Metro series author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison by Russian court...

[godrilla]

@Beerfloat The only problem I've noticed with California, is the fact that every conceivable substance on the face of the earth, is "known to California to be a carcinogen".

Well in certain concentrations anything can be toxic/cytotoxic so they are definitely in the hyper state of awareness.

 

[m3diapers]

This shouldn't be news. A better one would be that FBI just terminated someone recently because of his FB posts

 

[godrilla]

I'm curious how a story like this qualifies as "tech" news. I'm equally curious how administrators will react to responses from such a political post. If we're going to discuss blatant restrictions on free speech, we might also mention Ukraine efforts to arrest an expatriate blogger in Spain for criticizing Zelensky, the UK's recent arrest of an autistic teenage girl for claiming someone "looked like a lesbian", or the Biden Administration's recent indictment of Trump on charges of "defrauding the government" for his claims about the 2020 election.

It's about gaming ef the noise! Will we ever see another Metro series game in the next decade?

 

[captaincranky]

This shouldn't be news. A better one would be that FBI just terminated someone recently with extreme prejudice because of his FB posts

FIXED...!
BTW I case you weren't aware, there are criminal statues addressed to, "making terroristic threats".

"Crimes of violence intended to intimidate and coerce are considered terrorism under federal law, see 18 U.S.C. § 2331, and the laws of many states, and threats to commit such crimes are not protected by the First Amendment".

So, there are two morals to this to this story:
1: The criminal always seems to become "the victim" in the court of public opinion.
2: If you're going to do something, just do it, and keep your ego driven rants, and delusions or grandeur, off of social media.

18 U.S. Code § 2331 - Definitions

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[captaincranky]

Well in certain concentrations anything can be toxic/cytotoxic so they are definitely in the hyper state of awareness.

California has been "hyper aware", for at least 4 decades. Particularly in the arena of air pollution.
If you go through auto parts manuals, there are often two sets of parts lists, one concerned specifically at vehicles built for "sunny" California..The other is for, "the rest of us".

I encountered an extreme example of this about 40 years ago. A friend pulled into the shop I was working, to show off his new, full size, Kawasaki cruiser.. I blurted out, "holy sh!t, the damned motorcycle has a catalytic converter.! (?)"

(IDK if this distinction still attaches to current day vehicles. I'm usually shopping parts for 25 to 30 year old junk).

 

[someOtherGuy]

You seem to be suffering from badly distorted memories. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, but lost the electoral college. She then conceded the election the night it happened.

That's a HEAVY history rewrite, you're basically saying that Clinton never asked the electors to follow "the popular vote" instead of doing what they were supposed to do (vote with their state): you have an axe to grind, I guess, or maybe you have short memory. In the other hand, claiming ANY wrongdoing is perfectly fine as long as there's a peaceful power transition? What's orange man's crime again?

In comparison to Trump, even Al Gore didn't put on a terribly long running sh!tshow. The current tediously extended black comedy is exclusively the province your pathologically lying, dyed orange, psychopathic, delusional, cult leader.

It's not apples to apples because none of the cases were with incumbents, but Gore did made a lot of fuss, and there was the Florida recount, where he "lost", probably because there was a Bush on the governorship at that moment. Even if the elections were performed perfectly, there were reasons to complain with that family connection there (and because it was Gore's last resort, legally at least).

In 2020 it was 2000's Gore times A LOT, since there were SEVERAL states "counting" ballots WEEKS after election day, with a lot of videos and claims about shenanigans. The best course of action would have been to address such shenanigans claims in a timely fashion but instead the position was: the election was perfect, if you complain you're a conspiracy theorist, shut up or else "WE'LL" shut you up. BTW, they did shut up everyone, it was IMPOSSIBLE to talk negatively about election outcomes for a couple years; I dare you to find a "public" discussion of the subject on the 11/2020-2022 timeframe.

