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Hey did anyone know that a bunch of Nazis marched through Washington DC yesterday? https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/02/08/us/politics/08reuters-usa-protests.html quote:WASHINGTON — Police escorted masked members of a white nationalist group on a march through Washington's National Mall on Saturday that Metropolitan Police said occurred without incident or arrests.
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BigDave posted:Hey did anyone know that a bunch of Nazis marched through Washington DC yesterday? Yeah I was following that. KKK also threatened to march into Portland but never appeared.
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BigDave posted:Hey did anyone know that a bunch of Nazis marched through Washington DC yesterday? Please they're just good people who are very concerned about their gun rights
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Jesus the Times is such loving garbage. A combined household income of $560,000 is most definitely a part of the top percentile, but within that percentile, it’s absolutely at the lower end. Yes, but you see he wants to tax the 1%* although he is the 1%, what a hypocrite! Yes I am a very smart and educated person. *I thought his thing was *in bernie* "The 1/10th of 1 percent"
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stealie72 posted:And if we see it sometime in the next 642 years, it's already happened. This kind of stuff still blows my mind.
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Bored As gently caress posted:This kind of stuff still blows my mind. To some extent, researchers think it's the same general problem with government budgetary numbers. At a certain point, our brains just break because the numbers are too high and we just give up or don't have the experience to create an accurate mental frame. Turns out, space is really, really, really loving big.
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Feb 10, 2020 01:29
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shame on an IGA posted:I played with goonfleet for about 3 months, years ago, and Spreadsheets:the game was accurate but getting firsthand experience with I played from 2008-2015 and was either an alliance CEO or a Goonswarm diplomat for most of that time. It did an exceptional job of training me to write and evaluate corporate policy and governance, and I owe my new career in enterprise risk management in large part to the experience I got from it. (I even got referred to my job by a former GSF director.) It was a game that made my ability to write far more important than my reflexes - something no other game had ever done before, and I loved it for it. It's justifiably mocked, but for a long time it offered opportunities to study how humans work in various organizational contexts at scale that I don't think existed anywhere else. Its value shouldn't be understated, and I'm sad it's dying even though I have zero desire to play it again. It taught me more than I can really express. Also audits get me hard now, so there's that. bird food bathtub posted:That stuff is super hosed up and if you do more digging and learning about it you're probably going to get even more terrified. Like, "Oh your score is low from saying double plus ungood words on social media and our facial recognition technology locating you in proximity to other unpersons. Your travel is restricted you're not allowed to get on airplanes." And if your score goes down, your family's scores all go down, and they literally call your mom and tell her you've been a bad. The opportunities for zersetzung are off the hook... as intended. There are rewards for being good too, everything from free refrigerators to vacations to access to financial products. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Blind Rasputin posted:I don’t get it CommieGIR posted:Albert Speer. Trump is basically wanting to regulate buildings in DC like Adolf Hitler wanted to redesign Berlin through Speer. Here's a great piece on Hitler and Speer's obsession with Neoclassicism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTfbBvIEbfA&t=1308s Every despot sees themselves as an architect; of a nation, of a people, of a society, and they want their nation's buildings to reflect that. Dictators are drawn toward neoclassicism because its grandiose style is flattering to the builder's ego, because it hearkens back to a mythical "golden era" that the modern dictator sees himself as a descendant of, and because it's free of "international influences."
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Kesper North posted:It's justifiably mocked, but for a long time it offered opportunities to study how humans work in various organizational contexts at scale that I don't think existed anywhere else. quote:study how humans work quote:humans 
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Feb 10, 2020 02:46
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Buttcoin purse posted:Is "people who play Eve online" a good cross-section of society? oh yes, very good point and important to remember. if you're trying to study hosed up tech companies though it's basically ideal and it applies widely to other areas of the business world too (like large healthcare organizations, for example). if your job is how to mitigate those issues with just enough policy but not too much, EVE is a pretty interesting laboratory. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Feb 10, 2020 02:57
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I'm really starting to understand why people have such a kneejerk reaction to "liberal" climate policies.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:59
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that raked bow makes me pointy in the lower horn though, not gonna lie
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Kesper North posted:that raked bow makes me pointy in the lower horn though, not gonna lie Tumblehome prow.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:12
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I’d be fine with all but $100 million of his wealth being confiscated and used to wipe out a heckuva lot of medical debt. He’d still live in unimaginable luxury, just would need to rent the yacht.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:16
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Same but half that. You can only have 50 mil. The horror
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Feb 10, 2020 03:30
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2006: https://twitter.com/alissamarie/status/1226692987696099328 2020: https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1226694141456900096 I mean, gently caress the Oscars, but I had no idea Lynch did that poo poo in 2006.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:37
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Oh man all the internet star wars bros gonna be mad, because they've never seen a movie that wasn't made about comic books or sci fi properties and will just assume this is entirely about the academy siding with Rian Johnson,
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Feb 10, 2020 03:54
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Wow Laura Dern still got it
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Feb 10, 2020 03:57
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Laura Dern owns
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Fallom posted:Laura Dern owns
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Slim Pickens posted:What the gently caress, Petry. I was in the same platoon as that dude and back then he was a good squad leader and a solid dude. Trump rolls around and I try to ignore his support, now the dude is full chud willing to make poo poo up for the propaganda machine. Now I get how shim felt. It really sucks that he's still the only guy from regiment to get a MOH. I know a few guys got it in Vietnam but he's the only one since it became the 75th.
