Social War Room Lounge Thread #325: PotWR Edition

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The Diplomat said:
To be fair, a bit of decent promotion/cliffs might entice people to watch some random video.

Then again, sometimes you just gotta roll the dice, live a little, and press play.
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roll the dice and experience the Nexus in human form.
Bow down for the human god

 
Strychnine said:
<Fedor23>
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What made you want to regurgitate a bag of dicks all of a sudden? Dead pope hitting you hard? I don't think he would have approved of this trolling.
The Diplomat said:
To be fair, a bit of decent promotion/cliffs might entice people to watch some random video.
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It's also the case that a single sentence would usually suffice to summarize a video. But I guess the point is to help monetize the content of "influencers", not engage with other users about it. I wonder what his cut is.

It sucks though, because I brought this complaint to the attention of @Strychnine in particular since I expected that, out of the legion of users who do it, he'd be the one person likely to get it and set a good example going forward. It's quite disappointing. That's the kind of thing that could make me give up on this place and move on.
 

Trump administration investigating California university over foreign gifts​

DoE investigation revives reports that UC Berkeley failed to disclose Chinese funding for a now severed partnership

The Trump administration launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday centered on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government.

The investigation revives criticism from several years ago about the university’s partnership with China’s Tsinghua University. It comes after Donald Trump earlier this week signed a series of executive orders focused on universities that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda.

One order called for harder enforcement of Section 117, a federal law requiring colleges to disclose foreign gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more.

The Department of Education’s office of general counsel will investigate “UC Berkeley’s apparent failure to fully and accurately disclose significant funding received from foreign sources,” education secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

UC Berkeley denied the government’s claims, saying that for the last two years, “UC Berkeley has been cooperating with federal inquiries regarding 117 reporting issues, and will continue to do so.”

The department cited media reports from 2023 about UC Berkeley failing to disclose “hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from a foreign government” but didn’t mention the country.

On May 2023, the Daily Beast reported that UC Berkeley failed to report it got $220m from the Chinese government to build a joint Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), which UC Berkeley and Tsinghua University opened in 2014 in the city of Shenzhen to focus on “strategic emerging industries”, according to the institute’s website.

Last year, a report by the Republican members of the House select committee on the Chinese Communist party found that US tax dollars have contributed to China’s technological advancement and military modernization when American researchers worked with their Chinese peers in areas such as hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, nuclear technology and semiconductor technology.

In response to the report, UC Berkeley said Berkeley’s researchers “engage only in research whose results are always openly disseminated around the world” and the school was “not aware of any research by Berkeley faculty at TBSI conducted for any other purpose”. The university also said then it would unwind its partnership.

The university said on Friday it is no longer affiliated with TBSI.

Last week, the Department of Education demanded records from Harvard over foreign financial ties spanning the past decade, accusing the school of filing “incomplete and inaccurate disclosures”. Trump’s administration is sparring with Harvard over the university’s refusal to accept a list of demands over its handling of pro-Palestinian protests as well as its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...iversity-of-california-berkeley-investigation

@Sinister @Siver! - Didn't want to create another Trump thread
 
Andy Capp said:
What made you want to regurgitate a bag of dicks all of a sudden? Dead pope hitting you hard? I don't think he would have approved of this trolling.

It's also the case that a single sentence would usually suffice to summarize a video. But I guess the point is to help monetize the content of "influencers", not engage with other users about it. I wonder what his cut is.

It sucks though, because I brought this complaint to the attention of @Strychnine in particular since I expected that, out of the legion of users who do it, he'd be the one person likely to get it and set a good example going forward. It's quite disappointing. That's the kind of thing that could make me give up on this place and move on.
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Why in the world are you taking this so personally?

I posted a 3-minute video that I thought everyone could agree on and you're coming at me because they're no cliff notes? How in the world am I supposed to know that you require cliff notes with every video posted? Besides that, who cares? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but if a video doesn't meet the standards you require? You don't have to click on it.

Keep it moving.

Come on man, this isn't hard.

