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. . . perhaps if you have the correct POV. Anyone on the Right, however, seems to be subject to arbitrary and capricious censorship on the Twitter platform, without explanation or even appeal.

And it happens to targets large and small: the obvious large example is Milo Yiannopolous, but also lesser lights like SF author Brian Niemayer.

Add to that, the recently created Trust and Advisory Board which all comes from the same end of the political spectrum. Apparently, Twitter is all about Free Speech. . . only some Speech is More Free than others. . .

I don't even know what the fuck the problem was. If you don't want to go see the Ghostbusters reboot, don't go see it.

Men ARE from Mars.

And if you say you don't want to watch a Ghostbusters rema...rebo... restar... cynical cash grab then you are a sexist mysoginist buthurt baby child(?) salty regressive trans-hater.

You must also be one of those men (i.e. THE men) who sabotage female shows on imdb.
We know that cause you are pretending to ignore that "'The Angry Video Game Nerd,' a misogynistic web show whose sycophantic Wikipedia entry made me pine for hemlock in my coffee" even exists.
When it was after all, right there in the article featured right here.

BTW, all that was even before the movie which was promoted like this came out to fantastic reviews which keep talking about women and naysayers and ruined bro childhoods of little boys - and to a disaster at the box office.
Then again, The Nice Guys also had FANTASTIC reviews and yet it flopped... but the tone of the reviews is markedly different.

Now, take all that happening before the Twitter controversy and consider if there is perhaps a chance that the entire thing was blown out of proportion on purpose?
By a company known for faking reviews for marketing purposes.

... it would be much better to release modified mosquitoes who's offspring are all male. This would then eradicate this species of mosquito.

Are you sure?

I just wish they would have done this in Scotland. If the Trump tweets are any indication, there would be some golden names burger names.

That RT has become a major source of news that you can't get on most major news channels.

I'll leave it to the reader to decide what, if any, value RT has by providing the following link. It has "highlights" of their coverage of the situation in Ukraine 2 years ago.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kathe...

JFK's election in 1960. Daley handed Chicago over to Kennedy. On a silver platter.

Hmm. From slate article that one doesn't even seem clear cut, but even if it was, would not the guilty party be a guy and those in his organisation?

I suppose the real question, was there really any evidence of masses of people pretending to be dead people and voting twice? That kind of conspiracy is basically impossible to keep secret. I can buy corrupt officials influencing tallies, and maybe, if they were clever they could use be subtle enough to shift some results without being noticed, but this doesn't really seem to be a problem purging voter rolls is going to fix, although again, purging people that are really dead is fine with me. We just need the controls not to screw it up and of course it shouldn't occur right before an election, but rather right after they actually die.

The vote fraud the concerns me are as follows:
1) First anything that can be done to change the tallies in subtle ways, particularly with voting machines without an audit trail.
2) The hyperpartisan gerrymandering. gerrymandering
3) indirect voting fraud such as conspiring to limit voting machines or purge rolls right before an election, while at the same time making it harder to fix the mess.

but yah, if anyone actually commits voting fraud, I say prosecute them. The actual problem appears to be rare. vote fraud rare

...medieval punctuation marks of course.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charl...

Yup.

"The bomb Mohamud had tried to detonate was fake. The test explosion was staged. There was no secret council of militant leaders seeking a gifted Somali-American teenager to wage jihad. Youssef and Hussein were undercover FBI agents."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicol...

19-year old girl find dead body while playing Pokemon Go! Buy on Nintendo! Buy buy buy!

Also Mexican kids are dying while playing the game. Shares up 9%! Buy buy buy!

Here is BuzzFeed article listing more information on how they arrived at their numbers
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsvin...

Have you seen how attached they get to cartoon characters?

Not just cartoon characters:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/danie...

http://www.thejimquisition.com...

And these aren't even little kids, they're grown-ass men.

So, apparently there are a solid number of people who are well aware of things this guy has been doing that are supposedly solidly covered by normal criminal law, and they have known for some time, and yet no charges have been pressed, no police have been involved, and no one has had a day in court? Instead, we have people who can 'verify Anonymous victims' (no, really) and that makes a public and well organised smeer campaign the correct path forward?

