

But those who pay attention know which is the truth, while yelling “lies” seems to work on the clueless - seems win-win to me.
Since I invariably wind up getting “name suits” types of comments, here’s the explanation behind it:
Around the turn of the millennium, I was trying to come up with a username to use on a particular site that had a shortish character count limit for usernames. My goal was something related to the fact that I would often be making my points in arguments with “holier-than-thou” types by taking what they were saying, and turning it on its head so the offensive stuff was directed back at them.
I also happened to learn shortly beforehand that many years ago “'ape” was somewhat commonly used as a verb to mean “imitate” or “copy.”
I’m sure you can figure the rest out.


But those who pay attention know which is the truth, while yelling “lies” seems to work on the clueless - seems win-win to me.


How about we just go back to “lies” so the simple-minded folks who always fall for that crap can have a chance of “getting it” for once?


I honestly didn’t know it was still around. Wonder how it compared against the sludge that is now Google’s crapified results. Guess I’ll never know.


Wonder if this will work on the innumerable obvious covers of popular songs by no-name bands which get listed as being from the original artists. Probably not, which is why I stopped using Spotify even before so many of their other shitty moves.


We sure this isn’t manufacturing consent?


Competition.


A single gene therapy shot helped people born deaf start hearing again
I can’t help but find this sentence amusing. If born deaf, aren’t they hearing for the first time? I know the explanations for this, but it’s still sloppy writing, IMHO.


Of course the cops keep using it - payments from the inevitable lawsuits don’t come out of their pockets, so why give a shit when there are quotas to make? No accountability breeds irresponsibility.


But he said the war was already over! 🙄


No, but they are close enough to that to be having economic effects upon Taiwan by reducing the number of potential trading partners willing to risk inviting China’s wrath. Ship captains would likely rather avoid a run-in with China’s Navy.
EDIT FOR ALL THE DOWNVOTERS:
Sourced from this post.


One could argue China is right on the borderline of effectively doing that, likely scaring off some trading partners and thereby causing economic impacts - albeit significantly less severe than those currently experienced by Cuba.


Taiwan brings major economic (and other) benefits to its “supporting” countries via its technological exports & is thus too important to allow to fall into China’s hands if it can be avoided.
Cuba brings… cigars?


It hasn’t been truly capitalist in a very long time, if ever.


They blame the stroke he had just before the 2024 primary for his personality change, but there were clues that this was really him all along. Another excuse I’ve seen which I find slightly more believable (but only because the groundwork for it was already there) is that he became highly dependent upon social media - and thereby more radicalized - after his stroke prevented him from communicating normally.


Great. We absolutely need more fear and loathing of our neighbors in the world. When the fuck will everybody catch on to this manipulative bullshit?
Yeah, they’re the only ones…


Good. They’re long overdue for their “divide & conquer” schemes to come for them.


Well, you’re obviously either not terribly well-grounded in reality considering how many times I was patient enough to answer what was effectively the same question - never mind that it’s perfectly reasonable to ask for proof when accused of something, or more likely you’re a poor excuse for a troll. Either way, I’ve got better things to do than feed whatever your neurotic issue is, so I’ll be blocking you. Good luck with finding the mental health assistance you obviously are in need of.


Please point out where I got “mad.”
Yeah, TRUMP is the only one who’s allowed to be corrupt AF.