https://old.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1ccrkxe/harvey_weinsteins_conviction_is_overturned_by_new/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ccrtvx/new_yorks_highest_court_on_thursday_overturned/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1ccrjgq/harvey_weinsteins_conviction_is_overturned_by_new/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ccrnhh/harvey_weinsteins_conviction_is_overturned_by_new/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/1ccrjeq/harvey_weinsteins_conviction_is_overturned_by_new/?sort=controversial

Harvey Weinstein's r*pe conviction overturned in New York

The disgraced movie producer was convicted of r*pe in February 2020.

The r*pe conviction of movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been overturned by New York's highest court.

The New York Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 opinion, overturned Weinstein's conviction on s*x crimes against three women, finding the trial judge "erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes."

The court said that testimony "served no material non-propensity purpose" and "portrayed defendant in a highly prejudicial light."

Weinstein, 72, was a well-known, powerful man within the entertainment industry and prosecutors said he abused his power to take advantage of aspiring female actors, like the alleged victims, to coerce them into unwanted sexual encounters. According to the prosecution, the quid pro quo of assisting them with their careers in exchange for sexual favors on demand was both common behavior and a well-known secret throughout the film industry.

Prosecutors said the testimony of women other than those whose claims formed the basis of the criminal charges spoke to Weinstein's state of mind to use forcible compulsion. The majority opinion, however, said that eviscerated the time-tested rule against propensity evidence, "which, in criminal cases, serves as a judicial bulwark against a guilty verdict based on supposition rather than proof."

Weinstein remains in prison. The Manhattan district attorney's office could decide to retry him.

Weinstein was also convicted of s*x offenses in Los Angeles and sentenced to 16 years in prison there.

!dramatards

https://www.today.com/health/tammy-slaton-weight-loss-rcna149196

The right used to hate backwards women hating ideologies like Islam

Now many “red pill” influencers are embracing it

Apparently all it takes is a couple extra 💰💰💰 to support the cultural decimation they used to warn about

Pathetic pic.twitter.com/jinV6vxnwd

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) April 24, 2024

https://twitter.com/joe_norte/status/1783071396714664361

Pre-Weimar Christianity was more like Islam than modern day Onlyfans Christianity.

men will pick their allies carefully and they will not be fooled.

https://twitter.com/H0US30FW0LV3S/status/1783353685122203777

Everyone in that photo genuinely looks inbred lmfao

https://twitter.com/joe_norte/status/1783354888015011903

so?

does most people around the world are inbred.

it is only in our cosmopolitan society where race mixing is celebrated and the norm

LMFAO rightoids want to RETVRN to inbreeding now !moidmoment !mayomoment

https://twitter.com/AvdullahYousef/status/1783537047598227907

Keep crying Lauren 👍🏻

Converting to Islam couldn't save that whiteoid's teeth

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lazy-girl-job-what-is-it/

Meanwhile:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomspiggle/2021/05/25/the-gender-pay-gap-why-its-still-here/

/u/thuncercoc101 is the pinnacle of leftoid slactivist Redditor soy. Has no perspective on why Vietnam and Jews vs Muzzies #382 are way different.

Active in:

/r/antiwork

/r/LostGeneration

/r/LateStageCapitalism

/r/Vaush

And straggiest of all:

/r/FrickCars

We at least got Devo out of Kent State.

Proudly stolen from @autodrama

There's a common gimmick that's been popular online where a content creator will try to make a bunch of sequential trades to turn a paper clip or a pencil into something more substantial like $1000, a car or a house.

In this case, known as The Trade House Project, a woman named Dana did exactly that, traded up from a paper clip all the way to a house.

However, she didn't really need a house so she decided to give it away, and in 2022 chose an 18 year old girl named Shay to receive the house, because Shay had a tragic backstory (mom died of cancer when she was 2, dad killed himself in the aftermath) and I guess that was all it took to win the contest, it's not exactly clear.

Here's a video of a shutterfly sponsorship video when Shay initially moved in

Not only did she get a house & $10,000 from Shutterfly, but people also started sending her tons of Amazon packages from a wish list that was set up so she and her bf could start a new life together

The drama started yesterday, when Shay posted a video crying and claiming that Dana had banned her from her own house and that the entire giveaway was a scam (video, along with Shay's entire account, has since been deleted).

Dana came back posting a video with receipts

TL;DW: Shay had moved in for a month, then disappeared for 14 months while continuing to text Dana that she would be back to live in the house any day now. Because Shay had been there for such a short period, she never actually received the title to the house. Eventually Dana went into the house and found garbage, maggots, cat piss and shit everywhere and generally the house had been trashed, and decided to reclaim it and ban Shay from the house.

