https://www.resetera.com/threads/turns-out-that-subway-sign-that-said-our-subs-dont-implode-was-real.738999/#post-108569691
Nepenthe wrote:Alright, I'm just gonna say it.
Not a lot of people are going to feel sympathy for a tragedy which is entirely the fault of the arrogance of a class of people who falsely believe they are untouchable geniuses, who are only as high on the totem pole as they are because of rampant exploitation of others and oppressive systems that bake in wealth at the expense of lower classes versus any objective merit of their individual contributions to society. Add on top of the irony that this hubris is part of the reason that the original Titanic sank, and yes, it is amusing in a karmic sort of way.
This isn't 9/11. This isn't drone strikes in the Middle East. This isn't an earthquake, tsunami, or tornado. The Titan sub disaster was a completely preventable accident entirely brought about by the hubris of a man belonging to a class of people deadset on killing the rest of us through ecological collapse and rampant wealth inequality. Let me repeat; these people literally do not give a fuck if we live or die through the hyper capitalism they insist on ramming down our throats even as we can't even afford basic necessities and our planet is dying. And you expect me to hinge my sense of morality and self-worth on whether or not I feel sorry that one of them essentially died by suicide, or whether or not I'm appalled by jokes aimed at the stupidity of the whole thing? I absolutely refuse.
The attempts to swing this around as some failure of compassion on our part, or to try and eulogize this man as some sort of "adventurous hero with a spirit of discovery" or whatever- like we don't already know where the goddamn Titanic is and the state that it's in- instead of the narcissitic asshole he was, ignoring the science and expertise of the people who knew better and were begging him not to go, which ultimately got himself and the rest of the passengers killed in an incident that literally- until that point- had not happened in the history of personal submersibles, because the science and engineering are clear on how this is to be done, are an embarrassing example of how folks can't even practice basic class solidarity with one another. All anger should be directed at the person whose fault this was.
Fuck Stockton Rush.
07-06-2023, 06:12 PM
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She is not totally wrong. My problem is that most RE goes to “huehuehue rich people” or some weirdly anti intellectual takes like “is not worth to explore the ocean”.
Still, the dude seems to be quite the character given that part of him seems to believed his own bullshit. Say what you will, the grifter went down with his own sub (to bad it killed other people and it may damage the ocean exploration field industry).
07-06-2023, 06:14 PM
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(07-06-2023, 05:44 PM)Eric Cartman wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/yes-it-is-trans-genocide-a-faq-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-today.711593/post-108569682 wrote:It's quite simple, really: if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, talks like a duck, walks like a duck, if it says "I am a duck", if every major medical organization looks at it and says "this is a duck", but a doctor accidentally wrote down "goose" on the birth certificate, they aren't allowed to play sports or pee next to other ducks.
(As an aside, please don't use the term "biological woman"! A lot of trans women are "biological women" by most standards and metrics. Their bloodwork comes back "female". They have the same medical considerations and risks. Lots of women don't produce eggs, lots of men don't produce sperm. The term "biological woman" is right-wing nonsense to erase the term "cis", and make it sound like cis women are more correct / valid / real than trans women.)

I think most people realise the semantic difference between broken equipment and never having had equipment
Also, I'm not a doctor, but I am pretty sure that mtf bloodwork does not come through as 'female' and they do not have the same medical considerations and risks
to paraphrase a comment I heard once
human beings have 2 legs, and the fact that some people may have 1 leg or 0 legs does not suddenly mean that legs are on a spectrum, and we can't talk broadly about how people have 2 legs because that would be monolegphobic
(07-06-2023, 05:51 PM)Propagandhim wrote: Like, I just saw an uncensored video on Youtube featuring a man wiping his hairy asshole bald using Nair. What if I licked that gentleman's asshole?
this is what you are driven to in absence of a bire
https://www.insider.com/oceangate-stockton-rush-titan-submersible-bolted-in-dead-anyway-2023-7?amp
The dude was fucking bizarre. At least the Euro guy that murdered someone in his sub was a competent engineer.
