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Rugian Member	Tue May 25 19:59:58 Well, the US officially just lost the clash of civilizations. John Cena, Mr America himself, has pathetically bent the knee to China. "WWE wrestler turned movie star John Cena has issued an apology to China and his Chinese fans after referring to Taiwan as an independent country while promoting F9, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, on the Taiwanese broadcasting network TVBS. Cena issued his mea culpa in fluent Mandarin, which he learned while trying to help the WWE break into the Chinese market. “Hello, China. This is John Cena,” he said in his apology video, translated from Mandarin to English. “I’m in the middle of Fast and Furious 9 promotions. I’m doing a lot of interviews. I made a mistake in one of my interviews,” he continued, without explicitly naming that mistake. Cena went on to stress the number of interviews he’s been doing and apologized profusely for his alleged error. “I love and respect China and the Chinese people,” Cena said. “I’m very, very sorry about my mistake. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I sincerely apologize. You must understand that I really love and respect China and the Chinese people. I’m sorry. Bye.”" http://www...r-calling-taiwan-a-country/amp
nhill Member	Tue May 25 20:02:50 Kowtow for the $$$. Anyone speak Chinese, and, if so, how was Cena’s?
Habebe Member	Tue May 25 20:11:46 Yay, this thread has become a thing. Glad to see it. Nhill, I seen a clip with English captions. He seemed to just be repeating how sorry je was and he made a mistake. He didn't explicitly mention Taiwan as even the mention of it seems to anger the ccp.
Rugian Member	Tue May 25 20:16:50 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zre2p7mg64g Hey The Children...can you ask Camaban to rate Cena's proficiency with the language here?
Habebe Member	Tue May 25 20:17:13 Texas now allows unlicensed carry of handguns. http://www...0c-97d31070c969%22&form=HPNN01
Y2A Member	Tue May 25 20:33:13 You can't SEE ME (as an independent country and not as a province of the PRC!!!)
Dukhat Member	Tue May 25 20:44:55 lol ... he's a true republican. Toes the line until there's money involved and then goes with whatever makes the most profit.
CrownRoyal Member	Tue May 25 20:45:28 John Xina
Habebe Member	Tue May 25 20:47:06 8/10 to crown royal.
nhill Member	Tue May 25 21:22:35 8/10
tumbleweed the wanderer	Tue May 25 21:59:38 from last thread: (Rugian):"its beyond obvious now that his problem was never with Trump as a person; he only hated Trump for being a conservative" you keep claiming this nonsense... i guess just trolling or something... but anyway, i'll note i've had hundreds of complaints related to his character not his policies... & there wouldn't be such a large R faction who hates him if it was about being 'conservative'... also please explain how my having a problem with his dozens of baseless mass fraud claims relates, or his continued lying that they are finding votes for him in AZ, MI, NH, GA, etc. he is total garbage as a person, proven in many aspects, many times.
Daemon Member	Fri May 28 15:55:30 http://wes...ed-during-industrial-unit-raid 27th May 2021 Bitcoin ‘mine’ uncovered during industrial unit raid We executed a drugs warrant at a Black Country industrial unit – and uncovered a cryptocurrency ‘mine’ that was stealing thousands of pounds worth of electricity from the mains supply. Officers forced entry to the premises in Great Bridge Industrial Estate, Sandwell, on 18 May on the back of intelligence suggesting it was being used as a cannabis farm. We heard how lots of people were visiting the unit at different times of day, lots of wiring and ventilation ducts were visible, and a police drone picked up a considerable heat source from above. They are all classic cannabis factory signs – but when officers gained entry they found a huge bank of around 100 computer units as part of what’s understood to be a Bitcoin mining operation. The IT equipment was seized and enquiries with Western Power revealed the electric supply had been bypassed and thousands of pounds worth had been stolen to power the ‘mine’. Sandwell Police Sergeant Jennifer Griffin, said: “It’s certainly not what we were expecting! It had all the hallmarks of a cannabis cultivation set-up and I believe it’s only the second such crypto mine we’ve encountered in the West Midlands. “My understanding is that mining for cryptocurrency is not itself illegal but clearly abstracting electricity from the mains supply to power it is. “We’ve seized the equipment and will be looking into permanently seizing it under the Proceeds of Crime Act. No-one was at the unit at the time of the warrant and no arrests have been made – but we’ll be making enquiries with the unit’s owner.” The warrant was one of almost 50 executed as part of County Lines Intensification Week (17-23 May) which led to 84 arrests, significant drug seizures and the recovery of weapons including a sawn-off shotgun and a blank firing pistol converted to discharge live rounds.
kargen Member	Wed Jun 02 17:31:00 A sculptor sold an invisible statue for more than $18,000. More than one person bid on the piece of art. The artist says it needs to be displayed in a five by five feet area with an unobstructed view. The proud owner gets a certificate of authenticity. http://new...sible-sculpture-201641661.html
Pillz Member	Wed Jun 02 21:30:06 He paid $18k to have a 5x5 space w/ an unobstructed view in his home. Incredible.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Thu Jun 03 02:14:47 i have stolen the statue traitor Hannity: http://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1400266928157982722
jergul large member	Thu Jun 03 02:21:17 Such projection. Trump got schooled. Biden is not likely to.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Thu Jun 03 12:10:13 'hey guys, hey guys, my bff had a great idea of his people joining our cybersecurity team!' 'hey guys, hey guys, my bff had an "incredible offer" (<- actual words) of having his investigators join our team to investigate election interference (which he strongly denies thus our people are wrong)... just let them see exactly all our sources & methods...'
