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this whole thing is fucking incredible. "secret. look at this. it's secret" that's an actual quote

to be fair, @blacklab stays out of the politics side of the board for the most part, so he won't see what you are referencing. donkey's one of the weird ones. sometimes, he comes across as successfully sincere, but there are sooooo many bs posts of "aw shucks guys, i mean, i don't like x, but answer all these questions or address all these points" that it becomes difficult to hide after awhile. for those of you bitching about people coming back - it's amazing the time and effort people will put into burner emails and vpns to avoid bans or ip bans. it's massively mentally fucked, but people need the interaction. as to why we don't play whack a mole, it's because we rely on reported posts most of the fucking time. we don't read every post. i read WAY more than blacklab, and even then i miss hosts and hosts of content on this website. it's a big place. also, we do rely on crowd sourcing of trolls and spambots - so it's a powerful weapon you wield when you rep. 'just kidding, it's mostly bullshit, but seriously, stop chasing down old posts to neg, unless it's justified from a recently bumped thread.

i've said it many times before, but i'll say it again: my default moderator action is to do nothing. there is not a single thrill that comes with moderating this board. i hate having to suspend people for posting stupid shit. it's bad enough that we are dealing with old school spammer bullshit from time to time, but you goddamn legit posters need to take a breath. i realize that some of you are legit trolls, maybe getting paid for it, maybe not, but again, my default action is to do nothing, until i see repeated behavior. i'm far more likely to respond to reported posts, as those indicate to me that this post bothered someone enough to report it. sometimes yall report things like "he called me a poopyhead," or "he told me he'd pee in my wife's butt" which is all perfectly acceptable. but often enough the reports are close enough to one of the few lines we've got here (and yeah, we started with one, and maybe have a handful now, get over it and grow up) that i hit someone with a suspension. sometimes those people get butthurt about it, won't stop and realize that 1) i'd rather that fuck around with them in the time i spend here and 2) i know whoever gets suspended is going to bitch to high heaven about how "biased" i am or some bullshit. if i've banned you, i'd advise you to have a think and if you're really bothered by it, send me a message. i'll consider and respond. i will say, generally, i have better things to do than chase down whether a cadre of posters are harassing a particular poster via pm or rep fatwa, but given that it can end very badly, i try to spend some time on it. usually, the person getting the negs are fucking pains in the ass themselves and there are no good guys to choose from. so i get to be the bad guy. it's okay. someone has to be, i guess.

it's just a grift. i don't know how it works but i know it's a scam because Republicans are involved

who changed the fucking chyron font? there's your answer

imagine spending a decade or more slowly turning into a version of escriva.

i just tried to use this to plan my trip to Greece and London. Even with flight information, it couldn't keep the days straight for sample itineraries. I was correcting the thing a lot. like it was fucking with me. i dunno.

they changed the chyron font and within days the ceo is gone. generally you can do what you want in management but the font mafia is always gonna win

it's well tilled ground so i won't go over it all again (shit, we are talking now in decade long time spans) but suffice it to say there's a good reason that's one of the only rules around here.

i did want to address this also because it is super relevant given the age of our posters but also the continuity and 20+ years some of us have been part of this same community... things started changing "here" when shit got real and someone took their own life. i won't get into the details but the whole idea behind this community is to be edgy assholes (even back to hornfans). but there's a wonderful undercurrent of community and caring here. it's special and hard to describe. as such a self moderated and self policed community, what is acceptable has changed. and that's good. and it's going to keep changing for the better. and that's a good thing. this place was sort of founded on an ethos of go fuck yourself and die in a fire. that's changed and that's cool. tl;dr: go fuck yourself

the billy batts thing has always bothered me but i think I'm coming around to understanding. to me, batts always represented a generational divide and a perfect boomer representation of "fuck you i got mine i can do what i want get your shinebox kid" attitude. shit had changed while billy was inside but he was too self involved and prideful to see it. it's the perfect representation of a generational suicide and what our inner psycho would like to do with boomers sometimes when they still pine for the good old days when they could just do what they want. every good mob tale is the tale of the american immigrant and the tale of multiple generations handling success in their own way in their own time. and the good part usually comes when the younger generation asks wtf and shakes the tree even when they end up dead because of it.

