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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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A Bad Poster posted:

I can no longer tell if the people in the replies saying "this was intentional" and "they'll get so much data!" are mocking people or are dead serious.

Schrödinger’s comments. They’re both, till the commenter’s history is observed and the wave function collapses.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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quote:

In a statement, a spokesperson for Chao said the report "exonerates the Secretary from baseless accusations and closes the book on an election-year effort to impugn her history-making career as the first Asian American woman appointed to a President's Cabinet and her outstanding record as the longest tenured Cabinet member since World War II."

God, I hate these fucks.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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I had to looked up the neanderthal context.



lol what a loser

He’s still whingeing about a weak remark Hillary Clinton made four and a half years ago.

Does he remember what the other kids called him in grade school?

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Mar 5, 2021

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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AreWeDrunkYet posted:

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Meier ran to the women’s restroom

It would sure be a shame if an inconsiderate person were stretching a leg in the aisle.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Stultus Maximus posted:

It's not going to get better. As the Republicans go farther into fascism and insane conspiracies, "moderate" conservative politicians and voters will go over to Team D and shift the center of gravity rightwards.

See: the entire state of California

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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It must be horrible to have disease‐bearing creatures crawling around in the halls…

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1367992451345088513

LOL

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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This example is on the Wikipedia page for the pesticide FLIT:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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https://twitter.com/TomasRobles14/status/1367895928258977794

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Technically, yeah.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Here is an in vitro study.

The vaccine is probably going to work for you either way, but if you can bear the discomfort and want to get the best shot possible, avoid painkillers.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Kazinsal posted:

Now if they'll only remember that they can in fact keep fixing poo poo because they control all three branches.

(they won't)

The judiciary :dafuq:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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https://i.imgur.com/IqxhRug.mp4

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1368663850527121408

Looks like the knives are starting to come out for Cuomo.

I fear he won’t resign and will get away with it.

Politicians used to be pressured to resign. Look at Franken. Then Trump and Biden proved that they can wriggle out of anything. Now there are people saying “we totally could, and should, have kept Franken in the Senate.”

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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boop the snoot posted:

For everyone who was hyping up the infrastructure bill yesterday, let the fuckfuck games begin

https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-pledges-block-bidens-120433439.html?guccounter=1

Manchin bad, but I could see him going “look, we tried to work with Republicans and they threw a tantrum, so we’re making infrastructure great again without them”

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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The only acceptable reason is “the author is a dumbass and we realised this before print, but we want our readers to have an opportunity to laugh at it, too”.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Naramyth posted:

Got my JnJ shot on Sunday. It laid me out for most of yesterday but I’m good now.

It’s interesting that the Janssen vaccine seems to do this to a lot of people whereas the mRNA vaccines commonly cause nothing but a sore arm on the first shot.

I wonder if it has to do with the adenovirus vector, that the body is acutely concerned about that in a way it isn’t about the mRNA and adjuvant.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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lol @ his teammates’ hands

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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shame on an IGA posted:

why the gently caress is a guy who makes $10,000,000/yr playing basketball even streaming in the first place

How else would he get the gamer words out of his system?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Godholio posted:

It does. I don't think we should discount them just because deer are almost as stupid as 2/3 of drivers.

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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We shouldn’t exclude deer from the statistics. It is possible to decrease the death toll with things like hunting or the reintroduction of their natural predators.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Thwomp posted:

Is he still allowed to use that seal?

When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Stultus Maximus posted:

That's not the actual Presidential seal.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Acebuckeye13 posted:

For anyone who missed out on the last round of checks or wants another one, there's still time to qualify:

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1369727698566852608?s=20

“Honey, it’s time to do your duty for the party.”

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Flying_Crab posted:

Gerrymandering in some instances is actually necessary and good though, for instance to ensure minority representation in legislative bodies.

This hurts minority voters’ political power while looking like it’s doing something to help.

