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Clbullto World News•Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms | CBCEnglish2·2 days ago
Clbullto World News•Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms | CBCEnglish11·2 days agoKilling millions of innocent Iranians in a nuclear strike is a quick-fire way to turn the entire world against you. I sincerely hope this is a TACO situation and not Donald truly losing the plot.
Clbullto World News•JUST IN: Iran Ends Direct Talks With US After Trump Threatens to Destroy ‘Whole Civilization’English99·2 days agoThe US had a perfectly good nuclear deal with Iran, but Trump chose to rip it up nine years ago because it had Obama’s name on it.
Should come to no surprise that Iran don’t want to end this crisis diplomatically with the same guy who stabbed them in the back just to spite the Democrats…
Trump sparked anger and concern around the globe on Tuesday morning with his post, which read, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
I’ve not read the full wording of his Truth Social post until now, but why does it read like he’s trying to cut a wrestling promo?
I mean his description of the US airman rescue operation in yesterday’s press conference where he called the Iranian army a “hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military” was giving me Danhausen vibes…
Clbullto World News•Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with Iran isn't reachedEnglish46·2 days agoI’m looking at the /r/conservative subreddit right now. Of the comments that weren’t removed (and there aren’t that many, that place is a partisan shithole and a comment graveyard), it’s just accusations of Iranian bots, claims that the Democrats are clutching at pearls, and mental gymnastics claiming that this is part of Trump’s playbook…
How many world leaders have you seen make vulgar and genocidal threats like Trump has over the last few days?
Clbullto World News•Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with Iran isn't reachedEnglish26·2 days agoNow I’m sincerely hoping it’s gonna be another TACO Tuesday and Trump wimps out at the last second like he always does.
How he hasn’t been 25th Amendmented yet is beyond me…
Clbullto World News•Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with Iran isn't reachedEnglish4·2 days agoPASWG is an absolutely goated series. And somehow their script is less crass than the bullshit coming out of Trump’s mouth this Easter weekend.
Clbullto World News•Iran has a new demand to end the war – and it could bring in billionsEnglish31·10 days agoYes
Clbullto World News•Iran has a new demand to end the war – and it could bring in billionsEnglish25·10 days agoYeah, I’m sure Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and Oman would be thrilled to see Trump and Netanyahu effectively cede control of the entire Strait over to their rival. Especially when they’ve wanted zero part to play in this conflict.
And it’s so blindingly obvious that Trump started this whole spat in the first place to skyrocket oil prices and give an excuse to buy Russian oil and prop up Putin’s failing war machine.
Trump at this point is like a giant fat fucking toddler and we’re here to clean up his mess.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. OnlyFans gives me findom or financial exploitation vibes.
I’d also say they don’t exactly have a squeaky-clean reputation either. CEASE have raised concerns about young women being exploited by their audience. They’ve also come under fire for their leniency towards accounts that repeatedly post illegal content.
Do not get me wrong, I’m not defending the seedy practices of the porn industry, especially with all the crap that went down with GirlsDoPorn. But if I can’t even meet with ladies on a dating app because I only see hordes of fake spam profiles marketing porn to me, then it’s a sign that social media has been truly enshittified with content that doesn’t even belong on a lot of these platforms.
When I refer to amateur stuff, I’m thinking more like the earlier days of Reddit’s seedy side. The only NSFW sub that I think explicity bans OF models due to wanting to uphold that exhibitionist spirit is r/gonewild.
Clbullto World News•Russian pro-war blogger Ilya Remeslo locked up in a psych ward after criticizing PutinEnglish1·17 days agoLet’s also hope for him that they don’t have any poison dart frog toxins left.
Clbullto Reddit•How likely do you guys think it is now that Reddit might copy Discord and introduce mandatory face/ID checks for accessing NSFW content globally?1·17 days agoVery likely. A lot of US states, Australia and France have introduced such laws.
In just one night, I had lost a lot of the communities I interacted with over the years. Besides, you might hate Reddit (and rightfully so) but atm its too mainstream and widely used, and there sadly isnt a better alternative for a platform where you can access forums for any sort of niche topics, ask questions etc… Many of these are not available elsewhere, not even here.
If it’s any consolation, sites like Geocities, Slashdot, Digg, Tumblr, Twitter and Myspace were once mainstream. Reddit will fall, especially if Spez continues to drive that place down the shitter.
A lot of it has disappeared because PH removed all videos that weren’t posted from verified accounts back in December 2020.
EDIT: Example of what I mean by how much OF has ruined mainstream social media.
I went on Facebook earlier this eve. I saw a video from Bentellect show up on my reels, a content creator with 17M total followers across all his socials. About 60% of his videos are him reacting to people’s online posts. The other 40% (the ones that the algorithms are actually promoting) are ones of him and his girlfriend in their underwear picking outfits out for each other and doing some silly fake catwalk poses on a treadmill. And of course, each of these videos begins with her strutting past the camera, full view of her huge panty-clad arse.
Check profile, click link to Instagram, oh look, a LinkMe URL, which takes me to a profile where about 90% of the page is taken up by links to their separate OnlyFans pages, and about 5% of the page has a few puny buttons linking to Ben’s Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and X pages. And of course most of her videos are pay-to-view with some requring as much as a $100 tip.
This seems to be something he’s done ever since he started dating an ex-pornstar, which I assume was rather recently based on his post history.
I’m not exactly mourning this guy’s death. Not only because of his financial support for the US Republicans, but because OnlyFans has single-handedly ruined the online pornography and greater social media landscape.
You can’t go on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Tumblr, X, any dating app, or even Reddit anymore without seeing how much e-girls have astroturfed and spammed the absolute shit out of these platforms. And the way they get past content guidelines (which should’ve had them banhammered outside of Reddit) is with an allmylinks or linktree URL in their bio where half the links are trying to lull you into paying $20/month to see their nudes. Then you have models like Bonnie Blue who have genuinely gained infamy from doing it with over a thousand guys in a single day, in the kind of publicity stunt that has shown just how low the bar has fallen.
Amateur porn used to be about exhibitionism. Now it’s all shot with professional grade studio setups and you don’t get any kind of interaction or engagement unless you bankroll a model’s influencer lifestyle. We’ve genuinely commodified female interaction as a society and made bank off of findom. That I think is more damaging to society than the lack of ID & age verification checks on porn sites, and why I think the Dead Internet Theory held a lot of weight years before the rise and wide adoption of generative AI…
On top of that, it’s simply poor value for money. We rag on the television and film industries for the amount of competing streaming platforms they’ve created which have all-but-reversed the money consumers saved on cable packages, yet we simultaneously celebrate OF and its ability to let you subscribe to a single creator for twice the price as a Netflix-of-porn streaming service like Pornhub Premium or Xvideos Red. And it’s not as if porn isn’t freely available all over the internet…
Clbullto Technology•Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faithEnglish1·17 days agoYou had us in the first half, not gonna lie!
It’s satire. Gingrich didn’t even write the OG article…
Simple answer: Money. Because businesses would rather sell it for market price on the global market than for cheap to domestic customers.
Domestic production was one of the perks of North Sea oil exploration that was sold to the British public, but it never led to lowered gas or electricity bills…
Cortical Labs are the ones who pulled this off. They already have biological computers running on 800,000 lab-grown neurons available for ~$35,000 (just going on what a quick Google search told me) and are planning to open up a cloud computing service with its own API soon.
This makes me feel uneasy. Imagine if reincarnation were a thing and you get brought back into this world, and your purpose is to learn how to play DOOM.
I couldn’t be a teacher, because bozo would have been one of the kinder words I’d use in such a situation.