Regarding the "cult leadership" (funny that you sound like a dem...) there are 3 options for the relationship with politics:
1. You're in for the principles, you basically "follow" the politician because you're identified with him/her. Sometimes that "relationship" gets hurt by differences in vision down the road, sometimes is a crusade and the politician can't do anything wrong (there's always an "explanation" for everything). You could compare it to being a fan (or even a cult follower?).
2. You're convinced by other people that this is the right thing to do, and that you should be more like people in #1. You go around promoting the politics of group #1 because it makes you feel good, rightful, although you don't get much more out of it. We could call this type "useful id!ots".
3. You are making money with it, in which case it doesn't matter what "you" think. The main objective is to do whatever is that the "leadership" wants (the customer is always right) and most of the time involves adding/recruiting people for the group in point #2.

In my case, I would say that I don't do any of those, and if I were to do anything would be money (#3). Since I'm getting very little from it, I want the one candidate/president that will screw less with me and the country. In opposition, where are you, #1 or #2? (or maybe you're #3, kuddos to you in that case, although you wouldn't disclose such thing, I understand)

As for Florida being, "paradise", and, "the place 'woke' go es to die", that's literally true. To the geriatric Republicans there I say, " vos qui morituri ego salutamus". (You who are about to die, (of natural causes), I salute you. Although the 100 degree ocean temps there (**) should make for a great final hot tub session.

(**) Or did Biden make NOAA lie about that too?

Who said that Florida was a paradise? That's fake news, please be sure to educate whomever you can, hopefully a lot of New York, California, and other paradises' refugees. With good luck they'll see the light and return to their respective paradises and leave the Floridian hell, which would be EXTREMELY good for the hell dwellers.

Tropical summers are hot, and humid: is like finding that the world is hot on a trip to the Sahara. Regarding the other world ending events, like sea level rises, start to worry when the wealthy people move to own mountaintops and The Rockies becomes the hottest real estate destination. While they keep paying millions, like Obama's $15M+, for a waterfront property, you can safely claim the the cataclysm is not here yet.

 

[captaincranky]

That's a HEAVY history rewrite, you're basically saying that Clinton never asked the electors to follow "the popular vote" instead of doing what they were supposed to do (vote with their state): you have an axe to grind, I guess, or maybe you have short memory. In the other hand, claiming ANY wrongdoing is perfectly fine as long as there's a peaceful power transition? What's orange man's crime again?

Every Dem here objected to the electoral college on general.principles. We didn't however, rise up and storm the Capitol.. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had to suffer through the monumental a**hole that is Trump, and the utter folly that was his term in office. Still, peaceful transfer occurred. I accidentally "enrolled" in Quora. What I found there is that you can't reason with a Trump supporter. It's utterly pointless.

As for "what is the orange man's crimes, read them for yourself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/01/indictment-document-trump-jan-6-pdf/

That's not counting the 34 in Florida, or his losing battle in the 5 million defamation suit. Or half his execs being imprisoned for financial crimes associated with Trump's businesses. Have you paid off your hooker today? Whoops, that's 34 more felony indictments in NYC

I shouldn't have to tell you, "what the orange man's crimes are". If you can't recognize them, it would be beyond pointless..

As for, "who said Florida was paradise", go back and read the thread and find out. Never mind the fact that the member\s name is right in the quote box.

 

[loki1944]

I'm curious how a story like this qualifies as "tech" news. I'm equally curious how administrators will react to responses from such a political post. If we're going to discuss blatant restrictions on free speech, we might also mention Ukraine efforts to arrest an expatriate blogger in Spain for criticizing Zelensky, the UK's recent arrest of an autistic teenage girl for claiming someone "looked like a lesbian", or the Biden Administration's recent indictment of Trump on charges of "defrauding the government" for his claims about the 2020 election.

But that would mean unbiased coverage. And that is not what western reporting on the Ukraine war is about. It's about politics not ethics. If it was about ethics no one would talk about Ukraine as some kind of angels; instead they'd recognize Ukraine and Russia are both significantly flawed, corrupt, and racist against their significant opposing ethnic group. There are no good guys in this war; only good lies.