Vladimir Putin says prosecution of Donald Trump shows US political system is 'rotten'

ActuallyNot · 2023-10-30T06:38:08+00:00

Yep, that's AI.

The reality isn't better.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-19T00:07:37+00:00

Agree entirely.

She said that the Russian massacre at a maternity hospital in Mariupol was a Ukrainians false flag attack.

That's not "reporting on Ukrainian war crimes" by any measure. Russia has admitted that the airstirke on the hospital was deliberate: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/03/10/7330042/

She also claims backing Ukraine is akin to supporting Nazism. I wonder if she knows Zelenskyy lost family in the holocaust.

I can't find a source detailing what the charges are. And the claim that the authorities withdrew 1600 euros from her personal bank account sets off my bullshit detector. That's a paltry amount of money. If you fine someone, you send them a penalty notice. I believe that you need to jump through a stack of hoops including demonstrating plausible suspicion of fraud or tax evasion to even look at a bank account in Germany.

Perhaps paypal are holding some of her earnings. They do that.

ActuallyNot · 2023-09-15T22:08:45+00:00

If most of the race acts like actual animals

What do you think humans are? A plant?

Everyone acts exactly like an animal because everyone is an animal.

Look at their structure, they resemble apes more than other races

What do you think a human is? A bovid?

Everyone looks exactly like an ape because everyone is an ape.

There's groups from Europe that retain more Neanderthal genes, and that comes with a bit more beard, thinner lips, and the hair didn't stand up like in a true human. And they've retained the white skin probably from northern European Neanderthals.

But there's little evidence that they're less civilised or advanced.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-18T05:30:17+00:00

Looks like a skypoint FLEX G-36 cellular trail camera.

If it's government, it's game wardens.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-24T00:32:00+00:00

Fox and the panelist are obvious partisan shills. Fuck 'em.

Here's hoping.

They've got a Smartmatic lawsuit that they're going to have more trouble paying to go away that the Dominion one, it looks like.

And they've got a Ray Epps lawsuit, in which he is suing them for saying that he wasn't a insurrectionist, but a Federal agent. It shows how unhinged the foxnews viewing Americans have become that that's a defamation lawsuit. But he's had death threats, and had to move house multiple times, so he's got a case.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-04T04:00:04+00:00

To clarify, she says that medical journals can no longer be trusted. Due to funding bias, publication bias, and conflicts of interest.

"The problems I’ve discussed are not limited to psychiatry, although they reach their most florid form there. Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine."

And she said it 14 years ago.

ActuallyNot · 2024-02-17T07:40:51+00:00

He's correct.

No he's wrong. He says that water vapor reflects "heat" into space.

And he thinks that's why everyone is wrong, and water vapor feedback is negative.

Water vapor condenses into clouds

It can. If it does, it's no longer water vapor.

Part of the reason it's a positive feedback is because a warmer atmosphere will hold more water vapor without it condensing.

I suspect you both knew what each other meant

I suspect he has no idea what i meant. Water vapor is a positive feedback, and he's got no handle on that at all.

I know he's talking about clouds, but he's wrong that that clouds form refutes water vapor feedback. And afaikt he genuinely thinks cloud feedback is negative.

ActuallyNot · 2023-12-11T07:05:14+00:00

Veterans can carry a lot of mental health issues, and there's insufficient care available to them.

This girl had been missing for 2 days on a psychotic break. It's not reported what she thought she was doing, but she's as nutty as someone who would claim that this is indicative of a race war instead of insufficient health care for veterans.

ActuallyNot · 2023-12-04T22:57:06+00:00

Bye [deleted],

I wonder who you were.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T06:29:49+00:00

He's certainly dangerous.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T06:25:43+00:00

That's what Trump is charged with.

I didn't do anything of the sort.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T05:18:52+00:00

I think all the opinions are valuable, in the sense that it's worthwhile trying to understand what people believe. Or the lines of the Trolls from Olgino, for those that obviously don't believe what they're posting.

There's a few kids here that get a bit overly aroused by being able to use the n-word and slurs for the LGBTQ+ community in a public forum.

But it's their keyboard, and the carpet in their mom's basement, so I don't care enough to zap anyone.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-28T01:48:35+00:00

Yeah, it's not like it's complicated.

Increasing greenhouse gasses increases the greenhouse effect.

