KnitWit
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- Comment on As a mainer, and a progressive, this is like the ending to "Ol' Yeller." 3 days ago:
Personally, I never got the vibe that he was repentant. Every time something came up, he would do his best to deny it and then downplay it, followed by his swearing that this was the last thing. It absolutely sounded like a cheater getting caught and then trying to keep the relationship going. He never actually put in the work for any of it.
I think a lot of people wanted to believe in him, so much so that they put their blinders on to what were very clear issues. And then sunk cost fallacy set in and people started to really dig in about protecting ‘their guy.’ I said it months ago, but I really do see a similarity to him with Trump, in that people hear what they want to hear but also that as more things come out about him, it actually becomes harder to ditch than easier. People stuck with him after the first thing, then the second thing, and so on until there is just a litany of reasons to bail but it’s ever harder to finally get that breaking point.
Even now, look how many people are still trying to frame this as a hit job by some woman instead of a credible story of sexual assault. Far too many people out there have not responded to this latest accusation as you have. Ken Klippenstein is out there trolling people over this, which side note, that dude is absolutely going to be writing articles for the right in five years.
- Comment on As a mainer, and a progressive, this is like the ending to "Ol' Yeller." 3 days ago:
Well, if people had taken the fifty other red flags seriously, there wouldn’t now be a scramble to find a replacement. Had a Nazi tattoo, covered it up with a nazi adjacent tattoo, guard at abu ghraib, blackwater mercenary, ‘joined the army because I wanted to have an adventure and kill some people,’ rape apologist, ableist, had a kik account, accusations of impropriety, accusations (and admittance) of locking a woman in a closet during an argument, accusations of sexual assault.
A single one of these is enough to bail on this rich failson, and yet we have all of these and more (with I’m sure more to come out) and people are still out here acting like he’s somehow the victim in all of this.
- Comment on Kentucky pastor defends viral video showing mock firing squad, who call themselves Commandos for Christ, enter the chapel to apparently “shoot the devil.” in front of children during bible school 1 week ago:
Holy shit, his response is somehow worse.
- Comment on Humiliation for would-be Pelosi successor Scott Wiener as he’s chased from SF Trans March 1 week ago:
The people who ran him off will attack every ally they have, then bitch about no one having their back.
- Comment on How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet 3 weeks ago:
Markwayne having equity in a kratom business absolutely tracks.
- Comment on How Trump transformed the White House lawn into a fighting arena 3 weeks ago:
Markwayne Mullin earlier today called it the President’s House (as opposed to Peiplems House), which says everything you need to know about what the admin thinks of it.
- Comment on THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if anything they were ahead of schedule this year and playing with house money. Future is bright for the Spurs.
- Comment on Decathlon offering cash refund to stop festival-goers abandoning tents 4 weeks ago:
As someone who used to volunteer to get into fests for free a bunch back in the day, the amount of shit people leave behind is beyond ridiculous. Still bur ing charcoal grills used to drive me nuts on cleanup. Good way to get free shit though.
- Comment on THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 5 weeks ago:
27 years ago knicks v spurs was the start of a dynasty. If Wemby can stay healthy it could be an all new era, dude is gonna be a problem for the league.
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 1 month ago:
With the unit price going way up by selling a 10 pack of slices for the cost of a bottle of ketchup, somebody probably got a promotion for this idea.
- Comment on "Sober" 2 months ago:
This, but unironically.
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 3 months ago:
Hopefully they also have a credit in their bank account.
- Comment on oh no 4 months ago:
As someone with anosmia, I can confirm my farts don’t smell.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 4 months ago:
He already did this during the first term. There wasn’t anything interesting, but it did distract the conspiracy folks.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I mean, the apostle Paul, who wrote like half of the New Testament, was a literal Pharisee. He ‘converted,’ and took over after the fact.
- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 8 months ago:
But we can’t afford _____.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Stop with the slop!
- Comment on Kawhi Leonard reportedly paid $28 million for 'no-show job' with Clippers as way to get around NBA salary cap 10 months ago:
He’s been a no-show for the regular gig for years as well.
