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  1. 1 hour ago, F250 said:

    I was mid-way through Purple Sage when I did some reading on anti-Mormonism. I had no idea how much of an outcast LDS people were back in the day.

    They did a pretty good job of pissing off their neighbors everywhere they went. Zane Grey did a decent job of covering the polygamy stuff, but then again he was writing about this stuff as it happened (or had recently happened).   Been some time since I read some Zane Grey, need to add him to the list.

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  2. 9 minutes ago, F250 said:

    Every prepper I've ever known refers back to the LDS prepper guides. It makes you wonder what the hell the Mormons are up to.

    It’s just a reflection of the fact that everybody thought the Mormons were assholes (they were basically sovereign citizens on acid) and kept kicking them out of their states (New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, etc.) and so the Mormons were constantly on the move for a long time. It paid to be prepared to grab a few things and move on fast if the locals got pissed that you were eying their wimmen, or that you were in a cult and your leader Joseph Smith was a criminal.  Their paranoia about always being prepared was well-founded in the 19th Century, but it was also a self-inflicted problem.

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  3. 12 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Dude.  When society and the economy collapses, precious metals are just shiny baubles.  NOTHING THAT IS NOT UTILITARIAN WILL HAVE VALUE.  If we are REALLY heading for total social and economic collapse, the only metal you should be buying is lead, cast into ammo and topping off a powder-filled brass casing.

    Yep.  You could have $20,000 in gold coins (paging @RDCanecutter) but somebody with $10 worth of lead can relieve you of that burden.

     

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  4. 5 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    The Mooch is on CNN right now.  Says Cohen will have receipts and sink the dotard.

    Speaking of Cohen..

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

     

    Okay that’s insane.

    Nintendo said this: As of June 10, 2024, it will no longer be possible to post screenshots and videos to X (formerly Twitter) from the Nintendo Switch's Album, or send friend requests to social media users via the Friend Suggestions feature. Find out more: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/65057

    And Twitter said this in response: The gaming community is one of the largest and most vibrant communities on our platform, and we are dedicated to enhancing and supporting gaming-related features. As part of Nintendo's planned discontinuation of sharing content to X from the Nintendo Switch, from June 11th, users will need to download Switch gameplay media directly to their smartphones and share it natively on our platform. We worked together with Nintendo throughout this process to ensure API access for this integration, but ultimately it was a product decision made by Nintendo. Our partnership with Nintendo remains strong, and we are working together to ensure a smooth transition for all users. We will continue collaborating with partners to bring new and exciting experiences to our global gaming community.

    Community note:  This is in direct response to X changing their API. Specifically, X is charging companies upwards of $40,000 or more per month to access its API. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox already removed integration with X last year. uk.pcmag.com/sony-playstati… uk.pcmag.com/news/146559/mi… en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/de…

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    So Twitter has run off the Sony/PlayStation, Microsoft/XBox, and Nintendo platforms from posting directly on Twitter. 

    All because Twitrer wanted to collect around $1.5 million (or more) a year from Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, who had made it easy for millions of people to create a shitload of content on Twitter for free.

    Well Done Bravo GIF by Friends

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  6. Recent updates from Mosseri

    It’s important that people understand how their Threads posts perform, so we’re rolling out the ability to tap anywhere on a post to display its total view count. We’ve got more work to do, but I think this is a great first step in giving creators the some of the data they’ve been asking for.

    The ability to limit who can quote your Threads posts is now available to everyone. You can allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people you follow, or disable quote posts entirely. I hope this will help keep Threads a more positive place and give people more control over their experience. If you’ve been using this feature, would love to hear your thoughts.

    Quote control info: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C6O_DrvPIMv

    Smaller creators historically haven’t gotten their fair share of reach on Instagram, and we want to change that. So we’re making some changes to how we rank recommendations to give smaller creators a better chance of breaking through. We are rolling this out slowly but hope smaller creators start to see the benefits over the coming months. I should clarify this does not apply yet to Threads, but we’re exploring bringing some of these ideas to Threads ranking as well.

    I posted about some major changes to ranking that will affect both craters and aggregators this morning: we’ve started to replace a post that we’re recommending with the original one, if we can find it, and we are going to stop recommending posts from aggregators over the next few months. We doing plan to demote posts from any aggregators you follow. I should clarify we’re talking about exact content replication. So if you take someone’s photo or video and riff on it, maybe putting green screen video of yourself on top with your own commentary or making it into a meme with text, we consider that (mixed) original content.

    Today on Threads, we’re expanding Hidden Words, which until now only were applied to replies, so you can filter out unwanted content from feeds, search, profiles, and post replies on Threads. We’re also testing ways to select who can quote you and the ability to mute notifications on your posts. I hope these features give you more control over your experience on Threads and help keep it a place for positive conversation. Let me know what you think, especially if you’re in the tests.

    How hidden words work https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C6O_LvgPtg1

    We’re starting to test the *option* to archive posts with a small number of people. You can do this manually, for individual posts, or choose to automatically archive all posts after a certain period of time. If you want to make your post public again, you can always unarchive it whenever you’d like. I ran a poll white back and the resounding feedback was not to make this the default, so we’re gonna try it as an option.

  7. 4 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    What is this about?  Not on twitter.  

    Women say “nudes in profile” a lot on Twitter, and in their profile is a link to their OnlyFans page or whatever, or a link to a site that redirects you.  Or it just links to spam.  Although it’s probably not women, and just bots.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    The thing about Trump is, he likely believes his lies.  A narcissist can be like a 5 YO kid -- tell the lie enough and it slowly becomes the truth in their mind.

    George Costanza Seinfeld GIF

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  9. 9 hours ago, 'stache said:

    Not that I give a shit but there is definitely sexism involved here. Dotard has told way more blatant lies and done more wretched shit and they still worship him. 

    I don’t know - Trump is expected to lie and not be held accountable, and everybody, including him, knows he is lying. Noem is getting treated somewhat like DeSantis and RFK when they fuck up, but also like she should know better than to lie so blatantly. She’s being treated like an adult, unlike Trump.

    Also, Trump doesn’t care if you know he’s lying, he just plows ahead and usually doesn’t get flustered.  Noem gets flustered in these interviews, and the interviewees are going to home in on that.  

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  10. Hmmm…this maybe what the movie is about:

    Years later, Gandalf grew suspicious of a magic ring belonging to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, which he later found to be Sauron's One Ring. Gandalf asked Aragorn to find Gollum, a creature who had previously possessed the Ring. This hunt led Aragorn across Rhovanion, and he finally captured Gollum in the Dead Marshesnorthwest of Mordor. Aragorn brought Gollum to King Thranduil's halls in Mirkwood, where Gandalf questioned him.

    Could be really good, but don’t know how they could recast Aragorn.

  11. 36 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Not much clarity on even a Season 2. The industry assumption is, hey it’s Netflix and they spent so much on B&W + Season 1 that they have to do a Season 2.

    I liked their adaption. It kept the story tight. You’d have to binge all 3 books to keep everything straight. 

    The Chinese version on Amazon has been interesting, but I prefer the Netflix version because it was easier to follow.

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