tumbleweed the wanderer	Thu Jun 03 12:14:05 Rudy hawking pillows now: http://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1400480097090555908 i guess he's got to paid somehow since his former employer a deadbeat
Daemon Member	Thu Jun 03 18:06:14 http://www...at-on-board-of-russias-rosneft Ex-Austrian minister who danced with Putin at wedding lands Russian oil job Karin Kneissl has been given seat on board of directors at Rosneft, which is controlled by the Russian state (...)
Pillz Member	Thu Jun 03 18:13:57 ^jealous
Rugian Member	Fri Jun 04 07:48:33 Google has given up all presence of not being in the pocket of the Democrats. This is on google.com right now: "Dr. Fauci & Pres. Biden answer vaccine FAQs" Looks like Saint Fauci is in full-on PR mode as damage control for the email dump. Get ducked Fauci.
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 10:13:21 The emails apparently tell a different story than his previous thoughts on lab leak.
Forwyn Member	Fri Jun 04 14:00:40 It didn't take a tinfoil hat to realize Fauci was openly lying about mask efficacy to ensure supply; it wasn't some vaunted study that changed his mind. Doesn't exactly inspire trust.
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 14:33:33 "Dr. Anthony Fauci brushed off an email warning of Chinese disinformation regarding the coronavirus pandemic, in an exchange from March 2020. Erik Nilsen, the CEO of a Texas-based startup called Bio-Signal, sent an email to Fauci on March 18, 2020, writing that he suspected China had been covering up the amount of coronavirus deaths since early January. Nilsen added that his contacts in the country warned that the outbreak was not under control. “Too long for me to read,” Fauci responded."
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:20:20 “Too long for me to read,” Fauci responded." false... he was forwarding it to someone else in his office to read, which is -completely- reasonable ---------------- & i don't recall Fauci ever saying masks didn't work just he didn't recommend every random person walk around wearing them (& this is before they knew about the asymptomatic transmission) & he openly said he didn't want all supply getting bought up by people who didn't need it when healthcare people DID need it --------- there are over 3000 pages of emails & we are just getting a few misrepresentations from what i can see, the actual source material: http://www...rf/fauci-emails-covid-response
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:23:09 although i see kargen's misinformation is all over the fraudosphere (Posobiec, Breitbart, other Trump allies)
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 15:31:06 "false... he was forwarding it to someone else in his office to read, which is -completely- reasonable" He did forward it but he did also respond too long for me to read. He had time to throw out a first pitch and hit every talk show across network and cable. He had time to read an E-mail that dealt specifically with the biggest threat to our country at the time. A threat he was suppose to be the leader on combating.
Rugian Member	Fri Jun 04 15:33:14 Fauci has flat out admitted that he lied his ass off about herd immunity. Hell, he was PROUD to have done so. He has a pattern of pulling these stunts. The fact is that he's a career bureaucrat who has developed a love for the limelight. Whatever he says, he says for the sake of his institution and his own ego, nothing else. He needs to go, immediately. The fucking frauds 15 minutes should have been up months ago.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:33:49 apparently all the 'news' outlets posting the story don't know what the "To:" line of an email indicates it's on p2003 of the Buzzfeed pdf... although the stories claiming it have the shot showing it's NOT To the original sender which is what got me suspicious to begin with & "FW:" means "forward", freebeacon, breitbart, liars...
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 15:36:26 Doesn't matter if it was forwarded. That doesn't change his response. His response was "too long for me to read." It wasn't worth his time because he had a book to write.
Rugian Member	Fri Jun 04 15:37:49 Stop sidestepping the issue. The appropriate answer to the question of "could the virus have come from a lab" was "we don't think so, but we don't know." The wrong answer, the answer that Fauci actually gave, was a categorical "no, and anyone who believes otherwise is crazy, and by the way Big Tech should spend the next year censoring anyone who has a contrary opinion." He's a liar and scum.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:39:58 "...but he did also respond too long for me to read" no he didn't & maybe the top expert doesn't have time to read EVERY 6-7 page email he's sent by people he probably even doesn't know & there's no evidence he's seeking limelight... he would've quit under Trump long ago who kept him silenced as he contradicted the fraud's constant made up claims he's certainly better than the ridiculous choice of Scott Atlas
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:45:52 don't put "s on fake quotes i would bet he never gave any categorical denial
habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 15:46:16 Does anyone have the link to the actual .emails?
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:47:26 there's a giant PDF at end of this article: http://www...rf/fauci-emails-covid-response
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 15:49:50 Do you know the difference between respond and reply? A response does not have to be to the original sender. Putting the E-mail in the trash would also have been a response. No evidence he is seeking the limelight? First pitch. Numerous television appearances. Writing a book. Multiple interviews. President Trump deciding to go with someone else to give the briefings didn't slow Fauci down one bit. Just gave him more time to appear on talk shows. Turns out the president (Trump) was correct on a lot of this, particularly the origin. He was wrong on some as well. Fauci basically said everything. Kat Timpf a few nights ago made a joke on Gutfeld! that was funny and also mostly true. She said Fauci's response was like marking every box on a multiple choice exam. Technically you got the right answer because you picked all of them.
