If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

JohnD, please carry on and drink yourself to death as soon as possible. Maybe even before your wife dies, as she will. My mother went with the same cancer with the same chemo regime in less than a year. Prepare yourself. Service Dog, you are the Destroyer of the Pit. I don't want to hear about any ...

* This time I'll offer this: I'd be a much more concise & restrained poster... if those who disagree-with me... would actively engage when they disagree. (Ideally in a concise, pointed way. Gawd bless Steersman & ftp for replying... but they were long-winded & tried to get the last word without mov...

Just add +2 to every Republican, and you'll be mostly spot on on election night. RCP now predicts a 52 GOP majority in the Senate. And that's with Mark Kelly surviving. I've been betting on the PredictIT market over the last month based on this presumption, and am currently up about $500 on $1000 "...

I predicted that mask wearing would become a cult after the general public gladly dropped it. The original alleged purpose of masking -- to protect others but not yourself -- has been memory-holed. The mask is a mouth-yarmulke, symbolic of one's devotion to the religion. When Fauci finally croaks, ...

The covid situation has changed over the past 6 months or so. This may be literally true. But it has also been a tactic of dishonest covid tyrants-- to pretend 'the science' changed, or 'the situation' changed, rather than admit they were wrong all-along. So I'm skeptical. In Canada we have about a...

Thank you for your service. I made the opposite decision... I intentionally confine my opinionating to this place... celibacy from the urge to maximize my influence. Right-or-wrongheaded... I had-in-mind the phenomenon of people being-better at picking-stocks when they aren't-actually invested. Hav...

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jugheadnaut wrote: ↑I didn't plan on being away this long, and don't know if I'll stick around, but for now, I'm back.
You have made a mistake.

Probably. An easily correctable one, though.

A lifelong grievance of mine that the Covid shitshow amplified is with the category of people who think they need to do things for the good of others, this category often being found in tight company with the school mom who quivers with rage when you disrespect her authoritai I won't pretend it's n...

Succinct and clear overview of Texas' election lawsuit: https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/09/6-things-to-know-about-texass-supreme-court-petition-over-2020s-messed-up-election/ And crickets from the mainstream media, including the fact 18 states have now joined in a brief to the Supreme Court suppo...

This would help explain why there are so many positive cases with so few deaths. 251,547 deaths so far. 9/11 caused 2,977 deaths. That's 84 and three quarter 9/11s. I'd see that as a problem, but maybe I should stand back and admire your manly fortitude (while I wait for the inevitable and unlikely...

OMG! Listening to this is wildly entertaining. Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan blathering like old women about their hatred for the Donald. Haha. https://samharris.org/podcasts/223-october-30-2020/ And in his latest mini-podcast he describes an 'epiphany' he had, presumably subsequent to the Sulliva...

At some point people might realise that all these conveniently found laptops owned by Hunter Biden are about as likely as the idea that doctors inflate Covid-19 deaths because they get paid $2000 extra if a patient dies of Covid-19 rather than any other disease. And that's complete and utter nonsen...

A metaphor I hope. The American immune system may be girding up to repel socialism and identity politics. Or maybe not. We'll find out Tuesday. Come on, Man! Malarkey. You mean socialism, like that evil democratic socialism of Scandinavia. God save us from that. No, I mean socialism as in the thinl...

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A metaphor I hope. The American immune system may be girding up to repel socialism and identity politics. Or maybe not. We'll find out Tuesday.

I am not one to easy believe in conspiracies. I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I do not believe the government is hiding evidence of space aliens. There is no bigfoot... etc..... but... in some real sense the "Deep State" does exist.... a kind of political protection racket between pol...

High credit for truth in presentation! But for full credit they need to go full baboon: [.img]https://cs1.livemaster.ru/storage/34/24/d11456534580bcbeac945a8097qb--clothing-baboon-scenic-suit-cosplay-carnival-costume.jpg[/.img] Mandrill, not baboon. Baboons are bland: baboon.jpg and mandrills are P...

Tammy Baldwin and Tammy Duckworth are particularly insane. I haven't been to Madison Wisconsin in years. These kooks tell me-- it has only gotten more batty. I lived in Madison for 3 years in the '90s. Hard to believe, but during that time, the district had a Republican representative (mostly due t...

for posterity... https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1321532527958466560 :occasion-clown: High credit for truth in presentation! But for full credit they need to go full baboon: https://cs1.livemaster.ru/storage/34/24/d11456534580bcbeac945a8097qb--clothing-baboon-scenic-suit-cosplay-carnival...

