Therein lies the rub - you can only yell at a non-racist group of people and accuse them of racism for so long before they decide, "You know what? Fuck it. I guess I am racist." and they swerve hardcore into hating those who are calling them racist.
The week of November 9th I was exposed to an asymptomatic co-worker who developed full symptoms the next day and tested positive. We were in the same room, in close proximity (i.e. well within 6 feet of each other) for about 6 hours.
His end result? Felt like crap for about a week, flu-like symptoms, doctor gave him a Z-Pak and inhaler, told him to quarantine for two weeks. He's back on the job now, feels as good as ever.
My end result? Had to go get tested, forced to work from home for three days until the results came back. Had to last-minute reschedule several appointments for things I had planned to get done before the Thanksgiving holiday. I came up clean, no symptoms whatsoever in the interim.
Take from that what you will, but anyone who says this disease is one of the most infectious things in existence really needs to have their head examined.
I recall a similar bullshit balloon being floated by the mayor of a city in Europe somewhere. I think it was in Germany, but I can't find the article. Basic upshot was the same, though - because workers weren't in the city making use of the infrastructure, the magistrate wanted to levy a tax on them to equal the estimated taxes they would have paid by using public services, restaurants, and the like. I remember seeing that article and thinking, "bastard, you can't have it both ways - either your city is shut down and you take the hit like every business owner does, or you open it back up and deal with the ramifications of that." It's just another case of politicians wanting to have their cake and eat it, too.
An 83% increase can definitely be significant when compared to a 22% increase among men, but if the men's rate of suicide is already more than double that of the women then that 83% is just a drop in the bucket on the scale.
To Microsoft or Sony, giving away a system ... is literally nothing.
True. They figure that shit into their marketing budget. Hell, they're probably sitting on half a warehouse full of the damn things that are earmarked for giveaways. That doesn't mean that they should be hucking them at every Literally Who who screams for one based on gender, sexual orientation, or the color of their skin. All doing that does is create positive reinforcement for their bad actions.
It wasn't a story until Griffin made it a story.
It was, somewhat. After Sophia drew attention to her grifting there was some traction in the KIA/KIA2/Anti-SJW gaming circles. Thing is, it was pretty blatant that this Literally Who was e-begging based on her race and it wasn't the first time she'd pulled this kind of crap. If she'd shut up about it, ignored the bad publicity, and just done her thing then things probably would have died down somewhat. Instead, she started pulling the usual SJW tactics, doubled down, played the race card, played the gender card, and acted like she had every entitlement to the things that were given to her - not that she was lucky to have been given $1000 worth of equipment that most people either couldn't afford or wouldn't be able to acquire during the holiday season. It wasn't until she started yapping like an annoying dog at the detractors that the shit started getting deeper and outlets like Griffin decided to do their thing.
Bullet points:
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Twitch grifter "Zombaekillz" sends out a tweet at Sony and Microsoft e-begging for a PS5 and Xbox Series X because she feels there needs to be more Women Of Color representation in console reviews. Never mind the fact that she's effectively a nobody with only a handful of followers.
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Everyone and their dog recognizes this as utter bullshit, but for some reason Sony and Microsoft actually give her systems for free. She publicizes this fact.
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Sophia Narwitz draws attention to this steaming pile of horse shit in a separate tweet. It starts to become a thing, drawing Zombaekillz both deserved flak from critics and YAAAS KWEEEN accolades from the expected sources.
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Griffin Gaming releases a video calling her out on her idpol bullshit grifting tendencies. Zombaekillz takes umbrage with this and her and her followers start a false-flag campaign against the channel, calling them the usual slew of -ists and -isms.
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Bounding Into Comics reports on the false-flag campaign, and they, too find themselves in the crosshairs of an SJW kerfuffle.
So basically it boils down to the cult of IdPol doing what they usually do - since they don't have a legal or moral leg to stand on, they try to silence their critics through the usual censorship means.