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 15:51:11 "don't put "s on fake quotes" I gave you that advice a few months back. Glad to see you took it to heart.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:58:39 do you think Fauci's purpose in forwarding was not for the other person to read it? & obviously inform Fauci as necessary? why the fuck else would he forward it w/ that message? & you don't think readers of the fraudosphere think he was saying it to the sender & just ignoring the message? it's a fucking fake lie controversy, like so many on your side... ---------------- "didn't slow Fauci down one bit" it sure as hell did, he was denied doing those TV appearances & interviews... where he gives information & answers questions... god forbid also, Trump was not "correct on a lot of this"... he praised China repeatedly early on, & the lab theory was just standard shit he latches on to & it's not even proven right yet (plus there's still natural vs man-made even if from lab) "She said Fauci's response was like marking every box on a multiple choice exam" that's what Trump does, that's why you think he's right on things...
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 15:59:10 "I gave you that advice a few months back" all my Trump quotes were sadly real
Forwyn Member	Fri Jun 04 16:07:38 "i don't recall Fauci ever saying masks didn't work" Mar 8: “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.” Here's CNN touting the line: "To be clear once again, Americans don't need masks. The CDC says that healthy people in the US shouldn't wear them because they won't protect them from the novel coronavirus." http://www...sk-hysteria-us-trnd/index.html
Rugian Member	Fri Jun 04 16:09:27 kargen Member Fri Jun 04 15:49:50 "No evidence he is seeking the limelight? First pitch. Numerous television appearances. Writing a book. Multiple interviews." I just looked it up and he supposed did over 300 in the 12 months ended this April...that's nearly one appearance a day. That's a huge amount for a bureaucrat, never mind one that isn't even in charge of the federal effort against the pandemic. And he *always* tailors his answers to make them appeal to the MSM. Bashing Trump, going along with fear culture, refusing to condemn BLM protests despite previously insisting that mass gatherings of ANY size were unacceptable, flipping his positions on a daily basis in order to comport with the Biden administration's policies... ...no one can accuse him of not knowing how to play to his crowd. The fucking weasel scumbag.
Rugian Member	Fri Jun 04 16:09:56 *did over 300 media appearances in the last 12 months*
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 16:22:23 was he talking about his crowd sizes or was he answering questions w/ information he's carefully studied to be helpful? --- on Fauci / masks... he's not saying they do nothing... again this is before they knew of the easy asymptomatic spread (& he acknowledged not wanting a run on masks when medical people working w/ patients actually do need them) & there's the potential risks that touching face more would increase spread this is in that article: "We need to make sure those N95 masks are available for the doctors and nurses that are going to be taking care of individuals that have this illness" if masks didn't work, why would those people need them?
habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 16:37:34 He is too old for his job, he is a threat to the nations health, he shpuld have bowed out gracefully years ago.Like Guliani.
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 16:49:28 "was he talking about his crowd sizes or was he answering questions w/ information he's carefully studied to be helpful?" Neither. As evidenced by his "too long for me to read" response. And you weren't fake quoting President Trump when I gave you that advice.
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 18:44:07 Back to random news Krystal and Saagar left "the Hill" to start their own independant news show. http://youtu.be/RwTfC2WumZ4 Its a long video, a bit over an HR. But you get a good gist from.the first 10 minutes or so.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 21:11:04 were they booted for harming the reputation of The Hill?
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 21:46:52 No, they quit to form their own show that isn't dependant on a network. Of course you prefer CNN and the NYT.....
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 21:47:04 Sounds like they were not booted but were tired of the bullshit and bailed.
kargen Member	Fri Jun 04 21:48:00 Read a couple of articles to find that out. Until now I had no idea who they were/are.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 21:57:51 Saagar has lied to me every time i've listened to him, so good riddance also you can tell just by how he delivers news it's not to be accurate, just to try to outrage you
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 22:09:43 Translation from TW-speak He doesn't tell me the news I want to hear like Richard Maddow.
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 22:30:43 Kargen, You may enjoy them. Krystal is a Bernie style.left winger, ran for office as a Democrat. Saagar worked for Tucker Carlson but split from group of Conservatives over the Trump "stop the steal" bit. From what Ive seen of them they are pretty good at pointing out where mainstream media often lies their asses off and acts like that's kosher.
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 23:01:27 I personally have not watched this, but its Krystal and Saagar on the Joe Rogan experience aboit a year or so ago. http://youtu.be/eA9Tpf5Uuxs
Habebe Member	Fri Jun 04 23:02:51 I was curious, so I googled most trusted jpurnalists and theblist topped off with Rachel Maddie and Glen Beck so I disregarded it.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Fri Jun 04 23:48:59 revitalize Tom Brokaw! & i doubt Glenn Beck tops any list that has any credibility
Habebe Member	Sat Jun 05 00:27:00 ^That's a fair statement.