Read what the prosecutor said about the case against Woody Allen on behalf of Dylan Farrow. Read the letter from Brock Turner's victim and learn about what she went through just to get the guy a six months' sentence. Read about Bill Cosby's victims. Find out why criminal complaints are not the path forward.

however vigilante justice is now the socially accepted way of dealing with what should be reasonably simple criminal complaints

This is not vigilante justice. It's just telling the truth publicly, and it encourages other victims to report these crimes sooner and more regularly.

he also has the right to face his accusers (in a court of law), have a legal defense, all those trappings of a just society that we all would demand, dont we?

No, that's only if they charge him in a court of law. This is just telling the truth. Nothing wrong with that. Everybody should know the good news.

Which is why Trump has his name brand shirts made in Mexico and his other products are made in China.

UNESCO had drawn up a list of world heritage sites that were in danger from climate change, and Australia had the reefs removed because it would hurt tourism.

It looks like they spent 400,000 in lobbying efforts to keep the reef off the list. Money well spent? The environment minister recently tweeted: "Under Labor, the Great Barrier Reef was on-track to be listed as 'in danger'. It came off the 'watch list' under us."

Responses were on the order of "are you fucking high mate?" - The https://www.buzzfeed.com/robst...

"Basically, it's poker chips that people are willing to buy from you."

Daddy Trump bought $3M in poker chips to bail out The Donald when a bond payment was due.

In December 1990, a lawyer for Fred Trump walked into Trump Castle in Atlantic City and, according to reports at the time, deposited a check with the casino for $3.36 million in exchange for chips. Instead of using the chips to play in the casino, the lawyer left.

The result: an interest-free loan to Trump from "Daddy-O."

The same day that Fred Trump made his chip purchase, The Donald stunned the gaming world and his creditors by making a scheduled bond payment.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/you-can-rely-on-the-old-mans-money

EXCLUSIVE BUY TIP!!! ALL TAYLOR SWIFT MERCHANDISE!!!

Taylor Swift's ongoing campaign to defend her brand, boot Etsy items with containing lyrics and shut down merchants selling unlicensed merchandise and destroy their wares has had a surprising and completely unintended effect: it appears the original has been destroyed in the confusion.

"Have you seen Taylor? Tell her to call her agent right away. We're worried."

Asked how Taylor could have been destroyed... how an actual human being might possibly have joined the counterfeit T-shirts, figurines, coffee mugs and life-size cardboard stand-ups collected in bins and being fed into an industrial incinerator, her agent shrugged. "These people are not hired for their brains. Or maybe she just slipped?"

It was also suggested that Swift may have wandering around the facility having neglected her hair and personal appearance. "It's a closely guarded secret, but most celebrities undergo significant transformation at the hands of cosmetology professionals. In their unpolished natural form they could easily be confused for poor quality imitation merchandise. It's a dead giveaway. We take quality control very seriously."

In this way, Swifts proverbial 'bad hair day' could have become the worst day, ever.

When pressed about concerns for Taylor's well-being and the ongoing search, the agent was cheerfully optimistic. "Taylor's output has been well received and we're seeing improved sales since announcing her disappearance. We even have unreleased recordings in the vault. I think her brand will continue to do well... no matter how this all turns out."

[not necessarily the news]

Twitter made the decision because the company did not like the "optics" of appearing too close to U.S. spy agencies

So, ISIS using Twitter is tolerable, but US government — no, that's just wrong?

Ah, well, they started to go after "violent extremism" too now, finally. The "optics" must've gotten really bad...

Unfortunately, they don't distinguish between terrorists and, for example, Ukrainians defending their country.

Guy does not think he is a communist (hint: "democratic socialist" is not the same thing)

Maybe, but he has said nice things about evil communists (yes, Castro is evil) plenty of times of which we are aware:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/megana...

http://www.miamiherald.com/new...

It's also quite fascinating to see what the communists say about him.

Do you think these guys belong in the women's bathroom? How about sending these women into the men's room until they've had the big snip?

just a few years ago considered aberrant by the vast majority of people

It's been a lot longer than just a few years, you might not have noticed but it's not the 1950s any more.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-buzzfeed-doesnt-do-clickbait

Come November, be sure to vote for a Democrat so as to finally end the KKKonservative grip on the White House and restore our privacy!

