing yet another school and killing a bunch of civilians in the process again is to question the death toll numbers then idk what to say

[marsh oracle]

Good thing that wasnt my first reaction to the news

I responded to daya and then to grumpy

[pale flower]

I still think the best way for the civilian casualties to stop is for a complete surrender from Hamas, but I can't see that happening anytime soon unfortunately :(

[trim flicker]

The best way to stop civilians from dying is for the country who's killing all of them to stop doing so

[vital needle]

Wtf don remember that killing children isnt illegal

Silly guy

[pale flower]

I don't think Israel can allow itself to stop operating in Gaza as long as Hamas continues to exist

[trim flicker]

It won't stop existing

[pale flower]

That's where we disagree

[vital needle]

If there are no more palestinians there wont ne a palestinian resistance 🧐

Ever thought of that

[marsh oracle]

Without somebody governing the area nothing is gonna change and your best bet wouldve been the un a long time ago

[vital needle]

The solution is simple and theyre applying it

A solution that is final, if you will

[marsh oracle]

But they just fucked off after giving unrwa a half assed mandate to help the refugees

[trim flicker]

It's not just me tho, even military people on Israel said so
You cannot kill an idea, as long as Israel keeps subjugating Palestinians another resistance group will pop up

It may not be Hamas

It's likely to be worse even, given how these things have been historically
These groups get more radicalized

[pale flower]

Sure but I disagree with them, it's not about killing an idea but about first making sure the area is demilitarized. Then the talking and deradicalization process can begin

Gaza needs to show it's serious about change too imo

[trim flicker]

What

Israel holds all the power on the negotiations

[vital needle]

Come on don look how fucking awful this is. Would you deny Israel the right to defend itself????? Have you no heart?

[trim flicker]

It's the country with all the bombs, it controls gaza, who can get in, who can get out, controls the energy supply, water supply

[marsh oracle]

On the other hand, israel pulled out of gaza for what, 20 years? Before oct 7th and it really only strengthened hamas as it was seen as a huge win for them

[trim flicker]

Yeah and them propping up Hamas because they really hate the idea of the Palestinian Authority fighting for a two state solution did help Hamas a lot

[blazing depot]

Hey now, if you get rid of all the children it will cease to exist eventually.

[trim flicker]

People acting like this is a proportional conflict in any way baffle me

[vital needle]

in schools they teach children (future militants) to read, which enables them to read the orders they get from their leaders, and to count (which they will use to count ammunitions), so of course it is a legitimate target

[pale flower]

And yet Hamas has refused to negotiate for the past few weeks

[marsh oracle]

I mean

Bibi literally said no peace stuff until the us elections

So idk about this one

[vital needle]

Dude its not supposed to.make.sense she just wants to defend genocide it will never make sense

Come on now

[marsh oracle]

The plo also fought to kill jews or overthrow the jordanian government once upon a time, they were more radical than hamas original organization

[pale flower]

There's a reason I have you blocked Collarbone lmao

[vital needle]

We're talking about more kids dead among other tens of thousands

[marsh oracle]

Mate honestly can you just fuck off

[vital needle]

No I cant

Until there are psychos justifying killing kids

You can block me how about that

[pale flower]

I wish the Discord block were more effective tbh

[marsh oracle]

I would but unfortunately discords block feature sucks

[pale flower]

Real

[vital needle]

Then cope dude

[trim flicker]

Yeah netanyahu said no ceasefire until hamas is destroyed months ago idk about this lol

[vital needle]

Or grow a fucking brain

[marsh oracle]

No u

[brave pelican]

alright folx

[pale flower]

And yet Israel has been continuing negotiations all this time

[blazing depot]

Be nice, we have very.... diverse positions here. No need to get personal.

[vital needle]

Sorry did I go to hard on the genocide defenders

It is bad faith from me

Damn

Lets find the nuanced middle position here

[ocean vigil]

that's very ironic position for someone who said that europe was better off under soviet union

[vital needle]

How about instead of killing 20k kids we kill 10k

[vital needle]

Im so sorry I am always correct I just cant help it

[blazing depot]

It's more that she happens to live in the place where you have to hide in bomb shelters on the other end of the spectrum so I understand her position while I very much disagree with it.

[vital needle]

Its irrelevant

[blazing depot]

So yeah, keep such things in mind.

[trim flicker]

Have they? Maybe israeli media is saying that but there's literally no news about israel negotiating anything
Last negotiation news was the Lebanon ceasefire that Netanyahu refused when it was coordinated with him lol

[marsh oracle]

That story about nasrallah accepting a ceasefire minutes before being bunker busted?

Genuinely asking btw, havent really kept up with the last few days

[trim flicker]

That's what the Lebanon PM said yeah
The ceasefire was apparently agreed upon and coordinated with Netanyahu, US was going on about how Israel was on board with the plan

Then last minute he turned his back on it

To the surprise of all the US officials

[blazing depot]

Probably only negotiated to make sure he had to pick up the phone and be in place

Great way to make people trust you in future negotiations

[marsh oracle]

I think the problem is kind of the same as with that one arab head of state (forgot which one) blaming israel for not showing up to that recent summit even though the arab states would give israel all these security assurances

What does any of that matter when none of them will disarm hezbollah

[hoary charm]

was that the jordanian foreign minster speaking at the UN?

[marsh oracle]

Like either somebody steps in and does something about these groups or we just continue spinning in circles cause israel wont accept constant rocket fire or raids and hamas/hezbollah wont stop doing them

[hoary charm]

i remember seeing something like that

a few days ago

[marsh oracle]

Oh yea that might be it

Like I said I only followed surface level stuff the last few days

[trim flicker]

The thing you do against these groups is to stop giving them reasons to hate you

[blazing depot]

I mean, this goes both ways. It's not like Israel ever stopped killing people during times of peace.

Let's not pretend they are not the main engine of this cycle.

[marsh oracle]

Yea we can go around the circle again

[trim flicker]

Pretending Israel is a passive little snowflake in the region and not a colonial apartheid state that's been the main reason these groups exist in the first place isn't really gonna help

[marsh oracle]

Eh I would say they dont need actual aggression from israel to hate jewish people

And like I said, is the answer then to accept the rocket fire and wait for hamas and hezbollah to disappear?

Cause the lebanese government cant control hezbollah, hamas is the de facto government of gaza

And obviously israel isnt purely passive here, it very much is a perpetual conflict pretty much since 1948 with

[trim flicker]

I mean this all started because of the mass displacement of Palestinians to create Israel in the first place, before then the Arabs and Jewish people were vibin in Palestine

[marsh oracle]

Well, whatever version of palestine existed back then

[trim flicker]

And that wasn't really that long ago so of course the grievances from the colonized people are still strong

[marsh oracle]

Britain promised the region to 2 peoples and fucked everything

[trim flicker]

There's no really easy answer, but Hamas is a demon that Israel itself created, so is Hezbollah
Hamas is especially egregious as previous Israeli officials have mentioned Israel provided funds to Hamas in order to undermine the PLO

[marsh oracle]

Ya but the plo then is very different to the plo now

And hamas then was very different, I think they started as a charity or something? Offshoot from the Muslim brotherhood so that shouldve clued them into what they might become

But the plo fought to overthrow the jordanian government during black september, not exactly a friendly entity either

[trim flicker]

Yep

And yet they kept assisting hamas until recently in order to undermine the Palestinian Authority anyway

[marsh oracle]

To me it seems like you either have the UN step in properly instead of passing the 104th resolution against israel or you just continue having weekly death reports

But then again, which country would send their army there

[trim flicker]

There's no real short term strategy to solve this, it'll take a long time until Israel can build any trust with any of their neighbors after...this lol
The solution is, as the one party holding all the power there, to stop the violence and actually work on a better solution for the Palestinians on the region

