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by Formless
2024-03-14 03:46pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
Replies: 29
Views: 1193

Re: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform

I'll bet you that if this passes, there are a whole bunch of politicians who will lose their careers the instant Gen Z is old enough to vote.
by Formless
2024-01-17 06:04pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen
Replies: 68
Views: 4673

Re: UK and US forces launch 'targeted strikes' against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen

By that reasoning, the entire GOP is responsible for Trumps actions in regard to the Jan 6 resurrection attempt, and his actions in office, and should he be convicted on any of it, they should all be arrested as well. Please, explain to the crowd how you think criminal liability, a legal concept, e...
by Formless
2023-12-09 04:48am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Counterpoint: why then should it exist if it concedes all real power to the de-facto empires that just so happened to create it in the first place? Remember that at the time it was created, the UK literally still held colonies abroad! Since 90% of all actually important issues that the UN involves i...
by Formless
2023-12-09 03:27am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

And this is what is structurally wrong with the UN. First, the only reason that there are any permanent members of the security council at all is because they are the powers that fought and won WWII. But what does that have to do with the here and now, and how did no one realize that was going to bi...
by Formless
2023-11-25 02:17pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
Replies: 262
Views: 26738

Re: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation

By the same token, interpreting the law to discount the president on account of a technicality undermines the obvious intention of preventing insurrectionists from entering the government, as the President is universally considered the highest office in said government. The magnitude of that ruling ...
by Formless
2023-11-19 10:50pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Yes, the Israelis built the bunkers, but Hamas has been using *SOME* of the other tunnels and bunkers Israel built, so why not this one? Just spitballing, but: because they get more value out of it as a hospital than as a command center? Because they know Israel well enough to know civilian hospita...
by Formless
2023-11-19 10:36pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Lets not forget, the IDF is targeting other hospitals, and lying pathetically about the evidence they are gathering there as well. At one of them they claimed a document to be a list of terrorist names... and when they posted it to social media, arabic speakers quickly flagged that it was nothing bu...
by Formless
2023-11-16 09:41pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Given that Hamas' attacks happened less than two months ago I'd hardly call that a distraction, or something that occured in the distant past. It is still very much contextual to what's going on, especially given that Hamas is one of the main combatants. Whether or not Hamas is lying about using th...
by Formless
2023-11-16 07:34pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Forgive me for being equally skeptical of anything Hamas has to say, it's not like they would ever resort to killing civilians themselves, right? That's a Tu Quo fallacy. With regards to the hospital, its not relevant whether or not Hamas would commit a similar crime, so bringing it up is just a di...
by Formless
2023-11-16 05:35pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

We weren't talking about anything Hamas said, but okay, keep up the hard work building those straw men. :roll: Off the top of my head I don't even know whether Hamas has said anything about this hospital being bombed. Tribble, what are these Hamas claims you speak of? Because aside from the IDF and...
by Formless
2023-11-16 04:27pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

We weren't talking about anything Hamas said, but okay, keep up the hard work building those straw men. :roll:
by Formless
2023-11-16 01:48pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Hell, I don't even fully trust the BBC, given that the British government has given basically unconditional support to Israel and tried to silence protestors even as they march in the hundreds of thousands in London. If they can't find more than a few dozen guns and a couple grenades, they don't hav...
by Formless
2023-11-14 02:13pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Replies: 457
Views: 32190

Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue

Hey, could you, you know, cite a fucking source for a change, KraytKing? Because its getting annoying that I know basically which media outlets everyone else is reading but not you. For all I know you are reading Israeli media, which I wouldn't trust for a second.
by Formless
2023-09-15 06:18am
Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
Topic: Unity plans to charge per install.
Replies: 42
Views: 7553

Re: Unity plans to charge per install.