Daemon Member	Sat Jun 05 06:39:12 Stupid laws are at least good for laughs. http://www...to-sidestep-gender-equity-laws (...) Another political party in the state called Fuerza Por México quietly reregistered four of its candidates in early May as women even though they had initially identified as men. The reason for the change? The party said the four identify as trans. Aligned with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Fuerza Por México appears to be attempting to skirt a gender parity law in Mexico that requires political parties to present an equal number of men and women candidates. When the party first announced its slate in early May ahead of the June 6 midterm elections, it registered 25 men and 17 women as candidates for municipal presidents in Tlaxcala, a tiny state about two hours drive east of Mexico City. After the gender discrepancy was pointed out, the state election institute gave the party 48 hours to substitute four of the candidates. Instead, without revealing their identities, four candidates changed their gender on the application to women in order to even the distribution to 21 women and 21 men. (...)
Rugian Member	Sat Jun 05 07:10:11 Joe Biden's senility at work again (Example #59304): "To sum it up, look: Covid cases are down...Covid deaths are up." http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=twha1XmUXPE&t=44m57s
Rugian Member	Sat Jun 05 08:07:59 As for Saagar, never heard of him before, but as soon as he name-dropped Glenn Greenwald I instantly knew why tw hated him. Tw can't stand journalists who don't buy into the DNC groupthink.
habebe Member	Sun Jun 06 17:28:36 On some sadder personal news, 2 of my parents cats had kittens. I nursed one back to health the other day with sugar water, he was doing good but momma cat hasnt been nursing so we had Formula. well something happened, I tried massaging his chest and breathed into him in vain.Its always a coin toss with the first litter.
nhill Member	Sun Jun 06 21:11:18 Sorry to hear that. At least you one of them survived? Never dealt w/ kittens.
Habebe Member	Sun Jun 06 21:31:01 2 litters. 1st litter of 3, 2nd litter of 2. So far, 4 survivors yet, but both mothers are acting weird, they barely.spend time with the kittens. The one who passed away though the mother dropped him at my feet and meowed like crazy. I kind of suspect my sister dropped the kitten or something, he was doing so good. I used to be more of a dog guy, but have found down here that cats are better suited. They go in and out as they please.Mostly outside unless bad weather, plenty of small critters to hunt, which is why they are so helpful.
Habebe Member	Sun Jun 06 22:01:35 http://spe...evious-record-for-typing-speed Human brain interface is advancing, able to type 8 words per minute, which is apparently a huge speed breakthrough.
Average Ameriacn Member	Mon Jun 07 11:48:05 !!! http://pbs...XMAQNh86?format=jpg&name=large
Daemon Member	Tue Jun 08 16:08:00 Because of this video everybody in Germany now wants to be vaccinated http://mob...und/status/1401932276598988809 We will be the only country on earth with a 100% vaccinated population.
kargen Member	Tue Jun 08 17:28:27 http://www...-north-face-billboard-campaign North Face refused to make jackets for an oil company saying they didn't want to be associated with the industry. AN ad campaign started by another oil company based in Denver shows how dependent North Face is on oil products.
Rugian Member	Wed Jun 09 12:53:50 Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie From amnesia about apple pie to burger battlefields, author and academic Raj Patel says today’s food justice fights have long, bloody histories Raj Patel Sat 1 May 2021 06.06 EDT Resting on gingham cloth, a sugar-crusted apple pie cools on the window sill of a midwestern farmhouse. Nothing could be more American. Officially American. The Department of Defense once featured the pie in an online collection of American symbols, alongside Uncle Sam and cowboys. Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people. Not that the recipe for apple pie is uniquely American. It’s a variant on an English pumpkin recipe. By the time the English colonized the new world, apple trees had become markers of civilization, which is to say property. In Virginia, apple trees were used to demonstrate to the state that land had been improved. John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, took these markers of colonized property to the frontiers of US expansion where his trees stood as symbols that Indigenous communities had been extirpated. Not that the sugar on the crust is uniquely American. Sugar cane was first brought to the US by Jesuits in 1751, but most US sugar remained an import until the Haitian revolution. When enslaved workers seized the French colony in 1791, European capitalists sought new sugar cane fields and workers. French merchants of sugar and slavery landed in Louisiana in the late 1700s. Within 50 years, the US produced a quarter of the world’s sugar cane, and New Orleans had become a concomitant hub of the slave trade. After emancipation, the economics of sugar shifted. The American civil war pushed the frontier of sugar westward. Hawaii’s sugar plantations grew during US Reconstruction. When the Philippines was a US colony between 1898 and 1946, Filipino workers were exempted from the “Asiatic barred zone”’ to work in the US sugar plantations in Hawaii, replacing more militant Japanese labourers. Not that the gingham on which our apple pie rests is uniquely American. Columbus recorded cotton being used and worn during his first voyage by his Indigenous hosts. The gingham pattern likely originated in south-east Asia, the word deriving from the Malay genggang, a striped cloth that arrived in Europe as Europe colonized Asia. Cotton from India became central to the British East India Company, representing three-quarters of the corporation’s exports by 1766. As Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton tells, this war capitalism enslaved and committed acts of genocide against millions of Indigenous people in North America, and millions of Africans and their descendants through the transatlantic slave trade. In the process, cotton laid the basis of finance, police and government that made the United States. Since this is quite a lot to acknowledge, it is easier to misremember. In the drama of nationalist culture, the bloody and international origins of the apple pie are subject to a collective amnesia. In the imagining of American community, the dish is transformed into a symbol of domesticity. By 1910, it’s possible for a theatre review to celebrate a wholesome play, “as American as apple pie”. http://www...-start-with-americas-apple-pie
Rugian Member	Wed Jun 09 12:54:11 (Sorry about your kitten habebe)
CrownRoyal Member	Wed Jun 09 15:11:11 100 years ago, the woke mob of the day canceled fun June 1921 University of Wisconsin bans hazing after freshmen and sophomores throw kerosene and sulfuric acid bombs at each other during annual Cap Day battle. http://www.reddit.com/r/UWMadison/
Daemon Member	Sat Jun 12 06:48:36 http://eu....-border-wall-funds/7655770002/ WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said Friday it will divert $2.2 billion previously allocated for former President Donald Trump's border wall to military projects. The Department of Defense said that the funding would go towards 66 projects in 11 States, 3 territories, and 16 countries. Some of the projects include: (...) $79 million for Spangdahlem Elementary School for U.S. Military Children in Germany, which currently supports over 600 military children and lacks proper air conditioning, plumbing, and security systems. (...)
