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Gonna be real surprising once SomethingAwful has to reverse all these permabans and refund a bunch of 10$'s
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In the wake of the GOP in Georgia getting owned at the federal level, their salty asses are gonna make it more annoying to vote with a new bill they've passedquote:-Limits Sunday voting to one optional Sunday in each county Even worse than the above, the GA Senate is pondering adding on to that list by restricting absentee voting to 65+, Disabled, or out of town, when it used to be you could just get one by filling out a thing online or sending in a request. https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-house-to-vote-on-election-restrictions-amid-staunch-opposition/46SNHMIYGZGMZDG5KLGHAB6NQ4/
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Fallom posted:Weird, red states normally don’t have any issue receiving blue state bailouts. They just don’t want to help pay. Yea, I think it's something more embarrassing for them. Probably that the amount of government dole they'd need to be solvent would be big enough they'd need a specific "texas bailout" bill, which would be hilarious to me.
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Mar 2, 2021 22:24
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Stultus Maximus posted:While true, anyone who has a lot of wealth is garbage so Fixed for brevity
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Mar 4, 2021 01:10
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Grip it and rip it posted:Bezos ex-wife is still extremely rich I'll consider removing her from garbage tier when she gives away enough to fall under 10 million networth.
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Mar 4, 2021 01:32
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Best Friends posted:Extremely wealthy people like to commit to this then get richer anyway. Bill G has over twice as much wealth as he did the day he pledged to give it all away. Yea, I mean it's a good thought, but remember if they where at all serious about it, even with "making sure the money goes to the right place" they could if they wanted make a huge dent in their individual wealth in a span of a few months. Want to do medical research? Throw Johns Hopkins a billion and that funds their research for a year, why not a few billion to keep them rolling? Want to help developing countries? Give MSF 2 billion to fund their current budget for the year, or pay off the national debts of various Caribbean islands. Want to help the poor of the US? Throw a few hundred thousand at every foodbank you can google.
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Mar 4, 2021 01:48
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facialimpediment posted:And speaking of gently caress these people: I'd like to point this part out, Interviewer:"Do you see the gravity of it[the attack on the capital]?" QaMom:Of Course. Of Course I feel the gravity of it. Because my son...[is] where he is right now In short: It's only a big deal, because he hosed around and found out.
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Mar 4, 2021 18:17
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facialimpediment posted:So now they have to read the bill out loud (because Johnson is a fucker) Does it have to be a senator/congress critter to do it? Is there an issue with just hiring the Micromachines guy or an auctioneer to just blow through it?
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Mar 4, 2021 21:40
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Milo and POTUS posted:We regret to inform you that the micromachines guy is a chud  milkshake duck!!!!
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Mar 4, 2021 21:42
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Acebuckeye13 posted:They probably can but it'll still take a while since it's a massive bill. Alternatively, is there an issue with feeding the contents of the bill to Microsoft Sam and read it at something like 5000 words per minute? If people are gonna play silly buggers, the opposing party might as well play along.
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Mar 4, 2021 22:35
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Remember when someone got pissy about me saying Elaine Chao was in a conspiracy grift to help her family back in Taiwan or China? Nah, but why would someone doubt a Trump appointee had some sort of grift?
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Mar 4, 2021 23:17
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facialimpediment posted:Most of the "Democrats in Congress are lovely people that hate their own voters" stuff is a bit overblown, but then there's this: I don't think the thing has ever been "Democrats in congress are lovely people that, etc,etc" I think the thing has always been "Congressional Democrats for the most part, hate being in power, because you can't be managed opposition that way."
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Mar 5, 2021 20:52
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I'm willing to believe there is a universe in which the status quo is maintained in 2022. I'm more willing to believe that enough democrats in congress are gonna own goal themselves between now and then that enough people pulling the lever for blue shrug and embrace accelerationism and the seething mass of rage known as conservatives turn out in force to get rid of the commie socialists, and at the very least Warnock loses his seat to this.
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Mar 7, 2021 18:46
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lightpole posted:Not by an insurmountable margin that can't be overcome at some point in the next 4 years. Democrats need to create and push messaging touting their bill and GOP resistance, as well as socialist policies to build support. I'd also like to point out, Warnock won by less than 90k and over performed prior democrat candidates by a large margin. Georgia has basically already passed a full suite of voter suppression laws targeting people who would vote for him in 2022. So unless the Republicans runs someone really divisive, by republican standards I don't see Warnock retaining barring Democrats delivering actual tangible reforms and poo poo that people know is good and doesn't require some college nerd going "well you see this is good because means testing and marginal tax bracket and blahblahblah". Cutting folks a check was a good start a shame it only covers about a month depending on where you live.
