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ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So how much weight did we all gain over the holidays? The numbers are still coming in but I am confident that I gained at least 2 pounds over the last week.

10 pounds at the high (12/28) but now down to around 5.

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ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Master Stur posted:

Pretty sure that path is leading you down 24/7 chicken breast

Yeah that's where it ends (plus vegetables and on special occasions a piece of bread).

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Thats the best way I can describe it. Specifically its a Nus Procedure where a couple bars are inserted into my chest and then rotated to push the ribcage out. The month afterwards was pure hell, I had never imagined I could feel so much pain.

Brutal. I have a mild case of that and never even thought about surgery, but Jesus you make it sound horrible.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Silly Burrito posted:

I've only ever read the expanded one. Don't know why I never picked up the first one, but :shrug:.

Read the original (abridged; unexpanded). So much tighter and shows what an editor can do.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Skwirl posted:

I think only the President is barred from being a convicted felon by the constitution, but states are given a lot of leeway on how they elect their Senators and Congress people, so there might be state restrictions.

States are not given a lot of leeway and may impose no additional restrictions on federal candidates than the constitution specifies. We found that out when states tried to put term limits in place for their congressional representatives.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Skwirl posted:

I don't know how old you are, but as long as neither of you expect anything to come of it, dating a 21 year old can be a hell of a palate cleanser

Seems to totally be working for a friend of mine in somewhat similar circumstances.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

one of my fav Coates quotes was about how comes opiods is a medical epidemic but crack was a crime epidemic

Richard Pryor posted:

I meet people, since I stopped doing drugs, I found out there's more motherfuckers doin' drugs. Mean, doctors and poo poo. Old ladies. "Give me that blue one. And give me another red one, please." They call it an epidemic, now. That means white folks are doin' it.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Kalli posted:

Gandhi a pacifist

Gandhi posted:

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

(Yes, I left out the context. I know).

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Ehud posted:

Wireless headphones are amazing for lifting

Also wires tangle constantly so gently caress that.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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3 DONG HORSE posted:

Just exercise without headphones why is that so scary :iiam:

When else am I going to listen to podcasts?

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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OxySnake posted:

I have a ipod mini and wired headphones to work out with and it has never gotten tangled.

How do you store your headphones? Because mine only got tangled in storage.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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weird Asian candy posted:

Yes. An article I looked up yesterday mentioned there were some like 12,000 reported cases last year.

...which was comparable to hand sanitizer and other similar products, so nothing really special about the pods.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

bring back mr ick

Mr. Yuk, you philistine.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/55655/mr-yuk-history-poisons-most-iconic-symbol

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

Like holy poo poo this is a song about wanting the dick of Christ

https://youtu.be/kLx8hx_4d3w

Not the best song about wanting the dick of Christ though.

https://youtu.be/3sMALbhJU6M

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Spoeank posted:

So apparently some weird fucks on reddit figured out how to do machine learning to face swap in videos and of course they're using it to put celebrities into porn videos and it's loving horrifying.

It really only gets worse.

1. We can now recreate any voice with 1 minute of sample audio. https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird

2. We can face swap in videos. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley

Combine the two technologies and we can make a fake video of anybody who has ever said 1 minute of video doing and saying anything.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Leperflesh posted:

Don't forget we can also digitally resurrect the dead.

If you read the Vice article I linked, they specifically give an example of the face-swap technology supposedly giving a better result than the digital CGI recreation.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Freaquency posted:

I just got an Instant Pot so if anyone has any good pressure cooker recipes :justpost:

Wrong thread (and forum)*:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3704340

*There's obviously some overlap.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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CannonFodder posted:

edit: That safety course is another thing that should be enacted. Sure, it's easy enough and was even offered by my high school as part of PE in freshman year, but it's at least SOMETHING.

I had to take a gun safety course for my hunting license ever so long ago. It was quite possibly not even something.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Ehud posted:

I just want to recommend that any of you who workout or suffer from regular neck or back pain take up foam/PVC rolling.

Other than getting a professional massage, it is the most effective thing I've used to get rid of soreness from working out / working out kinks from sitting at a computer all day.

Let me also recommend a B-12 supplement. Doing serious wonders for my sciatica. Apparently getting old and drinking leads to deficiencies and, well...

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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kiimo posted:

Planks eliminated my sciatic pain.

Yeah, they haven't done a lot for me.

kiimo posted:

If you've never had sciatic pain thank your loving stars

No kidding.

swickles posted:

Don't keep your wallet in your back pocket, its causes a ton of sciatica problems.

Stopped doing that in 1998.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Spoeank posted:

The NY Times has become Nazi apologists. Quinn Norton was the straw that broke the camel's back

That's what I said as I canceled my subscription.


