No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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If this is the stuff we know of, he's got enough skeletons in the closet to be very reliable indeed.
Primer on how it works in the church for those who aren't catholic. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarrick-catholic-church-how-the-lavender-mafia-works/
The few Italian catholics who I'm following on twitter are seething.
No_one
1d ago
What's the amount of drug dealers who are paying these taxes? I'm betting it's lower than the lizardman constant.
No_one
1d ago
CICO absolutely does work and is used by people who're professionally fat. The issue is adhering to it, which is massively easier with the new GLP drugs.
No_one
1d ago
Marxism was basically the state religion and relegated to a few hours of wasting student time weekly, or maybe just one hour. Lysenkoism was gone by mid 1950s.
Now I'd agree that there was no academic freedom as people who dissented or were politically active in the wrong way of course had very low odds of staying employed as academics. On the other hand I don't think orthodoxy was demanded much, at least going by on what went on in Czechoslovakia.
No_one
1d ago
In general, I abhor rudeness.
I doubt this was just unprompted rudeness, unless it's some 5000 IQ daring scam she lost it after the twentieth repetition of something incredibly tiresome. Somalis are not the world's most charismatic and easy to get along with people.
e.g. this thread from reddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1e5last/a_somaliamerican_former_investigator_why_youre/
Somalis are not liked much in Minnesota. If, on a non-niche reddit someone saying "They won't behave better" gets +15 upvotes that's quite strange.
No_one
1d ago
I'm gobsmacked that Shiloh has managed to milk three quarters of a million dollars (and counting!) out of being accosted over a minor literal playground scuffle.
Remember the Zebra killings? The ones so deprioritised from history that back on Reddit Motte when I mentioned them that people raised in the San Francisco area had no clue ~20 to several scores of whites were killed in a sustained campaign of race murder?
These people -violent black nationalists haven't gone away. They still exist.
Insane random killings of white people are still a thing, of course the DoJ makes a point of making sure no one investigates 'senseless' violence too closely. What would be the point? There's nothing you can do thus ignorance is bliss.
This one, a double murder by rifle followed by a shootout involving an armored car made the local headlines briefly. How many cases won't because it looks like just another robbery gone awry?
It's practically certain that that video has led to her featuring in sadistic rape / murder fantasies of hundreds of black bigots and likely also some leftist activist ones - as I'm unaware of any data that indicates that sexual sadism does not occur in black men, or that they do not have a subpopulation that is itching for some violence.
And while yes, they're not the mob, the odds of someone availing themselves of an opportunity to rape or kill someone who truly deserves it are quite real.
No_one
1d ago
I have no problems believing that because the level of hostility is off the charts, merely saying that AI art is fine and you shouldn't hate on tech geeks who can't draw using the art to get pretty images for their games gets a reaction akin to the infamous Harlem scene from Die Hard 3.
No_one
1d ago
I don't think moral panics require 'definitive proof'. Someone sharing their desktop and leaving a link to something fishy would be enough to start a witch hunt, especially if said person was relatively successful.
Now, you might think that this would simply discredit these organizations in the eyes of the audience, and it certainly will for some, but I doubt that it would be some inflection point or straw that breaks the camel's back. I'd predict that, for the vast majority who are already bought in, this next spoonful would be easy to swallow.
I'm not sure if you're getting how big of a mania this is. People ended up bullied out of certain amateur forums for merely using AI illustrations. IMO this would produce a total crack up, effectively an end to whatever they have now.
No_one
1d ago
Sci-Fi a weird genre to have effectively adopted neo-Luddite tendencies.
Not all of sci-fi, just the part taken over by white leftist yanks and their copycats in other parts of the world. The anti-AI rhetoric is due to the ideology of the people involved, not the nature of the genre of which they are a small part, at best a plurality.
The entire mil-SF genre is I believe completely unaffected by it and so are most people publishing outside of the well-defended legacy ghetto.
No_one
1d ago
Do we know India has a sufficient amount of deployed thermonuclear warheads to actually destroy Pakistan?
No_one
1d ago
Pakistan has bought Chinese military hardware including 100+ mile range BVR missiles with datalinks and AWACS aircraft that can guide such, so .. not that unlikely.
There's a whole bunch of footage out there this morning showing various aircraft parts lying on the ground.
No_one
1d ago
This generalized antipathy has basically been extended to any use of AI at all, so even though the WorldCon committee is insisting there has been no use of generative AI, no final decisions made by AI, and that AI has nothing to do with any Hugo nominations or decisions, people are still Very Very Angry that it was used at all.
I predict the fallout ensuing from eventually discovering their new POC/female high performers are deftly using LLMs to write their works is going to destroy the woke captured legacy publishing industry and the associated awards.
Lots of people are using LLMs to write not just code but also stories. It's inevitable.
e.g. recently this was a pretty big chunk of free Deepseek usage. https://www.novelcrafter.com/
No_one
3d ago
I remember a quote from one of the blogs I used to read.
