Vorticity

Vorticity, 2 days ago

I came here to say the same thing. We don’t judge Gone With The Wind by current standards. Why judge Star Wars by current standards? It’s half a century old and societal morals and norms have changed significantly.

Vorticity, 4 days ago

Don’t forget threatening to sanction the ICC over the Netanyahu arrest warrant.

Vorticity, 1 month ago

How is this different from a tenant taking their patio furniture with the? “It’s worth more with the patio furniture”. “The new tenants are expecting the nice patio furniture to be there!”

Plants cost money and effort and, in many cases, can be successfully transplanted to a new location. It seems to me that the tenant simply took their property with them when they left.

Vorticity, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’ve come to the conclusion that conservatives are just people whose sense of empathy is broken. Over and over I hear about conservatives who held bigoted beliefs and only changed their minds when confronted by someone they love becoming the target of other people’s identical bigoted beliefs. These people just can’t empathize enough to think “what if it was my child/spouse/friend?”

Vorticity, 1 month ago

It’s nice to see a republican admitting this. It would be better if he would name names and admit that it goes beyond taking the propaganda bait. It would be nice if he would say “Congressman _____” regurgitates Russian propaganda and may be compromised.

Vorticity, 1 month ago

Prisoners shouldn’t need to pay to talk with their families. We claim that our system is intended for rehabilitation. What could possibly lead to better outcomes than the ability to keep in touch with your family; to be made to feel human while serving your sentence? The US justice system is a fucking joke and for-profit prison shareholders are the only ones laughing.

Incarceration should have no profit motive, regardless of whether that profit motive benefits a for-profit company and its shareholders or the local Sheriff’s department.

Vorticity, 2 months ago

I want my oxford comma back…

Vorticity, 3 months ago

I am so fucking tied of all of these headlines from both sides that take 22 seconds of a 90 minute speech/ramble and turns it into something. How about we talk about the fucking vile shit that comes out of Trump’s mouth and the reasonable things coming out of Biden’s? It’s such low effort garbage clickbait.

• “Trump muddles through speech” because he’s fucking exhausted and old as shit.
• “Biden gives deluded speech” because he mispronounced something in a way that could drastically change the meaning.
• “Trump forgets the capital of a country”
• “Biden forgets which country he’s talking about”

It’s so fucking tired and boring. Why can’t we talk about the content of what they are actually saying rather than their mistakes? That’s what is important. None of this gotcha stuff is going to change minds. It is just going to make people more entrenched jn their positions because they see their candidate being attacked and smeared for obvious mistakes.

Attack the policies. Attack the intent. Attack the motives. Don’t attack the stupid mistakes. It just divides the country further.

Vorticity, 3 months ago

I don’t understand why companies who commit blatant fraud like this aren’t required to disgorge all fraudulently earned money. If someone defrauds banks they get fined based on their earnings in a way that hurts. If someone defrauds consumers for “tens of millions of dollars” they are only fined $16M.

Well, actually I do understand, I just don’t like it and don’t like what it says about this country’s priorities.

Vorticity, 3 months ago

I agree with you. Just a note, though; Alex isn’t a billionaire. Even the plaintiff’s lawyers estimated his wealth at only “as much as $270M”. It still makes me sad to realize how many people he grifted, defamed, and otherwise harmed to make that much money…

Vorticity, 3 months ago

So, did ANYONE here read the article? It’s not the LCO decided not to pay. Barclays froze their accounts without warning in an effort to weed out fraud. It happened to several other non-profits as well.

Vorticity, 4 months ago

I don’t understand how 40 years of prison for a non-violent crime isn’t considered to be both “cruel” and “unusual”. It is objectively cruel. I certainly hope that it is also unusual. I certainly hope that there aren’t many more like him, imprisoned for decades for what amounts to personal-use levels of pot. 5.5 lbs of pot when you include the stem and roots isn’t that much and certainly sounds like a personal supply to me.

Vorticity, 5 months ago

The Republican party cares about us and our families. They’re protecting us from this obvious overreach. We, as Chinese hackers, have a right to remain anonymous and undetected. We have a right to use the information that we find and it only harms us when consumers are notified that we have their information. Stand up for your rights! Pay off a Republican today!

Vorticity, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Oh, look, a republican who doesn’t have compassion unless he has experienced similar adversity! Imagine that!

None of these people care about anyone who they don’t have a personal relationship with but, as soon as something impacts someone they care about, they suddenly have compassion. And, of course, the rest of the discompassionate right wingers condemn him for having even that little bit of self interested compassion.

Vorticity, 8 months ago

It is worth noting that US authorities participated in the investigation and raid according to the article.

Vorticity, 9 months ago

Insider was unable to independently verify the claim.

Look, I side with Ukraine in this conflict, but this info is coming from a Ukrainian human rights group. I think I’d assume that this is propaganda that might contain a grain of truth.