...I would have done it sooner but I couldn't find the info.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Grittybeard posted:

There's this from a while back. According to that article all Mueller is required to do is give his report to his boss, which since Sessions has recused himself in this matter is currently Rosenstein. There are apparently some tricks he could use to make sure it ends up being seen by congress, which means the whole thing would leak in about two minutes though should he choose to do that.

One of those tricks is to put what he wants people to know in an indictment.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Joey Freshwater posted:

Well sure, but that’s only because Top Gun goes without saying as his all time #1

Real Genius.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Ehud posted:

I was homeschooled and look how I turned out

:same:

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Spoeank posted:

Canada is America but with socialized medicine and literally anyone else but Donald J Trump so

Yeah but also the worst possible weather and too many men on the football field.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Vertical Lime posted:

i so regret ever listening to the tony kornheiser show

I've had to stop. Kornheiser is fine, Cillizza can die in a fire.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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C-Euro posted:

Wait I thought this was the dude that cucked his father-in-law or whatever. What racist forum did he run?

Matthew Heimbach ran the Traditionalist Workers Party website.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/147457/end-white-nationalist-traditionalist-workers-party

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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So, I completely forgot about those "Spring League" games. Is there a replay available anywhere?

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:

I cannot imagine what your vet bill looks like.

To steal a joke from John McCallum, who I'm sure stole it from somewhere else: his vet bill looks like a ransom note.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Abugadu posted:

Does anyone have a good way of buying ebooks outside that aren't available in the US? I can use a proxy but still hit a dead end with the CC info.

For kindle I just changed my address to oxford in the U.K. And then back after I had my books.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Leperflesh posted:

Is it normal for dems to outnumber reps in a mid-term primary in west virginia?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/primary-turnout-means-nothing-for-the-general-election/

(this is of course presidential specific, but the general idea is correct)

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Leperflesh posted:

I don't actually know how the balance of Ds and Rs works normally in WV.

Massive D registration advantage, which presumably leaves the D primary the only game in town even if you are a hardcore conservative. There were 242K D to 204K R votes in the 2016 presidential primary and 134K D to 85K in the 2014 senate primary. I wouldn't be excited if I were Manchin.

Registration advantage: WEST VIRGINIA 524964 392804
https://sos.wv.gov/elections/VoterRegistration/Pages/Voter_Registration.aspx

Mel Mudkiper posted:

ever being in a situation where your headphones can run out of batteries is dumb imho

Ever being in a situation where your headphones can tangle up into a knotted mess is dumb imo.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So loving true.

Interesting article on this point from the NYT that also coincidentally has a couple of my friends in the main photo. I suspect Obama is one of the big causes here.



https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/opinion/democrats-race.html

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Kalli posted:

Also probably isn't mainstream enough to get a million desperate people hammering it and killing the value.

I'm pretty sure there's a guy in TFR that used to do this captioning as well, and from what I remember he was getting well below $25 / hr.

EDIT: Shima Honnou. Looks like he said it was more the variability than the rate, but I'll put it like this: he works in an Amazon warehouse now instead of doing captioning. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3826649&pagenumber=154&perpage=40#post479660201

ulmont fucked around with this message at 20:22 on May 24, 2018

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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I hope they forwarded an update correcting that June 12 is not in fact Friday.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Leperflesh posted:

Generally, you can't make very broad and generic trademarks. They have to be specific and recognizable and distinct.

There are at least 9 different federally registered trademarks for just a color, including but not limited to (a) the color pink for residential fiberglass insulation (U.S. Reg. No. 1439132) and (b) the color brown for the transportation and delivery of personal property by air and motor vehicle (U.S. Reg. No. 2901090).

Leperflesh posted:

There are two other kinds of legally protected intellectional property in the US - patents, and trade secrets - but I don't think we need to go into those here.

Don't forget state law (and therefore non-copyright) protections for pre-1972 sound recordings, plant patents, design patents (neither of which is what people normally think of as a patent), and rights of publicity.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

I don't think the holocaust could have happened earlier, there were genocides and pogroms before that, but the halocaust was the first one that explicitly used the technology and philosophy of modernity.

The Boer War and the Armenian NotAGenocideJustAskUsWe'llTellYou laid a lot of the ground work.

EDIT: Fiz, you're really downplaying the Armenian bit.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

I think you are downplaying the industrial efficiency of the holocaust though

Everything that happened in WW2 was just WW1 but with 20-30* years** of technological improvements.

*depending on where you measure the dates from.
**TFR will tell you in detail how the M16 is basically just metallurgical improvements over 1900-era designs.

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Intruder posted:

Dunno about the blue story.

It was basically that dril tweet but with Star Wars.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/384408932061417472?lang=en

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3722319

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ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

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Anybody have recommendations for the current best crop of Chinese knockoff jersey websites?

EDIT: looks like dhgate and https://salefansjerseys.in/

ulmont fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 19, 2018

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