Jump to content

956 Worldwide

Full Members
  • Posts

    10062
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    26

Everything posted by 956 Worldwide

  1. He really needs to issue blanket federal pardons to anyone DJT or someone in DJTs circle has mentioned as a target.
  2. It is really amazing how everyone around him is just a total trash-can person.
  3. He’s the co-founder and general partner, it’s his fund. What actual fucking point are you trying to make?
  4. Reminder on Andreessen: He funded a fintech startup that collapsed and left thousands of people locked out of their accounts that turned out not to be covered by the FDIC. https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/synapse-bankruptcy-fintech-safety-183845965.html
  5. Oh, I know they don’t care but this is a formal process, it’s not possible outside those lines. It has to be done via the current head of the diplomatic mission with a formal note. Not saying he didn’t tell Macron it was coming somehow, but they can’t have gotten the actual process done and France still gets a vote.
  6. Intrigued about the process for Kushner. Ambassador nominees have to go through a process called agrement, which is a quiet check with the receiving country to ensure the person is acceptable. It’s extremely poor form to announce a name publicly before the process and often if that happens the receiving country will refuse agrement as a matter of principle if it happens. Kushner almost certainly hasn’t had it as the transition teams haven’t even been in agencies. That’s not to say I think it will happen here. Plenty of countries will accept the most odious people if they believe it will result in special access to the sending government or head of state. Just another example of Trump shitting on everything and making a mockery of the country though.
  7. Those are for sure L-39s.
  8. The Georgian Dream (National-populist Kremlin cat’s paw party) Prime Minister announced he was suspending accession talks with the EU, which is what caused this current round of protests. It’s currently required per the Georgian constitution to work towards EU accession. Georgian Dream soundly won recent parliamentary elections with lots of (as yet unproven) allegations of cheating. A reminder that a similar move (terminating talks on an EU free trade agreement) led to the 2014 Ukraine protests that booted Yanukovych. The next few days will be extremely important.
  9. Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker?
  10. I think that Democrats might start asking whether “fuck America and Thanksgiving” is ever going to beat stupid ultranationalism in a national election. I’d propose that leadership needs to make it known that shit like this gets you on the House Administration committee for life.
  11. It’s not even that, having Zelenskyy on would hinder his ultimate goals. The new media literacy is to move from a content-driven analysis to an outcome driven analysis. The baseline question being: do consumers of this media come away with a more or less informed and reality based understating of the topics discussed. For Rogan, the answer is clearly less informed and reality based. You can clearly file his platform away as a manipulator of information. As such, his platform cannot be reformed or used successfully by anyone hoping to advance a reality-based conversation or solution. It’s important to note that even clearly slanted media can pass this test. For instance, though the mid-2000s a regular reader of either The New Republic or National Review would arguably have a better (if politically slanted) grasp of politics and world events than a irregular consumer of mainstream media outlets. The same cannot be said of Rogan, his listeners are far more likely to simply believe absolute bullshit. His posture as an unbiased and unafraid open interviewer makes him even more toxic. Elevating alien theorists and quacks to the same level of actual scientists or doctors doesn’t reveal the idiocy of the former. Rather, it introduces confusion and a plausible belief that fantasy bullshit and reality are both equally justified beliefs. Again— he exists to manipulate information and has become an extremely influential and powerful person as a result. The purpose of a system is what it does.
  12. I am glad you posted this. Here’s the clip: It’s one to put to bed the notion that Rogan will talk to anyone and is working to present all sides of issues. The fact is that his show is a vector of information manipulation and that he will NOT open his to discuss viewpoints that run counter to his chosen narratives that mostly support the political populist low-information right. It’s also time to put to bed the idea that his offer to Kamala was genuine or that future democrats need to work to get on his platform. He’s there to undermine them, that’s the purpose.
  13. Regardless of where you stand on this issue, Ana’s schtick here is so disingenuous. A bunch of people opposed to Texas’ law warned that it would have serious and dangerous consequences beyond its stated intent. The law passed, we see those consequences in real life and Ana’s response is: ”Those consequences are a result of misapplication of the law and none of you assholes are serious about fixing this law you didn’t want in the first place (and which is only being misinterpreted anyway so it doesn’t really need fixing).” Such utter horseshit.
  14. I’m in favor of reducing overpopulation by extending equal rights to women, putting every girl in school, ending forced and childhood marriages, expanding equal access to women’s health and birth control, and removing barriers to women in the workplace. This One Simple Trick of letting women and girls choose their own lives will bring your birthrate down. It also makes your society a much nicer place to hang around in. We will absolutely struggle with short term effects of navigating a graying world but we also have a duty to the living creatures we share the planet with to not destroy our only common home. The main problem is that the absolute worst people from every creed, race, and nation are united in their loathing of a world where women get a say in how many babies they have because their actual ideology is completely unattractive so all they have is reproduction.
  15. This is a conspiracy that Alex Jones really promotes. What it’s really about is that extending equal rights to women, expanding girls education access, promoting women’s health care, and ending childhood and arranged marriages is guaranteed to cause a birth rate drop.
  16. The thing is that DJT didn’t even end up needing their votes to win so all they did was deliver their voices to his “mandate” such that he can now safely ignore any subsequent lobbying. Total strategic failure which all should be familiar with given the track record of Arab armies over the past century.
  17. Tesla, especially top of the line is probably worse than most cars. Tesla’s habit of slashing MSRP in the middle of a production year means that you are eating depreciation AND the new discount. Drive off the lot, next week Tesla cuts the Model X by 10k and you’re just taking that in the wallet. There is also still lingering consumer suspicion over EV batteries out of warranty as there are unknowns, but that’s not Tesla specific.
  18. Just for grins, I googled and the Ford F-150 has been America’s top selling vehicle for 42 years. In 1985, the top of the line crew cab Lariat with 4wd set you back about 35k in 2024 dollars, which is lower than the cheapest entry point for an F-150 today. Average F-150 today is probably selling around 60k. Granted that today’s trucks are nicer places to drive in and feel more like a luxury car compared to 1985, but these are stupid prices for a truck. And yeah, people who make these types of decisions, financing a truck for 8 years, got us DJT.
  19. Yeah, no dice on it being that type of girlfriend. It’s just a lady she is friends with but also doesn’t really like. Is there any other kind of wife friend?
  20. Later this month my wife and a girlfriend are going to a concert, and through some online mixup I don’t care to understand my wife got significantly less great seats than they had agreed to buy and when she noticed the show was all booked. Wife is getting reimbursed after the fact so none of the below is related to upsetness over money or a late Venmo or something. Anyway, the girlfriend has been a total PITA about this, griping about the shitty seats, questioning whether she “really” wants to go, asking if my wife can’t contact the vendor and try to upgrade, etc. Last night in the car my wife was both complaining and asking me what she could do to “make it up to her.” Could she find a way to get a backstage pass? Should she offer to get dinner before the show? Should she keep calling the vendor? “You should text her or call her and say that you’re sorry you made a mistake and the seats aren’t as good as ya’ll wanted, but it’s too late and not a big deal worth spoiling a nice evening over so let’s just go and have fun.” Friends, apparently this idea is the equivalent to taking a dump in a box and leaving it gift-wrapped on this woman’s doorstep. Anyway, I pulled the ejector seat on the convo, let them figure it the fuck out.
  21. How much of the delta with the first one is the cast? Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, and Djimon Hounsou is a murderers row of talent. I’d watch them debate what kind of pizza to order.
  22. Absolutely felt every one of those 240 minutes.
×
×
  • Create New...