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Oct 1, 2021 10:26
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Old - Fat Bears. New - Lesbian Lizards. As quoted from the wiki under behavior, "The lizard is a female-only species that reproduces by producing an egg through parthenogenesis. The whiptail engages in mating behavior with other females of its own species, giving rise to the common nickname "lesbian lizards" "
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Oct 1, 2021 10:43
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Man the Manchin yelling from yacht thing is a bit on the nose Reality again lacking taste and subtlety
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Oct 1, 2021 10:44
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pokemon of regular namesKhanstant posted:here is Gordon Plant MONSTER. posted:this is Paul Khanstant posted:pm said to do gertie so here gertie shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 11:30
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Tired: horse paste Wired: actual, legitimate anti-covid pill that wasn't on my radar https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1443888989140815885?s=19 Pill turned out so good that they terminated the clinical trial early and it's only $700 a treatment without any fancy infusion bullshit.
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Oct 1, 2021 12:05
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Another positive (and very New Zealand) story - guy and kids go missing, everyone assumes they were swept out to sea, turns out they were just doing a little real life Hunt for the Wilderpeople in the bush. I'm sure he's going to get an absolute thrashing from the family once they get over the initial relief though. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/01/new-zealand-family-missing-found/ quote:When police found Thomas Phillips’s silver Toyota Hilux abandoned on Kiritehere Beach near Marokopa, New Zealand, the tide was flowing in and threatening to sweep away the vehicle.
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Oct 1, 2021 12:27
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facialimpediment posted:Tired: horse paste I don't know what's funnier, that it's "only 700" or that that really is relatively cheap
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Oct 1, 2021 12:30
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The guy that claimed he was the afghan baby crane at the turmp rally is being contradicted by his command. https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-told-trump-rally-saved-afghan-baby-under-investigation-report-2021-10 quote:While Clark did not say when he helped evacuate a baby, Clark's command told Task & Purpose that Clark was not the Marine seen in the August 19 video.
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Oct 1, 2021 12:46
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aphid_licker posted:Man the Manchin yelling from yacht thing is a bit on the nose poo poo like that is a prime example of why me and my generation have been moving out of WV in droves over the last twenty years
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Oct 1, 2021 12:48
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Hell yeah Horror movie season and Halloween time. 🎃
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Oct 1, 2021 13:01
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I think my brain is busted about halloween. I just don't care about it, at all. Don't really need horror movies anymore either, plenty of scarier poo poo on cable news than some boogeyman in a cornfield. I'll be putting out candy for the neighborhood kids this year, though. First time I'll have done that in 6 years.
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Oct 1, 2021 13:10
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't know what's funnier, that it's "only 700" or that that really is relatively cheap I'd expect insurers to cover that thing at drat near generic-levels of copays, though the feds are covering the first 1.7m courses of it. Monoclonals are $2100, plus labor expenses for the nurses/infusers, plus you have to go to a facility. It's possible that my brain is hosed due to the American healthcare systems stupid poo poo, but $700 for a full treatment just doesn't sound terrible. Of course, the vaccines top out at like $30/dose, though the storage costs/steps are a bit nuts, but it's apparently a hell of a thing developing a new pill to fight a disease that's not even two years old yet. A shitload of them crashed and burned without doing anything.
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Oct 1, 2021 13:25
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I got my hopes up for about a sentence. https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1443923224593637394?s=19 Edit: there's now a Derek Lowe post on the anti-covid pill here, but it has one hell of a funny quote in it as for how good the vaccines are: quote:Note that Merck specifically was looking at unvaccinated patients, because if the trial had been run in vaccinated ones not enough people would even have been hospitalized yet to be able to tell if the drug was doing anything. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 14:01
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McNally posted:We've survived another month. Thank you for linking the new thread in the old thread. Unlike SOME PEOPLE you are a mostly good poster.
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Oct 1, 2021 14:16
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I think my brain is busted about halloween. I just don't care about it, at all. Don't really need horror movies anymore either, plenty of scarier poo poo on cable news than some boogeyman in a cornfield. See for me I get to enjoy it with my kids, because otherwise I’d probably be more low key…well except for watching movies. Also I tend to incorporate sci-fi monster movies into the definition of horror so it’s a little more varied. Plus honestly the best horror is the unrealistic stuff in a sense. The stuff you can tell yourself is not real and it’s kind of relaxing. There is a quote from Lucio Fulci about it I need to dig up.
