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Mods, enough with this bullshit spam.*edited. I'm now banned from /r/pics. Amazing work, jannies. (255)

ah yes the bullshit known as calling out a double standard (-56)

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Here is a higher quality and uncropped version of this image. Here is the source. Per there: (847)

Everyone keeps pointing to the extremists on the OTHER party. When can we agree that it is political extremists that are bad? They are the ones who inevitably turn violent.Why are people so reluctant to admit that violent extremists exist in their own party too?It is factually proven that violent extremists exist on all sides of politics. (-54)

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"The sky is cloudy, this is TRUMP's FAULT!"-The lefty loonies on RedditEvery one of you just LOVES living in your echo chambers! (-45)

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No that traitor got her award at another door they were breaking through to kill Congress. (83)

That single moment, within the larger context, should remain the most sobering in American history.You can whip up the mob to being insane, violent, and ready to go (as all of the GOP has now participated in, save for a very select group of never-Trumpers and Lincoln Project members) but they literally become real-life zombies trying to smash through windows to get you and your people. Once you make a wild horde of mentally-insane racists with no hope and who have been taught that hatred is the only answer? They can just barely be stopped in time, and only if your Security Services get lucky.We could have literally lost the Capitol that day, and the Vice President.And now the Supreme Court views such things as having absolute immunity, and all of American media has accepted the narrative that 'the left needs to suspend media campaigns and tone down their rhetoric (*which had actually only been urging people to vote or they'd lose more than they realize). hopefully the far-right s... (18)

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That's now how this works. People who still endorse him are a lost cause in my eyes. You are attempting to treat the untreatable. For 8 years now they have been like this. If a near DECADE isn't enough to sway opinion, then nothing will.I've talked with pro trumpers, I've debated with them, provided sources, evidence. Shown they are outnumbered, everything you say. Yet it goes through one ear and out the other (no pun intended). They refuse to accept that they are wrong, they will lie about the most basic of facts, or state they don't believe something that happened right infront of them, purely to justify them and their parties actions.They are too far down the rabbit hole, and it's too late to pull them out, for them, they have transitioned to the all or nothing stage. (3)

Most of my family is in for Trump and addicted to Fox News. Some of them have told me that if I don't get on board with Trump that I'm going to find myself getting executed. It's fricking crazy. I spent years trying to show them evidence that things they believe aren't true, and at every turn they have rejected all of the evidence as fake and insulted me for trying to show it to them. This year in particular I have seen my father fantasize about killing Democrats. So many fricking times that I have lost count.His daily routine is to wake up, listen to Fox radio, go to work, come home, watch Fox News for between 5:00 to 7 hours, get mad at Democrats for existing, then go to bed and repeat. This shit is only going in one direction and that's open massive amounts of violence because that's what these people are being primed for. I went my whole life without a republican ever threatening me for not being a republican and now it's happening on the regular. I'm armed. I suggest every... (4)

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I'm still waiting for you to tell me the names of these progressive politicians who told their supporters to be violent. (8)

They use their dog whistles just like Trump does. Every time they talk about a "revolution", they pretend they only mean the metaphorical kind, but then their protesters attack a federal courthouse, shoot a senator, beat up people at a rally, or try to assassinate a political opponent. They talk about "burning it down" or that a "reset" is needed - it's all over this website too. It's just dog whilstles day in and day out, because protesters go out and burn down businesses and police stations, and then the local prosecutors refuse to prosecute them.When they compare trump to Hitler - they know what they're doing. We've all heard the "if only you had a time machine" reference to know what they mean by that. They want that one lunatic to hear it enough times to go shoot Trump. ...and half the comments on Reddit are about how sad Redditors are that he missed. Not just on RedditProgressives are just as violent as Magats. (0)

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The post is full of gems, but this is probably the best part:

stable stable, which is consistently growing, consistently profitable, and paying employees $5k to $10k per day at current full comp market rates. These are largely flying under the news radar. These companies aren't Google or Apple, but rather some tractor company or heavy manufacturing company just churning out results for years without destabilizing the world. Stable stable companies do that thing where every quarter they "beat expectations" on their stock reports by a coincidental $0.01 just to prove they are always growing.

He seems to think that people working at manufacturing companies are making $10k per day.

