Sanitation posts absolutely whatever here and never takes it down regardless of pushback. Like a week ago or so, they posted a Times of India article (absolute shit outlet that takes bribes for positive coverage) published this month about a story that happened c. March 2024 as if it’d just happened. This was called out in the comments. Their response when I DM’d them pointing out irrefutable evidence in the comments and politely asking them to take it down (they replied to me just today) was basically “Do I have to? Just let them downvote it lol”.

Just knowingly flooding Lemmy with garbage. They shouldn’t be allowed to post in news comms with such shameless disregard for quality.

It’s a shame, because games like this used to come with manuals that could work in a pinch.

!comedyheaven@lemmy.world

What told you that? The words “Image Credits: ChatGPT” or the fact it’s blatant and thematically relevant?

So Sports Illustrated has been kind of complicated these last several years. Pretty much the only reason I put it here is because the screenshots themselves on every other website I could find were through the X API, which is a) fragile in terms of link rot and b) not ideal for anyone not wanting to give Musk traffic.

On Wikipedia, we use their post-June 2019 articles on a case-by-case basis. Moreover, this is part of their “on SI” thing, meaning that it’s “MMA Knockout” which Sports Illustrated hosts.

As for that specific link, I don’t think MMA Knockout or this author is some kind of meticulous consent-manufacturing machine; I chalk it up to incompetence and lack of care. I’ve written a lot of articles, and I can think of a ton of times where I either linked to the wrong thing (probably not the case here), accidentally placed a link in the wrong part of the text, or even very often had text with a relevant link/citation and then accidentally left it when I changed the text to something unrelated. It’s a real thing that happens, and I have to assume MMA Knockout has minimal editorial oversight to catch these sorts of issues. (If I were assuming malice, I would chalk it up to shameless SEO, not to manufacturing consent, but that’s also I think farfetched because you could just shoehorn in “relevant” text.)

Here’s McFeeters’ campaign statement, for those wondering. I was with him until he started throwing “globalist” into the mix left and right.

That is, I don’t know if the “small group of men [who] have controlled the creation of money, manipulated markets, and accumulated enormous power” are the same ones I’d be thinking of. Somehow probably couldn’t have been worse than Tuberville, though.

Edit: I also just want to say that McFeeters looks like Joe Biden’s deep-south cousin who’s also a mascot for grits.

Why are you assuming the rodent is of unusual size? It could be the rodent, could be the elephant, could be both. As stationary observers in a vacuum, we simply cannot know how big these are relative to anything else.

Even the text could be in rodent-point font.

Are you seriously just going to dodge these accusations of Woods recording his distraught wife for his mistress’ amusement? Is there something you’re not telling us about your own cruel voyeurism?

Here are the alleged screenshots. (Edit: Without having to allow the X API.)

Here’s a link to Elson’s website where the colors aren’t quite as saturated and there isn’t that small crease running down from the upper-left.

You’re right. In fact, I suspect Jaimee wanting to watch “desperate housewives” was her asking to watch secret footage Woods recorded of his wife Elin Nordegren whenever she was distressed. Utterly depraved.

Edit: Joking aside, “the benefit of the doubt” implies there’s doubt, but you’re manufacturing the doubt. People in a normal, healthy headspace do not think this way about text messages.

Yeah, if there were a pattern of that, I might agree. You’re taking a single data point and extrapolating way beyond reason. If you look at the rest of the texts, there’s nothing to suggest he treated her like you’re suggesting, and even if we didn’t have those other texts, there are just a million reasons why someone might’ve not gotten back until that third message. You’re chalking up what’s exceedingly likely just a coincidence (again, it’s an hour) to malice.

There’s literally even another text that reads: “don’t text me back till tomorrow morning. I have to many people around me right now”. Like this is an obvious problem for anyone cheating, let alone a celebrity. It was, again, the middle of a Wednesday; there’s no reason to expect Woods wasn’t just, like, a little busy for an hour. (Edit: I personally did this yesterday, realizing I outright forgot to reply.)

Nah, the unknownmuncher got it right before I did: if you think an hour between text messages is “the silent treatment”, you need to seriously reevaluate how you treat text messages.

You’re extrapolating way too much from these six texts. Like Tiger Woods is not a good person, but you’re seriously just assuming way too much here even accounting for that.

These were leaked by the New York Post in December 2009, so the lack of a year indicates September 30, 2009. (Woods was cheating with Jaimee from about April 2007 to December 2009.) I can think of a million reasons why a celebrity athlete in the middle of a Wednesday might not get back to their secret love affair via text for over an hour, let alone in an era where a text message was socially even less urgent than it is today.

Unless it’s obviously urgent, waiting an hour between messages is 100% normal; it’s a text message.

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. I’d always been reading the rounded figure of $1.8 billion. It was specifically $1.776 billion?

I hate this fucking country right now; jesus christ.

Grimes County

Can someone give the writers a good kick in the groin for this one?

Here’s the study.

“Stop using meta people!” sounds like a protest chant for the second-class citizens of a B-grade cyberpunk dystopia.

Calling out the ever-popular duo of cynicism and inaction on Lemmy is not going to go over well.

Genuinely the only reason I’m not calling for her resignation is that she’s a federal judge and Trump could only somehow replace her with someone much, much worse.

In a sane world with sane replacements, she should resign.

Edit: looks like she has impeachment charges against her. I wonder how that’s going to go.