Everything posted by Samson's Wig
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Google Fiber Merging with Astound/Grande
I love that anyone would think this could go well. "The new company will be majority owned by investment firm Stonepeak." Enshittification is guaranteed. However, when one considers the reason Google wanted to control the ISP market in the first place, there were never any real winners here from the jump.
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What's happening in Iran?
Reza Pahlavi is a Texas Tech fan going back to his time living in Lubbock in the late seventies. I just thought everyone should know that, as it may impact who they're rooting for here.
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this Andrew Tate dickhead
You know, the way an alpha male would.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
There is absolutely no hard evidence of a causal relationship between acetaminophen and autism, just as there was never hard evidence of a causal relationship between vaccines and autism. It's based on discredited bullshit that morons like RFK have been running with for years. Anyone perpetuating this nonsense is dipping their toes into eugenics and deserves to lose some teeth. To be clear, I do not lump anyone commenting here in that category. But this type of discussion is fuel for the idiots who believe this shit and cannot make sense of a nuanced discussion. Much of science is based on axiomatic truths that can't be proven, such as the uniformity of nature or the existence of the external world, or Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems. You could describe these axiomatic truths as merely "not definitive" as well, I suppose, but it does beg the question of why. Some folks are desperately motivated to find a cause for autism when the truth of the matter is self-evident. These same people confuse an increase in the rate of diagnosis with an increase in autism. These are not serious people, and their motivations merit questioning.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Successful derailment from the actual point has once again been achieved by the guy who bats 1.000 at it. Tylenol doesn't cause autism. That's the fucking point. Claiming that it does causes harm. Period. I don't know if it's leading to negative consequences in medical situations (although it's certainly plausible), but I know for certain that it causes harm to autistic people every time a piece of shit like RFK opens his mouth on the topic, or when Trump decides to double down on the same bullshit because he knows his base contains people stupid enough to eat it up. No study proves that Tylenol "causes' autism, because it's complete bullshit pushed by people desperate to find a "cause" for a naturally occurring condition. They care, not because they care to actually learn about autism, or do anything beneficial for autistic people, but because they bought into a stupid conspiracy theory that has been debunked over and over, and are desperately clinging to anything that will allow them to avoid admitting they were wrong. They've finally realized the lie about vaccinations causing autism isn't getting as much traction anymore, and deep down are finally realizing they might have been wrong all along, and need a new causation to jump on so they will have only been a little wrong. While I can appreciate that most people need to find magical reasons for things they don't understand, anyone who supports this type of nonsense can get all the way fucked. Go find some other bullshit to be "right" about and stop belittling an entire class of people with utter bullshit. RFK and anyone else similarly deluded deserves an ass-whooping. They're as fucking stupid as, and logically aligned with, young earthers and evolution deniers.
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Non-political tariffs thread
This is also the same "economic scholar" who pushed Trump the hardest to place tariffs, and whose son has potentially made a fortune by betting they would end up illegal and buying up the rights to refunds. If Trump wasn't cut in on that action, it's hard to see Lutnick lasting much longer.
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What's happening in Iran?
Are you guys still talking about Iran? This has been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this country? This war? That is unbelievable. I can't believe you guys are asking questions on Iran at a time like this, when we're having some of the greatest success, and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.
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Do I have turf toe or gout?
Go to the damn doctor. If it is gout, there are number of even worse things that could be causing it like untreated high blood pressure, diabetes, metabolic abnormalities, or even heart disease.
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What's happening in Iran?
You certainly may be right, but I hope not.
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What's happening in Iran?
I can't even begin to fathom how fucking terrible coming of age under those conditions must be. He's old enough now to understand the score, too. I suspect we'll never hear about him again after dad's last term in office.
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Happy Texas Independence Day!
- 11 injured 3 dead in late night shooting on W 6th
They just know.- The Xennial Thread - The microgeneration born between 1976-1985
Everything must have a label and be placed in its proper box!- The Xennial Thread - The microgeneration born between 1976-1985
I agree with this to a point, although I would argue the ubiquity of pop culture was well fractured by the early nineties. By the early 2000s, there was little resembling a cultural zeitgeist anymore. Americans were force-fed much of the same music and television in the middle of the 20th century (50s-80s), which created a stronger zeitgeist, especially in youth culture, than we have now. That wasn't a terribly long stretch in America's relatively short history, though, and it largely involved boomers. The Internet is often cited as the primary driver of fracturing pop culture, but FM radio, cable television, hell, even cassette tapes were laying that groundwork long before the Internet took off in the mid-nineties. To circle back to my point above, I think these notions are still looking through the lens of white, middle-class, suburbanites and ignore that America was plenty diverse even during that stretch. Even among the white middle class, the people who were heavily into country music in the 1970s were not the same people who listened to disco, and there was little in common between them in their day-to-day lives. They would have had almost no shared experiences outside of national headlines. Discussing generations is reductive, is the point, I suppose. It's the reason so many people balk at the notion of being labeled as part of one. Hell, look at the so-called boomer generation alone. Does someone who was 20 in 1967 have a single thing in common with someone who was 20 in 1983? They're both boomers, but that's not even the same planet. And that's just the age gap. Start factoring in other differences, as already discussed, and it all just falls apart.- The Xennial Thread - The microgeneration born between 1976-1985
I completely agree. Along with the rural/urban divide I mentioned earlier, socioeconomic status is an even bigger driver of one's experiences. Ethnicity, religion, etc., all come into play. A white kid with no siblings born in 1976 and raised by a single mother who is a member of the 7th Day Adventist church in rural Michigan will have almost no shared experiences with a black kid with a sibling or two born in 1976 to a happily married and well-to-do Baptist minister in urban Atlanta. It seems to me that our general notion of generations tends to be based on the shared experiences of white, middle-class, suburban protestants. I was poking fun at people who had to go and make up yet another "micro" generation just because they don't feel like they belong to the already established made-up generations. It's all nonsense.- The Xennial Thread - The microgeneration born between 1976-1985
This is some shit millennials who don't want to be associated with their generation made up to feel better about themselves, imo. However, I think where you grew up can play a part in this, to a degree, if you're on a generational cusp. If you were born in the very late 70s or very early 80s but grew up in a rural area that was behind the times, you likely had a more Gen X experience. If you grew up in an urban environment, you are more likely to have had a millennial experience. I suspect this is true for folks on other generational cusps as well. America is a massive place, and the urban/rural divide is very real. There is less of a zeitgeist now than ever, but this country has always been bifurcated. If we're going to draw generational lines based on shared experiences, then this aspect has to come into play.- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
NM, too late to the party.- What's happening in Iran?
I've read this thread in its entirety now, and a couple of truths have become evident: I still don't know shit about what's going on in Iran. I am, without question, dumber than I was before I read this thread. Thanks to all the contributors!- How to pick a college in Texas....
- How to pick a college in Texas....
- Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
It looks like Glass withdrew his proposal for the name change, which he should have known good and well was a stupid idea that would lead to trouble. Good for Bastrop's citizens showing up to shout down that nonsense. There were still people there who actually believe the myth that Kirk "went into hostile environments to have respectful debates based on mutual respect." I really don't understand how anyone can actually believe that, but I assume it requires a naive and gentle soul. Like a nice grandma who doesn't read or get out much.- Mexican cartel leader killed, cartel is pissed
As a Silver Elite member, I feel like I've missed out on an opportunity for improvement.- Greenland
Sending medical assistance as political theater is right out of the Castro playbook.- Greenland
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It's going to be a long ride until 2027. - 11 injured 3 dead in late night shooting on W 6th
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