Resistance movements will always exist as long as their strategy doesn't change

[marsh oracle]

We are kinda back to square one arent we cause youre still asking israel to accept whatever hamas throws at them for some time until they sort of disband because they now like jews

[trim flicker]

Actually I'm just asking for Israel to stop mauling civilians
They can still fight back against Hamas while also making the life better for Palestinians by not uhhhhhhhh bombing them everyday

and destroying schools and hospitals and poisoning their water supplies and having an apartheid state and

Maybe start just by treating palestinians as people and taking away all the illegal settlements on the west bank

That would be cool

[marsh oracle]

It would be

[trim flicker]

The way you undermine Hamas is by showing the Palestinians they don't need them, you give them a better life while also defending yourself from attacks and making sure the civilians are safe
But if you just flatten the entirety of the region where those people live, they'll obviously be radicalized and think someone has to do something
And the only people fighting back are Hamas

[marsh oracle]

To do that they would need to properly occupy gaza again though. As it stood between 2006 and last october, hamas stole a lot of the external aid gaza received. I dont think israel having such a large presence there again would really help things, to me it seems like it has to be some un entity

[trim flicker]

Yeah I wouldn't trust Israel on that either but some version of that is legit the only way to move forward imo
The specifics on how it'd be implemented should be left to the smarter people who work with humanitarian causes and not to me I guess

[blazing depot]

The only thing that would begin solving the issues would be Israel stopping to do the whole 1800s colonialism shtick and releasing the occupied territories, maybe sans Jerusalem for obvious reasons

[trim flicker]

Yeah that's the starter

[blazing depot]

Short of that they won't achieve anything through either diplomacy or violence

[marsh oracle]

What falls under occupied territory for you cause definitions there vary wildly lol

[blazing depot]

West bank, Gaza, anything they occupied after wars in the north

And probably more smaller things, but I'm not home to check the list

[proud tulip]

@vital needle if you're just going to turn to sarcasm all the time during a conversation thats already far too serious for a kpop server, i'll either block politics from being spoken about again or just remove you entirely

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1842029863521153316?t=IsLVRWlQb2dl1d7GR0Sglw&s=19

[thorny schooner]

the last floppy

[fossil basin]

The rather reactionary statuses/natures of fandoms spawned disaster for future of art of projects

[thorny schooner]

we just need more people like uhh matt reeves

[fossil basin]

I would be the last guy to pretend to be a high consumer, but also, it is a grim scenario for producers

[thorny schooner]

and ur screenwriting prof was the dude who made court of owls

and you drop epic hints in the batman movie 😭

even in the penguin theres already a crazy reference

that im like what the fuck

[fossil basin]

i like world building and references as an orbit

[thorny schooner]

yuppp

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/FeyeraBender/status/1842134066163831031?t=VWjmVHa8i5XlWIdvHLkDZA&s=19

[thorny schooner]

LOL

[fossil basin]

And not all shows are as boring as Heartstopper, but we cannot have all things the way we prefer can we

[vital needle]

The order is wrong, I start with the sarcasm trying to not get angry and turn away from sarcasm when I get angry enough

But sure, if politics is banned we wont have to see a bunch of people reacting to a piece of news about children being blown up and saying "yeah the perpetrators should keep going"

So it would be a great decision my the mood team

[radiant linden]

im saying

takes like this are far more problematic than sarcasm

[proud tulip]

crazy that you considered this irrelevant btw

But yeah sure if you're incapable of stopping things from becoming personal then it just stops entirely, as simple as that

[vital needle]

That is making things personal. By descibring what she is saying I am not making it personal. I never called her a bad person or something

It would be like gettinf mad when people call me a commie

Like, sure. I talk about it all the time, its just a description

[pale flower]

Calling me a "genocide apologiser" is far worse than calling me a bad person and it puts a label on my opinion when clearly it's not fucking that

My take is that if that strike really did kill as many innocents as it did, that's abhorrent and should be investigated thoroughly

I don't know how you want to go from that to "this girl defends genocide"

My opinion has always been that this shit should stop as soon as fucking possible BECAUSE of all the innocent lives that are being lost

And I'm fucking mad that so many of the leaders involved in this situation don't care about it

[vital needle]

You said multiple times that israel should keep going though

And what israel does has a name

Its all I'm saying

[ocean vigil]

You revere Soviets, what Israel has done pales in comparison

[marsh oracle]

Its gonna be a really sad day in like 2058 when the icj finally gets to its ruling

[vital needle]

Lol yeah I rever them I have an altar in my house and all

[pale flower]

Because Israel's stated goal is to defend its own citizens and IN MY EYES many of the strikes that Israel did do have been calculated to ensure that as few innocents as possible have been attacked

So when I hear about an attack that killed 20 innocent people for supposedly 1 Hamas terrorist hiding between them, yes I think that should be checked especially since we don't know how strategically important killing that one terrorist really was so far

What you see as intentional I see as unintentional and that's really all the fucking difference

[pale flower]

I'm all for not having these discussions anymore cause I'm tired and I've run out of patience at this point

You try holding a conversation with someone who wants to take the conflict you're actively living through and suffering through and think your lived experiences are "irrelevant"

[vital needle]

Also reminder that after the original ban was put in place I only staryed israel discussion once and after other people had already gnored the ban

Im all for not starting the talks anymore but if they happen anyways I will naturally join

[trim flicker]

Damn was there a ban i forgot about that

[proud tulip]

we unintentionally (in some ways) lifted the ban through the forum introduction and changes, im not putting any blame on you for that as it was us, but yeah if this is where we're at with political chat it makes the most sense to just put it back in place

[marsh oracle]

RIP us election memes

[proud tulip]

as most of the regulars are here let me do a poll for moving forward

[vital needle]

Its relevant if the discussion qas about why you hold the opinions you do. To the merits of the debate itself, it really isnt

[near jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/first-time-voter-first-time-voter-pin-i-voted-i-voted-for-the-first-time-future-voter-gif-19056129

[trim flicker]

but very important

[proud tulip]

agreed to both of those

[pale flower]

I agree politics are a headache but I think in terms of m0dding it's easier to ban war talk

[proud tulip]

context is important for where we are on the internet

[pale flower]

Cause it gets hard to define what's "political"

[proud tulip]

but at the same time the considerations I need to take are

1. what do the server regulars want to talk about
2. do the m0ds who are volunteering want to m0derate it

[marsh oracle]

Is laughing about us elections even political

[trim flicker]

it is when they're trying to elect a fascist

[proud tulip]

this is the point, a blanket ban on politics would remove any sense of election talk, which is in itself a safety net for conversations spiralling into "deeper" political talk

[trim flicker]

last time they did that the CIA helped imprison Lula here

but yeah banning political talk entirely before elections would be impossible anyway lol

[thorny schooner]

i like election speak

[proud tulip]

it would just be very tedious

and the core group of this server is definitely older now and at an age they'd like to talk about those things, it's just whether the conversation can be kept civil and within server rules

either way, war is out of the question from now on

starting now

[trim flicker]

🫡

[ocean vigil]

i just don't see how you can keep everything political out without completely killing the discussion

it's seeps into pretty much everything to some degree

[proud tulip]

yeah, misc chat would become a whole lot quieter if people would prefer the blanket ban

[slate kestrel]

good

[marsh oracle]

Well usually it ends up with some topics not being considered political cause people largely agree on it

[dusky rapids]

imo any m0dding on political discussion would already involve some presuppositions that not all political worldviews might agree with

and ofc we'd all think some things are "only right", and it only makes sense for each person to think that way.
problem being that some disagree on what those things are

so any political discussion m0dding would already have a bias, it's just whether that bias aligns with what everyone's worldview here is
(and if the m0ds agree that a majority worldview here is sufficient enough to justify excluding any contradicting takes)

