Funny (political, religious) pictures
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I marked it funny.
That being said, does that publication have multiple authors? If it's the SAME person for both articles, f'n hilarious. If different, still funny, but does happen with a publication with multiple people writing for it.
I have no doubt it's a case of cognitive dissonance, and/or whatever you call it where everything from a "side" you support must be good, no matter how contradictory. Not quite to the level of doublethink in this case, (though single-day turnaround pushes near the definition) but definitely related to it.
FYI: Doublethink as I understand it from the book (yes I've read it) requires you to believe contradictory things at the same time and to voice such as each is needed, not that you changed your mind along the way and that something that was good is now bad, or vice-versa. That's just changing your mind.
I'm not going to dig through last night's twitter feed, but one guy was definitely going full doublethink. First how bringing in Kelly to reign in the chaos was good, and later how the signs of chaos were just a ruse to confuse Trump's enemies.
Oh I wasn't meaning anything deeper than "I don't know that outlet, I wonder if it's one person or multiple." If CNN (or anything else similarly huge), I assume different authors on nearly everything. If it's an outlet I don't recognize, I don't necessarily know, and that impacts my "amount of funny" on the differing headlines on the same day.
Still an editorial decision to run both, thus still some funny regardless.
Don't fear the Tingle[DOUBLEPOST=1501605946,1501605851][/DOUBLEPOST]And for people like @Dave who are afraid of having their amazon recommendations become more interesting, the full title of that Chuck Tingle masterpiece is "Pounded In The Butt By The Fact That It Took Less Time For This Book To Be Written And Published Than The Entire Length Of Tony Scarymoochy’s Term As White House Communications Director"
Hey, it might show you're serious about getting that promotion.
Dave
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I sent my coworkers that picture of me doing indoor skydiving and my boss sent me back this:
GasBandit
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@Gruebeard that's a picture of the Pink Floyd flying pig. I got to see it live at the Roger Waters concert in June!
That Amazon plugin isn't showing up for me for some reason. They used to...
GasBandit
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They're blocked by adblockers, so if you're using one... that's the issue.
I haven't changed anything. Maybe the nativeAdBlocker updated? I do see now that there is an "unauthenticated source scripts" warning and a "plugins blocked" warning. Hmm..that's definitely new.[DOUBLEPOST=1501607802,1501607585][/DOUBLEPOST]And it is already proving to be a pain in the ass to try and unblock it.
GasBandit
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I'm surprised it doesn't just give you an option to whitelist halforums.com.I haven't changed anything. Maybe the nativeAdBlocker updated? I do see now that there is an "unauthenticated source scripts" warning and a "plugins blocked" warning. Hmm..that's definitely new.[DOUBLEPOST=1501607802,1501607585][/DOUBLEPOST]And it is already proving to be a pain in the ass to try and unblock it.
I did! But Halforums is now 1.) Not Secure 2.) STILL blocking the plugin. *grumble*
Dave
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Not secure? Hmmm. Try it now and see if there's a difference.
GasBandit
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There's only so much you can do about it. Browsers these days have started deciding to throw hissyfits if every single element on a page is not https. And most hotlinked images are not https. So the browser goes into full Earl-of-Lemongrab mode because OBVIOUSLY that cat meme is trying to steal your identity.
GasBandit
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I don't know, but I doubt it. My browser's been fuming about insecure content here for weeks, I just told it to STFU and deal.
I haven't been able to see twitter stuff beyond "loading content" for a LONG time despite whitelisting this place in both uBlock and Ghostery (firefox). Facebook stuff just doesn't show up at all.
And ya, that cat meme probably IS trying to steal your identity. Pretty much everything everywhere is, if by IP if nothing else. But that doesn't mean I don't want it loaded.
Edit: got that to load (and the amazon one) via disabling tracking protection in Firefox for here. I thought it was one of my addons, not FF itself! Oh well. I still have self-destructing cookies and stuff to remove locally stored objects (supercookies) as well. So we'll see what happens.
So . . . your super secret addon is a cat meme that steals our identity?
Why would he send you a picture of Apple's UK HQ?
(I thought it was going to be a reference to the song "Learning to Fly" but that's from a different album)
--Patrick
Dave
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I am still getting a "trying to load unsafe scripts" message. If I allow it, it reverts to "Not Secure".