I didn’t realize how shitty MSM reporting was until they reported on something I actually know a lot about. The half truths and ridiculous misrepresentations belie a lack of intellectual rigor bordering on unethical.

And someone is going to say, “But that’s not their role. They’re appealing to the masses and need to generalize.” I agree in our current system that’s probably the best they can do, but it is not what a free press should or could be.

But, but… How do we extract value from it? No micro transactions? No ad revenue? Can we sell it? Write it off as a loss? Is there at least a credit card reader so aliens can sign up for recurring payments?

Does anyone have an angle on the strategy here? Obviously Paxton, et al. know this is complete bullshit. Is it extortion of some sort? Get another above board bribe from a corpo?

I’m not buying it is purely optics. These fuckers don’t have to care about convincing anyone anymore so there’s gotta be a grift in there somewhere.

Additional conspiracy theory elements from this thread:

• J&J spun off Tylenol last year. Did they know this was coming? Are they complicit in the grift or did Kennedy know about evidence that actually indicated a link between autism and acet… aceta… what is it… Tylenol?

• Discovery is a part of the judicial process so will they discover there is no evidence that J&J knew anything? What then? Lie, of course, but to what end?

• Release the Epstein files.

Honestly surprised it is so low.

Looks like a DIY opportunity.

I would keep snacks and beverages on the ready. “C’mon in! The iced tea is cold and the muffins are just about done. Now, what were you saying about cumulonimbus formations and their impact on dairy production?”

I love the animals with bone ears. Dogs, cats, rats. Should have people with bone ears on the sides of their skulls. That would be fantastic.

I’d still have wires IF MY PHONE HAD A PLACE TO PLUG THEM IN.

Don’t think so… Found the HISHE video [here].(https://youtu.be/WG3_gnKSDh4)

Did see that scene in the video. Any other guesses?

This is it. I’ve never been able to learn a new programming language looking at tutorials. I always start with a problem (use case) and build from there. A basic knowledge of concepts like loops, conditionals, and passing/returning values in a function are the building blocks. Eventually you start to get tired of copy/pasting code so you find things like abstraction and inheritance. Then you’ll find ways to optimize or use someone’s library of premade functionality instead of starting from scratch.

And if you get really, really good you start writing things from scratch again in unique and highly optimized ways. Those are the really fun projects, imo, but not the ones that pay.

I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.

It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.

She’s not fucking around. Put a ring on it.

Anyone who didn’t see this as the pre-Nobel publicity stunt it was is an absolute nut sack of a human being.

Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.

I’m sorry I asked.

Example?

I think I’m ok with this. Before you lynch me, let me explain.

In the halls of Congress there are super rich, long-term, and likely lobby-fed members, and then there are those average people who ran on people-focused platforms and got elected locally. The first group are not going to be hurt by stopping a paycheck that is probably a rounding error in their actual net worth. And those individuals could use a shutdown and the knowledge that the opposition can’t survive for too long without a paycheck to force capitulation. So, keep paying the opposition during a shutdown to remove some of the leverage the powerful elite have over those representing the people.

A lot of generalizations in there but that’s where my head goes. Still shitty for the country and certainly for those who end up furlowed or worse, for sure. But at least the lawmakers holding out for reform aren’t having their own destitution held over their heads.

Be me, 16 yo., in basement bedroom chilling. Hear/feel a thud feels like the whole house just got picked up and dropped a few inches. Meet dad’s fiance who had been chilling in the den at the top of the stairs, confused. Eventually look outside through the darkness to see something strange in the front yard. Jump in the car, swing the headlights around to reveal a smoking wreck wrapped around a pine tree in the front yard. Rush out to find what remains of the driver gurgling his last attempts at breaths. Call 911, volunteer firefighters show up within minutes. Nothing to be done. Dude was paste from the inside out. Drunk driving, speeding, and didn’t make the curve.

As an aside, DOT shows up a few days later to trim all of our pine trees with branches at ground level to have no branches below about six feet. Presumably to make it easier the next time? Looked ridiculous.

But yeah, that gurgle was something else. Never heard anything like it before or since.

This is an amazing nuance I think may be lost on many.

Easy Macius