💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Kanye retweeted a post from Lucas Gage (Link)
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Airstrip One said:
Sarkeesian being passed over by USAID is both funny and also somewhat suspect given her profile. When even bums ranting on street corners were getting thrown a few thousand dollars to add a leftist slant to their schizophrenic ravings, it seems implausible that she was overlooked. Back channels maybe?
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Money went to the outer party through USAID, she will have some more direct funding mechanism revealed later, I expect.

I want to know who was funding Kimberle Crenshaw and Bell Hooks. They basically started the intersectionality stuff back in the 80s but it was totally on ice until like the 2014 era. I remember running an intersectionality argument on my professors about 10 years before that because I could see how it easily trumped and subsumed all the other leftist arguments if used in a competent way. I was really flummoxed at the time as to why they didn't use their best argument more, but I think now they were just holding it back.

> Dante's Peak,

Around here, it's "Dainty's Peak", buddy.
 
I'm trying to find an alternative to Stripe/Gumroad. Gumroad recently re-added support for PayPal but PayPal was ground zero for my debanking.
 
Pelican Bones said:
While I can appreciate your sentiment here, the drugs and alcohol have not made Ralph the way he is. Ralph was born that way. He will always be that way. Dead sober Ralph would be no less belligerent, selfish, spiteful, low IQ, or needlessly cruel than he is when on drugs.

Stopping drugs and alcohol will fix nothing in Ralph's life. His addictions are the least of his problems.
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That doesn't make him unique among addicts at all, in fact it's a very common archetype. Sobriety is really just his only shot at working on those core issues, and it's kind of a moonshot, all treatment plans of antisocial behavior have low success rates whether it's conversion therapy or rehab, it's just the prospect of getting a generative person out of a person actively degenerating society is very valuable.
Airstrip One said:
> Gives up caffeine, except to promote alertness and wakefulness while driving.
> Drives continuously back and forth across America. More road miles that Optimus Prime with Neal Cassaday behind the wheel.

Sarkeesian being passed over by USAID is both funny and also somewhat suspect given her profile. When even bums ranting on street corners were getting thrown a few thousand dollars to add a leftist slant to their schizophrenic ravings, it seems implausible that she was overlooked. Back channels maybe?

A side-effect of listening to MATI without video is that parts of it are randomly instrumental, or consist of a collage of voices absent strong context. Taking away the images transforms the podcast into the kind highbrow art installation that Fraser and Niles might enjoy.
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Its pretty clear (to me) it was astroturfed and given money through shell NGOs, because even the people who slavishly defended her never donated to her, her engagement and quality were exactly what you'd expect for content just produced for a pretext. The sus/weird part to me is $6. How do you even cut a government check that low?
 
I've got a TV tuner and an antenna, so I can record local broadcast TV. I can get a few channels from DC, but mostly just Baltimore stuff.

I wish I could get Philly stuff because I hear Philly local TV is fucking hilarious, but gay ass Wilmington, Delaware (Delaware being the worst, most useless state) is in the way.

Anyway, I recorded this late night tv commercial last night. It's Chris Hansen (yes, that Chris Hansen) hawking a buyer's guide on boner pills.

 
I've had these kinds of issues before. People who have never though about it before think all these business listings are put up directly by the business and not just random companies that scrape the internet.
 
Josh, I remember you saying there is no such thing as tainted music.
How far does that extend? Does this excuse lyrics?

Marvin said:
It's Chris Hansen (yes, that Chris Hansen) hawking a buyer's guide on boner pills.
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Why is everyone getting old
 
Jotch said:
Josh, I remember you saying there is no such thing as tainted music.
How far does that extend? Does this excuse lyrics?
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good music remains good basically always. even songs like Tainted Love, which has a music video where the singer is trying to solicit a child.
 
waffle said:
I've had these kinds of issues before. People who have never though about it before think all these business listings are put up directly by the business and not just random companies that scrape the internet.
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Where I live opening hours for smaller businesses are mostly a suggestion. Even Walgreens and the DMV sort of randomly close at times due to 'staffing'.
 
waffle said:
I've had these kinds of issues before. People who have never though about it before think all these business listings are put up directly by the business and not just random companies that scrape the internet.
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They are scraped in absence of the business being smart and updating the place where like 60-90% of new customers will get their directions to their business, or a guide updating it.
But still how would the rating on a location where they don't even care enough to update the times for potential new customers to know, be objectionable?
 
Marvin said:
I've got a TV tuner and an antenna, so I can record local broadcast TV. I can get a few channels from DC, but mostly just Baltimore stuff.

I wish I could get Philly stuff because I hear Philly local TV is fucking hilarious, but gay ass Wilmington, Delaware (Delaware being the worst, most useless state) is in the way.

Anyway, I recorded this late night tv commercial last night. It's Chris Hansen (yes, that Chris Hansen) hawking a buyer's guide on boner pills.

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It's not just there, its everywhere on broadcast TV. It's just boner pills, pills to make you poop better, pills for your depression. Medicare plans, 1800 Got Gold.. Term Life insurance...etc etc
They have completely accepted that no one but old boomers watch broadcast TV now.
 
KateHikes14 said:
They are scraped in absence of the business being smart and updating the place where like 60-90% of new customers will get their directions to their business, or a guide updating it.
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It's not always negligence. In my experience it can be bizarrely difficult for a business to keep the information on their Google Maps entry accurate if whatever Google algorithm insists on fucking it up.
 
sarna said:
It's not always negligence. In my experience it can be bizarrely difficult for a business to keep the information on their Google Maps entry accurate if whatever Google algorithm insists on fucking it up.
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I've only ever seen it be weird like that for road closures, but I think that has more to do with someone who has pull trying to avoid traffic being routed through their street. I've updated hours in the past and my experience has been it's pretty easy and quick, my occam's razor would be closing staff may be less honest than the owner would like to think, and frustrated would be customers are changing it/flagging it. Which again sucks but is part of running a business and not really the platform's problem.
 
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