https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Though it this case it seems like the situation in the summary is the exact opposite of the story. The headline is a bit misleading.

Rob

Dogs with reduced thyroid function can get atherosclerosis too, so the article (which I did not read) is misleading.

I didn't read the article either, but dogs also don't have CMAH, so it's at worst only misleading in a "not detailed enough" sense.

Rob

He did that because the shitheads that follow people like Cult of Dusty were sending PewDiePie's follows death threats, so PewDiePie replaced his list with a single link to K-Pop band BTS as a half joke, half attempt to sic millions of teenage fangirls onto said shitheads.

Before this, PewDiePie also followed plenty of people who are not right wing, including Laci Green, Boogie2988, James Charles, and the aforementioned BTS. It's almost like he was using Twitter to follow interesting people regardless of whether or not he agreed with them, just like everyone else.

Rob

And The Last Jedi had the seventh-biggest opening weekend of all time (and third-biggest domestically, while CM barely made the top 20).

Incidentally, Avatar is still the highest-grossing movie of all time by a long way, yet it ended up almost completely disappearing from the public consciousness within a year after release.

Rob

This is an MCU movie with no competition marketed to pander to woke people so extensively that it was even released on International Women's Day. No one with a brain thought it was going to have a bad opening weekend. You won't get a good idea of how the movie has been received until next weekend. It's like The Last Jedi--that movie had a massive opening only to drop 67.5% in the second week, ending up making 33% less than The Force Awakens and having knock-on effects on the rest of the franchise. Captain Marvel probably won't turn into that sort of disaster for various reasons (primarily that it's not considered a core movie), but there's no reason to be celebrating some sort of political or moral victory just yet.

BTW, despite Rotten Tomatoes going to every effort to purge the reviews of bad actors, the audience score for Captain Marvel is still only 57%.

Rob

I don't think you can archive Twitter ban messages, unfortunately.

Rob

It already has. There's documented proof of it.

Rob

Actually, the overwhelming majority of people above the age of 12 do think that Logan Paul is a shithead, particularly in regards to the Suicide Forest video. Doesn't mean that the bout with KSI shouldn't have been referenced in the Rewind, but most people are fine with him not being actively included. You're right about PewDiePie, though.

Rob

The link says in the very first line that you can't be fired simply due to having differing political views from your employer. In other words, if you wouldn't fire a liberal for it, you can't fire a conservative for it either. Which goes against the comment I was replying to. Incidentally, nowhere in the post is it said that political activity is only protected outside of work hours, just that political activity can't directly interfere with business. Since James Damore's memo was in direct response to a request for feedback concerning a topic that's already political, a memo that wasn't even meant to be spread outside of a forum that was explicitly intended to be a safe space for discussion, it would be pretty hard to argue that in his case.

Rob

Private businesses have the right to be biased assholes, regardless of whether that bias is liberal or conservative.

Not in California.

Rob

[I]t's nearly impossible to describe to a modern computer user what that means

Only if that user has somehow never heard of MMORPGs. A MUD is just a text-based non-massive version of that. LambdaMOO itself was more like Second Life or VRChat than a traditional MMO, but the analogy still stands.

Rob

https://twitter.com/malekawt/s...

These games, or at least most of them, were already banned by Saudi Arabia for various reasons just like other countries like Australia ban games. This specific news event had nothing to do with it. Just the media getting shit wrong again as usual.

Rob

http://marshallbrain.com/manna...

Rob

The big problem with this is that if you metamod regularly, the algorithm no longer gives you moderation points. I know this from personal experience.

Rob

Six percent is just standard volatility for Bitcoin. This is nothing compared to the 20+% drop it had over the course of a few hours a couple of weeks ago. Not to mention that it's already back up to $14k again. This is just someone trying to smear Bitcoin with facts that everyone has already known about it for years, and I say that as someone who recognized Bitcoin as a massive Ponzi scheme a long time ago.

Rob