UK Bans Trans-Identified Biological Males From Women’s Prisons

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-08-10T00:17:02+00:00

I'd love to be a male identifying as trans - if I was in a women's prison.

You'd be the only penis there. You'd be rolling in pussy and you could take your pick of the women.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-08-05T07:37:28+00:00

Unless you really like crazy. In the case of a female, it's actually (sometimes) worth it. Just don't tell crazy where you live.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-08-05T07:31:20+00:00

Because she's a horrible person. I don't apologize for Democrats either.

I am guessing they don't want to release any information about their internal security measures (secret tunnels and/or exits, security forces and weapons, camera locations, evacuation routes and tactics, etc.) It's probably SOP to not be able to release any of that info.

Just like in 9/11 they would not release any camera footage from the Pentagon. It's not that they don't have the footage, it's a top-secret just that the footage exists. The resolution, frame rate, camera angles (+any missing camera angles), showing the existence of any hidden cameras, EVERYTHING about that is information that you do not want released to the public. Remember that you are not only releasing it to the US citizens, you are releasing it to every enemy of the US forever.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-07-03T23:46:44+00:00

Simple question: Were the people who gave the rioters personalized tours through the capitol in the previous days Republican or Democrat? Were the uniformed people who let them in Republican or Democrat? When you get done turning yourself inside out to convolute these answers, you will have the answer to your puzzle. Republican Proud-Boy sympathizers (cops) let them in, in full view of the cameras. Occam's Razor. They were not hidden double-agent Democrats.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-06-13T05:56:54+00:00

Depraved how exactly? Are you talking about the bloatware that comes bundled with normal software packages and operating systems? Are you talking about data collection and selling your personal information?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-05-11T21:15:43+00:00

The beauty of freedom of speech is that you are allowed to open up your own forum at your own expense. (And liability... you will soon learn why these are moderated and censored.)

Go for it.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-05-03T08:45:07+00:00

She made the "OK" hand signal. White Supremacy.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-05-01T03:41:12+00:00

The death rate of everyone in the general population has increased since the beginning of 2020. Life insurers were the ones that notably remarked on this. It's not just pilots... it's a pandemic. Weird.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-04-20T06:37:02+00:00

The last time this came up, there were a total of three pilots who had heart attacks. But they didn't say:

How large of a group it was.

How this compared to a normal group of pilots in a non-pandemic year.

How it compares to the overall population.

Sample size is important. Otherwise it is meaningless.

I have asked this info every time I see this posted, and I get nothing in response.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-03-14T06:09:06+00:00

That's an interesting question. I, personally, write in candidates. I don't think I've voted for a (R) or (D) candidate on the ticket in the last 40 years.

Biden was a very mediocre candidate after the disaster that was Hillary. I think Bernie would have been a decent Populist president, but all of Congress (along with the DNC) would have been pulling against him, so he would not have gotten much done.

People voted for Biden simply because he wasn't Trump. Now that Biden has shown that he's not a very good President and he puts corporate interests in front of the people (as we already knew, but it pissed off the progressive far Left)... we are setting up a stage for Republicans to do very strongly in the midterms. Would Trump win in '24? I don't think so, since we know all of his true colors, but he'd make a showing. I think Biden would have to come to the table with something new in order to pull off a definitive lead.

I think almost any other Republican (other than race-to-the-bottom Idiocracy types like Marjorie Taylor Greene) would make a stronger showing than Trump. He has pissed off the Left, the Center, and even his own on the Trump Right wing of the GOP. His own people say that he doesn't pass his own purity tests as their Fuhrer. So I do not believe he'd win a fair fight if it was held today.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-03-04T07:33:36+00:00

And the other half needs to be.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-28T22:58:21+00:00

Interesting, and thank you for the response. It's noteworthy that Putin intends to replace the government with a puppet of his own.

This is an echo of Hitler's "Breathing Room" (Lebensraum) speech in 1939.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-28T02:14:41+00:00

I would like to hear an alt-right opinion...

