It doesn't matter though, it works because people see a meme or post confirming their existing biases and making them feel that it's okay to say those things, and don't pause to ask "is this a Russian fake account?" or wonder if they are being manipulated.
"and making them feel that it's okay to say those things"????
So the real problem is that it might undermine our little domestic cultural revolution, which otherwise would successfully make people feel that it's not OK to say unapproved things?
So the US is apparently planning to invade more countries, kill the local population, steal the resources and be under constant guerilla attack, for targeting and blowing up weddings and funerals, with the odd school bus thrown in for spice or is that spite.
So the US military planning for a future of driving convoys through occupied lands, with subjugated people fighting back, is this the plan for the entire world, perhaps South America next after the middle east.
So what new torture methods are being planned to align with the next convoy systems in occupied lands. The US was already using the world war 2 nazi tactic of murdering surrounding civilians if an attack occurred, perhaps concentration camps so you can more readily execute 1 in 10, you decimate the local population.
Only the USA would brag about developing robotics convoys for use in occupied countries, subjugated populace, the USA will DOMINATE the planet and kill all who oppose US corporate dominance. Let me guess the system is only for defensive purposes and it is what US citizens who are the threat.
Yeah, that's it. You're on to our dastardly plan.
I'll get on the horn to our colonial governments in Japan and Germany and North Africa and the Philippines and Panama and Iraq and everywhere else to be on the lookout for you. You are one crafty dog to figure us out like that.
(We don't even leave our Navy base in freakin' Puerto Rico - though they probably wish we had now...)
Are you an American? If so, the answer should be obvious. The US culturally has a certain outlook on the profane and the sacred, steming partially from its Puritan roots and partly from the ethics of the time as the US spread west. Explicit sexuality is protected more, while the more violent aspects are seen as... well, just part of life.
I know, right? We're so bad that we even traveled in time and gave our outlook to ancient sephardic folks!
Asia is a hot spot for plastic pollution, and Indonesia -- with 34,000 miles (54,720 km) of coastline -- ranked in an unrelated 2015 study as suffering the second-worst level of plastic pollution in the world.
That must mean... something bad about Americans, somehow!
(Well, Americans who aren't me, that is... I'm magically except from my anti-American rants)
This has always puzzled me. Violence and murder, on film or in TV programming, is generally allowed, with a "PG" or "R" rating or equivalent. Sex is rated "X" or "XXX" depending on the explicitness. And yet, in real life, most people (outside Chicago, at least) will probably never witness a murder or experience a shooting.
But most people WILL see and touch and have sex with other naked people, hopefully many thousands of times. Seems to me that we should celebrate depictions of sex,and discourage depictions of murder.
Well, perhaps you explained it right there.
We're not worried that depictions of murder will sully your real experience of murder.
We're not worried that depictions of murder will twist your development away from being a healthy murderer.
It's the fine article itself that made the point about "women and poor hardest hit"... the "poor" part is fairly obvious - it takes money to get online - but the "women" part less so.
It's reasonable to ask what factors, including cultural factors, might be involved there.
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Now you know that if the politics were of a different slant, this would be celebrated.
That's why they want to roll back auto and industrial emission standards.
Dead Americans are the only certain result.
Republican Party Death Cult
Good lord. Are you incapable of discussing politics in anything but such an infantile way?
Whether he'll be a kinder and gentler Torvalds remains to be seen.
Which is part of the problem with these public confession/appeasement things.
Someone can always claim you didn't get "woke" enough.
Joomla has been urging people to update to PHP 7 for quite awhile now. There's a big message right on the admin dashboard.
... race back to the farm, to dream with my uncle at the fireside ...
I bet you do.
So, approximately all of them ...
You learned how from your phone?
And yet absolutely every person I've ever heard make this statement was fully clothed when they made it.
People have things to hide not because there is anything wrong with them, but because they are private. Full stop.
Bad metaphor dude ... Slashdot has taught me that that anti-nudity thing is just an American hangup, from our bad old puritan days
It doesn't matter though, it works because people see a meme or post confirming their existing biases and making them feel that it's okay to say those things, and don't pause to ask "is this a Russian fake account?" or wonder if they are being manipulated.
"and making them feel that it's okay to say those things"????
So the real problem is that it might undermine our little domestic cultural revolution, which otherwise would successfully make people feel that it's not OK to say unapproved things?
"I don't like them" isn't a good reason.
What? Have you been living under a rock?
"I don't like them" is now considered a great reason for just about anything! Evidence be damned!
