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Stultus Maximus posted:I think his mind has found a new track to relentlessly make non jokes on I spend more time
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JT Jag posted:Yeah but you aren't a bitter grouchy technophobe. Oh right oops. Sorry folks.  Wanamingo posted:Any excuse to post this (very unscientific) experiment somebody did, where they mailed stuff that shouldn't be mailed and then wrote down what happened. quote:Bald tire. The card with postage was strapped to the tire. Refused at station. I actually ordered a motorcycle tire online once, and this is exactly how it arrived. A card with postage was heavily plastic wrapped to the tire, but the rest of the tire was exposed.
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Jan 6, 2014 20:33
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Why is it a surprise that any ship to either pole is carrying at least a few researchers wanting to take ice cores and do, I dunno, research about arctic climates. It's not like a thousand ships go through the polar regions every day.
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Post 9-11 User posted:"Turns out my partisan, tasteless, baseless assumptions and accusations about a tragedy where actual people were murdered was wrong. Nothing else to do but continue to exploit their deaths in denying that I was wrong." So um can someone please give me a very short, minimal summary of what the Benghazi controversy is about? I only get news by reading, and once I realized how much of a shitshow it was, I started skipping over any headline that said Benghazi. Unfortunately, it's still a bit explosive of a topic to find a concise answer googling. All I know is it was an attack on the consulate, then it was a LEFTIST COVERUP (but I'm not sure why or how), and now something about the NYT's source being fake? I promise I will respond with nothing but a "thank you" to avoid a derail. It's just been coming up a lot here and it seems like fair grounds to ask about.
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Jan 7, 2014 17:48
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Thank you for all the info on BENGHAZIGATE. Hawai'i actually does have serious poverty issues if you look between all the well-off tourists and retirees. gently caress you cartoonist. Also, Hawai'i is really proud they finally have a president from there after so many decades of being a post-colonial vacation spot where "nobody actually lives." It really sucks that even when that president visits home, people are still all "luxurious vacationnn."
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MisterBadIdea posted:
Yeah, a weirdly high amount of the terrible comics in the global warming / why cold blog in the OP get this backwards, too. Snowmen are supposed to be happy they're not melting!
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I never have any loving clue what's going on in Day By Day. Is it because vast continuing storylines I'm missing, or because it sucks? Both? I mean usually when I read a serial comic for which I have no context, I can kind of fill in the blanks enough to have a clue, but Muir is consistently 
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Jan 8, 2014 17:01
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 A REAL cartoonist would have penned labels like "Jobless benefits," "food stamps," "crack money," etc. into the presents' ribbons.
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Jan 8, 2014 21:21
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Typically when I give a presentation on my research, I just leave one slide up while I talk, and it says "I am stupid and I pee in my pants and I didn't do any research of my own."
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Jan 8, 2014 21:36
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red19fire posted:Basically, California treats the film industry like a never ending well of free money by taxing the hell out of movies and TV filmed in the state. Something like 25% of their budgets disappear through taxes and licenses and assorted nickel-and-dime fees. Vancouver, New Orleans, Chicago, and lots of other cities have nowhere near California's level of taxation, because they see a huge boom in the local economy when Hollywood productions are in town.  "Uh, there is a $1,000 leaving town tax"
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KillerJunglist posted:Maybe it's because I get an embarrassing amount of news from this thread, but I hadn't heard anything about the Chris Christie bridge thing until conservative cartoonists went nuts saying there was too much coverage of it. After years of doing traffic advocacy work in my free time (from the bicycling perspective), I've discovered that nothing - NOTHING - gets people riled up like threatening* their commute, general traffic, or their ability to find parking. *or something they might perceive as a threat So what do you think is going to get TV ratings - a scandal about  traffic in NYC, given also that TV news treats NYC like the capital of the world sometimes? Or a scandal about some people we've never heard of being killed in "the middle east"? (which, if you lump it as one region, as many do, we already hear about americans dying there all the time)It's sad that traffic is what people get more concerned about, but I think it's true. tl;dr surprise, TV news outlets care more about ratings than about politics or the gravity of a situation edit: Sir Rolo posted:You're right, that Kelly is much more reasonable than this cartoon: is happening in this comic, I seriously have no idea except apparently al gore and glenn beck and some guy who loves osama
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Jan 13, 2014 21:35
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So the "MEDIA" is literally standing on the side of Hillary 2016, is that what I'm to make of this? Is that MEDIA person supposed to be anyone in particular? I mean I get it, the media is controlled by a vast liberal conspiracy, but is he being that obvious about it? It's so "wtf" that I'm not sure if it's that simple, or if I'm missing something. Also  about the handrail thing, that is great.
