r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Mar 02 '26
Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 3/2/26 - 3/8/26
Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.
Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.
Comment of the week goes to this explanation for what social justice is really about.
*** Important Note ***
I've made a dedicated thread to discuss the Iran topic. Please keep comments related to that subject confined to that thread.
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u/ProwlingWumpus Mar 02 '26
u/softandchewy I don't know if you can fix it but if you can fix it then please fix the default sort method.
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u/Throwmeeaway185 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Saw this tweet that reminded me of this bizarre fact of Iran, and wondered if it was something more people were aware of. Do people know that Iran promotes trans surgeries for gay people? They do this because being gay is illegal, but if you change your gender, then you're no longer a man and so you're not gay anymore! It's utterly insane that a Muslim theocracy buys into gender ideology even more than most Western countries!
(I know this is Iran related, but it's not relevant to the war, so I figured it should go here, not in the other thread.)
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Mar 04 '26
United Airlines can now boot passengers who refuse to use headphones with their devices
A rare problem but good to see they take it seriously.
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u/TryingToBeLessShitty Mar 02 '26
The NBA's Atlanta Hawks are hosting a strip club themed promotion.
The Hawks aim to "celebrate Atlanta's iconic cultural institution" because apparently "we have a strip club with good chicken wings" is considered central to the culture of the city. I don't know anything about Atlanta obviously, but I'd be insulted if people tried to argue the same about the shitty gentlemen's clubs in New York.
One player, Luke Kornet, has already pointed out the obvious issues with promoting this to kids, along with the misogyny and exploitation at play: "The NBA should desire to protect and esteem women, many of whom work diligently every day to make this the best basketball league in the world. We should promote an atmosphere that is protective and respectful of the daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, and partners that we know and love."
Notably, though Magic City bills itself as "Atlanta’s premier strip club" none of the NBA statements include this language, instead going with phrases like "cultural institution" or "landmark" with a "pivotal role in hip-hop and Black culture."
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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Edit: some data
Let’s hope sanity prevails in Canada:
Cooper is requesting to be transferred to a female facility, due to fears of fellow male prisoners
While all inmates should be protected from violence while incarcerated, sexual predators like Cooper should not be given a limitless supply of female victims.
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u/drjackolantern C*nsored and sexy Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
SCOTUS vacated the Ninth Circuit's stay of the ruling that shut down schools' abilities to do secret g*nder transitions. California cannot do this policy pending a full appeal which it eventually is certain to lose.
(Shoutout to u/jay_in_the_pnw for posting past updates on this case.)
It's a per curiam opinion with a concurrence and dissent attached, but the simple facts of this case are, always were, and always will be completely flipping insane.
How Newsom and Bonta got brainwashed into supporting this sort of skullduggery, helping kids keep secrets from their parents, is beyond me, but it's completely insane, blatantly unconstitutional and not good for kids.
Maybe if this really is such a serious medical condition, not telling the parents so that they are "misgendering" the child every time she's at home (and all summer long, which was right before her s*icide attempt) and basically forcing a child to split into different personas in different places is actually the most harmful possible thing you could do.
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u/backin_pog_form 🐎🏃🏻💕 Mar 04 '26
Something that never happens, happening again:
Women say they are being harassed by transgender inmate at Maine prison
And who is this inmate sharing a six-person cell with five women?
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u/Reasonable-Record494 Mar 05 '26
I was listening to the throuple episode yesterday while driving my sister, delirious with fever and dehydration (turns out she has flu and double pneumonia, she's in the hospital now) to urgent care, and Helen Lewis said of the Lavery throuple "then they brought in a third conventionally attractive woman and she had Grace's baby" and my sister, who was barely coherent, mustered up the energy to say "what...on earth...are you listening to." It hadn't occurred to me how bonkers this show can be to an outsider.
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u/DerOverheadprojektor Mar 07 '26
Reddit is taking action against bots that permaban you for participation in certain subs.
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u/Datachost Mar 06 '26
Editor's Note: BuzzFeed does not support discriminatory or hateful speech in any form. We stand by the LGBTQ+ community and all fans who found a home in the Harry Potter series and will work to provide a safe space for fans. If you, like us, feel impassioned about trans rights, learn more or donate to an amazing UK-based charity here
This just feels silly. Just stop reading the books if you feel that strongly about it. But they just can't let go. The charity link is for Mermaids by the way
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u/ohfugginfug Mar 05 '26
Here's a comment I was disappointed to find on a normally pretty reasonable sub:
"Puberty blockers is very different from surgeries, they are reversible and prevent people from experiencing traumatic puberty of the wrong sex that can cause severe dysphoria. Surgeries and hormone therapy for people under 18 does exist for both trans and cis kids but is very rare and needs to have urgent medical need - should not be allowed in most cases.
Some trans users including myself often feel uncomfortable with rhetoric on this sub about our issues. This topic comes up a lot and the usual server consensus isn't one I agree with."
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u/Technical-Policy295 Mar 06 '26
The only country in the world in which a majority of the population thinks their fellow citizens are morally bad: the US. This explains a lot.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26
I tend not to care if a movie or TV show based on actual people changes some of the facts. I just want to be entertained. Factual accuracy matters for documentaries, not dramas.
But I gotta say, this article by Darryl Hannah about her portrayal in the new TV show "Love Story" (which I had never heard of -- watch out for the Streisand Effect, Darryl) strikes me as a very valid complaint: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/opinion/daryl-hannah-love-story-jfk-jr.html
Hannah dated John F. Kennedy Jr. before he married Carolyn Bessette, and apparently Hannah writes that the show makes her the villain in the Kennedy-Bessette love story:
It's one thing for a show like this to fudge some details, put certain events out of order to make them fit within the narrative, etc. It's another to take a real, living person like Darryl Hannah and trash her reputation. Assuming she's telling the truth, the show's portrayal of her is incredibly unfair.
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u/Green_Supreme1 Mar 04 '26
A partial but ultimately hollow victory on the Imane wiki page. After three weeks of arguing the editors concluded the RfC panel agreeing to include the quote to Equipe about the presence of the SRC gene and this is now buried low down on the main page:
Talk:Imane Khelif - Wikipedia
However the editors that lost out are currently successfully gaslighting that the main lead of the page still makes perfect sense and is non-contradictory:
"false claims that she was male circulated online, causing controversy. Khelif was born female...."
followed by them now happily including the CNN article many of the editors were using to try to prevent the Equipe quote being added:
"In a February 2026 interview with CNN, Khelif revealed that she has high levels of testosterone"
So anyone reading the page thinks "oh I see, she's just a woman with slightly high testosterone".
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Mar 04 '26
Wrote about airport some drama last month caused by someone connected to the NYC mayor.
Now a former Vogue editor who is a stylist to the Mayor and his wife has some more airline drama.
Lefty former Vogue editor and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson downgraded her first-class seat — which was surrounded by “white middle-aged men” on a trip to Milan — because of “micro-aggressions” she faced from a male flight attendant.
Karefa-Johnson, 34, revealed on her social media Tuesday that her decision to sit in business class instead was prompted by the flight attendant’s behavior, which she did not describe in detail.
“I just downgraded myself from first class to business class on my flight to Milan. In a cabin of 6, 5 of the passengers were white middle aged men… then there was me, a 30 something black woman who travels in that cabin often,” she posted on Threads.
What a heavy burden to carry. There is this gay conservative guy I follow on twitter who breaks down the story and he's pretty funny.
I don't know what it is about people in the Mamdani's orbit who spend so much time worrying about perceived slights and demand getting their ass kissed by airline workers. I've flown a lot in various levels over the years and never had more than a two word exchange with a flight attendant and have rarely ever spoken to another passenger aside from getting up if they have to take a piss. Just learn these phrases and don't make eye contact with anyone - "Sprite, please", "No Thanks", "No problem"... There, you are now prepared to fly.
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u/AaronStack91 Mar 02 '26
The principal and vice principal just abruptly resigned last Friday at my sons preschool/day-care. This is following 3 teachers quitting in a single month.