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Mar 7, 2021 19:14
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RFC2324 posted:I met someone a couple years back who was making $35/hr plus living expenses as a journeyman plumber. All he did all day was cut pipe and supervise unskilled laborers who were setting it. lol if you wanna do construction in Georgia or any other right to work state. At both water plant jobs I was working at the general construction dudes where making something like 12 an hour and some really piss poor insurance, the only dudes making any sort of living was the super, the welder, and the carpenter. I say it might be better than flipping burgers depending on how you value the various wounds and damage you take from accidents and other stupid poo poo.
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Mar 8, 2021 00:37
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I honestly considered adding a firewall rule to my parents router which would block the various conservative outlets when my dad used "Safe Space" Unironically, I'll probably go through with it if I hear "Cancel Culture", because it proves the man can't handle being terminally online outside of playing Elder Scrolls Online.
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Mar 8, 2021 20:12
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That Works posted:Relevant to the last page. WHAT!? NO! Couldn't be. Shocked, absolutely shocked.
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Mar 8, 2021 22:55
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PeterCat posted:https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/08/task-force-calls-permanent-national-guard-force-protect-dc.html lol, this is the equivalent of me going "we should establish a 24/7 NOC that responds to crisis on the network" after the cause of a breach was the CEO being really stupid with his account and telling security to make him an exception to every rule. The gently caress is a QRF gonna do if the president is, again, going to dip their toe beyond the pool of standard republican fascism. Stand there with their thumb up their rear end while congress gets executed.
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Mar 8, 2021 23:45
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RFC2324 posted:It's always the fault of the person who got bit, tho, you should just treat all dogs as loving creatures who still have sharp teeth. Yea, I don't get how someone over the age of 13 ends up getting bit outside of the dog being trained to outright attack. I've never seen a dog go from just placidly hanging out to biting, usually theres a lot of obvious warnings you're about to be bit.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:14
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I’m gonna cut right to what will surely be a multiple page derail’s conclusion and boldly state that you shouldn’t have been riding your bike on the sidewalk but also that if you had been armed then this wouldn’t have happened. This has become the intersection point of all possible worse derails. Bike riding chat Gun chat Dog chat Someone wanna add something to involve cops and hot dog toppings?
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Mar 9, 2021 23:35
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Blind Rasputin posted:Seriously, it’s 2021, why can’t we have a printer that ‘just works’. There's no economic incentive to improve consumer printers or develop better drivers. The closest I've gotten to a network printer that "just works" flawlessly is the Brother MFC-L8610. That thing has worked excellently for the last three years and has survived two network migrations without me doing more than plugging it in and assigning it an IP.
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Mar 10, 2021 20:49
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Grip it and rip it posted:The issue of not getting free money during a pandemic despite earning 160K. I thought real progressives would just scream "gently caress OFF" at the capital class. How about everyone gets free money and we can settle poo poo by taxing Jeff Bezos or something? edit:I'd rather people earning 500k get money if that means everyone who needs poo poo gets it. Hell even if they don't need it, I'd rather every goon got cash because at least they might make a hilarious thread about building a
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Mar 10, 2021 22:47
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:does anyone know if the BidenBux cutoff incomes are scaled for cost of living or is it just flat? Flat. A dude living in New York City with four room mates is getting the same 1400 that my brother is getting living in buttz county, georgia in his three bed room ranch.
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Mar 10, 2021 22:52
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Mustang posted:What narrative does the GOP have? They've been moaning about Dr. Seuss and Lola Bunny for fucks sake. "You're poor and shits not getting better because [immigrants/coastal elites/black people], so we need to [cut taxes/build a wall/give cops more money]" Which would easily be countered with poo poo like, giving everyone the 2k checks and other direct action social programs, like free lunches in school or federal unemployment assistance on a consistent basis instead of when there's some sort of plague.
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Mar 11, 2021 00:41
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Mustang posted:Ok, sure. So you think this bill have absolutely no impact on anything whatsoever? Why? The American Recovery Act 2009 was a 830b[1t today] stimulus package passed in January 09 and the ACA was signed March 2010. The democrats got murdered in the house losing 60 seats by November 2010, and would get thrown out of the senate during the next round of elections. Certainly people are gonna be helped, but taking a victory lap on this bare minimum bullshit is gonna lead to Biden being a lame duck in 2022. Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Mar 11, 2021 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Ok I'm starting to warm up to manchin a little lmao In conclusion, Joe Manchin is a land of contrasts.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I don' think this forum warrants much watching. Probably two bored millennials watching us. Going through the same problems as some of us. Developing Stockholm Syndrome having to read our spaghetti on the wall interpretations of the world. They see one of the usual triggers to a thread meltdown and immediately reach for booze as the next few hours will be nothing but posts about how the other posters are stupid.
