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Cuuugi commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

officeplant · a month ago

> It wasn't too long ago criticizing someone on their obituary was considered classless.

It's very easy to avoid getting criticized in your obituary, don't be an asshole.

If you devote your life to being an asshole, the civilized response gloves will come off and maybe more people should learn this lesson.

Cuuugi · a month ago

The implication is that you are attacking the defenseless. There is none more defenseless than the dead.

Cuuugi commented on Scott Adams has died youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_Jr... · Posted by u/ekianjo

ryandvm · a month ago

The entire arc of Scott Adams is a cautionary tale.

To go from a brilliant satirist to becoming terminally online and just completely falling off the far right cliffs of insanity is incredibly sad. And unfortunately, this is plight is not uncommon. It is incredibly dangerous to make politics part of your identity and then just absolutely bathe yourself in a political media echo chamber.

Cuuugi · a month ago

The online world breeds extremism. It wasn't too long ago criticizing someone on their obituary was considered classless. This is the world we have made.

Cuuugi commented on Jane Goodall has died latimes.com/obituaries/st... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

alsetmusic · 4 months ago

That's sad news. She completely changed the way we thought about primate intelligence. Fun fact: she really liked the Far Side cartoon about her.

https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/...

Cuuugi · 4 months ago

The full saga is humourous. from wiki.

Gary Larson cartoon incident

One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[114] Goodall herself was in Africa at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the cartoon amusing.[115]

Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection.[116] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania,[115] he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.

Cuuugi commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

LPisGood · 6 months ago

That’s all well and good if you live in lala land where nothing bad is ever happening that isn’t the current government’s fault, but here in the Real World, the impacts of foreign governments engaging in an information war need to be dealt with. Part of that begins with acknowledging the objective fact that foreign state actors are engaged in such an information war.

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

Covid was created in a lab funded by the Chinese and the NIH, that's accepted as fact at this stage.

I don't think I'm living in lala land if i say the US Gov't has any stake in avoiding blame.

Cuuugi commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

LPisGood · 6 months ago

Foreign operatives were legitimately engaging in information warfare against the American people, so it makes sense for FBI and others to let American companies know when their platforms are being used for these things.

This is especially true when such content is already against the policy of those services.

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

"Foreign operatives were legitimately engaging in information warfare against the American people" - says the government at the time, therein lies the concern.

No Government should regulate the internet.

Cuuugi commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

LPisGood · 6 months ago

> My point is that there is open levels of collusion with the Biden admin (and Obama earlier) and media corps

What do you mean?

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

Twitter Files, the FBI @ facebook

This case just doesnt sit right with me.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/26/biden-admin-cant-be...

Cuuugi commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

causal · 6 months ago

Bad governance does not justify more bad governance. Even if it's true that previous admins have done all this before (it's not) it wouldn't justify a thing.

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

It's an explanation, not a justification.

You're letting past gov'ts away with a lot apparently but overall i agree.

The Overton window shifted too far and now an egomaniac is in charge of its reset.

Cuuugi commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

dralley · 6 months ago

This is such utter BS. And also, btw, also doesn't exist in a vacuum.

The left isn't immune to feeling bitter disgust at titans of industry that openly pay bribes and tributes and lie on camera in service of political objectives in exchange for political and economic favors.

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

The left does not equal the democrat party. The right does not equate to the republican party.

My point is that there is open levels of collusion with the Biden admin (and Obama earlier) and media corps which have given the Trump admin cover to openly talk about their "favored companies"

Relax guy, politicians are not your friends.

Cuuugi commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

I do not like the Trump administration, but they don't exist in a vacuum.

It seems the most of their policies are bitter reactions to perceived misdeeds from "the left".

Corruption definitely crosses the aisle.

Cuuugi commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab

Cuuugi · 6 months ago

Tarrif's will do that...