[proud tulip]

yeah context for this is politics/geopolitics and new headlines related to government/elections/politicians and their tomfoolery

[thorny schooner]

but what if a country like isreal dabbles in tomfoolery

[slate kestrel]

its just perpetual shit slinging and hardly even a conversation worth having to begin with

[thorny schooner]

then it will just start again

[slate kestrel]

i was under the impression we blanket banned that shit back when we got rid of the forums anyway

[pale flower]

Just don't talk about it here? That's the idea

[thorny schooner]

i guess so

[slate kestrel]

"if you wanna talk about that shit youre welcome to do so elsewhere but we talk about korean dancey dance and singing sing"

[near jetty]

a hidden 3rd option where misc chat becomes my fiefdom and I decide what goes

some days we only talk about Culver's

[dusky rapids]

so basically lock this channel and put an invite to your server

[slate kestrel]

delete misc chat and merge it with genshin chat so everyone gets drowned

[haughty steppe]

This I want this

[near jetty]

glad to have eager supporters

[pale flower]

I think it's probably best to just do the ban on war talk for now and see how that goes

If politics talk gets too bad too we ban it too

[near jetty]

my server for my thoughts misc chat will be for others thoughts on my thoughts

[thorny schooner]

brady-chat

[marsh oracle]

Anyway, you all coming to the USA-is-over-party?

[ocean vigil]

make that Open Pantry and I'm in

[dusky rapids]

english is beautiful

[pale flower]

LMAO

[near jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/jaden-smith-jaden-smith-political-economical-gif-26153980

[thorny schooner]

yup...

[near jetty]

oh hey he has a new album out in 2 weeks

[marsh oracle]

Enjoy the last election cycle before ai really takes off

[near jetty]

nvm it's just 4 songs

[thorny schooner]

forgot he came back to music

had a big phase in like 2018

batman batmann batman 😭

[dusky rapids]

replace "world" with "bbc" and this is relevant every time someone sends a message in #ot12-lawsuit

[thorny schooner]

are we still boycotting

[haughty steppe]

Me after watching The Batman (2022) 30 times

[thorny schooner]

so true... me every sunday when new penguin

[dusky rapids]

off-topic but that channel is only gonna be closed when bbc eventually loses their supreme court appeals for all 12 members right

[pale flower]

Yeah I think so

[thorny schooner]

i think it should have closed like 30 years ago

beating a dead horse

[dusky rapids]

so we get streaming boycott talk until then

[pale flower]

I mean that'll happen in #loona-chat still anyway

[ocean vigil]

what if they take it to the galactic court

[toxic spoke]

he loves the commons I’m shocked I haven’t seen him there

[dusky rapids]

depends on if the aliens stan loona

[haughty steppe]

Transgender aliens

[trim flicker]

who are also a mafia

[ocean vigil]

they would love loona in nar shaddaa saloons

[ruby helm]

"BBC to appeal to the united nations following losing their case in the korean supreme court"

[thorny schooner]

they doing free top surgery in the prisons!!!!!!!!

🗣️

[marsh oracle]

I dont think thats ever happening, seems like theyve run out of money for lawyers

[proud tulip]

yeah until then we get to see these really real images that FB doesnt want us to see!

[ruby helm]

To be honest I feel part of the reason there isn't much argument on politics is political views here are mostly aligned, for instance if 50% of people here really loved trump and hated the democrats, it would be full of really angry people whenever someone says something negative about trump

[dusky rapids]

true, bbc didnt appeal against heejin+oec's lawsuit win right

[radiant linden]

LOL

[ocean vigil]

that last question in the image lmao

[trim flicker]

Lmao

Incredible

[dusky rapids]

pretty much, same for a few other issues that could otherwise be quite thorny

[proud tulip]

i have never regretted deleting my fb account

[marsh oracle]

Racism actually coming in clutch this election cause if AI wasnt so shit at generating anything but white people, it would be chaos out there

[trim flicker]

I love the phone on the left

Showing a completely different image

[dusky rapids]

can't delete my fb cos it's the only way i can login to naver lol

kinda annoying

[proud tulip]

bro was just scrolling

[marsh oracle]

I never even had a fb account

[proud tulip]

bloody AI pedestrians addicted to tiktok!

[dusky rapids]

wait how old are you

[ocean vigil]

we just had one party go full on "protect the family of six-fingered people" route

[near jetty]

I keep my account open just so my family knows I still exist

[marsh oracle]

Late 20s

[dusky rapids]

damn

[marsh oracle]

[dusky rapids]

did you have online blogs or smth LOL

[ocean vigil]

i open it once every few month to check if I remember someone's birthday correctly

[dusky rapids]

cos my older cousins did back then

before fb

[marsh oracle]

Idk I have never felt the desire to post about my life

And I find out about my friends lifes by talking to them I guess lmao

[dusky rapids]

it's still one of my desktop browser start up pages so i can check my notifs
but will never actively initiate anything on there

[dusky rapids]

fair enough, spoken like a true boomer

[ocean vigil]

how did the farmville craze miss you

[dusky rapids]

wow TOS

[proud tulip]

whew farmville

[toxic spoke]

yeah there’s no appeal that we’ve heard about, and it’s not like they heard chuu’s case either
only problem now is mh gotta deal with the trademark office they’re struggling

[marsh oracle]

I was a minecraft kid before minecraft kids became a thing

[dusky rapids]

actually yeah then there's no real point in keeping that channel open any more

[near jetty]

pull the plug

[toxic spoke]

a bunch of rejections on the OEC/artms trademarks so they had to modify their submissions

[proud tulip]

we need to put it in a museum

[dusky rapids]

oh rip

what were the reasons

[near jetty]

put it in the archive graveyard

[marsh oracle]

Did they ever pursue that yyxy trademark?

[toxic spoke]

and the other was because of similar registered names

[marsh oracle]

And didnt ctd file for orbit or something?

Summer of last year was a strange time on loona island

[toxic spoke]

who’s gonna tell them they are the prominent person

[trim flicker]

Lol

[blazing depot]

Re: poll, putting the war talk on a shelf for now is more than enough, we've all made our positions clear and the bombing of the day won't change that. Politics themselves, especially 5 weeks out of an US election absolutely needs to stay though. Anyone disliking that can honestly just mute this chat, it's all it is used for anyway.

[trim flicker]

Yep

[brave pelican]

this and the fish game on facebook

[ocean vigil]

Insaniquarium

[brave pelican]

tbf there were a bunch of the aquarium ones

i definitely played one of them

[dusky rapids]

how fast can you type a-z

i loved that one

[radiant linden]

baced

i already fail

[trim flicker]

i cant type

[pale flower]

a-z

I think that was pretty fast ngl

[eager parrot]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/samsung-update-bricks-phones-giving-harsh-reminder-of-data-backup-importance/

[brave pelican]

holy shit my discord account is older than my instagram account by a month

[fossil basin]

I still use facebook to check on some unhinged short content

Prime example being "fabiosa animated"

[valid magnet]

Anyone seen Joker 2 yet

That's like the 5th tweet lmao

[trim flicker]

everyone loves it

2 quadrillion dollars on the box office

[eager parrot]

the only thing FB remains good for is Marketplace and only to be used with extreme caution

otherwise the feeds are just unusable

primary audience of FB at least in north america are now those who are like 50+ and joined it when it became cool or during the election tourism of 2015-2016

which might explain why the zuck is veering towards right-wing

wants to please his audience

[fossil basin]

i like the fuckass fabiosa stories

[eager parrot]

there are still good content and groups but only if you laser focus on those yeah

and avoid everything else on that platform lol

the apps are just unusable to me becasue of just how much ads or non-relevant content there is even in a few seconds of scrolling

[fossil basin]

fabiosa stories are extremely far from good content, trash "life lesson" animation with most confusing storylines

[ruby helm]

20 years from now, only people 50+ use discord, young people complain about those oldies posting on discord even though its such an outdated site

[fossil basin]

https://tenor.com/view/fabiosa-fabiosa-life-chat-talk-crazy-gif-25548769

wait i did not realise it had a chat bubble going on

[ruby helm]

The craziest thing about facebook to me is still them spending $50 billion on metaverse to get a downgraded vrchat

like where did all the money go

[blazing depot]

That's pretty much the opposite of the actual reaction, lmao

[fossil basin]

if you are going to make a musical, commit to it being a musical

do not try to hide that it is a musical within your interviews

you are free to not make musicals, Adele is a Tony away from EGOT status, but she herself states she will never earn EGOT status because she "fucking hates musicals"

[blazing depot]

Never say never 💰

[fossil basin]

i mean it's not even like musicals cannot gain much audience through a non-musical consumer base?

