@TimStone dude has been trash for a while, glad to see it catch up

@TimStone ah goddammit

@TimStone wait these are different big shootings on the same day?

wtf

Yeah

@TimStone One of the victims was reportedly a doctor who was shot by her ex-fiance

So, essentially yet another case of domestic violence

Ah, well, a little lead paint never ki holds earpiece mmm

@TimStone amazon pushback really got him riled up

@TimStone To be fair, they tried to schedule inspections to check for that sort of thing, but people wanted to go vote instead, so really the city can't be blamed for this at all

@TimStone What is RICO?

It's not RICO...err wait no it is

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act), it's an organized crime statute

Put extremely simply, anyway. Anytime there's some sort of conspiracy (like, people conspiring, not conspiracy theory) people are always like "OMG IT'S RICO!" but it's never actually RICO

@TimStone wasn't he already in jail

He was merely indicted earlier I think

I mean but probably also like yes in an "ever before" sense

Hmmm there is a link that makes Jacob Wohl's accusations look even worse which was funny but then I clicked through and it was written by the Krassensteins so now I'm just angry

@TimStone Responding police officer has died

Additional 3 deaths including the shooter

/me looks to the Onion

In uh...lighter....news?

I present this abomination

Y'know, they say "don't shoot the messenger", but in this case I think it's justified

Remember me as I lived, buried in Hot Cheetos

Huh, McAdams has retaken the lead from Mia Love

jfc :/

@Unionhawk hell yeah

@TimStone bUt 👏 HeR 👏 eMaIlS 👏

UK Gov bans drugs, turns out people still taking drugs, getting them from criminals instead

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT

@Memor-X Cooked?

@fredley i think i fixed it

@TimStone [Insert joke about it being a code name for Trump and Pardons]

@Unionhawk This doesn't surprise me at all

@Memor-X [Appreciative response]

> Like other investors in the incredibly long-shot dinar scheme, Kotseos hopes that Trump and the Iraqi government will somehow “revalue” or “RV” the currency, boosting its current value of less than $0.001 to $3 or $4.

@TimStone Of the weird and completely out of left field things that exist in this administration, this is certainly one of them.

Also, that photo-negative of the kneeling crusader is just hilarious in this context.

It works on soooo many levels.

> “With what’s going on in Iraq right now, everything is so hopeful,” Kotseos said.

Jesus f--k.

Old (2003) news but fascinating: the story of how the Enquirer had to evacuate and abandon their entire office building and all of the archives inside after anthrax was mailed to them and killed a photo editor

@fredley talking about "spice" always gets the dune fanboi in me excited

@TimStone wut

@Unionhawk I can't believe that a group whose founder has stated that he saw that the "left can't fight" and wanted to start a "gang" that "can fight" could possibly ever be considered extreme.

@Unionhawk hell yeah

@Unionhawk lol suck it private equity chumps

@GodEmperorDune ha

@GodEmperorDune It's like the same day birthday game!

@Unionhawk it kinda bothers me that the ladies wing of the proud boys is called the "proud boys girls" instead of just the "proud girls" but i guess the sexism was already baked in

@SaintWacko @TimStone thanks for bringing the Thanksgiving cheer :D

@Unionhawk Nice work

@TimStone take that senator elect mitt romney

> Trump’s Secretary of State hand-delivered plan to protect Saudi crown prince from murder probe

@GodEmperorDune That just sounds like a mess to say.

@GodEmperorDune Proud Boysettes

@TimStone ... Proud Bowsettes?

They haven't earned that

@GodEmperorDune yeah, at the end of the day, one of the primary driving forces behind these people is a healthy mix of toxic masculinity and dedication to conservative 50s gender roles

I suppose the second implies the first there to a degree, but

Narrator: lol, but they would

Aside from not just killing the turkey this isn't Trump's fault yet is still extremely dumb

Counterpoint though: The turkey is far more watchable than Sarah Sanders

> “One of the two turkeys will be selected via an online White House poll to become this year's National Thanksgiving Turkey. The turkeys have been carefully groomed for a White House event, trained from a young age to be comfortable with lights, crowds, and music to make them comfortable in the limelight.”

lol

re Amazon (this could go in either room because I can disguise it as about video games, but I am choosing to throw it here)

(this is a good series)

That is an interesting video

jesus fufck

i'm just reading through tdor

and like

2016 we had one trans murder in tdor

hande kader

more on her (cw: sexual assault, death)

in 2017 we had NONE in tdor

zero

2018? we have 7.

two in istanbul (a single district in european side), one in ankara, rest of them spread across turkey

I just watched a thing on one of them, apparently she was stabbed by a client, with client later saying shit like "I thought he was a woman, he turned out to be a man".

guess who is even more scared of having a job that involves a lot of traveling now

and FUCK YOU AMAZON

you've been delaying the knife I relied on for a week now, and I already waited over a month

(it's small because it's not that legal to carry around a knife for offense or defense reasons, so I went with something that I can reasonably claim that I can use as a tool to open stuff)

I just read through the whole list, read every single name, researched some. If you have time and want to just... idk, here's the link tdor.info

@Unionhawk ah but what about insider gentrification?

whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/…

The official statement by Trump about Saudi Arabia and Khashoggi

And clearly actually by him, because whew

I can't really get used how insane those official statements can be

I'm curious if it was dictated and someone added the exclamation marks themselves or

@Ave holy shit

@TimStone I don't believe he writes a statement like this entirely on his own, but it certainly has his voice. So either someone is channeling Trump, or he is editing or suggesting changes

Yeah, it's just weird because usually they say something unhinged in more polished language but this is just all around off the wall

(evergreen tweet?)

