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https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/david-silverman-atheist-fired-loveual-misconduct?utm_term=.niYjyjxpPR#.annkDkyJvA
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2018/04/david-silverman-officially-fired-from-american-atheists-after-allegations-of-loveual-assault-and-financial-conflicts/

he's the guest on this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3AFMe2OQY

Quote
David Silverman, a firebrand atheist with a knack for generating publicity for his cause, has been abruptly fired as president of American Atheists, one of the leading secular organizations in the US.

The group’s board held an emergency meeting Thursday evening and unanimously voted to fire 51-year-old Silverman, based on explosive written allegations of loveual assault and undisclosed conflicts of interest, BuzzFeed News has learned.

“Last night, the American Atheists Board of Directors voted to terminate David Silverman as President of American Atheists,” the group said in a statement released Friday. The board made its decision after reviewing “allegations raised regarding Mr. Silverman’s conduct,” the statement said. The board also said it intends to cooperate with any future investigations.

Like many other communities in the #MeToo era, the atheist movement is undergoing a reckoning over the treatment of women in its ranks. In February, BuzzFeed News exposed allegations of loveual harassment against another prominent atheist, the physicist Lawrence Krauss. In the wake of that story, two women told BuzzFeed News that they were assaulted by Silverman. They each filed written complaints to American Atheists this week.

In one of those complaints, a woman described a hotel room party held at the end of the 2015 American Atheists Convention in Memphis. She used her name in the confidential complaint, but because of concerns about hostility experienced by other women who have made allegations of loveual misconduct against prominent atheists, she asked BuzzFeed News to use her first initial, R.

She and Silverman had known each other for years, and he flirted with her throughout the evening, she wrote in the complaint. After the other guests left, R. wrote that Silverman asked her to join him in smoking marijuana on the roof. But before they left the room, he suddenly forced himself on her.

“He physically pressed me to the wall and began to kiss me forcefully, grabbed my breasts, and put his hand into my leggings where there was actual entry of my vagina,” she wrote.

R. believed Silverman knew she was interested in BDSM and wrote that he began using insulting language, calling her a “dirty little whore.” He then pushed her to her knees, “where his snake briefly made contact with my mouth,” she wrote.

R. got her feet and said “no,” she wrote. Silverman then lightly slapped her face and said, "You don't get to say no to me."

At that point, R. said the widely used BDSM safe word, “red,” which stopped him, and then she left. The next day, R. took photographs of bruises where she said Silverman had grasped her, and these pictures were included in her complaint to American Atheists.

Two prominent atheists confirmed to BuzzFeed News that R. told them about the incident in the days after it happened.

*fedora tip*

/discuss

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Off Topic / the channel awesome groomer was jewwario
« on: April 13, 2018, 02:37:37 PM »
it's on reddit you'll find it

forgetin' /discuss

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I'm posting this so that we all know what the true ramifications of this "#Adpocalypse" are. Any time someone says the Youtube's demonetization spree is not a big deal I'm going to link them to this topic and you should too. I doubt this would even be covered on other sites, but since I'm subscribed to this guy I'm going to spread this story as far as I can and I hope you do too because this is loving sickening.

So I don't know how many of you are familiar with ZNA Productions. He's like JoergSprave and michaelcthulhu, someone who makes weapons in their garage/shed for fun and for demo tests. ZNA Productions's weapons, however, have an "apoc" bent, being usually made of diamond plating and the like. He's made some pretty badass stuff, like ice-skate wristblades and a shield that can electrocute things it bumps up against. I've been using his armor for references for drawing bandits because of how great it looks.




ZNA is a one-man team, Eli, who makes all the things and edits the videos together of him doing it. This means that he releases on a weekly schedule, unless something goes wrong, in which case he usually releases it a few weeks later. Again, he's a one-man team. All of his videos are actually pretty relaxing to watch because of how he edits them. None of the videos have swearing in them and there are only a couple videos with gore. His catch-phrase is literally "heck". This is important because of the parade YouTube has taken him on.

