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Pretty sure May in Russian is spelled май. But as an capitalist running dog, who am I to argue with someone who runs a twitter account dedicated to communism.
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aphid_licker posted:Ooooh oooooh pick me God, I'm having flashbacks to learning declensions and having to remember two verbs for every verb. What an inefficient language.
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May 1, 2018 15:14
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Vasudus posted:The biggest gamble I'm making with my money is that there will be an America to retire to in 2051. My girlfriend is juggling whether to stay with Deloitte for five years for the pension versus going to a major publicly traded tech company that's offering her a ton of equity. I told her there really isn't a right answer, because 2009 showed us that defined benefit pension plans aren't even safe.
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May 1, 2018 19:55
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One of the Nazis who was videoed beating that guy in the parking garage in Charlottesville has been found guilty. Jury recommended 10 years in prison. https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...m=.e515017f48e1
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May 2, 2018 13:12
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In non-Trumpian news, the number of insect borne diseases in the US nearly quadrupled from 2004-2016. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/health/ticks-mosquitoes-diseases.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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May 2, 2018 14:00
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mlmp08 posted:Who said that? Any trade agreements with North Korea would probably come with human rights requirements built in. It's obviously not going to transform the country into Uruguay, but I'd imagine it would be an improvement over what they have going on right now. And given that wealth inequality in NK is already astronomical, I think it's somewhat of a minor concern relative to the massive amounts of starvation and imprisonment that the average person there faces.
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May 2, 2018 16:10
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Soulex posted:C-130, tumbling down the stretch! 65 troopers on a one way trip.
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May 2, 2018 17:06
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Apparently there was another Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia. Source: announcer in the station explaining why all trains are halted.
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May 3, 2018 11:10
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That Works posted:Oh great. I took amtrak from RI to DC through Philly last night and have to again tomorrow... Yeah I was supposed to head up to NYC for a couple of meetings but who the hell knows if I'll be able to make them at this point.
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May 3, 2018 11:27
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LongDarkNight posted:Sitting in Amtrak right now, waiting to depart. My train got cancelled and I couldn't find any flights that will get me up there in time. The account manager is going to be pissed, but oh well.
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May 3, 2018 12:39
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That Works posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/991992302267785216 This was very obviously written by someone else.
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May 3, 2018 13:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM
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May 3, 2018 20:27
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orange juche posted:I can't really imagine how Don Blankenship gets any votes because he's pretty loving infamous. He's playing it as if he were a political prisoner hunted down by Obama. e: Outside of Florida, the GOP doesn't have many good Senate candidates this year, even in states where Dems are at risk. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/west-virginias-joe-manchin-is-vulnerable-but-will-the-gop-blow-its-chance/ Manchin is fairly popular among the state's business Republicans (my girlfriend's dad is a die hard Republican, but will probably vote for Manchin because he's helped him with getting tree cutting leases in federal forests), but he's still going to face an uphill battle against the die hard red caps that make up most of the state. psydude fucked around with this message at 03:18 on May 4, 2018 |
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May 4, 2018 03:13
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To be fair, most state laws prohibiting felons from running for office or voting are left over from the Jim Crowe era.
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May 4, 2018 04:34
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Bored As gently caress posted:increase the maximum amount of money taxable towards Social Security to $20 million. This wouldn't do anything because social security is a flat tax on wages earned by W2 employees. Anyone making that much money is making it from investments or business profits.
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May 4, 2018 13:31
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Mr. Nice! posted:Tax all dividends/capital gains as regular income. That solves basically all problems. Just get rid of SS at that point and provide a fixed amount that pays relative to the cost of living for a location and doesn't count against other sources of retirement income.