Tiktok drama girlies are pretty much universally pooping on Shay to the point where she deleted everything. What do you think?

Evening all.

I don't know how I feel about inhabiting this place. But I do know I can use it to draft.

Shiri's Slippers

Long time readers will know of my grudge with Scott Alexander, high priest of the SFBA Rationalist Cult. Previously it was suggested that we begin a bombing run of their spaces but I called a 'hold.' Honestly there's no time like the present.

Ultimately my problem with these people is that the demand the status of seriousness without being willing to do the work to be serious. In forums like /r/theschism or themotte, the topics of the day have been, bizarrely, subtracted out of the conversation.

The most important political conversation happening today is about the Supreme Court ruling on the immunity which a President enjoys.

You won't see this talked about.

See I used to think that Scott Alexander's "You Are Still Calling Wolf" was the most damaging piece Scott ever wrote. For his own reputation. For the political damage it did to the brains of his followers.

Scott Alexander doesn't think of himself as a cult leader of course, even though his followers do, and have regular struggle sessions about this fact. See this hilarious exchange in which a twitter thread praises Scott Alexander for not being a prophet.

Now I can't assume everyone has familiarity with the spiritual mechanisms Scott Alexander has engaged with. To recap: Scott Alexander self-consciously wrote Unsong to imitate schizophrenic individuals attempting to write a holy text. Scott Alexander copied the prophet motion without, apparently, understanding what it meant that he did this for his followers.

Then his followers didn't do this either.

The other very very funny recurrence at work here is the SFBA Rationalist Cult's founder, whose work included a number of overtly spiritual calls, led to an early incident in the cult history where they linked hands and sang "We are not a cult." To this day SFBA Rationalist Cultists, when they gather, engage in praise of the founder under an ambiguous amount of irony. And as you all know at this point: in a post-ironic world, all expression is genuine. (I'm referring here to the Valentine's Day musical that some postrats put on as a dating show.)

So these people all have this habitual denial of their spiritual connection. They Think They're Atheists, and atheists can't be in a cult. And if it is a cult, they think it's a benign one, a harmless one, if they're pressed. But secretly, they believe they are an elevated specimen of human thinker, and this was accomplished with Shiri's Slippers.

I thought they were a harmless cult when I first encountered them. The most devastating review of the founder's work was always: what's novel in it isn't good, and what's good in it isn't novel. The SFBA Rationalist Cult literally bricked a bunch of minds in the 2010s and we're only still figuring this out.

Because the consequences of Scott Alexander's foray into politics were that he was one of the foremost beacons of fascism denialism. These people all had a grudge against the academy. They think they're better than schooling. But then they create their own forms and fall down dead wrong.

It turns out that the fools at the academy are better equipped.

There's this crackpot tinge of resentment against the fools at the academy for rejecting their founder's bad writing as bad writing. This is one of the things that make them less a harmless cult and more a destructive torment nexus of incompetence. It's not a coincidence that these people developed idiot confidence and SBF is now under arrest for Big Fraud. They're all frauds. They can't even function as a cult because of their bizarre denial complex around their cultishness.

The consequentialist argument against the utility of the SFBA Rationalist Cult goes something like:

The consequences of Scott Alexander's writing is an island of people separated from mainstream intellectual politics. They're really alone out there.

Fascism

At this point I think it's more important than ever to drag Scott Alexander's flock kicking and screaming into accepting that they were wrong about the fascism. That doesn't mean that I need them to immediately endorse the use of the term 'fascism.'

If there's one thing that I wish they understood, it's that whatever it is that Trumpism represented, the people who were warning of the danger Trump faced were not overreacting. The wolf was real. This incompetence and waste of energy in our politics is an authoritarian bound now by legal processes. They seemed to think that Trump could never succeed at instituting a fascistic purge, and that therefore the people who were warning of Trump's desire to implement a fascist purge were overreacting.

Whether or not the wolf can succeed is somewhat independent of whether or not the wolf exists.

But the real bad wrong turn that Scott Alexander took was writing "Shiri's Scissors."

Shiri's Scissors

Scott postulated a class of controversial statement that caused irrational behavior in people, dividing them from one another. And I was confused by this at first because I was at this point understanding that these people coin phrases as if by instinct. What Scott Alexander was pointing to with "Shiri's Scissors" was the mere word

CONTROVERSIAL.

This is what made Shiri's Scissors an unnecessary concept and bad writing. Controversial topics have always existed.

And I tried to take this up with someone in Scott Alexander's circle and they resisted my notion that it was a pointless concept.

