No rest for the virtuous
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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
— Aristotle (340 BC)
The gen x just goes along with everyone because they’ve never had any power and probably never will, they’re being skipped.
I mean that tracks for me.
Israel trying to keep that KD ratio top notch.
You mean grape flavored Kool-Aid.
You do mean grape flavored Kool-Aid, right?
I’m just going to call it now, that this was more than likely an MK Ultra type of operation, conducted by CIA/Gladio to get more ‘support’ for the cause.
— QAnon John (@TPVJohn)
I think what's interesting is the "false flag" folks spout off things that are shown to be former Soviet disinformation. Like the whole Gladio false flag is old ass disinformation that was spread around to elicit this very thing. Like good example of how these folks eat up bullshit can be seen here with Matt Gaetz entering into the record actual Chinese disinformation and then having an actual expert shut him down.
It's like none of them stopped for a second to think, "You know what? It could be that someone is lying to you about someone lying to you." And that's the thing about them, they conflate being a contrarian with critical thinking. Like there is a distinct difference between being a cynic and being a critic and the really important differences are completely lost on them.
Of the examples the article gives, every single one of them fails at "Considering alternative systems of thought" or as some call it "playing devil's advocate for your own point." Which is an important aspect of critical thinking. All of them just launch into their speculation and the "evidentiary support" for that speculation not stopping to think about things like:
- The shooter was reporting as having mental issues and was express as a concern as far back as July of this year.
- Before that others around him already had concerns.
- There is an entire list of events that lead up to this shooting.
- The State of Maine is leading the investigation, manhunt, and ideally the prosecution of this person.
- An independent body such as The State of Maine would represent an issue with any attempt keep a false flag operation hidden.
All of the body of evidence for these folks is mostly boiled down to "oh isn't it a coincidence…" and then the event that's coincidental varies from person to person, but it all boils down to them thinking various things somehow align with each other. And, I cannot stress this enough, IS NOT EVIDENCE. Not to yank out the old meme but "correlation is not causation" and every single tweet given as example in the linked article massively fails at applying this adage.
Like this guy (@MichaelJaco9) who writes:
Maine mass shooting has markings of a false flag, gun grab and targeting of gun owners
And then links to an hour long rambling on why he thinks that. (and I watched that whole thing and I highly recommend no one else does, you will lose brain cells) And it basically boils down to "it must be a false flag because it'll stir animosity towards conservatives".
And just as an aside, I'm sorry that I am about to rant on this, but that dude is fucking idiot and I just need to vent for a second, bear with me.
And NO. It's because 18 fucking innocent people (some which were kids) were just murdered and things like "we shouldn't give guns to mentally unsound folks" is something some of you Conservatives want to argue against. Yes, that will stir passions, not because you are a Conservative but because of your fucking trivializing of this loss of life due to a lobby that wants to maintain an industry. That's what stirs the animosity, no Hillary Clinton required. Shockingly, some folks actually value life that is not their own. Who fucking knew?! Excuse myself, but that dude is a fucking waste of skin and I really dislike myself for having wasted one hour on his dumb shit. I would have been more entertained going to visit my methed up Aunt in Chattanooga and talking philosophy (and it would have been more informed by massive orders of magnitude) than listening to whatever the fuck that drivel was on his Bumble account.
Deep breath
So, many of these "eyes wide open" folks are actually quite the opposite. And the thing is, there's a danger in linking false flag to conspiracy theorist. Because there is indeed history of actual false flags, like say during World War II and what not, but there's an actual evidentiary standing upon which those are built. Lots of people have critically reviewed the related information. And what these people are doing are just acting the cynic and basically sucking each other's ego dick to inflate their own importance, aka an echo chamber. And what these people do is a massive disservice to people who ACTUALLY STUDY HISTORY.
I just want to buy some of these people a giant hardcover history book and toss it (metaphorically) at their heads. But that would just be a waste of a good history book.
See OP is trying to do a Simpson's reference, but Riker is trying to indicate to Troi that he's coming for her like a Caitian.
Break down of what's being said:
Under cross-examination, Cohen denied that Trump had ever asked him to inflate numbers on his personal statement—standing by his 2019 congressional testimony
Cohen who was Trump's personal attorney indicated when being asked by Trump's lawyers (cross-examined as Cohen was called by prosecutor), that he never was asked directly to inflate the numbers.
Trump and one of his lawyers, Alina Habba, “threw up their arms” at this, according to CNN. Another Trump attorney then asked Judge Arthur Engoron for a directed verdict on the case, given Cohen’s status as a key witness.
Trump's attorney on this revelation, requested a directed verdict. A directed verdict is asked for when there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis that a jury could reasonable find some other verdict. Basically, Trump's lawyers asked to have a ruling in Trump's favor because they felt that given Cohen's testimony, there's no other way a jury could find any other verdict than one in favor of Trump.
“Absolutely denied,” Engoron replied, citing evidence “all over the place” supporting New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against Trump
The Judge, Hon. Engoron, here denies the directed verdict pretty emphatically.
The former president was “visibly angry” as he immediately stood up and stormed out, CNBC reported, eliciting gasps from the room
And on the news of the Judge so strongly denying that idea from his Lawyers, Trump stands up and leaves.
Cohen later clarified on the stand that Trump didn’t directly order him to inflate numbers. “He speaks like a mob boss,” Cohen said.