But the deaths per capita in Sweden are 10x Norway and Denmark. I also saw that the economic hit in Denmark was in the same ballpark as Sweden. So Sweden had similar economic hit for 10x the death rate. The Swedish approach by design was going to have more cases and unavoidably more deaths to get t...

The CDC as well? https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/06/00/34019242-8808035-image-a-1_1601941107031.jpg Back in the realm of actual science, here's a recent study involving 23 Greek family clusters where Covid-19 had infiltrated and there wasn't a single example of child-to-child or child-to-adult...

I've been keeping this handy for a laugh induced endorphin boost as needed.

I didn't realized Spitting Image had a revival. Here they are on Jacinda Ardern.

House Republicans have really been raising their ad game this year:

This somehow escaped the Pit's notice yesterday. Nadler became a literal shitsack as well as a figuative one.

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That must be Canadian for "Bless your heart".

Canadian version of "As American as Apple Pie": As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.

Most boring headline conceivable: Sensible Canadian initiative debated.

Then I read more about the 'Biden rule'-- until today, I thought it was based on something Biden said during the 2016 Garland mess. But, no, it was based on something Biden said back in 1992. I am warm to-- using something that fuckwit Biden blathered back in 1992-- against him in 2016. So the 2016...

It used to be you had to use Photoshop to get an image like this.

Trump administration prohibits training programs that include Critical Race Theory: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/04/partys-over-trump-orders-purge-of-critical-race-theory-from-federal-agencies/ Not sure it can be done by executive order or "Dear Colleague" bullshit, but it would be even m...

Justice served quickly, although I expect the escalation between Antifa and Patriot Prayer/Proud Boys in Portland will yield more gun violence this month.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/suspected ... al-agents/

https://www.bullshido.net/anatomy-of-a-catastrophe/ A fair assessment. Everyone made poor choices. Bullshido gets the facts wrong. Does that alter your view of the assessment? -It's not illegal in Wisconsin for a 17 year old to carry a long gun in those circumstances. -The pejoratives 'LARPer', 'ob...

Wow.... Tim Pool rant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miR0Zk8iFYA I'm glad the casualties all seem to be BLM rioters; the world is a slightly better place. But if this marks an escalation where lethally armed, poorly trained militia steps in where regular law enforcement stands down, while some ju...

What in the actual fuck? ... Is that even English? Sorry, "American-English" as our septic tank cousins call it. Has she suffered major brain damage or something? Also, and this is what truly confuses me, why would anyone look up to or seek advice from an individual like this? Fucking America. Rout...

Would pay to see the result if this was attempted in Fort Collins, CO or just about any town in Texas (Austin excluded).

Maclean's, basically Canada's version of Time Magazine, has a devastating hit piece on Kamala Harris from the left, basically expanding on Tulsi Gabbard. Kamala Harris is no friend of the community And, in a neither here nor there, here's an article from Maclean's from back in February, which found ...

You ask my motivation for posting the link. Let's see. I thought that it was an interesting piece of analysis, albeit overlong and a bit windy. I thought that it would be provocative (and it certainly worked on you). Well, not really, I just mockingly dismissed it and saw no need to engage with it ...

Wisconsin govt agency mandates mandatory facemasks for Zoom teleconference calls from home. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/10/dnr-tells-staff-wear-masks-zoom-calls-even-when-they-home/3335232001/ If anyone needed proof that a major motivation for mask mandates is the desire to...

The Libertarian this year is even more whack-o than your usual libertarian: she echoes the 'systemic racism' claims, only her solution is to eliminate the system. I don't know if Jo Jorgenson is a true woke believer, or the party believes it can best expand among the woke, but that's the direction ...

You might call it tendentious twaddle written by an academic parasite, but that doesn't take anything away from the decline of American ( sensu stricto USA) hegemony playing out across the world stage. The Roman Empire lasted from 8 BC - 5 AD and the Brits at least managed from 1600s to 1960ish. Ho...

Add Poland to the list of countries showing COVID-19 caused excess mortality is related to the severity of the past 2-3 flu seasons, and thus the relative proportion of near end-of-life people in the population who normally would have died of the flu in the previous few years. In Poland's case, they...

Service Dog wrote: ↑ top of the page nightmare fuel

Tulsi Gabbard still provides the gold standard in exorcisms of this particular demon.

Behold. The American dream . It's hard for me to conceive of a more stark "this way lies bullshit" warning than the author being "Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia". ... Hmmmm. I seem to recall someone being upset that people could discount an...

