PhilipTheBucket

I mean, it was clearly at least partly in jest, but apparently the form was real and they really did go through customs for real.

https://www.space.com/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html

It does make sense. I don't think they wanted to set the precedent that coming back from certain types of spaceflight "didn't count" in terms of needing to pass through customs and it was just a free-for-all. It's the same way you still have to pay your taxes when you're the president, a relic of an older and more adherence-to-the-system time than the modern day.

Fun fact, they made the Apollo astronauts go through customs when they came back from the moon.

What did Ars Technica do, though?

Oh, I thought you meant no email address required to make an account.

Just having to register in order to read the feed is probably just for server load reasons, if I had to guess.

That's not how it works though.

I actually agree that registration is silly. It's trivial to create fake email addresses; all it does is present obstacles and slight privacy implications for legitimate users, while forming an incredibly mild speedbump for malicious users. But, it's probably not going away, every little tool in the toolbox that can be deployed by overworked volunteer admins against the unending tide of malicious users trying to make their lives more difficult is probably going to get deployed if it is easy to do.

Hey did anyone say loops yet?

Yes, I know the shows Carlson was on and the reasons he was ‘fired.’ It has been a while, but I remember the basics.

Which were?

I think Rachel Maddow and Tucker Carlson share similarities in some of the lawsuits they faced for their shows.

When was Rachel Maddow proven in court to have lied on purpose about something super important and cost her parent company almost a billion dollars?

Or if not that, what similarities did you mean?

MSM and Tucker were at the hip until he started going against the status quo.

He was always going against "the status quo."

Carlson said immigration makes the country "poorer, dirtier and more divided".

Carlson expressed his support for Donald Trump's candidacy and his positions, such as his proposed "Muslim ban", and criticized the other Republican candidates for not similarly making immigration a core issue.

Carlson opposes abortion and has said it is the only political issue he considers non-negotiable.[1][292][293] Carlson has described Roe v. Wade as "the most embarrassing court decision handed down in the last century".[294]

Carlson has also said that he does not consider climate change a threat.[336] Carlson argues that global warming will have many positive effects on Earth, namely "more arable land in places like Canada and northern Europe".[337]

Carlson said "Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semi-literate primitive monkeys, that's why it wasn't worth invading.".[364]

In a July 2018 interview about Russian involvement in U.S. elections, Carlson claimed that Mexico had interfered in U.S. elections "more successfully" than Russia by "packing our electorate" through mass immigration.[388]

In May 2019, Carlson defended Trump's decision to place tariffs on Mexico unless Mexico stopped illegal immigration to the United States. Carlson said, "When the United States is attacked by a hostile foreign power it must strike back, and make no mistake Mexico is a hostile foreign power."[390]

All of that was fine. The problem was when he cost them almost a billion dollars.

His rhetoric hasn't really changed, it's just gained a new and extremely explicit allegiance to Russia. That's pretty much the only difference between then and now (and he wasn't fired during any of the time when he was expressing it).

He was always anti-Israel, but I think that has more to do with the fact that they're Jewish than that he has any sympathy with the Palestinians. For example he keeps constantly anguishing about the plight of Christian Palestinians, even though their numbers are pretty much negligible.

This is so fascinating lol

Their dissenting views are more welcomed than the continued push of the Western regime’s propaganda we see from the Main Stream Media (MSM) since the day we are born.

How would you contrast Carlson's dissenting views with Mandami's?

Like what does Carlson think about Gaza, and what does Mandami? How do their views differ in that regard?

Do you know what show Carlson used to host and where, that was his big entrance into mainstream media, and why he got fired from it? There's a specific reason he got fired that is interesting. Also, there's another specific reason he just got fired from the mainstream media, but that one's a broader topic that gets into the difference between "a viewpoint" and the objective provable truth, which is pretty relevant to your whole shtick here. But, I'm asking about the first time he got fired, not the most recent one.

Isn't the fact that Carlson was extremely acceptable to the mainstream media, and they to him, apparently up until the point when he started costing them historic sums of money recently, relevant to your whole argument here? His whole thing used to be talking on the mainstream media in exchange for the MSM funding him to say a message they found to be acceptable.

Also what did Mandami used to do before he got into politics? Do you think he has sway with the working class?

You don’t change the system from within; the system changes you.

Does this apply to Tucker Carlson?

He's not part of the system, so he can be a voice that's worth elevating and amplifying so he can bring change? Something along those lines?

If he got into politics, would it be the same "we already know," would you know how it goes and so on and stop supporting him?

I've since learned that this person doesn't support Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Zoran Mandami ("I agree with some of his views, but I know where this goes, so I won’t hold my breath.")

Tucker Carlson, though? Iconoclast. He's breaking down Western narratives. The Fox News system doesn't change you... you change the system. Apparently.

What's your feeling on Zoran Mandami? You posted a podcast recently that had some pretty interesting things to say about him.

Vaccines and legal abortions are the status quo, too, but if I was talking with someone who got cagey when asked what they thought about vaccines and legal abortions, and gave generic answers while saying they really wanted to focus on the importance of underrepresented views like (whatever other topic they were talking about), that would pretty much tell me what I needed to know.