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TheRealLiszt 2 points ago +2 / -0

You can always change your default DNS server. OpenDNS (despite being owned by Cisco) doesn't seem to filter anything.

208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220

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TheRealLiszt 50 points ago +50 / -0

Expect formal charges against Trump sometime in October. They wont stick, but they will work long enough to shift the polls right before the election.

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TheRealLiszt 11 points ago +11 / -0

No need for the reminder, Blizzard hasn't made a game worth playing since Frozen Throne

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TheRealLiszt 11 points ago +11 / -0

And they are expensive. The Y near where I live (not a very high pop area) costs $45 a month to join. The independent gym I go to only costs $25 a month and has better services and facilities.

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TheRealLiszt 22 points ago +22 / -0

Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity --- our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity.

  • Michael Crichton, "The Lost World (Jurassic Park)" [1995]

There have been Cassandras warning this was coming for over 30 years.

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TheRealLiszt 6 points ago +6 / -0

Its probably not 'so bad its good' and rather just 'so bad its boring.' Which is the worst type of bad movie.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

For all her bitching about him not pulling his weight, she sure has time to draw shitty comics and "teach" yoga class.

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TheRealLiszt 4 points ago +4 / -0

This. Saying Disney is 'destroying' these characters is to acknowledge that they have any power at all over my perception of the character. As far as I am concerned Star Wars ended when George sold it.

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TheRealLiszt 9 points ago +9 / -0

Thank you. Andrew and his friend William Hearst are the root of this plague of yellow journalism that has infested our society. I find it fitting that the most prestigious prize in urinalism is named after a man who never told a single truth in his entire life.

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TheRealLiszt 31 points ago +32 / -1

Talk is cheap, actions are expensive. What is this old, dried up cunt doing to rectify her mistake?

Bitching on TikTok for attention it seems.

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TheRealLiszt 6 points ago +6 / -0

The only reason the WNBA exists at all is because the NBA subsidizes it. The WNBA has never made any money, it hardly gets any viewership. Both the Oprah channel and Oxygen, the women's channel, got out of their WNBA broadcasting contract as soon as they could. The only reason you can watch a WNBA game broadcast is because when you buy the rights to cover the NBA you get the WNBA thrown in for free.

The WNBA finals is regularly beat out by the Little League World Series, which in my opinion is far more interesting.

Also, apparently WNBA isn't even in the spell check dictionary for Firefox/Pale Moon. Hilarious for such a woke company like Mozilla.

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TheRealLiszt 18 points ago +18 / -0

It was a good thing Harvey Milk was assassinated.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

For me it was the (ongoing) 11+ year wait for the next book plus the arrogance of its writer.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

Calculations for the CPI used to be based on a core group of items such as food, energy, services etc. These items were the same year after year so it was a good measure of how the costs changed over time for the same basket of goods.

New CPI uses substitutions, among other things, and assumes that say, if the price of beef is getting to high, people will switch to chicken and pork. They also change around the relative weight of each good again as an attempt to predict consumer response to price changes.

As a result the new variable method of calculating the CPI will, almost always, return a lower % result than the older fixed method. It is of course a total coincidence that this makes the government look better, they are just doing it in an attempt to be more 'accurate.'

If you're interested Investopedia has a good article on the subject.

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TheRealLiszt 8 points ago +8 / -0

In the Criminal Code of 1926 there was a most stupid Article 139—‘on the limits of necessary self-defense’—according to which you had the right to unsheath your knife only after the criminal's knife was hovering over you. And you could stab him only after he had stabbed you.

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even in the Soviet Union what Jose Alba did would have been a clear case of self defense. Instead, in the modern United States, you have criminals being set free while responsible, law abiding citizens are harshly punished.

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TheRealLiszt 7 points ago +7 / -0

The difference is as simple as haploid vs diploid cells. Sperm or an unfertilized egg will never become a person.

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