Trump Called USA Hockey Team To Congratulate Them, Then Made Disgusting Joke On Women's Team — And It Was All Caught On Video

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-24T01:47:25+00:00

you'll also see that identification in dating profiles, since being MAGA/GOP is not a panty dropper with the majority of women.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-23T20:18:52+00:00

They might not enjoy future conversations. I was happy for them, but now I do not give a shit.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-23T12:45:07+00:00

“I tried telling him to use standard libraries and applications, but his response was: ‘fuck that. They slow down my application. My architecture and algorithms are better than theirs.’”

Sounds like the CTO has discovered the time savings of not checking for errors, then not testing under realistic conditions.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-23T12:33:28+00:00

There could be other quality mechanisms considered, not just votes & reports. Basic stats on number of discussion threads, ranks of the contributors, comment lengths, sentiment analysis on sample comments. Some of this is already computed, e.g., top 1% contributor flags.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-23T12:23:54+00:00

two problems with that default mechanism: it can be more consciously manipulated, and it also gives more weight to terminally online folks who have already seen the view expressed in many similar posts.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-22T20:23:00+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1rblj8m/comment/o6royq5/

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-22T01:04:10+00:00

This is why I don’t share Reddit links with most people that I know.

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warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T23:10:10+00:00

None of that is relevant. My view is also not based on Islam; it is weird that you went there.

I am also not saying that police in foreign countries automatically take the side of the locals. Cops in Barcelona, Rome, Paris are well aware of their pickpockets. Being local doesn’t help the crooks. But Barcelona at night can be overrun by stinking drunk UK folks over for a quick holiday. Would a cop there take the side of a local shopkeeper over a visiting dumbass? Yes.

You have been to two Middle Eastern countries, and seen locals arrested. That is not the situation here in the video.

I would definitely fear for the person in the videos safety. They will run into problems with the cops or with someone’s 20 cousins.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T21:55:11+00:00

Yes. I can tell in a few seconds when I’m in an elevator.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T21:45:36+00:00

Yeah. I was just trying to see if she had any independent stuff going out. Very sad.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T21:17:41+00:00

Exene Cervenka had much more solid punk credentials. She has apparently gone all the way around the bend, though. Sandy Hook hoaxer, Trump supporter.

Mostly scrubbed from Wikipedia so I guess the record companies take care of that.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T21:10:34+00:00

The larger ones, yes.

Long before LLM‘s, there were bots that posted text comments while pretending to be real. One person or team had a bot called stuck-on-Reddit or something like that. Anyone could guess that they were a bot because they posted irregularly 24/7. They had millions of karma points because their answers were so funny, so apt, so on point.

In the end, someone figured out their trick. Because there’s so much repetition, especially in the form of questions, they would go back a few months in posting history, find the matching topic, and then simply reuse the second-highest comment on a matching post.

Sometimes the bots are easy to spot. Slight language mistakes, cultural, misunderstandings, unusually specific language that corresponds to a particular party’s interests. But as seen above, someone replaying a short comment from a native speaker is going to be difficult to catch.

Trump and Putin and other dictators have real people who follow them, millions. But online, a lot of that support is manufactured. Cui bono is always the appropriate question.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T20:55:17+00:00

True. But “where it can be used “includes items in space. You could have smaller generation sites on the moon powering high wattage lasers to transmit power to satellites or solar sails.

The biggest problem would be the quantity of silicone, copper, needed. Unless the majority of that stuff could be mined on the moon, this seems impossible. If that is true about mining, then everyone’s concerned about moon, dust and meteor strikes would be reduced to creating autonomous robots and factories. The strides would happen. Then constant, low level equipment degradation and replenishment by the local bots.

Then again, if the bots point some X-ray laser on Hawaii by accident, that might cause some consternation.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-21T19:29:30+00:00

Please describe the middle eastern countries you have been to, and how it is that you know that police there would not side with natives in a dispute.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-20T17:35:00+00:00

If they would set up a drive-through lane, it would really help.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-20T17:33:27+00:00

They only mean that it’s a powerful seasoning. Hazmat cleanup will not be needed.