“This administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom. That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists."

Oh, wait...

(Troll my tail...)

"FBI Admits It Urged Change Of Apple ID Password For Terrorist’s iPhone"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpa...

I can understand your surprise, but keep in mind that proper terminology was appropriated from us by the LGBT movement, so that they could "normalize" cross-dressing fetishes and other activities that are not related to transsexualism. So today we have this weird alphabet soup, where transgender can mean anything. The whole "cis" thing never came from us either.

It's also why more and more of us are telling the gays to kindly f*ck off. It's really annoying when they show up in discussions among transsexuals, trying to tell us how we feel, what we really are, and what we should do. They just won't park their "gay privilege". The latest example was 2 days ago.

So this gay guy comes into the discussion and stirs a whole mess up - completely off topic. Repeatedly dead-naming Caitlyn Jenner (the use of someone's previous name) and referring to her as a "he." Didn't matter that we all told him he was a total asshole to do that, he insisted that it was the right thing to do, and his right. Even though every woman in the group was telling him that this is the great taboo (well, that and outing someone). After all, as a gay man he knows better than us. Same as a gay cross-dresser who called us all men in dresses a week or two earlier (while claiming to be one of us - I outed the bastard- when you pull that sort of crap, the gloves kind of have to come off). Same as yet another one who thought that we should be thankful for their including drag queens in pride floats.

That's not a unique attitude, btw. Many of those who claim to speak for us hold us in not-so-secret contempt. It's like they think we're really just extreme cross-dressers. They also have no problem throwing us under the bus when it comes to legislation that would be held up if transsexuals were included, while putting out press releases about the injustices done to us when they want attention and MONEY.

So no, I'm not going to use a made-up term by a group that does not have my best interests at heart. I told him to check his f*cking gay privilege. And to f*ck off. And that was one of the more polite responses he got from us.

The purpose of words is to communicate. Using made-up terms that aren't even accurate to describe the reality is like the jargon that computer folks use - it creates a wall, a barrier of understanding. I tried using "cis-gendered" once, and drew a total blank to the people I was explaining things to. I'd rather communicate than obfuscate. :-)

Riiii-ight.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/twhyla...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/out...

If you can't pay your court fines, then you're supposed to be in jail in the first place.

Wrong. In the USA. being unable to pay fines due to poverty isn't an arrestable offence. (as opposed to having money and refusing to pay)

Of course, that doesn't stop many towns from ignoring the law. There are many ongoing lawsuits about this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kendal...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article...

Just scroll down to the bottom of the article ... :-)

So what? How do any of these fringe idiots affect anything? Nobody even knows they exist. I'm more concerned with the bad treatment the Human Rights Campaign has been giving us, both publicly and privately, for years because if you're not a white gay male, you're nothing, while pretending to the politicians, funders, and general public that they somehow speak for anyone who isn't a member of the gay white male mafia.

Quotes from the audit:

"Staff at the Human Rights Campaign last fall described the working environment at the nation’s largest LGBT rights group as “judgmental,” “exclusionary,” “sexist,” and “homogenous

"“Leadership culture is experienced as homogenous — gay, white, male,” the report stated. “Exclusion was broad-based and hit all identity groups within HRC. A judgmental working environment, particularly concerning women and feminine-identified individuals, was highlighted in survey responses.”

"Among those issues were findings that “[t]rans* people don’t feel safe to come out at HRC,” noting that some staff “work for years at HRC before coming out as trans.”

"The report also notes that “trans* people are frequently misgendered with the wrong pronouns, after repeated corrections.”

"Younger staff in particular are exploited and not rewarded financially.” Another said, “Straight women and lesbians get sexist treatment from gay men at HRC.”

“Seven out of 31 men who have been promoted have been on staff less than two years (some promoted two times). No women under two years have been promoted.”

There's more. To hell with them. We don't need them, never have needed them, and they're doing more harm than good. Let them go sit on a bathroom plunger instead of screwing everyone else over.

Plus, any sort of arabic writing looks scary to westerners.

I think you underestimate the cowardly, knee-jerk, reactionary, idiocy of many westerners.... http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidm...

