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BDSMKane posted...

The thing I dont understand about this is why the income tax threshold is so high ($1,000,000) but the investment tax threshold is so low ($400,000). Doesnt that investment tax apply to any 401k or IRA that retirees roll over? A million a year is a lot of money, and Im sure no one here would argue with that being taxed.

But, even if I personally have $0 retirement, $400k in a lifetime of working, saving, and investing doesnt sound like that much; especially with insane inflation. It seems like its specifically designed to punish people for trying to save up for retirement, especially in blue states where annual income is higher. I dont even think retiring in CA would be possible with less than $400k from investments, and then the government takes almost half of it?

I know there are the super rich who would be effected by their routine hundred thousand dollar investments, but adding a clause to give retirees a one time leniency seems like it would be a better way to go. Unless Im misunderstanding something here, then Id appreciate someone trying to politely clear it up.

Uh....pretty sure 401K and IRA are always taxed as income. Not sure what you mean by "roll over", though.
And you don't have to withdraw your money all at once. I plan to trickle mine out over years, so on any given year my taxes won't be that high.

SHRlKE posted...

Investment income has risk associated with it.

And if you have losses, you get to deduct it from your taxes that year.
See: Trump

So who the fuck cares? Tax it all the same. Money gained is money gained.

No one has ever been able to explain to me why capital gains don't have the same fucking tax brackets as income.
Like, if you have both income and capital gains in a given tax year, you should just be taxed based on the combined total and that's it (gentle reminder that the income/gains are taxed at each graduated tier, so if the 22% rate hits at $100K for example, the income/gains below $100K are not taxed at that rate).

If I take my post-tax income and put it in a certificate of deposit, I get hit w/ INCOME taxes on the interest earned. If I put money into a 401K, when I take it out it is taxed as INCOME (or you do Roth and pay the INCOME tax up front).
But when it's put into the stock market buying stocks directly, all of a sudden it needs a special snowflake super low rate because...reasons.

Obviously not having to commute to work (and if I had gotten free money to not even work, it would've been even sweeter).

But since that's too obvious, 2nd best part: watching all the extroverts freak the fuck out because after the entirety of human history having it be their world and introverts having to deal w/ it, all of a sudden, for a few mere weeks, they had to live in an introvert's world, and dear god did it enrage and terrify them!

Jordan_AS posted...

Lol, Russia didn't have a plan B if more aid went through? Get fucked.

Just imagine the panic in Putin's circle when God Slayer Dark Brandon wins a 2nd term and (hopefully) the House and retains the Senate.
It's so fucking transparent that their entire strategy is to wait things out until Trump is back in office to dismantle all US aid to Ukraine.

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

They're welcome to ask.

Musk is free to decline.

They can then ban the site.

It's basically just a high stakes game of chicken.

It says they're going to fine them $785K per day they don't comply. Which is pretty ludicrous, twitter loses money overall already, it definitely isn't making money in Australia.
So then I guess what? He geoblocks the entire country for all of twitter, and they can't do shit to collect their penalties? Or would some sort of trade deal between the US and Australia come into play and twitter's still pressured into paying?

Rotterdammerung posted...

Musk is physically incapable of pulling out of anything

lol

darkace77450 posted...

I didnt think anyone could make me side with Elon Musk, but here we are. Good job, Australia.

Whenever it comes to disputes over censorship or general prudishness, as a pretty universal rule, Australia is always the bad guy or greater evil.
Like, them being the ones (most) in the wrong on such matters any time their country is involved is possibly the safest bet on earth.

Antifar posted...

Real brain genius stuff to ban a popular platform in such a way that it can continue to be used to criticize you for banning it all the way up through election day.

It was a bipartisan bill, so who exactly will TikTok be criticizing for banning it?

Oh joy, took longer than expected but the conspiracies are being spouted now.
Just because 100% of your life revolves around one thing in the news doesn't make every other news item revolve around it in reality.

Deej posted...

