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Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1481731676669632516

Thinly sourced but extremely cursed thread here. I would rather cut my own arm off and bludgeon myself with it than ever vote for her.

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1481765450375700483

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Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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CMYK BLYAT! posted:

you may be familiar with it

i'm more familiar with it as the Genoese-Khanate/Ottoman Protectorate-Muscovy thunderdome actually

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Just end your journey into the expanse here, because you’re not gonna be happier if you don’t. Though there are some Amos story arc only episodes later that are good. That’s it though, you’ll hate yourself for the rest IMHO.

The Expanse is the best Sci-Fi on TV so don't listen to this guy or you'll miss out

Anyway yeah they included the Laconia stuff because the showrunners just liked that story and they wanted it in to fish for some kind of subsequent project for the last trilogy of books

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Hyrax Attack! posted:

Lol that’s amazing. It’s wild how many people don’t know how carbon dioxide works. A few years ago in the Seattle area there was a major power outage/freezing temps, and the newspaper ran headlines above the fold in multiple languages warning people not to operate grills inside.

A lot of people died last year in the blizzard last year in Texas because of carbon dioxide/monoxide poisoning due to a combination of "it doesn't get that cold in Texas normally", "carbon monoxide detectors weren't standard in homes due to lobbying" and "most of the people who died were immigrants who haven't learned things like don't grill indoors because of carbon monoxide poisoning"

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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That Works posted:

Not sure that the last one is unique or even more frequently attributed to immigrants, all other points agreed.

I remember reading about it in an article when it happened talking about how we all learn as kids not to leave cars running indoors but that messaging may have been lost on immigrants with English as a second language (or not at all)

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Marshal Prolapse posted:

Oh were talking about Seattle, sorry I started thinking about Texas again and the cold freeze last year. That’s a pretty good source for your comment, so I’ll concede.

It happened in Texas too

quote:

A number of the poisonings were fatal. A mother and her 7-year-old daughter died while sitting in their running car in the garage attempting to stay warm and charge their cell phone. A woman died while attempting to heat her home with her natural gas stove. Four men and a woman died in two incidents from carbon monoxide emitted by a generator placed too close to their home. Among the nonfatal poisonings, carbon monoxide undoubtedly resulted in brain injury with permanent cognitive damage in many.

As shocking as these events may have been to many, they are nothing new. The risks of indoor use of charcoal for heat, improper generator use for electrical power, and running a car in the garage for heat and power in a storm-related power outage have all been well described in the medical literature and publicized. The sources of carbon monoxide and poisoning following storms have been reviewed and published. Despite these efforts to educate the public, the typical pattern continued in Texas.

Warning labels, including nonverbal pictograms to warn non-English speaking individuals, have been added to packages of charcoal sold in the U.S. and also to electrical generators. Some manufacturers of generators have developed models that produce lower amounts of carbon monoxide or shut off when ambient carbon monoxide levels rise to dangerous levels. However, short of a very expensive recall and retrofit of previously purchased models, older versions will be in use for many years.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-Poisoning-was-preventable-Pass-15997307.php

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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quote:

The only person identified as a casualty so far is British woman Angela Glover, 50, the founder of an animal rescue shelter, who was washed away trying to save her dogs.

:smith:

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Stultus Maximus posted:

Putin is a white anti-gay authoritarian kleptocrat. He's living the GOP dream.

smh so now Slavs are white when convenient??

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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lightpole posted:

I don't follow these arguments. Is there evidence that bronies cause harm that I'm not aware of? Otherwise there's too many counter examples of Star Wars/Trek nerds, cosplay, adults with delusions of grandeur running around trying to overthrow the government to bother and watching cartoons as an adult isn't the issue. Unless you count being cringe as self harm?

Anecdotally it's the biggest spike and precursor to kids being unable to google their favourite kids shows because everything's porn nowadays

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Cugel the Clever posted:

Whether it's a fursuit, a boat, a ginormous truck, a cabin, etc., I'm constantly baffled by where people come up with the money for their lifestyle. Zero savings and tons of debt can only go on for so long!

You can have a lot of money saved up if you're a millennial who thought that you could be a homeowner if you saved up for a few years during adulthood only to watch the housing market pass you by

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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https://abc7.com/teens-drive-big-rigs-semi-trucks/11483898/

quote:

U.S. to let teens drive big rigs in test program to help ease supply chain shortage

DETROIT -- The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program.

Currently, truckers who cross state lines must be at least 21 years old, but an apprenticeship program required by Congress to help ease supply chain backlogs would let 18-to-20-year-old truckers drive outside their home states.

The pilot program, detailed Thursday in a proposed regulation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, would screen the teens, barring any with driving-while-impaired violations or traffic tickets for causing a crash.

Seems like a bad idea

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Nazi means "people I don't like" hth

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Just have robots handle all the sailing gruntwork so you can enjoy being a cap'n

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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I mean, remember Stuxnet?

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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Duzzy Funlop posted:

This has been all over German tv news media for the majority of the day, because ol' Joe Robinette chose to break his promise of not saying "such atrocious things" as his predecessor by calling a reporter A SON OF A WHORE (the literal translation is several shades heftier than "sonofabitch").
It was the dumbest thing, especially since they made time between "THE RUSSIAN IS AT THE DOOR" and "OMICRON TORNADO/APOCALYPSE/ETC".

One channel even had a US correspondent on to commentate and he was all like "lol sonofabitch isn't even that bad, this isn't even a big deal over here, gently caress are you on about", and the anchor responded with "uhh, well, I don't think I'd want OLAF SCHOLZ calling you that" and I swear to god the correspondent had a flash of "who?" on his face before acknowledging the comment with a lighthearted chuckle.

Personally I like the Spanish language coverage of it cause "estupido hijo de puta" has a much funnier ring to it than stupid sonuvabitch

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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maffew buildings posted:

what are people paying so much money for pictures of apes for there's like millions of those online already for free

greed

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Eej
Jun 17, 2007

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This is the longest January in history

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