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BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

My insurance plan is pre-ACA and I have a $5000/year prescription drug allowance. I have to cut the pills for my most expensive medication in half to not be on the hook for ~$700 in December because the allowance taps out in November at current pricing.

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BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

A.o.D. posted:

The only debate they're having is whether or not to openly support Putin, or to stage a redirect campaign to fearmonger over the gays, the browns, and the blacks.

Don't forget trans people and the homeless.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/NBCNewsTech/status/1511358108253274113

Welp expect Elon to do his part in running Twitter into the ground

ONLY NEWSPEAK IS ALLOWED.

Oh, and to share with the rest of the class since I already shared it with the DC Goon Slack - maybe consider getting dashcams, folks, I'm glad I bought one when this happened to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/nova/comments/tv4oth/you_know_how_when_youre_driving_late_at_night_you/

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Apr 6, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

I need a better dashcam. I'm on my third chinenglish brand and I can finally afford better than a $50 camera. Any suggestions?

They're *all* made in China.

Even my Nextbase 622GW was made in China.

That being said, the first one I was looking into was the Viofo 4K model with their 1440p rear camera option. Then I looked into Blackvues, which have a Cloud Storage backup option, but finally settled on Nextbase because of image quality.

Thinkwares are even more expensive than Nextbase.

It's also very worth it to hardwire the camera in, too - the higher end ones, you can remove at least the front camera to make it less likely to get stolen.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

I know they're all made in china. I'm just at a point that I can afford better than my current APEMAN brand camera with the world's worst controls.

Nextbase has been a brand I keep looking at, but most dashcams now are some alphabet soup of english letters. Hard to know which ones are actually worth looking at when you figure in false reviews. I'll look closer at Nextbase though, thanks.

They had a sale not too long ago for $339 for the base camera, and they sell an "Elite" package that has a pretty decent bundle discount.

Don't believe them about *needing* to use their 256GB (the max the camera supports for now) MicroSD card - I'm using a SanDisk Max Endurance card and it works perfectly even with a 4K@30 and 1440p@60 stream flowing into it from front and back respectively.

Midjack posted:

Glad you're okay!

If that poo poo ever happens again don't gently caress around with spy stuff to see if you're being followed, just go to the nearest fire station or police station and park in front of it. Unless you think that your pursuers are specifically out to get you regardless of the cost to themselves, in which case you're living in a TV show and at the mercy of the writers' room. Hospitals work too but as the you discovered sometimes they have a lot going on.

At the time I didn't know about the Mason District police station but it would've meant my turning around and doing a lot of backtracking - the only station I knew of off the top of my head was the McLean station and that would've meant another 15-20 minutes (minimum) of them following me. The officers who belonged to those five cars outside were probably ~sittin' shiva~ on prisoners and mental health holds and according to an FCPD cop I semi-know through the "Unofficial Micro Center Discord," they can't leave their posts.

What I ideally *wanted* was to have an on-duty marked or unmarked unit vectored to me and "pace" me/us in the hopes it'd get the Maserati to peel or speed off. I also hope the cameras at the hospital caught the Maserati's plate as it came around - that was the only time I was actually scared, because as you can see in the video, they *thought* a moment or three before following me in there, and that quick-move cut me off from the door. I contacted both police stations the incident occurred in and only the Mason District replied and opened a case number and investigation. My limited history of dealing with the McLean station is that if you don't make $500k+/year they don't give a gently caress about you unless they're giving you a citation.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Apr 6, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Hey, big headline. It just occurred to me you might want to sweep for airtags on your car. Apple has an app for their poo poo and android called Tracker Detect. Especially if there was any time someone could have gotten near your car while you were out.

E: Also those nextbase cameras look pretty good, but I can probably skate on one of their cheaper models. The interface simplicity is really what I need. A previous camera also made lovely .avi files that never work on anything but the camera. I barely drive as it is and almost never at night anymore.

I will, but these guys just came up behind me from out of sight. I literally watched them come up the road and stop behind me. That doesn't preclude them using a tracker, but at no time did anyone get out of the car to plant anything - if a door had ever opened I'd have gunned it through any red light I was stopped at.

And yeah, the 522GW is 1440p and way more affordable. Blackvue's cameras with the cloud storage and 4G LTE connection options are unique as well, but those can get extremely expensive with all the bells and whistles.

I remembered that I passed a traffic stop with *three* Vienna cop cars pulling over some poor bastard in an SUV and the Maserati had to have passed by them before encountering me. I've put in a FOIA request (even saying that I personally don't need any information so long as it's provided to Fairfax County police) for their dashcam footage (with everything not pertaining to my request being redacted), though I'm not optimistic.

EDIT: Went out in the rain and ran Tracker Detect twice while my car was off, no hits.

And my 622GW outputs .MP4 files, just FYI.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Apr 6, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Soylent Pudding posted:

It's always wild when these huge counterintelligence breaks happen because of something completely random and unrelated. I assume these dudes were agents for someone because they were throwing around five figgie gifts.

If it DOES turn out to be a Russian operation, I hope they change from the norm and keep it loving quiet.

