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TerpenoidTester 26 points ago +26 / -0

“There has been a dramatic swing back against gay rights. It’s pretty horrific. I have certain, quite old- fashioned opinions on trans stuff… and I do occasionally like to debate what direction should be taken with children and all that,” he said.

Translation: I used to be against it until I realized how much power they controlled.

“But what has happened means there isn’t even room for those conversations anymore because trans people are under full attack from the government. The amount of legislation that is being passed, how the Right-wing has glommed on to gay and trans people as a target is so ferocious.”

Translation: See guys, don't cancel me, I'm saying what you want me to!

He continued: “It’s like a war now. You have to fight for one side or the other, which is never good for anyone. But I’m a gay person with lots of trans friends and so I have to choose that side.”

Translation: I don't want to take this stance but I'm being forced to by those around me.

Where do these celebrities get off on playing a victim so publicly?

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TerpenoidTester 18 points ago +18 / -0

In December 2020, “I declared that Washington will be an anti-racist state and committed to taking actions that hold our state to that commitment,” said Inslee in a press release. However, an email sent out by the office appears to paint a different picture.

An email circulated by the Office of Equity. The email questions not just the societal attitudes towards racism but also seems to indict the entire capitalist system that forms the backbone of the United States.

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.” ~Stokely Carmichael (Author of Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael)

You know someone is a piece of shit when they write a book about themselves and call it that.

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TerpenoidTester 17 points ago +17 / -0

Despite the negative attention, The Freckled Bee in Salem, Oregon, which sells kids' and babies' clothing items, refuses to acknowledge the concerns. The store owner, who is an Only Fans starlet, says that the outrage over its penis, breast, and clitoris-shaped plushies for kids is "comical."

In an Instagram post, The Freckled Bee shared a photograph of its pink, purple, and orange clitoris-shaped plushie along with the caption, "The funniest thing about this place is people find the fact that I sell stuffies that are human anatomy as a negative."

"So what a kid grabs a stuff testicle and reads the informative card about what a testicle does. THE HORROR," said the store owner. "How dare we want our kids educated on the human body. But rest assured, they've never had a problem with me, my shop, heck, they even referred their customers here. Stuffed penises and all. But now? Now it's a problem."

Who the fuck puts information cards with stuffed animals?

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TerpenoidTester 6 points ago +7 / -1

I'll wait until the GOTY edition that fixes all the bullshit.

Then I'll wait for the mods to remove whatever the GOTY didn't fix.

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TerpenoidTester 18 points ago +18 / -0

SAG-AFTRA leaders announced Friday that they will seek authorization for a strike against major video game companies, which would presumably include giants Activision and Electronic Arts.

In a statement, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher called out video game companies for their “greed and disrespect.”

The Nanny is on the warpath.

The last time SAG-AFTRA launched a strike against video game makers was in 2016. The strike lasted nearly a year.

Uh, I honestly do not remember this happening.

Does anyone remember that? Did it have any actual effect?

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TerpenoidTester 43 points ago +43 / -0

“I knew enough not to take it. I’ve been a nurse long enough to know I need to question what new products are. I’m not going to be the first one to jump on board of an experiment,” she said, noting that her Christian convictions also came into play over concern for the use of fetal tissues in developing the drug.

The result was that she was fired and accused of misconduct, which meant she could not collect unemployment benefits, according to The Maine Wire.

Some nurses who were fired and later fought back in court have scored victories.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Care Center has been ordered to reinstate nurse Wendy Cooper and negotiate retroactive pay and benefits with her, according to The Buffalo News.

State Supreme Court Justice Emilio Colaiacovo ruled this week that an arbitrator’s decision that went against Cooper was “irrational, violative of public policy and contrary to the interests of justice.”

Get ready for the first intelligent judge I've seen so far:

“Ms. Cooper is an unfortunate victim in the wake of excesses exhibited by governors, administrators, legislatures, and yes, even the judiciary,” the ruling said. “All too frequently did critical thinking and the exercise of personal liberties expire at the altar of false righteousness, fear and authority.”

“Since the mandate which formed the basis for Ms. Cooper’s termination was found to be invalid while the matter was being litigated (in arbitration), the arbitrator’s decision upholding the termination must be vacated,” Colaiacovo wrote.

“It is troubling to find that this arbitrator found it fair and just to confirm Cooper’s termination despite there being scant evidence of Ms. Cooper being derelict in her duties, incompetent or insubordinate, other than refusing to take a vaccine pursuant to a mandate which was found to be found null and void, that the person issuing the mandate lacked the authority to do so, and that the rule was unenforceable.”

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TerpenoidTester 7 points ago +7 / -0

their latest project is a miniature wargame title in early access that tries to style itself as a simulation of a tabletop boardgame rather than a video game, even complete with digitally painting your miniatures, and 2 of the 3 human faction leaders are black women.