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Feb 10, 2020 05:31
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David Lynch pissed somebody's interrupting his smoko
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Imagine being this guy tho https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1226683232378380289?s=19
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Eej posted:Imagine being this guy tho I mean I think Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was great too but what the gently caress is wrong with that rear end in a top hat? gently caress, Twitter sucks rear end. Edit: He's a Blaze TV host. Of course he is.
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Feb 10, 2020 06:12
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Racists are racist.
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Feb 10, 2020 06:26
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I think the Oscar's are dumb and pointless and I think make a point of trying to see as few movies that area nominated as possible, but I did go see Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, and that movie doesn't deserve any awards for writing. What a complete crap story.
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Feb 10, 2020 07:16
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Can't wait till tomorrow when Are President congratulates Parasite for winning but manages to turn it round to illegal massagists and drycleaners and toenail clippers and ninjas who should not be in are country
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Parasite is an excellent film by the way with lots of subtext (and explicit text) on capitalism, highly recommended.
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm really starting to understand why people have such a kneejerk reaction to "liberal" climate policies. I would bet money that he has stock in components manufacturers and shipbuilding facilities and this super expensive proof of concept will align a product chain that, if renewable ships take off before we evolve gills and plunder the seven seas for oil, will make Bill Gates more money than the yacht costs (not to mention saving on rental fees). As for most hydrogen being a byproduct of fossil fuels, that will hopefully change with time and development.
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A hydrogren-powered superyacht has value as a technology demonstrator. It'd be way better if it wasn't built as a billionaire's toy but honestly I don't see anyone else funding one in the near future. I mean, in the 1950s this sort of ship would've been built by private industry and subsidized by the government but  at that happening for anything that doesn't go shooty-shooty these days.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:A hydrogren-powered superyacht has value as a technology demonstrator. It'd be way better if it wasn't built as a billionaire's toy but honestly I don't see anyone else funding one in the near future. And that actually happened too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah quote:Savannah was a demonstration of the technical feasibility of nuclear propulsion for merchant ships and was not expected to be commercially competitive. She was designed to be visually impressive, looking more like a luxury yacht than a bulk cargo vessel, and was equipped with thirty air-conditioned staterooms (each with an individual bathroom), a dining facility for 100 passengers, a lounge that could double as a movie theater, a veranda, a swimming pool and a library. Even her cargo handling equipment was designed to look good. By many measures, the ship was a success. She performed well at sea, her safety record was impressive, and her gleaming white paint was never smudged by exhaust smoke (except when running the diesel generator).
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quote:Additionally, a labor dispute erupted over a disparity in pay scales between deck officers and nuclear engineering officers.
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C.M. Kruger posted:And that actually happened too. That's the example I was referring to, actually.
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lol jesus https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/trav...-zealand-flight quote:"There was nothing I could have done other than raise my hand out of fear of being hit because she was extremely violent... Out of pure instinct and protection I raised my right hand and hit her nose, which wasn't bleeding until much later when she called the police." drat them
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:A hydrogren-powered superyacht has value as a technology demonstrator. It'd be way better if it wasn't built as a billionaire's toy but honestly I don't see anyone else funding one in the near future. It’s a technology demonstrator for an attractive distractor. It’s no more valuable than a Hyperloop demonstrator.
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Wsj article this morning about mayor pete:quote:When Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks about his military service, his opponents fall silent, the media fall in love, and his political prospects soar. Veterans roll their eyes.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:lol jesus Man gently caress that lady. She is the exact reason why airplane travel is so miserable. Also is there a super 8 motel equivalent in upside down land? I don't understand how spending 150 bucks for 2 nights in a cheap hotel would break your budget when you are doing a world tour?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Wsj article this morning about mayor pete: On the one hand I dislike Pete and wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him and his touting his military service at every turn seems masturbatory. On the other, do the GOP former military ever get anywhere near the same level of scrutiny
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Sean Spicer also went the Navy Reserve officer route. He has Naval War College on his resume, but that didn't happen until he'd been in the reserves a decade.
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Milo and POTUS posted:On the one hand I dislike Pete and wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him and his touting his military service at every turn seems masturbatory. On the other, do the GOP former military ever get anywhere near the same level of scrutiny Richard Reinhold Priebus and Lindsay Graham get all sorts of poo poo for being reserve whackos. They also don't talk themselves up as if they've seen combat action. This isn't swiftboating. Mayor pete was a war tourist to get a check in the box for his presidential ambitions.
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