BTW, this is what antirez wrote about the author 10 years ago:

One thing I did not liked was Matt Stancliff talk. He tried to uncover different problems in the Redis development process, and finally proposed the community to replace me as the project leader, with him. In my opinion what Matt actually managed to do was to cherry-pick from my IRC, Twitter and Github issues posts in a very unfair way, in order to provide a bad imagine of myself. I think this was a big mistake. Moreover he did the talk as the last talk, not providing a right to reply. Matt and I happen to be persons with very different visions in many ways, however Redis is a project I invested many years into, and I'm not going to change my vision, I'm actually afraid I merged some code under pressure that I now find non well written and designed.

There might be some good points buried in this post, but all I get is bitterness without much self-reflection. They seem like they'd be difficult to work with and would blame you for it.

He's looked at levels.fyi.

He even links to it from his resume.

His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.

Wow, indeed, in his resume under "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment", he links to levels.fyi page for L10 Google Engineer ($3M total comp).

I deserve a $3M salary and if I don't get, it means the whole industry is fricked

The author's tone is condescending, angry and entitled. If everyday interactions with him followed the same tone, I would argue that he is the exact type of person behavioral interviews are meant to screen out (technically competent but a nightmare to work with).

If this guy has reasonable technical chops, he seems like someone who would be great to work with.

It's always, always good to have people in your group who are willing to call a steaming shitpile a steaming shitpile. It's also always good to have people in your group who can fairly rapidly turn a steaming shitpile into something that's fit for purpose and reasonably maintainable.

HNers are absolutely terrible at recognizing smart people. I think that's why they often heavily upmarsey beginner-level projects like "I made Redis in Python (meaning: I wrapped a dict with a simple API)" or "I made a desktop in HTML/JS"

Yeah don't say "this person". We've got pronouns. Pronoun avoidance is misgendering.

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What? What Remains of Edith Finch only takes a few hours start to finish. You must have pretty much given up instantly on reaching the forest because that section doesn't take long at all. (1067)

Yep, hence the title (-89)

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Honestly that is hilarious OP. The two branching paths are literally just for an achievement, it makes no difference which you take, you don't even need to enter the forest and if you do, going through the forest takes maybe 30 seconds? A minute tops. This is the equivalent of booting up Mario Bros, seeing the first jump and thinking "geez that looks like a lot of hassle..." and quitting. (3903)

I believe you, but my completionist brain can't leave a single stone unturned and I felt overwhelmed by the perceived size and slow walking speed. (-82)

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Well, they download it because it's free. (51)

Seems like a waste of time and storage space to me… (-53)

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Not really immediately but I finished the story in Diablo 4 and felt no desire to keep going. The story was pretty good better than the prequels. But man that end game on release was abysmal. It killed my interest in the game and Diablo has always been about end game grind so I feel it counts. (-1)

I'm sorry but this had me do a double take. Diablo 4's story was a mess. The whole thing can be summed up as "Chase villain to location A. Get told that she isn't here and you should go to B" rinse and repeat until the game is over.It was mario levels of "the princess is in another castle".Don't even get me started on the absolute dumb shit the main cast does. MOTHERLOVER WHY NOT USE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!<JUST STAB HIM YOU IDIOT!<Seriously the game was rife with stupid shit like that. (1)

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Alan Wake. Thankfully, this was a "free" game from a GameStop promo, but I immediately stopped playing the game after a Duracell commercial played. Frick this shit.Alien Isolation. Made it to the room where I was supposed to find a card on a dead doctor. I'm no fan of crap AI in games and this one is bad. Side note: turns out, I'm not the only one who quit the game on this level. Based on achievements and comments, many left the game at this level. Gee, wonder why. /sFoamstars. Thinking this would be a different take on Splatoon, boy was I wrong. After the tutorial was over, the game vomits all over the player with the most atrocious microtransaction and prices I had ever seen in a game. (1)

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First descendant. Idk how people are playing this garbage. It's diet warfram / destiny. The voice acting is god awful, the lighting is awful everything looks all washed out no matter what you do. The gameplay is mid. Again, diet warframe/ destiny. Micro transactions that again are even WORSE than warframe and destiny.On top of that the game is piss easy and made for fricking babies. All challenge comes from fricking stat bloat on enemies which still isn't hard because the mechanics are shit. Anything outside of the "crazy hard" difficulties are like fighting ants that can't even hurt you.Oh and to top it off it has that generic garbage butt "chosen one" story line shit. Fricking hate that trope. This game is peak garbage. (2)

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Just thought this looked cool, it is a "true" pixelization as I ran it through a python script to set pixel sizes to 2 (might be a bit fked after upscale to match the first image but whatever)

Being the supreme leader in a vegetative state for 4 years is nothing compared to thousands of years for the God Emperor in Warhammer 40k, so what are we even talking about? The point is that the Democrats behind him can make the correct choices to prevent the chaos chuds from ruining everthing, and destroying the world, and that's what really matters.

https://old.reddit.com/r/inthenews/

Head Jannie

https://old.reddit.com/user/Isentrope

Now why would a top /r/worldnews mod need to make an alternate subreddit apparently for the same thing?