>_>
<_<
...Is GameFAQs not also social media?

"Social media" is too broad a term.
I'm sick of going into paragraphs of detail on it, so the short version.

"Legacy" social media like message boards, char rooms, comments sections for articles... Are usually ok. Yes you have hives of scum and villainy like 4chan, but that's the point. You KNOW on some level you're consciously entering a hive of scum and villainy when you go there.

"Viral" social media like TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook is the problem. Their whole model is using algorithms to feed you related content and keep you on their platform and to interact with itself. You could start watching some stuff on woodworking and end up on some alt right pipeline thru "suggested" content all w/o leaving the website you were on. Also basically encourages cross-platform flame wars and drama b/c it generates clicks.

When people complain about "social media" they almost always mean viral social media, exclusively.

Those are my names for the two basic types. And it gets messy w/ stuff like reddit (mixes the two a lot) and youtube (started legacy, turned into viral gradually after google bought it).

If it were on PC, I'd buy it for sure.
Hopefully after 2-4 weeks of PS5 sales, they'll announce it's being ported to PC and they just don't want to jeopardize early sales by announcing that too early.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuiRFC965Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phfhZbNNcHE

Looks phenomenal and got all the important stuff right. Hope it comes to PC soon so I can play it!

Remember when Polygon deducted 2 points from Bayonetta 2 just for having lewd content?
The game "journalism" industry has gotten so much worse in the past decade since then.
It's definitely gonna end up in the 70's at best, because too many have an extremist axe to grind.

I'm glad Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan are getting aid, but it's bs this got slipped in, too.
How does that happen, exactly? Do a majority of the House have to specifically vote to add it in, or is it really as simple as one dip shit slipping in whatever s/he wants to an existing bill and then the entire House has to accept it or scrap the whole thing?
Cause if the latter, Congress is seriously beyond fucked.
If the former, then at least you know a majority actually specifically wanted this included.

GhostFaceLeaks posted...

This will set a precedent. Any and all sites that have stuff America doesn't like will be banned.

Expect Wikipedia to be hit next.

I just made a topic last night about Australia trying to be world internet police. Wouldn't be shocked at all if the US decided to do the same.
At least this is still only affecting the US, but countries are starting to push the idea that "geoblocking isn't enough!", you have to just remove it from the internet entirely.

https://apnews.com/article/australia-x-stabbing-church-esafety-commission-d19fa3736cc348043f0979945dd0dea3

An Australian judge on Monday ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia.

X Corp., the tech company rebranded by billionaire Elon Musk when he bought Twitter last year, announced last week it would fight in court Australian orders to take down posts relating to a knife attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in an Assyrian Orthodox church as a service was being streamed online on April 15.

The material was geoblocked from Australia but remained available elsewhere.

But the regulator that made the orders, Australias eSafety Commission, which describes itself as the worlds first government agency dedicated to keeping people safer online, successfully applied to the Federal Court in Sydney for a temporary global ban on the sharing of video of the bishop being stabbed.

In an after-hours hearing, Justice Geoffrey Kennett suppressed the footage from all X users until Wednesday, when an application for a permanent ban will be heard.

X has 24 hours to hide the footage from users, the judge ruled.

The regulators lawyer, Stephen Tran, had argued that geoblocking Australia did not meet the definition of removal of the footage under Australian law.

Tran said the footage was a graphic and violent video that would cause irreparable harm if its continuing to circulate.

Xs lawyer Marcus Hoyne said he had been unable to get instructions from his San Francisco-based client because it was early Monday morning in the United States.

Musk has described eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant as the Australian censorship commissar.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had earlier criticized X for refusing to remove graphic posts about the knife attack on a bishop and priest at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church.

Albanese said social media posts, misinformation and dissemination of violent images had exacerbated suffering from the church attack, which the two clerics survived, as well as a knife attack at a Sydney shopping mall two days earlier which killed six people.

Social media has a social responsibility, Albanese said. I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue their case.