Honestly, the first time I saw that grifter, I thought to myself "She's claiming to be black?" I mean, I've seen Greeks, Italians, Cubans, and other Latinos with darker complexions and more black-presenting facial features than she has. Honestly, if I'd seen her on the street I would have pegged her as being some ratchet hoe from Jersey or Philly instead of being "black".
So, on a whim, I dug back through her Twitter image posts to see if she'd done any of the usual vanity shit and posted pics of her kids. Sure enough, photo of kids on Nov 26th, 2020. Not a damn one of those kids looks "black". Sure, they're darker-than-Caucasian, with curly/kinky hair, but not a darned one of them would pass the racist-as-hell "brown paper bag test" to be considered as a POC. But hey, I guess if one drop counts then she can claim it all day long.
Hell, Michael Jackson looked more female-passing than that dude does.
Lots of blue-pilled guys out there simping for a piece of trim that isn't worth the time, trouble, or money involved in it. Unfortunately, they haven't been burned hard enough to get redpilled on how badly feminism has fucked things, yet.
Yes, "free", as in paid for by the taxpayers - like the men they so revile. I bet they think that's some sort of poetic justice for hundreds of years of "oppression by the patriarchy". I also love how leftists think there's some sort of government warehouse where these things just magically appear, as if created by a matter replicator from Star Trek, and then they get teleported to the people they're supposed to benefit. These morons really have no clue about how the supply chain works and the actual cost of production and logistics.
Black people experience 56% more air pollution than they cause
[CITATION NEEDED], unless you're meaning the poor families that live near the industrial park, that aren't all black families, in which case your damned statistic is still wrong.
and are 50% more vulnerable to wildfires than other communities.
Why? Are they living out in the part of California where the fire can ravage their home and neighborhood? No?
Ben & Jerry's needs to STFU and just make ice cream.
I'd say it's more of a testament to the flat structure that Valve has used as its management and development strategy being able to withstand incursion. Unfortunately, the extra wokeness that got brought along with Campo Santo pushed it over the edge, as the cult of SocJus had previously started to infect the whole place. We saw it creeping in with Valve's Greenlight and other small-creator programs, and much like cancer, unless you catch it early it'll spread and take over the whole place.
As for "Why Campo Santo?", that's a question that's up for debate. I recall a few articles saying something along the lines of Valve buying up studios because the studio had some skills or tech they wanted (like the AI in Led 4 Dead), but Campo wasn't exactly reinventing the wheel with Firewatch. At best, they pulled off a boondoggle by getting the wokenistas to all circle-jerk over their walking simulator, so maybe some SJW that had gotten their foot in the door decided that Valve needed a new Storytelling unit or some similar bullshit. Either way, the only thing they've done since they got there is work on Half Life: Alyx and produce a few stills for another walking sim they're supposedly working on.
It didn't really start becoming a problem until a couple years ago when they hit the tipping point. Valve bought up Campo Santo, who are basically only known for being woke and developing the walking simulator FIrewatch, back in 2018. Most of us saw that as the writing on the wall of Valve (and subsequently, Steam, since the two are inextricable) going down the wokeness path. It's only proved itself out, with more and more woke indie bullshit getting pushed toward the front page of Steam.
Looks like they're getting dragged in the replies from actual Latinos, too. Warms the depths of my cold, black, politically incorrect heart to see that happening.
Brad is spitting straight truth, right there. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but they're not entitled to protection from the world's reaction to that opinion.
Capcom claimed that they have verified 18 pieces of employee personal information was obtained, along with the potential of approximately 14,000 items of human resources information...
Congrats, Capcom. You're now potentially responsible for a whole wad of future cases of identity fraud.
Likewise, while Spider-Man Miles Morales was seen as a positive portrayal of non-white races, while Street Fighter‘s Dee Jay wearing a Rastafarian hat was not.
