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Joementum posted:Every time I think there might not be any more funny news about this, I'm wrong. What a loving tool. I hope someone, at some point showed up in jeans and stripped to their underwear when he complained. Magres fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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eviltastic posted:Today is one of those days that I'm glad twitter exists. DAAAAAMMMNNN!! Oh no he di'int!
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Jun 11, 2014 22:31
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I don't get it.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:32
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Apparently E.W. Jackson barely lost Cantor's district last year in Virginia's lieutenant governor race, 50.6-49.4, so there's your baseline on just how crazy a Republican has to be to lose that district.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:32
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Beamed posted:I don't get it. He's saying everyone is always happy as gently caress when Eric Cantor is finally gone from the room.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:38
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Spoilers Below posted:Hell, I'm going to pimp Coll's Private Empire again. It's not quite Capital in the 21st Century, but it's worth your time. Its been a few pages and this seemed to drop a bit, but I'ld like to point out that the statistics of "There's enough coal for the next 300 years!" Are erroneous in nearly all cases. 1. That assumes current consumption, but the increase in consumption is exponential. 2. The vast majority of that coal is of a lower and poorer quality type of rock that doesn't have a lot of energy within it, and most importantly costs a bucket load of energy to extract it from the ground, something like 1000 tonnes of gravel needs to be dug up for 1 tonne of copper for example. This is what the problem with oil is. Sure, rising costs makes it viable to go after deposits in remote areas but the price of consumption doesn't go down because there's still a cost to extract it in the first place.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:40
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Note to Scott Esk: If the idea of the state putting people to death for being gay is something you "don't have a problem with" then you can't call yourself "largely libertarian". That's like calling yourself "largely communist" and advocating for the capitalist ruling class to maintain control over the means of production.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:41
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Magres posted:What a loving tool. I hope someone, at some point showed up in jeans and stripped to their underwear when he complained. I don't know about you, but when a professor has a dress code that is required for his class (besides safety equipment, of course) that is an automatic loving drop for me.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:48
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Dapper Dan posted:I don't know about you, but when a professor has a dress code that is required for his class (besides safety equipment, of course) that is an automatic loving drop for me. Just another authoritarian trying to regulate the free clothing market and stifle clothing innovators.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:52
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Raenir Salazar posted:
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Jun 11, 2014 22:52
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computer parts posted:I don't know that that's true necessarily. Which part?
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Jun 11, 2014 22:57
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Fried Chicken posted:Which part? Exponential growth in consumption.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:06
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Berke Negri posted:Oh good, its been awhile since an up-down strident anti-Catholic protestant has been on the national stage. BrandorKP posted:
Swan Oat posted:Anti-catholicism can only help the GOP woo Hispanics. Berke Negri posted:Not to mention the age old arguments he's making are implicitly used to infer that Catholic countries are backwards and lazy unlike the superiorly industrious northern Protestant countries of Europe. He's Catholic. From his website. quote:A man of deep faith, Dave attends St. Mary’s Catholic Church with his wife Laura and their two children: Jonathan, 15 and Sophia, 11. As pointed out by Charles Pierce in his Esquire politics blog quote:As for the winner, Brat seems a very bad combination of serious religious quester and devout Randian economist, a combination that would have had Ms. Rand herself reaching for the opium pipe. He got his undergraduate degree at Hope College in Michigan, which is run by the Reformed Church in the United States, a conservative evangelical wing of the United Church Of Christ. He then got a Masters in Divinity at Princeton, which is a very conservative seminary and now, according to his website, Dave attends St. Mary's Catholic Church with his wife Laura and their two children: Jonathan, 15 and Sophia, 11. So either he's a Douthatian convert, god help us, or his faith is all over the lot, which may account for his rather startling announcement last night that he won because God was speaking through the voters of the Seventh Congressional District of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:08
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eviltastic posted:Today is one of those days that I'm glad twitter exists.  Steele was such a great guy to have around and he's been pretty funny since he left his job at the RNC. Too bad the GOP only seemed to get more racist after he took over.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:10
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Zeroisanumber posted:That's still one of the stone cold craziest arguments I've ever heard anyone make. On that note, does anyone have that racist Tintin comic with lines from Gingrich's thesis substituted for dialogue?