Let's get right down to business. He posted this video yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwEU6tOEtc

Entitled "We're Just Not Safe Here Anymore", talking about both YouTube and their real-life location.
Here's the TL;DR for the video if you can't sit and watch an eight-minute video:

A couple months ago, Eli made a crossbow in his garage and made a video on it. It took him two weeks of hard work and a week of editing and the building all took place in a garage with no insulation, meaning he was working in below 30-degree-Fahrenheit temperatures and had to take breaks. Upon uploading the video, it was immediately demonetized. Due to this, the sequel video finalizing the build was a sarcastic jab by him at the moderators, with all the times he said "crossbow" in the video being replaced by a jarring sound clip of him saying "toy". Upon releasing the video, nothing happened. Three months later, however, Eli got an email from YouTube saying that they had looked at his video and found it okay for monetization, even though it was already making money. The night before making his most recent video, however, he got ANOTHER email from YouTube saying that they had looked at his video AGAIN and had decided it was NOT suitable for advertisers. YouTube's decisions on whether something is monetizable in ZNA Productions's case seems to exclusively be "either it's demonetized or it WILL be monetized after the massive influx of views that would make up the majority of the incoming profits".

Worse, Eli is worried that YouTube is going to become a place where he can't even post his content. He is not a wealthy guy: in fact, he's quite poor. He was able to buy a moderately-sized house with his fiance/wife/girlfriend for supposedly $250k a few months ago, but because of this incident if YouTube decided to delete his channel, even if he and his girlfriend got jobs they'd barely be able to pay for their mortgage and wouldn't be able to pay for anything else besides that. They wouldn't be able to even feed their cats.

What does this mean? It means that Eli's going to have to go to trade school and take a job as a serviceman like a plumber, electrician, etc, meaning less videos. It also means that the couple is selling the house. The same house that they made several videos on showing off renovations they were doing to make it their own, they are now going to sell because of the way YouTube is treating them. So yes, the thread title is 100% accurate. ZNA Productions is being forced away from YouTube.

By looking at his channel stats, this should not be happening. ZNA Productions has over a million subscribers. The channel's views have been on a consistent upward trend for months. It's ridiculous how much money they're actually earning compared to what they SHOULD be earning. In comparison, Skallagrim and Lindybeige, two channels I'm also subscribed to and two channels who put out very similar content to ZNA Productions (weapons/demos), both have fewer subscribers and Lindybeige, in particular, has only a smidgeon more views than ZNA Productions yet both channels make SUBSTANTIALLY more money. You could say that's only an estimate but both Skalla and Lindy have not been openly worried about finances like Eli has so I beg to differ. You can look at the comparisons here. It's loving jarring.

So yeah. Good job, YouTube, you're actually driving away creators because of how loving handicapped you are. I'm actually pissed right now. I'm not just sitting back in my chair laughing my ass off like other times. This is actually infuriating.

motherloving /discuss

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Off Topic / what is this loving display driver bullstuff
« on: April 10, 2018, 03:16:58 PM »
okay so here's the rundown

I start playing dark souls 3 two days ago, sunday
I'm like "okay I want to play it again today" so I start the game

it's running literally at like a frame every two seconds, and the online server's like "forget this" and boots me back to the title menu because of how slow it's going
it was literally running 60 fps without a problem the entire time I played it sunday, and I got up to and beat vordt in that amount of time, the second boss

I check task manager and it has dark souls 3 running loving 90%+ of the cpu, and I'm planning to post the speccy temperature stats in a while
I'm also gonna try this with other games

does anyone know what the forget is happening I'm really sick of this loving bullstuff

