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vyelkin posted:According to the Youtube description the justification was actually that he said his gun fired by accident, fatally hitting the guy in the neck, and he was found guilty of criminal negligence and sentenced to 3 years probation and 180 days in jail. I seem to recall hearing that there had been a <1 mi. chase, as well. I knew he claimed it was accidental, but I meant that outside of the murder we witnessed on camera, that was the only real context to the crime. 
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vyelkin posted:According to the Youtube description the justification was actually that he said his gun fired by accident, fatally hitting the guy in the neck, and he was found guilty of criminal negligence and sentenced to 3 years probation and 180 days in jail. After first being cleared of all charges.
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Not political but it's in the general feel good/inspirational genre of fb post that I hate and completely misses the point. A "suggested post" out of nowhere. No one I know even likes this page, why are showing it to me? 
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:A "suggested post" out of nowhere. No one I know even likes this page, why are showing it to me? looks like grandma needs a safe space away from those gay tanks
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Apr 24, 2017 04:52
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:Not political but it's in the general feel good/inspirational genre of fb post that I hate and completely misses the point. In the original tv series it was answered where 42 is coming from. How did that person come up with that poo poo? Is that part missing from the movie or something?
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Hope this isn't a repost. I browsed around and didn't see it, but it's so outlandish I'll be surprised if it hasn't made an appearance somewhere.
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Apr 24, 2017 07:53
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Representatives don't rule their districts.
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right to bear karma posted:Hope this isn't a repost. I browsed around and didn't see it, but it's so outlandish I'll be surprised if it hasn't made an appearance somewhere. I'd be willing to bet a not-small sum of money that, on average, the roads in democratic districts are less lovely than in republican ones. source: have driven through Indiana
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right to bear karma posted:Hope this isn't a repost. I browsed around and didn't see it, but it's so outlandish I'll be surprised if it hasn't made an appearance somewhere. Let's see how Kansas is doing in a couple of years http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/06/30/sam_brownback_s_funding_plan_for_kansas_is_bad_news_for_roads.html
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:A "suggested post" out of nowhere. No one I know even likes this page, why are showing it to me? Ads are targeted by their buyer based on criteria they set, and then FB pulls them out of the buckets you match. The advertiser could be targeting based on age/gender/geo/education level/whatever.
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Eugene Mirman has a great bit about outlandish targeted Facebook ads he's made just to see how many people click.
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If you click on the little down-arrow in the top right it will tell you why it thinks it's appropriate to show you.
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VideoTapir posted:Representatives don't rule their districts. I mean first of all yeah, a representative doesn't somehow control fixing potholes in their district, but also there's zero reason to just assume it's her district. Google image search doesn't bring up poo poo, and there's no identifying info on this picture. Nor is there any time data, like this picture could be in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. TGLT fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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That photo looks like somewhere in Mexico.
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Panfilo posted:That photo looks like somewhere in Mexico. To be fair that's the point the author is trying to make, the question is if it's actually in her district. I'm sure you could make a mirror version about republicans by looking up pictures on rural Appalachia.
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parallelodad posted:Eugene Mirman has a great bit about outlandish targeted Facebook ads he's made just to see how many people click. are you sure?
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Panfilo posted:That photo looks like somewhere in Mexico. Eh, I live in Memphis, TN and there are absolutely places that look more or less like that (except the roads aren't quite that lovely). The poor (and thus majority black because of white flight) areas of Memphis are often extremely depressing. My mom used to teach first grade in a school in one of those areas, and when I came to visit (I was also in first grade at the time and would go there with my mom before my dad came and brought me to my school) I was literally the only white child around their age many of the kids had seen. They were all extremely curious about me, because the city is just that segregated. I feel like one of the biggest lies many Americans believe is that segregation ended after the civil rights movement. It may not be written into law anymore, but it absolutely still exists on a great scale. Speaking of Mexico though, I wandered around random places there using Google Street View a while back and holy poo poo, there are a lot of depressing places there. It looked like something out of a post-apocalyptic film. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Do they have those really high curbs? Because I've never seen those in the US but if you go to Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, etc you'll see them presumably to deal with flash floods. That's what made me think it was some place in Mexico.
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Panfilo posted:Do they have those really high curbs? Because I've never seen those in the US but if you go to Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, etc you'll see them presumably to deal with flash floods. That's what made me think it was some place in Mexico. There are most certainly poor and shabby areas in the USA, too. Decades of cutting funds for infrastructure repairs will do that.
