There is a sizeable gap between “beyond a reasonable doubt” in terms of a very specific law, and things that are gross/immoral.

People keep questioning the timeline as a defense… They might not have known until 2020. It’s normally against internal company policies to just look through people’s DMs. It’s not like someone’s job is to rifle through them. They probably were made aware of it, and then took action.

That’s speculation on my part, but if Twitch sat on it for 3 years, shame on them too, but that doesn’t so shit for this guy. It was still not ok.

The monetary incentive was to pay out his contract so they didn’t have a VERY public story about a VERY high profile streamer inappropriately messaging a minor with their service. That could be super damaging for Twitch. So they likely paid it out to try and bury the story.

Mountain Goats right?

Totally agree with others about therapy. When I went, I used it as a sort of emotional dumping ground. My therapist helped me through some pieces but honestly listened a lot. I know the payment part of therapy is viewed negatively… I viewed it as a huge positive. I’m paying this person and so it doesn’t have to be an equal conversation. If I need to vent for 45 minutes straight, I can do that, and they are compensated for that time.

In reality, I was doing the same thing to friends and family, but I’d only get 30% out at any given time, and so I just spread it around. Getting therapy helped me lessen the amount I needed to vent (some techniques help you work through things) and also have me a central location. It made me a far better husband and friend.

No worries my dude, I had a stressful day today too. Better days ahead for both of us.

Hey fuck you buddy

(Thank you buddy, I hope you’re doing well - I’ll make sure to bring a better version of myself next time. Have a good weekend)

Your mom is a prolate sphere.

(I am embarrassed and am now lashing out with baseless personal attacks)

Because he’s so smart and good at throwing the oval ball that his opinions must be true and relevant and he deserves the platform to spread his views.

I think it’s a great example of how media outlets can seed certain ideas. If you read the headline then the context, then it’s like yeah I see how he said that. But I’m not sure you arrive there if you read the quote then the headline.

I’m about as liberal as they come, but holy shit the amount that this is done in politics is insane. It drives me nuts. Republicans often have so much wrong with their platform (in my opinion) that we don’t need to just make shit up about them.

A particularly good example that stood out to me was Trump’s “Muslim Ban”. Do I think it was profile-y in its application? Yes. But if you looked at the detail, the justification used was vague “national security”. Why couldn’t we just attack how bullshit that was? But no, media had to run with exclusively the Muslim Ban line and it was so easy to deflect for Republicans. All they had to say was “this isn’t about race stop being racist”. But because of that, no one asked the better questions, like saying “you say this is specifically about national security… How is this immigration program specifically being exploited in ways that harm us?” Were we blocking work visas from those countries? Because I can tell you refugee status is a fuck of a lot harder and has more screening than work visas.

There were just so many glaring issues, but we decide to side step into an alternative reality.

None of this frustration is pointed at you by the way, it’s awesome that you just said hey I think I got this one wrong. That’s an admirable quality on forums these days. I just hate the media apparatus.

Alright… Nuance time. Everyone please stick with me.

I don’t like Rodgers, but this is kind of a dumb headline. THIS IS NOT A DEFENSE OF RODGERS. I think what he’s saying is that the “pandemic response” was the thing manufactured, not the virus itself. I think people are misreading it, because I don’t think I really see how he’s saying they manufactured the virus. THIS IS NOT A DEFENSE OF RODGERS. Like the government gave all this money and tried to make people reliant on the government to save them, which has been his whole position with COVID.

It’s still flatly wrong. But borderline purposeful misreadings like this only embolden Rodgers and others, because it’s inaccurate, and people are attacking something he didn’t say. And this gives him more of a platform because people are talking about it again.

If you’re going to criticize someone, it’s important to be accurate and understand what they’re saying, so you can appropriately shut them the fuck up with the right facts.

One more time, THIS IS NOT A DEFENSE OF RODGERS.

This hurts to read.

I know it’s satire, but this is like… 5% more satirical than actual beliefs on the topic at some points. The helping the poor section in particular.

I read the first few words as soft candles and was so confused.

Then how do you explain his return to TDS?

What time zone is that minute in?!

I think you’re applying your own viewpoint here to the general public.

I don’t enjoy wrestling. I also don’t enjoy reality TV, teen dramas, horror shows, or European Football. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have value.

If TV needs to provide some infallible, logical benefit to be worth something, then every show is in trouble. It’s practically all made up stories about nothing that matters.

This is one of the narrow times that “the customer is always right” applies correctly. It doesn’t matter if it’s “good” by any one person’s definition. If people watch, it has value.

I’d pay good money to see high quality Starcraft 2 tournaments on TV. I doubt many other people would. That’s how value is determined.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the hidden costs aren’t just around time. EVs are great, generally, but they’re sort of purpose specific. Having a 250 mile range (at best), people generally not knowing where to recharge, the additional time to recharge, not being able to charge at a lot of hotels, severely limited long range ability (without a lot of stops)… All of those add up to a poor experience. I can’t think of a time where I rented a car and an EV would have been an option that I wanted. MAYBE if I only needed to go as much as a single charge would allow me, but this is just not a good fit for rentals, in my opinion.

I think you’re selling the polls a little short. The good ones have corrected a lot of that kind of bias, though nothing is perfect. And bad polls are always bad polls.

The scary reason is that we need a campaign or conversation to get people away from Trump. The dude sucks. Any president of the past 40 years should have a higher approval rating than Trump.

Though I secretly have a theory that the Supreme Court is going to rule against Trump and kick him off. It’ll give Republicans the exit that they need from him, but they can blame the courts and capture all his followers. All the candidates will run on pardoning him, and they’ll keep that radical part of the party but just redirect them.

Because Trump’s approval numbers are higher than Biden’s.

To be clear, I don’t support Trump at all but we have to look at cold hard facts. Biden does not look like a great candidate right now at a macro scale. Democrats have a real problem of loving to self-hate, and they end up skewering their own candidate. The prevailing opinion amongst my friends is “well Biden didn’t do anything”. Personally I find that to be untrue, but that’s the narrative.

The real key is that Democrats lose when voter turnout falls. Biden is not an exciting candidate, and for some people it is an ordeal to vote, and they may not do it for Biden. A lot of people forget this… It’s not that Trump would get more votes, it’s that Biden will get less.

Democrats are formulating a perfect way to fumble this to Trump, and I’m terrified.

I hate to say but the poll is biased because you asked two questions that are not the same.

I currently have a phone without a jack, so the first question is obviously no. But the second question, would I prefer it, is a yes.

So there’s a group of people who would prefer it, but it’s not a deal breaker for them in your data, but they answered a different question than the headline.

Rice Krispies TREATS. I hardly know anyone who knew about it. Fuckin best cereal of all time. Haven’t been able to find it for a while.