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The DUmpster / Re: I Just Had A Talk With A Nice Canadian Lady
« Last post by SVPete on September 24, 2026, 08:54:17 AM »
I've had a few call center jobs, high on the list of things you DON'T do is engage in political talk.  If the customer says something, just give a noncommittal response and move on to the job, or ignore it completely.  Bosses can be listening at any time, customers can turn things around on you in a heartbeat and get you written up and it ain't worth it.  So yeah, I call baloney sauce.

1. Call center calls are pretty much ALWAYS recorded and retained at least for however many years might be relevant in potential lawsuits' statutes of limitations. Many workers have time-to-resolution or number of calls quotas they must meet. So, yeah, a call center worker is not going to deviate from their script and job's purpose to burn time chatting about another country's politics.

2. I do not mean this in any demeaning way, but standard customer-facing/hearing interaction is all but literally scripted. That smiling Walmart greeter might, IRL, hate you or all customers, but they will still smile and greet you politely.
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The DUmpster / Re: I Just Had A Talk With A Nice Canadian Lady
« Last post by enslaved1 on September 24, 2026, 08:39:48 AM »
I've had a few call center jobs, high on the list of things you DON'T do is engage in political talk.  If the customer says something, just give a noncommittal response and move on to the job, or ignore it completely.  Bosses can be listening at any time, customers can turn things around on you in a heartbeat and get you written up and it ain't worth it.  So yeah, I call baloney sauce.   
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lostincalifornia (6,398 posts)

The next time our media is interviewing a republican, ...

... A PRESS WE HAVE ...

1. Partisan Freudian slips.

2. OhBummer!'s JPCOA was so effective that it gave a billion or two dollars that Iran used to fund its nuclear program that it blocked inspectors from seeing. Iran was within months or weeks of having a nuclear weapon plus missiles that could reach all of Europe except for Scandinavia (not sure about Ireland), northeast Africa, and western central-southern Asia, in summer 2025. Until Trump and Netanyahu buried Iran's underground nuclear facilities.

3. Like their Trump-Hating partisan MSM, DUmmies do not get that Trump Administration officials are prepared for MSM gotchas, with facts, and do not answer timidly. loserincalifornia's perfect gotcha would end with embarrassment for any "reporter" dumb enough to ask it.
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The DUmpster / Re: Embarrassing...
« Last post by SVPete on September 24, 2026, 08:09:47 AM »
UNExit, the US from the UN and the UN from the US.
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lostincalifornia (6,398 posts)

The next time our media is interviewing a republican, and they say "we cannot allow Iran to have
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a nuclear weapon"

WOULD SOMEONE FROM THIS BRAIN DEAD SORRY EXCUSE FOR A PRESS WE HAVE PLEASE ASK, "THEN WHY DID TRUMP RIP UP THE IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT THAT WAS ALREADY IN PLACE, WITH INSPECTORS ALLOWED IN DURING HIS FIRST TERM, AND IN HIS SECOND TERM WHY THE F**K DIDN’T HE START NEGOTIATING WITH IRAN USING THAT AGREEMENT AS A STARTING POINT, BUT INSTEAD THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO BOMB THE CRAP OUT OF THEM!!!!!!!

It is the elephant in the room that nobody asks about.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221522303

If this was pant suit word salad Harris going after Iran you would be cheering. F you
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The DUmpster / Re: Embarrassing...
« Last post by Old n Grumpy on September 24, 2026, 05:32:48 AM »
What the UN and the cluster of 3rd world despots that inhabit that particular cess pool on the Hudson River deserve, is a boot in the ass that sends the lot of them flying all the way to Brussels, Paris, Mogadishu or whatever urban shithole they finally land in after they're evicted from US soil permanently.

We should also stop funding them as well! :thatsright:

 :cheersmate: :-)
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I wonder what the studio system will look like in 10 years.



https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideos/s/n8Dk09zUiT
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Researchers Test a New Way To Find Pancreatic Cancer Before It’s Too Late

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-test-a-new-way-to-find-pancreatic-cancer-before-its-too-late/

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People at high risk of pancreatic cancer are often monitored with imaging and other tests that can be invasive, expensive, and limited in their ability to catch the disease early. An experimental blood test called PANXEON could give doctors another way to look for cancer while it is more treatable and potentially curable.

In an international study led by researchers at City of Hope, PANXEON correctly identified stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer 87% of the time. The study, published in Nature Medicine, evaluated the test in nearly 1,800 patients across the United States, Europe, and Asia to see whether earlier promising results would hold up across different clinical settings.

Finding pancreatic cancer early remains a major challenge. About 90% of patients are diagnosed at advanced stages, when their cancer has already spread. The disease has the lowest survival rate of any cancer, with just 14% of patients living five years after diagnosis.

Detecting precancerous changes in the pancreas
PANXEON also detected more than 64% of cases of high-grade dysplasia, an advanced precancerous condition of the pancreas often described as “stage 0” pancreatic cancer. Detecting these changes could help doctors determine which pancreatic cysts need active monitoring or intervention before invasive cancer develops.