Right, because there isn't a single Jamaican out there that wears a Rasta hat on a regular basis. Apparently it's perfectly fine for a half-black/half-Latino superhero to walk around NYC looking clean-cut and borderline "white" in his actions, but heaven forbid that a Jamaican chatacter be shown to revel in his own culture in the clothing they depict him in. JFC, that's racist as hell.
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Yeah, the thing about pinball is the hand/eye part of it is just muscle memory and practice once you get down the standard moves for ball handling. Everything beyond that hinges on mental & strategy of trying to hit specific targets and order of the rules of the table you're standing in front of. It's not rocket science once you know the table you're playing, but even then you've got the guys putting up double to triple the scores the women do. I'm sure they'd have some excuse like they don't get to practice as much as the men, or the men intimidate them when they're at the machine - never mind the fact that dudes have to put up with the same shit when they're at a tourney, and guys have to find their own time to practice, too.
Chess is an interesting sport, is a mental sport and yet we have female only championship and as far as I know there are no men only.
You run into things like that all over the place in competitive games. Pinball, for instance. The IFPA has women-only leagues, but no men-only league. The defacto overall league is topped by men - you have to go down to the 104th spot before you find a woman in the list. That woman is the top-ranked female player, and she's a full 600+ points lower in the ranking than the top man. If women were playing on the same level, you'd see one much higher in the rankings.
When I first got the Internet, Google was not yet a thing.
Old Internet Farts Unite! I can still recall the days when at the bottom of Yahoo!'s search page it said "Powered by Google", and before that I had the fun of dealing with a running a UNIX terminal emulator on a PC on my university's network to connect to the larger university that actually housed the system. I experienced the Eternal September, and quite honestly the Internet has been worse for wear ever since.
If it's any consolation, I got my first ding against my alt account over there for "hate speech". My crime? Calling Laura Kate Dale a dude that had lopped off his bits and was mentally ill, several months back. Not sure how it took the reporting brigade that long to find the comment. :D
Technically, if a VP serves two years or more as president after taking over the office, they can only run for more term after that.
TIL (I'm not an American).
Welcome to the wonders of American Politics. Twenty-second amendment of the constitution prohibits it:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
This was put into place after Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term as President following WW2, in 1945. Prior to that there was no limit on the number of terms a person could serve as President, because the founding fathers presumed that someone being a career politician would never be a thing. Up until that point it had been tradition that the sitting president would only remain for two terms, if elected, and then bow out to allow for new blood. FDR died in office, Truman took over, and in 1951 the amendment was ratified as a direct response to Roosevelt's four terms. Sadly, they really should have put in term limits for the congresscritters as well, because there's way too many of them that are still sitting that have been there through multiple presidents.
Well, that's going to depend on how fast Joe's mental capacity deteriorates and/or how thirsty they are to get her in there. Technically, if a VP serves two years or more as president after taking over the office, they can only run for more term after that. If they want to extend her tenure in the office for as long as possible then you'll see him resigning at exactly two years and one day after he takes the oath, at which point she takes over and the downward spiral begins to accelerate.
Hell, at this point I'm not so sure my dead great-grandfather didn't vote for Biden.
Sadly, I fully expect that to happen in about 2-3 years. Alzheimer's Joe has to get a couple years in there before they can yoink him from office and install her, that way she can still run for two more terms. Any sooner than that and they'll only be able to flog one more term out of her, although I fully expect she'll pick a member of "the crew" to be her VP once they plug her into the Oval Office, so they can try to keep the chain of un-elected fun unbroken.
Sadly, this isn't necessarily news to me, but it definitely explains why my alt account over there got dinged for "hate speech". My crime? Claiming that Laura Kate Dale had untreated mental illness because "she" went and got the big snip and had her dick turned into a neovagina. Weird thing was, that comment was super-old by the time it got reported, so I have to wonder if there was someone on a mission to go reporting stuff or if it tripped a bot somewhere that was keyed to look for accusations.