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May 4, 2018 14:26
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You all are acting like the average West Virginian will care. Outside of Morgantown (which is really just a place where people go to receive a four year degree in drinking heavily), WV doesn't have a dense, highly educated urban core to offset the rural people who have probably never actually known a black person. Unlike places like Missouri or Tennessee where legitimate rape or overt racism can sink a campaign, West Virginia is both incredibly homogeneous and incredibly insular. They don't like outsiders, and they don't care about problems of other parts of the country. That's not to say that West Virginians are Alabama racist, it's just that they won't see the problem with that statement/care about it because they literally have no idea about the hardships that black Americans have faced. psydude fucked around with this message at 14:46 on May 4, 2018 |
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May 4, 2018 14:43
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bird food bathtub posted:Dems have to play hardball and fight this without What is it about basic math that's so consistently so difficult for you to understand? No amount of kicking and screaming on the part of the Dems can stop McConnell from ramming through nominees when the senate only needs 51 votes to approve judges, and Republicans have 51 seats. It's not because Democrats are trying to play nice, it's because they are literally two votes shy of being able to stop it.
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May 4, 2018 20:10
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Professor Bling posted:shh dudes literally just explaining that Losing states had nothing to do with Clinton and everything to do with the DNC thinking that they could ride Obama's success for each subsequent election and also force local candidates to adhere to national party objectives and ideologies. It's actually the same mistake the RNC is making right now with the tax bill and trying to destroy the healthcare system.
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May 4, 2018 20:59
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Professor Bling posted:Like, maybe that recorded conversation with Hoyer isn't an abnormality, which is why Pelosi was circling the wagons to defend the practice (which is fuckin' indefensible). It's like the centrist Dems that supported Clinton in the last election don't actually give a gently caress about democratically electing someone if that someone isn't the "right" candidate I've written this probably 15 times in this thread already, but winning local elections has absolutely nothing to do with centrist vs. leftist policies and everything to do with finding candidates that are right for the district. If a socialist candidate will do well, run a socialist candidate. If a moderate candidate will do well, run a moderate candidate. Shocker, this is what's been working really well this election cycle. Forcing every candidate to adhere to a leftist ideological purity is just as loving dumb as making sure every candidate is a moderate.
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May 4, 2018 21:10
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I don't think Schumer is nearly as reviled as Pelosi. Either way, they would benefit from getting someone from the Midwest or South in visible leadership positions.
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May 4, 2018 22:54
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Hot Karl Marx posted:The rich will not save us, they want to enslave us Nah, they're just going to replace everyone with robots. They both cost and complain less.
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May 5, 2018 20:34
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Mr. Nice! posted:Musk:tech bubble::Trump:real estate As opposed to all of those safe automobiles manufactured by GM and Ford, Toyota, Mazda, and Honda that totally haven't had literal fatal design flaws? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 5, 2018 21:57
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I don't drive anywhere anymore, so I'm going to continue burning dead dinosaurs every time I go to the store or the gym for the foreseeable future.
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May 6, 2018 04:38
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Mr. Nice! posted:I’m talking about the deaths due to “autopilot.” Teslas have a horrible safety record. I’m not saying that others haven’t had bad poo poo happen, but their response is usually recall and correction rather than to get into big public slapfights with regulatory bodies. Usually? How about suppressing test results or settling with surviving family members out of court under strict non-disclosure agreements. I guess it's the cool goon thing to hate on Tesla right now, but I'm not sure you can compare 3 people dying for abusing autopilot to the Ford/Firestone or Takata scandals. Also I'm not sure where you're getting this terrible safety record thing from. Their cars consistently achieve top marks compared to other car companies. psydude fucked around with this message at 15:44 on May 6, 2018 |
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May 6, 2018 15:39
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Immanentized posted:This is exactly what Tesla (and uber) has done with a number of autopilot adjacent deaths and incidents, they also rely on murky and non-independent testing methods and have an automatic callhome function if anyone tries to do any independent testing on their software or hardware. I don't disagree with you on a lot of these points, but Mr. Nice's assertion that other car companies follow the rules was as laughable as suggesting that Wells Fargo is just trying to provide great service to their customers. Tesla gets a lot of hate because Musk is a very public figure. But let's not forget that GM's chief executive pulled the exact same poo poo a couple of years ago with the starter solenoid fiasco. The only difference is that she did it in a very boring fashion. psydude fucked around with this message at 16:11 on May 6, 2018 |
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May 6, 2018 16:08
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Mr. Nice! posted:I’m not saying other car manufacturers are completely innocent. Far from it. I disagree with this statement as well. The chief reason why so many auto manufacturers have been building plants in the south is because they can use contract or non-union labor. Their safety record for their plants is abysmal, too. You just don't hear about it because they've woven a supply chain web that protects them from liability.