Only now do I understand that there's an alchemical process at work in Shiri's Scissors: it allows people to view controversy as enabling irrational behavior and therefore discarding them.

Instead of controversy being an invitation to dispute, a marker around discourse's present topics of conversation, Shiri's Scissor allowed these cultists to subtract themselves from discourse.

Controversial topics have always existed. Concepts which justified disregarding people who reacted to controversial topics have not.

With Shiri's Scissors

Scott Alexander Cut The Cord

TETHERING

His Cult

To Political Reality

Whether or not you want to use the term fascist, the gathering of physical forces armed with actual weapons to assault the Capitol on 1/6 was an act of war which is exactly the kind of thing the leftists have been warning about. But Scott Alexander and his flock aren't tuned into the Supreme Court hearing today on the most important subject of most thinking minds.

They put Shiri's Slippers on and just walked away. Right off of the map (IN POLITICS THE TERRITORY IS THE MAP IS THE TERRITORY) into a domain of their own making, still bitter at the fact that other people dared find their intellectual contribution bad.

See Shiri's Scissors/Slippers, as a concept, create a reality in which there's just these bizarre artifacts in discourse which are incomprehensible. It makes discourse not just unnecessary but impossible because it contains within it the assumption of the unreasonable (AND THEREFORE, TO THESE BRICKED CULTISTS, INCOMPREHENSIBLE) nature of those with which they interacted with politically.

Postscripts

Cult Takes on Christian Nationalism

An interesting sampling of the topics du jour of these spaces. Both TheMotte and TheSchism platformed this curious bit of "rationality" around the decrease in Christian Nationalism by raw percent. I don't think it's a stretch to say that this is motivated reasoning: these people want to believe that fears of a Christian theocracy are overstated. TheMotte, and TheSchism.

It's not within their capacity to understand that a threatened minority might resort to fascism, the fascism might drive people away from the church, and that Christian Nationalism can still be a very real threat. These are the people who have said nothing about the Trump Supreme Court case.

Cult Takes on Lab Leak Origins for Coronavirus

Now I will admit that I'm more willing to believe that COVID came from zoonosis than I was before engaging this material. But I want to share some reading I've done in Blood Money, a book about Chinese mindsets and tactics in dealing with the US as an adversary.

Roughly, the Wuhan lab was built with the help of French scientists. Then the Chinese government kicked the French scientists out.

It was always a possible black site.

Scott Alexander's coverage of his cult's perfect thinking about perfect thinking about viruses is one of the worst things Scott Alexander wrote, but not the most damaging.

As mentioned earlier, the DEFUSE grant was rejected. Further, the grant said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was responsible for finding the viruses, and the University of North Carolina would do all the gain-of-function research. This was a reasonable division of labor, since UNC was actually good at gain-of-function research, and WIV mostly wasn't. They had done a few very simple gain-of-function projects before, but weren't really set up for this particular proposal and were happy to leave it for their American colleagues.

Even if WIV did try to create COVID, they couldn't have. As Yuri said, COVID looks like BANAL-52 plus a furin cleavage site. But WIV didn't have BANAL-52. It wasn't discovered until after the COVID pandemic started, when scientists scoured the area for potential COVID relatives. WIV had a more distant COVID relative, RATG-13. But you can't create COVID from RATG-13; they're too different. You would need BANAL-52, or some as-yet-undiscovered extremely close relative. WIV had neither.

Are we sure they had neither? Yes. Remember, WIV's whole job was looking for new coronaviruses. They published lists of which ones they had found pretty regularly. They published their last list in mid-2019, just a few months before the pandemic. Although lab leak proponents claimed these lists showed weird discrepancies, this was just their inability to keep names consistent, and all the lists showed basically the same viruses (plus a few extra on the later ones, as they kept discovering more). The lists didn't include BANAL-52 or any other suitable COVID relatives - only RATG-13, which isn't close enough to work.

Could they have been keeping their discovery of BANAL-52 secret? No. Pre-pandemic, there was nothing interesting about it; our understanding of virology wasn't good enough to point this out as a potential pandemic candidate. WIV did its gain-of-function research openly and proudly (before the pandemic, gain-of-function wasn't as unpopular as it is now) so it's not like they wanted to keep it secret because they might gain-of-function it later. Their lists very clearly showed they had no virus they could create COVID from, and they had no reason to hide it if they did.

If there's one thing I want you to understand, it's this:

These people have almost no ability to understand deception.

The notion that China lies about the purposes of the lab just doesn't enter the picture.

Are you sure the Chinese would not use US science to create a virus that then escaped?

And then lie about it?

We're not going to know the truth. China may never reveal what it knows. But these people are not very good at finding the truth because they're not very good at understanding lies.