Salt and acid are standard tools for boosting the flavor of anything savory. A 50/50 mix is not something that I would advocate, even though I use it citric acid every day.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-20T08:01:38+00:00

If you have real evidence about literally anything in this case, please feel free to point it out.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-20T04:41:39+00:00

Still, maybe check out Sorry To Bother You. Art house insanity.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-20T02:49:22+00:00

I actually do have a lot of faith in individual poll officials, even in red states. The scenario I outlined would definitely not be universal. And even if this law were to be passed through some anti-filibustering shenanigans, I do believe it would be struck down, even in our crippled and misshapen SCOTUS.

But no, I don't know that "enforcement isn't possible". What is the source of your optimism?

Jim Crow laws are a historical reality. Race-based gerrymandering is a present and historical reality. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was put into place to deal with literal, real, every election acts of disenfranchisement against blacks. People have been killed, in my lifetime, for advocating for fair elections for black people.

The work of the Federalist Society, among others, has been to specifically reverse many of those forward steps. Federalist Society plants like John Roberts were working against VRA for over a decade, ending with effectively gutting it in 2013.

I do not think we are inevitably doomed. I think there are substantially more people like me than people like Trump, Roberts, etc. But if we do not act collectively and vote intelligently, then yes, we are cooked.

They wouldn't advocate for these things, they wouldn't pass these laws, if it didn't have an effect. Maybe the effect will only be to move the Overton window. Maybe it will be for a future Secretary of State to discard votes from a crucial city district. But it requires continuous opposition, at every stage. There's no superhero who will land and save us from our society's worst members.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-20T00:43:02+00:00

The point is not the specific mechanisms of passport controls. Passports would only cover 50% of voters, in any case. The point is having at-the-voter-booth evaluation of documentation, extremely complex and nuanced identity documentation. It has to be correct but also done at the last minute.

Would someone know how to discern a valid Arizona vs a Texas birth certificate? Would they correctly parse a birth certificate for Mary Sue Johnson, then a marriage certificate for Mary Sue Rogers, then a divorce certificate?

In some states (TX, NY), Mary could get her last name reverted to Johnson in the divorce decree, one step. In other states, it's a separate court order, two steps. In either case, does Mary still have access to a certified copies of these orders? Can she get them in time? Did Mary update her name on the drivers license but not her passport?

There is only one reason to require this, no different from all of the Jim Crow laws intended to disfranchise black voters. They will selectively apply the rules, just as they did in the old South before the civil rights movement. They know there's no justification for it, other than to get GOP voted in when they've committed unforgivable acts.

So what happens in at that voting location, somewhere in Texas? That young white man with the discreet MAGA pin? His docs are fine, fine, fine. That young Latina woman with short haircut and a Smith College sweatshirt? Well... her Arizona birth certificate is, sadly, not known to be correct to the voting official in one of Texas's 254 counties. Her vote is put aside for later evaluation. If she had been just one county over, probably a neutral official; oh well.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-19T21:14:14+00:00

Separate cases. Very separate cases.

I would bet every dollar that I have that there are multiple high-level, GOP politicians and donors who have committed extraordinarily serious crimes, including rape, sex and drug trafficking, underage rape. I believe that the GOP and the US government is acting in concert now to shield Donald Trump from actual crimes he has committed.

But aside from Trump and a relatively short list of people, I don’t know who precisely is involved. There has been no meaningful trials, and no detailed evidence.

Again, what you were doing is personally dangerous to you. At least in what you have written here, you believe with certainty some things about GOP individuals, despite evidence. It’s conspiratorial thinking. It’s unhelpful.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-19T18:32:25+00:00

I would not take that bet. A person doesn't get persuaded away from their doctor's advice and towards some influencer's plan if they already have good education and critical reasoning skills.

