Icytrees

joined 3 weeks ago
 

Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and influenced the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed when an April 1967 Ramparts article reported that the National Student Association (NSA) received funding from the CIA. In 1975, Church Committee Congressional investigations revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Milk used to make me so sick my little ten year old body projectile vomitted it across the breakfast table and my parents, who'd seen 10¹⁰ milk commercials, were like "maybe you're not drinking enough milk."

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

If someone doesn't know what the issue is about, why does their opinion matter?

This is the internet, literally anything can be misconstrued. Someone on here called me a nazi yesterday. If you check my modlog I was banned from a community for fascism.

Criticizing a valid, informed statement about an issue that's challenging people's identities because of how it might appear is like clutching pearls while your house is on fire.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago

Knowledge of sperm teamwork is a threat to individualism.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

AOC is right and that quip does attack the shifting of responsibility.

In one simple statement AOC pointed out that Riley wouldn't have won the race she used to build her anti-trans platform. The swimmer has been careful to present herself as a champion, when in reality she started her campaign after tying for fifth place with a trans woman.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

They hold the gender pendulum over your groin to see whether it swings in a manly arc or a feminine circle.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

This is the only community I have blocked.

It's just weird. CLM, PTB or a bot.

And why the hell is he calling people "scam" and "spam" for disagreeing?

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This is a real world example of why media literacy matters.

Most common reasons for being woke:

  • Gay people
  • Gay people getting married
  • Player can be gay or trans
  • Non-white people
  • Player is non-white
  • Strong women
  • Socialism

Their "non-woke" approved games include Bayonetta, Tropico, The Witcher, and Final Fantasy XII.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's interesting to bring up air traffic controllers because they (in most countries) have strictly regulated work hours. The research into fatigue and safety problems is pretty extensive, and the last person you want working overtime because someone got sick is the controller telling a dozen or more planes where to fly at once.

While not all jobs have the same stakes, that goes to show how it's an employer's responsibility to account for reality.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

That makes sense. It was pretty low.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

What happened to his landing gear you sick fuck?

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

How do you know which corn is which shit? Do you switch up the colours?

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I'd vote for you.

 

A hub-and-spoke conspiracy (or hub-and-spokes conspiracy) is a legal construct or doctrine of United States antitrust and criminal law. In such a conspiracy, several parties ("spokes") enter into an unlawful agreement with a leading party ("hub").

 

I didn't like the restrictions and moderation on the most popular news communities, so I made my own.

A mistake? Probably.

Fun? Maybe.

!wildfeed@sh.itjust.works

 

Perpetual motion is the motion of bodies that continues forever in an unperturbed system. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an external energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, since its existence would violate the first and/or second laws of thermodynamics.

 

I haven't been in a drawing mood, so I've been felting every day and experimenting with layers and textures. And I made a pouch for my e-reader.

Everything is wet felted from locally sourced wool, using resists I cut from old reusable grocery bags and shaped with balloons or bottles.

Wet felting is a process of agitating mostly wool and sometimes other fibres until it forms a solid piece, using soap and water. Many hats are made this way, though that process is more refined than what I'm doing.

A "Resist" is something the wool won't felt to, that you use as a basic shape to felt around. I make everything flat and shape it after.

 

Yeah, I don't know what's going on here. Looks like a mod having a breakdown. I posted the rest for context and I'm in the middle.

I got linked to the comment chain from elsewhere. The comment had a link to a tech dude's blog, supposed to point out his white supremecism. I didn't see anything bad in that article, but stumbled on another one with nazi apologia, thought they may have linked the wrong article, posted it. That's it. That's all I did.

I guess it is called awful.systems and the culture confuses me, but man, what a dick move to call me a facist in the modlog.

If nothing else, I hope this drama is entertaining.

Edit: Because this is, well, the internet: I was not defending DHH. Another removed/banned comment said they couldn't find anything bad in that link either, so I found one where DHH was being more blatant in his bullshit.

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