What is a legitimate, real reason that Russia can invade a sovereign nation whenever they feel like it?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-22T18:06:44+00:00

Poal is down again, too.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-22T18:04:45+00:00

If they come up with one, sign me up... it's easier than going to get a shot.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-16T04:16:42+00:00

You assume that most of the people you're talking to have more than $500 in savings. Most people don't.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-04T04:35:08+00:00

Citation needed.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-02-02T09:12:45+00:00

It's kinda like the right wingers saying that Trump isn't right wing enough. He fails the purity test. No True Scotsman Fallacy.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-27T23:53:09+00:00

Actqktually...

There was a vote on whether or not to do it. The vote was overwhelmingly "no". Going on Fox News isn't going to win anyone over. There is nothing to be gained. You're just there so they can have a "gotcha" moment. This person stepped up and did the interview anyway, saying that they had television interview experience.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:28:10+00:00

And all 17 people on saitit didn't lose out.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:27:32+00:00

Saying the quiet part out loud now? Are you suggesting a White Ethnostate led by your Führer Donald Trump?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:22:35+00:00

Just barely past the peak and "it's dropping". Two weeks ago it was the highest it's ever been. It's still very very high but it has gone down precipitously.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:20:46+00:00

Check for yourself: http://www.hospitalbed.space/

Also, my county had a second hospital built in the last 5 years, more than doubling the bed space and ICU bed numbers. The second one is also 100% full.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:20:33+00:00

Sure, that is true. But vaccinated people don't end up in the ICU.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:20:10+00:00

Check for yourself: http://www.hospitalbed.space/

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-25T08:19:48+00:00

Check for yourself: http://www.hospitalbed.space/

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-23T10:49:45+00:00

This is a disingenuous argument made in bad faith.

I literally don't care if an antivaxxer doesn't take the shot. What I do care is that both of our hospitals and ICUs in my county are 100% full. This is preventing me from having access to emergency medicine. The people in ICU are 99% unvaccinated covid cases. Regular medical vists are very hard to schedule, and elective surgeries are nonexistent. And just try getting an appointment with someone like a pulmonologist or a cardiologist.

I don't care if you're vaccinated or not. But if you want to die, die at home and don't clog up the system. And don't kill my grandmother.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-19T03:16:37+00:00

I am also a Berniecrat. Fist bump. I voted for him in the primary (twice) and wrote him in during the general election (twice) because he wasn't on the ballot.

In terms of it being a leaky vaccine, you do have a point. And I think it got lost in the noise, being that this virus mutates fast, the whole point wasn't to eradicate the virus. We can't do that for the flu or the common cold either. The point was to keep the medical system from collapsing entirely. I saw the original report that was leaked from the Trump administration (220 pages long) analyzing all the ins and outs. If we had done nothing, 2.2 million people would now be dead. So we are doing some good, not enough.

I do think that medical insurance may start charging extra for no-vaxxers (or giving vaxxers a discount, which is the same thing). Since I don't set policy, and I really have no impact at all except for the town forum like this one... no one asked me, so my opinion doesn't really have any weight.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-19T03:09:46+00:00

We're in a failing empire, clearly, but this is only one facet of it. No big deal.

If the train companies had been doing their jobs... they used to employ "train detectives" to keep hobos from riding the train and keep thefts down. They don't do that much any more. Seems like a problem that security would deter just fine.

I am hearing stories that they are resorting to welding the cars shut when they are filled. When they arrive at the destination, someone with a cutting torch cuts them open.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-19T03:06:52+00:00

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (gasp) hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-19T02:39:14+00:00

Also, some thoughts on healthcare. The healthcare system will sell you drugs or whatever, regardless of your state of health. But the price is another matter. They charge you more if you're a smoker. So does life insurance.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-19T02:37:30+00:00

There are some nuances to this. Hear me out.