The platforms Global Government Affairs team said on Saturday Inman Grant had ordered it to remove some posts that commented on the church attack, but it said the posts did not violate Xs rules on violent speech.

X said the Australian regulator had demanded the platform globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000.

X believes that eSafetys order was not within the scope of Australian law and we complied with the directive pending a legal challenge, the Global Government Affairs account said.

While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what content Xs users can see globally, it said.

We will robustly challenge this unlawful and dangerous approach in court, it added.
The live feed of the church attack and social media posts that followed attracted a crowd of 2,000 people and fueled a riot against police, who barricaded the young suspected attacker inside the place of worship.

The rioting injured 51 police officers and damaged 104 police vehicles, officials said.

Three alleged rioters had been arrested by Sunday and police on Monday released images of 12 suspects they accuse of being the main instigators of the violence, taken from video of the riot.

A 16-year-old boy accused of the stabbings has been charged with terrorism offenses. He has received online condemnation and praise for the attack.

And apparently this isn't the first time something like this happened? Here I was, about to give Elon Musk credit for something, too

https://new.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1caai47/australian_judge_bans_x_from_sharing_video_of/

Twitter has already done this for India back in 2023
In an apparent first, Twitter appears to have withheld a tweet globally in response to a legal demand in India. Journalist and Right to Information (RTI) activist Saurav Das posted a screenshot of two past tweets, one of which appears to quote Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah, with a message from the social media platform stating that the content has been withheld in Worldwide.

Not sure if that comment is true, having trouble finding news articles to validate it. But assuming it is...
Curious that Twitter "bent the knee" to India, but is fighting back against Australia.
I don't like the precedent of allowing countries to police what the entire world can post or view on the internet, and saying "geo-blocking isn't enough" is appalling.

You really gotta specify which edition of D&D and Pathfinder.

PF "1E" was D&D 3.5 w/ some common sense rules changes and then a whole lot of dumb shit and utter bloat (for all the criticisms 3E got for "trap options", none of them made you objectively weaker for taking them like some of PF's).
A common criticism of 3E was that casters were too strong, so PF's solution was to...make them even stronger. Like... being a specialist wizard sure is nifty but it's a shame you have to ban two whole schools of magic, then PF came around and was like, "but what if you didn't have to, though?"
It's a rom-hack of the best edition of D&D so even though it's not as good as the original, it's...ok. Just stick to classes w/ a spell list, even if it only goes up to 4th or 6th level spells, and you'll be ok.

PF 2E is entirely it's own thing and I've only heard about it, but it sounds fucking dreadful. Like D&D 4E except the feats and options are even weaker and lamer than in that dumpster fire of a rules set (like instead of a feat to get +2 to some skills, which would already be weak and lame in 3E, now there's feats to situationally get +1 or +2 to a skill or two). I'm actually shocked there's people here saying they like it, they're literally the first people I've ever seen outside of Paizo's (maker of PF) own boards (and even there it's got a lot of detractors) that had good things to say about it. I've seen lots of people online and friends of mine who liked PF 1E and hated D&D 4E all universally say it's even worse than D&D 4E.

Not going to bother talking about D&D, I assume you're familiar with it at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24cqO7rP8o

Yeah, I got it this morning. Chose "necessary cookies only", hopefully that plus UBO keeps Fandom from getting any money from my use of their site.

Fuck them for the policy changes.

https://twitter.com/crimewithbobby/status/1782210399070273757

Prestoff posted...

My friend is playing it on the switch from being a backer and yeah...the performance is not good on it at all. Still playable, but it looks like something i would get annoyed with pretty quickly.

Like what's wrong with it?

-_-

It's a fucking 2D (or 2.5D) game, it shouldn't have problems on the Switch :(
I backed it on Switch... I think we get digital copies since the physical is delayed? But I see no email for it yet.