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gently caress, even the international news sources I read covered the poo poo out of every last one of those "scandals." Do these people read on  and/or facebook that "the liberal media has said nothing about the botched Obamacare rollout, clearly it's a liberal media conspiracy," and never bothered to flip to CNN or whatever and see OBAMA UNDER FIRE FOR WEBSITE PROBLEMS all over the drat screen?
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Discendo Vox posted:Is the joke that he overturned the car with the backhoe? If so, why are the EPA agents just sitting in their car? If not, why is their car sideways in a bush? Why is there a lieutenant in the EPA? Why would attacking EPA agents be a good idea in this situation? Why would water runoff pits be a bad one? I don't care if rain runoff erodes all my farmland at great cost to myself, and runoff trenches are an easy, relatively cheap method of mitigation. If it's required or even just encouraged by the EPA, gently caress it.
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Ever since Nixon founded that goddamn EPA... Wait, who? Well lucky for us, the majority of fines from important EPA regs are not meaningfully enforced by federal judges.
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Pfirti86 posted:I think it's just commenting on the recent pick up in criticism directed towards the Washington Redskins. What confuses me is how there was criticism against the Braves way before there was against the Redskins  "Redskins" is outright racist, like naming your team "the black men," how did it take this long to get serious, persistent public criticism? Compared to Braves which is just kind of weird and arguably even positive toward native warriors, not unlike calling a team hoplites, centurions, etc. I mean I wouldn't name my team the Braves, but I could see an argument for why it's not so bad.
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joeburz posted:What is the right's obsession with denigrating hybrid cars? Is it solely anti-progressive sentiment or is there an actual reason of merit to dislike cars with higher efficiency. Most people who denigrate hybrid cars just do so because they disdain anything "green," as others have said. There's the capital expense, which is a legitimate complaint, but that's not what's motivating most people who say hybrid cars are just plain stupid. edit: WHat I mean is, I think the cost motivates a lot of normal people who don't outright hate hybrids to not buy them, but people who like to speak out that hybrids are dumb never mention the capital cost or the "is it really worth it" in my experience. At the very best, when pressed for "why" I've heard some say they don't perform as well. "I like my car to perform well and electric just doesn't have as much power" and all. Funny thing is, this is absolutely false - it has been shown by engineers/auto-makers, systematic car testers, and anecdotally by pro drivers that the hybrid's electric motor provides much better low-end torque than the equivalent gas car, because the electric motor is a lot more versatile on the power vs. RPM curve. In fact, in "electric car drag racing," with extra powerful electric motors, people find that if you just slam on the accelerator, it'll accelerate so hard it literally tears the axle apart. They have to design custom systems to ramp up the acceleration as fast as it can without breaking stuff. So I don't know where people got this idea - possibly because "electric car" used to mean "electric cart," and those are kind of weak. Possibly because some hybrids have automatic efficiency controls that restrict the power just a little bit to save a lot of gas - but many modern gasoline cars have the same technology. edit: also, about "where does the charge come from," most hybrids on the road today are not plug-in hybrids, so the charge has nothing to do with the electrical grid. The car's electrical system acts as a middle-man between the gas engine and everything else, and results in a huge boost to efficiency, cause the engine can run under more ideal conditions. In this case, gasoline is the one and only power source, so the efficiency is well-captured in the gas mileage rating. alnilam fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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D.N. Nation posted:
There have been at least a few occasions where even oil company researchers have said "yeah there's basically nothing the government does that significantly affects gas prices." Why does nobody understand that oil is a global commodity and limiting domestic oil activity, at the worst, is slightly curtailing domestic oil profits and probably a few jobs. Also, refiners are making  by refining crude from cheaper midwestern WTI crude - no pipeline to get this crude on the global market yet - and selling it at global gas prices, which for some reason are pinned to the price of Brent (baltic sea) crude.Conclusion: anyone who talks about gas prices in a political context sucks and I hate them
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Ammat The Ankh posted:
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Discendo Vox posted:I personally would favor year-round predictions from the duck. The predictions are akin to the Platonic Ideal of Tinsley cartoons. I'm sure Tinsely would favor it too. He can basically flat-out write the messages he wants to without having to find a "clever" way to integrate it into "art."
