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Post by Ginger on Jul 28, 2023 8:20:07 GMT -6
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Post by Ginger on Jul 30, 2023 10:33:28 GMT -6
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Post by livingintheusa on Jul 30, 2023 11:24:47 GMT -6
Thanks for the news
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Post by NOTTHOR on Jul 30, 2023 12:06:26 GMT -6
Moron. If he was smart he would leave it running and sell real time geolocation data to the Russians.
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Post by Other on Jul 30, 2023 19:39:34 GMT -6
That is a wildly disingenuous take. I’m no fan of Elon Musk as a person but I completely understand his and Starlink’s position that they created a communications platform and not a weapons targeting system.
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Post by thunderhawk on Jul 30, 2023 21:30:37 GMT -6
Moron. If he was smart he would leave it running and sell real time geolocation data to the Russians. He’s a treasonous authoritarian ballwasher little cuck, that’d be right on brand
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Post by Stan's Field on Jul 31, 2023 7:20:30 GMT -6
Moron. If he was smart he would leave it running and sell real time geolocation data to the Russians. He’s a treasonous authoritarian ballwasher little cuck, that’d be right on brand BUT HE MAKE 'LECTRIC CARS!!!!!!!!!!!1!LIBRUHL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Ginger on Sept 7, 2023 16:30:32 GMT -6
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Post by NOTTHOR on Sept 7, 2023 17:41:44 GMT -6
Oof, that sucks. Ukraine should just build their own comms network if they don't like Elon's. I'm sure they would find the terms of fine companies like Huawei perfectly reasonable.
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Post by Other on Sept 7, 2023 20:12:17 GMT -6
Oof, that sucks. Ukraine should just build their own comms network if they don't like Elon's. I'm sure they would find the terms of fine companies like Huawei perfectly reasonable. When this happened was it during the short period when Starlink service was being supplied gratis or was it when the DOD was paying for it? I honestly don’t know but it is an important distinction. That being said this action does absolutely call into question his motivations and loyalties. That might be significant with regard to future DOD contracts and the scope of SpaceX operations on US soil. I hope it was worth it to him.
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Post by thunderhawk on Sept 8, 2023 12:15:11 GMT -6
Well looks like I’m gonna need one more designated bullet.
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Post by thunderhawk on Sept 11, 2023 19:24:02 GMT -6
ARREST THIS MOTHERFUCKER AND SEIZE HIS ASSETS.
Arrest him or put a fucking bullet in his Putin loving ass. Either works for me.
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Post by Other on Sept 11, 2023 21:14:11 GMT -6
ARREST THIS MOTHERFUCKER AND SEIZE HIS ASSETS. Arrest him or put a fucking bullet in his Putin loving ass. Either works for me. Link?
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Post by socal on Sept 12, 2023 5:45:21 GMT -6
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Post by thunderhawk on Sept 29, 2023 23:54:40 GMT -6
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Post by Ginger on Oct 26, 2023 21:45:32 GMT -6
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Post by Other on Oct 26, 2023 23:00:27 GMT -6
I have terrible news for him.
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Post by Ginger on Nov 29, 2023 19:14:56 GMT -6
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Post by socal on Nov 29, 2023 21:14:50 GMT -6
What a dick. Should repost on the bullet to the head thread.
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Post by Presidential Immunity Cock on Nov 29, 2023 23:54:43 GMT -6
Wonder how many will decide to also pull advertising. Hopefully all will, except the crypto scammers and penis pill ads.
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Post by socal on Nov 30, 2023 8:17:31 GMT -6
Wonder how many will decide to also pull advertising. Hopefully all will, except the crypto scammers and penis pill ads. There is always the Commemorative Gold Coin & Pillow markets.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Nov 30, 2023 9:51:42 GMT -6
What a dick. Should repost on the bullet to the head thread. This site exists because of Jan Miller's desire to kowtow to hypothetical advertisers. He gave a specific example of a thread that embarrassed the shit out of him when he went out on a pitch to talk to a potential advertiser. I don't recall what it was, but it was absolutely fucking hilarious at the time. It's a tough issue. As extreme leftist Noam Chomsky pointed out way back in 1988: "advertisers thus acquired a de facto licensing authority since, without their support, newspapers ceased to be economically viable." Different media, same issue. Chomsky ain't fucking wrong and it is disconcerting to me that people who have bought into a carefully curated mainstream "leftist" master narrative want the same corporations that have merged into a series of duopolies and triopolies to be the arbiters of speech. It is also disconcerting because the entire premise of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is that the shit that gets posted is attributed to the user, not the platform, but when you get into a spot where a platform has to tweak its algorithms to either outright ban or shadow ban speech to appease advertisers you force the platform into a role as essentially an editor, which is far beyond what was imagined for Section 230 other than as it relates to illegal materials. Elon published a series of shit regarding government censorship activities directed at Twitter. We're also watching a coordinated economic attack by the private sector on it playing out in real time. The control, and I mean actual control beyond ownership, of these mass communication mediums is probably one of the biggest issues that will shape the future that our kids live in. Thankfully the Chinese Communist Party has no problem subsidizing the shit out of Tik Tok. I'm sure that is happening out of sheer benevolence and their generosity will build a great future for mankind, excuse me, peoplekind.
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Post by thunderhawk on Nov 30, 2023 23:42:25 GMT -6
Come on man.