Really got stuck between a rock and hard place back in 2020 when the KS happened. Wanted a physical copy (PC out), didn't want to give Sony money or risk a censored copy (PS4 out, PS5 never even an option), kinda just left Switch and hoping there'd be a new Nintendo console by now. Back in 2020, seemed inevitable there would be by the time this came out. I guess I could've switched to PS4 last year, but I really didn't think Switch would be a problem, even though the company clearly never wanted to put it on Switch from the very beginning...

It's a Japanese indie game, so that sadly means it's already losing at least 2 points compared to a Western AAA game's score, in our shit-tastic modern games journalism rating system.

7/10 is about as good as it was going to get. Maybe 8/10 if it was the most amazing JRPG of the past decade.

Well, it's cool that they produce those.
Not eating anything w/ corn syrup in it while living in America takes out just about any food that's been processed in any capacity.

It should be enough for a single person to afford a studio apartment, extremely cheap/basic food, basic healthcare (if there's still no Medicare for All, which there should be), plus another 20% for transportation costs, clothing, other stuff.
If it's a family, then enough for like a 2 bedroom apartment and the above for each person.

Basically, it should be just barely enough to survive on, no more. You want nicer home/food/etc... or travel, get a job. Since it's UBI, you keep it if you work.

The amount should be based on median cost of living for the U.S. Higher COL areas like NYC should have to provide supplemental UBI boosts to cover the gap. Basing national UBI on high COL areas is untenable. Can easily become 3x the cost of rural areas, or more.

Cheater87 posted...

After one DUI if you do it a second time you should be banned from driving for life, I am SICK of seeing a person having 20 DUIS on their record.

DUI is treated way too leniently. Even when they murder people, it's rare they get double digit years in prison, even after a long history of them.

And yes, if you (generic you, no longer replying to the above poster) choose to get drunk and get in a car and kill people, it should be a fucking murder charge. You didn't accidentally do any of that, you fucking piece of shit.

EDIT: why aren't they releasing the driver's name?! I can understand when you're not sure you have the correct suspect, not wanting to publicly shame the wrong person (ironically, seems like those are the cases the police can't put the name out fast enough). But....they have her fucking car crashed into the fucking building and she's at a party she wasn't invited to, I think the risk of her not being the perpetrator is pretty fucking low!

He never really "fell off". I don't get this topic and all the replies, I swear it was just a few months ago there were topics marveling about how he maintained quality and was still chugging along fine while most of his peers from 20 years ago fell off or failed by now.
What's w/ this whiplash on him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLyK2EOfV1s

Russia's getting confident that their Manchurian Candidate MAGA Republicans will keep blocking aid to Ukraine and they can just attrition their way to victory.
They don't even want a sham peace deal that gives them all the conquered territory and neuters Ukraine's military to the point they'll have no chance when Russia breaks the deal later on. They're just gunning for total destruction of Ukraine as a country and a people.
Make no mistake what is at stake this November when you vote.

Dudebusters posted...

In my experience, TC regularly posts right wing shit in general and tries to dress it up as something else

I've recently made topics about this, Joseph Gatt (a Democrat) being falsely accused, a married couple that got erroneously divorced by computer error, and Iran being found by Argentina to be behind the infamous 1994 Jewish Center bombing.
Or, as you would call that stuff "right wing shit"

Dudebusters posted...

Yeah, they used to post topics bragging about how they'd call cops on their neighbors for being loud and "The air smelled off, I bet they were smoking weed" and then they gave up that gimmick to try and appear more trustworthy

Whose alt is this? You seem to know a lot about me, except warped to fit your agenda.

I didn't make topics about noise, I responded in some topics about noise, telling people it's dangerous to knock on their door and ask them to turn it down and better to just call the cops.
I had neighbors that smoked cigarettes, and the toxic air would waft up to our apartment, forcing my to keep our windows permanently shut.
And if not accepting being able to hear my neighbor shouting over his mic (to the point I can understand what he's saying) while he's gaming at 1 am in the morning and not wanting to be poisoned by cigarette smoke is "right wing" then apparently I'm right wing.

