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- Wed May 22, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2048
- Views: 312307
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
It's easy to blame the media, or rich people, or whoever else. I advocate looking in the mirror. That's a very optimistic view, because if it's us who are the problem, then we can solve it, but if we are up against a sophisticated disinfo machine, state funded troll a farms, strategically design al...
- Wed May 22, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2048
- Views: 312307
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Yes, and we know which people.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 5:32 pm I'm not buying it. The media follows the people, not the other way around.
- Wed May 22, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2048
- Views: 312307
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Correction - driven by a purposeful campaign of disinformation dirtected by state actors like Russia, China, and Iran leveraging vulnerable or specifically designed social media platforms.
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2048
- Views: 312307
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Meanwhile, Harris announced that the administration would move to not consider medical debt when calculating a credit score. We should be hearing loud cheers, and yet.
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 788
- Views: 214755
Re: World News Thread
Meanwhile, Russia is considering going back to forced labor camps. Per the UK intelligence briefing. INTELLIGENCE UPDATE Russia is currently experiencing a labour shortage that is becoming a significant problem in some sectors. According to estimates by the independent Russian media outlet Izvestia ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1182
- Views: 141949
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
He broke every promise he ever made unless it was to do something nasty. Why, given his record, they even talk to him?
I guess if they dangle a large enough donation, they might get somewhere.
I guess if they dangle a large enough donation, they might get somewhere.
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 325
- Views: 43046
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Wasn't he supposed to be a witness for the defense?
- Mon May 20, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1182
- Views: 141949
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Not to mention that the voters are greatly influenced by social media companies that are either controlled by hostile states (TikTok, Twitter through Musk's creditors) or are driven by algorithms that are susceptible to manipulation by hostile state agents (the rest of them). And they are pulling fo...
- Sun May 19, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 21732
Re: AI! AI! A ChatGPT is come!
Is there a law that requires them to warn you that you are being recorded? There are lots of those cameras here, but no warnings.
- Tue May 14, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 325
- Views: 43046
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
The bloody arrogance of them.
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: The Tolkien Translation Game!
- Replies: 7924
- Views: 1627998
Re: The Tolkien Translation Game!
Is it about the pipe weed?
- Sun May 12, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 410
- Views: 67006
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children. Advertisement On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been ki...
- Sat May 11, 2024 5:32 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Rest in Peace PTerry :(
- Replies: 61
- Views: 72971
Re: Rest in Peace PTerry :(
Night Watch spoilers ahead Saw a Tumblr post with a theory that in Night Watch, young Sam Vimes assumed that John Keel was his long-absent father. (Looks like me, looks out for me, says he's from a distant city but actually knows my neighborhood very well, likes the same food I do but won't go to se...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: The Hunt for Gollum (Working Title)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 139
Re: Revisiting Rings
Why.
- Wed May 08, 2024 11:59 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1182
- Views: 141949
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
I scrolled by at least 6 tweets today saying that the worm must have died of starvation.
Eta: this headline
Eta: this headline
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Favorite artists - contribute!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 215321
Re: Favorite artists - contribute!
Someone once said that Elves are Art Nouveau and Dwarves are Art Deco, and they've got a good point.
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Favorite artists - contribute!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 215321
Re: Favorite artists - contribute!
That kind of a abstract art is not for me. It takes an amazing kind of mastery to evoke emotion through seemingly random splotches of paint, and I usually enjoy watching the clouds more. At least I don't have to wonder if the artist is having me on (well, I do, but on a very different level). Kandin...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Favorite artists - contribute!
- Replies: 313
- Views: 215321
Re: Favorite artists - contribute!
I agree it's not abstract, but I do think he's taking a page (canvas?) from Pollock where the act of creating the painting is as much a work of art as the painting itself. And the result can stand on its own when viewed by someone who is not aware of the process. Pollock's work just looks like cats ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 756
- Views: 216920
Re: What are you reading?
Inanna, my son really likes the show, and he's not easily impressed. I finished listening to Winter's Gifts , a Rivers of London spinoff featuring FBI Agent Reynolds instead of Peter Grant. It's fun, although a bit more on the horror side than most of the series, Any graphic violence is against unde...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:38 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 410
- Views: 67006
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Yeah, Netanyahu is also fairly awful. He's not wrong on that point, but I really don't like where that kind of rhetoric can go if taken too far. For one thing - notice who isn't protesting for Hamas? Israeli Arabs. There are massive protests against the government in Tel Aviv, but they are carrying ...