This grandstanding/vamping for approval points from Western leaders worldwide trying to appear to care the most about helping Ukraine and loving over Russia is *NOT HELPING MATTERS*. For someone who regards himself as an "elder statesman," Biden seems to be either unwilling or completely incapable of trying to "spike the ball" whenever granted an opportunity to do so publicly.

Not all sanctions have to be painstakingly detailed in the press - the more you feed the beast the hungrier and more ravenous it gets.

If it needs to be done, do it. Just don't :smug: about it in public, for gently caress's sake.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Apr 7, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Grip it and rip it posted:

Biden and his team probably recognize that they need to amplify any win they get because people are not excited about this administration or its accomplishments.

Im not saying I disagree with you, but at this point it seems like he has fewer legislative wins than Trump, which is saying something.

That's just the thing, though - there should be a firewall between campaigning/grandstanding and international politics, especially when the latter involves a nuclear-armed adversary currently engaged in a land war in Europe.

*Everyone knew* the US was the driving force behind arming/supplying the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan. The reason that war didn't escalate is because even though everyone *knew*, the people who were involved weren't helicopter dicking and shouting about it at the top of their lungs for ~trending approval~ from the masses.

Bullies deserve their asses kicked - it's the only way they learn. Russia deserves the benefits of NO doubts or ANY concessions whatsoever for what they've done. But the more it turns into everyone on the playground joining in kicking the bully while they're down, the more likely it is the bully comes back with his father's gun the next day.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
And just think, that's the part of the conference they thought would be good publicity and "relatable."

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

On the plus side, the "frontrunner" seen as most likely to succeed him is way more open to bettering relations with the west: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/9/who-is-shehbaz-sharif-seen-as-frontrunner-for-next-pakistan-pm

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Zamujasa posted:

heavens, they might even write a strongly worded letter about it

"Could you please personally sign any reply you send us and ask your financial advisors if they're hiring?" :v:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Lol was that a quote from when they’d “investigate” Madoff and drop off their CVs on their way out?

Nah, just riffing. But it wouldn't surprise me in the least since I remember hearing SEC personnel trying to jump ship to the private sector all the time.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Nick Soapdish posted:

The cruelty is the point

You see, it's the *homeless* that are devaluing NYC real estate, not a systemic social and ideological failure by the landed and moneyed gentry whom the authorities *truly* serve! :troll:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
The sheer fact that Ukraine was able to get a workable visual and/or radar fix on the ship and send out missiles with a *quoted* (it's always less) 300km/190mi range is another indictment that there are no competent personnel anywhere to be found in the Russian Armed Forces.

My guess is they didn't even have the Kashtans armed or active because "not like they have anything to threaten us." :smug:

It's cool, though - they can just finish this rusted out piece of poo poo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_cruiser_Ukrayina

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
"Hello, loyal subject!"

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

MA-Horus posted:

Oh man he got Brandon Frasier'd, that sucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbcLZcOgito

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

pantslesswithwolves posted:

Whatever dude, only a boner fide homersexual doesn’t like jacked, oiled up men wrestling with each other.

Turkey: :stare:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
I don't know, I kinda like the idea of chuds giving themselves dick cancer to own the Libs.

"A thousand bucks? gently caress that, brah, I could build something like that for way less and it'd probably be even better!"

A week later: :supaburn:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
The year is 2069. (Nice.)

The Gender Wars have come and gone, and men...lost.

Effeminate bois of the defeated gender roam the ruined landscape, foraging from the dumpsters of Paneras and hiding from brutal Pegging Gangs of masculine ~feminazis~ riding silent all-terrain Segways. Those who are caught are enslaved and forced to cook and...cuddle.

But one Man survived, and he seeks to undo the wrongs and bring back Men's *Right*ful place in society.

He is...The Red Light Ranger.

(cue the cheesy 80s "serial action show" theme music)

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Apr 17, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Looking forward to the bro version of Goop: Broop.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Voyager I posted:

I keep looking at the picture trying to come up with something witty to say and then I just end up in a fit of laughter instead. It doesn't need a caption. It's art.

The Brotruvian Man

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Yeah Jones is hosed here since he's an absolute pariah and is not going to get any of the benefit of a doubt nominally afforded to rich people hiding assets

There are also too many opportunists looking for him to fall and burn so they can inherit his suckers audience.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Arrath posted:

It's funny, I'll throw down down quarters at the barcade to get my rear end kicked at street fighter with friends, but cringe hard when I know every pull of the trigger is a quarter (or a lot more) up in smoke.

Bought a Tippmann M4-22 Elite and P322 simply so I can keep shooting and only have it cost me 8-12cpr instead of 30-50 for 9mm and .223/5.56. I'm glad I found/bought some "cheap" low-velocity 00 buck and slug for 12GA range shooting because woof.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
To retaliate, Disney just has to delay every anticipated piece of IP they planned to release and tell the people of the world to ask Ron DeSantis why they did. Vociferously, and often.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Coming soon: Sorkin+!