And these are the people who believe that AI can be 'aligned.'

They fundamentally don't understand humans. They don't understand deception.

They refuse to see the wolf of the present political era. They have deliberately chosen to walk away from mainstream politics with their Magic Stupid Slippers.

This is what a truly dangerous cult looks like. Most dangerous cults self-destruct. The bad ones are those that get big enough to confuse a large enough number of people.

POV: You're Scott Alexander and you're tired at people yelling at you about the fascism your side missed.

There's also a pattern I want to discourage, where one side will come up with some new trivial finding, or re-dredge up and re-package something that everyone already everyone else had already considered, then release it as THE SMOKING GUN! Then they release another SMOKING GUN!, and another, and after five or six SMOKING GUNS, they say their opponents are stubborn and refuse to yield to evidence, since they've obstinately ignored every single SMOKING GUN! without changing their probability even a little bit.

I've saved the chaser. This is how Scott chose to close his coverage.

But fifth, if the coronavirus' story is a comedy, all of this - Rootclaim, the debate, the $100K - is a tragedy. Saar got $100 million, decided to devote a big part of his life to improving human reasoning, and came up with a really elegant system. He was so confident in his system, and in the power of open discussion, that he risked his money and reputation on an accept-all-comers debate offer . Then some rando who nobody had ever heard of accepted the challenge, turned out to be some kind of weird debate savant, and won, turning what should have been Rootclaim's moment of triumph into a bitter defeat. Totally new kind of human suffering, worthy of Shakespeare.

I look forward to the movie, especially seeing who plays the dashing young blogger who helped the participants meet.

POV: You're the high priest of a cult of reason, worshiping a false god of perfect information, perfectly understood. These people don't just believe that salvation is possible through brainthinking alone, they believe that they have achieved salvation and are enlightened by their own intelligence.

Even as they stand in proud ignorance of contemporary politics.

Also I guess this is what started it?

They were roasting him in the replies. Some are skeptical that Colombia and USC students and NGOs who are pro-Palestine are actually certified MAGA Patriots

Apparently, coming down from whatever he was doing at 2:30pm on a Wednesday he decided that maybe his tweet was incoherent nonsense; Scrubbing his account and leaving the people of twitter to wonder why

Currently, twitter is still Sess-less. https://twitter.com/adamsessler yet the dunking continues

https://twitter.com/stone_toss/status/1783496187250700338

https://stonetoss.com/comic/malgorithm/

lore accurate

@Lappland !male feminists

- 9 votes

Mister big brains

• He is also charged with theft and retaliating against a witness, related to alleged illicit payments he made to a school athletics coach, as well as stalking, prosecutors said

The principal

The audio of the recording is here

https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1747708846942851493

In summary

The voice refers to “ungrateful Black kids who can't test their way out of a paper bag” and questions how hard it is to get those students to meet grade-level expectations. The speaker uses names of people who appear to be staff members and says they should not have been hired, and that he should get rid of another person “one way or another.”

“And if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I'm going to join the other side,” the voice said.

Darien was being investigated as of December in a theft investigation that had been initiated by Eiswert. Police say Darien had authorized a $1,916 payment to the school's junior varsity basketball coach, who was also his roommate, under the pretense that he was an assistant girls soccer coach. He was not, school officials said. Eiswert determined that Darien had submitted the payment to the school payroll system, bypassing proper procedures. Darien had been notified of the investigation, police said.

After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we're approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years.

Over the next few months, we'll be sharing more details about our launches coming later this year, including World of Warcraft: The War Within and Diablo IV's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. To celebrate these upcoming releases and to bring our communities together in new and special ways, we will soon share some exciting plans for other industry trade shows and conventions like Gamescom. We can't wait to tell you more about those plans soon. We're also looking forward to the Overwatch Champions Series' stops at both Dreamhack Dallas and Dreamhack Stockholm. And we're thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024. While these events are distinct from BlizzCon, we're harnessing all of our creativity and imagination to ensure that they carry the same spirit of celebration and togetherness.

Our hope is that these experiences – alongside several live-streamed industry events where we'll keep you up to date with what's happening in our game universes – will capture the essence of what makes the Blizzard community so special.

No matter how you choose to connect with us at these events this year – whether it be in person or virtually – we can't wait to see you there!

My guess that it's a combination of low interest, having nothing to show, and microsoft not liking live events, even though it's the 20th anniversary of WoW. I haven't been excited for a Blizzard release since Overwatch anyway.

Someone came up to me and offered me a job and I have to give him a cut like 20% of the money and then I have to have sexual intercourse with men.

