#retardery

[blueandyellowdiamond]

=> a keď Vám vadí či sedím či behám - či čo robím : jaaasne že všetci na mne rýchlo zarobia!!!! Preto som žiadala o osobného seriózneho vzdelaného agenta - generála: na vozenie sa po východe !!!!

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Above is a screenshot from a photo story at The Oregonian on food carts that I would love to look though but I can't. The story is trapped in a dungeon of inhumane design.

There are 63 photos with captions. You get to see one photo at a time, one photo per click, with ads after every fifth photo. So to see all the photos and read all the captions and you'd need to click 70 times. That's ridiculous.

Interaction design, people. It's a simple thing.

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US president Barack Obama said his director of national intelligence James Clapper ought to have been "more careful" in Senate testimony about surveillance that Clapper later acknowledged was untruthful following disclosures by Edward Snowden.

via The Guardian

He should have been "more careful". Not, you know, "honest".

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Did y'all see this? Sarah Palin, etc., are defending the free speech of a man that doesn't like the gays.

It's true that free speech must be defended. We all know how Voltaire felt about it and those feelings are right. But, in that vein, and in the spirit of the good ol' fashioned American free market, why shouldn't a media company be free to fire anybody they want for any reason ever as every other (non-government, non-union) company can? If A&E doesn't want to be associated with an intolerant, misguided, hateful man, then they should have every freedom to fire him. I'm a little surprised Palin, etc., aren't using this opportunity to talk about how great limited government is.

Besides, there's a solid Scriptural argument that there's nothing in Spripture condemning homosexuality.

But that aside, the reversal in the Palin, etc., argument—that it's actually A&E who are being intolerant—reminds me of the case of Mohammed Bouyeri and Theo van Gogh. It's easy to imagine Mr Bouyeri saying "well, you're being intolerant of our beliefs." But, as that case shows, tolerance has limits. The purpose of tolerance is to reduce hate, and that purpose is defeated when hate is tolerated. So it's only natural for tolerance to stop when it encounters intolerance-based hate, regardless of whether that hate is verbal, physical, ideological, or imaginary. Tolerance stops at intolerance.

So it seems that Mr Duck Dynasty doesn't really understand the homosexuality issue. Likewise it seems that Palin, etc., doesn't really understand tolerance.

But she's right that freedom of speech is "an endangered species". But that's because our government is insane, not because she doesn't know how tolerance works.

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As the banner unfurled, some glitter fell to the ground. The whole thing was pretty boring, as far as protests like this go and when security guards asked them to leave, they did... When they got to jail, they found out they were being charged with a "terrorism hoax," a state felony punishable by up to ten years in prison.

via TWO ENVIRONMENTALISTS WERE CHARGED WITH 'TERRORISM HOAX' FOR TOO MUCH GLITTER ON THEIR BANNER

[stray-italian-greyhound]

lololol finally caught up to my dash only took 856 pages and realizing I started on March 29th holy shit

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Once they were able to get a hold of the officer, they asked her about the lack of citation. The officer explained she was not familiar with the Vulnerable User Law but after revisiting the accident report, she was eventually willing to write a failure to yield citation.

via Streetsblog

So a girl gets her body wrecked by a criminally dangerous SUV driver and the driver eventually, begrudgingly, sorta-kinda gets properly cited.

How the fuck can an officer enforce the law if the officer doesn't know the law? Isn't that, you know, a pretty big part of the job?

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While Richards was right to call out fellow conference attendees for making sexual jokes that made her uncomfortable, it would have been better to do so in person — at the very least by shooting them a snide look! — with the possibility of clearing up confusion around terminology.

via Forbes

Right. Fascism over humor. My myriad insecurities over your right to crack lame jokes. That's the way.