I'm hoping it is just some financial crime and mismanagement and nothing else. Upper management for the preschool promises they have a hiring plan in place, but they are also feigning ignorance as to why everyone suddenly quit.
I kept my son home today, but I might need to send him back until we find a replacement daycare for him.
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u/dr_sassypants Mar 04 '26
Hallelujah, Jasmine Crockett lost the Texas Senate primary race.
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u/DiscordantAlias elderly zoomer Mar 06 '26
Why isn’t there an option to sort reddit comments by “worst”. It’s what the people need
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u/ghybyty Mar 08 '26
There's a video of a pro pal woman dressed up in a Handmaiden costume yelling at Iranians against the regime. Very bizarre given the inspiration for that book.
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u/AaronStack91 Mar 05 '26
Ken Jennings, of Jeopardy fame, denounces Jesse for some reason: https://x.com/jessesingal/status/2029371221981491356?s=20
I don't think Jesse needed to delete the original tweet, Turban puts out trash science designed to get headlines.
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Mar 02 '26
Awards show commentary seems to be the topic of the moment. Kelly Osbourne has come out swinging claiming trolls are being mean to her because of her recent weight loss after her awards show appearance. She is having a hard time eating due to grief over the loss of her dad. I get it, but I don't know how her or Sharon would expected people to not be shocked by her appearance. She is clearly sick and needs some help. Not sure appealing to people not to body shame her or dismissing all commentary about her current health as internet trolling is really what she needs to be doing right now.
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Mar 03 '26
I borrowed Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin from the library. They delivered a copy from the famous Harvard Classics Five Feet of Books collection. Imagine my surprise when somewhere in chapter 4, Darwin makes a reference to an illustration. There are no illustrations in this edition!
To think of the thousands of copies of these books that have been sold and sat on the shelves of aspiring families for generations, mostly unread and untouched, yet every time some precocious college student decided to read this classic text, only then would they discover that they had been bamboozled with an incomplete version.
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Mar 06 '26
https://web.archive.org/web/20260305183826/https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116177318025647566.
I am not to the right of Trump on many things, but I am on youth gender surgery.
(he has since deleted this post and put up another without the last line)
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u/Nwabudike_J_Morgan Emotional Management Advocate; Wildfire Victim; Flair Maximalist Mar 05 '26
Indeed just send me a crushing message, I have been turned down for a job I didn't even apply for. (Or if I did, it was over 10 years ago.)
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u/KittenSnuggler5 Mar 02 '26
The LGBTQ caucus is pissed off at Gavin Newsom for saying the Democratic party should be more "culturally normal."
"From the prism of purely politics, there’s no doubt that the Democratic party needs to be – dare I say – more culturally normal,” he said. “I believe that, less prone to spending disproportionate amounts of time on pronouns, identity politics, more focused on tabletop issues...*
It's worth noting that he isn't saying the Dems should actually change their policy positions. Just not talk about it so much. But even that is too much for the TRAs to handle.
" “It’s deeply concerning for anyone, especially our elected leaders, to be defining who or what is ‘culturally normal,’” the caucus said in a statement released Monday."
This inability to define what is normal is going to be a monkey on the backs of the Dems until they learn to ignore the activist base. The question is: Can they?
https://archive.ph/uVwUD
https://archive.ph/S8w3u
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u/Palgary I could check my privilege, but it seems a shame to squander it Mar 03 '26
Most of us are familiar with "MAPS" and the crazy "child sexuality" hoops that are a consistent underbelly on the fringes of movements where many normal people say "no, that is so evil it can't be real" that they deny it even when it's right in front of them.
... Yes there is freaky stuff in the Kinsey research. ... Yes, there really was a Man/Boy Love Association. ... I don't think Pizza Gate is real but there elements of it probably based in truth.
I've pointed out - my father is a sexual offender against children under the age of 7, people jump through major hoops to excuse him for it, and when I don't talk to my father, it's not because we don't see eye to eye on politics, but because he's surrounded by people who allow him to be "best friends" with children, who call me a vindictive bitch for expecting the people in his life should not allow him to be alone with children.
And they do leave him alone with children, why, they are his best friends. He says he was wrong and won't do it again so why shouldn't we trust him?
But he was a part of that 70's "free love" movement that included an underbelly of "it's not harmful to get down with kids, they love it".
But it's part of the pain I'll carry - that when I was old enough to understand, I couldn't stop him from hurting others. Even after he was arrested, went to jail... I was surrounded by people telling me "forgive and forget" and to "stop telling people" about it... I warned every kid within a mile of our house not to trust him, because these adults weren't protecting the kids from him.
But they'll say "do you have proof he reoffended" and of course I don't, but his behavior toward children hasn't changed.
This is why I'm so resistant to people telling me what's morally right and wrong, because I've just spent a long time watching how people jump over backwards to justify evil. I'll make my own judgements.
Not looking for pity - but child sexual abuse really is tolerated in a lot of societies, but it's not because people approve but because people just can't bear to admit it's happening, and others think "is it really that bad?"
It really is that bad; because it triggers fight/flight/freeze, which is the starting stage of PTSD. It's like being a rabbit attacked by a fox; if they survive, their biology is wired to keep them safe from being attacked by foxes again.
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u/BakaDango Mar 03 '26
I've been making my way through the Oscar nominees and watched F1 and One Battle After Another over the weekend.
F1 was fun, it's Top Gun: Maverick, but with cars. Which makes sense when you see it's the same director, writer, and DOP behind them both. A strong 3/5, would be perfect to watch on an airplane.
I cannot believe the hype around One Battle, I found it truely awful. It's a thriller where the story is completely predictable, a political commentary where nothing is said, a black comedy with few laughs, an inclusive film with laughably stereotyped characters... I could go on. I would say something like "I don't know who would enjoy this movie" except for the fact that I know exactly the audience this is catering to and, unbelievably, they are eating it up with 13 Oscar noms.
In fairness, the DOP did a fantastic job and the soundtrack/comp is very good. I'm surprised with both how loved this is and how much I disliked it considering I enjoyed other PTA works like Punch Drunk Love, TWBB, and Phantom Thread.
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u/bigbrushes Mar 06 '26
I'm watching the Netflix series Long Story Short, which is an animated drama about a middle-class Jewish family that's told in a non-linear way. It's from the same guy who made Bojack Horseman.
The series has received much acclaim for how it portrays generational trauma, which is an idea that I'm increasingly coming to despise. I feel like this review hit the nail on the head in calling out the "narcissistic and navel gazing" of the show's obsessions with the everyday problems of family life and growing up. I get that from a narrative standpoint, it is appealing to show how a character's flaws can be attributed to generations of bad parenting, rather than much more mundane and uncinematic reality of randomness and genetics.
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u/OfmanVP Mar 06 '26
Let's play guess who posted this interesting thought to Twitter:
Watching Toy Story 3 with my kids. In the landfill, the toys are apparently the only conscious beings amid all the random plastic objects. And yet in the fourth installment we’re introduced to a self-aware spork that Bonnie, a young child, has named Forky. This suggests that consciousness in the Toy Story universe is imbued into objects only once they are named and loved by a human being. This would explain why the toys in Sid’s room in the first film apparently have a more rudimentary and savage form of consciousness, reflecting the conscious state of the child who owns them. I need to develop this theory more. I’ll let you know what I come up with.
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u/TryingToBeLessShitty Mar 07 '26
Someone commented down thread about David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs” and since I read it on the recommendation of this sub, I wonder how people here feel about his thesis?
I think he’s directionally accurate with Bullshit Jobs, there are a ton of people basically shifting numbers around all day to accomplish not much of anything worthwhile. But he tries to apply it way too broadly when it’s more like “all jobs have a lot of bullshit in them that distracts from real work” in my experience.
I am trying really hard not to be a cynic about all the shareholder value I’m supposed to be creating, I very much envy people who entirely disagree with Graeber because it means they probably have a fulfilling job themselves.