ModernPost posted...

Do people ever feel embarrassed for making topics like this?

Do people ever feel embarrassed that they have nothing, absolutely nothing, to argue against a poster and instead of just letting the topic die, they're so rustled by it that they bombard it w/ personal attacks and off-topic nonsense?

Flaming_Fire619 posted...

For reference; Bauer sued 5 different women regarding these charges. 4 of the 5 were deemed credible. This is the only one thrown out so far.

"Deemed credible" in what way? He hasn't had criminal charges, and the one that went to trial settled and he paid her nothing.

And he's also a guy who cheered the return of an American soldier who killed Japanese individuals in a hit and run so...forgive me for not immediately sympathizing with him.

Source? If he is a jerk, then so be it, still doesn't mean it's ok to ruin someone's life w/ false allegations.

Delirious_Beard posted...

unsurprisingly, they're some of the most insufferable chud losers you'll find

"I have no actual response or rebuttal to the arguments and sources posted in this topic, so I'll just start hurling insults at other people and assert my MORAL SUPERIORITY to shut them up and claim victory!"

WTF even is a "chud"?

I noticed like a 15 years ago, when I was flying and had noticeable facial hair (not even a beard or mustache, just like..thick stubble) TSA would make me go thru the body scanner machine.
When I was clean shaven, I always got to go thru the metal detector instead.
After like 8 instances in a row of it always working out that way based on my facial hair ("hornyposting" for the screeners if I had facial hair; "no peeking" if my face was clean), it became way too much of a coincidence to not be intentional.
I started intentionally shaving within 24 hrs of a flight and literally never again have gone thru one of those body scanning machines.

Anyone else experience this phenomenon? I found it funny that apparently having some facial hair makes me look like a terrorist apparently.

Revelation34 posted...

You're misremembering. That was just to see Clive's full story in Suikoden 2.

Leon Silverburg is extremely missable in 1.
Pretty sure there's others, but that one I definitely remember.
I know there's a tiny sliver of time between plot stuff besides this moment...supposedly..., but it seems like every playthrough I have to tell the ice boats to chill for a while so I can make a mad fucking dash to Kalekka before the battle, lol

Also intend to play blind, I just want to know one thing: is anything permanently missable, especially stars of destiny? Suikoden franchise especially the older titles had some pretty nasty time windows for some of the recruits....

harley2280 posted...

Look at it through the lens of inflation. $50 dollars today is the equivalent of $60 in 2020.

That makes it even worse, lol

Alucard188 posted...

I'm not mad about it. I've reconciled that an early backer doesn't mean you get it for retail price; you just help get the game to its finish line. You're not buying a game - you're buying an idea on what you would like to be made. You're an investor. You're taking a risk. If you don't want to take that risk, wait until the game reaches its funding and releases in a few years.

Eh... I don't back many games, but this is the first one that right out of the gate was available for less than the backer tier to get a copy. It's not something I'm gonna rage about, but it feels kinda shitty.

Kamil posted...

Yea I heard if ya backed a physical copy you have to pay for shipping. Six dollars?!! People are angry they had to pay six extra dollars?!! Life is full of let downs at least this will be better than Mighty No. 009. Plus at the Kickstarter level the people are basically investors.

I will admit getting hit with a six dollar shipping fee I guess sucks when ya went in that deep, but hey life is full of unexpected charges :/

Well, the first guy said $28, which is a lot. But either he lives somewhere really remote or has a ton of shit coming if his is over 4x what most of ours is, so presumably he should've expected the high shipping cost.

DarthAragorn posted...

there were three different accusations

ExtremeLuchador posted...

Didn't he have multiple women in 3 states accuse him?

Revelation34 posted...

So they were all fake?

Here's his full 5 min update video. Parts of it related to Lindsey Hill and this false accuser were in the video I posted above, but the full video also addresses the other accusers (there's two more!) at 3 min. into the video.

https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1780338438794854527

Guess it's in-store only. Online has full price or higher for all of them

ai123 posted...