"Everything is just a LARP until it succeeds" is a quote I'm probably incorrectly paraphrasing, but refers to a real phenomenon. Then referred to the radical headchoppers in Algeria, who started out as mostly a joke or so people though.
Most social movements start out small and ridiculous but because they're using or exploiting some real social dynamic they eventually succeed.
No_one
4d ago
..wait, you sure this is furries? I thought dragons were still a fairly generic sort of fantasy animal.
No_one
5d ago
Trump government is pissed enough with South Africa thanks to millenials who have had it with the rainbow nation being in positions of power. South Africa wouldn't risk it. Russia isn't stupid or nasty enough to do this - they protect killers who acted in the interests of the state, not useless young thugs..
I don't think Venezuela is that big on black power either.
No_one
5d ago
It looks like the dismissal (of this case) was in march '25.
The guy who took the video looks to be Sharmake Beyle Omer, whose criminal history is not very rich. Some 5th degree assault charges from '21 that were mostly dismissed and he was convicted of disorderdly conduct, and some light traffic related stuff.
No_one
5d ago
Seeing as I'm one mod report away from being permabanned because of forgetting to speak nicely about followers of Nick Fuentes late at night two weeks back or so, I didn't want to risk any reports related to the 'word of power'.
No_one
5d ago
From my point of view, no, not really.
I come from a place where our own racial underclass is not treated in a sacred manner and there's no equivalent of the gamer word. You might become a bit of a social pariah at a humanities faculty of a big university if you were filmed doing something like this, perhaps, but moms around the country would understand and forgive.
I don't think the taboo around the word is in any way reasonable and that such taboos should not be enforced or tolerated. I much prefer the situation here where before there's actual violence the parties in a dispute tend to use all the strongest expletives at the loudest possible volume. Keeping it 'fake' helps cut down on wasted police time and all that.
No_one
5d ago
I can't easily checked as like many US sites it blocks foreign IPs.
Huh, worked through TOR on the first try. How did I miss the date on the pdf.
None of these documents for the case is likely to have a summary of the evidence gathered by the police right?
No_one
5d ago
It also seems like it should be noted that the mom seems to be a grifter herself.
Why? There isn't much known about her. Do you know of anything suggesting she staged this ?
Rape charges get dismissed a lot,
I'll grant you that there's a lot of spurious crap out there, but why dismiss charges
- one day after a spicy incident hits the internet
- almost three years after it happened
- two days before the case is due to go to court (the news article said the trial was to start on May 5)
That seems pretty odd but then I'm not a criminal lawyer. Maybe a pattern of dragging unpromising cases before dismissing them just before they're due to happen makes a lot of sense in the context.
No_one
5d ago
Facts are: he was trespassing, he had a knife in a place where he shouldn't have had one and then when confronted stabbed a guy who objected to him being there.
To me it seems outrageous a bond is even allowed. He is being charged as an adult. Letting murderers walk free for months until there's a court case? That's not how thing are supposed to go.
Interestingly, no coverage of a hot-button recent CW issue.
TL;DR: a low-class looking married mom of 2 had an altercation on a playground in Rochester, MN. Her story is that a kid stole from her bag and she alled the kid the gamer word.
Then, a Somali man who was also present on the playground and who then was due for court over a '22 rape this week confronted her, phone in hand and recorded the confrontation. {obviously, multiple instances of gamer word in the video, from both parties}
She called him the gamer word too and flipped him the bird. Cue online outrage, she is collecting donation to relocate.
After this blew up, the rape charges against the guy who made the video were dissmissed. (see bottom of post, links). It's fairly close to a textbook perfect 'scissor' event, seems to me.
The video was amplified by some sleazy music video director and the mom claims they are getting death threats. People who went through his old tweets found..interesting stuff, he is some sort of perv. Needless to say this isn't his first rodeo - he's been chasing view by covering race and other hot-button nonsense online.
A recent development I just found about while writing is, the man who made the video had the rape charges against him dismissed 'in the interest of justice'.(local news link). It wasn't just some silly statutory rape - he and his brother offered shelter to a runaway from the foster system and supposedly raped her multiple times. The two defendants of course maintained it was all made up.
All in all, it's an interesting development. I don't understand how someone can just dismiss rape charges (more detail including a link) like this. I haven't read the court documents though.
Pursuant to Rule 30.01 of Minnesota Rules of Criminal Procedure, the State of Minnesota hereby dismisses the Complaint in the above-entitled action dated August 29, 2022, charging the offense(s) of Criminal Sexual Conduct - 3rd Degree - Penetration under 18 - Use coercion, Criminal Sexual Conduct - 5th Degree - Penetration - Nonconsensual for the following reasons: In the interest of justice.
^^this seems like really, truly bad optics. Is there an innocuous explanation - e.g. the case was really flimsy etc? But if it was flimsy why was the court system keeping it going for almost three years only to dismiss it now. The news article makes it seem the trial was set to begin on May 5.
He was chosen by the previous pope to oversee selection of new bishops. So he is almost certainly very reliable and that it took only 3 days to elect the pope means the progressive faction has things well in hand.
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