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I'm totally buying those stamps.
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May 11, 2020 10:59
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I honestly didn't even considered that the postal service can't also offer banking services.
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May 11, 2020 16:57
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So is America just basically Common sense people: "Hey, here's something that would benefit everyone with no real loss to anyone!" The United States of America: "NO" *faaaaaaart* Am I missing something maybe?
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May 11, 2020 17:22
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Stare-Out posted:So is America just basically No, that's a misconception popularized by the ruling elite. Public institutions in the US have overwhelming public support, but a very wealthy cabal of billionaires hates that poor people get (almost) free stuff so they kill every social program they can.
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May 11, 2020 18:13
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So yes, but in a more nuanced way. The US is making it really hard for me to flaunt my European freedoms without feeling super lovely about it.
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May 11, 2020 18:19
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Stare-Out posted:So yes, but in a more nuanced way. The US is making it really hard for me to flaunt my European freedoms without feeling super lovely about it. Yeah, it's just really important to understand that this is all down to the opinions of the richest 400 men in the country and public opinion does not factor into their decision at all.
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May 11, 2020 18:21
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I always knew that but it's so hosed that it had turned into a joke unto itself into my mind. It's left for the rest of us in the world to look at the US with a strong mix of amusement, bafflement and abject horror. It would be nice to be able to feel superiority too but that's not in the cards.
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May 11, 2020 18:39
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yeah, it's just really important to understand that this is all down to the opinions of the richest 400 men in the country and public opinion does not factor into their decision at all. I don’t usually emptyquote, but this is the exact reason.
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May 11, 2020 18:45
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:No, that's a misconception popularized by the ruling elite. Public institutions in the US have overwhelming public support, but a very wealthy cabal of billionaires hates that poor people get (almost) free stuff so they kill every social program they can.
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May 11, 2020 19:15
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gently caress the poor, but also gently caress all the other rich guys because I'm not as rich as them.
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May 11, 2020 19:30
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Josh Lyman posted:It's not just the poors freeloading but also "drat, if I could own the USPS, maybe I could finally be as rich as Bezos!" It’s mainly this, the 2006 bill was a tactic known as “starve the beast.” Making them have 75 goddamned years of benefits on hand was explicitly to break them, so that the commentariat could point to the now-floundering service and bellow: “See?! The government is incompetent! Only the glorious free market can innovate!” Hard to say that the government service is bad if they’re well in the green every year. So they put an unrealistic burden on them to make what’s happening now possible. The whole thing about raising rates and Amazon is just blather to cover their end-game. Note that John didn’t mention removal of the ridiculous funding requirements as a solution to the problem.
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May 12, 2020 06:59
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Im sorry as a dallas... person 'Dallas's' hit me weird. It should be Dallas' , should it not?
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May 12, 2020 23:02
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Im sorry as a dallas... person 'Dallas's' hit me weird. It should be Dallas' , should it not?
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May 12, 2020 23:24
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I always learned only plurals get the apostrophe at the end but all I see now is popping the apostrophe on the end if the noun ends in an S whether it's a plural or not.
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May 12, 2020 23:55
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Dallas’s Edit: On-topic, i bought two sets of stamps last night. I’d been meaning to buy a sheet the past few weeks anyway to help support the PO, this was too good to pass up. Glad I’m financially able to do so.
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May 13, 2020 00:01
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Groovelord Neato posted:I always learned only plurals get the apostrophe at the end but all I see now is popping the apostrophe on the end if the noun ends in an S whether it's a plural or not.
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May 13, 2020 01:22
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They did for me. A singular noun ending in S got 's. The possessive form of James was James's. Or in this case I would've been taught Dallas's.
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May 13, 2020 01:29
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Ap Style Guide posted:When creating the possessive form of nouns, there are eight simple rules: So basically, Josh Lyman posted:It depends on the style guide you're following but both are acceptable. Edit: I need to buy a more current AP style guide, those mid-90s references are a trip though The last one really wraps around back to the topic at hand, haha. pwn fucked around with this message at 01:47 on May 13, 2020 |
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May 13, 2020 01:45
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Im sorry as a dallas... person 'Dallas's' hit me weird. It should be Dallas' , should it not? Dallas isn't plural. There's only the one. Well, that one and Fort Worth. pwn posted:It’s mainly this, the 2006 bill was a tactic known as “starve the beast.” Making them have 75 goddamned years of benefits on hand was explicitly to break them, so that the commentariat could point to the now-floundering service and bellow: “See?! The government is incompetent! Only the glorious free market can innovate!” There's an annoying thing where for some reason so much professional media refuses to assign malicious motivations to the most obvious goddamn plots, so they're left doing these elaborate shows of idiocy because they can't let themselves be seen as one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. Like earlier when William Barr clearly was saying that a criminal who pled guilty to multiple crimes should be absolved, John Oliver couched his criticism in this idiotic way where he said, "This could set a dangerous precedent," like Barr was just acting foolishly on the spur of the moment as opposed to directly planning to break the law to defend the administration, just like what he said he would do in the essays about breaking the law to help the president that got him hired to break laws to help the president, and after he smiled at that reporter saying that after successfully breaking the law to help the president, the world order that would follow in the future would be forced to be sympathetic to its master unbounded by human law. There is no precedent. This is the damage being done now. Like I don't know whether they're waiting for deathsquads publicly executing dissenters to actually speak up about things or what.