So, 'death to Israel' is not the official stance of the Teamsters, and the topic title is anti-union misinformation.

thronedfire2 posted...

...it seems like they were invited since they had speakers at a podium.

I keep checking for more news or information to see if the Teamsters are going to condemn this or explain what happened. Haven't seen anything yet.
As the above poster said, it sure doesn't look like they "invaded". Possibly misled the union about what the meeting would be about. But if so, the union should release a statement about it.

He's definitely been more clever about it than past Putin shills, but couldn't help himself w/ baking in too much propaganda to pass the "naive" or "genuinely uninformed" benefit of the doubt barrier.

conduit posted...

Isn't the US still maintaining the war in Ukraine to save face as well? I mean the US has already said that it shut down the Istanbul peace deal and maintains the war in Ukraine in order to look tough to China because of long term strategic concerns over Taiwan. So I disagree about the US having nothing to lose.

The US isn't "maintaining" the war.
They didn't shut down peace deals, Ukraine itself doesn't want a hollow peace deal that gives Russia a chance to rebuild and then attack again, since Russia breaks every peace deal when it's convenient for them and the only way to actually have peace is to defeat them decisively militarily.
And... guess I won't add my related commentary to that.

But I agree with everything else you said. The US exploited divisions in Ukraine to start a civil war with the purpose of luring Russia to intervene in the conflict and keeping them bogged down in a costly unwinnable war that would drain their resources and pressure the Russian economy and cause tensions for the Russian regime.

The US didn't start a civil war. Russia tried meddling in and controlling their government and they resisted it. This is just pure lies and propaganda.

The plan is working perfectly so far. The ultimate goal is the collapse of the Russian state. Similar to the way Afghanistan was used to collapse the Soviet Union.

1. It's not their plan
2. Their goal was never the collapse of the Russian state. Given the 6000 nukes in Russia, that would be a catastrophe. And for the first year, the West bent over backwards trying to find an "off ramp" for Putin so he could "save face"
3. The US made the Soviets invade Afghanistan? Is that what they're teaching you in those Russian schools?

Solid_Sonic posted...

Mistakes happen but why did the judge decline the request to rescind...?

Rules are rules, no matter how little sense it makes. Now take your moderation....I mean, divorce ruling.

Seriously, it's the exact same energy, lol

Switch copy, so it doesn't "release" for me for a while, still :(

Mad-Dogg posted...

My shipping was only 6 dollars for my backer copy. (In murica'/south carolina).

I'm assuming its based on location+if you order any extras?

I was a 150 dollar tier backer but I don't believe that one comes with too many extra things. Def. was only 6 bucks though.

I technically would have already had this game myself had I actually noticed that e-mail where they asked you to pay for the shipping. I got that e-mail on the 2nd of this month but didn't even notice it until alucard's topic on the 16th, =/ lol.

*I also noticed that my NA backer copy is actually coming from AURORA, IL, via yeteeproduction's shipping partner OSM worldwide.*

It'd imagine this will be a good bit higher if someone is ordering a NA copy but live in canada, south america or something like that.

Yeah, my shipping for a $100 tier (game + soundtrack and some minor stuff) was also $6.
Not too bad, and I effectively didn't pay tax for the game since it was a KS reward, so it semi-cancels out.
I saw it's apparently selling for only $50 on some consoles right from the start, so the fact we dropped $60+ and spent it years ago just to pay more than retail price upsets me a fair bit, though.

harley2280 posted...

I've put about 30 hours into it. Personally I live it. I don't think it will get mainstream appeal though. People who love Suikoden 1&2 will enjoy it, but it has a lot of PS1 JRPG feel to it.

All of you should buy it though. Even if you don't like it. That way I can get a sequel. I appreciate your sacrifice.

Sounds good, thanks. Will be looking forward to playing it while avoiding topics about it since I can't yet and don't want spoilers.

