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Topic | FTC bans non-compete agreements |
Antifar 04/23/24 3:41:05 PM #6 | Hell yeah
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Topic | Pro-Palestine protesters arrested en masse at Columbia University |
Antifar 04/23/24 9:28:33 AM #39 | emblem-man posted...
I think the language and chants some are using (at least what I'm seeing on social media, which I acknowledge might not be representative) has really bad optics and is unnecessarily inflammatory .It seems, to me, that the most necessarily inflammatory thing to happen here is sending in the cops. It's April. Finals are a week or two away. This would have fizzled out on its own, but Columbia's decision to respond through policing has resulted in similar protests popping up at campuses across the northeast: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/nyregion/college-campus-protests-photos-yale-columbia.html --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | NYC tourists love saying "I could never live here" |
Antifar 04/23/24 8:54:49 AM #1 | "Oh, it's so crowded" - guy who went to Times Square on purpose
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Topic | This guy gets more and more loony |
Antifar 04/22/24 12:52:34 PM #13 | stevo6452 posted...
Does he? How?Twitter has a very well publicized effort to pay bluecheck users based on the impressions their tweets receive, to say nothing of the other benefits a professional provocateur like this gets from any attention he receives. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | This guy gets more and more loony |
Antifar 04/22/24 12:37:42 PM #9 | When you share his posts he makes money. Don't do that.
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Topic | German protest broken up for speaking Irish |
Antifar 04/22/24 7:46:02 AM #1 | https://tinyurl.com/yeyrp3ab
Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Alex Jones ATTACKED by own fans for denouncing Hitler. |
Antifar 04/21/24 7:58:26 PM #9 | You're putting money in their megaphone when you use Twitter in 2024. These are the people the site's owner wants to have its loudest voices.
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Topic | The Senate voted to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA |
Antifar 04/21/24 3:40:41 PM #7 | Not great!
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Topic | Why did Nintendo make the Cape Feather so OP in Mario World? |
Antifar 04/21/24 3:33:58 PM #5 | Because it was fun
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Topic | Whomst here is watching El Clasico? |
Antifar 04/21/24 3:09:33 PM #1 | I am
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Topic | Livvy Dunne was benched for the NCAA gymnastics championship |
Antifar 04/21/24 12:16:43 PM #3 | They won though, so
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Topic | This is where all the boomers hang out |
Antifar 04/21/24 11:59:43 AM #2 | Bump
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Topic | This is where all the boomers hang out |
Antifar 04/21/24 10:57:47 AM #1 | In a Facebook group called Facebook Complaints Center
https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqmpzh2hvc2l https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqmqeednss2l --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Facebook announces plan to become much worse |
Antifar 04/20/24 10:10:52 PM #16 | SauI_Goodman posted...
People still use that thing?By the millions --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | What have you done with your Saturday? |
Antifar 04/20/24 9:59:48 PM #1 | I went grocery shopping in the morning, but aside from walking the dog it's been YV and video games since
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Topic | Facebook announces plan to become much worse |
Antifar 04/20/24 9:58:55 PM #14 | Mark Zuckerberg's ideas started at "Hey you should be able to easily look at pics of your hot classmates" and got worse from there. He holds more influence over society than any of us ever will.
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Topic | Facebook announces plan to become much worse |
Antifar 04/20/24 7:31:54 PM #10 | https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqlxs33ygs2d
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Topic | Would you live in Louisiana? |
Antifar 04/20/24 5:49:11 PM #9 | The weather would be intolerable, but the politics would also be intolerable.