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SlothfulCobra posted:There's an annoying thing where for some reason so much professional media refuses to assign malicious motivations to the most obvious goddamn plots, so they're left doing these elaborate shows of idiocy because they can't let themselves be seen as one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. I think they (Oliver, Colbert, et al) feel that if they don’t act cynical, cooler heads will prevail. Or they have terminal brainworms. Six of one, etc. Cody Johnston is the cynic you’re looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIsuMmncm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQ4Cm9gYv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1zQiwVBJY
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May 13, 2020 06:32
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SlothfulCobra posted:Dallas isn't plural. There's only the one. Well, that one and Fort Worth. You can see this most clearly in the WHPC's coverage of Trump: constant incredulity after more than four years of his never-ending, stream-of-consciousness lies with takes like "why would the president say this?" and "the president's statements make no sense!" Yes, dipshits, it makes perfect sense in the context of spreading regime propaganda...  pwn posted:I think they (Oliver, Colbert, et al) feel that if they don’t act cynical, cooler heads will prevail. Or they have terminal brainworms. Six of one, etc. The "cooler heads" theory is definitely brainworms.
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May 13, 2020 07:16
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Couldn’t a lot of it be fear of being sued for slander and/or losing access?
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May 13, 2020 10:31
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Josh Lyman posted:Couldn’t a lot of it be fear of being sued for slander and/or losing access? Well for LWT it's not like they have access in the first place - all their stuff is second-hand reporting. And comedy is usually pretty well insulated from accusations of slander because "it's just a joke, bro" actually holds up pretty well as a legal defense in the US (I mean that doesn't stop people from trying, like the whole Bob Murray thing, but that didn't exactly end his way).
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Josh Lyman posted:Couldn’t a lot of it be fear of being sued for slander and/or losing access? I would love to see that court case...networks should be begging for Trump to give them the legal power of discovery. They will never do that, however, because Trump is the biggest cash cow in the history of modern news. The Cheshire Cat posted:Well for LWT it's not like they have access in the first place - all their stuff is second-hand reporting. And comedy is usually pretty well insulated from accusations of slander because "it's just a joke, bro" actually holds up pretty well as a legal defense in the US (I mean that doesn't stop people from trying, like the whole Bob Murray thing, but that didn't exactly end his way). Also this: shows like LWT rely on investigative journalism outfits like ProPublica to do their research. Pulling punches on stuff like Barr is simply providing more cover for the regime, and does nothing to insulate LWT or protect their journalistic integrity. Even if they did have journalists in the field: you do not need access once you have the story. It does make Business Daddy happy, though...
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May 13, 2020 15:57
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Josh Lyman posted:Couldn’t a lot of it be fear of being sued for slander and/or losing access? I'm pretty sure that it's been demonstrated that the very best scenario when you sue Last Week Tonight is that you waste your money.
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May 13, 2020 17:12
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Im sorry as a dallas... person 'Dallas's' hit me weird. It should be Dallas' , should it not? Dalla's.
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May 14, 2020 05:32
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I don't think its an unheard of tactic to soften your language in order to broaden your audience when trying to write persuasively. Some writers are trying to start from a position that doesn't immediately alienate the ideologically most valuable viewer--those who both can be convinced, but are not already convinced.
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May 15, 2020 23:50
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piL posted:I don't think its an unheard of tactic to soften your language in order to broaden your audience when trying to write persuasively. Some writers are trying to start from a position that doesn't immediately alienate the ideologically most valuable viewer--those who both can be convinced, but are not already convinced. Not to be glib, but part of the problem is catering our discourse to the idiots who can't even be bothered to pay attention in the first place. 