so this is an amazing comment. somehow combined with your avatar, it's triggered something in my mind, but i'm not sure yet what. your point that we are more worried about the thing going full than the fact that it's capable of dispatching a human life without a real thought about it is monstrous.

all it is doing is highlighting how antiquated our means of human assessment really are. rote fact memorization is stupid and has been since the invention of the encyclopedia much less the internet. it's important not to think of chapgpt as a learning entity. all it is really doing is dressing up factual information on easy to digest language. it's far superior to a search engine at this point. but as far as interpreting information and/or "learning" is not doing any of that. everything it does is derivative.

see? i can't even fucking post a gif from mobile and we are supposed to win this war

ai can't kill us unless we let it. shit like this is how we die

this whole netflix thing has been fascinating to me for years. admittedly, i never got it. the content was never worth the cost and i never had built in loyalty from the old dvd days so i was always an uphill sale on it. i still am. they are still using fucking subscriber metrics to measure growth for fuck's sake. so much so that they went on a punitive subscriber quest right during a writer strike and a dearth of content amd shitty content decisions. i never understood why netflix was always seen as such a market pioneer. now they seem to want to increase revenues with negative publicity. great idea dummies.

he did it all during covid

that escort is the most honest person in that picture. mr phlegm.

see, i've taken the same position with my remote learning 15 year old youngest son who wants to stay up all night and sleep all day. i don't like it. i actually hate it, partly because i also want to stay up all night and sleep all day. my wife hates it hates it. she wants to see him during the day, etc, and she uses his schoolwork lack as a reason. a damn good one, in fact. i've told him, time and again, "look, dude, if you are current with your schoolwork, no one is in a position to complain about your hours." mom's only objection so far is "you're behind on your schoolwork" so prove her wrong, son, and then do what you want. apd is in a similar position. if you had, i dunno, been doing your jobs for, i dunno, maybe the last 20 years or so, things wouldn't have gotten so bad. if you keep up with property crime and sexual assault cases in any sense of the word"giveafuck" then you'd have a lot more sympathy in the community. but ever since apd went full on thug police force and started the mardi gras riot, it's been more of the same. then art acevedo came and probably set apd back another 20 years with his backasswards dumbassery.

jesus christ yall, it was obviously hyperbole it's fucking mickey mouse and shit

um, kind of? yeah, i'm thinking that's pretty much the biggest part of it. but it's a fact. elon has billions of something that ony has value because we value it. elon has value as a person because people like you value him. it's not a difficult concept. you kind of come to represent the people with whom you surround yourself and for whom you stan.

well, the first step is realizing that things only have value if we value them.

it's a weird dynamic. every time i think i've nearly got my finger on it, it wriggles away. there's something about bullies and powerful men going on with it. this weird hero worship of biff from back to the future as some paragon of mankind. it's got something to do with celebrating billy batts (a guy stomped and stabbed to death for saying it) saying "go get your shine box" or some weird infatuation and identification with the morals and worldview of colonel jessup, a worldclass fuckstain villain. there's mixed in some hearkening back to a time where date rape was kind of funny and women were slits and when the strong stuffing the weak into the locker was funny, i guess? being openly racist was funny, and fuck em if they can't take a joke, amiright? there's more to it, but it's all fucking toxic. that's the glory. musk is just another in the list of powerful and/or wealthy men that wraparound oakley bald guy wants to be. i think that must be it.

i know that i, for one, am on fucking pins and needles wondering what 69floppycock69's take is on gay love.

ah well tabc and apd are two different animals. both on the take obviously. I'm pretty sure when tabc was raiding those places, somebody wasn't getting their weekly envelope. think about how absurd those raids were. meanwhile for decades pay your protection.