If you are riding on a motorcycle and you don't want to wear a helmet, a lot of people are thinking that you are only risking your own life and that is a risk you should be willing to take. But you don't always just die. You could become a vegetable and have to be taken care of at government's expense. You could have children, and if you become a vegetable or die, the government has to take care of them.

If you are riding in a car without a seatbelt, similarly you're not the only one at risk. Your body becomes a missile and can injure or kill other people in the car. And, again, you might not die. My grandfather was a firefighter in the 60s and 70s before seatbelt use was widespread. His fire truck was t-boned by a drunk driver going 100mph. The fire truck was hit so hard it tipped onto its side. He spent weeks in the hospital and months recuperating before he could return to his job. The drunk driver was killed, of course.

If you go to public school or university, spreading disease is one vector where your own inadvertent actions can kill or disable others. So you have to have a very long list of vaccine injections by the time you are old enough for elementary school. They are compulsory or you cannot attend. That's the part that anti-vaxxers seem to not want to engage with. If you are resistant to taking a new vaccine, what about all the other dozens of them you had by the time you were five years old? Why no protest until now? If you were truly a staunch lifelong believer, wouldn't you have already protested?

I think anti-vaxxers should have to start their own schools or homeschool their kids. Stay out of public theaters, restaurants, stores, concerts unless they are willing to submit to PCR testing before entering, at their own expense. If you want to be a burden to society, you should pay the price for your burden. Isn't the republican party the party of personal responsibility?

One further thing I want to interject into the conversation: The bible says, if you are sick, you are to stay outside of town, cover your face with a piece of cloth, and shout "unclean! unclean!" if anyone tries to approach you. Whenever I point this out to a "Christian" anti-vaxxer, crickets.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-19T02:24:53+00:00

I had alpha and delta. So far. I had the same experience as you on the first two. March/April 2020 I had alpha and it was very bad. A year later I got delta and it was very much like yours. Half as bad, maybe less than half. I certainly wasn't coughing my lungs out for 3 weeks. I am hoping to avoid omicron but it looks very widespread at this point.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-18T02:24:24+00:00

You had alpha and delta and omicron? Dude.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-10T04:11:35+00:00

Hospitals, by law, operated as non-profits up until the very early 1970s.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2022-01-08T20:52:22+00:00

I voted for him in both elections, even though he didn't appear on the ballot after the primary. I had to write him in.

If the DNC hadn't screwed him over with the superdelegates, he'd be in his second term now.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-31T19:48:42+00:00

I'm no doctor, but according to Wikipedia, one of the known causes of myocarditis is covid infection. There have been millions upon millions of covid infections, and some of them were asymptomatic. So the cause and effect may be wrong here. Perhaps it isn't caused by the vaccination, but by covid. A 100x elevation in the rate of myocarditis does not sound out of line at all.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-24T09:21:40+00:00

In the USA you cannot even get a house that is good enough to last for the entire 30 year mortgage before it needs a serious remodel. My dad's house was torn down and redeveloped before they paid it off.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-15T21:59:19+00:00

I'm a GenX. Whatever.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-15T20:40:18+00:00

I don't know what the L is, and I'm probably older than you are.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-15T18:09:40+00:00

800,000.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-15T18:09:04+00:00

You should learn to speak in complete sentences.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-14T19:54:40+00:00

Again, proof of what? Your comment isn't clear what you are asking for.

Are you asking for my two covid tests? Are you asking for copies of my x-rays showing lung damage? Are you asking for copies of my vaccination records? Are you asking for proof of my weight and/or age? What are you asking for?

You give proof and other people move the goal posts. Again and again.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-14T08:45:33+00:00

Proof of what?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-11T19:04:01+00:00

Negative to both of those.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-11T19:03:35+00:00

The shot wasn't available in March of 2020.

Read it again. I got it twice, then after that, I got 3 shots.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-09T02:29:35+00:00

The asshole who argued with me here deleted his account. Now at over 750,000+.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-09T01:05:34+00:00

Gonna need a sauce on that one, boss.