07-06-2023, 06:23 PM
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(07-06-2023, 06:12 PM)Boredfrom wrote: She is not totally wrong. My problem is that most RE goes to “huehuehue rich people” or some weirdly anti intellectual takes like “is not worth to explore the ocean”.
Still, the dude seems to be quite the character given that part of him seems to believed his own bullshit. Say what you will, the grifter went down with his own sub (to bad it killed other people and it may damage the ocean exploration field industry).
Nepenthe is the least qualified person on that forum to judge the justified accumulation of wealth based on merit and contribution to society. She can't even articulate the duties and roles those businessmen fulfilled at their job, let alone the "merits" and "contributions" of their work to the world.
07-06-2023, 06:25 PM
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so tell us the tale of propagandhim
did you notice old bore was dying and say wow I guess it's over and wandered the wastes of the internet for a month before noticing that the place was back up
or did you have shit going on, like recovering from being hit by an amazon van
07-06-2023, 06:28 PM
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The site wouldn't let me login for a few days, and I had to deal with an emergency around that time IRL. I had to fly out to another country -- but I couldn't leave until I finished a bunch of work, which was nervewracking so I never logged into anything. So I got back a few days ago, and logged in and the forum had very few messages. So I assumed it was down for like a month. Then I read the posts and realized people were talking about it being down and that there was an alternative, and Hap Shaughnessy provided a link...and, the rest is, as Nepenthe puts it, history as told by the white man.
Propagandhim dateline='[url=tel:1688667821' wrote: 1688667821[/url]']
Boredfrom dateline='[url=tel:1688667172' wrote: 1688667172[/url]']
She is not totally wrong. My problem is that most RE goes to “huehuehue rich people” or some weirdly anti intellectual takes like “is not worth to explore the ocean”.
Still, the dude seems to be quite the character given that part of him seems to believed his own bullshit. Say what you will, the grifter went down with his own sub (to bad it killed other people and it may damage the ocean exploration field industry).
Nepenthe is the least qualified person on that forum to judge the justified accumulation of wealth based on merit and contribution to society.
But the dude was totally a grifter, he was called out by his own colleges in the industry.
Note that some billionaires where wary enough to pull out:
https://fortune.com/2023/06/22/titan-sub-latest-missing-chris-brown-david-concannon-hamish-harding-richard-branson/amp/
And that Rush needed to reassure that’s the voyage was safe:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12258331/Titanic-sub-boss-Stockton-Rush-flew-London-assure-businessman-son-vessel-safe.html
07-06-2023, 06:36 PM
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Well, I was talking about the passengers, not the owner of the Titan -- but I haven't looked into what they've done. I don't make assumptions about peoples' contributed worth to society solely by how much wealth they've managed to accumulate. I'm not qualified for that, I willingly watched a man chemically burn his asshole clean with nair.
(07-06-2023, 06:28 PM)Propagandhim wrote: The site wouldn't let me login for a few days, and I had to deal with an emergency around that time IRL. I had to fly out to another country -- but I couldn't leave until I finished a bunch of work, which was nervewracking so I never logged into anything. So I got back a few days ago, and logged in and the forum had very few messages. So I assumed it was down for like a month. Then I read the posts and realized people were talking about it being down and that there was an alternative, and Hap Shaughnessy provided a link...and, the rest is, as Nepenthe puts it, history as told by the white man.
I told you not to eat the casu martzu
Propagandhim dateline='[url=tel:1688668564' wrote: 1688668564[/url]']
Well, I was talking about the passengers, not the owner of the Titan -- but I haven't looked into what they've done. I don't make assumptions about peoples' contributed worth to society solely by how much wealth they've managed to accumulate. I'm not qualified for that, I willingly watched a man chemically burn his asshole clean with nair.
For all her faults, she was not talking about the passengers in that particular post. BDumbs went hard on anyone mocking the passengers outside Rush.
(But she totally blames them, no doubt).
