Notices by Bridgelurker Kip (jedkron1248@poa.st)

@sickburnbro I hope the clerics keep getting their shit pushed in by two random podcasters just talking about the Bible. Incredible how that seems to rankle them.

@sickburnbro Woe is about the only reason I wish I had a twitter account.

@Bad_Banner With as dedicated to hating browns, women, and brown women fedipeople are, you would think they would be jumping at the chance to spite vote against her and deal her supporters untold psychic damage

@sickburnbro Paying them to leave (then making sure they know it would be very unpleasant for them if they come back) would pay for itself in no time.

I don't have the net financial impact by race graph, but paying blacks and mexicans et al even 50k per to leave would be recovered in less than 10 years (iirc)

@professionalbigot69 @sickburnbro The national debt is already a comically large and unpayable number, what's a few trillion more to ensure that things will improve?

@Bad_Banner Guam gets a vote?

@Giga_Vril_Breaker @pepsi_man @KarlDahl @sickburnbro The simple answer is it should be "There have been."

The complicated answer is digging deep back to English class, so bear with me.

We can break the sentence down thusly:

"{There} [have been] <a lot> (of rumors) (about the Helene response)"

The basic sentence is "{There} [have been] <a lot>". Both "of rumors" and "about the Helene response" are prepositional phrases. They add detail or clarify what specifically you're talking about in the sentence, but they do not factor into the core sentence.

The subject of the sentence is {There}, but it's a pronoun/dummy subject (apparently what it's called) that substitutes for the actual subject <a lot.> Because <a lot> is plural, the verb takes the plural form of [have been].

Again, this is pulling from English class many years ago (and a little googlefu today) for the explanation but tl;dr it should be "There have been."

@sickburnbro "Huh, oh no, we're not white! I know why you'd think that, given we've pretended to be white for centuries while it benefited us, but rest assured that "white privilege" doesn't apply to us." - t. Shlomo Vile, UK house of lords

@sickburnbro I've seen numbers about half that, but I'm getting 3rd and 4th hand info.

@SuperLutheran Otto getting a head start on his army.

@sickburnbro @sj_zero @EssentialUtinsil @EvilSandmich Is that counting US Steel that's being purchased by Japan? I guess so long as the equipment and expertise remain here, it can be seized and repurposed in an emergency.

@caekislove @sickburnbro The damage to DIE/DEI as a concept is already done. It was far harder to convince people that DEI is bad than it will be to point at whatever replaces it and say "Hey, this is just like DIE, they just changed the name!"

It'll fool some people (or "people," if you can't follow a simple name swap you have a dubious claim on being a sapient person), but most of the DEI-aware will transfer the same feelings over to the new concept once made aware of it.

@BitterPill @Lavaearth The framing does make it seem a bit like performance art or staged, but it's a good message either way.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Someone posted that instead of going to college on free rides and revolutionizing industries (as the smart silents and boomers did), our geniuses are playing Factorio after a night shift at Wal-Mart. I ponder that occasionally, and what a tremendous waste it is.

@justnormalkorean @bronze Sure, a gas car can brick itself... if you physically run over a brick, maybe.

@Shadowman311 Eventually they're going to run out of euphemisms for them. Every time they use a new one, they burn that word forever as we make sure everyone knows who they refer to.

@BowsacNoodle @scalar @Tadano @vic I'm sure such things exist somewhere out there, but the issue is that even if it does, a person looking into the yawning maw has no idea what to even begin with. The bright folks with the knowledge of deeper things take their understanding of the foundational matters for granted, while the initiate bounces off trying to understand something that the wise would call "simple" because they lack the foundation. (A general statement, no specific target intended)

@scalar @Tadano @BowsacNoodle @vic Not to disagree (because I don't), but for the person dipping their toes into the alt-health space because some veil has been lifted, DYOR seems like you just told them to wake up and climb Mount Everest. There is so much misinfo out there (likely encouraged by antagonists) that it almost induces a minor paranoia/purity spiral of "how do I know this is 'good' info?"

The average person is a sheep and just wants to be told quick and easy fixes, and even more intelligent or people capable of understanding can fall into the quick dopamine trap of just wanting the answer. Research is a lost art, and few are capable of it.

I understand the need to dance around definitives and play the ignoramus on more dicey topics. But from my seat over here in the section I'm describing, I have no idea where to even start looking on topics like this - and still "trust" the findings, if that makes sense. Sure I can pick a favorite search engine, but how deep into the results do you have to go before you filter out the "approved opinions"?

I type all this trying to assuage my conscience telling me that I should be capable of such things, I'm just a bum wanting handouts lol.

Anyhow, love your work, keep it up; I hope you get those boomer dollars. I'd much rather have you as a mysterious and benevolent technocrat than ol' Billyboy.

@jimmybuffettfanaccount @nozaki I’m sure this one will end satisfactorily, and not spawn any more cuck beret memes. Surely an author can’t ruin 2 series!

(I only know RAG by reputation, never read it)

Look man, I’ve got a bunch of cartons I’ll trade 3:1 for a carton of eggs, we can work this out