... I thought regulation didn't cost anything, and you could just mandate goodness for free?
The new study estimates that the average adult consumes approximately 2,000 microplastics per year through salt. What that means remains a mystery.
What I want to know is how much 2,000 picroplastics is. Is it 2,000 particles, or 2,000 different polymers? Or maybe it is more like 3 Internets?
I'm not sure, but you'll want to finish the Kessel Run in less than it, whatever it is.
ISIS don't bother to disguise their posts with fake accounts. That's the issue here, not the content but the deception.
Also, PROTIP, when attempting what-about-ism don't put "what about" in the title of your post. Best to be at least a little bit subtle.
There's nothing wrong with "whataboutism" if it makes a valid point.
People sure work hard to try to magically make (sometimes) effective arguments be out of bounds.
So the US is apparently planning to invade more countries, kill the local population, steal the resources and be under constant guerilla attack, for targeting and blowing up weddings and funerals, with the odd school bus thrown in for spice or is that spite.
So the US military planning for a future of driving convoys through occupied lands, with subjugated people fighting back, is this the plan for the entire world, perhaps South America next after the middle east.
So what new torture methods are being planned to align with the next convoy systems in occupied lands. The US was already using the world war 2 nazi tactic of murdering surrounding civilians if an attack occurred, perhaps concentration camps so you can more readily execute 1 in 10, you decimate the local population.
Only the USA would brag about developing robotics convoys for use in occupied countries, subjugated populace, the USA will DOMINATE the planet and kill all who oppose US corporate dominance. Let me guess the system is only for defensive purposes and it is what US citizens who are the threat.
Yeah, that's it. You're on to our dastardly plan.
I'll get on the horn to our colonial governments in Japan and Germany and North Africa and the Philippines and Panama and Iraq and everywhere else to be on the lookout for you. You are one crafty dog to figure us out like that.
(We don't even leave our Navy base in freakin' Puerto Rico - though they probably wish we had now ...)
"Just get the one with the driver in it, Achmed. The rest will stop and wait for us to unload them."
"Thanks, Mo. Your request to Achmed told us right where the air support needs to go."
Yes according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That section still says nothing about what concentration would be harmful, nor whether you are likely to get a harmful dose from these sources.
Last time I checked the "left loonies" are the ones that have less problems with their kids knowing how their body works
Oh sure ... no confusion on the left about how bodies work at all ... BTW did you see who won that "women's" cycling race?
Are you an American? If so, the answer should be obvious. The US culturally has a certain outlook on the profane and the sacred, steming partially from its Puritan roots and partly from the ethics of the time as the US spread west. Explicit sexuality is protected more, while the more violent aspects are seen as... well, just part of life.
I know, right? We're so bad that we even traveled in time and gave our outlook to ancient sephardic folks!
Asia is a hot spot for plastic pollution, and Indonesia -- with 34,000 miles (54,720 km) of coastline -- ranked in an unrelated 2015 study as suffering the second-worst level of plastic pollution in the world.
That must mean ... something bad about Americans, somehow!
(Well, Americans who aren't me, that is ... I'm magically except from my anti-American rants)
You guys are hilarious. China was doing science while Americans were still playing with bows and arrows.
So what happened?
This has always puzzled me. Violence and murder, on film or in TV programming, is generally allowed, with a "PG" or "R" rating or equivalent. Sex is rated "X" or "XXX" depending on the explicitness. And yet, in real life, most people (outside Chicago, at least) will probably never witness a murder or experience a shooting.
But most people WILL see and touch and have sex with other naked people, hopefully many thousands of times. Seems to me that we should celebrate depictions of sex,and discourage depictions of murder.
Well, perhaps you explained it right there.
We're not worried that depictions of murder will sully your real experience of murder.
We're not worried that depictions of murder will twist your development away from being a healthy murderer.
you're doing the parenting thing wrong.
Steve Jobs himself wouldn't let his own kids anywhere near an iPhone or an iPad.
Exactly. The issue is not the quality of the filter that you stick on the pipe to all the cesspools of the world.
Sheesh people, you see challenges; I see opportunities ... it washes up there? Scoop it up off that very beach then and dispose of it properly. Win!
Downmodding is easier than engaging, lol :)
It's the fine article itself that made the point about "women and poor hardest hit" ... the "poor" part is fairly obvious - it takes money to get online - but the "women" part less so.
It's reasonable to ask what factors, including cultural factors, might be involved there.