07-06-2023, 06:53 PM
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(07-06-2023, 06:45 PM)Boredfrom wrote: Propagandhim dateline='[url=tel:1688668564' wrote: 1688668564[/url]']
Well, I was talking about the passengers, not the owner of the Titan -- but I haven't looked into what they've done. I don't make assumptions about peoples' contributed worth to society solely by how much wealth they've managed to accumulate. I'm not qualified for that, I willingly watched a man chemically burn his asshole clean with nair.
For all her faults, she was not talking about the passengers in that particular post. BDumbs went hard on anyone mocking the passengers outside Rush.
(But she totally blames them, no doubt).
This part of her post is fucking confusing:
Nepenthe wrote:The attempts to swing this around as some failure of compassion on our part, or to try and eulogize this man as some sort of "adventurous hero with a spirit of discovery" or whatever- like we don't already know where the goddamn Titanic is
Who is eulogizing this guy? Granted, I haven't spent much time looking at the news about this -- but everything I've seen recently was calling him a cost-cutting prick and scientific illiterate. I haven't seen anything about "eulogizing" this guy. She just wants to pretend she's this libertine standing against the mainstream grain of immorality to prop herself up. Fucking nobody has a good thing to say about Stockton Rush.
There was an article that was pretty neutral about Rush:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66014565.amp
It is still critical, mind you, but RE was mad about it.
07-06-2023, 07:04 PM
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-got-to-pay-back-a-debt-from-a-collection-agency-that-ive-been-putting-off.738138/#post-108435372
Quote: User banned (permanent): bad faith trolling and misrepresenting the other poster in an antagonistic way
Weeats wrote:Lobster Roll wrote:What? No no no no no, OP, do not listen to this. The reason you have a major derogatory mark is because you did not pay your debt and it went long enough to be reported on your credit report as a missed month. It will stay on your report for 7 years. Every month this happens, the worse it is for you. It will directly affect your credit score and your ability to secure credit going forward which means you'll get shittier rates. Companies send your debts to collections because it gives them an opportunity to sell your loan to get it off their books and the company that buys your loan will be super predatory about it because it's their singular focus. lol
"OP, please just play by the corrupt, byzantine and patently unfair rules created by our financial masters! You'll be awarded slightly better rates on the further, crushing debts that life will inevitably throw your way! And, please, OP, consider the poor debt collection agencies! They're only doing their necessary and important jobs!"
the greatest tragedy is that now he is notable enough that his name can't be used for an action adventure villain or rogue
"read my new novel, Renford Hardiron and the Idol's Curse"
"why did you write a book about a famous transphobic podcaster?"
"Dirk Steelchest and the Riddle of Time?"
"the son of the billionaire web developer who got busted with heroin?"
"Cardigan Faust and the Secret Cairn?"
"oh you mean the failed republican candidate who argues with Alejandra Caraballo on twitter all day"
07-06-2023, 07:16 PM
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(07-06-2023, 07:07 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/bluesky-jack-dorsey-backed-twitter-alternative-hits-the-app-store-as-an-invite-only-beta.691999/page-26#post-108526794
Another invite give away.
Does it even still matter? Meta got roughly four times Mastodon's total user base within a few hours. Bluesky seems super pointless and redundant now, if it didn't already.
That said, the screeching of a whole lot of Fediverse guys regarding Threads is mind boggling, especially considering Meta hasn't even turned on federation yet. The biggest surprise is that Mastodon's original creator, admin of the biggest instance by a country mile and coffeehouse socialist Eugen Rochko is the one sane voice of reason in this pointless squabble.
07-06-2023, 07:18 PM
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(07-06-2023, 06:44 PM)Uncle wrote: (07-06-2023, 06:28 PM)Propagandhim wrote: The site wouldn't let me login for a few days, and I had to deal with an emergency around that time IRL. I had to fly out to another country -- but I couldn't leave until I finished a bunch of work, which was nervewracking so I never logged into anything. So I got back a few days ago, and logged in and the forum had very few messages. So I assumed it was down for like a month. Then I read the posts and realized people were talking about it being down and that there was an alternative, and Hap Shaughnessy provided a link...and, the rest is, as Nepenthe puts it, history as told by the white man.