Rugian Member	Sun Jun 13 09:46:39 Hillary just murdered someone again. "Christopher Sign, Birmingham TV anchor and former Alabama football player, dead in apparent suicide ... While a reporter and morning anchor at ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Sign broke the story of the June 2016 secret tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch." https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/christopher-sign-birmingham-tv-anchor-former-alabama-football-player-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html How many more people will this homicidal maniac kill before she's brought to justice? LOCK. HER. UP!!!
Habebe Member	Tue Jun 15 14:09:55 http://www...tman-go-down-on-1847095432/amp Heroes don't eat pussy according to DC. They don't think they can sell Batman dolls if he goes down on catwoman.
Rugian Member	Tue Jun 15 14:50:53 I mean...did we *really* need to make it canon that Bruce Wayne munches carpet?
CrownRoyal Member	Tue Jun 15 15:07:38 “ Heroes don't eat pussy according to DC. ” Seems a bit arbitrary and old fashioned. Can Wonder Woman be shown blowing someone?
tumbleweed the wanderer	Tue Jun 15 16:05:01 not clear to me the objection is over the act vs just showing sex at all (have they ever shown sex?) there's no direct quotes of their actual response (all of them are prefaced with "they were like") submit a scene w/ Batman getting sucked off & see if it gets approved
Rugian Member	Tue Jun 15 16:06:51 I guess I should have expected that searching for "Batman blowjob" would have returned a non-zero number of hits
Habebe Member	Tue Jun 15 16:12:23 Rugian, Who wouldn't want to go down on catwoman? Cr, From what I gather oral sex seems off the table entirely for DC heroes.
Habebe Member	Tue Jun 15 16:20:15 Rugian, Yeah, I vaguely remember batgirl having a lesbo flick a while ago, definitely unlicensed though.
Daemon Member	Sun Jun 20 03:03:19 "home automation" http://www...im/S35AZRBXARB6BBOT4BNA6NSWEE/ Texas thermostats adjusted remotely during heat wave residents claim June 18, 2021 at 3:04 pm EDT Some residents in Texas are feeling the heat despite setting their home thermostats at a comfortable temperature. Brandon English said his wife had turned on their home’s air conditioning this week and then she and their daughters took a nap. When English got home, the house inside was 78, hotter than what the family expected with the air conditioning running. “They woke up sweating,” English told KHOU. He said that no one adjusted the thermostat but it was changed as the family slept, making the house potentially too hot for his 3-month-old daughter. “Was my daughter at the point of overheating? She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly,” English told KHOU. Apparently English was enrolled in a program called Smart Savers Texas operated by EnergyHub. When users sign up for perks to save money, they give permission to the company to remotely adjust smart thermostats, like the one that was installed in English’s home, when energy demand is high. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked customers to set their thermostats at 78 to cut power usage as temperatures climbed into the high 90s, The Verge reported. English wasn’t the only one who was surprised with a warm home. KHOU found complaints on Reddit where others claim their smart thermostats were turned up remotely. Scientific America reported about how utility companies can control Nest thermostats remotely when energy demand is high back in 2013. It is called demand response, and allows companies to tweak how much energy customers use, Scientific American reported. For more on demand response and the government’s role in the program, click here.
jergul large member	Sun Jun 20 03:25:24 It is indeed called demand response.
CrownRoyal Member	Mon Jun 21 09:42:45 another seemingly forever conflict comes to end. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that the N.C.A.A. cannot bar relatively modest payments to student-athletes in the name of amateurism. The decision, based on antitrust law, came as the business model of college sports is under increasing pressure. http://www...=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Daemon Member	Mon Jun 21 12:09:45 Will this technology bring us more or less workplace shootings? http://www...ion-office-workers-china-canon Tech company Canon has come up with a downright dystopic way to tackle the problem of workplace morale: it’s installed cameras with AI-enabled “smile recognition” technology in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Canon Information Technology. The cameras only let smiling workers enter rooms or book meetings, ensuring that every employee is definitely, 100 percent happy all the time. (...)
