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uwnim posted...

That doesnt work when the other person doesnt recognize reality.

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It cannot be coincidence that an outbreak of coronavirus started in the same city that houses the largest collection of coronaviruses on the planet. How the fuck would that make any sense?

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"We're sorry, Twitter is not available in your region."

Imagine the shitstorm. Imagine people actually using twitter and fb for work and then just being blocked. Honestly it's fucked but it would be hilarious.

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Queer not gay

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Dawn of Sorrow is the best one.

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im crying into my nachos

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Je refuse.

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WTF is this shit. Makes no sense. Why would a private company have to do this?

If I were Facebook I would just block myself in Florida.

By David McCabe
New York Times
May 24, 2021
Updated 3:43 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter moderate speech online, by imposing fines on social media companies that permanently bar political candidates in the state.
The law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is a direct response to Facebooks and Twitters bans of former President Donald J. Trump in January. In addition to the fines for barring candidates, it makes it illegal to prevent some news outlets from posting to their platforms in response to the contents of their stories.
Mr. DeSantis said signing the bill meant that Floridians would be guaranteed protection against the Silicon Valley elites.
If Big Tech censors enforce rules inconsistently, to discriminate in favor of the dominant Silicon Valley ideology, they will now be held accountable, he said in a statement.
The bill is part of a broader push among conservative state legislatures to crack down on the ability of tech companies to manage posts on their platforms. The political efforts took off after Mr. Trump was barred after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Lawmakers around the country have echoed Mr. Trumps accusations that the companies are biased against conservative personalities and publications, even though those accounts often thrive online.
More than a hundred bills targeting the companies moderation practices have been filed nationwide this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many of the bills have died, but a proposal is still being debated in Texas.
Twitter declined to comment. Google and Facebook did not immediately offer comments on the signing of the bill.
The Florida law makes it illegal to bar a candidate for state office for more than 14 days, in a move that would seem to outlaw the kind of permanent ban the social media platforms applied to Mr. Trumps accounts. Companies would be fined $250,000 per day for cases where they barred a candidate for statewide office. The fine is lower for candidates seeking other offices.
The law says the platforms cannot take down or otherwise prioritize content from a journalistic enterprise that reaches a certain size. Conservatives were outraged last year when Facebook and Twitter limited the reach of a New York Post article about the contents of a laptop it said belonged to Hunter Biden, the younger son of President Biden.
Under the law, platforms are also required to be clear about how they decide to take down content or leave it up. Users could sue the platform if they felt those terms were inconsistently applied.
A late amendment to the bill exempts companies from the law if they own a theme park or an entertainment venue larger than 25 acres. That means the law is unlikely to apply to websites owned by Disney, which operates the Walt Disney World Resort, and Comcast, which owns Universal Studios Florida.
In Florida, as in dozens of other states, the Republican lawmakers push to punish social media companies follows the partys other efforts to feed the demands of a conservative base that remains loyal to Mr. Trump.
Florida, along with Republican-run legislatures in Oklahoma and Iowa, have in recent weeks passed legislation limiting the right to protest and providing immunity to drivers who strike protesters in public streets.
And the Republican push to make voting harder continues unabated after Mr. Trumps relentless lying about the results of the 2020 election. Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia signed into law new restrictions on voting, as did Mr. DeSantis in Florida, and Texas Republicans are poised to soon pass the nations biggest rollback of voting rights.
The partywide, nationwide push stems from Mr. Trumps repeated grievances. During his failed re-election campaign, Mr. Trump repeatedly pushed to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides immunity to certain tech firms from liability for user-generated content, even as he used their platforms to spread misinformation. Twitter and Facebook eventually barred Mr. Trump after he inspired his supporters, using their platforms, to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Republican lawmakers in Florida have echoed Mr. Trumps statements.
I have had numerous constituents come to me saying that they were banned or de-platformed on social media sites, Representative Blaise Ingoglia said during the debate over the bill.
But Democrats, libertarian groups and tech companies all say the law violates the tech companies First Amendment rights to decide how to handle content on their own platforms. It also may prove impossible to bring complaints under the law because of Section 230, the legal protections for web platforms that Mr. Trump has attacked.
It is the government telling private entities how to speak, said Carl Szabo, the vice president at NetChoice, a trade association that includes Facebook, Google and Twitter as members. In general, its a gross misreading of the First Amendment. He said the First Amendment was designed to protect sites like Reddit from government intervention, not protect politicians from Reddit.
The Florida measure is likely to be challenged in court, said Jeff Kosseff, a professor of cybersecurity law at the Naval Academy.
I think this is the beginning of testing judges limits on these sorts of restrictions for social media, he said.

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yes

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To be fair it is a nice watch.

edit: how much does it cost, TC?

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Cardio today. 60 minutes on treadmill. Also walked a mile to the store (and a mile and a half back) to buy something instead of driving the short distance.

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I'm buying 150 army men.