As I've stated in the past, unless you see my text in a different color. Then my comment is just another comment, just like everyone else's and you can exercise your free will to just scroll past it. You won't upset me by doing this.

I am sorry if this ends the relationship between you and I here on Sherdog.
 
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Strychnine said:
Why in the world are you taking this so personally?

I posted a 3-minute video that I thought everyone could agree on and you're coming at me because they're no cliff notes? How in the world am I supposed to know that you require cliff notes with every video posted? Besides that, who cares? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but if a video doesn't meet the standards you require? You don't have to click on it.

Keep it moving.

Come on man, this isn't hard.

As I've stated in the past, unless you see my text in a different color. Then my comment is just another comment, just like everyone else and you can exercise your free will to just scroll past it. You won't upset me by doing this.

I am sorry if this ends the relationship between you and I here on Sherdog.
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You're not?

This was your reply to my good-faith question about the video's content, remember,
Strychnine said:
The #1 reason why your life isn't how you want it is....





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My life? Not how I want it? You don't think I should take it personally? Yeah, you sound really sorry.
 
Andy Capp said:
You're not?

This was your reply to my good-faith question about the video's content, remember,

My life? Not how I want it? You don't think I should take it personally? Yeah, you sound really sorry.
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That wasn't directed at you, that was answering your post for the entire thread. I apologize that I didn't make it clearer and it was not a personal attack.

I apologize.
 
Mr Holmes said:
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I'm supposed to be bothered by that why, exactly? Because I "admitted" to it? Shouldn't you be off embarrassing yourself in your apologia thread where, now that Trump's scumfuckery harms you, it's time to speak out?

There seems to be a plentiful supply of bags 'o dicks around here lately. Off you go, now, and chow down.
 
Andy Capp said:
I'm supposed to be bothered by that why, exactly? Because I "admitted" to it? Shouldn't you be off embarrassing yourself in your apologia thread where, now that Trump's scumfuckery harms you, it's time to speak out?

There seems to be a plentiful supply of bags 'o dicks around here lately. Off you go, now, and chow down.
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Embarrassing myself? Sure. Go ahead carry on your cry baby bitch fit about not getting cliffs to a 2 min video, loser.
 
Strychnine said:
That wasn't directed at you, that was answering your post for the entire thread. I apologize that I didn't make it clearer and it was not a personal attack.

I apologize.
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You didn't answer with anything I could make sense of without clicking on the video, and when I said so, you responded with,
Strychnine said:
<Fedor23>
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What would you make of that in my shoes?

Look, the point is, if it were any of the regular mouth-breathers around here I would just ignore it altogether and the subject would never come up, but this kind of crap coming from you, in the lounge no less, when you could have just written one sentence to give me an excuse to click on it, not to mention your dissembling in subsequent posts, is disappointing, plain and simple.

Apparently, I'm annoyed about this because I'm autistic and not because of the dismissive framing of my concern. I'll have to give that some thought. Will you?
 
Mr Holmes said:
Embarrassing myself? Sure. Go ahead carry on your cry baby bitch fit about not getting cliffs to a 2 min video, loser.
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If you project a little harder you can reach the Man on the Moon. Now, shut the fuck up. You might learn something.
 
Andy Capp said:
You didn't answer with anything I could make sense of without clicking on the video, and when I said so, you responded with,

What would you make of that in my shoes?

Look, the point is, if it were any of the regular mouth-breathers around here I would just ignore it altogether and the subject would never come up, but this kind of crap coming from you, in the lounge no less, when you could have just written one sentence to give me an excuse to click on it, not to mention your dissembling in subsequent posts, is disappointing, plain and simple.

Apparently, I'm annoyed about this because I'm autistic and not because of the dismissive framing of my concern. I'll have to give that some thought. Will you?
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I literally apologized to you TWICE in my last post. Whatever else would satisfy you, I cannot give. Again,

I apologize.
 
On a different note I watched John Wick for the first time today. There was a marathon on so I figured I'd give it a shot. I'm probably the only man in America never to have seen one
 
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