Play Nice Random Chat Thread VI

[ferball]

Bill Cosby is on Spotify.

Why isn't he in jail?

 

[Hojuman]

Sorry should have also mentioned I haven't any transplants!

You're a good egg mate .

Can have immuno's for lot's of conditions. Was thinking of Derryn specifically CP. Hope you staying in good health. We need to belt out " hearts to hearts " together in rd.1

 

[Val Keating]

If you take $100m from a major global company, they do have control over you. He would be required to post a certain number of episodes and obviously there is the requirement to not publish them to any other platform. And he is compliant.

Sure, they don't decide who he interviews, but to say he is totally independent is just so naive.

That’s the only deal. That his full episodes are on on Spotify. That’s it. He’s still got clips on YouTube and other platforms. Spotify did it to shift the podcast platform. He’s got more freedom there then he had at YouTube who constantly demonetised his episodes, like they do to most comedians.

If you listened to the show you’d know what I’m on about because he talked about the move a lot.

 

[Val Keating]

Why isn't he in jail?

Got off on appeal I think. Could be the most prolific serial sex offender in American history and he’s free as a bird. His stuff is on Spotify but no one cares. So is R Kelly.

 

[Makeshift Park]

So does the MSM - which are clearly beholden to all manner of nasty evil doers unlike Joe the Great and the Free - include public broadcasters like the BBC, NPR, CBC, Australia’s public broadcasters, or indeed the Scott Trust financed Guardian for that matter?

 

[Val Keating]

Anyway back to Straya

 

[koshari]

Well I ain't got no issues with Joe Rogan. Couldn't really give a toss about him and only choose to comment as he seems to have a strangle hold on this thread. Can't knock a bloke for making a decent living posting a few videos ( good or bad) on the internet. The real fools are the people who takes what he posts seriously.

 

[blackshadow]

Anyway back to Straya [emoji88]

Ahhh the old B&S.

Many hazy memories of B&Ss in my youth.

 

[Val Keating]

Ahhh the old B&S.

Many hazy memories of B&Ss in my youth.

Wild.

 

[ferball]

So does the MSM - which are clearly beholden to all manner of nasty evil doers unlike Joe the Great and the Free - include public broadcasters like the BBC, NPR, CBC, Australia’s public broadcasters, or indeed the Scott Trust financed Guardian for that matter?

Their abc?

 

[Makeshift Park]

Whose ABC?

You didn't strike me as someone who repeats Chris Kenny memes, Ferbs.

 

[ferball]

So does the MSM - which are clearly beholden to all manner of nasty evil doers unlike Joe the Great and the Free - include public broadcasters like the BBC, NPR, CBC, Australia’s public broadcasters, or indeed the Scott Trust financed Guardian for that matter?

The Guardian stabbed Julian Assange in the back, the BBC are owned by British Intelligence, the ABC have gone to shit, NPR are good for music tho. (But they do push alot of propaganda. Just cos i agree with a fair amount of it doesn't magically make it not propaganda.)

 

[ferball]

Whose ABC?

You didn't strike me as someone who repeats Chris Kenny memes, Ferbs.

Chris Kenny's boss' abc.

 

[Makeshift Park]

The Guardian stabbed Julian Assange in the back, the BBC are owned by British Intelligence, the ABC have gone to sh*t, NPR are good for music tho. (But they do push alot of propaganda. Just cos i agree with a fair amount of it doesn't magically make it not propaganda.)

That’s one way of looking at it.

Another would be that all the above organisations are imperfect and yet have each individually broken more important stories than every libertarian podcaster in the world combined. Cut the opinion and analysis out of the equation and just for a moment think about what you wouldn’t know about the world if it wasn’t for journalists at these institutions.

Chris Kenny's boss' abc.

Why do you think Christian Porter is retiring this election?
Who do you think broke the Afghan War crimes story?
Which is the only news service in this country that guarantees 24/7 emergency broadcasting during bushfires?

 

[blackshadow]

Wild.

They were a lot of fun.

Thank **** their wasn't food dye around in those days.

 

[Del191229]

An oil tanker/loading platform blew up just off the Nigerian Delta the other day. Obviously its not the most environmental response but it fu**s with infrastructure none the less. Personally I think its more likely to be MEND or a successor than an overtly environmental group.

But this happened the other day too and it got me thinking about how long it'd be before this was actually driven by environmentalists not just ransomware extortionists.

Critical Infrastructure Hit Again as German Fuel Suppliers Victimized by Cyber Attack, Oil Shipments Forced to Use Alternative Depots - CPO Magazine

German fuel suppliers have been hit by a cyber attack threatens fuel supply. Nature of attack has yet to be identified, but the extent of the disruption would indicate ransomware or a malicious malware attack that wiped files.

www.cpomagazine.com

There's also going to be straight resistance to the way govt deals with the impacts of climate change, and the simple effect of climate change.

Take NSW. They made very clear during COVID they are happy to have different rules for different parts of Sydney.

