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so, that sub was a colossal mess in every way. did you know they used a cheap logitech video game controller to steer it?

well, I did some research and found a review of it on amazon:

one star
worst controller I've ever used. frequently disconnects, often resulting in death

Razor posted...

Spoken like someone who has never been ""stabbed or even close to it in their life. Im a huge fan of Malik Shabazz, but he would be astonished if he saw the current US.

he might be. he might not be. it's certainly feasible that he would have taken a neoliberal turn if he had lived long enough. ultimately this is pointless speculation

There's probably a lot of shit I could drop that would cook your noodle if my op never even occured to you.

try me

Not acknowledging the progress that has been made is legit disrespectful to all the civil rights leaders , of all races, who fought and died to get us here.

personally I think pretending you know what Malcolm X would have thought about contemporary US society is significantly more disrespectful to him

We had a black president for fucks sake.

that... is not, in and of itself, progress

bfslick50 posted...

Agree. Seems to be a lot of 2 steps forward one step back. End slavery but get Jim Crow. Pass civil rights legislation and get red lining. We have respected black people reaching presidency and other high spots in society but the attacks from the racists get more public and more hateful.

I'm reminded of Malcolm X's analogy. I'm paraphrasing here, but he said something like:

if you stick a knife 8 inches into my back, and then pull it out 6 inches, that isn't progress. the knife is still in my back.

basically, we're still not at a point where the knife is actually out of their proverbial backs. once that happens, the wound still has to be cleaned and dressed and allowed to heal. it's not until the wound has actually healed that I think we can reasonably say that progress is being made

28. I rent an apartment with my girlfriend

Razor posted...

What is silly about it , you are I think saying racists are becoming bolder/more numerous and my post said the opposite. What are you asking?

well your post didn't say the opposite exactly. black people being "more respected and looked up to than ever" may or may not be true (not entirely sure how you'd measure that but there's probably a way). even if it is true though, that's not mutually exclusive with racists becoming bolder and more numerous (which they definitely have been since Trump started his bid for republican candidate). the people who "respect and look up to" black people are probably a different subset of the population than "racists who are becoming more emboldened"

it does seem reasonable to me that interracial porn would have an effect on how some of those racists view and interact with the world, but I think it's pretty silly to mention it and nothing else when there are certainly other things -- even other media -- that is definitely having a larger effect. Fox News, for example, is basically a far right propaganda network at this point

pippi longstocking

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

A massive chunk of the alt-right are perpetually online men who are deeply insecure, so it makes sense. They've bought into toxic masculinity full stop and didn't keep the receipt.

I still think it's pretty silly to cite it, and nothing else, as a primary reason for racists becoming bolder and more numerous

Heineken14 posted...

Just more bullshit that the left has to overcome in the eyes of the general voting populace. Think about how absurd this comparison is.

"Would you vote for Trump?"
"Fuck no, he's a criminal!"
"What about DeSantis?"
"Ewww, he's a fascist!"
"Ok, would you go across the aisle to vote for Biden?"
"....the guy that is old?!?!"

good luck convincing the left to vote for biden like this!

Razor posted...

I feel like black people in general are more respected and looked up to than ever , but there's a dark undercurrent of resentment brewing from all the dudes watching porn who see white women go crazy for BBC.

it had never occurred to me that interracial porn would have an effect like that, but I hate how feasible this sounds

it's pretty silly to mention that and no other contributing factors though

xlr_big-coop posted...

Things aren't so one sided. All Latinos i speak to know we're just pawns on the chessboard, both sides use us when it's convenient to them. Obama and Biden promised to do more for us and we only got DACA out of one of them, the latter promised a reform within his first 100 days and to this day all we've seen is a continuation of the deportation camps trump started.

part of your mistake is assuming that the dems and republicans are actually on different sides

IceCreamOnStero posted...

That's a rate of almost 12 chapters per episode. No way that's feasible without sizable cuts

one page of script generally equates to ~1 minute of screen time; so it kinda depends on how they adapt the existing dialogue and fights, but that doesn't actually seem too bad at all (assuming hour-long episodes)

the "emotional weight" of the word exists whether or not there's "judgmental prejudice" behind its use

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Yeah I doubt it, I just thought maybe sharps were a quarter note to a natural's half note.

