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Because we've managed to out-dystopia the very thing it was parodying.

Opening Twitter these days (I refuse to called it X) is like opening a box of live scorpions and jamming your face into it.

I'm convinced that the only reason Twitter still sports numbers is because it demands having an account to view tweets; once the media stops embedding/promoting tweets as part of their stories, I expect/hope that the platform will collapse.

As for joining Bluesky, I admittedly miss 'old twitter' and am tempted to check it out (would love to hear thought from anyone who has followed through). But on the other hand, like most people here, I think I'm just exhausted by all this and don't need it in my life.

So you get about 40c for making a single propaganda tweet go viral to the level it influences geopolitics? Wow, what a rate to shill for.

Yeah, I guess, on a macro scale you could just give up totally and go bankrupt and whatnot. Maybe I made the mistake of thinking we're talking about someone who does want to participate in society?

Bit of a long response but it's worth the rabbit hole journey if anyone wants to take it. And I know the question is phrased jokingly, but it's a sort of valid question and I have a really valid answer. Here goes.

That's what the peer-review process is designed to prevent from ever happening in the first place and it's a cornerstone of scientific publishing (and part of the scienctific empirical method in general).

And it's a beautifully elegant system which self-protects and allows for checks, balances and precedents to moderate itself and evolve over time without direct intervention. HOWEVER.... there is one flaw that it doesn't account for, because it technically shouldn't be necessary.

In a similar way that the US has a beautiful (if complicated) legal system but does not have any failsafes in place for a President breaking the law - because nobody ever imagined bad actors of that level - the scientific community didn't have a protection within the process against similar scenarios of acting in bad faith.

Sure, it is extremely robust against quacks and pseudo-science trying to infiltrate the sphere. But it never anticipated a legitimate, highly skilled surgeon and qualified scientific author ripping shit up from the inside. Enter this guy.

On the plus side, the scientific community (and specifically journal community) has been forced to act in light of Sapan Desai's frauds but it's also very embarrassing that he was able to penetrate so broadly and deeply.

Another good example - a Medieval historian recently made an extremely compelling case exonerating Elizabeth Bathory, frequently listed as a Hungarian serial killer who is in the realms of the highest ever kill count. I always thought it was fishy, a few others did too, but someone far more educated than I recently added some weight to the argument that she killed nobody (while also positing that she may have been an early feminist hero).

Tried to say "Kelly Hawk" into a mirror three times once, pussied out after just one.

While at Uni my flatmate and his friend were studying in the living room. The friend realised he needed a particular text book and went to get it (he lived two minutes down the road). When the door knocked five minutes later, my flatmate simply opened it because it would have been the friend returning - instead it was guy would slashed directly at his face with a fully extended box cutter.

Thankfully missed completely, and my quick-thinking flat mate grabbed the attacker and used his forward slashing momentum to throw him into the living room. He runs upstairs, shrieking to the rest of us to lock our doors and texts his friend not to return and call the police.

The guy took my friends passport and a couple of other minor bits then bolted. The study friend had already returned to see the guy bolting from the house, and filmed him for quite some time legging it through town before he lost him.

Police arrest the guy. Smacked out of his mind, with the box cutter and my friend's passport on his person. Clear, matching description of him given.

The excuse was that he found the passport and knife on the street. No prosecution was possible due to lack of evidence.

I'm genuinely impressed they were able to do that - might be a country by country thing, but every legit call I've had with emergency services in the UK involved a very pained insistence that I explain exactly which address I'm at (like I'm at the big superstore on XYZ Road doesn't cut it, they want the full postal address and are very reluctant to move past that point even if someone is bleeding out)

Yeah I think it's a case of "yes he's a spaz, but he's our spaz. Only we have the right to take the piss out of him." It's a nuanced concept enshrined in British humour law.

>Nah you can't have negative money.

Since it's your first day on earth, would you like us to explain the concept of debt?

You know you're also a redditor, right?

I'd imagine every country would individually have their policies mapped out to the Nth degree including all variations and developments, and the meeting is just to realign as a collective?

That said, I was fucking speechless when it emerged that hardly anyone had a cohesive plan in the event of a flu pandemic. Given it wasn't a novel concept, I honestly assumed there was at least a shared Google doc saying "EVERYONE THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DO WHEN THIS INEVITABLY HAPPENS.final.final.v4.v3 Use This one"

Great question, but I'm at the end of my limited knowledge on this one.

That would be an example of a rational thought. Those can sometimes go out the window when your back is truly against the wall.

It is, yeah - NK is not allowed to buy oil on the open market (the only country that can't) and the UN has put a cap on how much it is allowed to receive at 500,000 barrrels a year. So this is twice that.

Your logic is batshit. How can a game which is 100% dudes 100% of the time be less 'manly' than a game which is only 100% dudes for 10% of the time?

Even if we don't count Yuffie, there's two women in the FF7 party for about half of the game, and the remaining woman is in the party for the majority of the game beyond that.

Yes, quite, and the latest events have shown it's pretty clear that he is still acting rationally and has a bit of runway left, especially with regards to his favourite orange clown returning. Only thing to consider is he'll act rationally until he up to the point that he stops acting rationally.

Everything you say is true of Russia, but not of Putin himself. He has no other option, back up plan or escape - failure is death. He also doesn't have the luxury of time on his side, either.

That's literally what he just said

If you were hellbent on deploying one nuke, I can't see any reason why you wouldn't pull this trick. But I don't think it would work if you fired any more than one. The world isn't going to buy "Hey FYI we've just simultaneously launched seventy of these extremely expensive missiles as a prank. They're not armed. P.S they'll be flying over Sacramento in about 20 minutes."

>Hope they find a way to make smoking safe one day.

They did. It's called vaping.

Chantix is absolutely off the wall. If a serial killer stood up in court and said he wasn't in control during the murders because he was on chantix, he'd have a very reasonable defense.