Western Sydney is already verging on uninhabitable a few days a year in hot summers, that's going to ramp up.

When the grid creaks during the super intense heatwaves coming, they're going to cut power to Penrith to keep it on in Double Bay.

The cops won't be going into those places at that time, so you get the abandoned areas on the periphery of the city.

 

[Del191229]

The Guardian stabbed Julian Assange in the back, the BBC are owned by British Intelligence, the ABC have gone to sh*t, NPR are good for music tho. (But they do push alot of propaganda. Just cos i agree with a fair amount of it doesn't magically make it not propaganda.)

If I want to take in libertarian questioning approaches on say COVID, I'll listen to Joe Rogan.

Leigh Sales turning 730 into her own platform for Pentecostal inspired libertarian prosperity doctrine shit is disgusting.

 

[Val Keating]

They were a lot of fun.

Thank fu** their wasn't food dye around in those days.

There’s so many funny/wrong bits from that clip. The lady selling the stickers pointing to the “love it or leave it” sticker and the bloke says a lot of these stickers are quite misogynistic and she says yeah they are and then goes on to say that she draws the line at rape…wtf. it’s like a parody.

 

[blackshadow]

There’s so many funny/wrong bits from that clip. The lady selling the stickers pointing to the “love it or leave it” sticker and the bloke says a lot of these stickers are quite misogynistic and she says yeah they are and then goes on to say that she draws the line at rape…wtf. it’s like a parody.

Yes on all.

Things were always pretty loose but standards have definitely slipped since my B&S days.

I had a ceremonial burning of my B&S suit after my last one which was in the 20th century.

 

[koshari]

Ahhh the old B&S.

Many hazy memories of B&Ss in my youth.

hellova lot of fun. loved the sunday recoveries.

 

[blackshadow]

hellova lot of fun. loved the sunday recoveries.

Recovery was usually better than the ball!

 

[Val Keating]

hellova lot of fun. loved the sunday recoveries.

There’s a bit the next day where they go through the grounds and there’s a couple sitting there and they look like actual zombies. The look on the chicks face made me laugh so hard, probably because I’ve been that person.

 

[ferball]

That’s one way of looking at it.

Another would be that all the above organisations are imperfect and yet have each individually broken more important stories than every libertarian podcaster in the world combined. Cut the opinion and analysis out of the equation and just for a moment think about what you wouldn’t know about the world if it wasn’t for journalists at these institutions.

Why do you think Christian Porter is retiring this election?
Who do you think broke the Afghan War crimes story?
Which is the only news service in this country that guarantees 24/7 emergency broadcasting during bushfires?

First up - abc country radio is good. But it rarely breaks big stories or has any other influence on the country. Its local radio.

Everything else is part of that managed consent.

The Afghan war crimes story has resulted in a whistleblower being charged, facing death threats, ongoing harassment of his family and himself and the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison while the military look to avoid charging the people involved in the actual killings. Angus Taylor is still in government even if Porter isn't. And yet somehow people think things are working properly.

Many of these stories are a distraction, like Winston Smith inventing tales of war heroes so people have something to read.

 

[ferball]

There's also going to be straight resistance to the way govt deals with the impacts of climate change, and the simple effect of climate change.

Take NSW. They made very clear during COVID they are happy to have different rules for different parts of Sydney.

Western Sydney is already verging on uninhabitable a few days a year in hot summers, that's going to ramp up.

When the grid creaks during the super intense heatwaves coming, they're going to cut power to Penrith to keep it on in Double Bay.

The cops won't be going into those places at that time, so you get the abandoned areas on the periphery of the city.

This is something that got absolutely no traction in the media (well maybe it did, I ignore most mass media these days.) On one hand Gucci stores are essential, on the other people in SW Sydney gave everyone else covid.

Once upon a time the ABC would question that.

I dunno if you remember Stuart Littlemore when media watch first started, banging on every week about the way media ownership was becoming more concentrated and the problems this would cause in a decade or two. Here we are 30 years later and I've spent most of that time thinking "that's what he was talking about" after so many different things.

And the 7.30 report has become a farce. Its why people started using the term "their abc."

 

[Del191229]

This is something that got absolutely no traction in the media (well maybe it did, I ignore most mass media these days.) On one hand Gucci stores are essential, on the other people in SW Sydney gave everyone else covid.

Once upon a time the ABC would question that.

I dunno if you remember Stuart Littlemore when media watch first started, banging on every week about the way media ownership was becoming more concentrated and the problems this would cause in a decade or two. Here we are 30 years later and I've spent most of that time thinking "that's what he was talking about" after so many different things.

And the 7.30 report has become a farce. Its why people started using the term "their abc."

Sydney media had long ago decided COVID was a Victorian thing they didn't get coz Gold Standard Gladys.

Then when they did have the inevitable outbreak, it suddenly became something nobody could control, all we could o was vax and just fence off the worst affected places and pretend it wasn't happening.

Do you honestly think any of the upper middle class white kids who dominate the SMH or ABC have ever even been west of Parramatta?