Trump's Second Term

theprestige said:
On the one hand, the Nobel Peace Prize is worthless.

On the other hand, the UN is not entitled to US real estate. Honestly I'm kind of surprised the EU hasn't already made a play for moving the UN from its current venue to something more accommodating.
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More to the point, the Nobel committee predates and is nothing to do with the UN
 
Screw it. I chewed out a poster for posting nothing but raw link, but that user does not appear to care.

I really, really wish people would get into the habit of repeating or summarizing content found externally, then posting the link so it can be verified.

The half-life of links on the web is two years. So if anyone reads this thread two years down the road, about half the links will already be dead.
 
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arthwollipot said:
Price of eternal vigilance. You miss out on a few things.

Personally, I don't want to see the content posted twice. How do we please the both of us?
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Re-post the content, then supply the link. For sites that XenForo can unfurl, you'll see a very brief summary. For other sites, you'll see the link. Bluesky is one site where repeating the content and then posting the raw URL will give you the content twice. But I prefer that to your post #26,900 in this thread. You posted it 5 days ago; do you recall what you were trying to say?

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theprestige said:
On the one hand, the Nobel Peace Prize is worthless.

On the other hand, the UN is not entitled to US real estate. Honestly I'm kind of surprised the EU hasn't already made a play for moving the UN from its current venue to something more accommodating.
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Europe already has 2 main UN sites: Geneva and Vienna.
Another one is in Nairobi.

If the UN left New York, it would almost certainly move to Asia, possibly China, to represent the shift in demographics and power.

Not something the US should push for.

en.wikipedia.org

List of United Nations organizations by location - Wikipedia

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Blue Mountain said:
Re-post the content, then supply the link. For sites that XenForo can unfurl, you'll see a very brief summary. For other sites, you'll see the link. Bluesky is one site where repeating the content and then posting the raw URL will give you the content twice. But I prefer that to your post #26,900 in this thread. You posted it 5 days ago; do you recall what you were trying to say?
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Since I am quite capable of clicking on the link and viewing the post on Reddit, which despite the fact of the picture being removed, gives me all the context that I need to see that it was a picture of the anti-Trump protests in the UK.

I just find it amazing that you are complaining about not being able to see content that you have specifically and deliberately opted out of being able to see. Do you want to see it or not? Either you opt out and block it or you can see it. That's how it works.
 
Reformed Offlian said:
“The day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts, and that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand,"

Stephen Miller must be a Democrat. I've been assured by posters in this forum that it's Democrats who hate people who vote differently.
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Kirk is being made into MAGA's Horst Wessel.
 
Random said:
If a Democrat becomes President again, the Ridiculous Six will just ignore any precedents that they have set. I mean, just take a look at Biden vs Nebraska compared to McMahon vs New York. In Nebraska, the SCOTUS said that Biden could not cancel student loans, even though the plain text of existing law said he could. In McMahon, SCOTUS allowed Trump to fire over a thousand Department of Education employees, even though the law said he could not. How did they justify the difference? They didn't justify it at all, it was put on the Shadow docket and Trump was given the win with no actual reasoning provided.

Conservatives have a 6-3 edge on our unelected Super Legislature. They used to at least try to provide pseudo-legal reasoning for their partisan decisions, but if they can get a case on the Shadow Docket, they don't have to do even that.
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I despise what the Supreme Court has become, but I hate the idea of elected judges.They will make decisions based on the next election rather then the law.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Europe already has 2 main UN sites: Geneva and Vienna.
Another one is in Nairobi.

If the UN left New York, it would almost certainly move to Asia, possibly China, to represent the shift in demographics and power.

Not something the US should push for.

en.wikipedia.org

List of United Nations organizations by location - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Hong Kong? Tokyo? Seoul? Sydney? India? UAE / Saudi? Certainly the UN is west centric given the population centre is India / China / Indonesia.
 
arthwollipot said:
Since I am quite capable of clicking on the link and viewing the post on Reddit, which despite the fact of the picture being removed, gives me all the context that I need to see that it was a picture of the anti-Trump protests in the UK.

I just find it amazing that you are complaining about not being able to see content that you have specifically and deliberately opted out of being able to see. Do you want to see it or not? Either you opt out and block it or you can see it. That's how it works.
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You're conflating content with providers. It's not so much "content that I don't want to see," it's "content from sources that I don't want my system interacting with," due to their rudeness to users, disdain for an open web, and their incessant tracking. If there are two sources to a story, one from Australia's ABC and another from Fox News, which link would you prefer to follow?

Or, perhaps the poster could give a one-sentence summary and the link, then you get to decide if you want to follow it or not. Or copy and paste the summary into a search engine if you don't like the source. To me, allowing this sort of choice is the polite thing to do. Posting the raw link is not polite because it forces everyone to follow it to see what the poster is trying to say, and short sighted due to link rot.
 
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Blue Mountain said:
You're conflating content with providers. It's not so much "content that I don't want to see," it's "content from sources that I don't want my system interacting with," due to their rudeness to users, disdain for an open web, and their incessant tracking. If there are two sources to a story, one from Australia's ABC and another from Fox News, which link would you prefer to follow?

Or, perhaps the poster could give a one-sentence summary and the link, then you get to decide if you want to follow it or not. Or copy and paste the summary into a search engine if you don't like the source. To me, allowing this sort of choice is the polite thing to do. Posting the raw link is not polite because it forces everyone to follow it to see what the poster is trying to say, and short sighted due to link rot.
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There's also the option of posting screenshots of the content, though they are not interactive. On Windows it's super easy - there's a default app called Snip & Sketch. I have it pinned to my Taskbar and use it all the time. You just need to draw a box around the content you want to screenshot, press the Copy button, and come here and Paste it into a post. I'm sure there's equivalents for Mac and Linux. This allows the content to be read without anyone actively having to interact with the host site.
 
arthwollipot said:
There's also the option of posting screenshots of the content, though they are not interactive. On Windows it's super easy - there's a default app called Snip & Sketch. I have it pinned to my Taskbar and use it all the time. You just need to draw a box around the content you want to screenshot, press the Copy button, and come here and Paste it into a post. I'm sure there's equivalents for Mac and Linux. This allows the content to be read without anyone actively having to interact with the host site.
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Even quicker on Windows 11, hit the "Print Screen" button, draw the box around the content you want, it will be snipped and placed in your clipboard, CTRL v in your post.
 
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