Open Side Menu Go to the Top
Register
In other news In other news

11-30-2021 , 09:18 PM
Anyone know what that is?



https://store.segway.com/segway-loom...robot-sidekick



F technology

Last edited by washoe; 11-30-2021 at 09:45 PM.
In other news Quote
11-30-2021 , 10:56 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by formula72
We are literally losing the cool small businesses like unique restaurants and parlors, family owned comic/book shops, batting cages, recreational fun places like miniture golf and other fun **** as a result of both automation and the fact that those businesses can't pay as much.

You'll end up spending all your extra free time fat and depressed while jerking off and waiting for your amazon brand turkey club sandwich from a doordash robot. Because we are already half way there as a result.
That doesn't sound so bad really.
In other news Quote
12-02-2021 , 11:02 AM
Shameful how easily gov't is manipulated to be the corporate enforcement arm on what seems to me to be minor cost of doign business that the corporations should seek civil remedy on along with a minor charge of theft.

Quote:
An Animal Rights Activist Saved a Sick Baby Goat From a Farm — and Faces Years in Prison
Wayne Hsiung faces felony charges — an escalation in the government’s war against those who would put the value of life ahead of property.

IN RECENT YEARS, especially since the Black liberation uprisings of 2020, the government has devoted considerable resources and time to the persecution of anti-racist, antifascist activists. The state has disproportionately targeted the far left while letting the far right off easy. All the while, with scant media attention, the decadeslong demonization and criminalization of animal rights activism has continued unabated — and even seen a perturbing escalation.

On Monday, the trial of attorney and animal liberation activist Wayne Hsiung begins in rural North Carolina. He faces felony charges of burglary and larceny, carrying potentially over three years in prison. All this for the act of removing a sick baby goat from a goat meat farm.

The action was filmed and broadcast on social media as an example of what the animal rights movement calls “open rescue” — a tactic by which activists publicly rescue animals from factory farms and bring them to animal shelters...

...The so-called Green Scare of the 1990s and 2000s, in which the government’s conjured notion of “eco-terrorism” led to the yearslong imprisonment of nonviolent animal rights activists, has evidently not ended.

Hsiung and other open rescuers have faced charges in the past... It is part of a rash of other recent felony cases against open rescuers around the nation heading into court.

“The seriousness of these charges, and the amount of state resources going towards these cases, shows how this issue has clearly become a priority, and at a time when the animal farming industry is facing a reckoning in public opinion,” ...

In other news Quote
12-02-2021 , 12:24 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
Shameful how easily gov't is manipulated to be the corporate enforcement arm on what seems to me to be minor cost of doign business that the corporations should seek civil remedy on along with a minor charge of theft.
Thanks for sharing that.

While he apparently did break the law, going to prison over this offense is absurd, in my opinion.
In other news Quote
12-02-2021 , 01:35 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
Shameful how easily gov't is manipulated to be the corporate enforcement arm on what seems to me to be minor cost of doign business that the corporations should seek civil remedy on along with a minor charge of theft.

In many states it is now illegal to film factory farms abuse of animals period.

Lets face it the Lobbyists run the country in some aspect
In other news Quote
12-03-2021 , 11:28 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by lagtight
Thanks for sharing that.

While he apparently did break the law, going to prison over this offense is absurd, in my opinion.
Quote:
Originally Posted by lozen
In many states it is now illegal to film factory farms abuse of animals period.

Lets face it the Lobbyists run the country in some aspect
Corporate Lobbyist : My clients Companies do not like bad press. Oh and here is a big cheque for your next campaign.

COngress Person : Right. On it. I see a felony charge and long jail terms in their future. This should be treated worse than rape and violent crimes imo!
In other news Quote
12-03-2021 , 01:53 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
Corporate Lobbyist : My clients Companies do not like bad press. Oh and here is a big cheque for your next campaign.

COngress Person : Right. On it. I see a felony charge and long jail terms in their future. This should be treated worse than rape and violent crimes imo!
Look at Krystem Sinema she was for reduced drug prices and against Trumps tax cuts. She sees the writing on the wall not get reelected take big money from lobbyists and changes her stance on both
In other news Quote
12-03-2021 , 03:23 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by lozen
Look at Krystem Sinema she was for reduced drug prices and against Trumps tax cuts. She sees the writing on the wall not get reelected take big money from lobbyists and changes her stance on both
Sinema is the perfect example of all that is wrong in Politics.

She got elected by espousing far left progressive positions to attract a like minded base and once in power she completely turned to gobbling up as much corporate money as possible.

She is the Dem version of Marjorie Taylor Greene where the only thing that matters to her now is that which raisies her the most money. She literarly made a video with Romney mocking the Dem Party, Biden and her voters where she acted out a scene where she was the 'enemy saboteur from within her party, purposely and deliberately sabotaging her own party goals to benefit the other party'. That is the exact scene she laughed as she role played it out.