And this has been a consistent thing for Cohen. Where Trump did not explicitly indicate things, but did so implicitly. With Cohen being an attorney, the difference between explicit and implicit is pretty important, so he would absolutely make that distinction in his testimony, as he has before.
The diva moment wasn’t Trump’s first headline-making headache of the day. Less than an hour earlier, Engoron had slapped him with a $10,000 penalty for violating an order not to talk about court staff
LOL. Judges are fun like that. However, the limited gag order Trump is under is actually being questioned by the ACLU. Which they make a good point. The Judge used very broad terms in the "limited" aspect of the gag order and the ACLU has standing to ask the Judge to clarify those terms. That said, the $10,000 fine will likely be part of that challenge form the ACLU. So he may not have to pay it ultimately or maybe he will, we just have to see.
The decision came after the judge put Trump on the witness stand for about a minute, asking him under oath to explain comments he’d made to reporters earlier that day, complaining about a “very partisan judge with a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is.”
I can tell this Judge doesn't really like Trump as a person in their court.
Trump insisted he had been referring to Cohen, who’d already been on the stand—on Engoron’s other side—at that point in the day
LOL. No your Honor! MY hand was absolutely NOT in the cookie jar, I had a cookie for breakfast and I put some leftover cookie in my pocket. WTF?! C'mon, you telling me that was the best he could lie?
The judge said he didn’t find this explanation “credible,” and handed down the fine.
I tell you. Those damn cookies get you every time.
As a Gen X I welcome our Gen Z overlords. I am looking forward to these bright minded individuals to creating the kind of retirement I always dreamed of.
Conservative podcast host Breanna Morello wrote on X that Ellis had “raised $216,431 on GiveSendGo by promising the American people she would fight for the truth,” and then “folded in just a few weeks.”
“Will she refund her donors?” Morello asked. “Likely not. A grifter has to grift.”
It's astounding that they can be self-aware wolves and members of the face eating leopards at the same time. It's like they all are just playing this game of Russian roulette hoping that they'll be the last one standing, even though the six shooter has six bullets in it. "Surely it'll get jammed or something this time!" splatters brains onto wall
It reminds me of the COVID days where they would be like "surely I won't get COVID and if I do this horse paste will save me" dies from fluid filling their lungs
It has to be absolutely astounding in horrific ways to be a Republican these days. They just keep getting grifted and every time they're like "surely this one won't try to grift me!" has all money taken from them
Just Wow.
Dumb ass says dumb ass thing. News at 11.
The person enabling it isn’t always still at the company.
LUL. So you’re right but one of the horror stories I tell around campfires is how many folks don’t know about that front door.
So how about we agree to “surprise feature” for iDRAC? And, yes yes, I can feel the “they shouldn’t be admins” coming.
The NBI on Tuesday said they had established that the NewNew Polar Bear was in fact missing one of its front anchors
That’s a Chinese ship for anyone wondering.
So a ship that passed over the pipeline at roughly the point where they found a broken anchor. And that ship having a small chunk of itself missing and a dangling bit of metal chain where an anchor ought to be.
Those are all good clues as to who might have done it.
In unrelated disciplinary proceedings in Colorado, where Ellis is a practicing attorney, Ellis admitted that many of her post-election public statements were false, including her claim that the race was “stolen” from Trump. She was censured by a judge and agreed to pay $224
Holy shit, she got off easy on that. They were looking to disbar her. I would hope that this is a teaching moment for her, but fuck with these MAGA idiots I don't really hold much hope. Like she may never know how close to absolutely destabilizing her entire life she came.
We don't need to sail the seas when we can walk across the wreckage.
Wayland development. Tons of folks yelling “X is good enough!” Where they just ignore that no one is actively developing XOrg which is pretty much the biggest X11 implementation.
Plenty maintaining XOrg but new things aren’t coming to XOrg, there’s just no one there the XOrg devs moved to Wayland.
So all these people shouting, they’re telling you keep a piece of software that’s very fragile, in a space that hardware makers are progressing at rapid pace, has decades of hot fixes, duct tape, and cruft, and nobody is actively developing for.
Like I just don’t understand the people yelling that Wayland is raping peoples wives and setting fire to their dogs. The yelling group is screaming for people to use something that nobody wants to work on and nobody is paying enough for people to work on. The code base is horrible and it easily causes burnout in three weeks or less. No one in their right mind is picking it up for shits and giggles.
So if everyone abandons Wayland, what’s the end goal? Keep riding XOrg till hardware outpaces it completely? Like I don’t understand what the Wayland haters are trying to get at. There’s so little going on in XOrg at this point and everyone seems to universally hate the code base. And a rewrite of the base sounds a whole lot like Wayland but artificially adding in X11 restrictions that make no sense since we all aren’t using PDP-11 to run the clients.
I get that Wayland has configurations that don’t work yet. All software has bugs, including X11 implementations. But Wayland is arguably a technology that is more in line with how modern hardware works than the X11 protocol will ever be. And Wayland is designed to be easy for devs to work with, not a cobble of archaic limitations due to a protocol that was designed for 1970s era computers.
That level of hate for Wayland is just this confusing Luddite cry for software that hardware that properly supports it no longer exists. The reason modern video cards do run on X at this point is because of a lot of hacks. I thought everyone understood this when we did the whole AIGLX vs XGL thing.