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Oct 1, 2021 14:19
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Alien might be dated, but the idea of a creature hunting you so it can use you as an incubator rather than eat you outright was always an unsettling place to start. That was before H R Giger brought the concept to life in even more unsettling ways 
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Oct 1, 2021 14:34
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I don't know when my brain broke over horror, sci-fi horror included, it just doesn't register as anything more than unintentional comedy at best. Maybe it's years of desensitization, maybe it's the real monsters in the news every single day, but it all feels hollow. Kinda feel like kids should be more afraid of their pastor than a swamp monster or an alien.
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Oct 1, 2021 14:58
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facialimpediment posted:Tired: horse paste Now they just have to mandate that all horse dewormer has to be fortified with this poo poo and we'll finally have this pandemic beaten
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Oct 1, 2021 15:01
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I don't know when my brain broke over horror, sci-fi horror included, it just doesn't register as anything more than unintentional comedy at best. Maybe it's years of desensitization, maybe it's the real monsters in the news every single day, but it all feels hollow. Bingo! That's the nice thing with horror film, while some are super realistic, most of them aren't, and it's kind of a release. I mean be afraid of the Priest wanting to sodomize a bunch of kids, but Jason isn't real and you don't have to worry about him punching your head off (real talk Part 8 if you just ignore the Manhattan aspect, being skimpy as hell), is really drat fun. Also there is nothing wrong with unintentional comedy.
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Oct 1, 2021 15:23
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I think Alien holds up decently because: A) Ash was the true villain, and Ian Holm carried it brilliantly B) the creature itself only had like 4min of screen time across the entire movie, so you don’t get to see how silly the costume actually looks for any amount of time. Just flashes here and there. I’ve been on an Aliens kick ever since Fireteam: Elite came out, then I went through Isolation…and also bought the Another Glorious Day in the Corps board game
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Oct 1, 2021 15:31
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Icon Of Sin posted:I think Alien holds up decently because: There is also an Alien RPG that Free League Press put out.
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Oct 1, 2021 15:33
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MazelTovCocktail posted:There is also an Alien RPG that Free League Press put out. And another board game that came out in August set aboard the Nostromo 
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Oct 1, 2021 15:33
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Bingo! That's the nice thing with horror film, while some are super realistic, most of them aren't, and it's kind of a release. I mean be afraid of the Priest wanting to sodomize a bunch of kids, but Jason isn't real and you don't have to worry about him punching your head off (real talk Part 8 if you just ignore the Manhattan aspect, being skimpy as hell), is really drat fun.  Yeah, I get that the idea is more of an escape from reality than a portrayal of it. Nothing wrong with unintentional comedy, but my mind just goes "meh" whenever I see a horror on. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 15:51
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MazelTovCocktail posted:There is also an Alien RPG that Free League Press put out. The RPG has a bit of clunky stuff (vehicle combat), but I’ve really enjoyed it. Combat is loving brutal and usually quick. It’s very high risk/reward gameplay. I played a few short (2-3 session ea) encounter this past year, and it can be a ton of fun just playing as the low key mechanic or grunt or whatever who usually isn’t the center of attention, but lives in the space of ultimately checking the player or character who goes off the deep end. Or who just fixes engines and stuff and avoids dying via being useful but a coward.
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I dunno, I have high hopes for the new Candyman. Edit wow I'm an idiot it came out a month ago Wrong Theory fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 18:03
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Icon Of Sin posted:
Imo that's also what made the X files so effective. 99% of the time the monster was camera work, lighting, and actor reactions.
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Oct 1, 2021 18:26
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Spooky month off to a bad start. One of my Crocs(tm) got a hole in it. I’m devastated.
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Oct 1, 2021 18:36
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boop the snoot posted:Spooky month off to a bad start. Crocs are famous for having holes in them.
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Oct 1, 2021 18:57
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Fill it with RTV silicone.
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Oct 1, 2021 19:02
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Icon Of Sin posted:I think Alien holds up decently because: Alien: Isolation is my all time favorite survival horror game, I hope they eventually either make a sequel or a similar style of horror game. Towards the end I could only play for like an hour at a time because of how tense the game is.
