Not even seemingly. They were literally workshopping a PR strategy to manage the fallout of the folder leak in r/VaushV directly after it happened. I’ll try and find the thread.

Here’s one example. I’m sure there were plenty of other places where these discussions were taking place as well.

Yes, mostly

Leonard Tolstoy

If there’s one way to make my eye twitch…

This is typical anti-Tesla propaganda from another short seller.

Where are all the articles writing about the bits that don’t fly off while a Cybertruck is barreling down the highway?
Where are all the people talking about the parts that do work on the Cybertruck?
Where is the running count of all the days where there hasn’t been a Cybertruck recall?

Discusting!!

Let’s see Paul Allen’s legacy

But on a serious note, this sucks to hear. It’s a real shame that he didn’t create some sort of charitable trust to ensure that this museum continued operating into the future. Feels like a big loss to the world that it’s being sold off like this.

Assange was being held to American laws without being “protected” by the American constitution because the American repressive state apparatuses are not bound to uphold the highest laws of their own country.

There is no squaring that circle. It’s just pure, uncut hegemony.

The only good reasons for not killing Hitler are:

1. Because someone less drugged up and more competent would have taken his place at the head of the Reich

2. After the destruction of the Nazi war machine, imprisoning him so that he can be subjected to an endless struggle session so that victims of his crimes could achieve some degree of closure by yelling at him and/or spitting on him

I’m not entirely convinced that the second option would be worth it but if that’s what was decided by the community, I wouldn’t waste my time debating whether or not it’s a good reason to keep him alive.

Go ahead, Gunther. Arm the Chechens. Kadyrov will appreciate the support.

I’m more interested in knowing the percentage of people who were certain that they do have shells.

Desktops are always going to be better bang for buck.

They are far easier to repair or replace parts with if something craps out, and you’ll get more value for money and future-proofing with a PC. If you have the desk space, I’d recommend opting for a desktop gaming PC hands down.

With that and a stable network connection you’ll be able to stream to a laptop that is lower specced. Or you can stream high-end games to a handheld unit like a Steam Deck.

Unless you’re moving house a lot or you don’t have permanent desk space, imo the best option is to invest in a desktop PC and then get a lightweight laptop, maybe a Chromebook or similar that offers you basic functionality with good battery life (maybe running Linux if you are so inclined) either one that has specs to handle Steam Link, if you want the flexibility that gaming using a laptop offers, or whatever covers your basic portable computing needs. Then get a Steam Deck or ROG Ally or similar if you really want go all-in on portable gaming (especially if you wait a while for the Steam Deck 2 release which should cause the price of the original to drop.)

Overall that would be a lot of money to drop on IT gear but you don’t have to do it all at once and for the price of a good gaming laptop you could get a decent gaming PC and a cheaper laptop that will be better all-round.

Keep an eye on Ozbargain because refurbished laptops come up pretty frequently.

National Insecurity Agency

outright CP by Labor Day

Last year’s news, well ahead of schedule.

https://youtu.be/bMBsf3njjW4?t=3s

No doubt there will be a heated debate that takes place on the day after the revolution over who gets to assure the pigs that the blunted guillotine they are about to be put into is the less lethal option.

Oh there you go, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the additional information, that clarifies a lot of things.

I never followed them closely enough to really get a decent measure of what was going on with this shift. I can just remember coming across a clip of them talking about Maupin and being astonished since it was a pretty dramatic pivot and I didn’t hear about what happened to them from anywhere, I just stumbled across the whole thing and tried to piece it together.

That definitely sounds like their wife though. I remember her being pretty awkward and uninterested in the spotlight, and since an expose about what really happened never came out from her I figured she was done with it and ready to move on.

As for the catfishing thing, I’d be inclined to believe your take. I wasn’t there when it went down, it’s all a bit clouded by history and competing claims, and it just didn’t interest me enough to investigate it for myself so I didn’t want to stake a claim in any particular narrative by representing it as fact. It’s one of those things where I didn’t feel comfortable editorialising too much since it’s not worth gambling credibility on.

I’m not sure if I’d be suitable for this job for the following reason:

Lmao that also works

I find this tweet really funny.

I’m not sure if nobody challenged Burgis because they didn’t want to spend the next hour or more in a heated debate on interpretations of Derrida because everyone was still too traumatised from their previous experiences where this happened, if Burgis managed to stumble onto a decent interpretation of Derrida but he wasn’t aware enough to realise this fact, or if he talked absolute nonsense but due to him being a minor celebrity or the fact that it was a high level class everyone around him decided to save face and not call him on his bullshit so instead the people in the room stared at their shoes and shifted uncomfortably in their seats before someone finally broke the awkward silence with an “Oookay, moving on…”

Every scenario I can come up with is its own sort of situational humour. I suppose it’s a neat little homage to Derrida that there’s a lot of room for interpretation in the situation he described, although I’m not sure if he’d be able to spot that.

They might have been an insufferable lib back then and they might be an even-more insufferable lib now but we’ll always have memories 🥰

If that doesn’t sum up their career in the spotlight, I’m not sure what would.