The entire subreddit is just entirely bordering on delusional cope about Trump losing horribly right now, I suspect for the purpose of having an extra source to show up on /r/all and /r/popular.

All threads are extremely heavily moderated or locked, and submissions are auto hidden until approved.

Blatant propaganda

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1eawgy6/not_jobby/

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1eaou34/the_horrible_and_disgusting_sleepy_cabin_episode/

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1eawgy6/not_jobby/

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1earxx2/people_associated_with_shadman_twitter_thread/

They fail to realize these peoples audience aren't redditors or are sponsored by huge companies so you can't cancel them lol.

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Hey besties!!!

I'm the bloke that wrote this.

https://rdrama.net/h/pol/post/278965/the-state-of-the-race-whos

In the comments, I talk to a guy about the debates, and make a prediction. I wonder what I say?

I think the debates will be a Biden win, honestly. And going by the way rightoid media personalities have been pushing "Biden will be on drugs during the debates!!!", they think so as well. But we could all be wrong, Biden is really old after all.

Biden's performance can be summed as

The kindest thing I've seen about his performance is "Well, the debates don't matter." Is that the case Rdrama.net? Well, no. For this write-up, I'll compare the first debates, the second debates and sixth debates, which were considered to have the biggest impacts on the races, and how they relate to Biden's performance.

Tl;Dr

1960 US Debates

Richard Nixon () v John Kennedy ()

These debates are famous. The story is that Nixon looked like shit, Kennedy looked great, and so Kennedy won. This is only half of the story - America has elected uggos to office before. Politics is basically Hollywood for ugly people - were the American people really so shallow they voted for the Hotty over the Notty?

The campaign was built on a simple question - experience, with Vice-President Nixon, or change, with Senator Kennedy. Kennedy's campaign had been that Eisenhower as President had made the country stagnate. As President, he was going to advance civil rights, expand social security with medicare and get far more bombs so they could bomb the shit out of the Commies . Nixon promised to not screw up the good thing they had with Eisenhower, who was the most popular President until 9/11 era Bush .

Nixon looking like a corpse on TV while Kennedy was tanned and exuberant gave a lot of credit to the idea that America needed change, that Nixon was stagnation. With how insanely close 1960 really was, it's obvious this screw up was why Nixon lost the election. If he was able to look more secure on TV, then he would win. Instead, he became the visual argument for why Kennedy was right.

1976 US Debates

Gerald Ford () v Jimmy Carter () ((the joke is that Jimmy is a peanut farmer))

The battle of the nice guys is known for having the best ever losing campaign, when Ford managed to lose by just one state only 2 years after pardoning Nixon . If Ohio was 1% different, Ford would have been a two term president.

After roughly 15 years of lies from the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administration, America wanted change. Jimmy Carter, an outsider disliked by the mainstream Democrats, was able to ride the wave of change by positioning himself as a humble Bapist that just loved God and America and would never tell a lie . By contrast, Ford had been in Congress for about 20 years, was popular inside the party, and managed to barely beat Republican outsider Ronald Reagan . He was viewed at best as an r-slur that pardoned a criminal, at worst as another criminal.

Ford managed to overcome this however. He accepted the facts of the race, America loves newcomer Jimmy Carter, and adapted to them. Carter is an outsider - but can he handle the economy? The Cold War? Coupled with Ford just being a really nice, friendly guy, and he managed to flip the race on it's head by accepting the facts and changing the perspective on them.

The debates would end this, when he said repeatedly that the Soviet Union doesn't dominate East Europe.

It's clear that he's trying the same stuff as "experienced vs outsider" stuff by flipping the narrative and making Jimmy Carter sound weak on defence. But he just sounds like a fricking idiot, and ruined his own prior messaging. He would go on to admit his mistake, but it wasn't enough. Carter would narrowly win, despite his own countless mistakes.

1988 US Debates

George Bush () v Michael Dukakis ()

When the campaign started, Bush was going to lose. Governor Dukakis was a popular moderate liberal with one of the best states in the Union while Vice-President Bush was the dweeb tied to Reagan's various criminal scandals, like Iran-Contra . Bush was able to close the gap with one of the most brutally effective negative campaigns of all time, built on two key issues - Dukakis is soft on crime (America under Reagan had seen crime raise all over the nation, but lowest in Massachusetts) and Dukakis is soft on defence (Iran-Contra lol). If you've ever seen the Simpsons episode where Sideshow Bob runs for Mayor, it's genuinely barely a parody.