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May 6, 2018 16:14
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Casimir Radon posted:If he goes to prison he'll lose access to whatever pathetic rich guy poo poo he's doing to his head. Rich guy poo poo? Didn't his doctor reveal that he's using rogaine or something dumb like that?
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May 6, 2018 20:16
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DKD posted:I was reading the memoir of a guy who was in like the second class of CIA trainees and according to him the organization was suuuuuuper WASPy in the early days, and everyone was just kinda trying to figure stuff out on the fly. He had one story about being sent to train some Southeast Asians (Hmong?) in guerrilla warfare, except he knew nothing about guerrilla warfare or their language. He did have a philosophy degree. (The story has a happy ending-- the whole thing was just a scam, and nobody died as a result of this dumb scheme). Remember that the original CIA was born out of the OSS from World War II, so it wasn't like they just stood up a completely new organization with no experience. With that being said, I also completely believe what you wrote above, because it's the same way the modern US military works. Except for the nobody dying part.
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May 7, 2018 12:50
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Pence is on TV right now speaking at the OAS about how corruption destroys democracies. I gotta believe he sees the irony.
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May 7, 2018 19:18
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I exclusively use 24H time because I'm dealing with people in basically every continent, so AM and PM can become easily confused.
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May 7, 2018 21:32
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I'm going to go ahead a white knight McCain for and moment and say that his voting down of the ACA repeal was the greatest thing any Republican has done for America since, well, John McCain and Russ Feingold passed their ill-fated campaign finance bill. e: After posting this, I learned that Mitch "Turtle Face" McConnell pretty much led the efforts to destroy the legislation through legal action from the moment it was passed. psydude fucked around with this message at 00:04 on May 8, 2018 |
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May 7, 2018 23:59
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boop the snoot posted:Aren’t defined pension plans common in government jobs and pretty much extinct elsewhere? I know Deloitte still offers a DB pension plan with a five year vesting period. Most of the others that I'm aware of are either governments (state or local), or nonprofits/education.
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May 8, 2018 02:24
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Schneiderman resigned.
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May 8, 2018 02:56
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Idgi. Couldn't the dogs be used to catch pretty much any other form of contraband, including black market weed? Just cause weed is legal doesn't mean that people aren't going to try to avoid paying taxes on it, like with cigarettes.
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May 8, 2018 16:24
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Sucks to be anyone on the ground in Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan right now.
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May 8, 2018 19:46
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BigDave posted:Pretty much. The bank can't threaten you if you don't do business with them. That's where the danger is, if the Third World can get cheap money and aid from China or Russia, and they place fewer restrictions on that money, why shouldn't they do it? If a credit union offers a lower interest rate on a car loan then Wells Fargo, why get the loan through Wells Fargo? Except in this scenario credit unions are more like an Italian guy with a Cadillac offering to lend you money for a favor.
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May 9, 2018 01:10
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What kind of special idiot uses a US-based LLC to receive bribes and kickbacks for an elected official. At least Putin had the good sense to use Panama.
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May 9, 2018 01:39
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Hahaha man he's so hosed.
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May 9, 2018 01:53
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Mr. Nice! posted:Well, you are if you don't get a dog in that post. Phone posting. Tried putting an attachment in and it isn't showing up so oh well.
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