💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Scientific American recently forced out their Editor in Chief after a huge social media tantrum in response to Trump's election. Jesse Singal, half of BaR pod and one of the few people that didn't believe Kiwi Farms was a group project to kill Keffals, wrote a small piece for Reason in which he basically made a highlight reel of how absolutely absurd the publication had become under the tenure of the recent editor- aptly dubbing the magizine a press release "for the day's social justice cause du jour". It's a great list of some of the absurd things that got pushed by a magizine that nominally is about explaining the latest research breakthroughs to a popular audience.
Sometimes, yes, SciAm still acts like the leading popular science magazine it used to be—a magazine, I should add, that I received in print form every month during my childhood.

But increasingly, during Helmuth's tenure, SciAm seemed a bit more like a marketing firm dedicated to churning out borderline-unreadable press releases for the day's social justice cause du jour. In the process, SciAm played a small but important role in the self-immolation of scientific authority—a terrible event whose fallout we'll be living with for a long time.

When Scientific American was bad under Helmuth, it was really bad. For example, did you know that "Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy"? Or that the normal distribution—a vital and basic statistical concept—is inherently suspect? No, really: Three days after the legendary biologist and author E.O. Wilson died, SciAm published a surreal hit piece about him in which the author lamented "his dangerous ideas on what factors influence human behavior." That author also explained that "the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against." But the normal distribution doesn't make any such value judgments, and only someone lacking in basic education about stats—someone who definitely shouldn't be writing about the subject for a top magazine—could make such a claim.

Some of the magazine's Helmuth-era output made the posthumous drive-by against Wilson look Pulitzer-worthy by comparison. Perhaps the most infamous entry in this oeuvre came in September 2021: "Why the Term 'JEDI' Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion." That article sternly informed readers that an acronym many of them had likely never heard of in the first place—JEDI, standing for "justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion"—ought to be avoided on social justice grounds. You see, in the Star Wars franchise, the Jedi "are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of "Jedi mind tricks," etc.)"

You probably think I'm trolling or being trolled. There's no way that actual sentence got published in Scientific American, right? No, it's very real.

But what really caught my eye was SciAm's coverage of the youth gender medicine debate. This is one of the few scientific subjects on which I've established a modicum of expertise: I've written articles about it for major outlets like The Atlantic and The Economist, and am working on a book. I found SciAm's coverage to not just be stupid (JEDI) or insulting or uncharitable (the Wilson story), but actually a little bit dangerous.

I know, I know: We're not supposed to call mere words "dangerous." Hear me out: The evidence for youth gender medicine—blockers, hormones, and (sometimes) surgery for minors to treat their gender dysphoria—is scant. We really don't know which treatments help which kids in which situations. Every major government or government-backed effort to look into this question, most recently the U.K.'s Cass Review, has come to this conclusion. The supposed leading professional organization, WPATH, is mired in scandal, with evidence from court cases strongly suggesting it has suppressed negative research results. One of the leading clinicians and researchers in the country admitted to the New York Times that she and her team suppressed negative research results (not the first time, I don't think).

Rather than cover these important developments, Scientific American has hermetically sealed itself and its readers inside a comforting, delusional cocoon in which we know youth gender medicine works, beyond a shadow of a doubt, and only bigots and ignoramuses suggest otherwise. Over and over, SciAm simply took what certain activist groups were saying about these treatments and repeated it, basically verbatim, effectively laundering medical misinformation and providing it with the imprimatur of a highly regarded science magazine.

This was a chronic problem at Scientific American. One article, to which I wrote a rebuttal for my newsletter, contained countless errors and misinterpretations: Most importantly, it falsely claimed that there is solid evidence youth gender medicine ameliorates adolescent suicidality, when we absolutely do not know that to any degree of certainty. As far as I can tell, every article SciAm published on this subject during Helmuth's tenure followed the exact same playbook of reciting activist claims — often long after they'd been debunked.
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Carr is an opponent of net neutrality protections and has endorsed efforts to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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@Null could this be why?

So far Trump is doing everything same as last time. What a fun 4 years of vooters getting excited over nothing we have ahead of us.

Car also wrote this, https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-28.pdf, chapter of Project 2025.
 
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Dire Dire Cocks said:
BreadTuber (allegedly) unleashes his hitmen onto innocent liberal.

BadEmpanada is best known for denying the Holodomor because of his love for Stalin, justifying 9/11's civilian casualties and making the video with the greatest title ever, "Hila Klein is a Terrorist"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ETR4cb1aMhA(PreserveTube)
Speaking of which, him and Ethan Klein are going through a bit of a spat themselves, as Hasan, (now Ethan's mortal enemy because Ethan dared to question him on why he didn't care about the alleged rapes on Oct 7th), now proudly plays his videos on stream while his fan channels promote him.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MobWWQcaTf0(PreserveTube)
His "response to Ethan Klein" on his Twitch stream channel is a video of him playing @nidalnijmgames's very own Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SOMPp8a1aeE(PreserveTube)
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Does the power armor in the game make you invisible because you're not supposed to depict the profit, and power armor gives you the protection of the profit?