- Comment on One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs to ignore guardrails 10 months ago:
I am almost positive all of these articles like this are still just marketing for AI. Even in these comments, there are multiple ‘I used it and (blah blah ai blah). Seems ripped from the Hot Coffee mod style of interest farming.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 10 months ago:
I get what your saying, and if it lead to that then I agree it would be a good thing. But that isn’t what this is or how it is going to move things forward. It’d be like thinking that universities will thrive because Trump is normalizing govt involvement in them over the Harvard threats and expansion beyond.
Linking the altruistic potential of what he is doing to the very obvious extortion is carrying his water in terms of acceptance. It’s the same as what has allowed him to skate in the media for so long instead of calling out what it actually is.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 10 months ago:
Intel is just the easy one for people to get on board woth, as they are struggling and have received grants etc. Lutnicknalready said they want to do the same with Lockheed-Martin, who does jot have the same issues, amd expamding from there. I fully disagree with the notion being put forth that this is comparable to other nations ‘socializing’ their industries. This is Trump taking a cut. He attacked Intel, attacked their ceo and m threatened to have him removed. The ceo then bowed and is apparently giving up 10% of the company and is being called a genius by Trump now. It’s extortion.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 10 months ago:
Deal hasn’t even been finalized yet, and already they announce its gonna cause problems. Everything he touches turns to shit.
- Comment on E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm | The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies. 11 months ago:
Just pure malice.
- Comment on Will Texas Be an AI Powerhouse from its Energy Mega Campus? 1 year ago:
They are known for their electrical grid, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 year ago:
Well, perhaps I’m just wrong then. But for me, I see twenty tears of MS buying up studios, sitting on them, and closing them with some sort of excuse about changed plans. It’s always the same though, studio performs well, gets bought, makes no games or games out of their genre, and closes. Call it whatever you want, I call it business as usual.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 year ago:
It’s how these large corporations operate though. Ignore, buy, or bury, that’s how they all operate. They may have ‘plans’ to use the studio, but for them if all they get are the assets and a less of a threat from the old ip, then that’s enough. I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it also absolutely something microsoft has done for years in their larger business model.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 1 year ago:
They know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.
- Comment on hell yea, brother 1 year ago:
Uh, my time to shine? Back in grad school I used to clone paddlefish (gynogenesis) by heat shocking a freshly fertilized paddlefish egg at the right time so that the egg is activated but the males dna is never incorporated. Paddlefish and sturgeon, while looking totally different, are actually fairly closely related (they had a common ancestor like 200 mya) and so the chemical reactions take place to get everything going. But they are also distinct enough that if the timing isn’t right and the father’s dna accidentally gets incorporated, they create these hybrids. The hybrids are important because its the only way to identify males, which this whole process is designed to exclude. The reason you’d want to do this is the production of caviar in which males are of no value and cannot be easily identified for years.
Now, I was in Kentucky, and we were breeding paddlefish (the colbert report had a segment on ‘kentucky tuna’ that the economics professor terribly tried to promote if you can find it) for the non-existent paddlefish caviar market as opposed to breeding sturgeon like they did in this study, but its the same general principle at play. The inly real difference is that unlike these hybrids that could apparently grow to juvenile or adult status, the paddlefish mother hybrids were very much dead within a week of hatching and were obviously deformed at hatching.
- Comment on Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow 1 year ago:
Next geo-engineering proposal: suck all that extra energy into space. Just skim a little off the top, maybe we’ll get some of those greenhouse gases out of here while we’re at it. There’s a lot of atmosphere out there, ok. We’re in an abundance economy with the atmosphere. We could probably stand to lose a little if I’m being honest. I ran the numbers through my bespoke AI, AImosphere, and it really liked the idea.
- Comment on Juneteenth Goes Uncelebrated at White House as Trump Complains About ‘Too Many’ Holidays 1 year ago:
Last week: We should have a parade. This Week: We can’t just go around celebrating everything.