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Jun 11, 2014 23:10
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Joementum posted:Every time I think there might not be any more funny news about this, I'm wrong. Soooooo, how long till we get a story about him loving a student? I doubt he'll get to "I'm not a witch" levels, but he sounds like a hilarious candidate.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:13
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Raenir Salazar posted:Its been a few pages and this seemed to drop a bit, but I'ld like to point out that the statistics of "There's enough coal for the next 300 years!" Are erroneous in nearly all cases. Oh, lest you think Coll is coming off supporting ExxonMobil in this... Lemme quote from my buddy's review again, because he said it better than I can: "It's in the way the company handled climate change--or rather, how it refused to handle climate change--that Coll is most able to shake off the allure of the company's massive success, because it's there that the company is most wrong. It's also there that Coll might have missed an opportunity to write more about the contemporary addiction with the wholesale fabrication of belief that so diseases today's corporate empires, the way that governments and focus groups and gigantic corporations decide their side and then invest all energy into proving its veracity. Year after year, billion after billion, ExxonMobil so thoroughly hosed up what had once been a straightforward issue--humans have culpability in the Earth's changing climate--that a generation grew up believing the debate's origin was in science, when it actually came straight from the bank." Part of this is what makes the book so fascinating: unlike, say, Apple or Toyota, who can just uproot a factory and move to a different state or a different country, ExxonMobil is literally tied to the land that they're pulling the minerals up from, and their expectations for how long they will occupy that land for (50-100 years, on average) means that their planning will have to outlast numerous changes in governments, or often even entire country's existences, that their plot is located in. The problem is that the US can't do poo poo about it, realistically. Until it actually does cost more so dig up than they can sell it for, which given that a lot of it is located in economically depressed areas like Mongolia isn't going to be any time soon, they'll keep tapping that vein until they need to have the whole arm amputated.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:18
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I'm putting my money on the long shot: harem and/or a Jeri Ryan type situation. Unlikely to come in, but when it does, you get magic.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:18
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I have identified three distinct parts of the Republican Party. There are the Mr. Burns Republicans, the Theocracy Republicans, and the Bat poo poo Republicans. Which group would you prefer to have in office, and why?
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Jun 11, 2014 23:19
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Magres posted:He's saying everyone is always happy as gently caress when Eric Cantor is finally gone from the room. Not a bit of it. Steele is letting out some bitterness by saying "yeah, everyone always applauds you when you're leaving and tells you 'great job' but when you're actually in the job they can't wait to gently caress you over." Not that Michael Steele has any reason to feel like people say much nicer things about you once you leave.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:21
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:David Bart's opponent is another Randolph-Macon College professor, Jack Trammell, who heads disability services there, is in the sociology department, and...is writing a vampire novel. Oh my god I love everything about this.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:25
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computer parts posted:Exponential growth in consumption. Silver Nitrate posted:I have identified three distinct parts of the Republican Party. There are the Mr. Burns Republicans, the Theocracy Republicans, and the Bat poo poo Republicans. Which group would you prefer to have in office, and why? Well I mean Mr Burns did deal with unions rather than crushing them outright, would have us be energy independent, supports public infrastructure investments like a monorail, is tolerant of homosexuals, and pays his employees well enough that someone without a college education can afford 2 cars and a 4 bedroom 2.5 bath 2 story with rumpus room and his wife being a stay at home mom.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:33
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Fried Chicken posted:Compounded growth is exponential growth dude. There's a difference between growth and usage.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:34
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Joementum posted:"I will help to crucify mankind on a cross of gold!" ~ David Brat, probably. This made me laugh, thank you. If fascism comes to America, it won't be draped in the flag; it will come in the form of a gibbering howler monkey scowling at progress, science, and modernity like a deranged spite driven Looney Tunes character.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:36
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computer parts posted:There's a difference between growth and usage. So are you positing an imminent population crash and or freeze then? Because even if we handwave bringing the rest of the world up to constant access to electricity (we aren't there yet) then usage should track to population, and populations follow a compounded growth curve.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:42
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Silver Nitrate posted:I have identified three distinct parts of the Republican Party. There are the Mr. Burns Republicans, the Theocracy Republicans, and the Bat poo poo Republicans. Which group would you prefer to have in office, and why?