Rugian Member	Mon Jun 21 12:53:21 More shootings, but the shooter is forced to smile as he's doing it.
CrownRoyal Member	Mon Jun 21 18:15:53 Another thing I thought I'd never see, an active NFL player coming out as gay http://www...=amp&__twitter_impression=true Maybe it is 2021 and people are more evolved, but he'll be called a fag cocksucker in training camp, day 1, right?
Habebe Member	Tue Jun 22 03:22:23 Oh yeah, the sport where a bunch of guys in tights grab each other assess and pile on one another isnt packed with homos.....
nhill Member	Tue Jun 22 09:50:22 Don't forget the QB gets to pull a large brown prolate spheroid out of some fat dude's ass every play. In hindsight, it was inevitable.
Allahuakbar Member	Fri Jun 25 02:53:40 HOW DARE YOU? http://presstv.com/ https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-03e651ff86918c871d9e1baaa5e30e37 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American authorities seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news website domains they accused of spreading disinformation, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries. The Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union, which was singled out by the U.S. government last October for what officials described as efforts to spread disinformation and sow discord among American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. says three other seized websites were operated by the Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group, Kata’ib Hizballah, which more than a decade ago was designated a foreign terrorist organization. The group is separate from the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group whose news websites remained operational. The website domains are owned by U.S. companies, but despite the sanctions, neither the IRTVU nor KH obtained the required licenses from the U.S. government before using the domain names, according to the Justice Department. The Justice Department announcement came hours after the Iranian state-run news agency IRNA revealed the U.S. government seizures without providing further information. The takedowns come as world powers scramble to resurrect Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal and just days after the election victory of Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi. On Monday, Raisi, known for his hostility to the West, staked out a hard-line position in his first news conference. He ruled out the possibilities of meeting with President Joe Biden or negotiating over Tehran’s ballistic missile program and support for regional militias — concerns the Biden administration wants addressed in future talks. Relations between Iran and the U.S. have deteriorated for years following President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Tehran’s nuclear deal and the return of devastating sanctions on the country. That decision has seen Iran, over time, gradually abandon every limit on uranium enrichment. The country is now enriching uranium to 60%, its highest level ever, though still short of weapons-grade levels. Iran provides support to militant groups in the region, such as Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, as it seeks to wield its influence far afield and counter its foes. On Tuesday, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites, including Iran state television’s English-language arm Press TV, Yemeni Houthi-run Al-Masirah satellite news channel and Iranian state TV’s Arabic-language channel, Al-Alam, produced a federal takedown notice. It said the websites were seized “as part of law enforcement action” by the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Export Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The U.S. government also took over the domain name of the news website Palestine Today, which reflects the viewpoints of Gaza-based Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, redirecting the site to the same takedown notice. Press TV, launched in June 2007, is the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s English-language service. Its Iran-based website, PressTV.ir, was not affected. Most of the domains seized appeared to be “.net,” “.com” and “.tv” domains. The first two are generic top-level domains as opposed to country-specific domains, while “.tv” is owned by the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu but administered by the U.S. company Verisign. Seizing a domain on a major country-specific top-level domain such as Iran’s “.ir” would be apt to produce widespread international condemnation as a violation of sovereignty. It’s not the first time that the U.S. has seized domain names of sites it accuses of spreading disinformation. Last October, the Department of Justice announced the takedown of nearly 100 websites linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard. The U.S. said the sites, operating under the guise of genuine news outlets, were waging a “global disinformation campaign” to influence U.S. policy and push Iranian propaganda around the world. Yemen’s Houthi rebel group announced that its Al-Masirah satellite news channel went offline Tuesday without prior notice. It said the channel would continue in its mission of “confronting the American and Israeli acts of piracy against our nation, by any means.” Responsibility for providing name service for the domain name presstv.com was apparently switched to an Amazon name server on Tuesday at mid-afternoon European time, said internet infrastructure expert Ron Guilmette. Cybersecurity researchers at RiskIQ found a total of 24 seized sites sharing the same Amazon name server. There are no private television or radio stations in Iran. Satellite dishes, while widespread, also are illegal. That leaves IRIB with a monopoly on domestic airwaves. Marzieh Hashemi, a prominent Press TV anchor who, in 2019, was arrested as a material witness in an unspecified criminal case and has appeared before a grand jury in Washington, told The Associated Press that the channel was struggling to “figure out the reasons” for the seizure. While airing in Iran, Press TV focuses predominantly on international affairs through the lens of how leaders in the Islamic Republic see the world. Fierce criticism of British and American foreign policy is common. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, IRIB has been in the hands of hard-liners who back Iran’s government. Press TV has previously run into trouble with Western authorities over its reporting. The Anti-Defamation League has criticized the channel as “one of the world’s leading dispensers of conspiratorial anti-Semitism in English.”