Sure thing: The Many Occasions Joe Biden Took Credit For Writing The Patriot Act.

"Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping. As a result of the findings, the women were informed, Marcy has been given 'clear expectations concerning his future interactions with students,' which he must follow or risk 'sanctions that could include suspension or dismissal.''"

And once upon a time, a) that wouldn't be an issue for the facilty, b) the women would have been expected to deal with it themselves like mature adults, c) instead of trashing his reputation in public, threatening his livehood and bringing controversy to UC Berkeley. If I could hazard a guess, this was a put-up job by the resident feministas.

"Ruth Murray-Clay .. in her capacity as student representative to the Berkeley astronomy faculty, she says, she spoke with him several times in December 2004, directly confronting him with complaints from undergrads and graduate students." ref

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanha...

Perhaps with a Barbie brain installed, Clintons personality would be less robotic, Sanders would actually be electable, and Biden would stop sniffing women (well, I guess that depends on which way Barbie Bot leans).

Compared to that group, it's no wonder Trump has higher approval ratings.

I got no idea where all that came from, except possibly as an Australian Government misinformation campaign because they were having to reject too many American applicants and the Americans were getting nasty about it but http://www.bobinoz.com/migrati.... I mean seriously grizzly bear versus koala bear which would you rather meet out in a forest or mountain line versus Tasmanian devil, sure the devil sounds worse, much worse but not really a problem.

Yeah, but then whenever I'd discover one of these in my room I'd have to burn the house down and be homeless afterwards, which is not so convenient in a place with so many free-running monsters.

David Cameron has several times appointed people to relevant ministries who are outspoken in favour of homeopathy - in particular, of Health (Jeremy Hunt) and of Science (Greg Clark). So, there is your clear statement by the present prime minister in support of homeopathy as of health and scientific benefit - of far greater impact on health and science policy in the UK than a vote in favour of placebo treatment.

I look forward to the, "B-b-but he didn't declare the opinion himself!" rebuttal, which is as intellectually dishonest as a dictator pointing out that they didn't personally torture anyone, just personally appoint a lot of people who he knew would do so.

Like the washingtonpost.com just started doing today?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthe...

Oh

My

Fucking

GAWD!!!!!!

NOES!

What on earth am I going to do? The end of western civilization. If I cannot get my daily fix of the Washinton Post, I'm just going to end it all...

umm actually no, I just won't visit their site. Just like I haven'y visited their site for years. The last time I visited, IIRC, I did a script count for some research. They are a huge source of scripts and trackers and tasty malware. My loss, I guess.

Like the washingtonpost.com just started doing today?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthe...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad...

Yup, they are complete idiots.

Where the hell is their "backup procedure" ?? Don't they have one??

Likewise their bureaucracy retarded. Buy 5x cheap 1 TB drives and Raid'em (either hardware or software), and if 1 or 2 go bad, you're STILL good to go.

But no, let's overpay 10x for some magical "certification" when the reality is that there are only 3 hard drive manufacturers left in the world.:

* Seagate
* Western Digital
* Toshiba

Everything else is rebranded, rebadged, or relabeled, not an OEM.

Only if you're a complete liar

Rabidly screeching insults when someone disagrees doesn't actually support your argument.

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?" He said, "Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?" He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!" I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off. -- Emo Phillips

If you replace the two reformed baptist churches with, say MRA and RedPill respectively, that is pretty much how it looks to anyone outside the "movement". IOW they are peddling the exact same type of toxic crap, but for some inexplicable[*] reason they've separated into factions which *loathe* each other based on some almost insignificant ideological difference.

So you can call me a liar if you wish, but to me and many others they are so similar as to be not worth distinguishing between.

The 99.9% of things in common they believe is what distinguishes them. Franky the 0.1% vehement disagreements between the various groups are so small as to be irrelevant to anyone not actually in those groups.

Feminists use the slur "neckbeard", which draws on racialized caricatures and repurposes them.

Well, Feminists stole that from us then. Nerds have been calling nerds neckbeards for as long as I've been flaming away on usenet and IRC. Come to think of it I don't think I've ever personally encountered a non-nerd saying it. As a nerd who's hung around with man nerds, all recognise of the slovenly, smug, superior fellow who is so ungromed he has unkempt hair sprouting from his neck. That's a nerd term from nerd culture. Trying to pass it off as some feminist thing is blatant rewriting of history and frankly dishonest.