The reason advertisers are aborting twatter is because Elmo is catering to and amplifying Nazis and crackpots.
They don’t want guilt by association brand degradation.
It’s just that simple.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Dec 1, 2023 9:08:29 GMT -6
Come on man. The reason advertisers are aborting twatter is because Elmo is catering to and amplifying Nazis and crackpots. They don’t want guilt by association brand degradation. It’s just that simple. The definition of a Nazi or a crackpot is driven entirely by whatever Master Narrative one subscribes to. Radical hardcore fascist right wingers have the audacity to say that men can't get pregnant. Crackpot science deniers had the audacity to question the 3.4% IFR that the WHO attached to COVID at the outset based on a denominator that assumed only 88,000 people in China had The Germ when they did the calculation. I would never tell anyone not to take a vaccine, but I personally am not going to line up to take some shit that Pfizer tested for 12 weeks and concluded was "95% effective" at preventing recipients from catching The Germ on the basis of 170 observations because I was blessed to receive a solid data science education at Drake that helped me to understand what "statistical significance" means. Trying to explain that to a 96 IQ layman would be a waste of time, so it's just easier to go with the "experts" and "consensus." Truth is irrelevant, all that matters is "consensus." Consensus defined by an amorphous blob. Hell, I'll bet that if Twitter existed in 1986 and Allan McDonald tweeted "I have a theory that it is too cold to launch the shuttle this morning because the rubber o-rings that hold the boosters together shrank and it will explode on the launchpad" he would have instantly been deemed wrong by "experts" and that the Twitter mob would have spiked the football the second it got off the pad. "Challenger, go with throttle up..." You're a smart man, you understand that on some level our society is not that different from the shuttle program pre-Challenger explosion, hurtling along on the basis of some near miraculous scientific breakthroughs and sheer luck creating an ever-growing sense of hubris among the practitioners of "the science."
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Post by thunderhawk on Dec 1, 2023 12:14:52 GMT -6
Come on man. The reason advertisers are aborting twatter is because Elmo is catering to and amplifying Nazis and crackpots. They don’t want guilt by association brand degradation. It’s just that simple. The definition of a Nazi or a crackpot is driven entirely by whatever Master Narrative one subscribes to. Radical hardcore fascist right wingers have the audacity to say that men can't get pregnant. Crackpot science deniers had the audacity to question the 3.4% IFR that the WHO attached to COVID at the outset based on a denominator that assumed only 88,000 people in China had The Germ when they did the calculation. I would never tell anyone not to take a vaccine, but I personally am not going to line up to take some shit that Pfizer tested for 12 weeks and concluded was "95% effective" at preventing recipients from catching The Germ on the basis of 170 observations because I was blessed to receive a solid data science education at Drake that helped me to understand what "statistical significance" means. Trying to explain that to a 96 IQ layman would be a waste of time, so it's just easier to go with the "experts" and "consensus." Truth is irrelevant, all that matters is "consensus." Consensus defined by an amorphous blob. Hell, I'll bet that if Twitter existed in 1986 and Allan McDonald tweeted "I have a theory that it is too cold to launch the shuttle this morning because the rubber o-rings that hold the boosters together shrank and it will explode on the launchpad" he would have instantly been deemed wrong by "experts" and that the Twitter mob would have spiked the football the second it got off the pad. "Challenger, go with throttle up..." You're a smart man, you understand that on some level our society is not that different from the shuttle program pre-Challenger explosion, hurtling along on the basis of some near miraculous scientific breakthroughs and sheer luck creating an ever-growing sense of hubris among the practitioners of "the science." My Nazi-ometer is pretty well calibrated. I don't apply the term to people who aren't actual fucking Nazis or Nazi sympathizers, since, you know, Nazism and myself share the same exact birthplace. I'll ascribe experts the deference they deserve within their narrow lanes of expertise. Regarding the Germ, I sure as shit didn't subscribe to the various declarations of certainty peddled by various "experts" relying on incomplete data, but I've got enough of a science background to understand how coronaviruses work (aerosols,) so I knew how to protect myself without going overboard, and as I've said, I had that shit really early on (and it sucked, I lost a few days there in a haze, but I didn't freak out because at the time I didn't know what it was) so my mitigation afterward was pretty lax to say the least. However, I did see that shit ravage people I know (and knew) who were otherwise healthy, much to my surprise, because I do admit that I downplayed the threat after I survived it. I think one of the problems with the vaccines is that they were initially sold as prophylactic when in reality their true value was in mitigation of symptoms, which gave antivaxxer assholes an opening to confuse and exploit scientifically illiterate dipshits (i.e. the vast majority of Americans.) But really, who gives a fuck if you get "infected" when the consequences are a passing cold versus possible intubation and coding out. Frankly, the mRNA scenario is better; you get both the imposed and natural immunity with minimal if any symptoms. In my case, the temporary reactions I had to the mRNA vaccines, which I described as a Covid Preview (because it felt just like when I got the actual disease, but then instead of progressing, the symptoms just ended) were actually worse than the few times I actually got the Germ again. The last time, the only symptom was loss of taste and smell for a couple of days plus a slight runny nose. Also, masking, while not nearly the panacea as advertised, did provide a rudimentary vaccination effect by reducing load exposure, and it sure cut down on influenza. Still, I hated wearing those fucking things, and only did so if requested.
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