[blazing depot]

I feel you're harping on the it being a musical point to much

[fossil basin]

i just did not want them to fumble this with gaga on sight

[blazing depot]

The main issue is apparently that the film is just not very good in general

And Gaga not being an actress doesn't help that

[near jetty]

I love musicals!

[blazing depot]

Granted, the review that really matters is @haughty steppe's

He lives in a society

[fossil basin]

https://youtu.be/KB4jZuG0DK8

atleast she is the cause of an interesting song

[haughty steppe]

I'm going to inflict psychic damage on you with my psychic blasts

[blazing depot]

Sure, bud.

[trim flicker]

Yeah it's just funny to pretend everyone loves the piece of media everyone agrees it's awful

10 morbillion dollars

[near jetty]

anyone see the modern epic that goes by the title of megalopolis?

[haughty steppe]

My brother did

[eager parrot]

he was one of the few

[near jetty]

lucky fella

[blazing depot]

I hear it's.... weird

[fossil basin]

i had seen the ancient epics of the Iliad and Odysseia

well, not seen, read them

they were entertaining

i like novel and epic classics as much as i love club classics

[forest sigil]

Go back to the cluuuuuuuuub

There's another line in there that I can't say in here but it made me laugh so hard

[ocean vigil]

say it in emojis

[oak lodge]

you and your psychic power damage. Okay nerd

[haughty steppe]

He did not like it

[eager parrot]

what an unexpected outcome

[haughty steppe]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/268137066892754954/1289792110484258867/image.png?ex=67015c42&is=67000ac2&hm=47a65f7812f9c514dc2d0e16d42126a6be73c0a654041947892c8075f6b4304e&

His review

[eager parrot]

😭

[near jetty]

head in hands in awe

[fossil basin]

https://www.space.com/space-bricks-potato-starch-mars-moon-dirt

[half heath]

Ahh I always wondered this

[last eagle]

Joker 2 is...

literally a mistake

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/Acyn/status/1842269434792349811 hes back

[blazing depot]

Dumb question begets dumb answer

[oak lodge]

"I'm back in"

[last eagle]

tzuyang finally returns with happiness
https://www.youtube.com/live/jrlZoC_LImQ

glad she's finally fine

[eager parrot]

This is one of those super gray area type headlines that's both US election politics and war in the middle east, where does this one fall on the 'not allowed in misc chat' spectrum?

https://apnews.com/article/biden-election-mideast-israel-d9f53ba8c7b3b4db953be020f676274c

[oak lodge]

interesting?

[marsh oracle]

Alright american weather controllers, you can stop the bit now, call back the hurricane

[forest sigil]

Sorry, but I have an agenda to keep

[hoary charm]

only real patriots know that the dems are controlling the weather to manufacture the climate change hoax and steal the election

[marsh oracle]

Yea yea but keep it over there

Maybe canada

But dont send that stuff over to us

[forest sigil]

Sorry but anyone against the dems over there has to get it as well

[ruby helm]

America accused of installing giant wind turbines to blow hurricanes away from them and towards europe

[dusky rapids]

maybe yall could point all of netherlands' windmills in the right direction to blow it away

[marsh oracle]

Good plan

Probably wont help the uk but thats what they get for leaving

[ruby helm]

With america blowing from the west and europe from the east, it ends up travelling north, hitting the north pole, resulting in no christmas for anyone

[oak lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/chicken-little-what-you-talkin-bout-disney-confused-what-gif-23586436

[eager parrot]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/youtube-fixes-glitch-that-wrongly-removed-accounts-deleted-videos/

[proud tulip]

I suppose for now if the main topic of the headline/article isn't war related, then headlines are fine, but conversations regarding war = no

if people cant help but turn the conversation to war then itll be blanket no mention

like you said its a grey area so we just need to work to see whats going to be best

[oak lodge]

maybe this is topical

[last eagle]

lmao

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/RosannaPansino/status/1839699906274931190?t=_OZdYYgDcYlZlkc8gEXBpQ&s=19

[last eagle]

drama time

[valid magnet]

It just keeps getting worse for him

30 mins wow

[last eagle]

there's even more from her

including the leaked video

[ruby helm]

I never knew you could even attach a 30minute video to a tweet

[blazing depot]

Just gotta pay Elon

Not even kidding btw

[valid magnet]

https://x.com/angelfacepeanut/status/1842324388726853854?t=vpUlLgdSKK9GMAy1n003lA&s=19 Also it continues lmao

angelfacepeanut (@angelfacepeanut) on X

This is an incredible video that goes into several shady, borderline illegal details about MrBeast, one of which is regarding his crypto history. It's a great segment I recommend, but there's more to cover than what DogPack and Rosanna pointed out.

Let me show my findings 🧵

Twitter · Oct 4, 2024, 10:02 PM

[proud tulip]

the people have spoken

[near jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/malcolm-x-angry-mad-upset-hit-gif-5005267

[oak lodge]

oh wow I was not present for that

[shadow elbow]

wtf I was just about to announce my exciting new war

[oak lodge]

no modern warfare talk, no battlefield, no warhammer, no nothing

this is america (shortened term for the entire world) under communism

star wars also included

[vital needle]

Total war isnt though

Just in time for my sudreyar supremacy run

[fossil basin]

not going to lie, i thought from start that he was specifically lying about philantrophic work

i am not trying to brag about never liking him, i just do not like the archtype of kindness content creators and mr beast is the father of them

someone who is doing several "save the earth" campaigns and donation links on goodness of their heart would not be trying to manipulate crypto markets and acquire/promote nft/crypto services, with extreme consumption of energy they result in

[oak lodge]

the way people talked about him was always a bit much

There is no philosophical belief I'm trying to push with this because I'm not wise to his portfolio

[fossil basin]

there is one philosophical belief i am trying to push with this

i believe that kindness content at large should not exist

it quits from becoming a work of moral and becomes a regular job if you monetize your philanthropy

not as in "asking for donations"

as in "i will make a whole brand of myself to be a celeb for doing "good""

it feels narcissistic

is it better than not doing anything, yeah, but it is still a quite diversion of the main goal

[oak lodge]

b- b- bu- but... I'd miss out on money!

[fossil basin]

even many religions state that you should not make your philantrophic work only to show it down everyone's throat

[fossil basin]

they do not just aim for money, but for other people to like them, to earn fame and renown, and such

you are supposed to do good work for the sake of it being good or for your own relief, not to brag about it to others

[oak lodge]

How can I say this in a wise and interesting way

[fossil basin]

say what in a wise and interesting eay

[thorny schooner]

war tuah bomb that thang

[oak lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/writing-fire-gif-523038869044733220

[marsh oracle]

Did mr beast ever portray himself as some kind of philanthropist?

