Honestly, I think "domestic terrorist" is going to be the new buzzword for anyone who is to the right of Stalin/Mao in ideology. They've run the "alt-right Nazi" label into the ground so they have to go for something even more extreme and polarizing - and with more brutal implications. By branding someone a "terrorist", that gives them free reign to do whatever, without impunity, to that person.
That shit is scary as hell, because if we thought that the violence against anyone to the right of center was bad before, this will escalate it even further. People like Antifa nutballs and BlueAnon conspiracy theorists will feel even more justified in their unpersoning of the individuals they see as threats to their ideology and will act accordingly. Quite honestly, if I were someone with even centrist beliefs, much less right-wing, I'd be seriously considering getting myself on the "trained, armed, and carrying" train if my state/local laws allowed for it. As the saying goes, "God made man, but Smith & Wesson made them all equal." Protect your own freedoms, because the government damn sure isn't going to.
Fake-up can cut years off a woman's apparent age. Best way to gauge it is to look at their neck and hands. You can spackle in the wrinkles on the face, but you're not getting rid of the effects of aging on the neck line or the backs of the hands, even if they have been moisturizing daily for their entire life.
On a sidebar note, she obviously hasn't given up on makeup as is apparent in that last photo, because you don't get skin tone that even in a picture without the use of a hell of a lot of base/concealer.
If a military force has actual pregnant women on the front lines in a wartime situation that tells me one thing - the country done fucked up, because that's all they have left. If you can't field an adequate male fighting force as the boots on the ground, you're completely boned from the get-go, because we've all seen the reports of how badly the women perform in Basic, even with lowered standards.
Besides which, as soon as an enlisted woman turns up pregnant, they pull her from active deployment and put her into a non-deployable unit. At that point they're effectively a drain on military resources until they're considered fit to return to active duty.
D-Live is probably the largest current alternative, but I've been keeping an eye on Glimesh.tv as an up-and-comer.
I've often wondered if there wasn't some sort of shadow cabal behind that crap. I mean, it's pretty obvious that Reddit as a whole has a vested interest in keeping their strike force protected so it can continue to slap around any subreddit that the powers that be find even mildly opposed to their viewpoints, but that's a pretty deep rabbit hole.
We all know that the whole "banned for promoting hate" line is utter bullshit. It got banned because the powers that be over at Plebbit didn't like to have their own bullshit thrown back in their face, so the crybabies called in an AHS Tactical CP Strike which gave them enough ammo to shut the shit down. That brings a few questions to mind, though:
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Why the hell did the mods of the sub leave it set to open posting with no approval required? I mean, I get it, they want everyone to be able to post, but they had to know they were painting a target on their back. Leaving the place set to Moderated posting can completely nullify the usual AHS tactics.
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Where the hell are the posters from AHS keeping this stockpile of CP? I mean, one would think that the general authorities would be interested in seeing the user names and IP addresses of the people that perpetrate this filth over on Plebbit.
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Someone should set up a SuperStraight .win site, ASAP, if only to keep the idjits that want to run a smear against it from using it as a weaponized base.
As for books I’ll always recommend Howard. His stuff is great, it’s hard to believe his fantasy work pre-dates LOTR, and it still absolutely holds up today.
If you like other pulp stuff like Solomon Kane, Kull, The Shadow, The Spider, or things like Lovecraft's writings, I highly recommend checking out Seabury Quinn's tales of Jules de Grandin. They center around a French expat detective/physician and occult expert in the US (circa 1920s and forward) and generally have a "weird tales" bent to them. They're short stories that were written for the pulp magazines of the era, and while the collections are quite massive (Quinn was a prolific writer), they're best read in small doses.
Upvoted for Brit-coms. Some of the funniest stuff I watched in the early '90s came out of the UK and aired on our local PBS channel during that time period. Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances are top notch, as is Fawlty Towers, and despite Glinner being involved in both of them Father Ted and The IT Crowd are well worth a watch. Just be sure you dig up torrents of all of the above, so as to avoid missing the episodes that the wokescolds have forced off the air because they're "problematic".
old sci-fi like Stargate and Bablyon 5
They both hold up surprisingly well. Sure, the F/X are schlock compared to modern stuff, but you just have to take them as a product of their time. It bears noting that if you're going to watch Stargate then you're going to have to watch SG:Atlantis along with it to get the full story on everything.
It might also be worth a note to suggest checking out syndicated Sci-Fi and Fantasy shows from the late '90s and early '00s. Most of them were non-woke products of their time, and even though they were made for TV they can still be a fun watch. I still get a kick out of rewatching Highlander: The Series, Forever Knight, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Andromeda, Farscape, and other shows from that era.
I loved the Sky adaptations, although to me David Jason felt a bit old to be playing Rincewind. Regardless, they were good viewing experiences.
The Watch, on the other hand, can die in a fire. PTerry would be spinning in his grave if he knew what they'd done. As soon as I saw that they were making Cheery non-binary, race-lifting and slimming down Sybil, and generally making a dog's lunch of it, I washed my hands of any interest I previously had in the show.
I love that page and the way it breaks down the suggestions! Depending on the person and their tolerance for fantasy tropes, I'll frequently suggest that they skip to Guards! Guards!, and if they like it then they should backtrack and start from The Colour of Magic (with the standard disclaimers of it being not-some-of-his-best-work). I feel that G!G! is early enough in the series that you won't be wondering "who the hell is that person?" when they turn up, but far enough in that they're out of the range of the "ehhhhh"-level writing of the first two books.