That explains their website homepage art, damn too bad like you said natural selection started out as a really cool idea that deserved being fleshed out. Shame that they couldn't keep their own bullshit outside of their creative ideas, hard to find decent devs nowadays.

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TerpenoidTester 14 points ago +14 / -0

If someone handed you the concept of a person stranded on an alien world trying to survive by scavenging materials and diving deeper into the unknown...why is there suddenly a need for a bunch of human characters?

It is such a bizarre choice considering the concept. It's like dragging a high school drama into an adult world.

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TerpenoidTester 27 points ago +27 / -0

There actually is a noticeable difference in the soundtrack, they bring all sorts of pop songs and actual music into the sequel whereas they relied on mostly ambient and minimalist music to separate the biomes in the original.

It's...jarring to hear pop music on a hostile alien world. I much preferred the original. Seems like all bad news for these devs though sadly.

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TerpenoidTester 13 points ago +13 / -0

I mean natural selection 2 was a shooter so that'd be a pretty extreme shift for the devs. I hadn't heard that before I'll have to look into it more.

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TerpenoidTester 13 points ago +13 / -0

I'm thinking glass beer bottles are going to be flying around all over the place if one shows up.

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TerpenoidTester 17 points ago +17 / -0

Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner made the announcement during a security briefing on J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival.

Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone.

The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.

“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.

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TerpenoidTester 30 points ago +30 / -0

“So they sold a significant amount of stock during this period of time in which Disney+ was booming. So before the stock bust they sold. Well, there’s now an allegation in this complaint, in this lawsuit of insider trading.”

This is specifically about selling off their shares at its highest while they were publicly lying about the subscriber count. It is about insider trading not damaging the company.

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TerpenoidTester 37 points ago +38 / -1

It is a good reminder that the last thing they care about is representation of their constituency.

They'll take their power to the grave as long as they can cling to it the entire time.

None of them will voluntarily relieve themselves of power and the replacements they are grooming are exactly the same.

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TerpenoidTester 32 points ago +32 / -0

“The Court finds that the First Amendment claim is unlikely to succeed on the merits because Google and YouTube are not state actors,” wrote Judge Trina Thompson, who was nominated to serve on the Court by Joe Biden in 2021, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2022.

“Second, Plaintiff was not, and will not, be irreparably harmed if a temporary restraining order is not issued because he does not demonstrate urgency or that he will not be able to share his videos through other sites and methods.”

Here is where it gets really bad.

In the ruling, Judge Thompson also argued that even if Kennedy could establish that YouTube is a state actor, the First Amendment does not necessarily protect “medical misinformation.”

Citing previous cases that recognized a public interest consideration in First Amendment cases, Thompson wrote “the coronavirus still poses a health risk to certain individuals, and it would not serve the public interest to let medical misinformation proliferate on YouTube.”

Astonishing.

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TerpenoidTester 27 points ago +27 / -0

“Some people didn’t like Episode 3 because, you know, gay stuff. And then they kind of retroactively try and come up with a [different and inoffensive] reason why,” co-creator and co-showrunner Craig Mazin said in an interview with IndieWire, “[But] one of the complaints I saw was, ‘Oh, it’s just a filler episode. It doesn’t advance the story.’ And I was like, ‘I think this episode advances the story more than any other episode we have’ — because it’s not plot, it’s character. It’s the letter Bill leaves behind to Joel that powers the rest of the show.”

Hahahahahahaha. Goddamn that is a reach.

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TerpenoidTester 23 points ago +23 / -0

This is actually kind of an amazing example of why catering to morons never works.

Every move you make will be wrong unless the person making them is black, gay or disabled. Then they can do no wrong and any attempt to stop them is the worst thing on Earth.

It is like building a Frankenstein monster out of cancerous tissue.

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TerpenoidTester 18 points ago +18 / -0

The draft agreement, as it was being negotiated at the time, would give government agencies like the DOJ or the DOD the authority to:

Examine TikTok’s U.S. facilities, records, equipment and servers with minimal or no notice,

Block changes to the app’s U.S. terms of service, moderation policies and privacy policy,

Veto the hiring of any executive involved in leading TikTok’s U.S. Data Security org,

Order TikTok and ByteDance to pay for and subject themselves to various audits, assessments and other reports on the security of TikTok’s U.S. functions, and,

In some circumstances, require ByteDance to temporarily stop TikTok from functioning in the United States.

The draft agreement would make TikTok’s U.S. operations subject to extensive supervision by an array of independent investigative bodies, including a third-party monitor, a third-party auditor, a cybersecurity auditor and a source code inspector. It would also force TikTok U.S. to exclude ByteDance leaders from certain security-related decision making, and instead rely on an executive security committee that would operate in secrecy from ByteDance. Members of this committee would be responsible first for protecting the national security of the United States, as defined by the Executive Branch, and only then for making the company money.

I hate Tik Tok but I hate this sort of insane Government overreach far more.

