#NeedsMoreLikes

[Snowlark]

Yahoo to change name to "Altaba"

We need to do this more with people. Like, uncle Fred in Arkansas is dying, so we sell him to Bill across the street who looks the same and change Fred’s name to Verna. Fred’s wife Maude goes along with the deal, and switches places with Bill’s wife Nan, who then becomes Bill’s sister, Virginia. Fred’s two kids, Dirk and Bobby, are out. Bill, Verna, Maude and Virginia restructure, and buy a new house in Glendale, and change their last name from Stevens to Tanaka.

[Purplecat]

@nimelennar

And that is called feeding the trolley-geld; And we’ve seen it enough to extoll,That if once you have fed him the trolley-geld You never get rid of the trolley.

That is annoyingly good and I wish I’d thought of it.

[Kimmo]

"For many conservatives the real enemy was never Russia anyway. The real enemy was liberals."

It’s definitely true that that is one of the fears being peddled(and a particularly dangerous one since the ‘enemy’ it postulates is highly vulnerable and at serious risk, economically and physically, if put ‘back in their place’); but it is pretty amazing how effectively ‘culture war’ stuff has been used to sell the idea that “the elite” is people with liberal arts degrees from fancy schools who live in coastal population centers; rather than, say, the people who own the commanding heights of t…

[emo_pinata]

"For many conservatives the real enemy was never Russia anyway. The real enemy was liberals."

The “liberal elite” academies ARE now WOMEN and people of color. [image] [image]

The response it better.

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

Wear a same-color outfit as Australian TV presenter Amber Sherlock at your peril

Anyone in this thread who thinks it’s actually a problem that all 3 of them are wearing white … just please stop and think about if you would say that if the three people on camera were men. All men on tv basically all wear them same suit anyway, with no more variation than the three white outfits on these women. If your issue is the color white, and you don’t think any of them should wear white because it doesn’t look good on camera, that’s fine. But if you think the problem is that all three o…

[nimelennar]

In response to

This grim political cartoon sums up the next seven days

Not shown: Congress dismantling the safety net below.

[dave_b]

This is self explanatory.

Name something you trust more than Donald Trump

A $5 fugu hotdog.

[TobinL]

"Obamacare saved my life" - Xeni on CNN

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[Snowlark]

Judge rules that winning casino baccarat by taking note of asymmetries in card-backs is cheating

Speaking as a professional gambler who’s followed this case… It is not inherently suspicious for Ivey to be playing baccarat. Many winning poker players are compulsive gamblers, and Ivey is one of the more notorious examples. He’s lost millions playing craps. If I (lost my soul and) ran a casino, I’d deal to him. He is a profitable customer to have, and his presence is also good for publicity. It sounds like Sun was the brains of this particular operation, and she enlisted Ivey because t…

[Ignatius]

Best in meme.

This Australian possum is just happy to be here

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[anon68287401]

@bobtato

a Sylvanian Families yiffing party

this really belongs in the That’s my Fetish! thread, but I can’t find it…

[anon50609448]

Across the nation, Jewish community centers threatened

That’s a status reserved for White Christian Men, as they have the privilege of being able to be judged on their singular actions in isolation, without those actions backlashing onto the rest of their group. Jews don’t have that privilege. EDIT: Further thought on the above: When a group has a specific term for an individual’s act that will backlash negatively onto the rest of the group, that says something on how cognizant that group is on that lack of privilege.

[chgoliz]

I’m blown away by the insight here…

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/is-there-anything-positive-to-say-about-trumps-presidency/93448/81?u=chgoliz

[bibliophile20]

White House insiders: Trump ordered Sean Spicer to lie about crowd sizes because he was "demoralized"

I think that Trump’s unpopularity would actually be a real boon to someone who very publicly broke with him and was willing to tell stories of how unhinged he was. Obviously that would be burning some bridges, but it would be forging others. I think we probably underestimate how many people use words functionally in the first place. If you spend time around little kids, you’ll hear them say all kinds of things that flatly aren’t true but that clearly are meant to achieve a certain result, and …

[Kimmo]

Lawrence Lessig on how Congress should behave when the president breaks the law

Congress is definitely the key but it is technically the hardest to organize against. What about a web forum dedicated specifically to facilitating people to organize and push members of congress? Each state has a forum with a sub forum for each member of congress inside. Connecting with others to organize is two clicks away from the home page (state / congress person). Pinned at the top of every congress member’s specific subform is a thread containing all contact information, offices, names…

[generalcommrade]

i put up a prototype using vanilla forum on the server for an site i’ll be working on.

NOT FOR USE, but gets the idea across. I started throwing stuff in for PA because that’s where i live.

I think the format could work.

Change Congress Prototype

[nimelennar]

Twitter account memorializes Holocaust victims turned away from America in 1939

My name is Michael. I am jewish. According to my family history, my grandmother and her family came over to Canada on one of the last boats from Europe. The next boat full of Jewish refugees were turned back because Canada developed a "none is too many" attitude, and they were killed. When I heard about this Muslim ban, I got furious and I remember my grandmother's story and know I should do something to help people in the same boat. Being jewish means nothing if you do not remember what…

[TobinL]

From the outside, it's impossible to tell if Trump is staging a coup or totally incompetent

I know people who worked in the Obama '08 campaign going door to door to find undecideds and talk to them. This was when Bush was at 35%, Katrina was fresh in everyone’s memory, Iraq had been a clusterfuck for years, and the economy was in free fall. Undecideds and non voters tend to have a few common traits. They’re usually not the brightest, so simply explaining something clearly doesn’t work, trying to use an appeal to their better nature fails, and they simply hate even thinking about po…

[moosemalloy]

This gag may be a bit IT-specific but I know the BBS skews a bit that way and, well, it made me grin. See what you think:

Trump to sign yet another trash executive order, this time on 'the cyber'

Go Donald, if you know the cyber, you can grep it by the PuTTY.

[ficuswhisperer]

This was god damned amazing:

Milo Yiannopoulos speech at UC Berkeley canceled after campus protests

The right of free speech ONLY means that the government can’t punish you. It has nothing to do with people hating you for what you say, and people refusing to afford you the privilege of using their platforms and resources. Just because you have a right to bear arms doesn’t mean you get a free gun, or that you are allowed into MY house with your gun. Milo can have all the free speech he wants. He has no right to anyone else’s audience or microphone. And to argue that he shouldn’t be critici…