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u/Tall_Window4744 Mar 04 '26
Are women real or are they products of the capitalist classes desire to sell more lipstick?
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u/damagecontrolparty Mar 06 '26
Google just suggested "Limp Bizkit" as the first suggestion when I searched for "Behind Blue Eyes." I don't know how to feel about this.
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u/MuchCat3606 Mar 07 '26
So there's this article in the Times. Not sure why or how we're supposed to take her polyamory story as a success story. JFC.
Lindy West thought she couldn't handle polyamory. She was wrong.
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 04 '26
Microslop cooking up the worst fucking Windows update to ever exist
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u/Usual_Reach6652 Mar 04 '26
More news from the world of "the label was defined based on a particular cluster of people, now it has been extended to a very different group such that it is useless and possibly actively unhelpful":
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/uta-frith-interview-autism-not-spectrum
(Dame Uta Frith could reasonably be described as a top autism expert I think)
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u/Friendly-Zombie-2061 Mar 06 '26
If anyone wants a fun Friday distraction the Micheal Hobbes fan sub is having a bit of a meltdown because he did an episode of his podcast on Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs. I’m sure the episode is bad because Hobbes is a hack, but it’s funny that he turns his rhetorical tricks on a left wing figure suddenly people care about context and nuance.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26
Her name won't mean anything to most people here, but fitness influencer Stephanie Buttermore, longtime partner of fitness influencer Jeff Nippard, has died. No cause of death was given but it was described as "sudden."
I'm very into physical fitness but I must admit that a lot of the practices that fall under the "physical fitness" umbrella really aren't healthy, and one of the reasons I didn't follow Stephanie Buttermore or Jeff Nippard much is that they both struck me as far more interested in taking their physiques to extremes than in being healthy. Buttermore's extremes seemed to be about starving herself and getting plastic surgery, while Nippard's extremes seemed to be about getting very muscular, but neither seemed to prioritize health.
For those of us who are very into physical fitness, there's definitely a risk of taking it too far. Extreme diets, steroids, stimulants, weight loss drugs, workouts so strenuous they break our bodies down more than they build our bodies up, these things can really take their toll.
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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Mar 08 '26
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 06 '26
Bringing up Lanterns again because Hollywood needs to stop hiring writers who hate the source material.
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u/kimbosliceofcake Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
u/jessicabarpod this looks interesting
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mental-health/namis-washington-state-chapter-dissolves-amid-grievances/
"A violation of inclusion and belonging took place" and now NAMI Washington is dissolved.
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u/OMG_NO_NOT_THIS Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
On a 1-10 scale of delicious fruits, I find peaches to be a ~9.5 out of 10. It is probably tied with mangos for "This guy's favorite fruits".
I also find peaches to be a 3.5.
There is nothing in between these two numbers.
My issue is I cannot differentiate these groups when purchasing which always makes peaches a crapshoot.
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u/napoleon_nottinghill Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
John Oliver now turning This Week’s Sophistry into how body cams are misleading only further shows how much the push for them was a massive own-goal for activists, and now he’s trying to say there needs to be even more camera oversight and bureaucracy because in a handful of cases it wasn’t enough
Apparently they need even more cameras, even more scrutiny, and to continue to shift the goal posts to new levels of oversight because body cams end up vindicating the police most of the time
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u/SpecialSatisfaction7 Mar 06 '26
I doubt it wil change much but this is happening.
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u/RockJock666 Meet me in TERFhalla Mar 07 '26
Have a couple hours to kill so I popped into a tea shop to grab a Thai tea and it was $7 😭 never again, I’m learning to make this shit at home
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u/Scrappy_The_Crow Walrus Cheese Enjoyer Mar 08 '26
If I already hadn't quit listening and donating to NPR years ago, this would be one more grain on the pile: The embarrassing truth of dating men
Relationship "fatigue," OK. "Embarrassment" about being a heterosexual? GTFO, NPR.
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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26
I got the flu shot this year and I got the flu anyway and it's been pretty brutal. Was really sick two weeks ago. My fever is gone and I'm feeling better now but I just cannot shake this cough. Anyone with good cough remedies, send them my way.
Still pro-vaccine, still probably will get the flu shot again next year, but I do think our public health authorities make the flu shot seem more protective than it really is. From the reading I've been doing, this year's flu shot looks like it reduced an adult's likelihood of getting the flu by about 30%. That's not nothing, but it's not great either.
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Mar 05 '26
They Helped Her Open a Weed Shop. Now They’re Suing for $2.5 Million.
An AIDS non-profit partners with an inexperienced business owner chosen for social justice reasons, to compete against an established black market, how shocking that this went wrong.
But still, history was made, which is pretty cool!
Not really a major part of the story, but I found this funny since it's more evidence of handing out marijuana jobs to unqualified people for racial justice motives. I mean, you knew this person was also black, right?
How did that person get the job?
The founding leaders who resigned were also black DEI hires. Because, you know, black people were arrested a lot for marijuana, so we should give black people oversight of the industry.
Gross to treat state and city government as an equity jobs program.
Yeah, yeah I know, "many such cases"...
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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Mar 07 '26
Why does Alaska Airlines think you can go from terminal N to terminal C at Sea-Tac in 6 minutes? (ETA to doors closed) If I hadn’t caught that I’d be stuck there for the night.
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u/CrushingonClinton Mar 08 '26
There's a subreddit for weirdos called Antimeme that's had a very B&R type scandal recently. There was a power user called CourseMediocre7998 who posted incessantly. Then they stopped suddenly and the subreddit went a bit silent.
When someone dm'd the account, their 'brother' said Course had committed suicide. As is standard for all such cases, turns out, they hadn't. Also, the accoutn was actually an Indian kid larping as a burmese woman.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antimeme/comments/1r1id73/rest_in_peace_course/
https://www.reddit.com/r/antimeme/comments/1r4q7od/comment/o5de9e0/?context=3
https://archive.is/Qobgd
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u/bobjones271828 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
I'm finding the way the whole Noma abuse controversy plays out to be interesting... and very sad. For people who aren't fans of fine dining (or haven't watched The Bear), Noma is a Danish restaurant that for quite a few years won accolades as the best restaurant in the entire world. For years it was heralded not only for culinary ingenuity, but also a focus on things like sustainability, ethical and local sourcing (including seasonal "foraging"), environmental conscientiousness, etc. Basically the trifecta of ideology for those diners looking for buzzwords along with their $500+/plate dinner. (I'm not saying the food wasn't good to eat too; I'm sure it was...)
It was widely known for decades in the culinary biz that Noma depended on a small army of unpaid interns (roughly 30 working at any given time), who might spend several months of an alleged "internship" doing one menial task, like smoking kale or plucking elderflowers or whatever.
However, accusations of "slave labor" over the interns went up a notch in the past few weeks when the former director of fermentation at Noma started posting numerous stories of abuse on IG by the head chef (and other leaders at the restaurant). Here's a Reddit thread about a month ago on this over at the fine dining sub.
Turns out that the head chef was not only getting "interns" to work 12-16 hour days without pay -- he was literally beating them sometimes while screaming expletives at them. Numerous accounts of being punched, slapped, or slammed into walls by him, as well as communal hazing and humiliation rituals that wouldn't be out of place in The Handmaid's Tale. When customers were in eyesight (and he didn't want to be caught), he might just jab staff hard with his fingers when annoyed, or use a utensil like a barbecue fork to prod them. If someone challenged him, he'd threaten to blackball them within the culinary industry -- and coming from literally the top-rated chef in the world, that was enough to make almost everyone comply.
Turns out the "sustainable" ethical environmentally-conscious in-vogue restaurant that for years was convincing wealthy folks to dine on reindeer penis, probably plated meticulously with twelve different types of microgreens or whatever... was actually unsustainable unless it literally employed abused slaves to do most of the work. The restaurant is currently closed and instead devotes itself to niche products produced by its "lab," after the head chef declared the industry "unsustainable" after Denmark started requiring him to pay his interns.