[oak lodge]

no idea

[marsh oracle]

I never really followed him but iirc early on he was pretty clear about how he basically just hands out advertiser money

[blazing depot]

Nah, he definitely was all like "I'm a precious angel bringing poor Africans new wells" and stuff like that

[fossil basin]

apparently one of his videos where he presented himself as building a hospital, he just built solar panels

which, building solar panels is not bad, i am a lorde stan i like solar power

but it is a quite different claim

[ruby helm]

Scams aside, if they actually do what they say they will do, even if they only did it because they want to be famous, I find it hard to say they are a bad person

[oak lodge]

don't advocate on behalf of people culturally regressing your youth

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/nowthisimpact/status/1771379592982671544 I know people sometimes have trouble accepting turning 30 but this is a bit much

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/PopBase/status/1842370642366308858

[blazing depot]

Biden must've been the Deep State president for a long time

[trim flicker]

Yeah i don't think any other tropical storms hit that region in the US ever

Things are wild

[oak lodge]

It's mr. beast's crypto gambling that caused it

[trim flicker]

Ngl i thought the video was about her saying THEY have weather machines since that was the last mtg thing i saw lmao

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/05/weather/tropical-storm-milton-florida-gulf-of-mexico/index.html

[marsh oracle]

Its hard to keep up with her statements tbf

[trim flicker]

Yeah

Damn weather machines

[blazing depot]

The fact that she has been elected and is in no danger of losing her seat is still baffling to me

[forest sigil]

she's in one of the deepest republican districts in the US

trending better but not enough though

[blazing depot]

Yeah I know, but you'd think she'd at least get an inner party challenger eventually

Instead of getting fucking reelected

[marsh oracle]

Nah this is the republican party now

[forest sigil]

no one wants to go against a trump endorsed candidate as another republican

[marsh oracle]

Anybody going against a trump follower gets thrown out

[trim flicker]

can't uncook their brains now after so many years of exposure to fox news 😔

[blazing depot]

I guess a crazy person where even a DC writer for Arkham Asylum storylines would say "This is a bit much" is still better than the blatant SA enablers like Jim Jordan, but you know

[forest sigil]

Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz are the ones that baffle me the most

[blazing depot]

Ye

Just detestable pieces of shit in every way

And that's without taking their politics into consideration

[proud tulip]

worst of the worst when it comes to streamers

[forest sigil]

that the dude who harasses people in malls with his bodyguards?

[trim flicker]

jail

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/Blake_Allen13/status/1842011264580493506?t=fI6Rt6eMMrlyWbXOT-ma3Q&s=19

Tfw

How to buy potential cabinet seat 101

God knows why your average Bible would contain all that US stuff or why it would need to be leather bound, surely nothing foul is afoot

[shadow elbow]

just as god intended

[blazing depot]

Is it? @oak lodge

[trim flicker]

yikes

[eager parrot]

despite the obvious grift, I support bringing back KJV instead of scofield bible being the standard

[half heath]

... idek why I'm surprised

such a weird country

[trim flicker]

i support not having bibles

[dusky rapids]

there's a trump bible?

[blazing depot]

Technically it's not his, but he's selling it and making massive profits from it

And it's exactly what these oddly specific limitations up there describe

[dusky rapids]

i must say the mandatory printing of the US law stuff in the bible is p interesting

especially cos china has been doing smth similar, albeit on a more extreme level

forcing churches there to put up their constitution in their church premises, if not they'll get demolished

[hoary charm]

its another one of those "businesses" thats paying trump a license to use his name/likeness to sell stuff

like the silver coins, shoes, watches etc

[blazing depot]

Ye

Each and every one of them a huge scam

But alas

[hoary charm]

wtf is separation of church and state 🦅

[blazing depot]

But mah Christian values

[oak lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/fuck-no-baby-nope-anger-gif-15210793

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/Acyn/status/1842697915258855852 maybe 2012 ending the world would have been the good ending

[trim flicker]

tech bro revolutionizing the world yet again by inventing a new level of cringe

[last eagle]

does dark maga means he's evil version of trump lol

[oak lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/biden-what-wtf-lost-black-glasses-eh-np-problem-gif-7833201503555323160

[valid magnet]

https://x.com/jessehawken/status/1842716729098801406?t=i9kF1C7EcToJXHOP3gLhIA&s=19

Bro why is he giving Trump bedroom eyes

Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) on X

I found an even worse photo than the jumping one

Twitter · Oct 6, 2024, 12:01 AM

[oak lodge]

Biden's "dark brandon" joke was actually funny in the moment. Elon's got no excuse

jacked joe's whole flow and ended up vomiting

that was awful 🤣

[half heath]

weirdos...

[fossil basin]

No it wasn't

Does not excuse Elon, he is never funmy

But Dark Brandon was never funny and rather off

It's no coconut tree

[oak lodge]

[marsh oracle]

Nah dark brandon was very funny

[oak lodge]

It's not funny when the seemingly senile guy whips out a joke that actually lands not just for his own side

Yeah.

As if he's just been acting like a geezer

[fossil basin]

It just never landed for me

[oak lodge]

I'm afraid that ignores the contextual part that makes jokes funny.

[fossil basin]

I never liked the origin of dark brandon memes either

[oak lodge]

The absurdity humour is maybe more your speed. That is fine

[fossil basin]

It's not absurdity humor, it's streamers sucking for establishment politicians that's how the meme got started

[marsh oracle]

What?

[fossil basin]

The start of the meme comes from people overlooking how horrible biden was and geniunely wrote "anarchobidenist" in their bios

[oak lodge]

yes and that somehow makes it to Joe's desk which was wild

[fossil basin]

It just makes it even more alien and irrelevant to me

[marsh oracle]

Its coopting the whole lets go brandon thing from dump trump supporters

[oak lodge]

yes

[fossil basin]

I do not like that either

[marsh oracle]

Ah we are doing the meme where we are pretending biden wasnt a good president

Alright

[fossil basin]

He wasn't, did not pull out through his promises

[oak lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/big-trouble-if-i-speak-if-i-speak-i-am-in-big-trouble-speak-big-gif-23519858

[fossil basin]

Kamala ones were funny because it's a bit more surreal in context and less of a glorifying attempt of candidate

[marsh oracle]

One of the best post covid economic recoveries, capping insulin prices, student loan forgiveness (as much as the supreme court would allow) do you need me to go on

[fossil basin]

Student loan forgiveness did not go through, he tried, but he was blocked, the oil pipeline promised to be blocked is going through, minimum wage and healthcare promises did not go through or was erased during campaign

Insulin prices capping really was not his doing but of a social media blunder of a comoany

[oak lodge]

look, friends. We think y'all both bring interesting perspectives to the table and are glad to have you but why the fuck is this even a discussion?

[marsh oracle]

Bro

[marsh oracle]

Agreed actually

[fossil basin]

???? Why the fuck it isn't?

[oak lodge]

Michael Jackson Bad

[marsh oracle]

Its a beautiful, albeit rainy sunday outside, time to get breakfast

[fossil basin]

It's rainy there too actually

Well, atleast heavily cloudy

[eager parrot]

https://apnews.com/article/keith-alexander-ironnet-cybersecurity-nsa-bankruptcy-eddd67f3a1b312face21c29c59400e05

[oak lodge]

extra extra

[eager parrot]

tech work is just grift after grift

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/Dom_2k/status/1842773530984763886?t=O9BWqR571vSjvNYjd45OEQ&s=19

He thinks he is Chuu or something

[oak lodge]

LOL

[vital needle]

@oak lodge

[oak lodge]

very nice. Amazing cute gah

[fossil basin]

https://fixupx.com/ghostofkurta/status/1842702490233438483

[oak lodge]

he think shit sweet 😆

all daisies and rainbows

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1842949380879573385?t=LKcEAaqFvKz_CX7URE2TWA&s=19

[valid magnet]

I am sorry Gaga

[oak lodge]

I wonder what the consensus is on musicals in the modern day. I know those disney animated ones sell

[blazing depot]

Again, the problem with this one isn't it being a musical

[oak lodge]

that was not what I was trying to say

I'm asking if the consensus will be wrong on it like it was with other kinds of films in the past that eventually hit their stride

[blazing depot]

Doubt it. Bad movies that "hit their stride" later are usually enjoyably bad.

