The "I'm not touching you" harassment in the hopes of getting the fight you want without the blame for starting it. I remember this coward's tactic from bullies in grade school.
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FYI nationalist events in the UK absolutely feature big pictures of their royal, I know you said "the pictures" to be tactical but there's also stuff not pictured.
Fuck Malthusians, and fuck misanthropes too.
It's all nonsensical self-loathing zero-sum apologia for conservative thought.
Nick Merrill! This guy is awesome! I met him a few times back around 2014 when I sold him a bunch of old Dell server racks, presumably for use by his organization Calyx. This was a few years after his case against the FBI ended and he was able to talk freely about it. I'd been following the case previously so it was like meeting a personal hero, even though we were just manually humping Dell pizza boxes into his van. Legit guy, really cares.
Right in the first half, extremely wrong in the second half (But you should be forgiven, we all get heavily propagandized about this stuff). What we know of the Chinese "social credit" score in the west is largely a tall tale / myth. Here, from the top of the English wikipedia article about the Chinese system:
There has been a widespread misconception that China operates a nationwide and unitary social credit "score" based on individuals' behavior, leading to punishments if the score is too low. Media reports in the West have sometimes exaggerated or inaccurately described this concept.[4][5][6] In 2019, the central government voiced dissatisfaction with pilot cities experimenting with social credit scores. It issued guidelines clarifying that citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions. As a result, pilot cities either discontinued their point-based systems or restricted them to voluntary participation with no major consequences for having low scores.[4][7] According to a February 2022 report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a social credit "score" is a myth as there is "no score that dictates citizen's place in society".[4]
It's still a credit score system, so it's still one of those dumb monolithic systems a large authoritarian country implements when it can't be bothered to keep track of it's citizens on a qualitative level - Like FICO in the US - But it doesn't leak outside of that context in the way we westerners are told. In fact, our myths about that probably came out of the incidents in 2019 when the central government tamped down on local abuses of the system.
The Chinese social credit system is largely a myth. It was a thing that got instituted city by city and was originally intended to be something like the Better Business Bureau or the FICO credit score in the US, but after a few cities used it to justify punishing individuals instead of championing good business it got rolled back in most places, with a new edict from the central government that such systems must never be used for punishment or restriction. Most Chinese have never had a "social credit score" and it was never a nationally-managed program.
Yes the US is the only place that the FICO credit score is so ubiquitous. It's been pushed onto US allies too but the allies generally don't pay it backward all the way to their citizen's purchases.
I'm in the market for a house, so I got my first credit card at the pleading of my broker and have just been putting my essentials on it to push my score over 800. It's fucking stupid, I'm 40 and financially comfortable with a long history of fiscal responsibility, but I'll play the stupid credit line game for a year or two to appease the algorithm and then shred the thing once I buy.
I have a feeling that there are a lot of ex-Occupy types like me coming up on that average homebuyers age, having eschewed the banking system for the past 20 years and now being forced to begrudgingly "play ball" like this just to get qualified to pay the money that they already have.
Yeah definitely worth mentioning, I only forgot to because I don't have a dog.
Actually while we're on the topic of lesser-known pet toxins, minoxidil (Rogaine and it's generics) is super toxic to both cats and dogs in very small doses (Like, residue quantities) but has a month+ delayed effect so a lot of pet deaths attributed to it go unreported. Like it's bad enough that if you or anyone you're close with has a pet you shouldn't be using it at all.
Squigle. I cannot recommend this toothpaste enough, it literally changed my life. I used to be plagued regularly by canker sores (Painful ulcers inside the mouth, not to be confused with cold sores which occur outside the mouth), which occurred more frequently when I was stressed or sick, and lasted for a week or more. I switched to Squigle about 1.5 years ago and literally have not gotten a single canker sore since. Not an exaggeration, went from several per month to NONE, immediately.
- American company, based in Pennsylvania
- No Sodium Laurel Sulfate
- Has Flouride (I live in Portland where the woo woo crystal healing crowd doesn't let us fluoridate the drinking water)
- Has a large amount of Xylitol, which has been correlated with canker sore reduction.
I order this stuff by the pack because I'm terrified of them suddenly going out of business one day.
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Idiot voters are much more an output of our broken system than an input. Like we're basically blaming this woman for having a terrible education, being surrounded by misinformation, not forced to but basically highly incentivized into buffoonery. Schadenfreude is an ugly hole, marvel momentarily at it's breadth and depth if you wish but take care not to fall in. There are institutional systems with singular powerful people on top, the puppet masters of these idiots, who are far better targets for scorn.
Aaand I just realized I'm on Leopards Ate My Face. Fuck me lol...See ya at the bottom of the thread!