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    So how do you guys feel about this "cancel culture letter," from Harper's ?

    I honestly sort of agreed with it.

    I get it that problematic people cosigned it, but so did some people I REALLY respect, like Noam Chomsky.

    And I certainly didn't take issue with what the letter SAID: I mean, to me, it's saying "let's just SORT of remember to not have an Orwellian Nightmare, here, guys? Like, please, and thank you?"

    Everything is starting to fucking frighten me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by elevenism View Post
    @allegro , Shane Dawson is one of the most well known, revered, prolific, oldest, richest YouTubers of all time. He's been doing it since '08.
    I guess I just don't care -- no, I know I just don't care about YouTube shit like this. It's just shit, it's spawned nothing but shit. I use YouTube for stuff like how to change the water pump on my washing machine, or how to make a landscaping path in my yard made of gravel, or how to know if there's a disease on my hydrangeas. NOT these fucking asshole attention whores, whom I think need to be launched into outer space. I hate them all.

    Really, just jettison fucking everything except music videos by actual artists and stuff like this (yes, I actually use stuff like this all the time, I actually replaced a water pump on my old washer):

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    Same. I used several videos to take my washer all the way apart - like even the transmission because it decided to start leaking halfway through the maintenance - and it still works all these months later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allegro View Post
    I guess I just don't care -- no, I know I just don't care about YouTube shit like this. It's just shit, it's spawned nothing but shit. I use YouTube for stuff like how to change the water pump on my washing machine, or how to make a landscaping path in my yard made of gravel, or how to know if there's a disease on my hydrangeas. NOT these fucking asshole attention whores, whom I think need to be launched into outer space. I hate them all.

    Really, just jettison fucking everything except music videos by actual artists and stuff like this (yes, I actually use stuff like this all the time, I actually replaced a water pump on my old washer):

    oh, don't get me wrong.
    I DO NOT watch these people's videos. Why would I be watching make-up tutorials? I'm aware of some of these people, though, from the early days of the platform.

    I watch a lot of documentaries and such on YouTube, and music videos, and, more pertinent to this situation, the news.
    I saw this on the actual news.

    And, so, I dug a bit deeper, and, yeah: it's reasonably entertaining tabloid level shit, to find out about it, which created a nice break from the actual news.

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    Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in an online forum.


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    I am very concerned if Tucker runs for president in 2024. I shouldn't be...but I am.

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    Quote Originally Posted by versusreality View Post
    I am very concerned if Tucker runs for president in 2024. I shouldn't be...but I am.
    holy god. PLEASE don't say shit like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by versusreality View Post
    I am very concerned if Tucker runs for president in 2024. I shouldn't be...but I am.
    He would easily win the Repub nomination, but would get killed in the general imo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by versusreality View Post
    I am very concerned if Tucker runs for president in 2024. I shouldn't be...but I am.
    Only Trump RINOs love him.

    This is the wrong thread for this, though.

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    https://abcnews.go.com/US/squirrel-t...ry?id=71769840

    A squirrel in Colorodo tested positive for bubonic plague. 2020 really wants to kill all of us

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    Pretty sure it happens with relative regularity.

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    Huh, I didn’t know it was common to show up in the US. I knew it popped up elsewhere every year. Learn something new every day

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    It's a really shitty time to be a famous person on twitter. or twitter security.




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    https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/2...employee-tools

    There is a lot to unpack from the twitter hack. For example Twitter has blacklist tools to shadow ban users despite claiming otherwise.

    Reminds me a lot of the central plot of a book I read back in 2016 called Infomocracy.
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    Bigger question is: Why the fuck wasn't BILL GATES using 2FA????

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    it affected even those with 2fa though.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Sesquipedalism View Post
    So, it’s like every verified magnate except Trump?
    it is odd that it appears to have only affected the "good" guys.

    though this is also shades of the hacking in 2016 where the DNC and RNC were both hacked but only the DNC suffered a fallout while suddenly all of the RNC people are happy to go to bat for Russia now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allegate View Post
    it affected even those with 2fa though.
    Oh, shit.

    Tons of blue-check people were locked down for 24 hours.

    But lots of us "other" Twitter users were also locked down.

    I was, too.

    Couldn't tweet anything. I could "like" but pretty much nothing else.

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    How's it feel to be considered one of the cool kids by twitter?




    "Satire 2020" is taking a fucking beating in the news lately.

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    ^ OMG people are idiots.

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    so, uh, is pretty much the whole internet down for you as well?



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    oh would you look at that.

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    You really hate to see it.

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    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/ukraine...ings-1.5032361

    Ukraine hostage-taker surrenders after president agrees to tell people to watch 'Earthlings'


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    Yeah it's about the cop but this isn't related to his killing of George Floyd.


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    Cops sure make a lot of money, wow.

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    https://www.startribune.com/fired-mi...mes/571864051/

    County Attorney Pete Orput said the investigation of the two “was in the works well before” Derek Chauvin was charged with Floyd’s death in late May.Orput said state Department of Revenue officials contacted his office in June with what they found, and “they were sending [Chauvin] letters last year” about no returns being filed, “and they got no response.”
    Then, when Derek Chauvin came under worldwide attention for his role in Floyd’s killing, revenue officials “read the guy’s name and realize this is their guy,” Orput said.
    The county attorney called the Chauvins’ tax troubles “run of the mill, but it just happens to be the [police officer] sitting in Oak Park [Heights prison]. … The guy owes us money, and I want to collect. I don’t care about his other problems.”

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    I, uh, did not have China terraforming Florida on my 2020 bingo card.

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    they look like chocolate chips.

    *sigh*
    is this a way to stir up even more shit between US and China?I suspect it's American trolling

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