[last eagle]

joker 2 never be the greatest showman

[blazing depot]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/users-scammed-money-trump-truth-social-1235127287/

Most obvious hunting ground for scammers ever

[trim flicker]

yep old uninformed people

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/america kinda wish george soros did even half as much as this elon guy lmfao

[trim flicker]

Soros is too busy funding the weather machines

[marsh oracle]

https://fxtwitter.com/elonmusk/status/1843011773567578166 also doing a refer a friend for your petition you really cant make this shit up lmao

[trim flicker]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-fema-hurricane-helene-conspiracy-theories-criswell-07d5b1f6968cb2af11b63357186a1a15

very cool these people can just lie without any consequences at all

[blazing depot]

This feels illegal, but you know

[eager parrot]

It would have been

before Supreme Court's ruling on Citizens United v. FEC court case

all these PACs be damned

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/PopBase/status/1843151337829372087?t=790j1Mid2ynhJuteJcuUkA&s=19

[oak lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/carlito's-way-carlitos-way-carlito-way-carlito-brigante-al-pacino-gif-13368200534532139297

no blanco

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1842984725688058068?t=RdqEoP4Z9Ndfv-xlL3YPiQ&s=19

[safe ferry]

terrible movie

[haughty steppe]

go see transformers instead

[last eagle]

this

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/PopBase/status/1843310726947221822?t=wbNWr9L6tZI_Ci7Mxwam8A&s=19

[dire canopy]

the -200m $ vibe yeah I get him

[trim flicker]

https://apnews.com/live/hurricane-milton-florida-tracker-updates
damn

From Category 1 to 5 this quick

And these will get more and more common

[blazing depot]

At least we know the money that the Dems funneled into their red county destruction weather machine was worth it

[fossil basin]

In Turkey it's HAARP causes earthquakes, in US it's HAARP causes hurricanes

[trim flicker]

Yep damn demoncrats using dark weather magic

[blazing depot]

It's not magic, it's that dreaded scienk. Shience. Sience. Something like that. It's definitely evil and only the woke leftist fascist mob uses it.

[forest sigil]

jesus https://vxtwitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1843400119020077526

[half heath]

this is terrifying

[blazing depot]

Ye
https://fixupx.com/brianstelter/status/1843362454321115138?t=Top_XX45XUncMXkHCLa10g&s=19

[half heath]

we're so fucked

[blazing depot]

Re:
https://x.com/Corona3743/status/1843372476983849414?t=FatnML3x5UGNg17ANp84YA&s=19

Florida Dad 🇺🇸🐊 (@Corona3743) on X

@brianstelter @JohnMoralesTV Soon as he said “climate change” I stopped listening. Quack.

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 7:27 PM

[trim flicker]

Yeahhhhhh

Lotta these regions won't really recover like, at all

Hard to recover when the frequency of these storms is increasing and they'll keep getting hit by it

[last eagle]

Praying for their safety

[half heath]

Ngl makes me start feeling like an extremist when I see this stuff.

I wrote a whole lot more but deleted it lol

[marsh oracle]

If it makes you feel better, probably about half of these kinds of twitter posts are astroturfed in some way

[half heath]

Yea I always assume that too. It's just the line between what's real and fake gets harder to see because of useful idiots.

[trim flicker]

I mean the one real thing is that this is a huge threat to the entire world and feeling some extreme shit when people/governments don't take it seriously while you see things getting worse and worse is how you're supposed to feel

[fossil basin]

especially since governments around the world are rather selfish and unwilling to make the first non-competitive "step" to actually help reduce their environmental damages

[trim flicker]

Sometimes you actually gotta call the people who are pushing for the evil thing to happen evil people

[fossil basin]

It's all "race for national premises/goals of political success" until planetary collapse would make it unfeasible

[half heath]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUNOwz9KTDIhhTTN3_ptUDA

this channel shows just what these ppl are like

[fossil basin]

I like Selfish Girl by Charli XCX, but i do not like Selfish governments

[half heath]

at least the worst of them. they're dumb dumb it really freaks me out knowing there are people that know how to manipulate them so effectively

[fossil basin]

they're dumb dumb?surely not michael jackson bad?

[trim flicker]

Yep companies don't spend billions in propaganda for nothing

[fossil basin]

Oil

[trim flicker]

In this case yeah

[fossil basin]

Not totally, but oil is a part of it

[blazing depot]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZOCbVtXUAA6aho.jpg:orig

I have done this to people before, lmao

Dunno if they were vampires though

[shadow elbow]

can't be too careful, sprinkle some garlic on them

[blazing depot]

DOn't you mean holy water

Kinda hard to sprinkle garlic

[shadow elbow]

I feel like garlic is easier to come by maybe not necessarily in easy-to-sprinkle form but it's a huge drag to get a lot of holy water and move it around easily

[blazing depot]

Just need to befriend a priest, easy clap

[shadow elbow]

hello priest buddy old pal, need you to bless another 10 gallon jug of water, you know the drill by now

[blazing depot]

"I see the power of Christ compels you:" - The priest, probably

https://x.com/NbergWX/status/1843444771135861007

Noah Bergren (@NbergWX) on X

8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH. This is now the 4th strongest hurricane ever recorded by pressure on

Twitter · Oct 8, 2024, 12:14 AM

Getting worse

[trim flicker]

damn demoncrats and their science

[blazing depot]

Luckily once Trump comes back into power and abolished FEMA bad weather won't exist any more

[shadow elbow]

finally

[trim flicker]

Yeah if they can't report it it doesn't exist

[last eagle]

didn't know politics can affect weather

[eager parrot]

lol this is Antarctica level type of storm now

[half heath]

ngl im at the point where mocking them is more depressing than funny coping mechanism

[eager parrot]

they have typically 200MPH storms on the regular

[marsh oracle]

Good thing all levels and branches of government are ready to work together to get the people there the necessary help

[eager parrot]

has never happened in the modern history of this country

regardless of who has been in charge

[fringe juniper]

Government

[eager parrot]

and here we have one of the two people who is a coin toss away from running the country citing eugenics https://x.com/AFpost/status/1843309014278717624

AF Post (@AFpost) on X

Trump says migrants are murderers because it's "in their genes," adding that "we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."

Follow: @AFpost

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 3:14 PM

[blazing depot]

I mean, he was there with Elon, so you know

[eager parrot]

great future ahead of us it seems one way or another 🤦‍♀️

the flag hung in that orientation is a nice ominous touch to that photo and headline

[marsh oracle]

To be fair, if I was part of the trump family, I would probably start believing in that too

https://fxtwitter.com/WAmerican_fren/status/1843309586671108410 this comment is so funny to me

Hm I wonder which topic they were critical of him on

[eager parrot]

I didn't know Starlink can do this

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/fcc-lets-starlink-provide-service-to-cell-phones-in-areas-hit-by-hurricane/

is this like cell service over wifi or is it actually from satellite?

direct-to-cell constellation

[fringe juniper]

Voip

Probably

[blazing depot]

That's the main appeal of Starlink, wdym

[eager parrot]

but to regular cellphone antennas?