I told you not to eat the casu martzu 
This myth MUST die. It fucking must because I'm not going to explain this again. Nobody but a handful of like two families of disgusting, inbred, Sicilian rednecks living in a baracca that smells like donkey cum ever eats this shit! There are like 9000 youtube BIODOCS or whatever these 20-something Carhartts-wearing assholes call their videos, saying shit like, "Look at the local cuisine loved by the locals here. The locals love eating maggots. It's cheese...with a special ingredient....maggots. Loved by the locals here. Look how disgusting this cheese is to us normal people, but don't impose your cultural objectification here on these simple-minded maggot eaters....this cheese is greatly enjoyed by the locals." and it's fucking a video of Pietro with his son gorging on the cheese. The fucking son is either edging himself or edging a donkey, uninterrupted by the video camera, and you're not supposed to think it's weird because "It's just what the locals do here." It's not the locals, it's just Pietro's genetic tragedy of a son. It's always fucking Pietro in the same video. It doesn't matter how many fucking casu marzu videos they make, it's Pietro in every fucking shot. There's 90000 videos of Pietro going balls deep in this maggot cheese, i swear to god it's the same people. He's like a fucking crisis actor for rotten food. "The locals here learned how to make this cheese, a delicacy over 2 millenia." *cuts to shot of Pietro making the cheese*. IT'S FUCKING PIETRO AGAIN. HE'S THE "LOCALS". And, oh, he makes the cheese too? What a fucking surprise. Shouldn't that tell you something? The same guy making the cheese is also eating it. What a fucking coincidence. So if I pissed into a jar and started drinking it, and every 12-part biodocumentary made by some college kid that hasn't left Portland who wants to show the world the cultural importance of "Italian Orange Juice" is peppered with clips of my dick pissing into a jar and then promptly putting it to my lips and going, "Ahh buono, ah-so buono. It's-a so good this orange-a juice-a from a my mama is-a so good that everyone in-a my town love-a my juice" and literally nobody else but me is swallowing my own piss, like we're talking 12 parts and several hours of me just drinking my own piss going, "Oh, I'm-a out of juice? Thas okay, i can make-a more *winks at camera* and piss into the bottle, like with not even the slightest allusion to real orange-juice making... you would just understand automatically that this is a video about a guy who gets off to this, sexually. This isn't about the locals. This isn't about Italians. This is a man who paid some kid in Oregon to make a video with the sole purpose of splicing up 12 hours of footage of his dick so other people can look at his cock, uncensored, in the Education section of youtube. Alex Jones got fine millions for lying about Sandy Hook, and Italians have to live with the maggot cheese lie because history is told by northern europeans. I just got here, but i'm seriously thinking about leaving in droves rn.
mm italian orange juice
(07-06-2023, 07:18 PM)Propagandhim wrote: I cooka da pizza
Good talk.
07-06-2023, 07:50 PM
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Funny story, i like the band your name is based on
and i just realized I've told you this story before.
the end.
(07-06-2023, 07:18 PM)Propagandhim wrote: (07-06-2023, 06:44 PM)Uncle wrote: (07-06-2023, 06:28 PM)Propagandhim wrote: The site wouldn't let me login for a few days, and I had to deal with an emergency around that time IRL. I had to fly out to another country -- but I couldn't leave until I finished a bunch of work, which was nervewracking so I never logged into anything. So I got back a few days ago, and logged in and the forum had very few messages. So I assumed it was down for like a month. Then I read the posts and realized people were talking about it being down and that there was an alternative, and Hap Shaughnessy provided a link...and, the rest is, as Nepenthe puts it, history as told by the white man.
