birb_cromble
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birb_cromble
16hr ago
Dorner's wasn't awful, but it had a gonzo quality to it that provided its own appeal.
birb_cromble
1d ago
I vaguely remember a similar trend around ivermectin, which made me think of it.
That said, there was so much propaganda flying in every direction at the time that I would not stake my life on it being true.
birb_cromble
1d ago
I still saw them a month ago when I went up to Lexington, so they definitely exist east of the Mississippi.
birb_cromble
1d ago
I’m not American so I’m not too familiar with what you’re describing.
And the right in the US, especially in its current MAGA incarnation, is just as gleeful in its authoritarian tendencies
As an aside: Do you see the contradiction in these two statements? You are not American, and you admit that you have holes in your cultural knowledge, but you are also able to speak in broad certainties about the behavior of a certain class of citizen?
To go back to the COVID restrictions, there were clear instances of policy positions that were class based and/or tribal in their implementation.
The most egregious was obviously the medical establishment's stance on the fiery but mostly peaceful protests of 2020 vs anti-lockdown protests, but it scaled down as well. One of the great lakes states banning the sales of "red tribe" items (like vegetable seeds) while leaving "blue tribe" store shelves (holding things like personal lubricant) wide open is one that really stuck with me, personally.
birb_cromble
2d ago
medical community will instantly go blindly anti-Trump obscuring the issue.
I wonder if we'll see an overall increase in mortality due to consumption of Protest Tylenol over a six month period.
birb_cromble
3d ago
and ASMR sound, with all the slicing, scraping, sizzling, slurping sounding like it's happening right next to your ear.
Christ Almighty. When my girlfriend plays that shit, it takes all of my self control to not throw the speaker out the nearest window like a god damned hand grenade.
She doesn't see anything wrong with it. I'm baffled.
birb_cromble
3d ago
Generally, anti-vaxxers are probably more rural
Up until COVID, the two strongest predictors of having an unvaccinated child were high income and living in California, Washington, or Oregon.
Depending on the dates of the studies, this might actually confound things in the other direction.
birb_cromble
3d ago
For those of you who would like a link, everything I've found originates from this New York Times article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi-trump.html
The video is not public.
The sources are described thusly:
according to people familiar with the case
spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the case
One person familiar with the case
This is the conclusion:
Justice Department officials ultimately decided that the evidence against Mr. Homan was insufficient to support charges of wire fraud, bribery or conspiracy
This does not feel particularly organic nor genuine to me.
birb_cromble
4d ago
I have some ideas, but this isn't an exhaustive list. That said, maybe it's a useful starting point.
- Fresh grads having limited prospects because entry level jobs are filled with H1-B holders, despite those fresh grads existing and ostensibly being qualified.
- A culture that rewards regulatory evasion at the corporate C-level
- Having to personally do extra labor to un-fuck the work done by unqualified H1-B holders who probably wouldn't be here if their sponsors weren't able to treat them as de facto indentured servants.
birb_cromble
4d ago
All the H-1B workers I've met at FAANG were great
Honest question - how many of us have to endure the consequences of the rampant abuse so that FAANG can get their Good Ones? What's the break even point at a societal level?
birb_cromble
4d ago
highly skilled in-demand workers who aren't the tippy-top of their field
I'd certainly buy this argument if the average H1-B worker I've encountered were even in the 55th percentile for the job description.
That has, in my experience, not been the case. Most of them can sort of operate Salesforce or Oracle when everything is going perfectly. After that, I'd rather have a fresh grad who's willing to read some docs.
birb_cromble
4d ago
There's also O-1, in addition to EB-1.
O-1A: Individuals with an extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics (not including the arts, motion pictures or television industry);
It allows for up to a three year stay with a possibility of extension.
birb_cromble
4d ago
The ordinary members shield the criminal members behind a veil of plausible deniability, providing cover stories and helping the criminals blend in to the larger group.
It's interesting to ponder how that mirrors the common description of Antifa around here. I guess some tactics Just Work, and every group that succeeds in the long term eventually converges on them.
birb_cromble
4d ago
are presumably talking about use the Disabilities Office
At my local university, they are absolutely taking advantage of this particular office, to the point where its staff members regularly call it "abuse" when they think they're talking to a crowd who won't turn around and try to get them fired for saying it.
There's motorcycle clubs and then there's motorcycle clubs.
One of the most interesting gigs I ever played was at a hell's Angels clubhouse.
One of my bandmates took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and ended up in a non-public area. A biker that must have been at least 6'5" picked him up by the jacket and held him against the wall while another guy searched him to make sure he wasn't a cop or a thief. Once they cleared him, they frog-marched him to the John and told him that PRIVATE means PRIVATE.
I have absolutely no doubt that those guys would have killed the guy if anything had looked out of place.
Other than that they were great clients. The guy tending bar kept us two hours past our booked time by handing each of us a $50 bill at the top of each hour. Some of them even helped us load out.
birb_cromble
6d ago
A while back, somebody on this site said "Democrats lie like lawyers. Trump lies like a car salesman". That's stuck with me ever since, and I think it's part of what makes the PMCs so irate.
The problem isn't that it's a lie, but that it's a lie expressed outside of the expected class-coding.
birb_cromble
7d ago
For me, I can tell because I can't sleep right.
Maybe it's a placebo effect?
birb_cromble
7d ago
How's your magnesium intake?
I've noticed that I have restless sleep when I get deficient.
birb_cromble
8d ago
Historically a lot of work is put into determining who does and doesn't get pardoned.
How do you feel about Biden's various preemptive and retroactive pardons before he left office?
birb_cromble
8d ago
It takes a very specific set of skills developed in a pretty specific environment to get where he was rather than where Crowder is (or, worse, where Milo ended up).
The thing is, once one person threads that needle, it provides a map for everyone who follows. It's going to be a lot easier for the next person to develop those skills, since they don't have to cultivate them ex nihilo.
birb_cromble
9d ago
General construction: there’s a stereotype of them as crackheads, but recent trends make that unfair- they mostly do meth instead.
Around me, that's the stereotype for roofers. Even the "calm" roofers I know go through 4+ energy drinks a day.
birb_cromble
9d ago
has anyone else noticed this new “lawmaker” noun? I just picked up on it in the last few weeks but it’s absolutely everywhere
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=lawmaker&hl=en
It really does seem abrupt. My personal assumption is somebody sent out talking points, though I couldn't predict who.
birb_cromble
9d ago
told to eat the Paul Pelosi attack as a right wing thing.
I have not seen anyone in my real life bubble claim that Depape was right wing. I have heard, incessantly, that "right wing hate" radicalized and activated Depape like some kind of MKULTRA program.
Conceptually, it's an interesting mix of stochastic terrorism and magickal law.
birb_cromble
9d ago
My general rule though is that languages are separate if they aren't mutually intelligible.
This is why I sometimes bear the suspicion that young people aren't speaking English.
What would you consider to be the optimal number of political assassinations per year? Do you think we are converging on that optimal value?
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