I had it in March-April of 2020 and I have the lung damage to prove it (2x 12mm calcified nodules on rt lung).

I had it again in April of 2021 (delta).

I have since been vaccinated with booster (3x Pfizer) and I haven't had it again, even though I've had multiple known exposures.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-08T21:20:48+00:00

I do not know who they polled. Every single person I know of is done with endless wars for no reason. Afghanistan finally put them over the line.

I think the polling methodology was flawed, or they deliberately slanted the questions to get the answers they wanted.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-08T21:12:02+00:00

Jew Jew Jew Jew

You just lost all credibility in the argument. If you had left that word out of your title, at least I would consider it on its merits.

Here, try this:

Vaxxed Washington Post reporter dies of heart failure

If you show bias in your headline, that means there is bias in the article.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-08T20:58:36+00:00

I could say, "Why do you care what's happening on Reddit?"

But really I do have an explanation. Schadenfreude. The anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers have been so utterly obnoxious and horrible, it's kind of hilarious watching them get their comeuppance. Most people are at the "fuck this, let them die if they don't want to get vaxxed" stage. We've carried you all for a long time and we're done. Now you're just clogging up the hospitals and preventing normal people from getting care that has nothing to do with the pandemic.

So, lose your job. Die. I don't care. Just don't kill me or your kids while you're doing it.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-08T20:49:27+00:00

A Yellowstone supervolcano eruption would be very bad. But magma takes a long time to percolate to the surface and it hasn't been doing that. So it won't happen instantly. News and media hype and movies aside, it takes a while. Mt. St. Helens in 1980 took about 2 months to go from no activity to a big eruption... they had lots of warning. And Mt. St. Helens had been dormant only since the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition. So it wasn't really dormant at all... just on a pause. Yellowstone is many orders of magnitude bigger than that, and will take a lot more time to become active.

Also, these quakes are like 600 miles away from there and are on the rim of the Pacific subduction zone (on the edge of the North American plate). So they are very unrelated events.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-12-03T08:47:46+00:00

I have Comcast as an ISP and I use privateinternetaccess as a VPN. I can get to it just fine.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-11-16T22:38:53+00:00

Agreed. This is one of the more-retarded things I've read this week. And I read a lot.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-11-16T22:37:21+00:00

I bang chicks. I bang chicks over 35 exclusively because they don't play mind games and they know what they want. And they have very high sex drives and know how to fuck.

This joke looks like it was written by a 19 year old incel in his basement. Can't get laid by the other 19 year old chicks, so he's bitter about all chicks. He should go to a bar and let a cougar pick him up and show him how it's done.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-11-16T22:34:25+00:00

You are mentally deranged if you believe this headline.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-10-25T03:54:55+00:00

It's pretty simple and I'm surprised that more stores in these areas don't do this:

You put a big bulletproof plexiglass door in the front with a turntable or drawer in it, like they have in pot shops and banks and everything.

Customer comes up to the window. They are not allowed in the store. They talk into a speaker or use a kiosk to tell the employee what they want. The employee goes and gets the crap from the store and rings it up. Customer pays for it by putting cash in the drawer or running a card through an armored card reader. If it is paid properly, the order is dropped into the slot and the customer can retrieve it.

This isn't rocket science. If shoplifters take over, make it impossible to do. If shoplifters cannot get to the products, they cannot shoplift. 2" thick plexiglass is bulletproof and cannot be pried open. A linebacker can't take it down. You would need to install some 36" tall steel columns in front of the store to prevent someone from driving a car through the door. This is pretty standard stuff.