EDIT:
OHHH
OH NEVER MIND LOL
IT'S JUST MORE DISPLAY DRIVER BULLstuff

DIFFERENT TOPIC AGAIN

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Off Topic / #ChangeTheChannel: Channel Awesome falls apart
« on: April 04, 2018, 04:58:20 PM »
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=309622.0 <- previous topic

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/channel-awesome-implosion-changethechannel
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/channel-awesome-loveual-misconduct-allegations/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdomr0qIYhY



Quote from: wendynerdwrites, tumblr
Things that Channel Awesome’s Management has pulled according to the #ChangetheChannel folks coming out over the last few days



A handy tumblr list (with links!) for people who are wondering what I’ve been talking about since Friday. There’s a really good compilation thread on resetera here. And the ex-contributors are working on a document compiling their past experiences. But I thought maybe a  tumblr compilation might help the curious until said document is completed.

1. Firing an employee who had worked for them literally every day, including holidays and weekends, because she had to take time off for surgery, then holding her severance hostage to have her sign a contract saying she wouldn’t work for another media site for 2-4 years.

2. Turning a blind eye to loveual harassment until it almost (or actually) got violent.

3. Not compensating people for days of work

4. Not providing food or water for people on their movie sets

5. Trying to force two of their contributors to do a rape/loveual assault scene



6. Spending $90k of viewer money on this:

https://youtu.be/klPkGfHAxqU

7. Buying a warehouse “studio” and not bothering to sound dampen it

8. Mass producing and selling prints of an artist’s work without informing or compensating her.

9. Firing someone for making anti-Gamer Gate videos.

10. Mislabeling videos in their queue. Then screaming at any contributors who mentioned the mix-up to fans.

11. Constantly changing scripts for anniversary videos so no one could learn their lines on time.

12. A general Wiseau-esque approach to filmmaking and treatment of cast/crew. Like, just WOW. WOW. RIGHT DOWN TO PEOPLE FAINTING ON SET. THERE WERE EVEN CAMERA SHENANIGANS AND THIS GUY HAS COVERED BOTH THE ROOM AND THE DISASTER ARTIST.

13. Not informing contributors that they’d be “retiring” the Nostalgia Critic character years ago.

14. General mismanagement of footage, videos, resources and staff. And expecting people to do tons of work in basically NO time.

15. Verbally abusing contributors (to the point of tears) for their advertising practices (the ad revenue that some were trying to live on, and practices that they’d eventually engage in, such as mid-rolls) (Keep in mind these people were not paid in anything but “exposure”)

16. Never addressing contributor issues and complaints. Insulting and harassing (female) people who had suggestions/complaints.

17. Shutting down entire sites without forewarning to the contributors.

18. General misogyny towards female talent.

19. Management not being available to site members. (Keep in mind that CA is a full blown corp)

20. This stuff. https://twitter.com/Obscurus_Lupa/status/974019689847427072

21. Randomly dropping people for “not posting videos” despite random rule changes and/or the videos simply not being scheduled right on the managers’ end.

22. This stuff too. https://twitter.com/Kitsunelaine/status/974395260263530496
Basically a “prime membership” thing that never produced anything that cost $30 to get “exclusive” videos…. that they mass-released a year later anyways.

23. A general creepy and flippant approach to the characters they wrote.

24. Ignoring the existence and work of contributors who had been there for years, including excluding them from video events directly involving their own extensive work, such as the Don Bluth Special. And using other contributors’ footage in “response” videos without telling them.

