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All I understood was adsense meets intermittent break suggestions, streamed directly into your brain game.

... seriously though, you just said that some games have been including the occasional break reminder in their stuff, right? I extrapolated, first to more amusing and/or dystopian results, then to that plus the future of marketing.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 13, 2017, 07:04:19 pm »
C'mon man, it wasn't the internet, it was limbaugh. Clearly even more reputable.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 13, 2017, 06:47:55 pm »
... y'know, I'd check up on that, but the first thing I looked at had me incredulously saying to the website, "whhhyyy are you so shiiiiit" so I'm going to make like an american and not care, too.

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... so, what are we looking at in the future? Subliminal messaging during cutscenes? *pans across great vist[DON'T FORGET TO EAT]a* *final boss rising in its tr[YOU MUST REMEMBER TO SLEEP, FELLOW HUMAN]ue form*

Shiiieeet, it could team up with google analytics or something and deliver targeted messages. *Main love interest leans in clo[YOUR CHILDREN NEED FOOD]ser*

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 13, 2017, 06:30:08 pm »
Now you're getting into the spirit of american media.

... you might want to get that looked at. I know exorcism is entirely too likely to kill you, but it might be worth the risk.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: June 13, 2017, 06:26:54 pm »
Ye, loudest country maybe, but certainly not the most racist. A fair bit of places in the middle east and africa would fall into that description way better.
Okay, let me just say. I love how this, much like the US, casually ignores the existence of south america.

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i'm sure sharia isn't really as bad as alt-righters say, but it's pretty damn shitty, and people still defend it.
Aye, and nice sized chunks of them conservative or alt-righters :P Or defend most and/or all its component parts, anyway.

... anyway, I like the khawarij idea, or something along those lines. Looks like it sounds kinda' cabbage or carriage or somethin', and gets double bonus points for stealing another language's words as is english and proper. Jihad or jihadi does, too, but they've got too many decent interpretations and too many people then use jihadist and if we're going to do this right it's all steal and no assimilation, all the ists must go.

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I mean, like. Sessions has apparently shown/managed to show every evidence of blatantly lying under oath, just as a representative example of what sort of train wreck the hearing seems to be being evaluated as. Probably going to have scope the transcript (tomorrow or something, I'm barely good for reading summary and discussion right now) and some other reactions, but at least the initial feel I'm getting is that sessions has attempted to advance the field of quantum self-fornication today.

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I personally file it under No True Scotsman fallacy. 
Bundling response to this and a few up cause I am way too screwed over to get this editing beyond that. But y'all seem to have got the wrong impression. I wasn't trying to point out folks saying X is non-christian, I was talking about religious affiliation not being mentioned at all.

Like, I know what causes it (the religion in question is normal/default so people just don't think to mention it, along those lines), but it's still a thing. Oddly, I'm not sure if muslim majority countries are as bad about it, since many of their conflicts are sectarian to some degree. Probably the closest English language off the cuff check I can think of in recent history was the Troubles, over in the UK.

... just realized that would probably make a neat sociology study, though. Check references and media mentions and whatnot, see what sort of characteristics are highlighted and how much/if they differ based on nature of conflict. Most bonus points if you're able to figure out a good way to track that in general conversation, too. See what it's actually doing to the society's methods of communication.

E: Though bloody hell, I'm starting to catch up with the sessions hearing, and at least a good chunk of the initial reactions are basically "holy shit sessions what are you doing". Anyone been paying attention to that?

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That. Was the worst rain I've drove through in, like. Three or four years. Points where about two car lengths ahead was a solid wall of white, possibly/probably less. Could not see shit for most of it.

The minor sad, though. Whoever the hell you were, three people with one person worth of umbrella between you walking down that sidewalk, that will probably never see this. I am so, so sorry. I couldn't see shit, and so couldn't risk changing lanes. Couldn't really stop, because my personal condition has been getting steadily worse all day and the sooner I got home, the less likely I was going to end up killing people (only reason I was doing it is because the alternative was someone even worse suited to be driving doing it). And the wake kicking up behind non-semi vehicles was generally about the size of the vehicle itself, except a time or two wider. So I probably drenched you three even worse, adding on to the sequence of such events you were being subjected to. Feel pretty terrible about doing it. All can say is sorry. Wish I could've seen a way to not.

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You're both wrong. Now get out of my eggplant garden before the cops get here.

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People are perfectly happy to condemn Christianity.
Sure, but when a nutjob blows up an abortion clinic in the name of god, you don't see wide calls to stop christians from coming into the country. When a group of christians are waging rape campaigns in some foreign hellhole, christian barbarism doesn't try to make itself a national discussion topic for a while. Stuff like that is sheb's point, methinks.

If you're not willing to tolerate milder echoes of centuries-old barbarity, why are you defending the real thing? Why are you trying to shut down the voices within Islam calling for reform and better treatment of disadvantaged groups? How can you call yourself progressive when you're working to defend people who kill and enslave because of the words of some fucker who lived centuries ago?
Where the blue hell are you getting the idea functionally goddamn anyone is actually doing that, or that TBF was even remotely suggesting it, would be my question. Because something downplayed (which happens with everything) in some shithole overseas is not defending or ignoring it relative to treatment of other issues, it's ignoring it just as much as people do when it's christian groups doing it in similar areas (which hey, more likely than not, will be pointedly not noted as being christian, where that damn sure ain't true for muslim groups). Fucking no one worth mention is calling for relaxed treatment of muslims in the US vis a vis shit like child marriage, or trying to meaningfully suppress muslim voices here or efforts to counter those kinds of behaviors elsewhere.

Bloody hell, you talk about glossing over FD but the same damn thing happens when christian bigots are literally funding shit like trying to put gays into concentration camps (though, I guess amusingly enough, the example you point out is being given free reign to do it by a christian country so hey, case in point), or just straight up kill them. Muslims get cut a hell of a lot less slack, not more, in the US, and most other places in the west, too.

If you're getting a different picture good god do you need to stop hanging out wherever it is you're picking this shit up from, because it is not even remotely representative of what's happening in this country.

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The hacking attempt during last elections were more widespread that previously though. Who thought that electronic voting was such a great idea anyway.
Possibly the people who still remember what can happen with paper ballots, too :P

... though from what I understand, that particular bit was expanding the understood scope to more general voter data, or noting higher confidence it was targeted; not electronic votes, per se, but stuff like voter registration applications et al. Which... honestly, you want to argue about electronic voting in particular I'm not going to stop you, but if you argue against logistics efforts like that, to make sure more people, more easily, can access their right to vote, I'm going to pick up republican voter suppression efforts and metaphorically beat you with them. We think the russians may (looking more likely every time it pops up in the news) have screwed with parts of the election. We know tens to hundreds of thousands (to millions, depending how you look at our criminal code related bullshit) of americans have been disenfranchised by efforts to make it more difficult to vote. I'll take the risk for the former to cut into the latter just about any day, y'know?

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General Discussion / Re: Religion discussion.
« on: June 13, 2017, 06:43:03 am »
I'd think I'd have bigger problems to deal with now that some nutjob just rolled out quantifiable involuntary respawn mechanics for reality.

Incidentally, my mental image for this murderscanner is large, red, and with a fondness for fresh meat.

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Oh misk. Misk, you poor sad bastard. Just like the rest of us. Trump already started campaigning and laying ground for 2020 earlier this year. It's not a matter of hunger, misk. Would that it were.

E:... okay, some of that was probably criminal or if-not-should-be-criminal appropriation of 2016's campaign funds. But still. Point, it stands.

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