I told you not to eat the casu martzu 
This myth MUST die. It fucking must because I'm not going to explain this again. Nobody but a handful of like two families of disgusting, inbred, Sicilian rednecks living in a baracca that smells like donkey cum ever eats this shit! There are like 9000 youtube BIODOCS or whatever these 20-something Carhartts-wearing assholes call their videos, saying shit like, "Look at the local cuisine loved by the locals here. The locals love eating maggots. It's cheese...with a special ingredient....maggots. Loved by the locals here. Look how disgusting this cheese is to us normal people, but don't impose your cultural objectification here on these simple-minded maggot eaters....this cheese is greatly enjoyed by the locals." and it's fucking a video of Pietro with his son gorging on the cheese. The fucking son is either edging himself or edging a donkey, uninterrupted by the video camera, and you're not supposed to think it's weird because "It's just what the locals do here." It's not the locals, it's just Pietro's genetic tragedy of a son. It's always fucking Pietro in the same video. It doesn't matter how many fucking casu marzu videos they make, it's Pietro in every fucking shot. There's 90000 videos of Pietro going balls deep in this maggot cheese, i swear to god it's the same people. He's like a fucking crisis actor for rotten food. "The locals here learned how to make this cheese, a delicacy over 2 millenia." *cuts to shot of Pietro making the cheese*. IT'S FUCKING PIETRO AGAIN. HE'S THE "LOCALS". And, oh, he makes the cheese too? What a fucking surprise. Shouldn't that tell you something? The same guy making the cheese is also eating it. What a fucking coincidence. So if I pissed into a jar and started drinking it, and every 12-part biodocumentary made by some college kid that hasn't left Portland who wants to show the world the cultural importance of "Italian Orange Juice" is peppered with clips of my dick pissing into a jar and then promptly putting it to my lips and going, "Ahh buono, ah-so buono. It's-a so good this orange-a juice-a from a my mama is-a so good that everyone in-a my town love-a my juice" and literally nobody else but me is swallowing my own piss, like we're talking 12 parts and several hours of me just drinking my own piss going, "Oh, I'm-a out of juice? Thas okay, i can make-a more *winks at camera* and piss into the bottle, like with not even the slightest allusion to real orange-juice making... you would just understand automatically that this is a video about a guy who gets off to this, sexually. This isn't about the locals. This isn't about Italians. This is a man who paid some kid in Oregon to make a video with the sole purpose of splicing up 12 hours of footage of his dick so other people can look at his cock, uncensored, in the Education section of youtube. Alex Jones got fine millions for lying about Sandy Hook, and Italians have to live with the maggot cheese lie because history is told by northern europeans. I just got here, but i'm seriously thinking about leaving in droves rn.
I think nairing your asshole would be a better grift than the orange juice thing
Glad you could make it Propagandhim
(07-06-2023, 07:04 PM)Hap Shaughnessy wrote: https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-got-to-pay-back-a-debt-from-a-collection-agency-that-ive-been-putting-off.738138/#post-108435372
Quote: User banned (permanent): bad faith trolling and misrepresenting the other poster in an antagonistic way
Weeats wrote:Lobster Roll wrote:What? No no no no no, OP, do not listen to this. The reason you have a major derogatory mark is because you did not pay your debt and it went long enough to be reported on your credit report as a missed month. It will stay on your report for 7 years. Every month this happens, the worse it is for you. It will directly affect your credit score and your ability to secure credit going forward which means you'll get shittier rates. Companies send your debts to collections because it gives them an opportunity to sell your loan to get it off their books and the company that buys your loan will be super predatory about it because it's their singular focus. lol
"OP, please just play by the corrupt, byzantine and patently unfair rules created by our financial masters! You'll be awarded slightly better rates on the further, crushing debts that life will inevitably throw your way! And, please, OP, consider the poor debt collection agencies! They're only doing their necessary and important jobs!"
Members treat other members like that all the time and don't get so much as a warning.
He must be munching on a certain moderator's velociraptor-painted balls a lot to earn that priority contributor status.
In another episode of “what site does this cunt think he’s running?”:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/tmz-britney-spears-slapped-in-face-by-nba-star-victor-wembanyamas-security-detail.739209/page-3#post-108588708
B-Dubs, post: 108588708, member: 143 wrote:This is literally why I hate social media drama so much. It exists for people to stand up on soapboxes and pretend they're doing something real and good when all they're doing is being jerks and assholes. I literally hate how stuff like this, that's really nothing more than an aside on the evening news, turns into this huge thing where people need to grandstand and earn clout. The gamification of our discourse by modern social media has done so much damage to the way we act and speak to each other it isn't even funny.
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