Like someone kept asking him about it and he threw his hands up and said "I'm gonna write a statement" and told his staff writers he didn't need them because they weren't as good as him

@MadScientist what the fuck

@Unionhawk wow this is a good series, how did you find it?

It's impressive in how many different ways this statement is terrible

@GodEmperorDune our #poli-101 channel in discord

lol

the parking episode also got posted to bridge the other day

@Unionhawk so is all this data in cities skylines or did the guy pull it from somewhere else?

@TimStone Lol, its like he's opening up to take a bite

@GodEmperorDune I mean, idk. Like, parking starts out like "in city skylines, you need between 0.75 and 2 spaces per floor space of a building", but then goes in on "this is way more complicated in real life even and parking minimums do this images of a lot of empty parking lots in urban areas"

Oh, were they not supposed to do that?

> Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!

@TimStone devos!

> Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that – this is an unacceptable and horrible crime.

What's the point in mentioning this at all, if not to disparage the victim?

@Unionhawk this is really, really accurate for istanbul tbh

Thanks to gentrification, I pay more rent than my mom (who lives in Ankara), mom gets a three floor house in a nice spot, I get a single room that's in a less nice spot

"Ironically enough, it seems that one of the most reliable findings in psychology is that only half of psychological studies can be successfully repeated." - Psychology's replication crisis hammered home more than ever through broad new replication effort specifically addressing common replication criticisms.

> And as in previous big projects, online bettors were surprisingly good at predicting beforehand which studies would ultimately replicate.

@puzzlepiece87 i mean there's also the thing where informed consent makes it so many early studies are unethical to even attempt to repeat

> Famous, long-established phenomena—the stuff of textbooks and ted Talks—might not be real. There’s social priming, where subliminal exposures can influence our behavior. And ego depletion, the idea that we have a limited supply of willpower that can be exhausted. And the facial-feedback hypothesis, which simply says that smiling makes us feel happier.

@GodEmperorDune Yes, it's very frustrating that this field acted so irresponsibly that two separate, very bad things tarnished so much of their research output.

@puzzlepiece87 it was irresponsible but i am glad that they kind of figured their ethical stuff out early on and are much better now

tech has not hit that industrywide reckoning yet

and yeah, a lot of the early experiments were extremely sloppy

@GodEmperorDune How did your presentation go?

@puzzlepiece87 it went well

@Unionhawk As an aside, some people really in the weeds in these city sims.

Like in the video, they were paving sidewalks and placing fences for block parks.

one of the people i presented to remarked that all of things were so basic and low level, they were just taken for granted in their field (nonprofits)

Things are far too off the rails for a Tuesday. I guess maybe Thursday being a holiday makes today the new Thursday 🤔

@GodEmperorDune I'm glad to hear that :)

@GodEmperorDune What does this mean? That non-profits are already in good shape on those topics, or that they need to do more?

@puzzlepiece87 that non profits are more advanced and don't have the same toxic culture issues

iirc, they still don't have parity where exec leadership is fully representative of the population, but they are beyond "make sure that non-white/non-males get a chance to contribute in meetings and get credit for their ideas"

That said,

@GodEmperorDune Good.

@TimStone where can i vote for gritty?

@GodEmperorDune This is a fallacious question. Gritty is not a person but an all-consuming, alt-right destroying, socialist, hivemind zeitgeist born from the depths of human insanity and our collective subconscious godhead.

That's okay they have "Undocumented Children" as an option so the criteria is pretty loose

Amazing, Bolsonaro is on the list despite merely being a fascist who won and has not had time to do war crimes yet

@TimStone That sounds pretty yikes.

@TimStone Obama Peace Prize.

Yeah, but they had a (very ridiculous but technically acceptable) reason for that

@puzzlepiece87 Really, it's not about the war crimes he's achieved but rather the aspiration of war crimes that we place our hopes in.

This would be true but the Person of the Year had to have done things during the year or the whole system falls apart!

lol Melania

@Yuuki The pitch floats across the plate... Yuuki hammers it out. Home run!

lol it was Thai Cave Divers and then Elon Musk, excellent

You are on your words game today, @Yuuki

@TimStone What did you do during the year that you won?

I can't remember which year that was :P

Oh wait I found the winner

It actually has more Yeses than Nos which is uncommon among the options

@TimStone If you're going to present the planet as Person of the Year, you're using the wrong picture.

In case anyone was in doubt, yes, Jeff Flake was somehow on the list despite his entire existence being predicated on not effecting change

@TimStone Those dern immigrants are terkin' err worker's rights negotiations.

He's...going to complain until someone gets shot, or? I don't understand

@TimStone Just burn all the damn lettuce, it's the only way to be sure

@TimStone mr bone saw is currently winning

oh wait that was last year's poll

He is incidentally on this list too

@TimStone hell yeah

@TimStone Oh, it's another E. Coli thing. The tweet makes it kind of mysterious

Yeah, it seems to be an issue of where from not so much what

lol cocaine mitch is in this

but gritty is not

#hax

@TimStone Labor organizing is a much better thing for Somali-Americans in Minnesota to make the news for than measles outbreaks due to no vaccinations

"Exclusive: Trump weighs authorizing U.S. troops to medically screen migrants" - reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-border-military-exclu/…

How to make money, Amazon Executive style

@Wipqozn they are taking them back off the border tho.... wtf

@GodEmperorDune YOU KNOW WHAT'S WORSE THAN TERRIBLE NEWS? SOMEONE POSTING IT BEFORE YOU.

laughs in Twitter addiction

@TimStone high fives in extremely online

lmao at ben's national review piece

interesting that people who hate the current president also hated W

I wonder if there is a pattern there