Another source:

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/left-wing-activists-in-chicago-chant-death-to-israel-and-death-to-america-hails-iran/ar-BB1lGpuG

brestugo posted...

Pretty sure that was widely known, but I guess this makes it official.

Certain people denied it heavily, or the idea in general that Iran plots the murder of Jews worldwide.

ShineboxPhil posted...

Can Bauer sue the Dodgers for termination of his contract?

Not just the Dodgers, the MLB as a whole.
Fuckers suspended him two entire seasons and that was on top of the 99 games he had already been out at that point when they made the decision!
They effectively ended his career, and forced him to go pitch in another country for massively less pay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4DZS7EypUw

Video about it by a lawyer with texts and email receipts, oh my!

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68821406

A couple were divorced by mistake after a computer error at a family law firm.

A staff member at Vardag's accidentally opened the file of a couple referred to in court papers as Mr and Mrs Williams, when trying to apply for a final divorce order for a different client.

Vardag's applied three days later to rescind the order but judge Sir Andrew McFarlane dismissed the application.

The firm's head Ayesha Vardag said the judge's decision effectively meant "the computer says no, you're divorced".

The judge's logic is about as sound as Fandom's admins treating literally any picture as potentially hornyposting, so obviously he made the right call.

Reminder for the mods: Reporting news of a legal snafu is NOT POLITICS.
Have a nice day! :)

WingsOfGood posted...

r.i.p tc

ShineboxPhil posted...

https://streamable.com/zs22z8

Ok, the last "horny" post was from fucking 4/14, a full day before this stupid fucking "rule" (that's not posted or defined anywhere...guess they're taking cues from Sony now) went into effect.
And they fucking banned him retroactively!
Fuck Fandom, fuck the admins, fuck the mods, fuck this dying website.

The mods in their own words: "We didn't want these changes and argued against them"
The mods in their own actions: "Whee! Ban machine go brrrr!"

Revelation34 posted...

Most of them were probably false reports. Especially if it was people reporting the anime thread.

Here's a crazy concept: the more draconian and wide your ToU, the more work it creates for the mods! When you leave shit up to vague concepts like, "well, it offended somebody...." it makes way more innocuous posts open to being moddable. If there were actual reasonable hard lines (no nudity, no insulting other users, etc...) and things were otherwise free reign, the mods' jobs would be a lot easier, and it'd be much simpler to identify people maliciously using the report function to just harass and target other posters and punish them, instead.

But nah....let's do the opposite.

pazzy posted...

Geez. So did any of those allegations have any truth to them or are people just crazy?

She straight out plotted the scheme w/ someone else and they have her texts saying as much.

EDIT: Oh, this is a different woman from the first one! Wow...

--Zero- posted...

Whats funny is the mods who do this for free could always just ignore things like horny posting, but thats too much to ask for.

One of the supposed reasons for the changes was too much work for the mods (like how CE being one of the biggest sources for moderations was mentioned), so what do they do?
Massively and ludicrously expand the dragnet of what's against the rules, so there's all sorts of previously ok topics and posts that are now being targeted and shut down by the mods.
It's all such fucking bull shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg

I don't think I've ever encountered so much glorious sarcasm per minute in my entire life, lol

Note: This is about a construction project, it is not politics. So there.

Price varies wildly depending on the shape.

A standard size rectangular window, even a fairly large one, is like a few hundred bucks. The labor cost to remove and install is probably close to the material cost.

But once you get fancy w/ circular, rounded, those giant "gallery" view windows that pop out from the siding, etc... shit gets crazy expensive. Like well into the thousands per window.

Even if it's "only" $300 parts and labor b/c it's a basic rectangular window, it still would suck to replace, though.

Antifar posted...

I would take this site's reporting with a big grain of salt given that I best know them for making shit up about the murder of George Floyd
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3kpzkst2ufi2i

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-free-press-bias/

Overall, we rate The Free Press as Right-Center biased based on editorial positions that are moderately critical of the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.