I live in a state where pot is legal to sell in licensed shops. They are all run this way. They have a small display area out front. You tell the salesperson what you want and pay for it. They take your money into the back and return with your product. Customers are never anywhere near the product or the cash register. Nobody ever tries to rob or shoplift at a place like this. They'd just lock the "airlock" on the bulletproof lobby doors and you'd get a ride to jail.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-10-25T03:47:58+00:00

Indeed. You don't have to "melt steel beams" to get them to buckle. Anyone who knows any kind of structural engineering or metallurgy or blacksmithing or anything knows this.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-10-22T18:41:39+00:00

Not many. A lot of posts make it to the front page with only a few upvotes. Some don't have any comments at all.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-10-22T18:39:14+00:00

Wait, what happened to Ruqqus? And did anyone notice?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-10-10T22:55:30+00:00

Poal is an utter cesspool.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-10-04T04:38:21+00:00

Just crossed 700,000. Anything?

crickets

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-09-10T08:59:53+00:00

You guys won't trust the NIH or CDC, but you trust Nigeria?!?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-09-10T04:19:10+00:00

They totally ignored that. What got him was a racist comment.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-09-07T22:53:07+00:00

Also

Cooking oil (coconut oil has a lot of longevity; regular cooking oil can go rancid and should be regularly rotated).

Fuel to cook your food if you plan to go off grid. It takes a lot of heat for a long time to cook dry beans.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-09-02T08:02:32+00:00

This dude knows what he's talking about. I used to go to pieces when I was alone for a week or so. Meditation helps. Finding internal peace helps. You need to find out that you are okay with being you. Find your own meaning and place in this universe without that being external to you (not within another person).

And do the physical things. Take a shower and brush your teeth. Go for a walk in the woods. Go outside at night and look at the stars away from city lights. Go for a drive to nowhere, a place you've never been before. Take a long hike. Work with your hands in the garage. Plant something in the ground. Do a hobby. Volunteer.

People are stressed out right now and need to have a release. Everyone is going through this. The sooner you find your own internal peace, the better off you will be.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-28T21:05:40+00:00

Couple of points in the US. Hospital staff, particularly nurses:

Have quit because of terminal burnout / overwork

Have quit because of mask mandates

Have died because of Covid

Have had permanent injuries due to Covid, or are suffering from Long Covid symptoms and cannot work

Have left hospital nursing and went to work for a private practice or other less-stressful job.

All of this has led to the current shortage of nurses in the US. Now with fewer nurses to actually do the work, two things are happening:

Hospitals cannot fill up to the capacity of the number of beds they have. They can only fill to a certain ratio of nurses to patients. There may be unused beds in a hospital, but they cannot have a patient in them because there is no one to take care of them.
The remaining nurses are being worked harder and harder, leading to more burnout and more nurses leaving. This is a snowball effect that can only get worse as time goes on. The head of Alabama's medical system had a press conference last week and was in tears, saying "We don't know how much longer we can do this."

I've seen two postings for my area for nursing staff. They paid anywhere from $135 to $150 per hour, guaranteed at least 48 hours a week of work. No interview needed. You walk in, show them your credentials, get your paperwork filled out, and you get on the schedule. You are hired. They cannot fill all the available positions at $150 an hour.

Repeat: They cannot fill all the available positions at $150 an hour.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-27T02:20:51+00:00

What's the deadline to get both shots done? Until then, they aren't facing anything.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-23T23:49:59+00:00

Now at 625,000+. How say you?

Also, Trump told the audience at his own rally that the vaccine was a good idea, he had gotten it, and he recommended that they get it.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-23T14:30:43+00:00

So the person who got into a flame war with me over a year ago, you owe me a public apology.

Trump took the vaccine and he also told his audience to get it.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-22T21:26:17+00:00

the other things the test turns positive for, like the flu

Gonna need a citation for that.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-21T22:15:28+00:00

Let's look at actual data, shall we?

Hospitals in my local county:

Total Covid patients: 1037

Unvaccinated patients: 963 92.8%

Partially vaccinated patients: 40 3.8%

Fully vaccinated patients: 34 3.2%

Total admissions up 475% over baseline numbers from previous years.