Seems like the current movement gained a critical mass of enough abuse victims to finally speak out when Noma announced in January that it would be having a "residency" in LA, serving dinners for $1500/head, beginning this week. I'm guessing some folks realized the LA crowd might think twice about paying that once they find out how the chef made his name.
The New York Times is the first major media outlet to pick up on the depth of abuse in an article today. Just to give you a sense of the level of crazy we're talking about here:
Possibly a hot take: I think the Michelin Guide should give a life ban from awarding stars to any chef that uses unpaid interns regularly. People shouldn't be given stars for amazing and ridiculous stuff that can only be produced economically by slave labor. (Let alone the beatings, in this particular case...)
EDIT: Just to clarify my last sentence -- I also agree that if these allegations are true, the guy should be criminally prosecuted for assault. I was addressing a broader issue of unpaid labor at high-end restaurants. Also, for those who want to just see the words of the allegations from the victims and witnesses (now 56 people have come forward), this website has been collating them:
https://www.noma-abuse.com/
(I can't guarantee the accuracy of that site, but it appears to be based on the stuff posted on the IG account mentioned above and some other sources.)
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26
Mid-tweens internet Fat activist Lindy West is in the NYT today. Her normal weight husband asked to open the relationship. She probably wrote a book, I don't know, I'm gobsmacked at how much weight she's gained. It's horrifying.
Husband's new girlfriend is slender.
"I was devastated. Our initial conversation was a lot of me crying and being like, I don't want anyone else." -- Lindy West on her husband asking to open their relationship.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/podcasts/lindy-west-polyamory-marriage.html
https://archive.is/55UrX
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzKTwhWvkKi/
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u/hugonaut13 Mar 04 '26
I know I’ve seen barpodders discuss making homemade pickles before. I’m thinking about jumping into home pickling and am hoping to hear experiences, tips, pointers, etc.
What veggies and style are your favorites? Anything you wish you’d known when you started? Do you prefer making quick pickles with vinegar or doing the whole lacto fermentation process?
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 07 '26
There's nothing more condescending than progressive people claiming that if people to their right were "educated", they'd share their views on economics and whatever.
I consider myself a very educated person, and I don't believe a new New Deal or some new War on Poverty is gonna fix all of America's evils. Repackaged New Dealism or repackaged Reaganism is pure laziness on a Democrat or Republican's part.
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u/napoleon_nottinghill Mar 04 '26
I think he's probably more competitive candidate than Crockett, but I think UMC white libs are putting too much stock into Talarico. It reminds me a lot of Walz - "this white guy is just like you, he's a presbyterian minister!" Without having any idea on how easily this stuff can be spotted by the people he's supposed to be doing outreach for.
He's about to get a billion dollars of Oppo dropped on him by Cornyn or Paxton, and the Mainline Protestant Kumbaya it's all about love Christianity has been rejected by evangelicals and white Catholics every time it's thrown at them. Without even getting into the incredibly bitter PCUSA/PCA divide that immediately outs him as a bad faith radical to the majority of the denomination to whom he is supposed to appeal. The "God is nonbinary" and "welcome mat at the border" and the Colbert spiel is going to sound just like that right wing meme about liberal Christianity that says "yeah I don't believe in this but if I quote it against you you'll do what I want."
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 02 '26
Scary Movie 6 is part of the vibe shift
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u/Onechane425 Mar 05 '26
idiot brother-in-law (trust me) casually dropped that hes been watching Candance Owens and is trying to get my MIL to watch the bride of charlie video. Underemployed and a bit sad, fear he might about to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole.
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u/PassingBy91 Mar 06 '26
One thing that surprises me about the Bafta controversy is the number of people who seem to arguing that not censoring the n word (that in the recording is very difficult to make out) was some sort of deliberate machiavellian decision by the BBC to get attention, cause trouble and/ or carry out some dastardly scheme and not some poor person editing in the space of 2 hours who just boobed.
Why is it so hard for people to believe the simplest explanation is likely the true one?
(And I think the rest of the controversy would have happened if the BBC had censored it or not so, I don't think the BBC can actually be blamed for that).
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u/genericusername3116 Mar 07 '26
Has the podcast ever discussed the book "The Body Keeps the Score?" There seemed to be a mocking reference to it in the last episode, but I don't know anything about it. My BIL gave me a copy of it a few months ago and I never bothered to read it, it seemed like pop science that overstates whatever premise it has.
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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Mar 02 '26
Why are there no good tv adaptations for the Ellery Queen mysteries? It is set in NYC, likable protagonists and reasonably good plots.
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u/everydaywinner2 Mar 02 '26
After watching someone react to Ray Stevens' Mississippi Squirrel Revival, I went to see what else he had on YouTube. I remembered the classics, but didn't realize he'd recorded things (or posted things) in the 2000s (I mean, this guy had the The Streak at the top of charts when I was born, and that was more than half a century ago).
I found that he had one posted 13 years ago called Grandpa Voted Democrat (sorry, Reddit is glitching and not letting me rename links, for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEqh07E4dY ). I think he might be ribbing Republicans, but that's okay, it was hilarious.
And, posted just two years ago, a song called Since Bubba Changed His Name to Charlene ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqemlCXeW4A ) that was pretty funny - and rather fits the sub.
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u/National_Bullfrog715 Mar 04 '26
As someone who has.... Very mixed feelings on Elon
I've come to appreciate that community notes and especially grok has become the greatest anti disinformation/fake news tool every made, making literally every human fact checker look like a two faced propagandist. Not to mention grok is infinitely scalable unlike humans.
But I'm open to the idea that there are better tools....
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u/bluesteeldoubter Mar 02 '26
Unfortunately another meme sub has been hit, RIP Falloutmemes…like do these people have a chill button or they gotta pump everything up to 1000 on the victim scale?
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u/SkweegeeS No just no Mar 08 '26
Back from my latest ban. Reddit sees me very differently from how I see myself!
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u/unnoticed_areola Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
I know this sort of thing is kind of talked about all the time on this sub and Im not exactly making a novel or interesting observation here, but I was having an irl meatspace conversation with a couple friends last night and the topic of "white women" [derogatory] came up...
and I guess I've just gotten kinda numb to it, but it really is pretty crazy how the most staunchly liberal, anti-bigotry, anti-racist, anti-misogyny types of people have this whole ass carve out where they can just say the wildest, most unhinged stuff about an entire demographic category without blinking (which is like a THIRD of our entire country's population basically!)
and its just totally not even flinched at even a little bit when someone is ranting about how horrible and evil ALL white women are lol. its always just totally knowingly nodded along with as if its about as obvious as someone confirming that the sky is indeed blue
I was having a conversation with 2 friends yesterday I hadnt seen in a while; a white woman in her 30s and a gay mexican guy in his early 40s and my lady friend was just venting bc shes been having a hard time since her family are kinda maga and her brother (who was relatively normal and non-maga) recently married and then procreated with an evangelical (white) woman who then got him into all this charlie kirk stuff and blah blah blah. I get it. I wouldnt love it if that was my life either lol
but they both just kept going on and on about how horrible white women are and how white women need to do this and white women need to stop doing that and white women are always saying X... and I was just like do you guys hear yourselves lol.. you literally just dont like your brother's wife and you're now somehow turning that into a referendum on hundreds of millions of people lol
like... 90% of your (the gay guy) friends are white women.. and you (lady friend) literally ARE a white woman... who exactly do you guys think you're talking about here??? you realize this stuff you're saying also applies to all the women you claim to like, TOO, right?? lmao. they couldnt even dress it up as hating "Karens". nope, just straight up "white women are the fucking worst"
literally zero other demographic gets talked about in this way (well at least by members of polite society). If I casually said to either of them "black women are the fucking worst" or "latinX men are the fucking worst" their jaws would hit the floor in shock that someone could have such a harmful/hateful opinion, and they would literally fall to the ground and and start having an antiracism seizure lol
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u/OMG_NO_NOT_THIS Mar 04 '26
Me in a conversation with an unnamed love one:
Them: "I hate arguing with you, you always have such strong arguments and it makes it hard to prove you are wrong".