They had a clause in their TOS that said that, if you don't like their changes to the TOS, you can avoid them applying to you. Then they tried to wipe out evidence of it existing. I wonder when their legal department learned of this move. Do they employ the same lawyers as Wizards of the Coast? Bec...
by Formless
2023-09-12 12:05am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Intelligence Officials Say US Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
Replies: 32
Views: 4423

Re: Intelligence Officials Say US Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

So the guy claiming the government knows about aliens and was using his credentials as the only support for his claims... turns out to be a crackpot repeating the same old debunked hoaxes. Wow, couldn't have predicted that. :roll:
by Formless
2023-08-03 10:49pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)
Replies: 147
Views: 20201

Re: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)

Crazedwraith wrote: 2023-08-03 09:10pm Did I in fact make that claim? No, I did not.

It's your perogative not to care and if you want to talk about some other aspect of the episode, which you don't seem to have done so far, feel fucking free.
Who said I was talking to you in the first place, jackass?
by Formless
2023-08-03 08:31pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)
Replies: 147
Views: 20201

Re: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)

you seem to care quire a lot given that essay on how we shouldn't care? if we just say fuck it who cares discussion grinds to a halt doesn't it? Look, if your assertion is that old Trek handled continuity better when old Trek fully embraced episodic storytelling and the Magic Reset Button (even bef...
by Formless
2023-08-03 06:24pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)
Replies: 147
Views: 20201

Re: Strange New Worlds (spoilers)

Frankly, who cares? A lot of us have no desire to watch the first two seasons of Discovery, so any "continuity errors" between it and SNW are welcome IMO. Retcons aren't a bad thing, sometimes they make a new work more accessible and digestible. They abandoned the Discovery era uniforms be...
by Formless
2023-07-14 04:29pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
Replies: 764
Views: 115966

Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk

Musk wanted a cage match against Zuckerberg. That's how I found out that Zuckerberg has MMA training and Jiu Jitsu tournament wins. Musk started off desperate to score some win over Zuckerberg and quickly found out that he's got nothing. Zuckerberg can't really fight, though. Icy Mike from the yout...
by Formless
2023-07-04 06:46pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
Replies: 764
Views: 115966

Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk

"Threads" is apparently built upon a lot of the same standards as Mastodon and other Fediverse projects with some (limited) interoperability with Mastadon instances in mind. Knowing that months in advance, many Mastadon admins have already preemptively de-federated and blocked Threads beca...
by Formless
2023-06-28 07:18pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Star Trek: Prodigy (New Series)
Replies: 50
Views: 24801

Re: Star Trek: Prodigy (New Series)

That's also not how Paramount has ever treated Star Trek's canon since Gene died. Everything seen onscreen has been considered in continuity whether the fans liked it or not. And when the fans came up with conspiracy theories that there was a new universe for Discovery, the showrunners flat told the...
by Formless
2023-06-19 07:29pm
Forum: Pure Star Trek
Topic: Alien Captains
Replies: 35
Views: 5247

Re: Alien Captains

Actually, Broomstick, in The Cloud Minders, Spock confirms that all Vulcans experience Pon Farr, not just males. It wasn't until Enterprise that they showed a female (T'Pol) experience it, however. In that case it was triggered by a microbial infection, so we don't know whether the female period is ...
by Formless
2023-06-17 01:40am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Reddit goes dark
Replies: 41
Views: 5914

Re: Reddit goes dark

The CEO is officially tonedeaf. Reddit CEO says the mods leading a punishing blackout are too powerful and he will change the site's rules to weaken them Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the site's mods are too powerful. He said he planned to change the rules so users could vote them out of subbreddits...
by Formless
2023-06-16 12:36am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Abbott joins DeSantis in human trafficking
Replies: 20
Views: 2963

Re: Abbott joins DeSantis in human trafficking

If the Feds know which bus companies are in on it, they can charge under federal statute because it crosses state lines. Why has that not happened yet?
by Formless
2023-06-08 01:33am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Intelligence Officials Say US Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
Replies: 32
Views: 4423

Re: Intelligence Officials Say US Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

Well, yeah. Who else are you gonna go to about UFO news? The writers of the article themselves went to the Washington Post, then got impatient and went to their favorite alternative news rag instead because they aren't fans of fact checking. That they aren't fans of fact checking is something that ...