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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · May 15

If Zamenhoff had invented the Eurovision Song Contest and used it to promote Esperanto, imagine that world

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 2h

I’m sorry, what?

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 3h

I guess I’m not really surprised, but still

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 3h

I didn’t know they were still available commercially though

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

I’m sure there’s no downside to those incentives

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

Also if you click through to the administrative ruling you’ll see they justified pulling the guys clearance on a diagnosis of major depressive disorder pretty cool that everybody in the nuclear weapons complex is aware that if they seek mental health treatment, their career could be in jeopardy.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

Nah I mean they suck it’s ok if slightly concerning I kind of feel like nuclear apocalypse caused by an oopsie would be an even worse way to go than nuclear war

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not sure this is a wise decision by the U.S. government from the perspective of their self-interest but I’d say the jobs are comparable in prestige, I’d bet the finance guy in China is better paid in real terms, too.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

No I mean working on the nuclear stockpile is just another shitty job here. It’s not like in China where their nuclear weapons scientists get appointed to the politburo.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not saying it’s good that some of the people in charge of the nuclear stockpile are dipshits, I’m just saying it’s true

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not as impressive as it sounds

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah I don’t think he didn’t realize he could get in big trouble for what he was doing, he just kinda did it anyways

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 4h

It has to be continually remanufactured, if the MILF/stepmom ratio gets too out of whack, you run the risk of a fizzle yield

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

Seems like the peanut gallery in your replies is focused on other, even less convincing reasons as justification for the behavior

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

I guess it’s maybe a holdover from when paywalls were far less common and there was maybe value in enforcing a norm against sharing paywalled articles?

But that ship sailed years ago.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

I also think you’re right that bezos probably doesn’t care that much about the paper’s viability as a standalone business

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

I think they and NYT are both making a conscious decision to expend some of their credibility in service of other goals than journalism or turning a profit. They’re taking their plane into a nosedive and figuring they’ll pull it back up just before crashing.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

I do think the credibility of citing the Post will take a blow from this, but probably not as big of one as the subscriber numbers suggest

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

I guess that makes sense, there being two main cattle lineages globally

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, a rational actor would probably view the mouthpiece with a large readership and intact reputation, so long as you keep the propaganda dialed back a little, as more useful than a zombie paper.

But back here in reality where we don’t have rational actors I guess that’s neither here nor there.

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe this is revealing I’m old but I was extremely a dweeb for Sid Meier’s Civilization and Civ II, played those games way too much

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 6h

I doubt it’s a very good way at all to learn an altogether new language, though.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 6h

If you studied a language in the past and just need to practice/refresh, it seems okay. I used it this way for a while and found it helpful. Basically just drilling stuff until you can cough it up without thinking, like multiplication tables in elementary school.

Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 6h

What you’re saying is right and their planned racial caste system is similarly poorly thought out in fatally flawed ways in any case

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 6h

Not criticizing what you’re saying, just piggybacking

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Drowning Pool Rat @dingokayfabe.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah this is like when the Starbucks bag says to use twice as much coffee as you actually need for full strength coffee