Would make stuff easier

the concepts of "sharp" and "flat", as they are commonly used today, probably did not exist in Aristotle's time.

but also: no, "sharp" and "flat", as they are commonly used in music today, denote pitch; while "quarter note" and "half note" are used to denote the amount of time during which a specific note is played. they are not analogous in the way you describe

MedeaLysistrata posted...

"A sharp note is a swift note"

Is Aristotle lying here?

I don't really know any of the context here, but I'm going to say... probably not?

it varies between restaurants, but it's usually servers/front-of-house that get the largest cut of tips

Kitt posted...

Not like One Piece ever had good dialogue to begin with.

that's a fair point, though not really relevant to my point.

like, regardless of the quality of One Piece's dialogue, I don't think I would call any of the straw hats "witty." certainly not in the way that Joss Whedon characters are

itachi15243 posted...

Uh, ignoring everything else going on, is it me or is luffy talking way too much?

Everyone is talking way too much.

yeah the dialogue in those clips seems to be another victim of the over-saturated quip market

divot1338 posted...

I literally have to ensure 162 people [in Texas] dont get heat exhaustion every day.

I have way more anecdotal evidence to base my conclusions on than you do.

"data" is not the plural of "anecdote"

is there an actual source for this

I might have a beer or two tonight. not entirely sure

there's no target near me

I don't think my girlfriend would like it if I did that

oprah winfrey

I don't think my girlfriend would like it if I did that

divot1338 posted...

Nah the French sounds worse.

do you speak french at all

slk_23 posted...

AI has suddenly become almost sapient.

no, it very much has not. they're just language models

I don't think my girlfriend would like it if I did that

what'd I miss in the past week and a bit?

Doe posted...

The problem is the overton window of discussion in the US, people by and large believe these articles at face value because all the media networks repeat them on air. It's in our movies and tv shows too. NK is the designated "craziest place in the world where anything can happen"

but like

have people never heard of the concept of an urban legend before?

PeteyParker posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/6/AAA1pFAAEiIO.jpg

came in here to post this

it was great in gen 1, partly because of a glitch. it's been terrible since then

Doe posted...

I'm not defending averagejoel here and I'd describe his conduct in this instance as trolling for just calling a very serious alleged situation fake and not providing any context.

it's just completely baffling to me that people are taking that article, which was clearly just made up, at face value

my favourite is The Man who Knew Too Much

hockeybub89 posted...

then turned around and laughed at me along with all the alt-right chuds for my mom being anti-LGBTQ

okay, for what it's worth I do legitimately feel bad about this and I'm sorry

Euripides posted...

Where we at? 6? 6.5?

the baseline in the US is like an 8

HairyQueen posted...

Provide evidence or shut the fuck up

evidence of what? I asked a legitimate question

HairyQueen posted...

North Koreans who are not in the US and who have defected also corroborate these stories.

and how many of them are being paid by the CIA or another similar organization in a different country allied to the US?

mercurydude posted...

That's one of the rare ones where he's actually given some explanation of the story in interviews. He said the idea behind it was that a man murdered his wife but couldn't come to terms with the fact that he'd done something so horrible, so he goes into a fugue state and is confused about his own identity.

isn't that basically what happens in Mulholland Drive too?

Agonized_rufous posted...

True or not, what's bad is there's enough true stories from NK to make most people not even question if it's true.

We don't do this with places like Poland or Sweden

that's because the US does not manufacture propaganda against Poland or Sweden

like, do you think that the US state department somehow doesn't have a vested interest in propagating lies about north korea?

HairyQueen posted...

Its one thing to question sources. Its another to make an absolutely bullshit claim like this.

a lot of north korean defectors don't have significant skill to help them find work in a capitalist society, so they're basically forced to give "insiders perspectives", and unfortunately only the most outlandish claims really generate significant media publicity.