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TerpenoidTester 30 points ago +30 / -0

what do you think they are going to do, limit their own power?

We've reached the same problem with congress, POTUS, the DOJ...None of them have checks and balances anymore.

It will get worse quickly as they realize just how untouchable they truly are.

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TerpenoidTester 21 points ago +21 / -0

Will Graham — who publicly identifies as “queer” and “non-binary,” and uses “he/they” pronouns — made his grandiose pronouncements Wednesday in a lengthy series of posts on X, or Twitter.

“When all queer people are personally and politically under attack across the country and HRC has declared a ‘state of emergency,’ my biggest fear is that the many queer fans of League will take this reversal as one more invalidation, one more blow, one more…effect of the general politicization of our identities,” he wrote.

“We got so many notes wondering if the exploration of the queer world of the 1940s or Max’s world would be better saved for season 2, if people needed to start somewhere a little more familiar. I’m so glad we didn’t listen, cause now I’m sitting here without any regrets.”

Also sitting here unemployed...

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TerpenoidTester 15 points ago +15 / -0

“We can get the messaging on ‘Breast/Chestfeeding Awareness Month,’ we can get policy editing that refers to pregnant employees and migrants as ‘pregnant persons,’ what we don’t get is a flag action notification to honor the more than 100 people, and perhaps hundreds more that perished in this tragedy,” the source told Breitbart Texas. The source offered no explanation regarding why the awareness month’s name was changed to add “chestfeeding” by the agency.

In May, President Biden issued an order to lower flags to half-staff in honor of the eight people killed and seven injured in a mass shooting event in Allen, Texas. Two other presidential orders this year — in January and March — honored victims in Nashville, Tennessee and Monterey Park, California. President Biden has signed no such order for the Maui tragedy, the White House website reveals.

“It never fails. When this administration has the opportunity to motivate the workforce with mission-related information, all the employees get is political messaging designed to demonstrate how woke they can go,” the source lamented. “The lowest morale in history shows the workforce is growing tired of it; the lack of action on lowering the flag for Lahaina lets the people know where the administration’s priorities are. It’s sad.”

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TerpenoidTester 57 points ago +57 / -0

This is about a Norwegian man named Trond Harald Haaland. He has long been outspoken about things like the World Economic Forum, climate change and vaccine passports. He has posted a lot about the excess death rates we have been seeing after the roll out of the mRNA vaccines.

Now someone had anonymously reported him to the police for being “mentally unstable”.

Then the police contacted the health system based on this anonymous tip.

That is all that was needed for two “health care workers” together with two uniformed police officers to arrive at his door and forcibly haul the man away and lock him up in a psychiatric ward.

The senior doctor had this to say about the issue:

“When he is healthy and stable he does not post and is not interested in these topics [climate skepticism, covid vaccine skepticism among other things]. It is not normal behavior that he is now displaying considering how he is when he is healthy. He is still secretive and suspicious.”

Finally, after being held for 9 days, the man was let go after a jury at the Control Commission for Psychiatric healthcare ruled that there was no justification for forcibly locking him up.

I guarantee no repercussions will happen to anyone involved in this. That's the point we are at.

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TerpenoidTester 21 points ago +21 / -0

The publishers of Chadwick Moore’s new book about Tucker Carlson, “Tucker: The Biography,” released Aug. 1, has charged Amazon with purposely under-reporting its sales of the book to make it appear like a “flop.”

“The New York Times unsurprisingly totally excluded the book in spite of the fact that Tucker sold 50% more than [their] #2 nonfiction hardcover and just 150 units behind their #1!” the publisher said in the same release.

Meanwhile, the demand for “Tucker” has been so great that All Seasons Press announced Aug. 16 that it had “already ordered a second printing.”

City Journal reported Aug. 22 on another facet of the “Tucker” book saga: “Amazon fulfilled post-publication orders before shipping books to customers who’d preordered Tucker. And after describing the book as ‘Sold Out,’ Amazon didn’t order more copies from the publisher; on the contrary – and quite incredibly – it ’emailed many preorder customers to ask if they wanted to cancel their orders,’ and required them ‘to go on a desktop, not the app, and proactively confirm they still wanted the book or the order would automatically cancel.'”

“Our customer poll revealed 40% of Amazon customers who had pre-ordered Tucker, many as far back as May, had not received their copies ten days after launch. Amazon sales are not reported until a customer’s credit card is charged and the order ships, so the BookScan number does not reflect a significant number of Amazon pre-orders,” All Seasons Press’ Aug. 16 statement states.

Back when he was Fox News’ most popular host, Carlson ripped the New York Times precisely for the same “dishonesty” of skewing its book sellers list:

We're seeing collusion between major parties with absolutely no consequences. You now are at the whim of retards who will do everything they can to destroy your work and lie about you because they know they can get away with it.

In a normal world he could sue them to oblivion but we all know that won't work.

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