All the pleasure of watching :smug: West Wing and Newsroom clips on YouTube but with the privilege of telling all your like-minded friends and acquaintances that you *pay* to do it! :v:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
They're usually smart enough to do it *before* the suits are filed, though.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

facialimpediment posted:

It's always projection and weird twisted religious shame with these fucks

Don't forget his "mothers should raise their sons to be monsters" quote.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

This is what the Left is going to ignore in favor of "bullying the bully" and missing the fact that making fun of him for crossdressing is alienating and furthering the Great Othering of the LGBTQIA community by association.

Also, "if we bully the outcast maybe the bullies will like us and let us sit at their table!" :allears:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Stravag posted:

Atleast its not Barstow ?

At least that's around where the :catdrugs: began to take hold.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Oh, I'm sure Schumer will push other Democrats out of the way to be the first to laud him as a LION OF THE SENATE and completely whitewash the fact that he was instrumental in laying the foundation/groundwork for the clusterfuck we're now all in.

It's like the old high school trope of when the douchebag no one liked dies, everyone suddenly is all sad and speaks of him like he was a saint. =/

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Why do we all hate Schumer again when it's obviously Manchin and Sinema who are the two worse Dems in the Senate?

He's completely ineffectual as a majority leader and it's clear the only thing he cares about is the title, not the responsibility. Same with Pelosi. We need young(er) blood, not the older old school.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Apr 24, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Whew, now that fascism has been defeated (again) it's time to just consider that job *done* and not check and flush out the crevices they always slink into to wait out their next opportunity.

Also, this is going to make things interesting: https://amp.dw.com/en/indonesia-bans-palm-oil-exports/a-61566183

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Apr 24, 2022

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Stultus Maximus posted:

Also, continue on with technocratic liberalism because winning this election means you don't have to change anything.

Hey, the blockchain is the *future* of progressivism. Now, if you'll only read my prospectus and totally ignore my social media for the past 10-15 years... :shepface:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

bird food bathtub posted:

Biggest problem in this vein is winning these elections and never fixing the conditions that allow them to slink out of those crevices. Humanity sucks so barring the digital singularity this part of us will always be around. Fixing poo poo in society so they don't have fertile soil to breed in is about the only long(ish) term solution. The current approach seems to be looking at the phrase "You have to win every single time. We just have to get lucky once" and thinking "Yep, we won this time. Problem solved."

Yeah, :thejoke:.

Every time liberalism/progressivism "wins" the assumption seems to be "oh hey, now we get a chance to 'fix everything.'" Except...the world actively fights against being fixed because fixing things costs money and puts people who are employed to keep things broken out of work.

Populism only works when you're given the reins for a generation or two, so an entire new subset of your population has known nothing but *your* way of doing things. Remind me again the last time a multi-term democratic president succeeded another multi-term democratic president? Oh, right, Roosevelt>Truman. It would take a minimum of 16 years of *competent*, mostly uncorrupted leadership in all branches to even make a dent in just *America's* problems and lack of social and societal progress. The GOP might not have any new or good ideas...but they certainly know how to prevent the Democratic party from ever gaining a foothold in the collective American conscience, and they've managed to *permanently poison* ~40% of the American population to *resent* socialist ideals as a threat to their own financial and mental security.

They'll get the remaining 10-15% they need when the middle class starts going hungry and the grocery store shelves are perpetually barren and the only way to procure food is to buy it on the black market or line up at 2:30am at the grocery store for the *chance* of getting something off a truck that might or might not come.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

A.o.D. posted:

Those poor bastards died to stabilize the Japanese advance to give the United States a chance to get into the fight in the Pacific.

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" :rant:

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

A.o.D. posted:

WAIT gently caress YOURE TALKING ABOUT WWI GALLIPOLI

That's it, I'm going to bed.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Maybe he wants to buy it simply so he can literally be the real-life Troll Trace guy from South Park, blackmailing every member with everything they ever wrote or DMed.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

A.o.D. posted:

Myspace is 19 years old this August.

No wonder the libertarians prefer Twitter, it won't be 18 until 2024.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

bird food bathtub posted:

Pull a Republican. Just loving do it and dare them to take it to the courts. Show some god drat spine and start fixing things, maybe people will see a purpose to voting for them.

But...if they do that and it WORKS, then those pesky voters that never contribute in meaningful amounts to campaigns or PACs (oh god the DNC hates their non-paying voter base SO MUCH) are gonna want them to do it again! For free! :ohdear:

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BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Wrong Theory posted:

I like the idea of adding grades 13-16 but colleges really need to be reigned in. Don't write them a blank check, lord knows it's gonna go straight to the sports departments. I would love to see something done about for profit colleges as well. Any credible certification granting courses can be absorbed by community colleges.

I like the idea of creating a federal program for vocational apprenticeship by federally accrediting trade schools (and passing laws to prevent We-B-A-Skools from conning the government out of money).

To make up the educational deficits of COVID, expand the community college system so that high school students can make up the slack by going to "pre-college." In some states you can go from CC to a four-year state school (contingent on your GPA) and transfer in as a Junior.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Apr 27, 2022

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