This is a humerous take on what neckbeardery is all about

http://www.buzzfeed.com/skelli...

And the heading picture? The slovenly, ponytailed unkempt and superior comic book guy from the Simpsons. Feminism doesn't rear it's head anywhere on that entire page.

[*]I say inexplicable, but of course humans do this all the time. There's no hate quite like the hate between two incredibly similar groups who split on some minute issue.

Not only is Uber's "on duty" insurance not available when a person isn't "on duty", but the driver still needs personal auto insurance. Uber encourages its drivers to only pay for regular personal insurance, and the insurance companies say that this is a violation of their policy terms. Only recently have insurance companies started offering products to fill in the gaps. They, of course, come with extra premiums.

And of course, sometimes one wonders whether Uber should refer to their "insurance policy" in quotation marks.

What A New Class Of Worker Could Mean For The Future Of Labor
But while a third classification sounds progressive, nobody’s really sure what it would mean in practice. The hope is to find find a way to distribute the responsibility of employment over multiple employers, making it possible for them to jointly contribute to a single benefits package that is linked to the individual, wherever that person happens to be working at any given time.

linky

A functional democracy?

Are you fucking kidding?

A democracy requires a free and open market of ideas. Do you really believe such a market exists in Iran?

Iranian Chain Murders
Internet Censorship in Iran
Blogger jailed for "propaganda against the state"

It doesn't take much of a Google search to find examples of suppression of free speech in Iran.

I'm sure the Iranian regime has deserved "better press [than] they have tended to get since Khomeiny toppled the puppet shah." "Better press" would have made the pure evilness of the regime much better known.

The "demented ravings of some of their past leaders?" How about the demented ravings of their current leaders (and here)?

- The west is plotting to "arouse the sexual desires" in Islamic Iran
- Israel is run by sub-human leaders
- Death to America
- Israel is the sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region
- Every Muslim who does not want to fight Israel is violating religious law
- The destruction of Israel ... is one of the pillars of the Iranian Islamic regime

Why can't a sister and a brother get all of these benefits, if they wanted?

Because most people aren't idiots.

I tried reading the article, but either it's blocked, or the site's being overwhelmed right now. (I apologize, but I actually try to confirm things before I rant about them ... but I can't, so I'm going to instead take the normal slashdot approach).

If the proposal is what I think it is, it's no different than people passing around images filled with text to get past the twitter character limit.

People in the accessibility community realized the problem a year ago, but it wasn't until last week that I saw other coverage of the problem.

The solution for the blind is to come up with a way to encode the metadata into the image ... of course, you waste a lot of bandwidth in the process, but at least they can get the information. I don't see people wanting to do that with these images, as you could then more easily filter out the crap (like the ad portion of it).

It isn't always easy to tell which tech businesses will die and which won't. Nobody can see the future, there is no guaranteed safe path, etc.

So, the best thing is to stay adaptable, allocate regular time for learning new skills, and manage your finances well so you can survive long dry spells.

To that end, embrace minimalism, stay single, stay out of debt, and invest your cash in a diverse range of bonds and stocks (be sure not to over-emphasize those tech stocks!).

If that lifestyle sounds ghastly to you, try secular meditation. It will heal your mind, and help you to see that the formula for happiness that you have been spoon-fed is not only dangerous, but completely ineffective.

Or....you can take your chances.

You know the "end father's day" thing was manufactured by 4chan for lulz, right?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanha...

I apologize in advance for posting a buzzfeed link:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benros...

"At the risk of sounding racist, I..."

Apologising in advance for something stupid does not make it less stupid.

I apologize in advance for posting a buzzfeed link:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benros...

On the one hand,” Dan Quinn, a spokesman for progressive advocacy group Texas Freedom Network, said, “to run around and say we are sovereign and somehow don’t have to obey a Supreme Court ruling is the quintessential example of a temper tantrum. Some of the lawmakers, including the representative who introduced this bill, just refuse to accept what’s happening. This seems to be a way to stomping their feet and saying we’re not going to let that happen, which is absurd.”