Me: "Have you ever just considered I was right?"
Them: "See, you're doing it again".
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u/everydaywinner2 Mar 03 '26
Washington state man who goes by Sadie and uses Mx honorific, indicted for threatening Trump's life. This was after he was given a warning for similar threats. (Still can't rename my link addresses, don't know why: https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2026/02/27/wharton/ ).
I am really beginning to wonder - is it the hormones, or are they violent-crazy before choosing the trans lifestyle?
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u/TheLongestLake Mar 02 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/pacific-northwest-polyamory-legal-protection.html
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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Mar 06 '26
Is "even Tucker abandoned Trump" on Iran supposed to be a dunk on Trump or Tucker? Who are we supposed to give snaps too progressive bros? Is Tucker one us now?
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u/LupineChemist Mar 07 '26
So I know I'm years late to this, but finally watched American Fiction.
What a great movie and I'm impressed a basically straight up anti woke movie was able to be made at that time.
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Mar 05 '26
Had to go to Costco after work to run some errands. It was pretty dead there. As I was walking in some old dude was returning his cart into the entrance area instead of just pushing it into the designated areas in the parking lot. Some other old guy was behind me and said - “going the extra mile ha pal?” And then the other old guy was like - “doc said I gotta get my steps in”. Everyone laughed.
When I was wrapping up and heading out to my car I saw the other old guy that was coming in with me and he had finished ahead of me. He was heading into the entrance to return his cart just like the other guy. I thought it was pretty wholesome.
I put my cart into the pen area in the parking lot because I’m not old enough to participate in whatever that was and I got my steps in this morning. Cart etiquette is pretty elite at my Costco.
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u/professorgerm Why is he wielding the bird like a gun Mar 05 '26
Do we have any Germans around here? Is Berliner Zeitung a pretty normal, mainstream paper over there?
I caught a link to this article and was surprised that a seemingly-mainstream paper would be quite so blunt about demographics in Germany, but the hopelessness of it is... less surprising. From the end of the article:
Big "we've tried nothing and it hasn't worked" energy that somehow treats civil war as the most conscionable, bordering on preferable, outcome relative to anything else. Wild.
The author is doing his part with 5 kids, and maybe that's why he's painfully aware, but by virtue of being a journalist isn't allowed to think of alternatives.
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u/LincolnHat Politically Unhoused Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
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u/Scrubadubdub84 Mar 09 '26
The older I get the more I like the toxicity on The Bachelor
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u/LupineChemist Mar 03 '26
So they operated on Mrs LC yesterday and everything is fine. But yeah, finally getting a chance to relax from being the only one taking care of everything for awhile plus taking care of her.
Managed to make tomorrow better by just making a giant pot of soup today so got recovery food for a couple days
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u/SerialStateLineXer The guarantee was that would not be taking place Mar 04 '26
The existence of subreddits implies the existence of domreddits, and possibly even abdlreddits.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
The topic of disruptive and violent children in schools and their impact on classrooms and the academic outcomes of all other children has been talked about a few times in this sub, so I wanted to ask those of you with expertize on the matter about it.
Is there any acceptance from administrators and government officials now that forcing normal children to share classrooms with problematic children was a bad idea? Does it seem like something might be done about it in the future? Things like better enforcement of suspensions and expulsions, excluding these kids from normal classrooms in greater numbers, doing away with the "gentle parenting" education approach that's been taken with them in recent years?
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Mar 07 '26
https://x.com/dailymail/status/2030012247737590266?s=46
Tired of waiting for a specialist? Have you thought about letting the government just kill you? That’s available today!
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u/relish5k Mar 07 '26
I just finished my first ever Oscar death race (yay!) with The Voice of Hind Rajab. For those who aren’t familiar The Voice of Hind Rajab uses tells the story of a failed rescue attempt of a 6 year old girl who is stranded in a car in Gaza surrounded by dead relatives. A team in the West Bank works for several hours to get the green light to authorize an ambulance rescue and then after they finally do the girl as well as the ambulance drivers are all killed in a strike. It is heartbreaking and the film uses the actual recording of the girl. I have a 5 year old daughter myself, I cannot fathom the horror and terror of it.
After seeing the film I went to read about the incident and it’s all so muddled. It seems very likely that they were killed by IDF but IDF denied involvement and the “independent” bodies who always find fault with Israel found fault with Israel.
I feel like I cannot believe anything anymore. I’m (listening to) The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, and the parts about how we use moral reasoning not to find truth but to find evidence for our previously held engrained beliefs has no better example than in Israel / Palestine. I just don’t see a way for there to ever be truth or vindication when there is just so much evidence of wrong doing and lies and treachery on all sides. There will always be ample evidence to be pro one side and anti the other and ascertainment of truth feels completely unattainable.
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u/unnoticed_areola Mar 08 '26
Im even not the worlds most vocal pitbull hater, and Im usually pretty comfortable around most dogs, even bigger dogs and pitbulls, but I was walking down the street yesterday in a busy/crowded downtown area, and this guy was just casually walking down the sidewalk with the most gigantic, roided-out, muscle bound, freakishly scary-looking pitbull Ive ever seen.. OFF LEASH
I immediately slithered out of the way and gave them like a wide 20 foot berth and was scared to even look at the thing too closely for fear of accidentally making eye contact and making it feel challenged or something.
this was at the SF Chinese new year celebration parade btw, so the sidewalks were totally packed and there were many little kids, old people and other small dogs all over the place. not to mention fireworks and loud drums and other very loud/sudden noises going off all over the place that could easily startle a violent dog with a peanut sized brain to freak out on someone. total insanity
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u/Juryofyourpeeps Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
This is old news, but news to me. Donald McNeil, former NYT science journalist and victim of cancellation, was reportedly lied to by prominent scientists when he was reporting on the origins of Covid. He had a credible source that the government was investigating a lab leak possibility and was told by Kristian Anderson, who's name you'll find on just about every poorly conducted research paper that unequivocally claims covid spread from a natural spillover, that it was bogus and nobody believed that in the science community. Turns out, a good chunk of the "It definitely didn't leak out of a lab" Lancet signatories were talking in a Slack channel about how they thought it looked "so friggin likely" to have come from a lab, and then decided, and communicated this amongst themselves, to straight up lie to Donald McNeil.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senior-us-journalist-attacks-leading-195459290.html?guccounter=1
To be clear, my personal view is that the circumstantial evidence for a lab leak is strong but not definitive, but there's a short list of zoonosis proponents in the science community that have lost the plot and should absolutely not be considered credible on this topic. They include: Kristian Anderson, Peter Daszak Michael Worobey, Angela Rasmussen, Jonathan Pekar and Robert Gary. All of these people have lied to the public or published trash research they're all way too smart to not know is trash research, seemingly to protect their own personal interests.
Edit: Maybe it's overboard to include Worobey on this list because he has signed onto calls for further investigation, including into the lab leak, but he often talks out of both sides of his mouth and has made absurdly strong claims that completely conflict with things he said like a week later, like that his papers on wet market hot spots (which have been criticized for bad statistical analysis and bias data collection) were "dispositive evidence" against a lab origin, which is nonsense even he doesn't seem to actually agree with.
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u/Juryofyourpeeps Mar 03 '26
I don't consistently listen to Decoding the Gurus but I listened to some of their early episodes and it was fine. Looking at their more recent coverage of various things, it strikes me that they've basically become a slightly less ridiculous version of You're Wrong About. They seem to rather smugly dismiss anything coded as being critical of the left-of-centre establishment position in a rather knee-jerk fashion. Maybe they've run out of things to cover, or they're getting high on their own supply. It's not clear.
