JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
1mo ago
And it was all to try to save mom-and-pop businesses
Or, you know, to steal half a trillion dollars. At least. Probably more.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
"It also was looking more like a wolf than you think it was" is not very useful when you cried wolf for 2 years. That account is overdrawn so deeply that it doesn't matter anymore how much was in it initially.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
You are forgetting the lockdown sex parties. That was the worst of it. People were so scared top health officials had to secretly rent the hotel rooms “just be naked with friends”. Can you imagine?
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Playing along with "don't go to crowded pubs" and playing along with "you are going to be arrested if you go alone to an empty beach, but please please go to a massive protest where people around you scream in your face for hours" is playing two entirely different games.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
It's nice to meet an optimist. Unfortunately, I can not concur. I am still seeing a lot of people wearing masks in public, and I am sure the establishment and the press are capable of creating a panic that would easily provide democratic supermajority for virtually any measure short of mass executions, if they want to. My only solace is that the elections are in 2 months and they don't have enough time already to use it (and also probably don't need it really as they already have passed all the laws they needed the last time) so there's no real incentive to do it again right now.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
You may not have the choice. I mean, would you be willing to go to jail (where they would forcefully strap underwear to your face, and beat you up if you resist - probably likely beat you up anyway just in case) just to be able to briefly walk in a park? Would you be willing to lose your job and cease all in-person contact with 99.999% of human population, give up all your hobbies, your social life, your cultural life, everything? What if you need to use actual medical services or help your loved one to use them, and wearing underwear on your face is the only way to do it? It's really hard to stay sane when everybody around you is crazy.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Or a money mule who is exploiting somebody else's card for a small fee.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I'd expect most of the organic ones being in Arabic, and if there's something in English it's probably run by some Iranian IRGC officer.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I'd call bullshit on that "targeting Mossad base" thing. I seriously double they have a capability to do anything this precise with their rockets. They just fired it in the general direction of Tel-Aviv. Surely, after it exploded, they can tell any tall tales about its target, making it sound as they are punching back as hard as they are getting. But I think they are just bullshitting as usual.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Yeah I think 50% is about right. On one side, the only way for Israel to make the north safe again is to kick Hezbollah out over the Litani river. Where they should have been since 1980s if UN decisions weren't worth shit, but since they are, here we are. For Israel, the moment would never be as good as this again - they have the best casus belli ever, Hezbollah unquestionably started the fight, and with the Operation Grim Beeper being resounding success, the time is to strike the iron while it's hot.
On the other hand, Israel government is kinda shaky, and a lot of politicians there are itching for the opportunity to blame Bibi for "getting us into another war". And if it will be the full-scale war, there would be serious casualties - Hezbollah has a lot of rockets, and at least some of them will get to Tel-Aviv and other very densely populated areas, no defense works 100%. And Bibi's enemies will blame him for that (yes, they are definitely this cynical and more, politics is a very dirty sport). And, of course, the casualties on the IDF side will be way more than in Gaza too. Don't get me wrong - IDF is more than capable to kick Hezbollah's ass, but it won't be free, both in lives and in economic harm, and Israel is not eager to pay it. So if there's any glimmer of hope that there might be some other, cheaper, solution found, even if temporary, they will delay and hesitate for as long as possible.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
For me, using brave + privacy badger I haven't seed utube ad for ages.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
It could be worse. Couple of days ago I sat down to watch my daily dose of old comedies on Hulu (T-mobile gives it to me for free, so why not make use of it?), and what do I get instead without any warning if not a visage of a certain presidential candidate spilling the bullshit right in my face. I decided to avoid Hulu at least until mid-November.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I read the books (some of them) and I don't see anything bad in Cavill. Of course it's different - TV and book are different media. But I think for the series he is fine.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
The San Francisco guy preached to birds and animals, but didn't hit anybody with flaming logs. That's much better IMHO.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Irianians are much meaner to gays than Russia has ever been, but the Left is just fine with Iran. Despite Iranian agent (Arianne Tabatabai) working in Pentagon, nobody shows even 1% of the paranoia directed towards "Russian influence" right now. So the gays thing didn't help, but if they had a gay parade in Kremlin every Sunday, it still wouldn't change anything.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Sounds like an extreme maniac (of course, it's probably false anyway). I mean, if the prostitute has already been paid, all he had to do is to tell her "go away, I don't want your services" (or, maybe, just have her sit in a corner for 10 minutes - though for a virgin probably even 5 minutes should be enough - just to be believable and then make her go away) and she would - who wouldn't be happy to get paid without doing any work? If she hasn't been paid (in which case, wtf was his father is thinking?), then pay her and see above. WTF does he need to do with the flaming sticks and what exactly she got beaten for? She was just doing her part of the deal, she didn't do anything wrong. It's not even claimed she was the devil or sent by the devil or anything like that - she was just a hired worker that came to do her work, what the heck she deserved to be beaten with a flaming stick for? This is an insanely messed up story!