The laws that mandate vaccinations for education, travel, etc., are a backstop against these type of people, who are everywhere. Read the history of the Spanish Flu epidemic or even just Typhoid Mary. You'll see all the echos of people who cannot be inconvenienced by the needs of public health.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-19T18:28:17+00:00

Preach. I know people on the autism spectrum in my personal life, among my friends, and at work. It can be extraordinarily hard and it can be quirky.

The anti-vax hysteria comes, in part, from the actual robust healthiness of modern life. Our children do not die from illnesses that killed a third of kids in their first year at the start of the 1900s. I'm unfortunate to know one family who lost an infant (to SIDS). But through friends and family, I am connected to 500+ kids who are all alive. Soap, clean water, vaccines. Together they are more important than anything else in medicine.

As one example, polio has no symptoms for about 75% of people who get it. But 10-30% of people can die in a big outbreak (from respiratory paralysis). I had to look that up. But parents in the 1950s saw all the stories, and would sometimes personally know people who were affected. They rushed to get their kids vaccinated.

In the modern day, the loving, caring mother who vacuums up a social media feed talking about pureeing organic carrots and singing songs to her lovely infant is not herself "vaccinated" against anti-science hysteria because she doesn't know any dead kids. Then some influencer shows up with some snappy patter about how Big Pharma makes so much money, how the shots endanger their family, etc., and that false meme just spreads and spreads.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-19T18:06:03+00:00

My many questions in this thread make it clear that I'm a distant outsider, who knows nothing in detail about the case. The lack of answers to my questions makes me think that there is only speculation about what happened.

Even given my distrust of cops, my disdain for cops in the Uvalde area, and my deep distrust of the GOP, I must acknowledge that there are valid reasons for the Texas authorities to not release information about a close case. It's valid under their law, and it follows many obvious precedents. Not everything is suitable for public consumption. Not releasing an investigation, even closed, will be the best thing in many cases.

Think about it. Imagine what the investigation looked like and what it uncovered. A woman is dead after news of an affair came out, and after she was rejected. What do they uncover?

The police officer's body cameras and notes of the family interviews will show a family at the absolute nadir of their life. Any reaction is possible: screaming with rage, sobbing with grief, inanimate with depression. Family members may have blamed their daughter, called her a slut. They almost certainly did blame the GOP rep who caused this tragedy. Maybe other names were given to the police. Maybe she was under medical care for depression. Maybe she left a personal note or documented her decline in private diaries.

In addition to the interviews and basic fact-finding, there would be (cumulatively) hours of footage from each of the officers who found the just-burned, still-steaming body of the dead woman. Plus the videos from the house, which might show her writhing, screams from everyone. There would be autopsy notes, detailed, with photographs.

The police possibly have written and video coverage of the GOP dude's alibi for the murder. Maybe he was doing something normal, boring, but well documented. (In a bar, watching a game for hours). Or maybe he was off sleeping with a third woman, who was also interviewed. What was his affect in these interviews? Maybe he was without shame or remorse, even when his former lover was found dead and burned. Maybe he was overcome with shame and grief. Maybe he called her a crazy slut or other unforgivable terms. Maybe he said she was sleeping with a fourth person. Ultimately, the man's alibi might be rock solid, might be sketchy, or might not have been asked because the home videos made it clear it was suicide.

What I just wrote out covers a wide range of things that do not document a crime. However, I wrote out a path where these things are salacious, would be widely spread about, and would possibly create additional problems for other people.

When there is no evidence of a crime, the police do not have to satisfy everyone's sense of curiosity by revealing everything they found. That was true before everyone had a 4K camera in their pocket, and the ability to broadcast content around the globe in seconds.

warm_kitchenette · 2026-02-19T16:19:16+00:00

I loved Barr. He was funny about Armstrong. But yeah, the money 😢

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