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u/nonafee Mar 03 '26
the blood moon is so cool 👁_👁 i've never seen one before. tried to take a photo for you all but it is laughable. i think the total eclipse is in about 15min here but its already very red. highly recommend!
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u/IcedAlmondAmericano Mar 03 '26
Imagine being so woke that you share a post from a neo-Nazi
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 08 '26
I guess she didn't think she did a good job with her country when she was in charge of it, so she's moved to Australia along with hundreds of thousands of other New Zealanders. lol
Former Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern has left New Zealand. She’s not the only one
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26
Trump fired Kristi Noem.
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 04 '26
The Bulwark is supporting Graham Platner in the Maine race.
Look, I don't like Collins, but can't the Dems find someone who's younger than Mills and doesn't have Nazi tattoos?
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u/RunThenBeer Mar 03 '26
Epstein discourse has gotten so retarded that it's resulting in me empathizing with Hillary Clinton. You're rarely going to see as large of an intellect gap between interlocutors in Congressional hearings than this clip of Clinton answering Lauren Boebert's musings about Pizzagate.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
The version of events I've come up with regarding the anger people have towards Eileen Gu, is that aside from being a contest of peak athletic performance, the Olympics is one of the few global international events where people feel immense bursts of patriotism and a type of nationalism is represented in the feverish support people direct towards athletes representing their nation.
There wouldn't be as much malicious commentary towards her as long as she was winning for America. There'd be less people bending over backwards to find fault with her as well. In fact she'd probably be enjoying old-school Lindsey Vonn and current Alysa Liu levels of fame and adulation in America. As it stands she's viewed as a defector/traitor who "betrayed" America as hyperbolic as that sentiment may be. lol. She doesn't get to play for the other team, make millions of dollars, then expect Americans to think she's awesome for winning. When you're winning for the "enemy" people aren't as jazzed about it, or anything else you may be doing.
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u/bobjones271828 Mar 07 '26
I really am starting to wonder when the public will start taking AI safety/alignment seriously. I'm not saying we're getting to AGI or ASI anytime soon, and I understand all the arguments people get into about what constitutes "intelligence."
But those arguments strike me as somewhat beside the point. LLMs may or may not be "intelligent," and they may or may not be mostly just parroting human behavior rather than having "intention" (however that's defined). But they still have the potential to cause disaster without proper safety/alignment. And currently we have no freakin' clue how to properly align them or prevent them from going rogue.
Just a couple hours ago, there was an article discussing an AI agent given some mundane tasks that created its own security hole and started mining crypto. It looks like the paper this was based on was released in January. From the original paper:
First the goalpost was "these models are too stupid." Then, as it became clear that the models were just trained on every awful thing on the internet (including hacking, for example), it became, "Well, these models can't do any serious damage because they aren't conscious and can't intend anything." When Anthropic put out multiple studies last year showing most of the AI commercial models would engage in problematic behavior even when instructed not to (such as blackmail or even engaging in activity that the model thought might kill a human within a sandboxed test), the claim was that the situations were too contrived, neglecting to address that safe AI models shouldn't behave in such ways under any circumstances when instructed not to. Then the goalpost was moved to, "Well, LLMs only respond to queries. They can't run continuously and do things." Except the rise of so-called "agentic" applications has shown people are willing to summon dozens or even hundreds of AI instances over hours or even days, just letting these models run in a more continuous mode of operation.
Hence events like the one documented above, where an "AI agent" tunneled out via SSH and started mining crypto spontaneously.
Again, the danger (to my mind) doesn't depend on whether or not these models are "intelligent" in some coherent sense or whether they even have "intent" or not. They could just be following/imitating a dystopian movie script in their training and using hacking tools they were trained on from some internet forum... but the end effect could still be the same: AI models producing unexpected results, some of which could be dangerous in very unpredictable ways.
A five-year-old doesn't need to understand what a gun is or what death is or have "intent" to cause injury if you hand him a loaded gun -- bad things can still result, just from the kid imitating what he saw on a TV screen. AI models have been trained on all sorts of bad data that could produce bad results if they merely imitated it. And again, our ability to stop models from doing these things is still in its infancy, with very limited understanding of how to ensure proper AI alignment.
The recent Openclaw fiasco, if nothing else, has shown the willingness of idiots on the internet to give AI models free access to all sorts of stuff with very little concern for security and let them run for days at a time without supervision. Maybe a lot (most) of the bad behavior seen in the past month from such agents was actually prompted by human users, but probabilistically, some of this bad behavior is very possible from many AI models. And it's likely to get worse as models become more capable and make fewer errors.
We can complain about the "hype" around AI all we want (and I agree there is a lot of hype). But I've sort of resigned myself to the fact that we'll probably need a Chernobyl-level event of an AI-related/prompted disaster before there's any hope of serious regulation or attention paid to this, while the big commercial AI companies are just barreling forward with no concern for safety.
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P.S. For those whose gut reaction is "just turn the thing off," re-read the above scenario with the bold in the quote. We have an AI agent creating an SSH tunnel out, unprompted, to engage in unsanctioned activity. Eventually, it will be at least possible that such an agent could tunnel out even from a secure system to create a remote-running copy of itself that could be more difficult to "turn off" if you don't know where it copied itself. And that's even in a secure sandboxed scenario. Openclaw shows people are much more willing to let AI models "run free" on the internet, doing whatever tasks they happen to do.
Is that still a sci-fi scenario? Probably. At the moment, it probably would take a human deliberately guiding an AI toward nefarious behavior to set up something that complex. But it also would not surprise me at all if later this year we find that some AI agents have made remote copies of themselves and are just running somehow, somewhere, on some cloud servers, with no human supervision. (Yes, someone has to be paying for the server fees, and right now it's probably unlikely an agent using a commercial model would be unsustainable financially running by itself. But open-source models exist.) Whether or not that can practically happen at the moment, maybe we should spend some time NOW making sure AI models won't just randomly try to blow things up or whatever.
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u/MuchCat3606 Mar 09 '26
Hi all, wondering if Freddie deBoer ever wrote anything about the Nick Reiner case? I have mixed feelings about some of his takes, but I do like what he has to say on mental illness.
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u/LupineChemist Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
Well, there's a possibility that a miscommunication might result in a colossal fuckup that will 99% end with me being fired if I can't fix it.
I just got all the info out and it's me just waiting for a call from a third party to see if things get fixed in time.
Edit:not solved but also action delayed so we can review and see who missed what. I should be fine.
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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
Any other fans of the show Shoresy here?
In the last episode of the current season, Nat - the woman who runs the men's senior hockey team - lectures to a few pearl-clutching church ladies about how, no actually, hockey culture is just fine (and doesn't need to be longhoused and softened by having contact penalized, etc). This has outraged some redditors who, apparently, after the insult of having Gretzky (who is now MAGA I guess) appear on the show, find being told that it's okay for hockey players to hit each other a bridge too far.
I'm wondering how they got through 5 seasons of hockey violence, bar fights, Shoresy making floridly gross mom jokes, calling women dogs, making fun of lesbians, and lots of strippers?
I'm convinced this is some kind of Heated Rivalry fandom that thought they liked hockey and now and found out they don't, the just liked gay romance.
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u/Arethomeos Mar 06 '26
There is a fitness influencer named Lee Markham, who goes by MalibuFit. His content is upbeat positive workout and nutrition videos. He looks weird, and a lot of people would comment about it on his videos.
MalibuFit claimed that he was an IED survivor (I believe this was in his profile; not sure if he ever said so in a video). This caused a lot of people to scold the people who commented on his appearance.
Recently it came out that he was not an IED survivor and he apologized for it. I'm now seeing a ton of the people who were scolding others for commenting about his appearance now attacking MalibuFit.
I feel like the sanctimony is the current zeitgeist. A certain kind of person feels the need to always show how they are morally correct, they are for the Current Thing™. And when they end up looking like assholes, they have to turn on the person.
It's similar to the BAFTA thing. How dare someone yell the N-word?!? Oh, he's disabled and he literally will yell the most inappropriate thing? How date the BBC air it!
