Did you know Americans (and other nationals of any country) also live in other countries? Personally, I could be in several different countries at any given time, not accounting for VPN use.
So what? So for every 1 in 100 times an “American” account is revealed to be posting from overseas it’s actually an American? 1% false positives, I’ll take that, fine. This still seems useful to me.
Ok so they’re investigating Mark Kelly because he might be treasonous?
Without even going into the benign and responsible content of his words, let’s just talk about possible signs that you might be on the wrong side…
Again, they’re questioning a retired Navy officer and NASA astronaut on his professional and patriotic integrity… Hmm
Well I do appreciate that response, these are hard questions.
Is abortion murder too? At what point is a clump of cells a human?
This is my favorite sentence of the day.
Yeah, we like to pretend things are black and white, but nothing is simple, there’s always another perspective to view things from.
If anyone else is into stories like these, I do also have to mention “Welcome to Nightvale” and “Alice isn’t dead”.
Dungeons and Daddies (not a BDSM podcast), an actual pay D&D podcast about four dads and a Honda Odyssey accidentally thrown into the forgotten realms.
The players are the writers and director from the rocket jump YouTube channel, they also made a show called videogame highschool. The DM is Anthony Burch, creator of “Hey Ash, Whatcha Playing?” As well as the lead writer behind borderlands 2 (and basically the reason it’s a good game).
Fuck man! It’s called school!
That mindset is just so disappointing… I mean, why would you even say that? It’s like a statement that immediately backfires, because it makes it sound like you’re the one not thinking!
We as a planet might be though.
There’s no guarantee that the US will be a cultural superpower going forward… (I think the US empire is likely to go the natural way of empires sooner than we may be ready for)
Well, it’s a shitty situation in a shitty country, that much is certain.
But there’s also a cost/benefit analysis to do here. They have to weigh the likelihood that Trump starts making their job harder, or even impossible to do vs the cost presented by the lack of clarity and possible loss of integrity that reporting like this introduces. Ultimately, they must have decided that it was better to do politically compromised reporting that let the story go unreported.
I mean it’s not a good situation for journalists in this country, I don’t envy them.
It’s a career. But you can age out of it, like pro sports.
Doesn’t pay as well as pro sports though…
There are also a huge number of minorities and immigrants, especially if you’re including CNAs.
I mean, they’re also putting all the facts they have in the story. They’re just adding official administration-aligned labels so that the powers that be leave them alone.
It’s like if a science teacher at a Catholic school did a whole unit on evolution, saying “God created this universe, including the amazing way that DNA mutation enables species to differentiate over long periods of time. We can thank God for this complex environment, which provides various ecological and geographical pressures that drive the process of evolution.” (Just throw in the key word they’re looking for a few times and get on with your job)
Well, while we’re on the topic here… I’m way more okay with applying Occam’s razor than Hanlon’s in this particular circumstance.
Normally I’m the first to advocate for patience and generally assuming the best of people. So I really do wish that anything about this seemed like negligence or ignorance, but with this administration, all I can see is malicious intent.
“Free speech”
Wait, can you clarify that for me? Are you saying that you want to punch him in the face more than you want to punch anyone else on the planet? Or… are you saying that you more than anyone else on the planet, want to punch him in the face?
Cause it could be read either way… And while it might not seem like a huge distinction, if you meant the latter, you may have to get in line.
Be prepared for a long line…
I’ve always found this interesting. Human beings (or any vertebrates I suppose) are really more of a colony than a single being. And it’s not just a technicality, it’s meaningful. Much of that colony interacts with your nervous system and affects your moods and behavior. You think you have total control of your mind, but you would think and act differently with a different balance of gut bacteria. Chew on that for a while…
Yeah, the CIA is a constant problem. They spend a lot of money to spy on a lot of people in extraordinarily dumb and inefficient ways, including a lot of Americans (which to be clear, is both illegal and not their fucking job). They meddle in the affairs of foreign countries in ways that to my knowledge, have only ever worked in the best interest of dictators or terrorists. They actively subvert the separation of powers within the US government by wasting absurd amounts of funding to duplicate the capabilities that other agencies are supposed to be providing them…
Side note here, you know the fastest airplane ever made, the SR-71 blackbird? Well the CIA wanted some, but only the air force had them. There was a way for the CIA to officially request intel from the air force, but they didn’t want to do that, so they got lockheed to make them their own special version called the A-12. Now the Blackbird was also one of the most expensive planes to operate in history, the A-12 was not really any different in that regard. But in general, the air force had much more infrastructure to help keep costs to a minimum. Basically, the air force is good with planes. The CIA, they’re good at burning money and ignoring civil rights.
Don’t even get me started on the prism program. Fuck the CIA. Fuck mass surveillance. Get real jobs.
This appears to be my local stadium!
Yeah, fuck that. I’ll keep my device as long as possible because of course I would! Try for five years.
“Hording”… The fucking nerve to say that… I am actually offended. Whatever happened to “recycle, reduce, reuse”? What could possible be more irresponsible than constantly replacing your devices?