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Jun 11, 2014 23:51
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Fried Chicken posted:So are you positing an imminent population crash and or freeze then? Because even if we handwave bringing the rest of the world up to constant access to electricity (we aren't there yet) then usage should track to population, and populations follow a compounded growth curve. Populations are following a logarithmic curve, and things like efficiency increases would decrease usage (or at least reduce the rate increase of usage).
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Jun 11, 2014 23:54
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http://inthesetimes.com/article/16773/the_missing_native_vote I know we're all mostly still high on Cantor's suffering, so here's something different, an article on the difficulty of voting in Indian country, Wandering Medicine v. McCulloch , and the potential effects on the midterm elections.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:55
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computer parts posted:Populations are following a logarithmic curve, and things like efficiency increases would decrease usage (or at least reduce the rate increase of usage). Jevons Paradox is in full swing for energy use in China.
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EDIT: ^^^ that's it, I was trying to remember the name for the increase in consumption while efficiency increasescomputer parts posted:Populations are following a logarithmic curve, and things like efficiency increases would decrease usage (or at least reduce the rate increase of usage). The biological definition of logarithmic growth is different from the mathematical one. In math a logarithmic curve is the inverse of an exponential one, whereas biology uses the terms interchangeably. Or are you referring to the fact that populations are usually graphed on a logarithmic scale? That is for ease of viewing, the population change is still exponential,the curve just looks flat as a result of the scale. And while efficiency gains are increasing, so does personal usage, and we will hit the physical constraints on efficiency before we hit them on increases personal usage (we are coming close to the maximum physically efficient processor as it is)
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Jun 12, 2014 00:09
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Joementum posted:This is a good point, especially since we've had a Speaker of the House who wrote a dissertation on the positive civilizing influence of the colonial Belgian education system in the Congo. Wait, what?
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Jun 12, 2014 00:15
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SubponticatePoster posted:Mr. Burns, because when his lovely policies start to hurt his bottom line (workers too stupid to do jobs, threat of armed revolt outside his mansion gates etc) he'll change his policies. The other two don't care if the whole world rots as long as they get what they want. I think you'd be amazed how myopic supposedly pragmatic capitalists can be. When things start going poorly for them, they won't compromise, they'll just bring in Thing 1 (fascists) and Thing 2 (theocrats) to brutalize the masses.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:20
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Wait, what? Gingrich, if I'm not mistaken. D&D was talking about it during the 2012 primary season after Bachmann, Cain, and Perry crumbled.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:20
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Wait, what?  Team Cantor Self-Medicates to Tune of $6,500 quote:Current and former staffers for soon-to-step-down House Majority Leader Eric Cantor flooded into the Tune Inn Wednesday for a semi-private shindig featuring some heartfelt sobs, a few laughs and lots of Jameson. 
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Jun 12, 2014 00:22
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radical meme posted:He's Catholic. From his website. I give up. I guess anything is possible but his background reads like a crunchy con angle . Time to start the pool for when he decides Catholicism isn't 'ancient' enough, grows a scraggly beard and converts to Orthodoxy.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:29
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Kind of like the prize in Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Joe Biden should fundraise by selling voicemails of himself congratulating you on becoming the Mayor of Boston.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:29
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Trimalchio.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:32
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Berke Negri posted:Time to start the pool for when he decides Catholicism isn't 'ancient' enough, grows a scraggly beard and converts to Orthodoxy. It would be an interesting attempt to capture the all-encompassing authoritarian structure of Putin's Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quxWhp5y23E
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On the plus side, Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) doesn't believe man existed at the time Of the dinosaurs. However, he has some interesting thoughts about climate change as a result. quote:Miller: It changes. It gets hot, it gets cold. It’s done it for as long as we have measured the climate. Checkmate, climatologists! 
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Spoilers Below posted:(Apologies in advance if I'm covering ground y'all already know) Did anyone thank you for this post yet? It was really good. I feel like I should read up on Adam Smith so I have more ammunition to work with, it sounds like has gently caress all to do with libertarianism the way it's envisioned today.
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