AppleTea

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AppleTea ,

the other day I heard someone make the point that Amazon is just a more successful Palinteer

AppleTea ,

If Musk's popularity with the right and, to a lesser extent, Soros' minor approval among center right what passes for a left are anything to go by, it's that United States politics is mostly defined by being contrarian.

AppleTea ,

You'd be mad too if nobody bothered to ask you what it was like on the set of Working Girl.

AppleTea ,

In fact, the audio signal was just a standard FM signal that you could tune into with a radio.

wow, so today when we have podcasts that are also available as long youtube videos, we are in fact continuing a (single century) long tradition

AppleTea ,

hold on, is this thing in counterstrike?

AppleTea ,

40 million dead civilians. Trump is nowhere near that. Yet.

Bush set the playbook for the United States in the 21st century, everyone else is just following his lead, Trump included.

AppleTea ,

...uh, yes, yes they did drone strike people. Pretty sure Clinton was actually the first president to approve the use of a strike. Just because Obama ramped it up a few orders of magnitude does not mean the previous administrations were not doing it as well.

AppleTea ,

Your shopping cart has two close associates of Jeffery Epstein.

AppleTea ,

hey, fax machines are cool

AppleTea ,

British exit

brexit

Australian entrance

austrance

AppleTea ,

Ah! Can you take the politics out of Discworld? I don't think you can. Even this comic is making a subtle argument about what is and isn't deemed appropriate for children - that you can deny the existence of "things not meant to be safe", but you are also denying them the important lesson that there are unsafe things in the world.

But I'm also being pedantic. The intent of this space would be better described as Comics Outside (K)urrent Events. We're here for bumps of COKE

AppleTea ,

As tempting as that sounds, I can no longer touch-type on practically any other desktop. Give me a Dvorak phone, and I wont be able to thumb type either...

AppleTea ,

Gizmodo didn't always look like the penny arcade website, did they?

AppleTea ,

South Park is a real grabbag, but they really hit the mark with Gen X yankees dismissing green energy and environmentalism for being "gay (pejorative)". You could update that same episode and only need to swap out the last line for "that sounds woke"

AppleTea ,

Aging really is a game of swings and roundabouts

AppleTea OP ,

Ah, well you don't have to worry about them wasting time on this, because they very definitely do not want to close the door on doing extra-legal imperial management The Right Way when next they hold the presidency.

AppleTea OP ,

yeah yeah the actual events of the Obama administrate just fell out of everyone's heads, historical thinking is asking too much of the anglophonic world, my bad

AppleTea OP ,

He's not above the law, they just want to prosecute him for some unimportant, tacky procedural misstep. Neither party wants the precedent of presidents facing consequences.

AppleTea OP ,

it's a duopoly, mate

Dems are perfectly happy to keep things like the NSA and ICE funded, then act shocked when Republicans use these tools. They're all part of the problem.

AppleTea OP ,

Riveting rebuttal.

AppleTea ,

Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds

AppleTea ,

also, tf2 hats

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AppleTea ,

Kessler syndrome [...] less than 3 days way

Fuckin' ace. Actually colonizing space would be a centuries long endeavor of fostering an ecosystem from scratch. So until we start propping up the ecosystem we're living in, nobody has any business wasting resources on space boondoggles.

AppleTea ,

Is it that Japan doesn't have people born into obscene wealth or is it that, being english speakers, we just don't hear about them?

Also, maybe we should be careful about increasing the mass of the planet. I'm sure a little here and there wouldn't be too much of a problem... but you know... the same is true of combustion engines...

AppleTea ,

I mean, sure, an inheritance tax curtails the most egregious aspect of an informal aristocracy. But it's a pernicious thing. Creeps in. Who your parents know, the school you go to, the district you grew up in, the jobs available after you graduate. I'm pretty damn skeptical of any claim to true meritocracy.

AppleTea ,

I'm kinda curious to see how The Public Domain: The Game turns out, though it looks like it's gonna be more about the idea of privately owned ideas in general.

AppleTea ,

Assume all horror movies are Producers style you-make-more-on-a-flop-than-a-hit tax scams.

AppleTea ,

For every new drug discovered by machine learning, there are dozens more that the machine spat out as statistically likely but just aren't physically possible. You're mistaking the tool for the mind(s) that wields it.

AppleTea ,

Pretty disingenuous to compare cancer, one of the most heavily studied medical conditions on the planet, to this. Just because there's no cure to being made of cells? It's not that simple.

AppleTea ,

That's a good question. I don't know for sure. I just meant to imply that thinking about cancers in terms of "cures" isn't a very useful way to approach the matter.

A cursory search suggests that reptiles and birds do get cancer, just at a noticeably reduced rate. Maybe something to do with metabolism? Or a side effect of bodies capable of live birth? Dunno.

I've also heard that whales and elephants get less cancers than we would expect from animals (or I guess mammals) of their size.

AppleTea ,

Yes, militaries do tend to attract nationalistic psychos. The US Marines have done the same thing to many civilians. The have whole in-group rituals about it.

AppleTea ,

Reform is a right wing party lead by Nigel Farage

AppleTea ,

is... isn't most soil full of bacteria and fungi? what's with the "vs"?

AppleTea ,

Downvotes are so funny.

I'm mad at you, but can't be bothered to articulate why. So I'm gonna click a button at you and hope it makes you feel bad.

I don't. It makes me feel schadenfreude, my good chum.

AppleTea ,

Tasty!

AppleTea ,

AI has become synonymous with statistically generated, lowest common denominator content. Using it to refer to any program developed with a genetic algorithm is only going to cause confusion and get you in needless arguments.

AppleTea ,
AppleTea ,

fuckin' just tell me im living in Interesting Times why doncha

AppleTea ,

I too don’t trust Russians who aren’t open about hating their government and wanting their government to retreat from invading sovereign nations.

That's a fair position to take, but I know far to many Americans who hold this view while being silent about our occupations and the constant drone strikes.

AppleTea ,

Tumblr is just the same as it always was. Which in the current blogging ecosystem, means it's better than nearly every other website. Standards have really plummeted.

AppleTea ,

Oh in case people here don't know, current Tumblr ownership is made up of insane transphobes. They're kinda in an enteral standoff with... most of their dedicated user-base about it.

AppleTea ,

Also, back in the first Trump administration, a whole lot of black users got permabanned for spreading "Russian disinformation". In reality, they were talking about their experiences being black in the US. But pointing out the flaws in the place you live is actually helping The Other! So very scary.

AppleTea ,

Generalize that statement, and you have a pretty decent understanding of US politics overall.

AppleTea ,

The article is about the EU market, of course you're going to see more Teslas in a country that has 100% tariffs on the largest competitors.

AppleTea ,

You have faith in the financial system?