Emphasis in original. One thing that makes pancreatic cancer deadly is that its symptoms are so non-specific that it often is not diagnosed too late for effective treatment. That was what happened, ~60 years ago, with my Dad's brother, and it is true now. Plus or minus Putin, Xi, and Kim III, I would not wish pancreatic cancer on anyone.
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/23
« Last post by SVPete on September 23, 2026, 07:24:25 PM »
A White Teacher of Wealth and Privilege Faked Black and Palestinian Ancestry for Years

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/09/23/a-white-woman-of-wealth-and-privilege-fakes-black-and-palestinian-ancestry-n4957569

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She's being called a “Palestinian Rachel Dolezal," in reference to the white woman who faked being black to take advantage of affirmative action programs.

Hannah Gann, a teacher in Philadelphia and well-known radical-left activist, was forced to publicly admit she was not who she claimed to be.

“I lied about my identity and have been lying for years. I have no Palestinian or Tunisian heritage,” she wrote in a self-aggrandizing apology on Instagram.

“I am a white woman of significant privilege and wealth. Anyone who supported me was manipulated and should not be judged as a result of their support for me,” she continued.
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Gann takes self-loathing to a whole new level. And in the end, she was exposed by her radical-left colleagues: the Racial Justice Organizing Committee and Philly Educators for Palestine.

“Members met with Hannah and questioned her about her background on Thursday and after an hour of discussion, Hannah finally admitted she lied,” the groups told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

 :popcorn: This is Blue-on-Blue. :popcorn:
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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 9/23
« Last post by SVPete on September 23, 2026, 07:22:24 PM »
Watch How Fast the Media Disappears This Story of a Black Woman Found Dead by Hanging

https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/09/23/watch-how-fast-the-media-disappears-this-story-of-a-black-woman-found-dead-by-hanging-n4957577

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American media have certain templates for certain types of news stories. Any time a black person is found dead by hanging, the default assumption is that it was murder, it was racially motivated, the killer or killers were white men, and no one wants to talk about it… as they talk incessantly about it.

When a story like this breaks, leftists automatically jump into a time machine and, for all intents and purposes, transport themselves to a time and place where fellow Democrats wore white hoods and “lynched” black people for no other reason than that they were black. The only glitch in the leftists’ time machine is that for some reason it mistakenly changes the political affiliation of the Democrat killers to Republican.
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Not even two weeks ago, my colleague Benjamin Bartree reported on another viral story that once again proved to be based on unfounded assumptions that required leftists to ignore the actual facts involved.

“Squad member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass., she/her pronouns in bio) came out September 10 with a banger of an X post, weirdly lamenting the ‘strange fruit’ hanging from trees — presumably referencing black lynching victims based on the context — across the country and ‘demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings,’” Benjamin wrote.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) jumped on the bandwagon with her own take on X.

X users, through Community Notes, quickly corrected AOC and Pressley, simply by reading up on the actual deaths, something the esteemed congressional reps failed to do. What they found was that, “While the letter cites 10 hanging cases in 2026, local law enforcement and medical examiners have ruled the majority as suicides, including the cases of Juliana Nzita and Kyle Bassinga. Only one case is currently being investigated as a homicide.”
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So, what do you think will happen with this story out of Jackson, Miss.?

That's where law enforcement authorities say that a black woman, eventually identified as Tasia Fortune (29), was found hanging from a tree. The horrific scene was discovered behind an abandoned home on August 3. How do you think the news media and the left reacted at first?

Doesn’t this crime check all the boxes? Black woman, Mississippi, hanging.from.a.tree.
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Except none of that was true. The actual story — you know, the truth — is that Jackson police say that so far, they’ve arrested two of three suspects in the case and both of them are black men. On Sept. 22, they arrested Earnest Lloyd Jr. (25), after earlier apprehending Jarques Ratliff (51) on allegations that they committed the crime.

Emphasis in original.

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Mississippi police make 2nd arrest in death of Black woman found hanging from tree, seek 3rd suspect

https://srnnews.com/mississippi-police-make-2nd-arrest-in-death-of-black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-seek-3rd-suspect/

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

Jackson police said late Tuesday that they arrested 25-year-old Earnest Lloyd Jr. in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, whose body was found hanging behind an abandoned home in the city on Aug. 3.

Like Fortune and the first man arrested, 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, Lloyd is Black. He appeared at a brief hearing Wednesday in Jackson.

Fortune’s mother Christy Spivey, who attended the hearing, said afterward that she was ecstatic to see arrests made in her daughter’s death. She said that neither she nor several of her daughter’s friends knew Lloyd, and she cautioned that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. “My family is not the only family that this is affecting,” Spivey said of the defendants’ families. “I feel for them as well. The only difference is that mine can never come back. At least they can have telephone visits.” “I’ll never truly have peace,” she said
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