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Repost it, except m is now the answer to one of those previously unsolved maths problems. C'mon facebook genius moms, you can do this!
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chitoryu12 posted:I found that way too fast. There are at least 3 of them.
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chitoryu12 posted:I found that way too fast. Well? Share if you found it! wizzardstaff posted:There are at least 3 of them. There's four, as far as I can tell. They form the corners of a square Edit: wait no they don't. The lower right corner is out of whack. Oh man now I'm the social media idiot! 
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https://twitter.com/janerichsen/status/1245707839789838340 "my knife sculpture"
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The worst is that math post with symbols representing numbers and equations where the last one has order of operations issues. It must be specifically designed to get people to argue and it just keeps popping up with different symbols.
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Faustian Bargain posted:The worst is that math post with symbols representing numbers and equations where the last one has order of operations issues. It must be specifically designed to get people to argue and it just keeps popping up with different symbols. My mother posted one yesterday where the symbols in the final row was slightly changed to incorporate the others (the default symbols were a guy and a pair of shoes, the final row had a guy wearing tiny shoes) which I thought was a nice twist on top of the order of operations schtick. But yeah those are 100% designed to drive engagement with people smugly commenting with their own answers and corrections so that the page owner builds up a nice list of accounts to sell. That, or just this: 
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Apr 2, 2020 19:09
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Scratch Monkey posted:https://twitter.com/janerichsen/status/1245707839789838340 Yeah this guy was always an amputation waiting to happen.
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Scratch Monkey posted:https://twitter.com/janerichsen/status/1245707839789838340 He is just a Knives Out fan and there is nothing wrong with that.
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there wolf posted:The Political Cartoon thread was kind enough to dig up this really good cartoon about it and other neo-fascist symbols and signs in the post-9-11 word. I know it's not the main thrust of the article but I'd be interested in seeing a source for the Jolly Roger being used primarily by privateers. I was under the impression that pirates flew it specifically to distinguish themselves from privateers and government ships--as the latter were expected to show quarter to surrendering enemies even if they had been resisting and pirates very much were not--so you'd better just be safe and just hand over your poo poo right from the start.
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christmas boots posted:I know it's not the main thrust of the article but I'd be interested in seeing a source for the Jolly Roger being used primarily by privateers. I was under the impression that pirates flew it specifically to distinguish themselves from privateers and government ships--as the latter were expected to show quarter to surrendering enemies even if they had been resisting and pirates very much were not--so you'd better just be safe and just hand over your poo poo right from the start. It's not correct. Privateers were generally required to fly a variant of their hiring nation's flag, which would distinguish them from naval vessels but also indicate that they weren't just regular pirates. Many of these privateers turned to piracy after the wars settled down and their services were no longer required, and the skull/skeleton on a black or red background spread rapidly over the years. I would also be very hesitant to call privateers a "loose paramilitary organization."
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Apr 2, 2020 20:03
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Scratch Monkey posted:https://.com/janerichsen/status/1245707839789838340 to be fair to him, he made it himself and he's a artist who does weird performance art with popping balloons and other weird stuff. https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/jan-erichsen-balloon-destroyer-art-instagram-famous-60217/
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 What makes this even worse is that Layla Moran has only really mentioned being pansexual when she came out, and that was only because the tabloids threatened to out her anyway. Looks like a decade since that infamous "Brazilian transsexual" opinion piece hasn't taught Suzanne not to say such stupid things.
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Okay, short version of how that comic is wrong: Privateers are basically mercenaries. They're given a letter of marque that puts them legally in the employ of a particular government, giving them permission to attack and plunder vessels of an enemy nation. The letter would indicate exactly what they were and weren't allowed to do and they generally had to follow laws and treaties to avoid getting in trouble with the admiralty court. They had to return captured vessels to get prize money or have the vessel legally transferred to their ownership. You would actually want to fly distinctive colors and keep your letter of marque on hand to avoid accusations of piracy, because that was a capital crime. Pirates don't have a letter of marque and generally attack whoever. They may sail under false colors or pretend to have a letter of marque for deception, but they're operating illegally. Privateering is legal, piracy is not. The famous age of piracy with captains like Blackbeard, Black Bart, and Anne Bonny began when the War of Spanish Succession ended in 1714 and a ton of privateers ended up out of a job and not really knowing what to do except keep robbing ships. Triangle Trade became a huge thing at that time as well, which led to a rich field of potential prizes for anyone willing to become a pirate. The only way you could ever call privateers and pirates a "loose paramilitary organization" is if you take into account that they generally didn't attack each other and made attempts at alliances and even forming a free state at Nassau. Funny enough, Assassin's Creed IV is actually a reasonably accurate depiction of this era and the relationships between the pirates for the time (obviously accounting for the fictional aspects). Stede Bonnet wasn't quite as silly and tubby as he is in the game, but he was just a wealthy landowner who got bored and annoyed with his wife and decided to commission a ship and become a pirate for the fun of it. It lasted up until he got hanged.