I didn't know if it can do that, I thought you need a starlink receiver

[trim flicker]

hey i wonder who else did that

smil

and yeah i also thought u needed a starlink receiver

[eager parrot]

to be fair, don, americans started the eugenics things and nazis borrowed their ideologies lol

[trim flicker]

Exactly

[eager parrot]

so this is just a return home story

haha

[hoary charm]

you do for regular internet usage, the direct to cell stuff is super limited to sms iirc

[eager parrot]

that's still pretty amazing to think about

I guess the other carriers are also thinking about doing it, they just don't have the same level of coverage

I think Apple has an emergency one for direct to cell SMS as well using a different constellation

[hoary charm]

Vodafone here is meant to be rolling out starlink support sometime soon, they copped a fine for claiming 100% coverage lol

[eager parrot]

kek

one more headline

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/streaming-industry-has-unprecedented-surveillance-manipulation-capabilities/

first it was smart cars that were basically surveillance machines, now smart tvs

great, I wonder if there's a market for a barebone TV that has all the latest image features of the best of the best smart tvs but none of the connected features

[marsh oracle]

Thats a whole lot of words in that article without saying what data theyre actually collecting

Journalism really is dead

[blazing depot]

I mean, all of it is the obvious answer

[marsh oracle]

If thats the answer then write it

Theres a pretty large gap between a tv using what you type into its search bars and the tv using microphone or potentially camera data

[eager parrot]

the data privacy policy that you agree to for Sony and LG smart TVs are not very different from what for example the Facebook app collects or a connected modern car privacy policy statement

so when Grumpy says all of it, that's really it

microphone, camera, browsing history, search data, personal profiles, viewing history, etc etc.

at least that's what the report is alleging

tv business profit margins are really slim so they do everything they can to earn money, including now putting ads in smart tvs all over on top of the ads you get from the various streaming platforms and apps in that smart tv

Sony and LG are both contemplating or have already implemented screensaver ads too

and Samsung's had it for quite a while

[blazing depot]

https://fixupx.com/mtgreenee/status/1843397315442421783

Doubling down

Crazy woman be like

[marsh oracle]

Tfw the details to your secret - democrat only - hurricane maker weapon have to be written down in patent applications

[blazing depot]

Well you see, Democrats may have the weather machines, but that doesn't mean they can't make stupid mistakes, exposing their dastardly schemes

[forest sigil]

this is just telling me republicans arent smart enough to have their own weather controlling machine and shouldnt run for office

[eager parrot]

most of those are just rain/cloud seeding patents, so-called chemtrails but for real this time lol

which are probably real and have been used, but none of those can cause a hurricane for god's sake

this kind of conspiracy theory just feels like well poisoning to distract from other issues

[trim flicker]

I do believe she's genuinely that deep on this shit actually

[eager parrot]

I just can't believe the last 10 years of political discourse has been reddit and 4chan memes like that

[eager parrot]

I don't know, politicians will say and do anything and everything to keep their jobs and appeal to their constituents

then again "representatives" are representative of the makeup of their constituency right? and the kinds of people that go into politics are usually the worst of that sample size.

so perhaps she genuinely is this way

[marsh oracle]

Stare long enough into the abyss and the abyss stares back

[trim flicker]

While that's right i do think she's just a bit on the deep end when it comes to that kinda shit lol

[marsh oracle]

The abyss being conspiracy brain rot

[eager parrot]

there are enough real conspiracies to not need to resort to such absurd conspiracy theories

it's like whenever there's a discussion of real government misconducts and corruption, some idiot walks into the discussion and throws in something like "flat earth is real, amirite gaizz?"

that's well poisoning

[marsh oracle]

I think some of them are probably grifters like vivek or maybe candace owens. But a lot of them also genuinely belief it. The fact that these conspiracies can simply integrate any criticism or inconsistency into the conspiracy itself makes it very persuasive for a good chunk of people apparently

[trim flicker]

Also thanks Steve Bannon for boosting 4chan politics and the whole gamergate thing that still lingers to this day lol

[marsh oracle]

Like look at joe rogan, apparently you can tell that guy anything and his first instinct is to accept it

Pyramids built by aliens? Wow, how did those aliens get here?

[hoary charm]

everyone needs a jamie tbh

[trim flicker]

Yeah his brain is mush now

[marsh oracle]

Also these things build on each other

When you already believe that the democrats are satanic, that picture of the little girl holding a puppy, abandoned by the government cause they wont help red districts becomes a lot more believable

[trim flicker]

Doesn't help most of them are bombarded with fox news and trump just making shit up and will believe it unquestionably

[half heath]

Okay i got the solution, its time to create an alternate liberal reality

the rich don't exist, they are just paid actors

nvm i cant do it

since a lot of their ideas and concerns are backed by reality

[brave pelican]

you are just describing ohio

[marsh oracle]

https://youtu.be/UwLjK9LFpeo

[forest sigil]

I used to know a lot of people back then that thought this wasnt a bit

[half heath]

[marsh oracle]

apparently the people who invited colbert thought so too

[forest sigil]

They hated Jon Stewart but loved Colbert lol

[fossil basin]

People like to think that natural disasters and their devastating results are due conspiracy theories instead of lack of their governments' preperation, or their awareness of emergency situations

Or aggravation of climate change or local preexisting devastation that might limit amount of possible preventation done

[marsh oracle]

Maybe we should go back to blaming divine entities

Fucking aeolus back at it again 🙄

[trim flicker]

it's the rapture happening 🙏

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/nypost/status/1843415362701754487?t=t03vd6kym3vu8AQYo3FdhA&s=19

[fossil basin]

Again, another promise democrats won't hold up, but if they were to hold that up, it would actually be one of the most impactful and positive actions a government could take in recent times, and a big incentive for Kamala

https://fxtwitter.com/Matt4VA/status/1843391480511259044

[trim flicker]

Jail him please

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/whstancil/status/1843392093542301789?t=duISsxfEZhcZ4nfFNE5Ejw&s=19

[marsh oracle]

Wdym a promise democrats wont hold up

He made that up

No democrat has promised that

[trim flicker]

Elon can barely run his companies imagine running the white house lol

[fossil basin]

I know, but he has committed enough felonies to be convincted at this point, more of comparison of things we wish were done more than "they promised elon would be jailed"

I know governments do not often promise specific people to be jailed

[ocean vigil]

if you know why do you frame it like that?

[fossil basin]

But also, any "lesser evil" government's prioritized action would be to lock him away of any power, particularly after his whole saga

[fossil basin]

Showcase of disappointment of him being so fearful of "being jailed" while he is too powerful and rich to be held accountable

If there is one thing worse than a trump led government, it is an elon led government

[trim flicker]

i mean that's just a guy saying those are the rumours going around the tech world

[fossil basin]

That is true, but whole reason JD Vance is his VP is Elon

[trim flicker]

everyone with half a braincell knows elon is too dumb to pull that off and trump actually hates him

[toxic spoke]

just gonna add to this, as long as the FEC doesn't regulate, they're going to push the limits

[trim flicker]

It's because of trump jr recommending him afaik no?