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No info for me, although I did get my tax return today. 
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Mar 14, 2021 02:02
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Grip it and rip it posted:Wait, why don't people use pdfs? I thought they were standard for research publications? The average dude knows what a pdf is, not so much "peer reviewed journal" or "Preprint" or the difference between that and some dude posting poo poo on the internet. edit: misunderstood the question. Because Latex is king 
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Sacrist65 posted:Who was the 4 star AF general that was fired from is college president job at a state school for incompetence after like, 2 years? Certain sectors absolutely love former military and will jerk them off regardless of their incompetency as long as their military career is even some what tangentially related. I do not doubt a flag officers ability to find, at the very least, some sort of mid-management or exec role regardless of competency and regardless of being fired.
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Mar 16, 2021 16:22
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In other current events. Got an appointment for a shot tomorrow, but status of the biden bucks is currently unknown. Where's my money Joe!?
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Mar 16, 2021 16:43
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Stultus Maximus posted:Tucker Carlson is angry that dirty foreigners are reducing the living space we have . Well tuck, it wouldn't be so loving crowded if prices for housing where reasonable relative to wages. A room mate or two wouldn't be one of those required things.
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I don't see the issue with saying "Yo, the Irish experienced systemic racism at one point and then for what ever reason the rest of the racists in this country decided that the Irish where cool, and we should learn from that and try to fix that poo poo for other groups of people" by itself. however, it's gonna be misunderstood by the people who really should take that lesson to heart as "THE POOR IRISH ABLOOBLOO TREATED AS BAD AS SLAVES AND THEY DONT WHINE ABOUT REPERATIONS!"
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Mar 18, 2021 16:58
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Grip it and rip it posted:Let's all rip on various peoples who survived genocide and point out their generalized cultural failings Finally the greenlight to rip on the Protestant French!
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Mar 18, 2021 17:28
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lightpole posted:Just got #1 today and the mass part of it felt weird walking through the lines at the local fairgrounds. Probably better than my experience yesterday. Got an appointment at the pharmacy down the street because I sat up the night before refreshing the online appointment thing. Got one for about 5:30, thing said to arrive 15 minutes early, and to print and fill out a questionnaire thing. Arrived 30 minutes early, sat in line for an hour because the same line was handling both vaccine check ins and regular pharmacy things, handed them the online questionnaire thing I printed out that morning, got told the thing had a few missing questions and I would have to fill out the same packet with two questions added. Posted up against a wall and did it quickly, handed it back, got told there was four people in front of me, and it really shouldn't be more than fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes go by and a dude who looked like he had either a spine or leg issue gets up to the desk and tells the pharmacy his pain meds weren't working and he'd needed better ones. The pharmacists said they weren't allowed to prescribe meds, and he'd have to get his doctor to call it in. This developed into cursing and screaming and security dragging the dude out. It is now 7:00 and I start to feel the need to take a piss, I ask the pharmacy if there was a bathroom I could use, apparently its employee's only, and if I left the pharmacy and got called I may lose my spot for the day, and besides it shouldn't be too much longer. 8:00 rolls around and my bladder feels like its going to burst when they call me up, I get my shot, they tell me to hang around for ten minutes and I said I'd be right back and go piss in the parking lot. tl:dr, mass sites are probably a better experience than a pharmacy no matter how conveniently placed the pharmacy maybe.
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lightpole posted:Did they schedule the 2nd shot for you as well? The ticket set dates for both 1st and 2nd shot so I already know I have to go back 4/15 at 0900. The places I found here required both shots be scheduled at the same time.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Lmao Putin challenges to Biden to a "debate." lol, "DEBATE ME JOE!"
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Mar 18, 2021 22:38
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pmchem posted:you know, given how paranoid GOPers are about immigrants, and how much dems love social programs, you'd figure one thing they should be able to come together on are programs that encourage/support U.S. citizens creating more U.S. citizens. YOU CANT DO THAT! THATS A SOCIALISM THAT IS!
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Acebuckeye13 posted:This whole thing really feels both bizarre and desperate. Really a good description of history from 1996 to 2021
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Handsome Ralph posted:Look if it turns out they were terminated because all they did was smoke weed prior to their clearance process, I'll eat my hat. Fruit hat or regular?
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