But beyond that she exposes how in bed the MSM media is for their Corporate owners and advertisers and donors.

As they did with Manchin, Sinema is now on the tour where the MSM props her up as some reasoned moderate who just has different considerations and who spends hours considering these deep questions about spenidng, deficits, etc.

It such obvious BS that any one pretending it is earnest is just gaslighting or naive.

This is exactly why Trump became a thing. Why 'fake news' resonated. Why mistrust of every poliitician and the Deep State resonated. As people long ago realized the disengenousness of politicians and the MSM who cover them.
In other news Quote
12-03-2021 , 04:29 PM
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/re...guard-rcna7520

Quote:
DeSantis wants Florida to establish its own military force.

It doesn’t require much of an imagination to think of all the ways this tyrannical,
anti-science governor might like to use a weaponized force that’s accountable exclusively to him
In other news Quote
12-03-2021 , 07:13 PM
China moon rover to investigate cube-shaped 'mystery house' object
There's something interesting on the far side of the moon.
Dec. 3, 2021


That distant, somewhat cube-shaped object is the "mystery house" China's Yutu-2 rover is planning to take a closer look at.



...The rover team is planning to drive over and get a closer look at the object.

As with Yutu-2's intriguing discovery of a "gel-like" substance inside a crater in 2019, don't get too excited for aliens. That substance turned out to be glassy-looking rock. And as far as I know, Stanley Kubrick never planted a monolith on the moon, and those metal sculptures that were once all the rage on Earth haven't made the trek across space. ...
In other news Quote
12-04-2021 , 11:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by steamraise
That's a horribly written article. Is Ja'han Jones a second grader?
In other news Quote
12-05-2021 , 04:51 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by campfirewest
That's a horribly written article. Is Ja'han Jones a second grader?
Your comment was mean and uncalled for. Please stop insulting second-graders like that. Thanking you in advance.
In other news Quote
12-05-2021 , 12:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by campfirewest
That's a horribly written article. Is Ja'han Jones a second grader?
I think the sentiment is legit.

It is pretty clear now that the Right is extremely focused on hyping up their base in the belief they are now fighting a second civil war that has just not been engeged yet but it is coming. Many in their base are salivating for it and actively want it to undue the prior abuses they believe happened in the past, via losing the first civil war.

DeSantis has been very active in stoking this and in trying to use law to not only make those extremes feel more empowered but also more legally protected.

I think you could very easily see DeSantis use this new force against future BLM protesters, even when peaceful, to intimidate and engage them if, for instance, you see a bunch of DeSantis bubba's in pick up trucks plowing over otherwise peaceful protesters and this new State Guard rushing in to the zone to protect them. Not the activists just run over, but the Bubba's who just ran them over.
In other news Quote
12-05-2021 , 01:37 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
I think the sentiment is legit.

It is pretty clear now that the Right is extremely focused on hyping up their base in the belief they are now fighting a second civil war that has just not been engeged yet but it is coming. Many in their base are salivating for it and actively want it to undue the prior abuses they believe happened in the past, via losing the first civil war.

DeSantis has been very active in stoking this and in trying to use law to not only make those extremes feel more empowered but also more legally protected.

I think you could very easily see DeSantis use this new force against future BLM protesters, even when peaceful, to intimidate and engage them if, for instance, you see a bunch of DeSantis bubba's in pick up trucks plowing over otherwise peaceful protesters and this new State Guard rushing in to the zone to protect them. Not the activists just run over, but the Bubba's who just ran them over.
It's an opinion piece but presented as news, and it doesn't even attempt to make any persuasive arguments. It just says wow, imagine all of the terrible stuff this person I don't like might try to do. That crap belongs on forums not on what are supposed to be legit news sites.
In other news Quote
12-05-2021 , 02:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
I think the sentiment is legit.

It is pretty clear now that the Right is extremely focused on hyping up their base in the belief they are now fighting a second civil war that has just not been engeged yet but it is coming. Many in their base are salivating for it and actively want it to undue the prior abuses they believe happened in the past, via losing the first civil war.

DeSantis has been very active in stoking this and in trying to use law to not only make those extremes feel more empowered but also more legally protected.

I think you could very easily see DeSantis use this new force against future BLM protesters, even when peaceful, to intimidate and engage them if, for instance, you see a bunch of DeSantis bubba's in pick up trucks plowing over otherwise peaceful protesters and this new State Guard rushing in to the zone to protect them. Not the activists just run over, but the Bubba's who just ran them over.
Is this one of the peaceful protests your referring to as is the reporter. I think the GOP would be better off with Desantis than Trump

In other news Quote
12-05-2021 , 02:26 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by campfirewest
It's an opinion piece but presented as news, and it doesn't even attempt to make any persuasive arguments. It just says wow, imagine all of the terrible stuff this person I don't like might try to do. That crap belongs on forums not on what are supposed to be legit news sites.
It’s an opinion piece on a blog.
In other news Quote
12-06-2021 , 11:02 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by lozen
Is this one of the peaceful protests your referring to as is the reporter. I think the GOP would be better off with Desantis than Trump
...
That is such a dumb question, I cannot even imagine why you would ask it, tbh?