Kids aren't a much risk of dying, but they can easily be carriers. And the people that take care of them tend to be older. Sometimes a lot older. The standard narrative smugly held right now by people who think they're being science-y is that it recently came to light that asymptomatic carriers can...

Behold. The American dream . It's hard for me to conceive of a more stark "this way lies bullshit" warning than the author being "Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia". However, I'll give him some credit for amusingly looking like a younger versi...

George Floyd raw bodycam footage released. 1hr 5min clip. https://youtu.be/NjKjaCvXdf4 None of this should be a surprise to anyone. It was obvious that there was a lot of crazy shit going on. My prediction from trial..... Floyd died from drugs, but the cops should have helped him more than they did...

People are idiots, and that includes many who have been appointed to advise us. But the coronavirus still kills and sickens, and we must do our best to navigate through it all. We can't just rely on our own opinions for matters like whether masks work or not. I think we see science playing out on a...

Just like those evolutionists keep changing their story. It's almost like it takes time to understand a new virus -- how it transmits, what damage it dos etc. This is science in action. As new data comes in our understanding changes. If you want eternal truths look to religion. So, let's see... Whe...

Skeptics ought to be enthusiastically embracing critical theory, and even post-modernism, because it does all the stuff skeptics claim to appreciate. Read that last paragraph again. Only a Status Quo Warrior would think that is undesirable. But instead they’ve only embraced the fringe abuses of the...

The incident took place in Louisville... which is where BLM issued a list of mafia-demands to local (cuban immigrant) businesses, saying "better put the letter on the door so your business is not f*cked with." https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/blm-demands-piece-of-louisville-business-owners-profi...

I seem to remember someone saying it was a certainty that covid escaped from the Wuhan lab. When I politely raised the possibility that it may have originated in the countryside from natural means, which by the way is now the consensus of the virologists that actually have been researching corona v...

*bang* Fascinating seeing an explosion where the shock wave is so visually apparent, I assume because the site of the explosion was close to water and water vapour was carried by the wave. In this video, from farther away, it looks like a small nuclear bomb. https://twitter.com/i/status/12906692401...

A couple days ago, I listened to Episode #35 of Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse Podcast. ... Bret & wifey are on the alarmist side of Covid-- he advocates a 6 week don't-leave-your-homes total lockdown, and believes the disease does lifelong harm to young people's lungs & health. So I was unsurprised w...

This is the 2nd time you've haplessly tried to draw parallels-- between some topic & pissing-on-my-doorstep. To make me seem like hypocrite-- if I don't agree with your rhetorical gimmick. Except your parallels aren't parallel. Analogies have never been FTP's forte. They serve mainly to demonstrate...

I seem to remember someone saying it was a certainty that covid escaped from the Wuhan lab. When I politely raised the possibility that it may have originated in the countryside from natural means, which by the way is now the consensus of the virologists that actually have been researching corona v...

You just belong to a different tribe. My tribe likes to see rigorous studies that use the scientific method to determine fact. Unless the facts so determined conflict with the dogmatic tribal politics, such as in GMO safety studies, the genetic factors related to intelligence, anything contradictin...

jugheadnaut wrte: So what's the argument behind the interpretation that Section 230 entails internet content providers not have tight editorial and moderation policies in return for the broad immunity from liability they are given? 230(c)(1) states: No provider or user of an interactive computer se...

Here's some interesting section 230 stuff. They apparently can't be sued for the sale of counterfeit goods: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/absentee-ownership-how-amazon-facebook Why does Facebook enable such scams? It’s simple. The law lets Facebook make a lot of money enabling counterfeiting. ...

jugheadnaut wrote: They are not allowed to have editorial policies that would be conventional for a standard publisher, nor decide what opinions are harmful, or even false. Obviously, the major social platforms been ignoring this for the last several years, and they're likely going to lose their br...

I think Section 230 sez private businesses do not have a responsibility to police the content of claims made on their platforms. If so, then you're spreading clearly wrong and harmful/ dangerous nonsense. I'm pretty sure Section 230 doesn't obligate private platforms to allow any and all false and ...

Theoretically, if he put out an apology where he showed a true understanding of his failures, pointing out his Manichaeism, tribalism, and hypocrisy, and that his fans tended to be terrible people who reinforced and rewarded his worst characteristics and instincts, and then said he'd try to make up...

Why is Lemmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as It's always weird listening to a musical track that you know for a fact you haven't heard in over 30 years, and little snippets of memory start to come back at you as you remember listening to it in your youth. Second time this happened to me...

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