It's a credit to their PR techniques that there's people that say "hoax!", even now that the first high-cost high-casualty tipping point of the loss of the northern summer sea ice, is already in the post.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-13T03:16:46+00:00

I agree you have to be sure of your diagnosis before going onto the hormone therapy, and I don't have a better solution than what they're doing.

But puberty blockers themselves have unpleasant effects on development, and it would be better if we could avoid them.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-12T18:30:16+00:00

Hormone levels when you go through puberty matter a lot.

ActuallyNot · 2023-06-16T00:20:51+00:00

The alternative theory is that we’re basically trying to avoid bankruptcy and hyperinflation.

There's no economic validity to slashing taxes for the rich to stimulate the economy. The rich are able and likely to save the extra money. The poor will pump it directly back into the economy.

ActuallyNot · 2023-05-26T00:20:01+00:00

I think that the British system is better where only police in dangerous areas, or specifically trained firearms units, carry guns.

All this shootings by police is counterproductive on every level: Respect and trust for the police, crime investigation. When it happens to minorities it seeds interracial violence and hate crimes, and contributes to creating a vigilante culture where police are not used.

The officer wasn't under any threat. Charges might stick if any are brought.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-18T05:52:18+00:00

Some facts for the uninformed:

Rittenhouse never brought a case for defamation against Goldberg.
She certainly didn't make a settlement agreement with him that involves paying him anything, much less $22 million.
There is no lien on Goldberg's home.
Goldberg's home is in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, not Beverly Hills, California.
She did own a home in LA from 1993 until 2018. But it was in Pacific Palisades, not Beverly Hills.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T03:48:13+00:00

1) Biden has not used the federal agencies to censor political speech. He pushed social media platforms to take down false posts about the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

2) Trump set up fake electors in seven states to steal the election, and organized a insurrection to halt the transfer of power, tried to push officials to find him 11,780 extra votes in Georgia, and that's the one that we know about because it was recorded.

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-28T22:25:48+00:00

In other news, water is wet.

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-28T02:28:54+00:00

Headings:

Donald J. Trump is the subject of numerous legal proceedings, the scope and scale of which are unprecedented for a former President of the United States and current candidate for that office. An adverse outcome in one or more of the ongoing legal proceedings in which President Trump is involved could negatively impact TMTG and its Truth Social platform.
A publicly-traded entity controlled by President Trump has previously been subject to a cease and desist order issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A number of companies that were associated with President Trump have filed for bankruptcy. There can be no assurances that TMTG will not also become bankrupt.
A number of companies that had license agreements with President Trump have failed. There can be no assurances that TMTG will not also fail.

Trump's people wrote this.

ActuallyNot · 2024-02-06T00:30:13+00:00

This paper was also peer reviewed and comes from an accredited medical journal. (The Cureus journal https://www.cureus.com/)

Sort of.

Also of note, the two controversial journals Oncotarget and Cureus accounted for over 50% of institutional publications deemed of possible concern.- Assessing Predatory Journal Publishing Within Health Sciences

Cureus, its reviewing, and its “Scholarly Impact Quotient”

Some Strange Goings On at Cureus

Cureus publications? Worth it or just a waste of time

The journal Cureus has retracted 56 papers nearly two years after it first began to suspect the works were of dubious lineage.

To me there is enough here to at least engage in serious debate.

It's weaker than from any other Springer-Nature publication I can think of. But certainly there should be a debate.

I think dismissing this paper would be a mistake.

Yeah. We should wait and see if the scientific community dismisses it or not. It is out of line with previous research.

ActuallyNot · 2023-11-10T03:51:18+00:00

The kid's dying anyway.

The government has allowed the doctors caring for Indi to sentence her to less pain. Her death is unavoidable.

ActuallyNot · 2023-10-24T11:46:26+00:00

Extreme racism and transphobia aren't just accepted here, they're the norm. As is climate science denial, supporting the invasion and annexation of neighbouring countries, so long as it's Russia.

It's a lot more like 4chan 10 years ago than Reddit 10 years ago. But with fewer people posting.

So to engage here, you need to block everyone except half a dozen reasonable people, or have an interest in what motivates people to support or do genuine evil, in the sense of spending effort to make someone else's life worse.

ActuallyNot · 2023-10-02T11:54:26+00:00

I'm not sure that that's 100% true.

ActuallyNot · 2023-09-27T08:08:46+00:00

Bernie was a winner

Yeah, probably.

and RFK, Jr. woud be a winner.

Nah. He's an anti-vax and health related conspiracy theory quack. His appeal is very niche.