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Topic | Has there ever been a jrpg where you are the villain? |
Antifar 04/20/24 4:23:20 PM #10 | Golden Sun
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Topic | USC cancels valedictorian's graduation speech because she is Muslim |
Antifar 04/20/24 3:22:54 PM #70 | Update:
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/usc-cancels-all-commencement-speakers-amid-valedictorian-speech-controversy/ --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | I am making a prediction!! Gas will be $10/gal by mid summer |
Antifar 04/20/24 3:16:40 PM #4 | The Saudis and Russia will try, but I don't think it'll get that high
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Topic | Pro-Palestine protesters arrested en masse at Columbia University |
Antifar 04/20/24 12:17:16 PM #2 | https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3kql7occusn27
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Topic | VW workers vote to unionize at Chattanooga plant |
Antifar 04/20/24 11:16:15 AM #12 | SpawnShadow posted...
Aren't the likes of Starbucks and Tesla currently trying to have Republican judges effectively destroy the NLRB? This victory may well be fleeting.Getting rid of the NLRB wouldn't liquidate existing unions --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | VW workers vote to unionize at Chattanooga plant |
Antifar 04/20/24 9:45:05 AM #7 | Enclave posted...
This is good assuming VW doesn't close the plant in response.VW being a German company, basically all their plants are unionized. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Books general |
Antifar 04/19/24 11:48:00 PM #17 | Bishop_Hastur posted...
I've been trying to read Hopscotch by Julio Cortzar for a while now but it's a real slog.Are you reading it "linearly" or with the "supplemental" chapters? --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | VW workers vote to unionize at Chattanooga plant |
Antifar 04/19/24 11:41:54 PM #2 | Bump
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Topic | Wow. Rugby salaries are so low lmfao |
Antifar 04/19/24 10:55:08 PM #22 | Aloc posted...
There are less people that play certain sports. Hence they make less money.That is not how the economy works. The disparity between rugby and football salaries probably speaks, as much as anything, to the difference between the Australian market and the US one. There are a lot more people here! --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | VW workers vote to unionize at Chattanooga plant |
Antifar 04/19/24 10:50:34 PM #1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/19/vw-uaw-tennessee-vote/
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers, the union said Friday, becoming the first Southern auto factory to approve a union with an election since the 1940s. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | MS Edge homepage is full of Right wing trash. |
Antifar 04/19/24 10:47:41 PM #2 | Oh yeah, I have to use Edge at work and that homepage is wild. Every day there's some article about "Electric Vehicles Can't Be Trusted" on there. Ditto the default news tab thing Windows has.
Is it good that Microsoft is megaphoning this stuff onto unsuspecting customers? --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Probably one of the most unique turn based battle systems I've seen in a while |
Antifar 04/19/24 9:31:43 PM #8 | Transistor does something similar, iirc
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Topic | Protestor sets themselves on fire outside courthouse of Trump trial |
Antifar 04/19/24 4:00:41 PM #85 | Psych_RN posted...
IDK why I wouldnt want to stay, being a Republican voter, seeing as youre all so welcoming and all.You aren't welcome. Hope this helps --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Protestor sets themselves on fire outside courthouse of Trump trial |
Antifar 04/19/24 3:53:30 PM #72 | The economy is doing good actually.
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Topic | Protestor sets themselves on fire outside courthouse of Trump trial |
Antifar 04/19/24 2:52:14 PM #44 | Sometimes conspiracy brain just doesn't have a clear partisan valence.
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Topic | Pro-Palestine protesters arrested en masse at Columbia University |
Antifar 04/19/24 2:44:07 PM #1 | Tensions are high at Columbia University over the Israel-Hamas war and the school's response to ongoing protests on campus. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/supporters-of-palestinians-israel-clash-outside-columbia-universitys-campus-gate/ --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Facebook announces plan to become much worse |
Antifar 04/18/24 6:56:58 PM #8 | Bump
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Topic | Facebook announces plan to become much worse |
Antifar 04/18/24 5:55:16 PM #1 | https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3kqgncud2lq22
What does this look like in practice? Like a chatbot showing up in your replies claiming to be a parent https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social/post/3kqgnnr45y622 --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Sec. Of State sitting on recommendations to sanction Israeli units for rape |
Antifar 04/17/24 8:22:43 PM #2 | Bump
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Topic | Tesla Started Laying Off 14,000 Employees |
Antifar 04/17/24 6:40:54 PM #6 | WingsOfGood posted...
