General News Thread

[Mattias]

That's true. Then again, I highly doubt google or apple would de-list it in the first place. Or the developers wouldn't make an easy to find place to download the app if it did happen.

[SteelBeowulf]

I highly oppose Tiktok being banned. The problem is this ban is through legislation if Tiktok failed due to people not wanting their content associated with a shady app, Tiktok will fail due to financial reasons, and in our capitalist society today that's fair game. But a ban through legislation? What if Twitter did ban Trump and Trump wants to retaliate through this same precedent. This is becoming more and more like another red scare.

[LegalLoliLover]

IDK, can people willingly and knowingly install extremely infectious spyware on their computers?

[Mattias]

Limewire

[AsGryffynn]

And there's no reason to believe that someone didn't ejaculate on the plant seeds. Also, sacrificing villagers to the river dragon:

Forget imperialism. We're going all the way back to the dragon cult.

You're talking about a country who calls spoiled male children "Little Emperors". The Dragon never went away, it just got a wifi connection.

Limewire

I take offense to that. Also, I don't mind TikTok being banned because there are like eleventy billion apps that already have better UIs than it does and TikTok is an extraordinarily ugly name.

[LegalLoliLover]

Someone needs to make a mod of Medusa (preferably Lancer, but Rider is fine, too; heck, even Avenger) killing the commie ghouls from Fallout.

And here I thought all the old-timer conservative racists have died out. Or at the very least, those smart enough to use the Internet have also wised up not to say something this ignorant.

[Twelveseal]

Look closer. That's a Floridian, Republican Congressional candidate. It's in the same vein as the nice fellows who made a White Supremacist tabletop RPG called Racial Holy War.

Never underestimate stupid. Genius has limits. Stupidity does not.

[LegalLoliLover]

Well, that's another Florida Man story.

[AsGryffynn]

Someone needs to make a mod of Medusa (preferably Lancer, but Rider is fine, too; heck, even Avenger) killing the commie ghouls from Fallout.

And here I thought all the old-timer conservative racists have died out. Or at the very least, those smart enough to use the Internet have also wised up not to say something this ignorant.

KPOP does suck as does K Culture in general (pop culture) but I agree this comes off as very jarring.

[LegalLoliLover]

It's either:
A) He ignored what K stands for, or
B) He thinks that all Asians are friends.
Wrong on both accounts.

[Twelveseal]

Or C) That China controls both Korea and Japan secretly.

[LegalLoliLover]

If that's the case, could they at least shut up about Japanese war crimes (whilst simultaneously making porn set during said crimes, sold in museums memorializing those events)?

[Twelveseal]

Obviously not! How else would they maintain the ruse?

In other news, a study finds Boomers are idiots. Or at least have suffered greater cognitive decline than their preceding generations.

So why is it again that we're allowing them to control the overwhelming majority of our resources, funds,and political systems?

[Mattias]

Obviously not! How else would they maintain the ruse?

In other news, a study finds Boomers are idiots. Or at least have suffered greater cognitive decline than their preceding generations.

So why is it again that we're allowing them to control the overwhelming majority of our resources, funds,and political systems?

Because they already had it before we came along.


And they don't want to be irrelevant so they're clinging to power like Charlton Heston to a rifle.

[Twelveseal]

Tis better to rule in hell than serve in heaven, eh?

[Mattias]

More like if they're not acting up then there's no reason their kids/grandkids will ever visit/call.

[OverMaster]

Results showed lower cognitive functioning in baby boomers was linked to less wealth, along with higher levels of loneliness, depression, inactivity and obesity, and less likelihood of being married.

Other research has shown that overall rates of mortality and illness have increased in baby boomers, but generally found that the highly educated and wealthiest were mostly spared.

The biggest factors linked to lower cognition scores among baby boomers in the study were lower wealth, higher levels of self-reported loneliness and depression, lack of physical activity and obesity.

It takes an asshole to make fun of old people living in poverty.

[Trubo]

Yeah, but that guy's very next sentence kinda contradicts that previous statement.

That’s why it was so surprising to me to see cognitive declines in all groups in this study. The declines were only slightly lower among the wealthiest and most highly educated.

Either they were barely hit or higher wealth/education only had modest returns in reducing cognitive decline. Only other conclusion to take is that the overall decline isn't that sensational beyond that there was a decline in the first place.

[asterism42]

Or at least have suffered greater cognitive decline than their preceding generations.

Pretty sure chronic mild lead poisoning is to blame

[Twelveseal]

Yeah, but that guy's very next sentence kinda contradicts that previous statement.



Either they were barely hit or higher wealth/education only had modest returns in reducing cognitive decline. Only other conclusion to take is that the overall decline isn't that sensational beyond that there was a decline in the first place.

This was more my point. Hence the comments about controlling shit, as that's generally not something poor people do.

That said, I can believe Asterism's suggestion about chronic lead poisoning, particularly in their developmental years, from lead plumbing, leaded gasoline, and paint, among other things.