Daemon Member	Sun Jun 27 05:57:18 It's just random news, nobody cares any longer: http://twitter.com/PokerSasha/status/1408862329643622409 http://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-knife-attack-victims-were-all-women-police-2021-06-26/ Germany knife attack victims were all women -police WUERZBURG, Germany, June 26 (Reuters) - Authorities in Germany were investigating on Saturday what prompted a man to go on the rampage with a knife in the town of Wuerzberg on Friday, killing three women and seriously injuring five other women. Officials said the suspect, whose rampage was halted when police arrested him, was a 24-year-old Somali immigrant who had had mental health problems in the past. As is the practice in Germany, they did not name him. Officials assume the suspect was acting alone, but are still investigating whether there was any Islamist motive for the attack, regional Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told a news conference. Herrmann cited one witness as saying that before starting his spree the suspect had shouted "Allahu akbar", an Arabic phrase that means "God is great" and that is often associated with acts of Islamist militancy when used by attackers. "The indications of radicalisation, in this case Islamism, and of psychological problems do not necessarily rule one another out ... this must be the subject of further investigation," Herrmann said. The man went into the kitchen department of a store and asked an assistant where the knives were, regional police president Gerhard Kallert said. He seized a knife and stabbed and killed the saleswoman and two more women in the shop. He then injured five other women seriously, as well as wounding a child, in a bank and on the street. He was cornered by passers-by before the police shot him in the thigh, Kallert said. Police found the man's phone and pamphlets with hateful messages during a search of the homeless shelter, but were still evaluating them, Kallert said, adding that it was not yet clear whether the suspect had purposefully targeted women. One of the injured was still fighting for her life, while two had been released from hospital, police president Martin Wilhelm told the news conference. Residents laid flowers and candles outside the store. The suspect had lived in Wuerzburg since 2015, the year Germany opened its borders to more than a million migrants and refugees fleeing war and poverty. He was registered as living at a facility for the homeless and had twice this year been put into compulsory psychiatric treatment, once after a fight with fellow residents involving a knife but no injuries, prosecutor Wolfgang Gruendler said. Five years ago, Wuerzburg, an ancient city of 130,000 people some 100 km (62 miles) south-east of Frankfurt, was the scene of a knife attack on a train by a 17-year-old Pakistani asylum seeker in which five people were injured, two seriously.
Daemon Member	Tue Jun 29 03:39:50 http://www...ers-and-workers-are-losing-out Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’ Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong. (...) Bloomberg interviewed 15 Flex drivers, including four who say they were wrongly terminated, as well as former Amazon managers who say the largely automated system is insufficiently attuned to the real-world challenges drivers face every day. Amazon knew delegating work to machines would lead to mistakes and damaging headlines, these former managers said, but decided it was cheaper to trust the algorithms than pay people to investigate mistaken firings so long as the drivers could be replaced easily. (...)
Habebe Member	Tue Jun 29 07:29:47 Daemon, I remember something about Amazon internal emails showing how Amazon pressures people to quit after a few years.They wanted a high turn over rate because they think employees grow lazy.
Rugian Member	Tue Jun 29 08:11:28 As long as we're on the Amazon hate train: "Amazon Demands One More Thing From Some Vendors: a Piece of Their Company Certain suppliers are asked to give Amazon the right to buy shares at potentially lower-than-market rates as part of their contract By Dana Mattioli June 29, 2021 8:01 am ET Suppliers that want to land Amazon.com Inc. as a client for their goods and services can find that its business comes with a catch: the right for Amazon to buy big stakes in their companies at potentially steep discounts to market value. The technology-and-retail giant has struck at least a dozen deals with publicly traded companies in which it gets rights, called warrants, to buy the vendors’ stock in the future at what could be below-market prices, according to corporate filings and interviews with people involved with the deals. Amazon over the past decade also has done more than 75 such deals with privately held companies, according to a person familiar with the matter. In all, the tech titan’s stakes and potential stakes amount to billions of dollars across companies that provide everything from call-center services to natural gas, and in some cases position Amazon among the top shareholders in those businesses. The unusual arrangements offer another window into how Amazon uses its market heft to increase its wealth and clout. The company has been under growing scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers over its competitive practices, including with companies it partners with. While the deals can benefit the suppliers by locking in big contracts, which can also boost their share prices, executives at several of the companies said they felt they couldn’t refuse Amazon’s push for the right to buy the stock without risking a major contract. The deals in some cases also give Amazon rights such as board representation and the ability to top any acquisition offers from other companies. TO READ THE FULL STORY SUBSCRIBE" http://www...ir-company-11624968099?mod=mhp
Rugian Member	Wed Jun 30 14:39:23 Donald Rumsfield is dead.