unemployment must be through the roof all these big companies have been laying off like every month since end of last yearUnemployment remains under 4 percent because tech is a small portion of the economy. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | NBA gives life time ban to Raptors' Jontay Porter for gambling violations |
Antifar 04/17/24 6:28:20 PM #23 | Also consider that athletes are privy to information the public is not, and using that info, even to bet on your own team's success, really calls into question the legitimacy and fairness the whole gambling pyramid is built on. It's like insider trading.
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Topic | Sec. Of State sitting on recommendations to sanction Israeli units for rape |
Antifar 04/17/24 6:07:17 PM #1 | https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations
A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | NBA gives life time ban to Raptors' Jontay Porter for gambling violations |
Antifar 04/17/24 1:16:04 PM #9 | Enclave posted...
Can you find any exploit in being allowed to bet that your team is going to win?Are they going to bet the same amount every game? --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Good lord, Klay Thompson's stat line from last night |
Antifar 04/17/24 9:27:59 AM #4 | Is that good
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Topic | Does anyone else get hit HARD by spring fever? |
Antifar 04/17/24 9:14:02 AM #4 | Those are allergies
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Topic | Senator Tom Cotton, on protestors |
Antifar 04/17/24 7:05:45 AM #5 | Update:
https://bsky.app/profile/brainnotonyet.bsky.social/post/3kqchn6kkha2k --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Verified pro-Nazi accounts flourish on Elon Musk's Twitter |
Antifar 04/16/24 10:47:33 PM #29 | Kradek posted...
That's odd because I recall Zuck recently saying they wouldn't be monitoring misinformation as they did in 2020.That may well be true, but de-amplifying politics content could still have the effect of keeping the spread of that stuff contained. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Have you been to Seattle? |
Antifar 04/16/24 10:46:19 PM #2 | I visited for a long weekend with friends a couple years ago. Really nice time, we went to a bunch of sporting events and the weather (early September) was great.
The Museum of Pop Culture was fun, and I liked the aquarium as well. --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | Jury selection for Trump trial runs into potential jurors' Twitter jokes |
Antifar 04/16/24 9:26:29 PM #1 | https://bsky.app/profile/malraux.bsky.social/post/3kqbjexdcaf2z
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b081f0d1.jpg Lol --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
Topic | The quality of this board has already increased |
Antifar 04/16/24 9:03:51 PM #8 | What would you know about post quality?
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Topic | Verified pro-Nazi accounts flourish on Elon Musk's Twitter |
Antifar 04/16/24 9:02:18 PM #26 | Kradek posted...
FB's political discussion, in contrast, is known for being right-wing boomers shitting it up and Zuckerberg saying he no longer cares about curtailing it or promoting the truth.So actually this is shifting, mostly because FB is downplaying political content https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/ For years, Facebooks mysterious algorithms served up links to news and commentary articles, sending droves of traffic to their publishers. But those days are gone. Amid criticism from elected officials and academics who said the social-media giant was spreading hate speech and harmful misinformation, including Russian propaganda, before the 2016 election, Facebook apparently came to question the value of featuring news on its platform. In early 2018, it began deemphasizing news content, giving greater priority to content posted by friends and family members. In 2021, it tightened the tap a little further. This past February, it announced that it would do the same on Instagram and Threads. All of this monkeying with the internets plumbing drastically reduced the referral traffic flowing to news and commentary sites. The changes have affected everyone involved in digital media, including some liberal-leaning sitessuch as Slate (which saw a 42 percent traffic drop), the Daily Beast (41 percent), and Vox (62 percent, after losing its two most prominent writers)but the impact appears to have been the worst, on average, for conservative media. (Referral traffic from Google has also declined over the past few years, but far less sharply.) --- Please don't be weird in my topics |
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