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A character struggles inwardly with the push and pull of many complicated factors. A Smeagol Cartoon? 
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There have been several of these by now... what's the news item here?
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Ah yes now I'm sure those conservatives know exactly what it feels like to be a marginalized, sometimes criminalized outsider in our society. Also wait are they really, really pulling the "statue of liberty welcomes all" card? The same artists who probably want zero immigration (unless those immigrates are european and already highly educated)?
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Randler posted:How loving incompetent do you have to be to label a single character "Syria" when talking about a civil war peace talk? I asked myself the same question about the skele-Syrian on the last page. Seriously guys. It's a CIVIL WAR, meaning at minimum two (2) Syrian parties.
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:It's referring to a specific threat regarding female suicide bombers. They've been dubbed "black widows" because of the belief that they're doing it to avenge dead family members, often husbands. Male bomber: "another dirty moslem." Female bomber: "probably some crazed widow on her period." Could it be that the USSR normalized women in combat long before the rest of the industrialized world? edit: for those who didn't follow that link, it mentions several non-widowed female attackers and generally refutes the "widow" claim. Did they name themselves the black widows, which is a really cool name btw, or did the press / Russian propagandists name them that? alnilam fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jan 23, 2014 |
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oh so you're saying someone's OPINIONS should determine whether or not they can get MONEY? thanks CUOMO
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What the gently caress is going on here? Are we in... a theater? A stadium? And someone is depositing money on the chairs? What's this about rounds of golf? Obama is collecting wasted money, reining in actual government waste... A Good Cartoon?
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DrakePegasus posted:A town in Wyoming has just been converted to Indian territory. Brace yourselves, thread. Seriously, hidden in paragraph 4 of his own editorial is "The government bureaucrats, not necessarily distinguished in constitutional law, came up with a convoluted interpretation that under the Clean Air Act, the tribes and not the state can now dictate environmental policy in the disputed region." Can dictate environmental policy in the disputed region. EVERYONE RUN WE'RE LITERALLY INJUNS NOW Also way to get way off topic in the final paragraph, wtf is all that "federal government is the largest landowner" poo poo?
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Why isn't the tea party guy an elephant? Real question for people more familiar with the politoon world than I am: Would a democrat draw a democrat as a donkey? Would a republican draw a repub as an elephant? Or do you only animalize your enemies?
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EndOfTheWorld posted:H&R Block is running ads talking about how last year Americans had $1 billion in unclaimed deductions. Different commercials show the $1 billion in different ways -one of which puts a fat wad of cash on each seat in a stadium. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but if you're going to attack government waste, golf and vacations (which all presidesnts do) probably amount to like I dunno 100k tops. Definitely less than a million. Campbell, you could have at least gone after, I dunno, some billion dollar program that you disagree with that is of actual substance. Criticize welfare or IRS overhead or whatever you're big into criticizing these days.  nobody mention enormous wasteful military spending.edit: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ so... Rush is being escorted and protected by the liberal media, true racism, and the NFL?
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A few improved translations: The bread one is He who gives bread to The vodka one: The drunk thinks one thing, the drink-maker another. Speaking of talented + spanish-speaking, has Quino been discussed in earlier versions of this thread?  I saw this one a long time ago and can't find a good (higher-res) version anywhere. Also I'd appreciate others posting any Quino favourites. alnilam fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jan 24, 2014 |
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"I don't think the owners of chick-fil-a should be legally prosecuted for saying negative things about gay people" = I support free speech "I'm personally boycotting chick-fil-a because I don't like what their owners said (but I don't expect any legal action against them)" = I support free speech, but it doesn't mean I have to spend money at their eatery "I'm going out of my way to go to chick-fil-a in protest of a protest against what the owner said about gay people" = I also don't like gay peopleAm I making a strawman here? I really can't see any other reason.
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Why is one of the God Castle people shooting at their own foundation In fact, all of the God's Word people are loving up. Are they saying that Christians need to unify against the spectre of Humanism rather than focusing so hard on the balloon-issues, random shots into nowhere, and destroying themselves by dissent and doubt from within? A Stronghold Cartoon.
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