News That Doesn't Warrant a Thread 2024

[Master Thrasher]

https://twitter.com/MicahBBurke/status/1248831205375496193

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/vote4robgill/status/1255922426120146947

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jane-roe-confesses-anti-abortion-conversion-all-an-act-paid-for-by-the-christian-right

As soon as I saw the ads for that documentary, I knew that was "her shocking deathbed confession". Her story kind of reminds me of Linda Lovelace's. It seems like both changed their story so many times RE: how they felt about the reason for their fame that it's hard to know what to really believe they felt.

Honestly, call me crazy but I think it's more upsetting if she sold out her believes than if she actually converted to being a pro life whackjob.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/the1janitor/status/1268752845056155650

 

[Mickey Massuco]

BAHHHH GAWWWWD

this should be posted in a thread people actually read, fam.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Devin Nunes Loses Legal Battle With Twitter Cow

Fake moos.

nymag.com

MOO

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1280217058677084160

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I don't know the best place to put this but https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/...eets-shut-off-verified-accounts?ICID=ref_fark

tons of big accoutns on twitter got hacked and they shut down a lot of the verified accounts for a long time. If they were posting on thosea ccounts they almost certainly got access to all their DM's too. I'd imagine at least some of those people (elon musk) are dumb enough to have some pretty good shit in there.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Controversial U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wanted firearm, security for Reykjavik post

The State Department declined to say if there is any credible threat to Gunter's safety, but U.S. government officials told CBS News the ambassador has been informed multiple times that he is at no extraordinary risk.

www.cbsnews.com

As a result, Gunter wanted the State Department to obtain special permission from the Icelandic government for him to have a firearm. They say he also wanted door-to-door armored car service, and entertained the idea of wearing a "stab-proof vest."
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all the stories in the article about this guy are nuts. Shocked trump didn't give him a bigger job.

 

[BruiserBrody]

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1305990965820231680

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1306186260390858754

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I'm calling bullshit on that study. They seem to release a variation of it every year to get publicity (about different countries) "X's don't know about the holocaust!" and always with a small sample size and a lot of dramatic statements. I find it highly unlikely and it seems more likely its just a good way to stir up controversy and get some fundraising done.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I'm calling bullshit on that study. They seem to release a variation of it every year to get publicity (about different countries) "X's don't know about the holocaust!" and always with a small sample size and a lot of dramatic statements. I find it highly unlikely and it seems more likely its just a good way to stir up controversy and get some fundraising done.

Hmmmmm... 'Merica is pretty dumb. Just this week I was talking to a coworker who I consider fairly smart and she had never heard of the Bataan Death March. (My great uncle was a POW).

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I think the fact that it's >30 year olds makes it slightly more plausible. All of the news articles seem to imply two thirds of Americans in general. And there's no way that number is correct if we're including Boomers, Xers, Millennials. I feel like besides the GD American Revolution, Holocaust was one thing we covered semi in depth in history classes in school.

 

[BruiserBrody]

 

[BruiserBrody]

Queen to receive government ‘bailout’

‘This royal bailout will be tough to stomach for people who love the Queen but have lost their jobs,’ says Tax Justice UK

www.independent.co.uk

Don't give Trump any ideas!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1310768812883496966

Gee, I really expected better from Tulsi than parroting right wing conspiracy theories.


No, wait...no I didn't!

 

[snuffbox]

Is she the one that thinks Assad is cool?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1311482251473944577

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1311410217326764033

Just join the Republican Party and become the new Ron Paul, Tulsi. Democrats don't want you!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Not until/unless she decides to run in another state. You can't get elected to dogcatcher as a Republican in Hawaii.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry.

www.propublica.org

I think I have it rough at my WFH job occasionally but at least I don't have to pay thousands of dollars to be there!

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1313540802317103117

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1313540802317103117

"The cruelty is the point."

 

[Fall of Epic]

New York City students won’t receive ‘F’ letter grades under new city grading policy | amNewYork

New York City public school students struggling to complete classwork will not get failing grades during the 2020-21 school year, officials announced earlier

www.amny.com

All my teacher friends are up in arms over this one.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

lol we changed to that in the 90's or something here. It is completely meaningless. There's no reason for anyone to get upset.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I mean, if the curriculum is going to continue to be shit, does it really matter if you can't "fail" anybody? We allow kids to graduate high school without a basic understanding of financial acuity, without an understanding of basic civics, with no real reconciliation of our history of chattel slavery in this country, and with a completely ahistorical understanding of Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction America... what difference does it make if you can't give a student an "F," in light of all that?

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

And as the article makes clear the students CAN still receive a failing final grade. The language is just changing. The old letter grading system was always a bit silly tbh.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

And as the article makes clear the students CAN still receive a failing final grade. The language is just changing. The old letter grading system was always a bit silly tbh.

That's why I put "fail" in scare quotes: I don't actually believe that you can't fail a student, just because you can't give out an "F" letter grade.