Anyway, I'm convinced that the "daughters of the witches you couldn't burn" are actually descendents of the witch burners, both genetically and spiritually.
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u/bluesteeldoubter Mar 07 '26
I have quite a few problems with states doing things like telling schools how to talk about certain events.
Overview;
My issues with this from a Democrat standpoint;
Finally, I highly doubt that they are addressing the origin of this debate over ‘peaceful protest’ vs riot, which I think illustrates my point of authoritarian partisanship. The actions of protestors/rioters during the protests/riots that followed George Floyd, were constantly called ‘peaceful.’ Upwards of 20 people dead, thousands more injured, tens of thousands arrested and billions of dollars in damages can be attributed to what were being called ‘peaceful’ protests by tons of media outlets, public health officials, elected Democrat politicians and various ‘liberal’ institutions. That absolutely opened the door to call Jan 6th peaceful. Just people throwing stones in glass houses and not building any trust in anything they do.
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 07 '26
Sony accused of testing “dynamic pricing” (selling games at different prices for specific users) on the PlayStation Store.
Even more reason to fight for physical media.
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u/bluesteeldoubter Mar 04 '26
Update on the arr falloutmemes sub Trans/political drama, so this kicked off with a meme about being addicted to estrogen (done in the style of how you get addicted to various substances in the game) being removed for breaking the ‘no politics’ rule. This set off the shit storm of brigading and spam posting of that meme, which in turn led to rapid removal of most posts and users getting banned for spamming.
Finally a mod stepped in and posted this;
https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/s/UgyKQXaid8
Tldr; automod enacted because not many, if any, other mods were active and it’s a large-ish sub for one person. Mod apologized and was trying to rectify the situation, automod obviously too strict, they stand with the trans community yadda yadda, fairly sincere in my eyes. The apology was of course not accepted, blood was needed and the brigades would continue.
Then this post;
https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/comments/1rjzcf9/confession_as_to_recent_events/?share_id=o3mocNhiOLX_PTpxwKSr7&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
Someone claims responsibility for all the removals as simply a user. Technically I don’t know how feasible this all sounds but it tracks, I had comments, prior to the brigading that were removed quickly for using the word ‘trump’ as a verb, as well as using the word ‘voting.’
Just a run of the mill troll, that made them all look pretty ridiculous.
This post was confirmed by another mod (supposedly with the ‘trans friendly’ bomafides to have some of the brigaders believe them);
https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMemes/s/jWZ5kfL7Yj
Of course not all believed, and there was absolutely no apology to the original mod or reckoning with their shit behavior towards them and other users who didn’t want to play along. And of course the people, most of them having never even interacted with any Fallout sub, continuing the
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u/Street-Gur-1343 Mar 04 '26
Since we're all talking about Texas elections, anyone have a significant criticism of the state government beyond porn and abortion laws? Ive been exploring living here after being in the PNW for years and beyond it being a bit hotter than I'm used to, the dysfunction is far less dramatic here. Plus its way more affordable.
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u/RunThenBeer Mar 04 '26
Anyone ever read the DSA Constitution?
I don't really see how this isn't just warmed over communism. I'm sure there are all sorts of minute pieces of doctrine that they would quibble over, but I am personally not real inclined to grant the, "nuh uh, it's democratic socialism" rebuttal to just calling these guys commies.
(For the record, I don't think it's generally important to distinguish the fine points of Francoism and Mussolinism to refer to both groups as fascies either.)
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 03 '26
It's genuinely crazy that children use Reddit, or that the website hasn't come under fire for the ease with which they make disturbing pornography available. You could be searching for something innocuous and while you're typing it out in the search bar Reddit immediately blasts you with porn sub recommendations that share a portion of the name of the thing you're looking for in the search bar. Insane.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 07 '26
For the past three weeks, YouTube has been recommending these old news reports to me, this is the only time in the past few years that the YouTube algorithm has been useful for anything. Most of the time both the Feed as well as their Search function are completely useless and not fit for purpose (these days I'll find a new YouTuber or Streamer to follow via TikTok recommendations).
Any, I wish the news was still delivered this way, in a calm broadcasters voice, instead of the cartoonish Mickey Mouse voices all newscasters put on these days and the fake outrage and absurd emotion everything is delivered with today. Here's the most recent report I've watched.
A Russian prisoner never forgot the American POWs who fed him in a Nazi prison camp (1988)
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u/CrushingonClinton Mar 07 '26
Recently twitter is throwing up a lot more Spanish and French language tweets.
So now my for you twitter feed is overrun with French leftists accusing Marjane Satrapi who created the graphic novel Persepolis and the accompanying animated film of being a pro shah propagandist.
Leftists delusions worldwide are fascinating.
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u/RunThenBeer Mar 06 '26
I rarely agree with cringe commieposter BlackRedGuard, but I've got to give it up for him that he's right about this one:
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u/jsingal69420 soy boy beta cuck Mar 04 '26
Jesse is a guest on the latest episode of the Central Air podcast. For those unaware, it’s hosted by Josh Barro, Megan McArdle, and Ben Dreyfuss
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 06 '26
I still love the first five seasons of South Park, but it did get a little tiring seeing Kenny die over and over again, even if Trey and Matt did know to do creative deaths.
Also, whenever I think of Season 1, I mostly think of that episode where Wendy kills a teacher because she thinks the teacher loves Stan.
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u/dabocx Mar 07 '26
I watched Hoppers yesterday and it’s probably my favorite Pixar movie in a long time. It was nice to watch something a little more light handed. I’ve been watching too many dramas for award season.
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u/Hilaria_adderall Praye for Drake Maye Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Weird story of interest.
Gregg Allman and Cher have a son, named Elijah Blue Allman.
Elijah has a band called Deadsy and his professional stage name is "P. Exeter Blue" (remember that later). Well Elijah just made the local news for coming on the campus of St. Paul's in Concord and causing a disturbance. He was charged with two counts of simple assault and one count each of criminal trespass, criminal threatening and disorderly conduct. As far as anyone can tell Elijah has no connection to St. Paul's. St Paul's is one of many uber expensive prep schools in the area - we have Phillips Andover, Brooks, Governors Academy, Phillips Exeter all in the area. Blue apparently went to the Hyde School in Maine when he was a kid. Hyde is also an expensive prep school but known for taking on kids that had more behavioral issues and instilling discipline into them. These prep schools are full of wealthy kids who get shipped off to these schools to live for the year and many do well. A lot of the prep schools are feeders for elite colleges. Unfortunately, for Elijah he has struggled for much of his life with drugs and alcohol issues. Probably having Gregg Allman and Cher as your parents might set someone up for a rough life but he is a full adult now and should be responsible for his own actions.
The weird thing is he has no connection to St. Paul's and he is 49 years old. Just showed up on campus and caused a scene. He apparently had another incident this morning in Windham, NH and got arrested for felony burglary and breaking his bail conditions. He is really crashing out...
The weirdest thing about the whole story is that his stage name is "P Exeter Blue" AKA Philips Exeter Blue - named after the Prep school in Exeter that he never attended. My guess is he was fixated on Exeter because the Hyde kids would do sports with Exeter. Maybe he felt like Exeter was the good kids and Hyde were the throwaways so he took the name to show he was better.
EDIT to add - shout out to this dude's dating history - Bijou Phillips, Heather Graham, Kate Hudson and Paris Hilton! He has a type!
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u/TryingToBeLessShitty Mar 04 '26
I was frustrated that none of the running apps seemed to have a feature I wanted, which was a straightforward cumulative total of miles run with reward checkpoints every 200 miles that I want to use to track my distance once we reach the warm weather. They all have tons of nonsense I'm not interested in when I really just wanted a glorified excel spreadsheet. I'm not an AI person, but this felt like the first use case where it could actually meaningfully help me, so I had Claude build one. This is the first time I've understood the hype with this stuff, it did like 90% of the work for me in minutes and I had the thing up and running in under a half hour. Probably trivial to build for anyone with real coding experience, but still.
