I’ve found that you have to lay on the sarcasm extra thick to have a comment override Poe’s law these days.
I kind of hate tagging things ‘/s,’ but I do get it, especially on the Internet where nuance is lost or people might not speak English as their first language.
Sure, if you’re going to sugarcoat it I suppose. I see it as part of reading comprehension and nuanced language skills that the internet and text messages have understandably changed things, for better or worse. It is what it is. This one in particular bums me out, cause I’m badbrainstorm, and a super smartass. I even have my own Ali G type characters in my head that are rediculous af
Well, a lot of people who don’t have good reading comprehension tend to be neurodivergent people, especially autistic folk like myself. I tend to approach things with a benefit of the doubt attitude but I’m more or less “high functioning” and some people have an even harder time understanding social cues via text. I use /s just out of mindfullness of folk who struggle with those kinds of thing.
Yeah, okay. I guess with all the xenobiotics and whatnot these things are becoming much more prevalent in society and I should be more understanding. Thanks
I realize we can’t just stop sending reporters to Russia, but damn… I don’t know why anyone from the U.S. would travel to Russia when Putin is using incarceration as a means of bullying the U.S. into prisoner swaps.
Also, I’m going to take the opportunity to revive the complaint that Britney Griner was incredibly privileged to get rescued the way she was, the trade was not worth it, and there are other U.S. citizens languishing in Russian prisons that aren’t being rescued simply because they aren’t making headlines the way Griner did. Her fame was the only reason she got out and it’s totally unfair.
The headline is burying the lead a bit by not saying that the girl was twelve when she was raped. It is not some kid that didn’t understand consent properly. It is a proper predator that groomed a child online and raped her.
I understand the point you're trying to make, but it could have been made without this
It is not some kid that didn’t understand consent properly
victim blaming bullshit.
Rape victims, especially those who reached court (which is almost none, so if they have it means it's a strong case) no matter their age, are not "kids who don't understand about consent".
Nothingburger. “Slightly radioactive” - literally half the planet is “slightly radioactive”. We pump more radiation into the atmosphere by burning coal than we ever have by splitting uranium atoms.
They had an expert on the radio explaining why it’s not an issue - the interviewer asked if he’d drink the water and he said yes, but he might be the wrong person to ask, as he’s swum in the cooling tanks at Chernobyl.
The Chinese are getting their knickers in twist about it but their nuclear reactors release far more radioactive water into the Pacific and that’s all within safe limits. Most of the fuss seems to be political or just arising from ignorance (or both).
I haven’t heard anything about that - the IAEA is happy, as are South Korea and all the experts I’ve heard speak on the matter. Japan’s environment ministry has also been sampling sea water after the release and will give the results on Sunday. Everything seems.to be on working to keep the tritium at levels significantly lower levels than the WHO safe levels (and well below the levels in waste water from other nuclear power plants, including China).
There is a risk I’m wrong but… I’m pretty sure that if something is released into the Japanese part of the Pacific ocean it’s not contained within the Japanese borders…
China constantly fishes in other countries waters. It got so bad that Argentina has just started sinking their ships caught illegally fishing in their waters.
They weren’t left with much of a choice. They would hail the illegal fishing boats and the boats would just book it back to international waters, wait for the Argentinian boats to leave then immediately go back and start fishing again. These fishing boats were turning off their transponders right before crossing into Argentinian waters, it’s isn’t like they didn’t know exactly what they were doing. If you continously knowingly and deliberately violate a countries borders then you should really expect to be shot at.
I heard about this earlier: It doesn’t sound like he was an active shooter at all. It sounds like he had his home stolen by a shady corporation and fought the police, dying trying to save his home.
Dumb to get into a gun fight for sure, but how exactly was this guy an “active shooter”? Am I missing something here?
The judge’s rationale is that he’d be victimized because of his appearance. If the justice system can’t trust itself not to allow extrajudicial punishment by other inmates enough to give people the sentences they deserve, isn’t that their fucking problem and not the victims’?
It could have that babyface all his life depending on genetics. The judges take was fucking dumb. Besides I hear they protect pedos in prison because no matter how they look they will get fucked up.
So all this judge did was hurt the victim. Shame on him.
Judge should join him tbh. Incompetence like that cannot be tolerated. Start throwing these chucklefucks in prison for judicial misconduct. It starts with abolishing qualified AND absolute immunity.
Yeah the internet can cause too many people in the same place easily. I’ve often come to the conclusion if I find some interesting obscure thing to just shut up about it.
Fyi there are apps and online tools just for removing metadata. Also many sites (but not all) automatically remove metadata from uploaded images. For example imgur does that. But if your way works and is no hassle then keep on keepin on.
Yeah mainly just remembering to remove the metadata is the hassle. Upload sites might say they do it but I will never 100% trust that they don’t keep some part of it.
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