ActuallyNot · 2023-09-27T06:09:19+00:00

Energy consumption is down because industry left.

Fossil fuel energy sources are down more than energy consumption.

As a % of the total, nuclear lost out the most

See how between 1979 and 2022 Nuclear dropped by 60.92 TWh, but coal dropped by 959.56 TWh?

That means that coal dropped by more than fifteen times that of nuclear.

The relevance of as a percentage isn't obvious, but just so you know, that was a 60% drop in the power consumption by coal but only a 41% drop in the power consumption by nuclear.

Are you just playing dumb now?

No I'm not playing dumb. I'm pointing out what your chart shows. Four times now.

I posted a whole thread that debunks that estimate.

No you posted a thread that claimed because copper requires mining, without any demonstration any inaccuracy. Copper mining is taken into account in the estimate I gave.

Nuclear takes anywhere between 6-15 years, depending on the resolve of the government.

You must have already acquired the land when you start the clock.

It also last many times longer than any wind or solar.

You mean without maintenance? When you lose one of the turbines in a wind farm there are other options than selling the land. You can replace the turbine.

ActuallyNot · 2023-09-27T05:23:13+00:00

I don't buy into this you can't be racist to white people nonsense if that's what you mean.

There used to be a word "reverse racism". That's not how racism works.

Here's my gold standard, if you can say it about white people and it's not considered racist then you can say it about anyone and it's not racist.

In order for speech to perpetuate a negative racial stereotype, there has to be that negative racial stereotype to perpetuate.

That's why you can say "black people are a tiny minority that finds themselves in influential positions, leading, and in some cases dominating important sectors of a nation in disproportionate numbers to their population", and you won't upset people for being racist.

Even though you're not saying it about white people.

ActuallyNot · 2023-09-27T04:46:43+00:00

This is about Jews

Yeah. It's really clear that it's anti-Semitic.

but when it's about white people being overrepresented it's not considered racist.

I'm not sure you're groking what racism is.

ActuallyNot · 2023-09-16T14:41:10+00:00

Already dead fish.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-18T05:04:39+00:00

The open-fields doctrine doesn't fly in Montana, New York, Oregon, Vermont or Washington.

... and maybe Tennessee, if that wasn't appealed.

So if you live there, they need a search warrant to do this. Otherwise, your fourth amendment rights don't really exist away from your house.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-08T13:40:20+00:00

No, Lancaster County did not count more mail-in ballots than it received

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-07T02:54:59+00:00

It's nice of Jack to link to the original guardian piece that he used as his source. But he didn't add anything extra did he?

Can you make a living in journalism by rewriting the articles from other publications?

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T10:45:11+00:00

Yeah ... How dare a prosecutor prosecute the guilty?

And detail the crimes so clearly in the indictment?

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T10:34:34+00:00

Execution would get around the difficulties of having his security detail in prison with him.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T06:28:43+00:00

"Forced"?

The lawsuit states, “… things quickly got out of hand. Lizzo began inviting cast members to take turns touching the nude performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas, and eating bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas.”

"Invited" and "forced" aren't the synonyms that you think they are.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T06:19:51+00:00

This happens surprisingly often to people who were imprisoned in their early 20s. They don't know anyone on the outside, they don't know how to live on the outside, and the fear release, because they don't know what they'll do to find somewhere to sleep and something to eat.

Edit: Jesus, please us. He's 21 now. He's been inside since he was 14.

ActuallyNot · 2023-08-02T06:04:51+00:00

"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," the authors wrote in February.

Yet a trove of recently published documents reveal that Andersen and his co-authors believed that the lab leak scenario was not just possible, but likely.

A lab leak and a purposefully manipulated virus aren't the same thing.

The Nature paper isn't the only one to conclude that it wasn't manipulated. The evidence still strongly supports that conclusion:SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered

That doesn't mean that it wasn't accidentally leaked from a lab, but it certainly doesn't mean it was.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-24T22:46:43+00:00

No it didn't.

If you relinquish your US citizenship, you become an alien, not a national. To be a national you have to be a native of an American territorial possession: Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Swains Island

There might be a few people who can renounce citizenship, and become a national if you were born in one of those territories, but federal law still applies to you. It does change who taxes you. You pay to your territory instead of US federal coffers. Normally the amount is the same.

ActuallyNot · 2023-07-24T21:55:47+00:00

These pseudolaw theories are so stupid.

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