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Ytlaya posted:Speaking of Mexico though, I wandered around random places there using Google Street View a while back and holy poo poo, there are a lot of depressing places there. It looked like something out of a post-apocalyptic film. Can confirm. Their highways are especially hosed with potholes and drivers who believe that turn signals are optional.
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BarbarianElephant posted:There are most certainly poor and shabby areas in the USA, too. Decades of cutting funds for infrastructure repairs will do that. but again, how many places are there in the US with curbs like that?
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:but again, how many places are there in the US with curbs like that? if there are any, the gulf coast would be my guess. houston isn't too far from the ocean and it can (and has) get hit by hurricanes regardless though the image, legit or not, is just the same old "poverty exists in cities? must be dem's fault  " while ignoring that the worst systemic poverty in the us is in rural republican districts
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RabbitWizard posted:In the original tv series it was answered where 42 is coming from. How did that person come up with that poo poo? Is that part missing from the movie or something? What'd they say on the tv show? I saw this quote from the author: "The answer to this is very simple," Adams said. "It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base 13, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat on my desk, stared in to the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story."
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It's 42 because that's what you get when you multiply 6 times 9.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:It absolutely drives me mad when people try and explain it, not because they're being smug about it (and they're always smug about it) but because it completely ruins the joke. It's like if they interrupted you to tell you about this great new chicken underpass system they've built.  Sebadoh Gigante posted:What'd they say on the tv show? parallelodad posted:It's 42 because that's what you get when you multiply 6 times 9. RabbitWizard fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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54 is represented as 42 in base 13, which is why Adams specifically called that out as not being a thing he did on purpose.
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:What'd they say on the tv show? I saw this quote from the author: It absolutely drives me mad when people try and explain it, not because they're being smug about it (and they're always smug about it) but because it completely ruins the joke. It's like if they interrupted you to tell you about this great new chicken underpass system they've built.
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boner confessor posted:if there are any, the gulf coast would be my guess. houston isn't too far from the ocean and it can (and has) get hit by hurricanes Hell, Trump won with "What have you got to lose blacks??" so I won't be surprised to see this catch on even more
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VideoTapir posted:Representatives don't rule their districts. But it's her fault for not bringing home the bacon. Surely they'd give her credit for bold leadership if she got federal funding for road construction in her district. Oh, wait, PORK! Never mind.
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boner confessor posted:if there are any, the gulf coast would be my guess. houston isn't too far from the ocean and it can (and has) get hit by hurricanes
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It's really that second-storey brick monstrosity that pinged my bullshit alarm first. I wouldn't be surprised to see that in the lovely rural part of a poor state where I grew up, but I have trouble imaging that being constructed in an urban area.
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right to bear karma posted:It's really that second-storey brick monstrosity that pinged my bullshit alarm first. I wouldn't be surprised to see that in the lovely rural part of a poor state where I grew up, but I have trouble imaging that being constructed in an urban area. oh lol i thought it was plywood covering up a damaged/abandonded building. yeah if that's brick that's definitely not houston
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  Yeah, all those poor people who can't afford ice cream. Sounds like we have a real problem and the wealth should be distributed more evenly. Oh wait... If you're taxing your kids by eating their ice cream, you should vomit up a percentage of what you ate as a tax return.
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Presumably in their house everyone gets a roughly similar amount of ice cream after the meal though. That's socialism! If you want to teach your kids about taxes, first you should ensure the distribution of ice cream is roughly equivalent to the distribution of US wealth, so you would take something like 95% of the ice cream and then your child would have negative ice cream because they're the lowest income percentile in your household, and then taxes would let them eat 30% of your enormous amount of ice cream, leaving you with still just a staggering amount of ice cream, so much that you could never eat it all before it melts.
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You didn't grow up in a house where the father got the big steak and everybody else just got the trimmings?
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right to bear karma posted:Hope this isn't a repost. I browsed around and didn't see it, but it's so outlandish I'll be surprised if it hasn't made an appearance somewhere. I grew up in houston and have been all around even its shittiest parts. That isn't houston. It isnt even what the really ghetto areas of houston look like. The roads and sidewalks are too narrow, the buildings are too squished together, and there isnt nearly enough garbage strewn around. In h town, only the affluent areas are even close to as packed together as that. Someone wasnt familiar enough with the houston sprawl to pick a convincing picture.
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I love it when people have a vehicle stickered up to say "You don't want to hang with me, im a loving child!" Stickers: Pro Gun Pro Life Pro Gun Soldier with thumbs up: "72 Virgins, eh? Lets Get the Boys Laid!" Jesus with nails in him. Some kind of military stuff. and the grand finale is a personalized plate: "Ezkel 38"
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