I'll take my chances with the vaccine, thank you very much.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-16T17:42:12+00:00

The US employed 10,000 local people as translators. They were left behind. People who are thought to be US sympathizers either have to GTFO or they will be killed.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-16T17:39:22+00:00

Every President since Reagan has had some involvement in Afghanistan. It's almost as if you create an instability in the region, you create terrorists. Keep swatting the hornet's nest, next time will be better.

Reagan -> CIA -> Supported Bin Laden "freedom fighters" against the Soviet Union. When we inevitably pulled out, we left the Mujahadin hanging and this caused them to become radicalized and eventually turned into Al Qaeda.

George W. Bush -> Invaded Afghanistan to go after Bin Laden. What was left of Al Qaeda radicalized further and created the Taliban.

What will be next? We shouldn't have ever been involved there at all.

If our 20 year, $2 trillion dollar involvement fell apart in a couple of weeks, there wasn't really any long term stability there, ever. This isn't Biden's fault. This isn't even Trump's fault. It isn't Obama's fault. It isn't W's fault. But they all share in it. Whoever was left holding the bag, the person who was POTUS when we inevitably pulled out, got stuck with it. Musical chairs.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-16T14:49:13+00:00

You do know that Trump negotiated the pullout, right? Edit: and he also signed a deal to release 5000 suspected Taliban prisoners in exchange for not being shot at while we were pulling out. One of the people he released (suspected Taliban ex-prisoner) is now the new leader of Afghanistan.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-07T21:09:03+00:00

Could be. If they do that, I'll opt out of buying them and shop somewhere else. Better yet, get a 25 year old drill instead of a new one. I have one that is as old as I am (50) and it runs great. They'll fight over it when I die. The old machines are much better quality and longer lasting than the new ones. They are designed to wear out and break, with no spare parts available.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-06T21:44:55+00:00

It is said (by stores) that a lot of the problem is employee theft. I don't know if I believe that or not.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-03T14:21:20+00:00

This would be relatively easy to bypass, except that the BT authorization might be located on a board along with the battery management and other "smart" (integrated) technologies. If the BT device was separate and inline, you just clip a couple of wires and put in a wire nut to hotwire it.

Much simpler just to lock the tools up in the store. If you want one, they take it to the register and you buy it.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-08-03T14:19:12+00:00

They already do this at some locations. In my location, the actual item is located in a locker below the display. If you want it, you get an employee, he gets it out of the locker and carries it up to the register for you. You are not allowed to touch it until you paid for it.

This isn't rocket science and it does not require bluetooth. This whole premise is silly.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-07-28T13:52:26+00:00

Bravo. Empirical evidence is not highly rated here. I'm from the "show me" state.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-07-12T21:37:54+00:00

It's almost as if being the President of a third world nation in the middle of an upheaval is risky. Weird.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-06-15T11:28:35+00:00

Wake me up when something actually happens. Remember the Panama Papers? When they came out with actual evidence that rich people and corporations were using shell companies to hide taxable income offshore? What actually happened with that bombshell? Nothing. Except the reporter was killed.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-06-02T14:39:01+00:00

Okay, just so that we can clear the air just a little here... this is not 100% pertinent to the article, but it is pertinent to the headline.

The "US" (meaning the government) does not buy and sell oil generally. US companies drill for oil, refine it, buy it on the international market, and sell it domestically and internationally.

In general, the US sells more oil than we import. This makes us a net energy producer, which - to give credit where credit is due - began under Trump. But it could be said under Trump as well... "The US is forced to import oil! Everyone panic and blame Trump." Because we buy and sell oil internationally every single day of every year. Cherrypicking to make a clickbait headline is disingenuous at best. People need to think critically and not react based on a headline.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-29T19:04:01+00:00

To answer your question seriously: Not very many.

The most populous sub had 39,717 subscribers.

Many of those are bots. How many? Unknown.