Dukakis misread the situation, and chose not to respond. Rather then make him look like the bigger man, he just made it seem like Bush was correct. Come the debate, and there's only one moment people are talking about:

: Governor Dukakis, if Kitty Dukakis were r*ped and murdered, would you favour an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?

: No I don't Bernard, and I think you know I've opposed the death penalty nearly all of my life. I don't believe it works as deterrent...

This really happened btw

The question was clearly, obviously inappropriate. And rather then say "Uh Mr. Shaw I'm really angry at what you're saying about my wife, there are better ways to discuss the issues" or whatever, he treated the question like it was fair and reasonable. If he wasn't gonna kick up a fuss, why should the public? So they treated the question like it was fair, and Dukakis' utter flop answer ("No I love murdering male feminists ") haunted him. There were other issues, but to the public he was the "soft on crime guy." Come the election, Bush wins in the last 400+ EV landslide.

Intermission

Did you know John Kerry is widely considered to have beaten George Bush in the debates? Or that Romney beat Obama in 2012? In 1984, during the first debates, Reagan's performance against Mondale is honestly comparable to Biden's performance last night. The idea that the debates don't matter does have some truth to it. The truth is, debates are just one part of the campaign. Everything, from the posters to the speeches to the badges, go into making a campaign. Debates aren't one massive part of it - they're just another cog in the electioneering machine. If a debate goes poorly, like in 2004, that doesn't matter. Bush wasn't running on being an egghead, he was running on being the commander, yee-haw! Reagan wasn't running on being the intellectual with the perfect facts and figures, he was running on keeping the government out of your life. The fact they preformed poorly doesn't matter, since the message wasn't really affected.

2024 Debates

Trump () v Biden ()

If you'll recall my write-up, I discussed the biggest issues these uniquely unpopular figures face. Trump is a loudmouth butthole and criminal, Biden is a senile r-slur. These debates couldn't have gone much better for Trump. He made some gaffes - some of his question dodging was kinda pathetic, outright bragging about repealing Roe V Wade will be used in some ads. But the formats of the debate were built, by the Biden team!!!!!, to cover Trump's worst traits. The 2016 and 2020 debates were both massive flops for Trump, since his obnoxious personality was on full display. With the mics being muted and the answer time limits being adhered to strictly, Trump couldn't be so annoying. Biden, by contrast, could barely fricking speak. He sounded like he was going to die in a week and could barely speak straight. 66% of undecided voters think Biden will die before 2028 (which yeah probably). When Biden can barely fricking speak, everything the public hates about Biden is made clearer than crystal.

Already, Trump is 2% ahead - basically undoing the conviction. 2% may not sound like much, but what can Biden do to fix it? Trump's convictions are hardly a secret. He's not really hidden his affairs. The only thing I can see stopping a Trump victory is if Trump is outright jailed, which polls have reported roughly halving his support base. With how obnoxious he acted in court, and were he a normal defendant, I would say that's likely. However, the Judge has made comments about not wanting to divide the country - this to me implies a fine, rather than behind bars.

Of course, anything can happen. There's always a good old fashioned October Surprise. But things are looking great for Dementia Daddy (R) - at this rate, he might even win the popular vote.

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Live link to a thread since I didn't see anything elsewhere - https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/683820796

Sounds like all the login deets got yoinked

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Unfortunately, our network has been the target of an extensive attack culminating in hackers gaining access to our login DB. As of now, we can confirm that the hackers gained access to the account data, but no character data is lost.

This means that while no progress should be lost once servers are back online, the encrypted passwords and emails are at risk of being leaked. However, the party behind the attack has made no demands nor have they given any intentions beyond "entertainment."

It is our responsibility to inform you all the risks, even if login details were not stored in plaintext. Further, we encourage you to change your password if you used the same login information anywhere else. While passwords are encrypted and hashed, it is still encouraged to exercise caution and change your login information anywhere it was used.

While we "could" have the server back up and running almost immediately with little to no lost progress due to the backup system we have in place, we are choosing to delay while we further reevaluate our infrastructure, consult with cybersecurity professionals, and ensure similar methods can never be used to gain access to our servers again.

We are deeply sorry for allowing such an incident to happen, and will double our efforts to ensure such an attack never happens again."

I was on when it happened. They were spamming the N word in big yellow server announcements in chat

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