Stupid World

[pritch]

Alex Jones will just declare bankruptcy, and then conviniently pop up a new business in another form. Justice in the US is only metered out to the little people.

As OAB pointed out he may have already commenced bankruptcy proceedings. Sometimes though, if it's too transparent, the courts will stop the process. As happened to the NRA a year or so ago. Similarly with the NY Attorney General applying to stop Trump transferring assets to his new company.

Interestingly the $965 million does not include punitive damages, the judge is yet to award those.

[R650R]

This makes me want to buy VW, German efficiency at its finest turn the lights out

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/vo...-no-attention/

[mashman]

Jair Bolsonaro: The Amazon and why world is watching Brazil's election... but, as important as such things are, the scandal around the UK conservative party election is far more entertaining and likely to yield in a result that could be considered positive.

[mashman]

... stupid world at its best. Doing the right thing and being fucked over for it.

[pritch]

This morning I tuned in to NewstalkZB to hear the news at 8.00. I made the mistake of sticking around to listen to the host's segment with a couple of sports commentator.s The subject of Gina Rinehart's recent split with Netball Australia cropped up. Not one of the three had a clue as to the cause of the problem. I can't remember the exact words but it was attributed to something like a woke environmental protest. Complete bollocks!

The team wears (wore?) sponsorship on their tops for Hancock Prospecting. The eponymous Mr Hancock was a proponent of sterilising all aboriginal people so that the race would eventually disappear. That could presumably be defined as genocide. Of course the team members may have been blissfully unaware of this, until recently a player of aboriginal exctraction was selected. She was all too aware of the history and she did not want to wear the name of a person who advocated for her race to be consigned to history.
Her team mates supported her. Gina was not pleased and cancelled the fifteen million dollar contract.

Sports announcers are not expected to be bright but they should be better informed than that.



Afterthought: NZ doesn't really have sports commentators, we tend to have rugby, cricket, and netball commentators. Some of them have only marginal knowledge of other sports.

[R650R]

Top bloke moves protestors vans.

These protestors are starting to get cocky, people at front of que need to drag them away at start.
You are being unlawfully detained by these nutters (as you can’t turn around on mwsy) so yourcwithin legal rights to use reasonable force to move them.

[pritch]

Well done that man.

[TheDemonLord]

For those that know...

"Let that Sink in"

[mashman]

NASA instrument detects dozens of methane super-emitters from space

Puff piece.

"Compared with CO2, which lingers in the atmosphere for centuries, methane persists for only about a decade, meaning that reductions in methane emissions have a more immediate impact on planetary warming."

Really George?

"Methane enters the atmosphere and eventually combines with oxygen (oxidizes) to form more CO2. Methane converts to CO2 by this simple chemical reaction."

But methane is less dangerous, even though it breaks down into more co2. Hardly surprising that methane only lasts as long as it takes for it to oxidize in an oxygen rich atmosphere. Oh the games they play with their fancy terms and bollocks to legitimise their ways.

[TheDemonLord]

Well, the last few days have been wonderful.

Elon the Conqueror has completed his purchase of Twitter and has started at the top with a series of terminations.

The screeching, by the same cry-bullies that gleefully cheered when they took their political opponents livelihoods away, now that they are getting a taste of their own medicine is a veritable symphony to my ears.

Remember folks - Twitter is a private Company (it very much is now) and they can do what they want.

'Tis a Glorious day.

[R650R]

Well, the last few days have been wonderful.

Elon the Conqueror has completed his purchase of Twitter and has started at the top with a series of terminations.

The screeching, by the same cry-bullies that gleefully cheered when they took their political opponents livelihoods away, now that they are getting a taste of their own medicine is a veritable symphony to my ears.

Remember folks - Twitter is a private Company (it very much is now) and they can do what they want.

'Tis a Glorious day.

Yes indeed. Spare a thought for the horror existing users are going to go through, having to be exposed to alternative points of view.
Although he has blown away the walls of that echo chamber let us not forget electric Jesus is a student of Klaus schwab. It may just be a new vehicle to push green agenda and hasten demise of petrol power instead of being all politics.

