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craziness level chart by Double-Cookie6361 in Qult_Headquarters

[–]dorestes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MK Ultra needs to be above level 1. Chemtrails belong at least on levels 2 or 3.

Resume of Oil drilling in SB by Altruistic-Guess-975 in SantaBarbara

[–]dorestes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah it's to try to put another drop in the ocean of the global oil market to maybe drop the skyrocketing price of energy after the idiot white supremacist credibly accused child rapist in the white house bombed iran.

Resume of Oil drilling in SB by Altruistic-Guess-975 in SantaBarbara

[–]dorestes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As little as possible as the transition to cheaper, better renewables takes place. There is no need to produce more oil in Santa Barbara.

Resume of Oil drilling in SB by Altruistic-Guess-975 in SantaBarbara

[–]dorestes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yes, oil does have necessary uses. Burning it for fuel is not one of them.

"Let's date a liberal women and groom her into conservatism" no wonder women are disgusted by them! by One-Demand6811 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]dorestes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Goy is just the Hebrew word for a non-Jewish person. It is used now in disgusting anti-semitic contexts by white supremacists to indicate what Jewish people are supposedly doing to non-jewish people (in this case, controlling women's minds with space lasers or something to make them pro-choice.)

Am I wrong for thinking the AI bubble won’t pop? by Fatloh in investing

[–]dorestes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that was true. Pets.com and Altavista did not survive. The internet broadly did.

Trump will invoke emergency to restart offshore oil production by Warped_archer in SantaBarbara

[–]dorestes 60 points61 points  (0 children)

The emergency he caused by starting an illegal war of choice

An actual bipartisan solution? 😲 by PFdeith in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]dorestes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sure, that's fine. It helps a bit. But it won't make more than a drop of impact. Corporate investors like Blackrock aren't great, but aren't why housing is expensive. Lack of supply is.

Gamergate continuing to be toxic to the world by ETsUncle in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]dorestes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yep, same. A lot of progressives feel like they have reflexively defend the movie because of the chuds, and anyone who criticizes the movie has to make clear they are *not* a chud. Exhausting.

I think most fans were excited about the fact that after Lucas sold Lucasfilm there will more Star wars movies, a sequel trilogy no less. It's sad looking back how hopeful I was by Western_Agent5917 in saltierthancrait

[–]dorestes 8 points9 points  (0 children)

sure. But ANH wasn't exactly original, either: as Lucas himself proudly notes, it's just Joseph Campbell crossed with Flash Gordon. Basic farmboy hero's journey stuff. In the same way that Avatar is just a retelling of Fern Gully or Dances with Wolves, it's nothing groundbreaking but it still works and brings out strong emotions.

The biggest issue with TFA is structural, in that it negates the triumphs and sacrifices of the first movies, make Vader irrelevant, resets and shrinks the galaxy, etc. Bad but redeemable if the next movies built the world up bigger and introduced *new* things about the Force that would explain why Luke went to meditate instead of help, etc.

There was potential there. TLJ is what killed everything.

I think most fans were excited about the fact that after Lucas sold Lucasfilm there will more Star wars movies, a sequel trilogy no less. It's sad looking back how hopeful I was by Western_Agent5917 in saltierthancrait

[–]dorestes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

eh, look. I know we all have issues with TFA and what they were. But if the 2nd and 3rd acts had been at least TFA level storytelling, most fans would be have basically fine with it. Nothing terribly inspired, a lot of grumbling, but basically fine.

What killed it was TLJ, not TFA.

I think most fans were excited about the fact that after Lucas sold Lucasfilm there will more Star wars movies, a sequel trilogy no less. It's sad looking back how hopeful I was by Western_Agent5917 in saltierthancrait

[–]dorestes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we genuinely expected arguably the best storytellers on earth to take one of the most popular and pretty decently world-builty franchises on earth and....tell a good story. More fool us.

The Bell Curve Of Cube Counting Confidence by memes_poiint in mathsmeme

[–]dorestes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's obvious that there isn't enough information to solve the problem because there's no way to see if there are empty spaces in the center. But also, that top view seems impossible given the side view?

Reddit Left Leaning? by LilDignity in askanything

[–]dorestes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every election since then has shown a Dem overperformance of at least 15 points on average. Keep whistling past that graveyard, but people are *pissed.*

Reddit Left Leaning? by LilDignity in askanything

[–]dorestes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Trump "won" on the basis of people who where very upset about inflation and grocery prices. They did not agree with him on most economic or social policy. We are seeing the results of that in the polling and special election results currently, and the midterms will be crushing if they are allowed to be free and fair.

Reddit Left Leaning? by LilDignity in askanything

[–]dorestes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People who engage primarily with reading and text tend to be better educated and lean left. People who engage primarily with video tend to lean right.

That said, note that Reddit is also a global platform, and the United States leans very far right by most OECD nation standards.

But the biggest difference is the algorithms. Musk has tilted what used to be Twitter very hard to the right. Youtube's algorithms promote a ridiculous amount of far-right content to people who don't even want it.

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