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No_U_L7 posted...

my general rule is only 1 peacock item at a time

need like 4-5 minimum.

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70s were awesome. Totally insane orgies, tons of drugs, and still plenty of hippies and free-thinkers. The 80s were a reaction against how awesome the 70s were becoming.

Computers and videos games started to come to market, so if you were a techno-geek you could learn Fortran and basically be on the cutting edge of computer science.

TV was getting better, and action movies like JAWS, Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, as well as horror movies like Halloween would come out. The Godfather movies and Star Wars, too.

Economy goes up, up, up the entire decade, and things were moving to the progressive side (Roe v Wade).

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I'm surprised at these results.

I'm already 6'2'' and chubby so I went with the fighting skillz.

S-Tier fighting? that's awesome!

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TC unless you are trans maybe do what BabyRoxann suggests.

Trans people know they are trans at a very young age.

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Also FF13. Hit one boss where I was forced to use the kid guy, and I just could not beat it no matter what.

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Guess I'm playing Dragon Age next.

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Ivynn posted...

You'd have to really go out of your way to do that. ME1 is weird in that to be in a romance, you just have to be nice to them. Don't even have to choose flirty options, just being nice locks you into a romance. So as long as you weren't incredibly rude to Liara, you're good to go

excellent. thanks!

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UnfairRepresent posted...

I wish he named names but I get why he didn't

He'd be harassed and sued

he wouldn't be sued.

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Ivynn posted...

Literally impossible to screw up a ME1 romance since they all come on to you so strong lol

I heard it was possible to miss the sex scene.

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ok thanks guys. and for the record i want the "steamy romance scene" not just "ok were dating lol"

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I went and started romancing Liara, but and was picking paragon answers and it seemed like everything was fine. She asked me if I was attracted to her and I said yes, but then she asked me some more questions and the renegade answers started to look more interesting so I picked 2 answers like "It's dangerous" and "The danger makes it hotter."

She said she needed some time to think, and I went back to paragon or neutral response.

Then I played a little more, saved, etc. Then I found out (had guessed already) that Liara likes Paragon responses.

Can I still get the steamy romance scene? Obviously will be more serious with the Liara romance options in the future.

Is this file FUBAR or what?

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Squall28 posted...

Bruh what kind of college professors do you work with

Most college professors don't make nearly this much (source: I am one, and I know 100 others like me).

Most of the money is locked into huge salaries for tenured professors, who are overwhelmingly baby boomers, and maybe Gen X. The rest goes to pay administrators to do basically nothing 80% of the time.

Millennials are paid very low, kept as "contract workers" for years without any kinds of benefits, or are grad students who are actually paying the university to teach.

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Drpooplol posted...

are you really going to dispute the US bureau of labor statistics?

Yes. Teacher salaries are simply not that high. My guess is they are including things like principles, super-intendants, and other administrators and calling them "teachers."

So in reality this map probably shows where administrator pay is out of control, not where education is actually supported.

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Maybe since you are not a teacher you should look the other way and stop being a narc.

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This is not accurate. I don't know how else to say it but the median income for a teacher in Louisiana is not 61k.

The average income is 40k for a teacher in Baton Rouge (the state capital).

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Trumble posted...

Time to buy back in, and go to the moon in a lambo!

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littlebro07 posted...

Dont like that the USA allows abortion? Leave it.

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joe40001 posted...

She shouldn't have been fired.

again they told her "apologize or be fired" and she didn't want to apologize.

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the Wal-Mart packs are great. They have better than average mythics, I swear. Or maybe they just can't be box-mapped.

I always feel like the ones that come in cardboard with the pack inside have better cards than a rando pack from a box.

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The Darpa chief...

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Disney said she just had to apologize and they'd keep her on.

She didn't want to apologize.

Maybe now she understands more, (i.e. people educated her) and she understands that her comments were racist, etc. If she's willing to make a statement I think they'll resign her for sure.

*has not watched The Mandolorian, thinks disney/marvel is kinda dumb*

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return & wait

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Doki Doki Literature Club

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kirbyakaZ posted...

That's not how a firing squad works.
Typically a group of soldiers will all aim at the heart (to not cause disfigurement of the face) and all fire at once. However, everyone will have blanks except for a single soldier. This way no single man carries the guilt of thinking they killed someone else and has plausible deniability.

Also you typically wear a bag over your head so you don't even know when it's coming. Sounds awful to me. Lethal injecting is the nicest for sure.

I thought only one guy fired a blank, so they could imagine they didn't do it. (But still need 3-4 bullets to kill instantly).

Death penalty is barbaric and it's a joke that the supreme court hasn't ruled it unconstitutional.

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best newspaper ever

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I disagree. Mods are probably more chill via the anonymity (plus they know who mods what, amongst themselves).

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shockthemonkey posted...

lol

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panties or boxer briefs.

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soccer ball

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"pwnd" was originally just "owned" made symmetrical but everyone read it as "poned."

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Ultima 2. It's so awesome and no one ever talks about it.

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