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Oct 1, 2021 19:03
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CainFortea posted:Crocs are famous for having holes in them. Incidentally, crocs are infamous for leaving holes in others 
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boop the snoot posted:Spooky month off to a bad start. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1443408269628878851?s=19
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Oct 1, 2021 19:15
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If he's letting it go that close I hope he's up for this being a weekly PT event. Although, props to him for trying to catch and release, in SC it's illegal NOT to kill one that's been captured and that's some ole bullshit.
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Oct 1, 2021 20:01
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Personally they should keep exploring this. Senior Biden aides privately explored whether payments could continue even if U.S. breached debt ceiling Despite extensive review, White House says only option remains for Congress to pass legislation to avert calamity https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/01/white-house-debt-ceiling/ I also thought FI the was kidding about the trillion dollars coin. Welp I was wrong. lol that said when he calls the same type of problems like in Venezuela or Zimbabwe or Weimer Germany when they just tried to keep printing money? I'll freely admit econ isn't my thing, so people can feel free to explain why it is or isn't similar. WaPo posted:Liberals such as Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) have also proposed minting a “trillion-dollar coin” that would allow Treasury to continue to pay its bills. Yellen ruled out that approach in her testimony. “I believe the only way to handle the debt ceiling is for Congress to raise it and show the world, the financial markets, and the public that we’re a country that will pay our bills when we incur them,” Yellen said. mlmp08 posted:The RPG has a bit of clunky stuff (vehicle combat), but I’ve really enjoyed it. Combat is loving brutal and usually quick. It’s very high risk/reward gameplay. I wonder if some of the clunky stuff is unique to alien or just the way they create their games? I did back there twilight 2000 and I have the manual but I haven’t had a chance to really look through it, it does look pretty goddamn complex, but then again it is Twilight2K. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 20:18
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Why do we have our enormous military if not to tell people we owe money to to gently caress off?
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Oct 1, 2021 20:27
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A Bad Poster posted:Why do we have our enormous military if not to tell people we owe money to to gently caress off? I like this idea! lol That said I think it’s illegal to settle international debt disputes anymore with military forces. There were a couple of early 20th century incidents with European powers and South and Central America and the US and in the end mediation became the new method.
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Oct 1, 2021 20:31
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Personally they should keep exploring this. On/around October 18th, every single option is bad. You can default and obliterate the economy. You can outright stop spending, which is not just impossible, but an unconstitutional halting because Congress told you to spend it. Or, you can simply ignore the debt ceiling and issue more debt like usual, which might not be bought because it's unconstitutional to raise debt above what Congress says. The platinum coin idea exploits a loophole, but still has some downsides of #3 as bond buyers are all like "uhhhhh is this going to be legit?" and your only debt buyer becomes the Federal Reserve. And the Supreme Court has basically said that per the Constitution, Congress controls the purse strings (unless Donnie uses money for his wall). So I'm on Team Coin, gently caress the stupid ceiling. Congress is basically telling the White House to spend money, but being dumb each time. Under a CR, you're given a credit card to spend their $10K, and you're ordered to spend their $10K, but it magically turns off when the fiscal year ends. That at least makes some sense. The debt ceiling is like Congress handing you a credit card with a $10K limit, then telling you that by law, $15K is going to be charged against it any day now. Biden/Yellen are saying "hey, raise the credit limit so we can follow your law to spend $15K and this thing doesn't default" and Congressional Republicans are all like "lol no get rekt follow the law"
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1443903283760930819?s=20 In a feel good story. Get hosed Alex, I hope a jury doesn’t even leave you your fillings.
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My mom wasn’t feeling well last night, thought she had heartburn. Her husband woke up to her barely breathing and unresponsive this morning. They think she had a heart attack but they’re running tons of tests. She’s still unresponsive though so that’s not a good sign. I was going to drive the 11 hours home but as I was driving past the airport I figured I’d check for a flight and got one. I couldn’t book online so I naturally had to pay extra and the person got my last name and birthday wrong. I’m glad I didn’t try to go through security first. I have to sit here for a few hours but I’ll get there about 3 hours sooner.
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