There's video of the incident embedded in the article, too.

https://www.thefp.com/p/american-anti-war-activists-cheer?utm_source=tfptwitter

About 300 anti-war activists crowded into the basement of the Teamsters Unions headquarters on Saturday to hear organizers from all over the country describe their plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention this August. Joe Bidens backing of Israel since Hamass October 7 attack has turned these left-wing radicals against their own party.

Its really inspiring to see that people are just as enthusiastic, and maybe even more enthusiastic, to march on the DNC as they are to march on the RNC, says Omar Flores, a Milwaukee-based activist. We can thank Genocide Joe and our movement for that.

But then a man stumbles to the podium, wiping sweat from his forehead. He grabs the microphone to announce that the Islamic regime of Iran has launched missiles and drones heading straight toward Israel.

They believe that they will be in PalestinianI dont call it Israeliairspace between two and four a.m., which means about two to four hours from now, he says. In addition, there are reports of drones having been fired on Israel from Yemen and Iraq.

The crowd, all wearing black N95s, erupts into applause. Someone in the back lowers their mask to send a celebratory whistle soaring throughout the room.

The man at the podium, Hatem Abudayyeh, heads the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, a purported community group which, on information and belief, is an affiliate of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror organization based in Gaza, according to a lawsuit over the alleged relations between U.S. advocacy groups and Hamas.

This is when this country and the world needs us because the United States is going to, quote unquote, defend the criminal Israeli state, says Abudayyeh, whose home was raided by the FBI in 2010 as part of an investigation concerning the material support of terrorism.

We have to assume that the United States is going to try to retaliate against Iran.

After the boos and calls of shame subside, Abudayyeh says it is incumbent upon Americans to stop the United States from expanding this war and hitting Iran.

Weve got to be the strong, powerful anti-war movement that we are, he says, placing the microphone down and exiting the stage.

The crowd immediately began chanting, Hands off Iran.

A woman in a hot pink gas mask, wielding a matching neon cane and dressed in a Protect Trans Kids t-shirt, throws her fist in the air. Nearby, a service poodle is taking a nap under the chair of his owner, who is wearing a leather harness over his t-shirt. Then the group that has joined here from cities across AmericaSeattle, Washington, D.C., Los Angelescheers and claps in celebration.

Joe Iosbaker, an organizer with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which called October 7 a good turn of events in its press release about the terrorist attacks, tells me he supports Iran. His organization has since released a statement backing Iran, where citizens gathered to shout Death to America during their nations strike against Israel Saturday night.

We demand hands off Iran, the statement says. The people have power, and we will exercise it in the streets.

Earlier that day, before news of the attack broke, at a breakout session on the anti-war movement, Shabbir Rizvi, an organizer with Anti-War Committee Chicago, taught participants how to chant death to Israel and death to America in Farsi.

Marg bar Israel, he chanted, leading a group of about 80 attendees along with him. A man draped in a Soviet flag bearing a gold hammer and sickle clapped his hands.

A man in a full black denim outfit shouted out behind his N95Can we get a marg bar America?
We can get a marg bar America, Rizvi replied.

Then Rizvi raised his hand in the air, leading the crowd like a conductor.

Marg bar America, they cheered.

On my way out of the event, I ask a woman smoking a cigarette to fill me in on the latest news regarding Irans lobbing of missiles and drones, which were later intercepted with help from forces from France, the U.S., and the UK. Iran said its strike was retaliation for Israels hit on the Iranian embassy in Syria earlier this month, which destroyed the consulate building next to the embassy and killed two of Tehrans top commanders, and that the matter is concludedunless Israel hits back.

Iran is part of the resistance, said the woman, who flew in that morning from New Orleans, where shes been part of an effort to disrupt Israel-bound shipments in her hometown. Yemen and Iran and Hezbollah, who are also a militant group in Lebanon, and the Syrian government are all parts of the arc of resistance.

A smile creeps across her face as she tells me: Theyre part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.