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crashdaddy 2 points ago +2 / -0

You tell people a thousand times not to believe anything the news tells them, and a thousand times they go, "Oh, I know!"

Then the first salacious headline comes along...and they're all in.

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crashdaddy 3 points ago +3 / -0

RIP Reddit

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crashdaddy 6 points ago +6 / -0

I looked this up myself--not entirely to see if this guy really didn't have a handle on "it is" versus "its", but I'm not going to say that didn't play a part.

From the replies, it just looks like this is one of those things that's going to stay a "scam", "conspiracy theory" or "plain nonsense" until it is relevance is no longer applicable, and then it will be revealed as it is veracity having been common knowledge the whole time.

You can call it the Hunter's Laptop Effect or the Birth Certificate Paradox..

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As always, if you're allergic to twitter, just change "twitter.com" in the URL to "nitter,net" and you can view the original tweet and it is replies without needing a twitter account:

Before: https://twitter.com/rreactor/status/1523778291739795457

After: https://nitter.net/rreactor/status/1523778291739795457

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crashdaddy 3 points ago +3 / -0

I've always laughed internally at the short-sightedness of that silly saying. Life's been around way longer than either of those things, and will continue to be so long after they're both gone.

Or like those people who keep going on about "You only live once." Well, that's entirely up to you sir or ma'am, but some of us like it here, and have zero problem ceding that this Life is the Lord's.

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crashdaddy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yike. Did you make this?

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 5 points ago +5 / -0

From the article:

The study involved almost 1,200 patients, aged 57 on average, who were infected with the bug in the early phase of the pandemic.

They had all been treated in Wuhan, China, then assessed six months, 12 months and two years after discharge.

They (conveniently) neglect to mention if or when those sample patients were ever "vaccinated" or how that very vaccination could be affecting them.

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crashdaddy 2 points ago +2 / -0

Worse, that quote is from the FCC. Google's just serving that up as the result of the search query.

Source: did what you said to do. Other responses include "30 meters" and "3 meters" or even "up to several miles" from different sources in the results.

Edit: I guess you're "technically" right (the best kind!) because Google is the one spreading around all those wildly different numbers in the first place.

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 5 points ago +5 / -0

May be off-topic, but I got in on that bubble, just before it popped. I noticed that every time there was an IPO, it seemed like the next day the price had gone up significantly.

I was homeless and working at a convenience store in Denton, but I saved up $700 and bought 100 shares of Books-A-Million stock (BAMM) from the Dow Jones guy across the street when they announced the BAMM website IPO.

The next day it was $22 a share and I sold the stock and got drunk for a month.

I didn't mess with it much after that, except a few stem cell stocks, but now it seems like any idiot with a PC can start an account and trade their own stocks.

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crashdaddy 3 points ago +3 / -0

I've been crack drunk, but the drunk part vastly overwhelms the effects of the crack, so it's just a waste of money.

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crashdaddy 3 points ago +3 / -0

The farthest I got is finding that there's a redditor spamming these pictures, and from their profile I get the suggestion that they're designing them as well.

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crashdaddy 6 points ago +6 / -0

Ukraine pawn-shop owners: rubs hands together lasciviously

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's me. I don't have a clue where all these bananas and strawbs keep coming from and why they're only a few cents. No, I'm not asking anybody to explain it.

Or how it's cheaper to send a bunch of parts all the way around the world to have a label --or some other little component--slapped on them, then send them back here than it is to do that here. No, I'm not asking anybody to explain it.

I know where the wind comes from, and what the birds talk about when they think nobody's listening; and I can speak a few words of Cat and a few more of Dog, so I've got that going for me. Which is nice. No, I'm not going to explain it.

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crashdaddy 5 points ago +5 / -0

Same old thing, "blah blah blah..gas prices aren't controlled by the president...blah blah"

Translation: "Gas prices aren't controlled by the president if we like the president"

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 2 points ago +2 / -0

That JAM Echelon thing is pretty cool, but tbf, also in the movie I'm imagining, the white-hat hacker just mashes a few keys and says, "I'm in" before enhancing a bunch of JPGs to microscopic resolutions.

Looking at you, Hollywood.

Fun Fact: I know exactly what I was doing on that day, because it's my birthday so I was drunk.

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 4 points ago +4 / -0

Maybe not "everyone", but definitely me. Here's two reasons off the top of my head:

-- A) verify its existence. There are fake tweet generators online all over the place.

-- 2) Like it or not, twitter has a slightly larger userbase than this board, so oftentimes you can find insights in those that the people here might not have had yet.

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 3 points ago +3 / -0

For those who aren't paranoid of twitter.

For those wo are:

If you don't have a twitter account, you can still view the tweet (and replies!) without needing a twitter login or even javascript. Just change "twitter.com" to "nitter.net" in the URL. Like this: https://nitter.net/disclosetv/status/1524022831188688905

Edit:

I think I like this guy's idea the best. It would probably make a good "meltdown" scene in a movie.

I would start every message with a list of words that would trigger their systems. And probably start thousands of chats with thousands of peers. Every minute.

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crashdaddy 4 points ago +5 / -1

I didn't know either, so I checked. It turns out not only did Costco stop handling mortgages, Walmart just recently started handling mortgages!

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crashdaddy 2 points ago +3 / -1

Thanks for the link. That's exactly what I was looking for!

Edit: Here's the link to the actual decree. It's in French, so try to read it with a haughty attitude.

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From the decree (line-breaks, bold added for readability):

Subject: implementation of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2019/1157 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and residence documents issued to citizens of the Union and to their family members exercising their right to free movement.

Entry into force: the decree enters into force the day after its publication subject to the provisions of its article 22.

Notice: the decree provides for the integration, within the national identity card, of an electronic component containing biometric elements, a digitized image of its holder as well as two fingerprints, in order to comply with the requirements of the European Union.

It also imposes the compulsory collection of fingerprints, except for minors under the age of twelve, and reduces the period of validity of national identity cards to ten years in accordance with the aforementioned requirements.

It also provides for the presence of a visible electronic seal on the title containing data signed by the holder.

In addition, the decree makes changes to the procedure for issuing identity cards, concerning persons detained or physically unable to move, by allowing the taking of photographs by prefecture or town hall officials who move with a mobile collection device to record requests for identity cards.

In addition, it brings data processing into compliance with EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016. References: the decree and the decrees they modify, in their wording resulting from this modification , can be viewed on the Légifrance website (https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr).

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crashdaddy 2 points ago +3 / -1

The link in her tweet is to a deleted tweet, but the guy who tweeted it is all over the place. Does anybody have any real information?

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Remember, if you don't have a twitter account, just change "twitter.com" to "nitter.net" in the URL.

Like this: https://nitter.net/backtolife_2022/with_replies

by pkvi
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crashdaddy 3 points ago +3 / -0

A lot of people tell you to envision the audience naked, but if you envision yourself naked, you can have a lot more fun with it.

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crashdaddy 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's not. I had to follow this guy around like four different subs to post this, but it turns out there were five. Maybe the subtle sarcasm confused him. And, no I'm not some news-psychic, it's just that most of us already figured this out yesterday.

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They fell for it, too, huh? At least you didn't. Thanks for letting us all know that people are still buying into this chicanery.

It's a good reminder for us to continue to be critical of "news" even if it seems to support our worldview. You da real MVP.

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