CrownRoyal Member	Wed Jun 30 14:47:09 from the obituary I just read "A staunch ally of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been his protégé and friend for years, Mr. Rumsfeld was a combative infighter who seemed to relish conflicts as he challenged cabinet rivals, members of Congress and military orthodoxies. And he was widely regarded in his second tour as the most powerful defense secretary since Robert S. McNamara during the Vietnam War. Like his counterpart of long ago, Mr. Rumsfeld in Iraq waged a costly and divisive war that ultimately destroyed his political life and outlived his tenure by many years. But unlike Mr. McNamara, who offered mea culpas in a 2003 documentary, “The Fog of War,” Mr. Rumsfeld acknowledged no serious failings and warned in a farewell valedictory at the Pentagon that quitting Iraq would be a terrible mistake. “A conclusion by our enemies that the United States lacks the will or the resolve to carry out our missions that demand sacrifice and demand patience is every bit as dangerous as an imbalance of conventional military power,” he said. “It may well be comforting to some to consider graceful exits from the agonies and, indeed, the ugliness of combat. But the enemy thinks differently.” In his 2011 memoir, “Known and Unknown,” Mr. Rumsfeld, more than four years out of office, still expressed no regrets over the decision to invade Iraq, which had cost the United States $700 billion and 4,400 American lives, insisting that the removal of President Saddam Hussein had justified the effort. “Ridding the region of Saddam’s brutal regime has created a more stable and secure world,” he wrote. He sidestepped the issue of whether the Iraq war had diverted resources from Afghanistan, leading to a Taliban resurgence there. “It was precisely during the toughest period in the Iraq war that Afghanistan, with coalition help, took some of its most promising steps toward a free and better future,” he declared simply." http://www...dule=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Daemon Member	Fri Jul 02 11:04:35 Japanese engineers have no need to test something, their products always work! http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14385139 Mitsubishi Electric used special program to spin fake data July 1, 2021 Mitsubishi Electric Corp. fashioned a computer program to churn out fictitious data used in place of actual tests on air conditioning units it supplied to railway companies apparently for more than three decades. According to several sources, the program was written to produce numbers that would not raise suspicions about inappropriate testing. But that could mean that the problem was not an isolated one at the company's Togitsu plant in Nagasaki Prefecture that manufactured the air conditioning units but a much wider, organized deception. Meanwhile, Mitsubishi Electric officials on June 30 also admitted that inappropriate testing had been conducted on pneumatic devices supplied to railway companies used in braking systems and to operate the train doors. Company officials said between 1985 and 2020 about 84,600 air conditioning units had been supplied to railway companies, with about 15,800 of those units going overseas. While officials said they were still trying to determine how many of the units passed through with no testing, they insisted there were no safety or capability problems and that no reports of any mishaps had been received. But the latest revelation about the pneumatic devices led the transport ministry to issue a notice to railway companies around the nation to conduct thorough checks of their train brakes and to report any malfunctions. According to several sources, the computer program was used to produce data for a number of different test items. Although no actual tests were conducted, the bogus data generated gave the appearance that they had been done. The report about the false test data forced railway companies around Japan to check into whether any abnormalities arose in the air conditioning units in their trains. While none of the companies reported any mishaps caused by the air conditioning data falsification, Toshihiko Aoyagi, president of Kyushu Railway Co., said at a June 30 news conference he felt betrayed by Mitsubishi Electric since it said specifications had been met without carrying out testing. A majority of the 1,665 train cars used by JR Kyushu have Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning units installed, including Shinkansen. The railway company was notified by Mitsubishi Electric on June 25 that there were no safety problems. But other companies wanted Mitsubishi Electric to be more specific about which units were supplied without appropriate testing.
Daemon Member	Wed Jul 07 12:10:49 The emoji wars continue http://sta...nk-woozy-face-emoji-stammering Apple Devices Link 'Woozy Face' Emoji to Stammering 6th July 2021 Hundreds of you have contacted us to tell us that a 'woozy face' emoji automatically appears on iPhones and iPads when typing the word 'stammering' into messages. The emoji features a yellow face with a crumpled mouth and a cockeyed expression, and the WhatsApp emoji also features a tongue hanging out. Members have inundated us about the issue: "This comes up on my phone when I type stammering! This is ableist, as sometimes people who stammer make facial expressions when experiencing a block, and this almost mimics that. I hope Apple realise this and apologise." Ellie "It has appeared on all apps that I have tried including Facebook, my emails, WhatsApp and my iMessages. I am horrified and hope that this can be sorted." Kristina Sue said, "What would disabled people think if a wheelchair emoji popped up every time?!" One member, whose child has an iPhone, was particularly worried about the impact it could have on how they view their father. STAMMA CEO Jane Powell said in a press release, "This is demeaning and damaging. Stammering is how some people talk. Treating it as a joke is stigmatising. It can leave people embarrassed about how they sound, bullied and ashamed which can affect their mental health, careers and relationships." It isn't clear why this is taking place, as it doesn't affect every iPhone or Apple device, but members have reported it on the iPhone 5s, 7, SE, 11, XR, 12 Pro Max and on iPads. We have contacted Apple and urged them to investigate their algorithms and stop this highly offensive feature from occurring on any of their devices.
Pillz Member	Wed Jul 07 16:41:45 Wait, they're replacing a whole word with an emoji
Rugian Member	Thu Jul 08 02:02:42 Pothead stoners got rekt: LA County authorities seize $1 billion in weed in historic takedown http://nyp...-in-weed-in-historic-takedown/
Daemon Member	Fri Jul 16 02:00:14 http://the...ch-booster-for-its-population/ Report: China Plans BioNTech Booster for Its Population The report from Caixin comes as the efficacy of homegrown vaccines from Sinopharm and Sinovac continue to be questioned. (...)
nhill Member	Fri Jul 16 02:05:27 Boost my ass, bitch.
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