[fossil basin]

I thought the report showcased Elon pressuring him to select him despitve trump jr's advice

[trim flicker]

Yep

idk i only remember the trump jr thing honestly

[fossil basin]

Or with trump jr. i also only remember elon was strongly endorsing vance

Their political views are indistinguishable with each other (elon and vance)

Atleast currently that is, elon has really spiralled down

[trim flicker]

Started the grift literally right after he got accused of sexual harassment by an employee

Many such cases folks

[fossil basin]

And the divorce/seperation news with grimes

[marsh oracle]

The sexual assault allegations to right wing influencer pipeline goes hard

[trim flicker]

Yeppp

[fossil basin]

Just couple years ago he was like "we need to piss off far right and far left as equally as possible", but also, people who claim to be "neutral" and "bipartisan" are usually far right

[trim flicker]

His was so obvious cause it was right after + he went on that rant about people trying to cancel him for being republican iirc

[fossil basin]

I mean i have my political views, but i do not claim to be neutral, bipartisan or unbiased

He is a cloutchaser who is extremely rich

[trim flicker]

Actual many such cases moment

[fossil basin]

Any power, relevancy or cash he possesses, is not enough to make him satisfied

[trim flicker]

Boosted by the divorce dad into right wing slope

[fossil basin]

Still surprised that in 2018-2019 he was like "stan loona"

[marsh oracle]

Also some take the optional Pipeline extension into christianity

Like russell brandt

[fossil basin]

God take Go Won's stress and grant it thricefold to Elon

https://fxtwitter.com/PopBase/status/1843353804412215555?t=JYpBrrmq1N5EwRULsJCtZA&s=19

[trim flicker]

damn now Kanye's gonna fall to the right win-

[marsh oracle]

Good for her

She can finally wear clothes again

[oak lodge]

has to be musk's alt account lol

[dire canopy]

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1843459098148327850

Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) on X

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor: “I can say this without any dramatization whatsoever: If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die.”

Twitter · Oct 8, 2024, 1:11 AM

[hoary charm]

fuentes advocating for people to not vote trump, wtf kind of timeline is this

[fossil basin]

I wonder whatever trump would want to stay for the 2028 election if he loses

[hoary charm]

iirc he's already said he wouldn't

[fossil basin]

He is getting old, Joe Biden dropped out due being old and lost

Who would the republicans nominate?

[hoary charm]

if they're still the maga cult, probably vance

[fossil basin]

I know Elon is foreign-born and legally he should not be a candidate, but would not get surprised if republicans force him as one

Given they carried out similar legal breakage for Trump's nomination, would not be surprised if they'd do that

I think maga cult will be permanent in republican party establishment

I am unsure if JD Vance has enough recognition or "charisma" however to continue as the flagbearer

Not like elon has it either, but he has the paid online trolls and bots

[pale flower]

I mean... I think things'll be pretty different 4 years from now anyway

It remains to be seen what'll happen in this vote before we can say anything about the next one

[blazing depot]

See... we thought that 8 years ago, too

[pale flower]

LMFAOO did y'all see the trump bible clip

https://fxtwitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1843381580368359427

[hoary charm]

is he meant to be wearing the thing

[fossil basin]

https://fxtwitter.com/eyuplovely/status/1843489316158509492?t=Bjxmt626n5dirSUcBWcQyg&s=19

Do not mind the quote, failed to unquote

[dire canopy]

it fits his bald spot well

[pale flower]

The yarmulke? Yeah I think essentially all men have to wear it when going to a Jewish holy site

Not quite sure if it's for Jews only but the rabbis there probably know best so

[hoary charm]

right

thought you had to be jewish

[blazing depot]

Even non-jews? So they're not exclusive?

[pale flower]

I think it's because it was part of a prayer

[dire canopy]

seeing Trump like this reminded me of this game that everyone loved for like 3 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzADXfdg48A

[pale flower]

LOL

[valid magnet]

"Hey rabbi would you like my autograph?"
"???"

[blazing depot]

"Would you like me to sign your holy text?" is more like it

[pale flower]

Trump wanting to sign his name on a bible was the most Trump thing I've ever seen

[blazing depot]

Not that he would ever set foot in a mosque, but imagine him trying that with a Quran

[haughty steppe]

It's time

[near jetty]

first of many i hope

[blazing depot]

https://x.com/curious_founder/status/1843294031952163246

Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) on X

Huh that’s weird. Never could have seen this coming.

Twitter · Oct 7, 2024, 2:15 PM

[clear tide]

assume this mostly outside of the eu with our laws?

[blazing depot]

idk, BP are massive in Europe as well

I guess it helps them that the UK split

No pesky EU regulations in British/Scottish waters

[ruby helm]

Renewables just aren't that profitable because its easy (or easier at least) for new market participants to enter the market and push down profits, if they aren't razor thin.

Meanwhile oil and gas requires decades of accumulated technology to build and operate an offshore deep sea oil rig or floating liqiuified natural gas facility, so even if the profits are big, its not easy for an entirely new company to get in there and start competing.

Like there was never going to be a situation where operating a large solar farm generates massive profits (relative to the investment cost as a % return), and not have tonnes of companies diving in, until it no longer generates large profits due to competition.

[marsh oracle]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html

Bunch of crazy stories, if theyre true

[oak lodge]

[near jetty]

hey thats stuff about a war

https://tenor.com/view/discord-mod-moderation-ban-mod-ban-gif-9351874248631360646

[vital needle]

Pff of course people will blame Blackpink for literally anything

Honestly these antis should touch grass

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1843749534071202139

Dexerto (@Dexerto) on X

Twitter/X has been unbanned in Brazil

Twitter · Oct 8, 2024, 8:25 PM

[trim flicker]

Yep we're back

Still got no access to it but should be back soon enough

[haughty steppe]

be careful about what you like and retweet don

[vital needle]

It sucks that we have twitter now but good thing that musk was put in his place for once

[trim flicker]

Gotta be careful about retweeting the tripleS teasers

[fringe juniper]

[fossil basin]

Discord is banned in Turkey due government more willing to ban social media people uses instead of trying to actually convict the offenders and prevent the crimes

Which is odd since they had given the government the data they asked for

[hoary charm]

officer this man right here is evading

[blazing depot]

Much like Don with Twitter you would of course never break the law, would you

[hoary charm]

youwouldntdownloadavpn.jpg

[fossil basin]

Not first time an app is banned

But i could take your paid vpn recommendations, i do not have crucial info hidden so i am thinking of kaspersky solely due how cheap it is for crumbling turkish currency localization

[hoary charm]

proton

[fossil basin]

Proton is banned here

[hoary charm]

xd

[fossil basin]

Well, many vpns are already banned here

[hoary charm]

uh

yeah idk then gg

[fossil basin]

Kaspersky, malwarebytes and opera vpn are not

Likely due functioning as something other than vpn more than their reliability or relations with government

Also, i said protonvpn is banned, but i can still use it for sole grounds of making an acc before ban

Thing is ban is somewhat bugged on protonvpn, you cannot make new account, but if you had been already logged in, you can use the app

Not very efficient

[trim flicker]

Yeah I would never

I don't even know what a VPN is

[fossil basin]

Telegram is also expected to get banned

https://fxtwitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1843358396365652296?t=ZMuMKlf59ksYjLH6fCOPeA&s=19

Given how many historical texts, books and media i consumed, i was surprised i only learned what a seraphim was by hazbin

I thought it was a made up term for to make a name for LE SSERAFIM

[eager parrot]

perhaps you were simply not exposed to biblical stuff

[marsh oracle]

Didnt watch digimon adventure as a child smh

[fossil basin]

I am Turkish, and my family, especially my mother, were not that religious even with that, so probably

[fossil basin]

I knew someone who watched digimon in middle school, i do not know the series myself

[fossil basin]

I thought it was like, EL7Z UP or EVNNE/BLIT or YOUNG POSSE or ILL-IT or some other bullshit name

[trim flicker]

I don't think young posse fits that

[fossil basin]

I do think it does

Kind of inappropriate

[trim flicker]

posse is a word for a group of people

and they're young
a young group of people

[fossil basin]

I see the context within now

[nova holly]

however in true kpop fashion, instead of leaving it simple like that they have to make it weird

[fossil basin]

It's more unfortunate than creepy with context

You guys had latin classes?