The game is clearly propaganda, but It's not like the Israelis don't do their own propaganda.
 
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Oilspill Battery said:
Doesn't tortuous interference require you to actually inhibit someone's business using less than legal means? I.e. its something tacked onto another crime.
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No. Tortious interference is simply interfering in a contractual relationship (or regular business) between two other parties. It is a civil wrong (tort), and not dependent upon any crime having occurred. The economic loss caused by the interference is the issue. In this case, Destiny is purposely interfering with Hasan's Twitch business by targeting advertisers, presumably causing an economic loss. It is generally a bad idea to go around fucking with other people's legitimate business when you have assets like Destiny.
*Not a lawyer, non-practicing, or otherwise.
 
We've been watching this sub in the reddit thread/rdrama, and there's definitely more posts that might be reddit segment worthy, but /r/somethingiswrong2024 is still keeping the election cope sesh going. It's basically the sub for Democrat party Q-tier conspiracy theories and election denial (it's okay when we do it). In this one, Kamala has been waiting to demand a recount to increase our faith in democracy(?). I thought it was a troll post, but it is a 2 year old account with a history of seething about this very subject that doesn't look bought/botted on a quick glance.
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Some additional coping in the comments and WISCONSIN MENTIONED, Cheese always decides the presidency
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Is Kamala ready to lead the resistance by being an election denier? Does't she know that democracy is at stake and democracy will die if we don't overthrow the democratic vote?
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Spam her campaign's phonelines! That will change things! This feels like targeted harassment of DNC staffers at this point.
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Unhackable elections meet definitely hacked election because I didn't get my way. Blatent cognitive dissonance always makes my skin crawl; you, dear reader, could be that retarded if you simply chose to be that thick headed- don't forget that.
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It goes on and on in this manner
 

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Null said:
I just tore my coat on a nail. I'm pretty sure I've had this since I lived in Buffalo. My day is ruined.
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it you're building an epic shtf anti-troon bunker equipped with 15 years of rations, solar panels, automated alarms, cameras, munitions, and you don't know how to sew, then you're doing it wrong. essential skill for any survival scenario.

don't throw it away. you can fix it.
 
davids877 said:
New business idea, ambient audio for streamers. Localized to wherever you want to pretend to be. We'll provide both fake wildlife sounds as well as monitoring police and fire to give sirens and other noises at the proper time.

For people who show their face we'll add a full seamless virtual backdrop to show proper sun angles and weather for your virtual location.
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That's a whole lot of work when a white sheet will do just fine.
 
Mundane things gain a special value if kept for a long enough time. That wasn’t just a coat, it was your coat.
 
Fishtank happening from Saturday. Contestants Alex and Binx have been getting close, so production brought in Alex's angry wife. She immediately started dragging Binx around by the hair and beating Alex. Jerry Springer is smiling down on us from heaven.
Chubby Checker said:
Here are the first ten minutes right before she walked in as a clip.
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Notable timestamps:
1:22 she breaks the bed sitting on it
4:20 black gay schizophrenic knight in shining armor appears
6:32 wife makes Alex literally kiss her ass

Later, Binx donned an orange wig and a "Jabba the slut" shirt.
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Karen Horney said:
Fishtank happening from Saturday. Contestants Alex and Binx have been getting close, so production brought in Alex's angry wife. She immediately started dragging Binx around by the hair and beating Alex. Jerry Springer is smiling down on us from heaven.

Notable timestamps:
1:22 she breaks the bed sitting on it
4:20 black gay schizophrenic knight in shining armor appears
6:32 wife makes Alex literally kiss her ass

Later, Binx donned an orange wig and a "Jabba the slut" shirt.
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You could toss a grenade in that room and society would lose nothing.
 
Shopping Cart Nationalist said:
No. Tortious interference is simply interfering in a contractual relationship (or regular business) between two other parties. It is a civil wrong (tort), and not dependent upon any crime having occurred. The economic loss caused by the interference is the issue. In this case, Destiny is purposely interfering with Hasan's Twitch business by targeting advertisers, presumably causing an economic loss. It is generally a bad idea to go around fucking with other people's legitimate business when you have assets like Destiny.
*Not a lawyer, non-practicing, or otherwise.
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Doesn't that mean that anyone getting cancelled by having their employer contacted for whatever reason can sue?
 
During the last stream I noticed in chat some people saying "where do I know this guy?" during the Pakman segment. Turns out they aren't the only ones who've been asking.

Here's Dr. Drew who was sure he was a neo-nazi:
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Then Ellen DeGeneres thought he was a gay teen who committed suicide from bullying:
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And later the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation suggested he liked to go online to harass women:
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Mostly likely though you remember him as one of the first mainstream youtubers to clown on Brianna Wu right at the start of gamergate.

Here's his take on the constant misidentification
 
Null said:
can you fucking google this
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I did, that's why I'm confused. Unless I'm misunderstanding It seems like a relatively vague law, any (malicious) interference that can potential harm a bussiness in any capacity can be classified as tortious interference.

Like, wouldn't everyone who supported drop kiwifarms be a valid target for this for example?
 
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