ClanOfTheOcho @ ClanOfTheOcho @lemmy.world

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Remind me of this old Babylon 5 scene.

Iirc, it all started with a misprint for a phone-Santa promotion that accidentally used a number at NORAD.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Dropkick Murphys' The Season's Upon Us yet.

"We just learned" is a bit of a stretch. Here is a Medium post from 2020, which cites previous interviews and Jon Ronson's 2015 book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed," that explains the problems with the infamous experiment: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/have-we-gotten-the-stanford-prison-experiment-all-wrong-fad09471e79c

Edit: Ah, title is straight from the Vox title, and that article is from 2018

It looks like Snoo's drunk uncle. What's with the 5 o'clock shadow?

It isn't so much the volume of typing, it's the typing a thought-out answer to all those various articles and responses that seems curious. I type at a pretty fast rate, myself, but I don't consider someone else's comments and think up (and then type) fact based replies in that timeframe. My comment about typing speed was more me implying that a 3-day-old account that is responding that quickly to that many people on so many subjects in such a short amount of time -- well, it walks and quacks like a bot.

Hmmm, how on earth is it possible for you to have replied to 26 different posts in the last 60 minutes, across multiple articles, many with multiple paragraphs. Fastest typer in the world?

That's a great solution to win an election if it were easy to find a golden candidate that people like and can't be portrayed as less than ideal by the other side. Right now, I'll happily settle and vote for less than perfect if that candidate is the only one not courting fascism. And I certainly won't go throwing my vote to someone else just because the only guy standing between democracy and tyranny isn't checking all my boxes. No, sir. Democracy is too important to throw away just because "I don't love one candidate and actively fear the other, so I just won't bother." Democracy is my single-issue this election. Get out and vote, because this time, democracy is cracking, and it is at risk of collapse to fascism.

I've heard you can just email one of the authors of the paper, if you're looking for a specific one.

I've heard the Wheel of Time stuff is pretty good. Piers Anthony's Xanth novels were popular long ago, but he has sort of disappeared (I just looked him up, and he's probably just retired). I've personally read the Black Cauldron books and enjoyed them quite a bit. Robert Aspirin's Myth books can be fun. Hopefully there is something new to you in that list!

You're basically correct, in this case. I've chosen my official "side" as that of humanity. I'm not fully certain what that means other than I feel for the protestors/people of both sides and don't want bad things to happen to either. The governments directly involved here, such as they are, are in the business of revenge and power. The people in general are being played by their governments, pawns to be sacrificed or otherwise used to further the purpose.

Boebert.

Boebert.

BOEBERT!

... Uh, everyone, don't summon Boebert. I'm going to be listening to reggae themed political lies until I can hire an exorcist. And those weekend hour rates, yikes.

No major disagreement here -- just making a factual adjustment. Romney served as a Republican governor of Massachusetts long before moving to Utah. According to Wikipedia, he was never affiliated with the Democrat party.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#:~:text=Romney%20changed%20his%20affiliation%20to,church%20leadership%20role%20in%201994.

Hurricanes could, and did, wipe out entire communities. It's easy to forget how important the study of meteorology is, as well as how vital modern weather satellites are, in keeping people safe.

As one example of massive damage done in the not terribly distant past: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

That did seem a little odd to me. I suspect there's at least a little more to this story that the article didn't include.

To paraphrase Gilbert Gottfried: You fools!

As someone who doesn't own a Roku, is there an app that is available through the Play store to stream these? Or is it a Roku-only thing?

Oh, I had one of these! It was amazing, until it stopped working. Sad day.

I heard that the woman was taken from Washington, held in the cell in Oregon, and the guy was arrested with his family in Reno. I don't know any details, but figured there was something more to the logistics that weren't being reported.

Let's not forget Mystery Men!