Amazing that #MeToo is Time POY with Trump sitting in office.

elbows too pointy

Nh

from way downtown!

If you're curious how voter suppression is going to look like just look how it was done in the recient past
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...essing-votes/#

does anyone else feel weird about Taylor Swift being included in that Time cover with to people like McGowan who risked their entire careers and lives and had psyops performed against them by Mossad agents and **** to speak truth to power?

Obviously it's awful and gross to be assaulted in any way by anyone, and it was cool that she owned the guy so hard in court, but it's just...not the same as these other women at all?

the fact they've included her and not Gretchen Carlson looks really bad imo

I'm ok with trusting them.

I love how the absolute worst penalty these guys ever face, after a prolonged court battle, is "hey, stop doing that". Sure is a huge deterrent!

Disagree completely.

She subjected herself to courtroom interrogation/depositions, did not seek any monetary damages, and then donated a huge amount to anti-harassment orgs because she really wanted to show how awful all of this is.

What she did took a ton of courage and she did it purely to try and help other women who have faced similar harassment.

And don't forget that was BEFORE all the Weinstein, etc. **** came out.

What champstark said, or

Putin running for 2018-2024 RU prez... ldo

yeah...I mean, you're not wrong. It's hard to articulate without feeling like (being?) an *******, but Weinstein, Ailes, O'Reilly, Lauer, Rose - these guys were media titans with a ton of power and influence to destroy your career in the industry. Not some pos radio DJ. Like, if you're going to include her, why not include someone like Kesha, where the power dynamics with her abuser were actually much more similar?

It just seems cynical by Time to put a superstar on the cover who is only tangentially related to the greater story, while leaving Carlson off and not mentioning her in the story at all, whose actions were objectively a) wayyyy more risky/brave/ballsy and b) wayyyyy more impactful.

Maybe if Carlson hadn't spent a career apologizing for and empowering right-wing dip****s I might feel more sympathy.

Carlson should have absolutely been in the story.

Swift is not tangentially related at all. Your discussion of power dynamics is extremely male-centric and just flat out wrong.

The power relationship of an aspiring actress to Weinstein, a Fox News staffer to Ailes/O'Reilly, a young theatre kid to Spacey, a mid-level female comedian to Louis CK, a congressional staffer to Franken are all extremely similar. Those dudes all got away with that **** for years, sometimes decades, because they were important enough to be effectively beyond repercussions - until now.

Taylor Swift got groped by a creep (in 2013) and immediately told his bosses, got him fired, and then crushed him in court when he tried to sue her for loss of earnings. The women (and men) in the situations above did not have the ability to do this. That's all I mean. I don't in any way mean that because she has money and lawyers that what happened to her is not as bad, or anything like that.

If you mean that all of these situations including Swift's are rooted in a wider culture of misogyny and toxic masculinity that's designed to excuse men for ****ty behaviour and shame women out of speaking, then I agree with that obviously.

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edit: okay I will also concede maybe I'm just biased because I don't like Taylor Swift, and don't think she's admirable in the way that the other women profiled are, and think that presenting yourself as a feminist role model while literally never having said a negative word about the rapist president (or the rapist presidential candidate) for the last two years is not cool.

Time is obviously trying to limit the story primarily to Weinstein. Can't have any discussion of Trump, Moore or Ailes while trillions in tax cuts hang in the balance.

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I am obsessed with AI rn and reading everything I can find about it.

I had Thanksgiving with a friend of a friend as I am in a new state and don't have any family here. Anyways, the guy is extremely wealthy and was interested in my talk re AI and asked me about opportunities for investment. Any thoughts on what I should tell him?

You should probably just launch an ICO for a scam AI-themed coin and rip him off.

Hey, look, Murdock wants his house not to burn down, the fire wants to burn his house down. Can’t we just compromise?

If there is an Internet Jesus, someone will modify that Compromise? meme to have fire on one side and Murdock's house on the other

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Brag: after wondering why the BFI bitcoin thread says I've posted in it, I discovered that 2011 goofyballer apparently mined at least 0.05 BTC (currently ~$650)
Beat: 2017 goofyballer has the hard drives from that machine (and no other desktop hardware capable of using them) sitting in a closet. Is there some series of cables/adapters that will let me hook up a SATA hard drive to, say, my laptop's USB?