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Laptops have been screened since forever. As were any container that is enough to pack enough explosives to hurt a plane. Including every cellular device, of course. I'm pretty sure if Hezs put their pagers through the airports scanners, stuff would light up - but most of them probably were too busy with other things to fly to an international vacation, or they left their work pagers at home.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
If you work for Hezbollah, that is a smart precaution. If you don't, you are just being silly. Which is of course your right, but the thought that Israel would waste top intelligence talents and years of intelligence work to target a random guy on the internet is hilarious. Maybe they'll start with stealing one of your shoes?
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
That's all? Young female journo infatuated with an older high-status male? And they didn't even have sex? Pfui!
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I think with the affidavit signed by a whistleblower it's more than a "theory" that she had the questions. That's more proof that was enough to impeach a President. More precisely, she had been given "example questions" - which were supposed to be "a kind of" questions she is going to be asked but not exactly those (we can't verify it of course because we don't have the questions they were given, but it sounds believable). Of course, we have no indication the other side got the same deal IIRC.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Russia is kind of an anomaly here. I think the Left has been generally rather friendly towards Russia (remember "the 80s called and want their foreign policy back"?) until somebody thought it'd be a brilliant move to declare Trump a foreign agent (which is BTW so Russian thing to do it is not even funny) and whose foreign agent could he be? Iran and China obviously don't fit, but Russia fits just fine. Trump was not openly hostile to it, nobody in the US knows much about Russian politics, and Russia is big enough that they have spies in the West (as do Iran and China, of course, but it's not the time to talk about those) which could be revealed at the right moment as a proof of whatever nefarious plan is necessary. I think that's when Russia suddenly became a huge enemy of the Left.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Depressing is not that big of a deal, a lot of genres (horror, noir, catastrophe, etc.) aren't exactly sunshine and puppies. It's just that the source material is sometimes a bit dry for general audience, and the fun parts aren't often spelled out but only implied, so the movie script needs to add a lot of things that make it a movie attractive to a modern audience. And this needs to be done very tastefully because the original is not of that nature at all. And "tastefully" does not seem to be something the people in (extended) Hollywood are capable of doing. Thus, abominations like ROP are born. Is it possible in theory? I think it might be. But it requires a lot of skill and love and integrity, and I don't expect somebody with all these qualities to be able to pass through the gatekeepers of Hollywood and be able to actually execute such project.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
Yeah, Cavill leaving The Witcher was kind of a bummer. I'm not sure whether I'll keep watching.
JarJarJedi
1mo ago
I'm not sad, if needed, I could spend 50 years rewatching old movies. I was just wondering - could I be missing something? The Rock is 52 by now, not sure if it's "old" but definitely not "young" anymore.
I'd assume the ones in Britain are predominantly relatively recent arrivals, so they still communicate in their native tongues.
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