[pritch]

Yes indeed. Spare a thought for the horror existing users are going to go through, having to be exposed to alternative points of view.

Twitter always had alternative points of view. You aren't necessarily "exposed" to them though. I don't usually see them but if a MAGA annoys me I just block them. Nothing about that will change.

To be banned from Twitter you had to repeatedly break rules, usually hate speech against one or other of the 'popular' targets for such. Spreading virus disinformation could get you banned too. Trump broke the terms of service nearly every day, but something something president.

I'm not sure Trump will want to return to Twitter, however much Musk might welcome him. Trump's following at Truth Social is tragically small compared to his peak following at Twitter. If Trump returned to Twitter now though, there would be no reason at all for his crippled "media empire" to stagger on.

Musk's firing of some of the top staff at Twitter might not be a great business move. Many people want a start-up to compete with Twitter. Musk just made a group of experienced and qualified people available.

[TheDemonLord]

Twitter always had alternative points of view. You aren't necessarily "exposed" to them though. I don't usually see them but if a MAGA annoys me I just block them. Nothing about that will change.

To be banned from Twitter you had to repeatedly break rules, usually hate speech against one or other of the 'popular' targets for such. Spreading virus disinformation could get you banned too. Trump broke the terms of service nearly every day, but something something president.

Or reporting on factually true stories - like the Hunter Biden laptop - that got you banned.
Or calling Biological Men... Men. That also gets you banned.
Or saying the Virus might have originated in a research lab that specializes in the particular flavour of Virus that was located in the area of the first outbreak - that got you banned.

Those alternative points of view...

Musk's firing of some of the top staff at Twitter might not be a great business move. Many people want a start-up to compete with Twitter. Musk just made a group of experienced and qualified people available.

Experienced and Qualified? None of them have Start-up experience and the Technical expertise is patchy.

Apparently next for the chop is large swathes of the Content Moderation team.

If I were to make a bold prediction - it's that the Democrats are suddenly going to change their tune from 'It's a Private Company they can do what they want' to 'We need to look at regulation'

[sugilite:Me]

Experienced and Qualified? None of them have Start-up experience and the Technical expertise is patchy.
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You are talking about truth social right?

I think it is hilarious that Musk has taken over twitter, but for different reasons to you, obviously.
Musk is so thin skinned, he could not handle his offer of a submarine being rejected he resorted to calling the guy a pedo. I bet he scrubs twitter of any mean tweets about him lol

If trump does not come back, twitter will ultimately and very likely eat itself.
And i could not care less.

Trumps dilemma however is an amusing one. Rejoin twitter to hook up with his former 60 million followers, tacitly acknowledging truth social is the turd that it is, or just stick with truth social and retain his severely limited exposure and go down with the slowly sinking ship. Poor orange turd

[pritch]

Or reporting on factually true stories - like the Hunter Biden laptop - that got you banned.
Or calling Biological Men... Men. That also gets you banned.
Or saying the Virus might have originated in a research lab that specializes in the particular flavour of Virus that was located in the area of the first outbreak - that got you banned.

I've been a regular user of Twitter for years and have never seen or heard anything of that. I have to assume therefore that it's total bollox and that you have neither experience nor knowledge on which to base this.

On Twitter "Hunter Biden's laptop" would be an indicator that confirms we have an idiot in the conversation. I'd block the fuckwit there and then. Other such indicators are 'Soros' and 'woke'. You see those, you know there's no hope.

As for virus misinformation, I have no idea where you got that. I believe virus misinformation might be the cause of Mad Marge's banning. She was perpetuating the "hoax' theory, plus pushing anti virus theories, anti mask, and all sorts of insane rubbish. All while over a million of her fellow citizens were dying. This is the woman that said the Californian forest fires were started by Jewish lasers from outer space. Of course the Republicans are suggesting she might make a good Vice President. She can barely speak English.

Before you start commenting on Twitter I'd suggest you spend some time there. While it is still functioning.