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Because a black person taking out a gun when being arrested by the police always ends well: https://twitter.com/AnarchyDotGov/status/1245768568022667269
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TinTower posted:Because a black person taking out a gun when being arrested by the police always ends well: Taking away the guns from the police is probably the only thing that kept her alive.
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Skwirl posted:Taking away the guns from the police is probably the only thing that kept her alive. I mean, sometimes not even that's enough in Britain; remember when CO-19 shot Mark Duggan, who promptly threw his gun over a fence twenty feet away as he collapsed and died?
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chitoryu12 posted:Okay, short version of how that comic is wrong: If I remember my pirate trivia that I was reading when Black Sails was airing, the skull and 2 swords version of the Jolly Roger was Calico Jack Rackham's flag, and the skull and crossbones was Black Sam Bellamy's.
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So that comic managed to be both tedious and incorrect. Nice.
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Apr 2, 2020 21:09
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the real pirate king was Marx for inventing the Affordable Care Act
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Absurd Alhazred posted:So that comic managed to be both tedious and incorrect. Nice. I mean the overall point about the punisher/death's head imagery and why it's been seeing widespread adoption by police and fasc-wannabe individuals and organizations is on point but go off I guess
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The libs are really not taking Biden's rape accusation well https://twitter.com/MayaCohn/status/1245786820119388160
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They are actively pretending they never brought up Kavs accusations going so far as deleting old tweets that mention it. The dem primary is breaking libs hard
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AFewBricksShy posted:If I remember my pirate trivia that I was reading when Black Sails was airing, the skull and 2 swords version of the Jolly Roger was Calico Jack Rackham's flag, and the skull and crossbones was Black Sam Bellamy's. That sounds right to me. When I was a kid, my family often took camping trips to the Outer Banks, so I have a particular fondness for Blackbeard's flag: 
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We need a pirate version of  because they just Shanghai'd this thread
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TinTower posted:Because a black person taking out a gun when being arrested by the police always ends well: Where's that meme of Bambi's dad saying "If only your mother had a gun"
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MizPiz posted:The libs are really not taking Biden's rape accusation well He's hosed though right? CharlestheHammer posted:They are actively pretending they never brought up Kavs accusations going so far as deleting old tweets that mention it. Most of my left leaning friends have been completely broken politically since 2016, either brexit or the us election. A lot of this forum too.
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ilmucche posted:He's hosed though right? Nah, he’s probably 46.
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ilmucche posted:He's hosed though right? Yeah but it broke leftist into either being mad or hopelessly depressed. I don’t know what libs are becoming. Conservatives who don’t hate gays as much I guess
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:That sounds right to me. This whole discussion sent me on a whirlwind of looking up pirate stuff, and apparently that flag design might actually be a 20th century anachronism. At least this page claims that it's earliest appearance was in a book from 1912, whereas an illustration from a 1736 reprinting of A General History of the Pyrates shows his ship with the more traditional skull and bones. https://www.qaronline.org/blog/2017-10-06/did-you-know-blackbeards-flag
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah but it broke leftist into either being mad or hopelessly depressed. isn't that what they have always been
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InediblePenguin posted:isn't that what they have always been 
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InediblePenguin posted:isn't that what they have always been I mean yeah but before they apwould support the occasional good thing
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The thing to realize is that libs have to be tricked into supporting good things, like dogs having their pills hidden in a cheese slice.
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liberals hate socialists more than fascists op
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 Begging a streamer for money to own a woman. Is "simp" the new "cuck"?
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Thinky Whale posted:
Basically. I've been hearing it since before "cuck" took off in some parts of the internet, but the same people who used cuck all the time have taken hold of it now and are saying it all over the place so it's just become another word to mean "person I don't like."
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Nuebot posted:it's just become another word to mean "person I don't like." Specifically it means "guy who is not a shithead to women" as far as I can tell
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World War Mammories posted:liberals hate socialists more than fascists op And most American socialists apparently can't grasp the concept of cooperating with people in the areas they agree with and opposing them in the areas they don't. IMO this obsession with doctrinal purity is one of the most overlooked reasons for the setbacks of the American left after the end of the Cold War. Edit: For the record, I've literally never met a liberal who hates socialists more than fascists and I've been a socialist for decades.
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EasilyConfused posted:And most American socialists apparently can't grasp the concept of cooperating with people in the areas they agree with and opposing them in the areas they don't. 
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