If you dig fantasy with a comedy/satire bend, I would recommend the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett (RIP GNU TERRY - that'll make sense if you get into the books and his history). Basic upshot is the series starts out as a satire of fantasy tropes in general, but by the third book it starts to take on a life of its own.
It's a world where the land mass is a flat disc, resting on the back of four space-elephants, who are in turn standing on the back of a space sea-turtle that is called The Great A'Tuin. Magic exists (and is very volatile!), and the series opens with us following Rincewind, a middle-aged wizard that effectively failed out of the Unseen University (the wizard's school in Ankh-Morpork, the main city of the region and an analogue for London), inadvertently becoming a guide for the Disc's first tourist. Mayhem ensues.
Other books in the series focus on the guards of the city, the witches that live in the surrounding countryside, the anthropomorphic personification of DEATH (who is looking for an apprentice), and the usual assortment of dwarfs, trolls, vampires, werewolves, and other bits and bobs.
I can't recommend Pratchett's stuff strongly enough. The man had a way with words and a quick wit that will make even a hardened punster groan when they get the jokes.
Probably nothing to worry about, although one never knows if the company that had your data before really did wipe it. That being said, like I noted before, it looked like all they got was the hashes of the passwords so unless you were using a super-weak password that you had also used somewhere else on the Internet, I wouldn't sweat it.
https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/gab-dissenter-extension/releases
Last release was in mid-2019, though. You'll have to manually install it and may have to enable some developer options in your browser to allow 3rd-party extensions.
Exactly. I'm not that worried about the hashed passwords. Probable worst case scenario is that someone posted something embarrassing or illegal over there and the group that got the data could use it as blackmail material.
NGL, I swiped the archive link from the story posted on Plebbit to Half-KIA, but I figured it needed a signal boost over here, too, as a just in case.
tl;dr - Gab got hacked, attackers got the password hashes. Shouldn't amount to anything, but probably wouldn't hurt to change your password over there, as well as any accounts that used the same one if you double-dipped
As soon as I read that Ta-Nehisi Coates was tied to the project I knew it was going to be a racist shit-show. Even if they specifically say it's going to be Earth-23, you know his race-baiting ass is going to be making this the BLM of superhero movies.
I'm more of a DIY nut when it comes to ripping content, because I'd rather not have to hunt through a bajillion torrents to try and find a clean copy that doesn't have some kind of funky subtitles or jacked audio, but I get what you're saying. I'm lucky enough to have the storage space to keep my physical discs for stuff like movies and TV, but I haven't bought a boxed copy of a PC game in years. If possible I try to buy from GoG, although keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
Exactly why I buy physical media whenever possible for the stuff I want to make sure I have control over, and download archival copies of any digital-only content I've purchased. One of these days I need to get around to building a Jellyfin server, as a third backup, so I can rip my movie collection and not have to worry about digging through binders of discs if I want to watch something that's off the wall or that's been bowdlerized by streaming services' censors.
Yeah, that outage pretty much fucked our streaming in the living room last night, where we use our XBone for tv viewing. All of the apps we regularly use for streaming on the XBL ecosystem are tied to your account. Can't log into the account? Can't stream jack shit. The Roku units we have in the other rooms worked perfectly fine, though. Just further illustrates why putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.
I figure it's Jack & Co. seeing all the money OnlyFans is raking in and then doing whatever they can to get in on a cut of that action. As an added bonus, this lets the leftists screech from behind their (pay)walled garden and talk shit about anyone and everyone they choose, forcing an inability to quote-tweet or screenshot their tantrums and stupidity without paying them (and Twitter) for the privilege. I predict there will be expansion among the blue-check brigade as they revel in their newfound power, at least until there is blowback on them for charging the "underprivileged" followers that can't afford a subscription.
I have a buddy whose wife is of Latino stock. Darker skin, wavy hair, Latino surname before they were married, speaks Spanish, wouldn't look out of place if she were living in Cuba or somewhere in Mexico. Just for shits and giggles they did a DNA ancestry thing for their family last year. Her results? Majority central European in her background. Apparently the Latino thing was just from the last couple generations or something. Cultural heritage is a hell of a lot different than genetics - just look at Louis C.K. Dude is white AF, grew up in Mexico with Mexican parents. There's no way in hell you can judge someone's racial background and ethnicity by just looking at them.
When I was a kid (back in the stone age, when TVs actually required an antenna to be aimed in the proper direction to pick up a signal), we were taught by shows like Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood to treat everyone as a human being, and that color wasn't something that should divide us. It boggles my mind that the prevailing winds of racism have shifted enough that they're spitting this level of propaganda at kids, trying to get them to buy into the "white guilt" CRT garbage and divide the country along racial lines in their formative years.
I would almost guaran-friggin-tee that the book getting delisted from Amazon is the work of more of their cult of socjus admins over there that get other books like stuff from Jon Del Arroz yanked unexpectedly.
Snake Oil has traditionally been a big seller across multiple centuries, it just changes names and faces. If you can get enough suckers to pony up for your fake medical service/treatment, and they can spread the belief that it works, you can make a metric fuckton of money. Illegal and immoral? Damn sure is. Will it ever stop? As P. T. Barnum said, there's a sucker born every minute.