I believe, without evidence, that many of those actual humans were one-time signups that are now gone. Reddit subreddit bans come in waves. Each time a big wave happens, it results in a wave of signups here out of a response of frustration and anger. Those people appear to sign up, look around a little, and then slowly trickle away when they realize that the site just really isn't that large.

You'd have to judge actual numbers on site engagement. Using the 90/9/1 rule of thumb, 90% of users are lurkers. 9% create an account and upvote and downvote and comment. 1% are content creators and submit new posts. So if you go by the front page, you have some posts that do not have any comments, just a few upvotes, and some posts make it to the front page without any upvotes at all.

So not very many active users. Using this post as an example, you have 16 comments and 16 upvotes. Using the 90/9/1 rule, around 160 people saw this post and 16 interacted with it. And this was one of the more active posts on the front page.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-28T18:13:12+00:00

Saidit just simply doesn't have good user engagement. It's not big enough to get big or stay big.

High numbers of bots posting and upvoting content to front page... check

Low numbers of new legitimate posts... check

Low numbers of votes on legitimate posts... check

Low numbers of comments... check

A few loudmouths (anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, muh freedums) poisoning the well and bullying the comments sections... check

Probably nowhere to go but down. I only spend a few minutes a week at this site now.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-28T17:57:35+00:00

That's entirely within your rights to say...

But I had Covid-19 and it gave me all kinds of problems. If you are familiar with the symptoms of long covid, I had a whole list of them, such as a pulmonary embolism and a stroke. I am otherwise healthy and have had no cardiovascular issues my whole life. I have had shortness of breath for 6 months. I wouldn't wish that on anybody. As an anecdote, I work with a guy that now has 55% lung capacity due to permanent scarring because of covid.

For what it's worth, our 12 year old made the decision himself with the insight and assistance from 2 parents and a step parent.

So it's your right if you want to not take the shot and risk getting sick. There is a meme going around today of a cop who was anti-vax and said "I have an immune system, I don't need a vaccination". He died of Covid yesterday. The irony is thick but I feel sorry for his family. There have been a bunch of these including politicians.

I'm curious if you feel this way about other vaccinations you get when you're a child. When I was in elementary school many years ago, they didn't allow you to say no. You got the shot, or you weren't allowed to attend public school. This was for MMR and other common vaccinations at the time. How say you?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-26T14:57:23+00:00

Agreed.

At this point I am just waiting for Darwin to take care of the anti-vax crowd. They've earned it.

Unfortunately there are also people that cannot be vaccinated due to legitimate medical needs, and the children who have not received it yet. My 12 year old just got his first shot.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-26T14:54:52+00:00

Me too! Nerd cred. High fives Akali and misses

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-04T08:00:16+00:00

Seems like coercion. Easy solution: ban everyone involved at all levels.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-03T18:37:32+00:00

Not following. Are you saying that Asians have less influenza deaths because more Americans are obese?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-05-01T07:45:23+00:00

Anyone who studies epidemiology predicted this, they know it, and they know why it happened.

The influenza virus has a lower R0 and cannot pass and reproduce as easily as COVID-19. Therefore the masks and social distancing used for COVID-19 also work for influenza, and work better. Influenza can't spread. So it dies out.

Guess what. It's normal for people in SE Asia to wear masks during flu season as a courtesy to others. It's cultural and it has been for many years. And they don't have nearly as many people die of influenza as the US. Weird, huh?

This type of post needs to be nuked. A fifth grader could have figured this out, but it seems beyond people who are being deliberately obtuse.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-04-23T22:02:00+00:00

Sorry, saidit just isn't that important. This is not a large site with a large amount of user engagement. There are posts on the front page with zero upvotes and lots of posts with no comments at all.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-04-12T04:06:34+00:00

I agree that it was orchestrated. Not grass-roots but astroturf.

The reason was that the Occupy (we are the 99%) movement was very dangerous. This took over a lot of the same people and distracted them with something unwinnable. The goal posts on something nebulous like this will be moved wherever needed to keep the group engaged and everybody busy.