I am asking for advice on how to seduce men from the !biofoids, do you make random moans and pretend you are enjoying s*x before or after they put the peepee in your butt? I've been practicing the moans.

Is saying Ohhhhhhhh or Ahhhhhhhhh a better way to moan, or do you just remain stoic like I do while you take a peepee in your butt?

What is the best way to have s*x with random strangers?

JUST IN: Justice Alito just blew up the entire argument by the DOJ.

Alito: "If the president gets advice from the attorney general, that something is lawful, is that an absolute defense?"

Dreeben: “yes”

Alito: “Wouldn’t the President just pick an AG who’ll let him do… pic.twitter.com/T2L7u29nZU

— 🇺🇸Travis Media Group🇺🇸 (@TM1Politics) April 25, 2024

Some others I made with a model someone made for figures.

!anime !coomers

while I have your attention again I have been shit awarded to big negative DC, help pls

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/research/nesarc-iii

!noalcohol imagine being one of those poor souls

Why are spreading images of OTHERS and claim they are of me?

That is NOT me.

— ÞuliR 🍃🧙‍♂️ᛉ🍄ᛟ🌞ϟ🌳🏴‍☠️ (@BornLik23266) April 25, 2024

whatever you do, do NOT spread misinformation about Varg, it will make him VERY ANGERY 😾

@ReKonger0

She found out last weekend. My mom found my stash of diapers under my bed in a drawer, when I got home she came into my room and closed the door. She then said, “we need to talk, now do you have a problem, because we can go to the doctors”. I insisted I had no bed wetting problems but she wanted to know why I had diapers in my room. So I just out right told her “I like wearing them, they're comfy, numerous celebrities have been rumoured to doing the same thing including Sean bean” (who she's a big fan of). I then said nowadays it's a popular and somewhat normal thing. She snapped back saying “well it's not normal”, not in an angry way, just confused I guess. She's found a paci on my floor and my plastic pants in the shower throughout the year. So I guess now she knows. But it doesn't seem to bother her tbh. I feel much better knowing that she knows, if she walks in on me wearing I guess it won't be the end of the world, but I'd never walk round the house wearing when anyones at home. I'm glad nothing changed between us though :)

mfw dramatards are so behind the times they're probably not even wearing diapers right now

So if you are an adult you should rely move it if your parents house. If you are not an adult please come back when you are over 18.

Moving out of your parents house? As a diaper fetishist? Is it possible?

That is easier said than done now days.

When i was in my 20's and early 30's it was a dream, but as i approach 45 and my mom is in her mid 70's, i am stuck. We share the expenses, i could not afford to live on my own, and she could not either. She pays the water, gas and electric. I do the cable, internet and our cell phones. I also usually pay all the groceries cause i am the one doing the shopping.

The house becomes mine when/if she passes, my brother and his wife want nothing to do with it

Apparently not. Also there will be a rift between you and your brother while you sit at home in your adult diapers waiting for your mother to die so you can inherit the house

It's a relief though! Now she knows , the sky hasn't fallen down ! And you can continue with your life ! I live with my mum also , and she knows , it gets easier as time goes by .

I wear my cute onesie about the house now ! My mum thinks it's cute.. (I can tell)

Who could be behind a post like this?

It's the local AGP , who spends his time in a girl's onesie pooping his pants in front of his mum. So cute!

I don't know if my mother knows, if she does she has so far had the sense not to try to talk about it (which would be uncharacteristic of her). There have been clues throughout my life, including the time she found my stash (I explained it away as part of a prank I was planning). I also didn't learn what internet search history was or how to erase it until fairly late in the game, one look at that and she'd have known.

It's just a prank bro

29 and still living at home for bidden to be ABD El had and everything and she even knows because of a scammer

Some guy got scammed so bad his mum found out about it and he got banned from the fetish

Hey OP,

If I were in your shoes, I would wear whenever I wanted to. Obviously I wouldn't walk around the house in just a t-shirt and diaper. But wearing under your regular clothes...

What's she going to do? She already knows you have them and wear/use them. Might as well enjoy the freedom of her knowing that you are wearing. Maybe after she hears your crinkle, she will become desensitized and realize it's not a big deal.

Here's another post that a guy managed to type entirely with one hand.

Oh my gosh. I've been "caught" too many times to count over my childhood and a few times I slipped up as an adult. I came out to my mother as ABDL early in January this year. I was tired of hiding it.

Keep this fetish to myself in the privacy of my own home? ...nah better tell mum

Additional information: as a s*x positive dramatard I decided to sign up to this website and so many of their members are there's literally an 'I am an autist' box on the signup page that you can fill in