I encourage everyone to check out @marzgurl, @atopfourthwall, @chaosd1, and @allisonpregler. Check Marzgurl’s twitter here, Allison’s twitter here, Linkara’s twitter here, also Foldablehuman’s, Lindsay Ellis’s, Holly’s, and Pushinguprose’s twitter for more info.



as of now, Linkara, Todd in the Shadows, MikeJ and more have all left the company

this is really loving big

/discuss

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Games / Dark Souls remaster footage (network testing)
« on: April 04, 2018, 08:34:50 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_aTqCCZgBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ8i53iU9PE

it's just Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition with DSfix

what the forget

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so you may remember that last fall I got stuck in one of the worst rooms on campus due to a massive error in the housing lottery
I was over it at this point because I brought it to the office's attention and they were able to put me in a better room

well guess loving what
the same thing that happened last year is happening this year again
because why the forget not

so I get my time slot, and of course it's the bottom of the list like last year
a full day after all the good rooms are taken, just like what happened with my mom when she went here

so I think, "yeah, okay, so I'll select a stuffty room like last time, only THIS time I'll register for the waitlist, this time I'm loving prepared"
and I mark it down mentally and wait

today comes, I open up the search during my time slot

there are no rooms available for juniors anywhere

I'm emailing the supervisor in my building now
this is a loving god-awful nightmare hellscape that I have to keep doing annually and I'm loving sick of it

/discuss

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Off Topic / should the BLF be permanently deleted without warning
« on: April 01, 2018, 05:29:59 PM »
/decide

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Off Topic / Heineken - "Sometimes, Lighter Is Better"
« on: March 28, 2018, 08:31:05 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2wymLiEtxI

Quote from: Sources
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/heineken-pulls-ad-chance-rapper-called-terribly-tribal/story?id=54076138

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/business/media/heineken-tribal-ad.html

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/27/news/companies/heineken-pulls-ad-racism-accusations/index.html

Quote
Heineken said Monday it has pulled an ad with the tagline "Sometimes lighter is better" after critics slammed it as tribal.
The ad features a bartender sliding a bottle of Heineken Light to a woman. The bottle travels past several black people before arriving at the paler skinned woman.

The clip came under fire on social media. Hip-hop star Chance The Rapper called it "terribly tribal" on Twitter on Sunday evening and other users agreed with him.

"What idiots do they have approving this ad? Fire that person," tweeted Helen Ehrenhofer, who identifies herself as a former communications manager.

Heineken (HEINY) responded late Monday by pulling the ad from TV and the internet.

"While we feel the ad is referencing our Heineken Light beer, and that light beer is better than other high-calorie options -- we missed the mark, are taking the feedback to heart and will use this to influence future campaigns," said Heineken USA spokesman Bjorn Trowery.

anyone who thinks that this ad is tribal is a loving handicap

/discuss

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Off Topic / grandmother just died
« on: March 25, 2018, 05:31:33 PM »
I just found out about this now so I don't know a lot of the details but she was staying at an old folks' home out where my cousins live
I believe she was eighty or something so it was a nice long life
recently though she had been having memory problems and she wasn't able to travel at all

this just happened out of the blue
with my grandfather he had been at the hospital for a while before he died but judging from how sudden this is I'm guessing she may have died in her sleep or something
my extended family is going to be in a lot of turmoil for a while because of this, we all really loved her

so because of this I now have no alive grandparents

/discuss

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Off Topic / SONG IN THE SKY (Cartoon Series Pilot)
« on: March 24, 2018, 12:57:47 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elERU7kcGm0

just came across this, you'll have to watch it twice in order to understand everything but it is definitely interesting

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Off Topic / do you brush your teeth while showering
« on: March 22, 2018, 10:35:31 PM »
I just tried it to see if it would speed up my morning routine but it didn't really make a difference

/discuss

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Quote
http://www.newsweek.com/youtuber-count-dankula-who-taught-dog-national socialist-salute-faces-jail-hate-crime-853470

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/youtube-comedian-count-dankula-guilty-hate-speech-national socialist-dog-video-145920581.html

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/20/youtuber-count-dankula-found-guilty-in-shtposting-case-by-british-court/

"offending" video

response by tommy robinson

I mean how can you even report this objectively
this is such obvious bullstuff that I'm not going to even try for this one

motherforgetin' /discuss

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Off Topic / texting from my new phone AMA
« on: March 15, 2018, 06:57:56 PM »
google pixel 2 xl

/title

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