Meanwhile the 1% continue to rape and pillage wholesale.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-23T22:40:12+00:00

It's interesting, depending on the source, they spell his name "Americanized" or "Islamicized". Alyssa or Al-Issa.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-16T22:21:21+00:00

I'd bet that there are less than 1,000 people regularly reading and probably less than 500 active participants and commenters.

SearchVoat was a nice site statistic resource that daily posted total comments, commenters, comments by sub, and all of that. Were around 1,800 to 2k daily commenters before the Qtard invasion.

If I wasn't clear, my comment was aimed toward this site (and also poal).

This site's most populous sub has 39,000 subscribers, but very few comments and votes. I suspect that there aren't more than 1000 people actively on the site and less than 500 commenting and voting on a regular basis. I mostly lurk here a couple of times a week for a few minutes, then move on.

Poal is extremely small even in comparison to this site, let alone reddit. Poal's most active sub is a Q sub, with 800 subscribers. Most subs have more like 200. Other than the Q subs, news, and politics, very little active engagement with the site. A handful of new posts a day, and only a small number of votes or comments (other than the Q subs, news, and politics).

Voat had much more active engagement, at least. The Q people had a number of extremely active groups with lots of new posts, comments, and votes. They did tend to stick to those locations, but over time they chased people off.

Like I said, it's hard to get true numbers. Those are just my own anecdotes.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-16T04:57:53+00:00

Same. They sure did take over the front page, didn't they?

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-16T04:42:23+00:00

There simply aren't that many people regularly visiting the site and interacting with it. There were a couple of waves of new signups that happened corresponding with subreddits being canceled on reddit. But those people need to have a group of people to interact with, to comment on each others posts and other comments. Since that startup threshold wasn't met, they all left (mostly) after being here for a brief time.

The people who are actually here are outcasts of other social media (here and on poal and gab and parler) that have been kicked out or left reddit and twitter due to censorship and cancellation.

This tends to create a feedback loop, as some saw on voat. Only the outcasts were at voat, which means a very small group on a free speech site, and the really vocal, really unpleasant people tended to have extremist positions. As they grew more powerful, they were emboldened and they grew louder. This drove off more "moderate" or "reasonable" free-speech loving folk. Over time, this effect was amplified x 100, until only the true Nazis and scum of the earth were on voat. This has already taken over poal, and is beginning to happen here.

So the most populous sub on this site has about 39,000 subscribers, but almost all of them are gone. Hard to get any good metrics on the engagement each participant has on this site, but I'd bet that there are less than 1,000 people regularly reading and probably less than 500 active participants and commenters. Poal is even smaller. Since the Q people took over, the most populous sub has only 800 subscribers and probably less than 100 active participants.

You have to hit a critical mass early on in order to have a snowball effect of people joining and more people joining because there are people already there. If you don't hit it within a certain amount of time, you're not going to. And I think saidit and poal are both going downhill due to the extremists taking over the political discussion on the site. If you don't pass their purity test, they actively go against you with more than just downvotes. I had my life threatened on multiple occasions on voat, due to having an opinion that did not line up with the purity test. That scares most people off, and the site dies a slow death.

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-09T18:57:34+00:00

Well, a claim was made about SpaceX in particular. I'm aware that they just got a NASA contract to develop a lunar lander based on the Starship design. If you are aware of something to the contrary, I'd love to see a citation. I follow space policy pretty closely.

EDIT: I'm also aware that they were awarded two contracts worth $159 million today for spy satellite launches for the US government (US Space Force and NROL).

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-09T03:17:25+00:00

Again, I'd like to see a citation. Not just "he said, she said".

yetanotherone_sigh · 2021-03-03T08:25:22+00:00

That's the idea. It looks like a small UFO on a stick. You point it at the open sky and you get internet out the cable. The first consumer version they have out draws too much power for off-grid use (on the order of 250W). If they can get it down to half that or lower, it'd be good for all kinds of uses such as people living in RVs, etc.

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