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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:58 UTC

It’s pretty alarming how the reporters suddenly devoted to watchdogging Biden can’t tell the difference between real drastic glitches like in the debate and normal fumbling

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

Watching Godzilla/Kong New Empire. Open w/Kong listlessly going through the motions, resignedly settling down to eat a haunch of dinosaur, discovering he has a toothache, and just sighs. I’ve never identified with a movie character so much.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

That’s another reason, certainly. But he’s actually said out loud he thinks people are “afraid” to like his posts.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:25 UTC

Oddly, the people who like to talk the most about shooting jackbooted federal thugs couldn’t fall to their knees and lick the jackboots fast enough when Trump actually *did* start grabbing people off the street and ordering hit squads. Funny, that.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 21:23 UTC

Musk has convinced himself the reason no one “likes” his posts is because the Woke Ninjas will destroy anyone who does, so he has now hidden “likes” in hopes people will feel safe adulating him as he deserves.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

With a two-issue visit to Westworld (technically, Gangster World) -- also based, I have been told, on advertising w/out having seen the movie. :) The man didn't need more than the slightest nudge to build a world.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:22 UTC

I've never seen "subservient to" spelled "unnerved" before.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

2/? Me: "So, if you are claiming this is false, and this is NOT a plan you'd support in general, so please publicly state, now, which of these you think are bad ideas, and if Trump implements those, you will publicly speak against them." Them: (smokebomb)

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:02 UTC

On an FB group, someone posted the 2025 manifesto. Someone else replied "This is just typical liberal panic mongering and lies!" 1/?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

And your solution is "Well, let Trump win, then the Democrats will have learned!"?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:59 UTC

I believe the accusations are both plausible and probable. But when the only source, so far, is suspicious at best, I'm not going to form a final conclusion until we get corroboration that isn't simply going back to the same source. You don't win a prize for being the first to state a conclusion.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

I have no idea how this relates to anything being discussed.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

Do you not think Netanyahu is calculating that if Trump wins, no one will even be trying to arrange a ceasefire, and is thus resisting pressure to accept one until past election day? (Ditto, Putin refusing to give up on Ukraine.) Trump is absolutely relevant.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

It's, like, the one thing they DON'T lie about.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

This is what you get when the government can ban "misinformation":
ia.acs.org.au/article/2021...

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

But that's YOUR argument: "People are too dumb to know truth from lies, so, the people in power must decide for them what's true. For their own good." You want an official declaration of TRVTH, enforced by law. I want each individual to judge for themselves. Do you see the difference?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

I trust RS way more than I trust an unknown (to me) media source w/skeevy connections. But it's not doing any reporting on its own, just quoting the same source. "Famous Old Dude Exploits Fame/Power For Sex" is utterly plausible. The bar is low. Someone's got to be doing original reporting on this.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Is this the article?

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Cost increases are passed on (not necessarily instantly, there's a lot of lag in economics) but inevitably. If it costs the importer 10% more, they charge the distributor more, and they charge the store more, and the store charges the customer more. (I know you know this, but some people don't.)

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:52 UTC

Do people not understand that Trump's insane tariff proposals are a de facto tax on everyone? Congress controls formal taxation and will not support massive increases, but Trump has shown he will arbitrarily impose tariffs w/no limits or control.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

I've never understood this "logic". Was he killed while in the process of committing an armed home invasion, or any other violent crime? Spoiler: No. So it's utterly irrelevant.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

From the Miskatonic University Journal of Occult Biology.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:41 UTC

This was in 2016, but in KY, when my wife and I drove to Lexington from the Louisville area, we saw a ton of yards which all had these signs: "Proud Union Home" "Trump/Pence". You can't argue with that kind of cognitive dissonance.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

"Crockpots for Crackpots" has quite a ring to it, though.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

My wife and I used our little-used den yesterday to finally play one of the zillion games we've picked up. This drew the attention of one of our "I only go where the humans are" cats. She quickly found a route to the fireplace mantle, then to the bookcase tops, then to the ledge over the door.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:21 UTC

Is this leadership of the whole Parliament, or just for leadership within the party?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

Since the new movie has Ralph Macchio playing Daniel LaRusso, but in a setting unconnected to Cobra Kai, does this mean we have an Abrams-style timeline split? Miyagiverse-1 and -2? Culminating, around 2040, with a 3-film, 6-series Crisis On Infinite Dojos? I really need to get back to work.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Only 40% of Americans believe in evolution, and you want a random sampling of them to decide if complex, multifaceted, and nuanced information can reduced to a binary “true or false”. You, ah, really haven’t thought this through very well, have you?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

“No one would Crime because you might get punished for Crimeing!” is a take, certainly. I don’t know what the facts are, but ISTM this is like a story from Gateway Pundit or OANN. It’s not guaranteed to be false, but I want it from someone more reliable.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

"We had to burn the village in order to save it" seems like it should be self-evidently bullshit, but there's a ton of people who hear that and nod "Yep, yep, makes sense. Gotta do it. Burn that village. Only way."

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

Look, do we need to have so many *literal* examples of "Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it"?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

Seven little murder floofs!

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:18 UTC

"I'd adopt my rival's son to spend less time with this kid, too." (Honest Trailers on Anthony LaRusso)

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

"Back when the world was whole, we had family, friends, loves... Men knew peace and contentment, and with our adamant souls, we could live for an age."

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

"Several cutscenes will now play in sequence..." Words to chill ever FF14 player.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:00 UTC

Penance for some sin beyond mortal comprehension?

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

Joe Biden was born before 1907, making him over 117 years old? Screw "president", we have to harvest his DNA to search for the key to life extension! He's 117 with the expected mental/physical health of an 80 year old! We got a Lazarus Long sitch going on here!

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:02 UTC

2/2 You're at the void at the end of all things. Nothing exists but the memories of ghosts of forgotten worlds. And you pull on those final, fading strands of memory, and from them, you weave life in the place where the dead go to die. As part of a "grind up your gathering skill" quest chain. :)

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:01 UTC

I think Shadowbringer had a stronger story overall, but Endwalker has the most mind-blowing and uplifting ending, esp. given the underlying theme is all-consuming despair. 1/2

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:58 UTC

Thinking of Lower Decks: Capt. Freeman: "Everyone follow orders!" (Ship falls apart, nothing gets done.) CF:"OK, no one follow orders!" (ditto) CF:"Fine, follow orders, unless it would be funnier not to!" (Ship runs like a well-oiled watch.)

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:55 UTC

Look, even if it doesn't happen right on schedule, it's now canon that time agents are constantly fiddling with the details but making sure the ultimate outcome is the same. (e.g., Khan is a young boy in Canada in 2022, not a adult frozen on a sublight ship 20 years travel time from Earth.)

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