seiferguy posted:

I had an ex-girlfriend who described herself as moderate, then about a year and a half in says "I'm actually super conservative, I only said moderate because I didn't want to scare you away." So, I'm only speaking from experience, I guess.

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Because my dad, in his infinite compassion and wisdom, thought it'd be "thematically compelling"

Ehud posted:

What’s everyone doing today

my brother is coming over to help me replace the fuel pump on my lovely old Ranger

we already did the ignition coil, starter and battery last weekend. hopefully this is the last problem.

Spoeank posted:

Oh so Myanmar had a coup

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1356197943041269761?s=19

shirts and skins posted:

I mean, it didn't look great for the Rohingya with Suu Kyi in charge either

Kalli posted:

Man that was a hell of a storm. had to bust out the snowblower and spent an hour blowing my small rear end driveway

Timby posted:

I don't have any direct experience but I'm not aware of any peer-reviewed or legitimate studies that show any sort of empirical connection between CBD oil and animal behavior, especially because there's nothing psychoactive in the CBD oil.

iwentdoodie posted:

https://youtu.be/lDPRwLlpdTU

This is one of the best things I've ever seen.

Pops Mgee posted:

Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

Literal hero:

swickles posted:

Whats it like to hate joy?

Samadhi posted:

cancel culture smdh

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1359693272436867076?s=20

General Dog posted:

I want to hear our esteemed Mandalorian skeptic The Juggernaut thinks.

shirts and skins posted:

Dang, people, it's a chat thread not a novel. It's really okay to skip to the most recent page or two. Don't know how those CSPAM or Games threads would function otherwise.

Ehud posted:

Senate trial is getting spicy. Five republicans voted in favor of allowing witnesses to be called.

Trump's lawyer threatened to call "a hundred witnesses" just to waste everyone's time lol

Grittybeard posted:

Eh, I think there's value in getting stuff on the record. It won't change anyone's vote in this trial, but the Romney video of him getting hustled out of the place was new I believe.

Leperflesh posted:

You need a ten foot ladder, a sawzall, an outlet tester, a copy of the Black & Decker guide to home wiring, a tack hammer, a claw hammer... hey, have you decided on which 18v battery ecosystem you're going with yet? Ryobi is the home depot one and it's fine for homeowners, lots of people swear by bosch or milwaukee, definitely don't get the black & decker ones (they make a good book about wiring but everything else they sell is garbo). You're gonna want a shop vac, maybe a power washer, a squeegee, get yourself some knee pads/pucks if you have a crawlspace, think about what sorts of shovels your yard/driveway/weather conditions call for. Got grass? Any bushes? The Fiscars shears are fine, maybe consider some loppers, hedge shears, or some of the power tool options in that arena, I'm assuming you're already thinking about the lawnmower and/or string trimmer to go with.

Welcome to home ownership, the above represents some fraction of your first two month's purchases, not a full list, but it'll get ya started.

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Umberto Eco Makes a List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”

2.The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

3.The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

4.Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”

5.Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”

6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”

7. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”

10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”

13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning."

FizFashizzle posted:

I think about this a lot!

Nick Jr. Face posted:

Imagine being as rich as Jeff Bezos and knowing that even a small fraction of your fortune could solve half of this country's problems world hunger but you don't even bother because FYGM lol

Blowjob Overtime posted:

You mean before the pipes freeze? If they had the foresight to think it would be this bad they could have drained it and avoided some of the damage, although there will always be some left in the system.

Now that pipes have frozen the whole house's system will be draining on its own through whatever damage the freezing caused, which is going to cause a lot more residual damage to wherever that water goes.

I'm assuming most of the videos of gushing water are people who don't have access to the shutoff and just have to sit helplessly watching.

Timby posted:

Seriously gently caress this year.

Timby posted:

I am a very gratefully recovering alcoholic.

saintonan posted:

It's what's keeping me from having a whole lot of sympathy with people facing electric bills of several thousand dollars - they absolutely had the choice to be on a more normal plan (my electric bill this month will be ~$200 - high but not insane). They deliberately chose to be on this kind of plan.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So the NHL was confounded by the existence of the Sun.

shirts and skins posted:

He watches *nothing* from before 1990? Is this guy only a sci fi/blockbuster kind of watcher? Like, there are a mind boggling array of great movies from before 1990.

Android Apocalypse posted:

Just curious, what is their Mt. Rushmore of movies? I'm curious what they consider their favorites if the cutoff is 1990. It would also give us a feel of their tastes, though if they were interested in 2001: A Space Oddyssey & Blade Rhnner, I'm guessing heavy on the sci-fix.

Before I forget, the most obvious question: which version of Blade Runner did y'all watch? Have they seen Blade Runner 2049?

Ehud posted:

That's bizarre since the 70s and 80s owned so much for movies.

So this friend has never watched Alien and Aliens?

swickles posted:

It was mostly a joke about Star Trek, since thats how TOS was originally pitched. The Mandalorian, at least the first season is a straight up Space Western and probably the thing I would point to as the definition of the genre.

FizFashizzle posted:

We should never kink shame.

That said, bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha

https://twitter.com/licensedt0ill/status/1363977916397273091?s=21

Intruder posted:

https://twitter.com/mrgracemugabe/status/1364015679964258305

wow, missing them already