Pass.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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facialimpediment posted:

Yeah that's what I meant - deliberate majority-minority districts are fine, but you can't carve up Detroit into 20 districts so that all the white burbs/rurals outvote the black people.

They’re two sides of the same coin, cracking and packing.

If you can’t keep the other party/race from having any districts, the next best thing is to pack as many of their voters as you can into one district that votes overwhelmingly for their party/race. This denudes the adjacent districts of voters of that party/race and lets you win them all with a safe but not overwhelming margin.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

I'm sure the hurricanes, earthquakes and power grid will eventually solve that problem.

Then you'll have a bunch of video cards to loot from storm damaged buttcoin warehouses and can make a fortune in used hardware sales.


Seriously though, what are the crypto kooks up to out on the island?

Tax haven.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Your quote stops before this equally good paragraph:

quote:

Other Gilkey capers weren’t so frictionless. Once, after he traced some of Hitler’s own collection of war art to a bar in St. Agatha, Austria, the manager refused him entry. Gilkey’s companion, an Army captain from Texas, threatened to shoot down the door—as well as the manager if she stood in their way much longer. The conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra happened by, intervened, and finessed the situation. (Not only did the Army get the paintings, but the Texan got a date with the conductor’s daughter.)

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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https://twitter.com/axios/status/1370346618889900033

If Marco Rubio told me the Pope was Catholic, I’d call the Vatican switchboard to check, but I don’t know what his play is here.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Kesper North posted:

2) All the reservoirs dump their water during fire season

It would take days to drain and there’s a lot of opportunity to notice and halt it compared to any other cyberattack.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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As bad as blaming diabetes for one’s own racism is, it is less bad that blaming a big bowl of chili for making one forget the names of their own children.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Midjack posted:

cgm and insulin pump

All right, Mister Moneybags.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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I was linked this video, and it’s an accurate and infuriating indictment of the American system.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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facialimpediment posted:

That situation is even dumber - the J&J is an adenovirus vector! Your coworker is more comfortable with scientists taking a virus, making it harmless, changing the guts to make the body produce covid-antigen, then giving you the virus. Literally giving you a virus to protect yourself from getting a virus!

You'd think they'd be more comfortable with the mRNA poo poo, which is just basically just entirely-fake stuff that isn't even a virus. But because it has *NA in it, it must reprogram your body so the government can control your mind and make socialism.

lol yeah

The mRNA vaccines are coated in lipids that let them slip through the cell membrane, and then cellular machinery takes the mRNA and executes it’s instructions.

Adenovirus vector vaccines use the modified virus to infiltrate the cell and the nucleus, at which point their DNA is transcribed to RNA and things proceed more or less as in the case where it started as mRNA.

I’ve been describing the mRNA vaccines as “it’s like if someone slipped a document into the secretary’s inbox with a cover sheet saying ‘please make one dozen copies of this wanted poster’ ”.

In this analogy, the viral vector walks in the front door in a suit and puts the document in the copy machine on their own. The tactic works fine, but mRNA vaccines are positively polite in comparison. They both involve genetic code and neither of them modifies your own.

The SWAT team blows up the office in either case.

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Mar 16, 2021

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Sacrist65 posted:

Why do they all loving look like this

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

lol I don't think this guy is going to be seated on the jury
https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1372225633963626498?s=19

If you think they’re going to be able to strike you with cause anyway, the best thing you can do is make an impression on the remaining potential jurors.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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maffew buildings posted:

Well better go find a loving telegram office if I want Diane Feinstein to receive the message

I was thinking “psychic”, but yeah.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Pine Cone Jones posted:

would reforms run the risk of causing the republicans if/when they regain control of the senate just doing whatever they want?

Journalists wring their hands about this, but the GOP has zero hesitation about using power when it suits them. They ended the filibuster as it applied to Supreme Court appointments, and they would have done it even if the Democrats hadn’t ended it for lesser lesser appointments under Obama.

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