I have never said, nor suggested that no lawlessness and riots do not happen around the fringe of many mass movements as others use the big movement and outrage to push their own agenda (anarchists, etc).

This idea that if there is any instance of lawlessness that can be screen shot that means the entire protest was not peaceful is just silly. Is that the point you are trying to make?
In other news Quote
12-06-2021 , 02:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
That is such a dumb question, I cannot even imagine why you would ask it, tbh?

I have never said, nor suggested that no lawlessness and riots do not happen around the fringe of many mass movements as others use the big movement and outrage to push their own agenda (anarchists, etc).

This idea that if there is any instance of lawlessness that can be screen shot that means the entire protest was not peaceful is just silly. Is that the point you are trying to make?
Instance of lawlessness. They are looting and burning down a community and he has the nerve to imply its mainly peaceful

Lets see anyone try that in Florida or Texas
In other news Quote
12-06-2021 , 05:49 PM
Quote:
Two Metropolitan police officers who “dehumanised” two black murder victims “for their own amusement” by taking and sharing photos from the scene where they lay murdered have each been jailed for two years and nine months.

Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33, were ordered to guard the scene in a London park where two sisters, Nicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were found stabbed to death in June 2020.

The Old Bailey in London heard that instead they took photos, some showing the bodies, and shared them in two WhatsApp groups, calling the victims “dead birds”. One – a group “called the A team” – contained 41 police officers and the other contained friends of Jaffer and was entitled “Covid ****s”.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...an-bibaa-henry
In other news Quote
12-06-2021 , 06:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by lozen
Instance of lawlessness. They are looting and burning down a community and he has the nerve to imply its mainly peaceful

Lets see anyone try that in Florida or Texas
Why? What would happen?

Do you think there has never been property destroyed at protests in Florida or Texas?

When a grand jury fails to indict, for example, Eric Garners killer, that is the jury members being lawless. Unfortunately something like that has to be met with lawlessness because there is no viable alternative. Living in a society where it is permissible for a cop to choke someone to death over nothing is not something people should accept, regardless of the race of the victim. When you cite lawlessness for criticism start at the failure points in the justice system.
In other news Quote
12-06-2021 , 07:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by lozen
Instance of lawlessness. They are looting and burning down a community and he has the nerve to imply its mainly peaceful

Lets see anyone try that in Florida or Texas
It has nothing to do with any thing I said.

That is the point.
In other news Quote
12-06-2021 , 07:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
It is pretty clear now that the Right is extremely focused on hyping up their base in the belief they are now fighting a second civil war that has just not been engeged yet but it is coming. Many in their base are salivating for it and actively want it to undue the prior abuses they believe happened in the past, via losing the first civil war.
They think they want it but every time one of them is arrested they start bawling like babies and begging for forgiveness. These are the biggest cowards on the planet, which why they cling to guns for safety.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuepee
I think you could very easily see DeSantis use this new force against future BLM protesters, even when peaceful, to intimidate and engage them if, for instance, you see a bunch of DeSantis bubba's in pick up trucks plowing over otherwise peaceful protesters and this new State Guard rushing in to the zone to protect them. Not the activists just run over, but the Bubba's who just ran them over.
It doesn't seem to me like a functional thing. It seems more like a calculated move to make national headlines and dog whistling to the hardcore racists and their fondness for the brown shirts of Weimar. Desantis is trying to be the smart Trump but I think he isn't smart enough to know you can't fake the confidence dumb people like Trump have and how necessary that is to win over the Trumpers. Like it will come out that Desantis went to the ballet once and his support will drop by a third.
In other news Quote
12-07-2021 , 11:00 AM
In other news Quote
12-07-2021 , 11:17 AM
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/doj-su...roken-n1285491

Quote:
minority communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex were, in the Justice Department’s words,
“surgically excised” by being attached to different districts with Anglo majorities
— some stretching over a hundred miles from Dallas-Fort Worth.
And the redrawn lines in the state House are even more, shall we say, aggressive.
Quote:
So long as these maps remain in effect, they will provide only further evidence of the
fragility of our democracy — and how increasingly unrepresentative our “representatives” are
In other news Quote
12-07-2021 , 12:51 PM
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/re...ation-rcna7808

Quote:
Till was abducted, tortured and killed in Tallahatchie County,
Mississippi, by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, two white half-brothers.
They were acquitted of murder by an all-white jury.
Days later, the two men confessed to the killing in a paid interview.
In other news Quote

      
m