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Watched that 3 times last night.
Master Thread Dance Your Cares Away/Fraggle/Law Abiding Citizens
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From an amazing Michael Crichton talk:
“Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once
discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article
on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the
article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page,
and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything
they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against
evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper.”
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Do you think Taylor Swift or Mahomes family were a bigger distraction this year? LOL.
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The Swifties are up there, with the Bloods and Crips.
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Yes. Definitely.
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Mahomes was scared.
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Chef Knew Too Much - They Drowned That Dude
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"How do you slip one in?" Q
When they dump Joe for Mike... they didn't want any loose ends mucking up the works...
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The Girl to Guy Ratio is Going to Be Legend
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A cot, free meals, and a bullet in the head. What more could one want?
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Ukraine Getting Pancaked Again
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How can Biden and Austin support them with their lack of diversity
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Nancy Pelosi, husband betting millions on Nvidia despite scrutiny of congressional stock trading
Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat, bought 50 call options on Nvidia with a strike price of $120 and an expiration date of Dec. 20 of next year.
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Hamas rejects Egyptian proposal to end war with Israel, refuses free elections in Gaza
Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups operating in Gaza have rejected an Egyptian-led truce proposal with Israel that would see the militants relinquish power in return for an end to the war, sourc…
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Hamas is in control of UNRWA aid group in Gaza, Palestinian man says: recording
A Palestinian man living in Gaza told the Israeli Defence Forces that Hamas has direct control over the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA.
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New York Times sparks outrage over running op-ed by Hamas mayor: ‘You have no shame or dignity’
The essay by Yahya R. Sarraj condemned Israel for “caus[ing] the deaths of more than 20,000 people” and for destroying or damaging “about half the buildings” in the Gaza Str…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters chant ‘Christmas is canceled’ while carrying blood-red mock Nativity scene through NYC — scuffles break out, arrests made
Hundreds of anti-Israeli demonstrators converged on Midtown Monday, carrying a mock nativity scene and vowing that “Christmas is canceled” in the latest pro-Palestinian protest in the B…
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Who is we? He got a mouse in his pocket? Anyone who still trusts the former MSM at this point is a moron
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Most all the men are in mass graves at this point.
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Illegal Migrant Already Deported 5 Times Rapes Disabled Woman, Says He Was Possessed by a Demon.
German Mathews, 40, an illegal immigrant who has been deported from the U.S. five times, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. He pleaded guilty in
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They are the Blue Locust Plague. They move in, consume, produce nothing but shit, destroy everything that was good and then move on and find another place to repeat the process leaving nothing but ruin and devastation behind.
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Armenia Considers Departure From Russia-Led Military Bloc | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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U.S. national debt continues to soar in 2023; per-taxpayer burden reaches $100,000
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Another GOP Congressman ‘Swatted’ on Christmas Day: ‘They Left With Homemade Cookies and Spiced Nuts!’
A second Republican congressman was "swatted" on Christmas Day, hours after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was visited by armed law enforcement at her home.
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Ukraine Getting Pancaked Again
Let's be fair. It's not a hard battle for Russia when they are facing geriatrics.
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Clinton's Dad was a member of the Arkansas Mafia. He learned at an early age,
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Convincing people that Palestinians are not violent savages by being violent savages.
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Today's 30-40 somethings, who were indoctrinated their entire lives in school are now running the ad agencies. It's that version of the US taught in school they are implementing. Ugly people, mixed marriages (likely just shacking up) with Heinz 57 children, gay mixed marriages and more. They are also being given the reins of government to usher in their destructive beliefs.