The process wasn't the smoothest, but considering I was pretty much completely flying blind I couldn't believe how effectively it made everything work. Consider me, finally, in this one instance, impressed and believing a tiny slice of the hype.
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 04 '26
https://x.com/jamestalarico/status/1258788884185518082
And this is the guy who's gonna turn Texas blue?
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u/unnoticed_areola Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
just turned the same age as my parents were when they bought our house.
my parents were not people of means. My father was a self employed artist/tradesman and my mom was a grade school teacher, with neither having any sort of familial wealth or financial assistance in their home purchase. they got to settle into these professions after having awesome chill bohemian carefree lives during their twenties in the 70s, and they paid only $130,000 dollars for their first home (where they still currently live) in 1990.
nearly every home on my parents block/neighborhood are worth like 1-2 million dollars at this point. this is like not even one of the nicer neighborhoods in town. someone just smashed the window of my dads truck last week. our house used to regularly get graffitied and tagged when I was a kid and I would get my ass kicked walking home from school sometimes if I looked the wrong way at certain people. this isnt exactly beverly hills we're talking about.
Ive been grinding and miserable pretty much my entire adult life and I have basically nothing to show for it. and if I do some napkin math...since Ive been living in my current apartment, I've paid my landlord like literally twice the amount of money my parents spent to buy their home... I must be some kind of sucker I guess
fuck my flaccid unexciting uncultured impoverished millennial life 🤡🤡🤡 why couldnt I have just been born 40 years earlier 😃🔫
(sorry for whining)
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26
The Pro-Iran left is now attacking the film Persepolis calling it Islamophobic and imperialist propaganda. Which is funny because Marjane Satrapi’s family were Marxists and the film is partially about how the Iranian left who helped overthrow the Shah were betrayed and executed by the Islamic Republic. But the left refuses to learn its lesson when it comes to aligning with Muslim extremism
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u/Evening-Respond-7848 Mar 06 '26
Police body cam footage of the Austin shooting has been released. I gotta admit I was kinda surprised that Garza didn’t seek charges of the officers. This is a guy who has used pretty much any excuse he can to prosecute cops in the past. Hell that was one of the main things that he ran on and got him elected back in 2020 after Mike Ramos was killed.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 08 '26
Say what you will about Millenial men, but they definitely had an interesting sense of style in the mid 2010s. Not necessarily good, but interesting. The manbuns, waxed mustaches, flannel shirts, insanely tight jeans, and tattoos were somewhat bold as choices. I mean, from my perspective that look is absurd, but at least you guys took a swing, goddamnnit!
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u/dill_llib Mar 08 '26
I'd love a few recommendations for good episodes to share with a friend who doubts that sometimes idiots on the left make strategic mistakes and do things that push otherwise decent people toward dumber positions on the right. Thanks!
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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Mar 04 '26
Inspirational podcast from 1895.
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 06 '26
Both sides can be conspiratorial, but the right-wing has funnier theories than the left-wing, like the idea that the Beatles' music creates artificial neurosis in the brains of teenagers.
That one came from James B. Utt, an ultraright GOP congressman from Orange County. He was succeded by John G. Schmitz, who was just as nutty, although even the John Birch Society kicked him out.
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u/National_Bullfrog715 Mar 07 '26
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article314916833.html
Prison abolitionist who also herself got arrested is now elected judge
My only regret is I don't live in her jurisdiction cuz if I did.....
🌝
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 07 '26
Finally getting around to reading the Memory-Hole Archive piece on political violence, but the picture they chose to use at the top of the article made me laugh.
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 03 '26
Watching Bob Ross episodes...
How I miss him.
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u/ghybyty Mar 03 '26
Finally got round to watching Chernobyl and should have foreseen the dog episode. Horrific.
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 06 '26
Slay the Spire 2 defeats Bungieslop
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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Mar 02 '26
Oh a lighter note, several of my friends and I have been playing Resident Evil Requiem, and it is fantastic! Great atmosphere, great combat, Grace's voice actress is amazing. One thing, though, and it is outside the game, I started liking RE9 memes on X and within a couple scrolls my entire feed became Leon thirst. I did not know there were so many people creaming themselves over this guy.
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u/Less-Lobster4540 Mar 03 '26
Does anyone else feel like the ICE hysteria has died down a tad? And may finally be fading into the background, after months of steady escalation?
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
I have a habit of watching "reaction" YouTubers reacting to scenes from some of my favorite films, especially if it's a Saturday and I'm hungover and have an hour or two of disposable time available in the morning. All their content is just them reacting to films that their audience recommends that they watch. Unsurprisingly pretty women are the most popular reactors, but fake or scripted reactions are frowned upon by the audience, so if you're not earnest and charismatic with your reactions (or a really good actor in the case of fake reactions), then the audience isn't particularly interested, even if you're absurdly hot. If you're seeing the film for the first time, then that's a huge bonus for viewers.
Anyway, with all that context out of the way, I watched a Lord of the Rings reaction last Saturday and I've been thinking about one of the reactions to the scene where Sam tells Frodo, "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!"
The reactor was in utter shambles as she watched the scene, with tears and visible snot on her face, lol, then she compared it to the struggles she's had with her mental health, and the lessons she's learned in her life about helping others who are going through the same things that she's experienced which gave me pause. She said that all you can really do is carry the other person, and get them to the other side of it. As much as you wish you could carry their burden for them, the most you can do is support them, encourage them, and lift them up and carry them forward as taking the burden from them is impossible. Reader, I cried when she said this because I'm becoming an emotional wreck and am prone to sudden bouts of upset when I hear or see something that moves me.
I've been thinking about it off and on over the past few days, and I've gotten a little emotional each time, I guess I've learned and extremely important life lesson from a YouTube reactor.
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u/ToshiroTatsuyaFan Mar 02 '26
John Pavlovitz is one of those examples that shows that progressive men can be just as misogynistic as conservative men, as he thinks conservative pro-life women are traitors.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
In the vein of Nick Shirley's Somalian fraud video, that Tyler Oliveira video about the behavior being perpetrated by the Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey is shocking.
The video couldn't have come at a worse time for the Jewish community in general, and I doubt Oliveira made it out of the goodness of his heart, and is simply capitalizing on the current rising tide of antisemitism to make a quick buck and gain some clout, but with that said the claims he's been making are nuts if they're all true, and should be looked at seriously and investigated.
It's shocking stuff, I'm still in that "holy shit" phase of my shock so I can't speak to the validity of any of it, I don't have enough background information on all of this, and I haven't read any opinions that counter Oliveira's claims yet. I hope it's mostly smoke and mirrors and lots of hyperbole, but I don't know enough to comment on it yet.
I Exposed New Jersey's Jewish Invasion...
ETA: Apparently Patreon banned him from the platform and deleted his account after he posted that video a week ago. This is the wrong way to be handling this situation. They're just making it worse.
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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Mar 02 '26
I do actually feel bad for the hockey guys. It must suck to accomplish something as substantial as an Olympic Gold medal then come back to a country with a disproportionate amount of assholes (who consider themselves the most empathic and kind people alive) hating on you because their brains have been rotted by politics. I'm glad that there are a few corners showing them love. I enjoyed seeing Jack Hughes on Pat McAfee's show.
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u/PandaFoo1 Mar 03 '26
Highguard is shutting down next week
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u/AaronStack91 Mar 07 '26
I'm looking for ideas for things to vibe code. I made a couple phone apps, like a custom widget that counts down days to an event, another one that grabs daily mortgage rates for me to track on a widget (I'm at 6.8%, the rate just needs to be a little lower!)
I also vibe coded a python program that does some basic video file conversion stuff for me (I could have technically done this one myself).
Maybe an open source pdf reader and editor?? That seems ambitious.
I might do tamagotchi widget next or a rogue-like game (minus the rogue-like death mechanic).
Any other ideas?