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May 16, 2020 05:30
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That's just the first point of making a persuasive argument. 60% your audience if either going to already agree with you or is never going to, so you always tailor your message to the 40% in the middle.
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May 16, 2020 06:11
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It's just that so often I see so many malicious people purposefully wedging themselves into the gap opened up by constantly giving the benefit of the doubt. It's the foundation of the idiot defense in court, where since popular wisdom is to believe stupidity rather than malice, people can just pretend to be total amnesiacs. It's how the right has basically weaponized making entirely baseless claims that impartial reporting has to treat seriously every time, never bothering to mention that this is the thousandth lie that obviously isn't true. And it's also what makes these people think they can just get away with anything because nobody will ever dare to call them out if they're brazen enough. It's just frustrating.
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May 16, 2020 06:19
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I KNEW it was going to be marbles
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May 18, 2020 07:13
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Jesus Christ the spring training facility the MLB wants to move all its games to is across the street from my house, oh boy I hope they don’t do that good lord.
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May 18, 2020 07:19
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Stare-Out posted:gently caress the poor, but also gently caress all the other rich guys because I'm not as rich as them. gently caress you, got mine, and gently caress you, need to get more. SlothfulCobra posted:Like earlier when William Barr clearly was saying that a criminal who pled guilty to multiple crimes should be absolved, John Oliver couched his criticism in this idiotic way where he said, "This could set a dangerous precedent," like Barr was just acting foolishly on the spur of the moment as opposed to directly planning to break the law to defend the administration, just like what he said he would do in the essays about breaking the law to help the president that got him hired to break laws to help the president, and after he smiled at that reporter saying that after successfully breaking the law to help the president, the world order that would follow in the future would be forced to be sympathetic to its master unbounded by human law. Also note the weasel words used in the dumb criticism: "could set a dangerous precedent". Uhuh, is there really any loving doubt here? SlothfulCobra posted:There is no precedent. This is the damage being done now. Like I don't know whether they're waiting for deathsquads publicly executing dissenters to actually speak up about things or what. Murdering this American citizen with no judicial oversight whatsoever purely on the say so of the president could set a dangerous precedent! Oh wait, no I just checked and it was actually perfectly fine when Obama did this to Anwar al-Awlaki. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 10:40 on May 18, 2020 |
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I'm surprised he didn't mention the NASCAR races that were held online in iRacing, a racing simulator video game. Not that I'm a fan, I just know about it because I saw one of the NASCAR drivers dropped an N-bomb on stream and got suspended. 
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May 18, 2020 16:31
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Good god games are getting realistic these days
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May 19, 2020 00:55
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Not really a surprise why people would keep their masks on while being filmed getting arrested. Also I sure wish that people would stop telling me about that show about people jacking off and losing money. It'd be insane if college sports got brought back while colleges were closed because student athletes get no pay and no rights over their own physical wellbeing. Wrestlers getting prevented from unionizing is bad, but at least they get paid for their work. College sports as a pure moneymaking operation where students get their education and health put on the line for no compensation is horrible.
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May 19, 2020 19:00
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SlothfulCobra posted:Not really a surprise why people would keep their masks on while being filmed getting arrested. Also I sure wish that people would stop telling me about that show about people jacking off and losing money. I only saw the segment on YouTube, but what the hell are these sentences about?
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May 19, 2020 19:16
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Oliver addressed this story up top and later recommended a reality TV show about sex that I'm tired of hearing about as something to watch when leading towards talking about sports. Also he mentioned it only for a little bit, but it can never be overstated how much of this crisis is and further down the road will continue to be specifically the result of the government's incompetence and playing for short-term personal gain over actually confronting the problem with the goal to provide for the public good. Long-term quarantine was the last resort after failures to act earlier, and continued failure to maintain quarantine will mean continued need for it.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Oliver addressed this story up top and later recommended a reality TV show about sex that I'm tired of hearing about as something to watch when leading towards talking about sports. Yeah this is the big thing that really should be hammed on a lot more. This isn't some "look, nobody could have done better" situation. This is the natural end result of an ideology built around deliberately dismantling public institutions and that sees any kind of government intervention as a moral hazard. It's not by accident that the government response has been inept, it is entirely consistent with how they believe the government should be run. It's not even necessarily a "socialism vs. capitalism" thing either - Vietnam and South Korea both had some of the best responses to the pandemic and the former is extremely socialist and the latter is extremely capitalist. It's the very specific Reagan/Thatcher-esque style of conservatism that has been driving the right in the anglosphere for the last several decades. The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 20:31 on May 19, 2020 |
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