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  1. Re:Verification on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess the internet is going to end up split with left wingers having their own little nest and the right wingers theirs.

    These guys aren't just "right wingers". I know right wingers. I have friends who are right wingers.

    These are white supremacists who are calling for a white ethnostate and genocide (albeit Spencer has now changed that to a "soft genocide" (his words)). You can be way right wing and not be a little goose-stepping trust fund fuck.

    It shouldn't be a surprise that Twitter doesn't want to amplify in any way the voices of people who talk about putting Jews in ovens.

    The only thing that bothered me is I never thought that in the divorce the liberals would get the NFL.

    You know, I gotta tell you, the NFL is on borrowed time anyway. I've been a big player of fantasy football for the past ten years and it's really increased my enjoyment of the game, since I have a stake in almost every game being played. But in the past few years, the level of injuries has gotten so extreme that there's precious little skill left in it. You can come into the season with a terrific roster and be completely out of the running by the end of week 1. This year, I had my first week where three of my starting star players went down with injuries in the first quarter of the game. It's really killed the fun for me. Add to that the specter of brain damage and it's just starting to get the same kind of feeling that boxing started to get in the 1980s. I just read about the unbelievable amount of brain damage that Aaron Hernandez had (found in his autopsy) and I don't particularly enjoy seeing healthy young men having their lives ruined for a big payday.

    I'm a lifelong football fan, but I'm starting to prefer watching less violent sports like NBA basketball or NHL hockey, both of which are currently offering superior products. It won't be kneeling players or pro-military cosplay shows that kill the NFL. It will be because it became a sad spectacle of exploitation.

  2. In other news... on Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Breitbart is showing video footage from Wolfenstein 2 as proof that Antifa is violent.

  3. Clue on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the researcher:

    "This might seem like a relatively unimportant question. "

    Gee, ya think?

  4. Just so we're clear... on Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Republican attorney general of Missouri has launched an investigation into Google's business practices. Josh Hawley wants to know how Google handles user data. And he plans to look into whether Google is using its dominance in the search business to harm companies in other markets where Google competes. It's another sign of growing pressure Google is facing from the political right. Grassroots conservatives increasingly see Google as falling on the wrong side of the culture wars.

    They don't have a problem with Google's business practices, their privacy intrusion, their anti-trust violations. The problem is that they do all these things while not supporting the GOP.

    Maybe if Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google were to molest some children they'd be more comfortable with him.

  5. Re:I find this very hard to believe. on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Well it isn't our respect.

    You can't give away what you don't have.

  6. Re:I find this very hard to believe. on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And the victor in today's whataboutism contest is... PopeRatzo!

    What do I win?

  7. Re:I find this very hard to believe. on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Tossing off any racial epithet around here in the silicon valley is likely to make half of the people within earshot fall down in a swoon, and the other half going apeshit over it on twitter within milliseconds.

    Sort of like what happens in the South when a football player takes a knee.

  8. 8.5/10 on Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm holding out for the Bitcoin Ultimate GOTY Edition with all the DLC.

  9. Re:50,000 coal miners order cease and desist on More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    The 15,000 scientists are overruled by the 50,000 US coal miners.

    Goddamn right. Those egghead scientists ain't so smart. It's not like they're rocket scientists. Well, OK, some of them are, but not all of them, so screw them. If I cain't dig coal, how'm I supposed to get the Black Lung like my daddy and his daddy before him? Us Crowder's been on this hill since eighteen and twenty and ain't no goddamn scientist with his fancy calculus gonna get us off'n this hill. And by the way, any chance we can get the age of consent down to 12? I'm looking to run for the United States Senate, and I don't want to run into problems like my uncle Roy in Alabama, who is a good and Godly man.

  10. Re:I love Canada on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Even the summary says that the US has them too.

    Try to find one. A working one.

  11. I love Canada on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's so cute that Canada still has payphones. I'm also imagining Canadian switchboard operators with permed hair.

  12. alliance on North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors (wpengine.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our good friends in Russia are still doing lots of business with North Korea.

    Donald, they're laughing at you, not with you.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/in...

  13. Keep Alien Physics Out Of the US! on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    #BUILDTHEWALL

  14. The Stocks - in a public square. on Equifax Tells Investors They Could Be Breached Again - And That They're Still Profitable (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    "Equifax executives will forgo their 2017 bonuses,"

    Corporations are going to treat people like shit until a few CEOs and board members are punished, and not just financially. We've got Guantanamo Bay and it hasn't been at all useful to fight terrorists, so why not start putting these monsters there?

    There is a saying, that "The only way to stop a bad guy with a corporation is a good guy with a gun." I know it sounds a little bit harsh, but it's just not going to stop until something drastic happens.

    I'll tell you the last thing these corporate jackoffs need is a fat tax cut.

  15. dahlink on Researchers Run Unsigned Code on Intel ME By Exploiting USB Ports (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A pair of security researchers in Russia

    I've found a photo of this pair of "security researchers" in Russia:

    https://pre00.deviantart.net/f...

     

  16. Just to be clear: This action is NOT reducing the number of H1-B visas issued. It is reducing the INPUTS to the lottery, not the OUTPUTS. So the same number of visas will be issued, just to different people.

    Stop it. You're harshing their nativist buzz.

  17. Re:Trump Pulling Out of Paris Caused This on NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clearly if Trump remained committed to a bimbo of a deal, none of this would've happened.

    A "bimbo of a deal" is not a phrase a native English speaker would use.

    I will bet you would also write a thousand dollars as, "1000$". Isn't that right, golubushka?

  18. Re:Of Death? on Some iPhone X Displays Plagued By Mysterious 'Green Line of Death' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It’s just a thin line, jeez.

    I agree, these allegations about faulty iPhone X displays, if true, could be bad. But I heard that the sites reporting on this once used Microsoft computers, so it's probably #fakenews. It's a shame that product flaws are being ginned up by SJWs to try to smear a righteous and godly company like Apple.

  19. Re:I know how this ends on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it ends with Ben, the king of rats.

    I loved that movie. A young Meredith Baxter...

  20. Re:I know how this ends on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Thatâ(TM)s a mouse.

    #fakenews

  21. I know how this ends on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 5, Funny
  22. How do idiots end up in government jobs.

    They get elected.

  23. Re:what about the children? on YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure, the Democrats...

    Roy Moore molested a child and you're playing "whaddabout"?

    It was a kid that he met at the courthouse when her mom was in court at a custody hearing. Guy's a fucking predator and should be on a sex-offender registry.

  24. what about the children? on YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about we crack down on GOP senatorial candidates who target children?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  25. Re:What about Arial on IBM's Quest To Design The 'New Helvetica' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Helvetica was the default font for Mac OS for many years.

    The default font for MacOS is called "San Francisco". Apparently Mac is so closely associated with Helvetica that they decided to change the name before using it.