Highspeeddub posted:Despite his size he's still very intimidating. The CEO of Gazprom Alexei Miller and Vladimir Putin.  Does anyone have that picture of Putin staring down that billionaire oligarch (I can't recall which one)? NewtGoongrich fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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NewtGoongrich posted:The CEO of Gazprom Alexei Miller and Vladimir Putin.  Here is him shaming Oleg Deripaska into paying his workers their wages. The video is the best. "Give me back my pen."
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A Misandrist Duck posted:
 I'm sure the Hazara appreciate being confused for Taliban members. Besides, those turbans can look pretty boss. 
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I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I heard that back when Silvio Berlusconi was still in power, he and Putin were holding a joint press conference. When a tough question was asked of Putin, Berlusconi reportedly smirked and made a finger pistol at the reporter. It's a proposed design for a warning to be placed above nuclear waste sites. The designers were tasked to come up with warnings that would last until the waste had decayed to safe levels- long past the death of our civilization. They tried to come up with designs that would scare people off, but eventually came to the conclusion that the best way to keep people from digging up nuclear waste would be to not leave any mark of civilization at all- after all, those ancient Egyptian curses sure didn't stop British archaeologists. More information: http://www.wipp.energy.gov/library/PermanentMarkersImplementationPlan.pdf http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Anthro/Anth101/wipp.html
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Soviet Commubot posted:Basically, I was really kinda shocked at how I managed to passively eat up all of this propaganda about the guy. I recognized some of the more blatant things as propaganda, like his shirtless hunting and vase diving but I seriously fell for a lot of the more stubtle stuff. This is exactly how propaganda works though. I don't think there are very many people who really believe that vase diving and shirtless hunting crap. The only ones who would are already so far up Putins rear end that the propaganda doesn't need to target them anyway. However, studies have shown that those who are aware of how advertising works are actually more susceptible to it, probably because they think they won't fall for it due to their knowledge about it, and then let their guard down. So perhaps because Putins cult of personality propaganda is so blatantly "big burly manly man accomplishes big burly manly man things", you fell for the idea of him being a big burly manly man, even if you didn't believe in his over the top 'accomplishments'. 
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I was really hoping we'd build that giant, surreal, gently caress-off field of spikes that would look like something out of the next Fall Out game or something. Just to tempt the people of the future into discovering our radioactive hell  . Oh well...For now I'll just post America's foreign policy in picture form:   Edit: Original credit goes to goons from The Dorkroom, I think.
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Soviet Commubot posted:It was only recently that I found out that Putin is a really tiny little guy. I guess all the media and imagery I'd passively taken in made me assume he was a big guy but no, he's the same size as Sarkozy. Well to be fair Putin doesn't seem to wear lifts in his shoes so he's taller than Sarkozy... 
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That reminds me, I made this back when it was announced Glenn Beck was going blind or something. I'm a horrible person, obviously.
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Does anyone have that "99.6% of poor people have feet" edit handy?
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Soviet Commubot posted:It was only recently that I found out that Putin is a really tiny little guy. I guess all the media and imagery I'd passively taken in made me assume he was a big guy but no, he's the same size as Sarkozy. Oddly enough, that's exactly how I expected him to sound, rough English and all. 
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 Context: Windmills vs Oil Sands in Canada. Guess which one of the two are meeting local public resistance? As bad as ~14 dead birds per turbine a year is, I get a feeling the hydro fracking might be killing more birds. e: the Wolf Island concerns linked is an example of extreme amounts of birds being killed (again, 14ish a year). The normal number in Ontario is about 2 per turbine.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Does anyone have that "99.6% of poor people have feet" edit handy?  also:        
ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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tmo rathnam posted:I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I heard that back when Silvio Berlusconi was still in power, he and Putin were holding a joint press conference. When a tough question was asked of Putin, Berlusconi reportedly smirked and made a finger pistol at the reporter. 
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Orange_Lazarus posted:
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tmo rathnam posted:I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I heard that back when Silvio Berlusconi was still in power, he and Putin were holding a joint press conference. When a tough question was asked of Putin, Berlusconi reportedly smirked and made a finger pistol at the reporter.  "This is a radioactive materials burial site. All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality This object menaces with spikes of iron. On the item is an image of a dwarf succumbing to radiation poisoning. The dwarf is dying." Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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Guilty Spork posted:Because it's not like there are countries besides Saudi Arabia that produce oil, amirite? It's not like I could choose to buy gas at Citgo, which is from Venezuela, amongst many others. And it's not like I hold Americans to a higher standard than Saudi Arabia, cuz that would be nuts! Actually the US gets more foreign oil from Canada than any other country. We legalized same sex marriage country wide years ago. Here is a less readable but more up to date source. Content:   Some before and after:    Fort Mac is a tower and a volcano away from Mordor.
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JoelJoel posted:Actually the US gets more foreign oil from Canada than any other country. We legalized same sex marriage country wide years ago. Say what you want about nuclear energy, at least the wastelands from the worst nuclear disasters have flora and fauna. Chernobyl   Fukushima  
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LP97S posted:Say what you want about nuclear energy, at least the wastelands from the worst nuclear disasters have flora and fauna. These look like Przewalski's horses. I'm pretty sure this isn't from Chernobyl. For content, Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of Chechnya. 
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NewtGoongrich posted:These look like Przewalski's horses. I'm pretty sure this isn't from Chernobyl. Then again:  quote:A herd of Critically Endangered wild Przewalski's horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is under threat from poachers, say scientists. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14277058 Nice horse identification, though, I guess.
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On the topic of Chernobyl and the dead zone, this is an amazingly interesting documentary, in case nobody has seen it .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud33w26qsWQ 
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 Imagine, if you will, that the person drawn in this comic was a different gender.
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tmo rathnam posted:
There is an incredibly interesting documentary about this called Into Eternity. It's about a huge cave called Onkalo being built in Finland to house nuclear waste. The waste should lay dormant for 100 000 years, and the documentary asks how we can possibly imagine building something so lasting. How can we understand how long 100 000 years actually is, and yet we're trying to safely store material that will be deadly for that long.   
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Then two of those uses wouldn't be possible  Seriously now, this was posted a few pages back, but relevant to this post. 
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Ron Jeremy posted:They're also sitting on top of a poo poo ton of oil. Even Alaska can be a socialist paradise when the state extracts the people's share for extracted mineral wealth. I get my first PFD this year and it's gonna pay my rent for two months this winter  Everyone in your households gets a check so if you have a spouse and 2 or 3 kids you get quite a haul every October. You should see all the ads for new snowmachines, trucks and flatscreen tvs that play when PFD season rolls around. I wish we had Norway's permanent fund though.  Edit: There was a suggestion that a permanent fund be set up in Iraq, but you can imagine how well that went over. BIG HORNY COW fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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tmo rathnam posted:
There's an excellent documentary on Netflix called "Into Eternity" about storing of nuclear waste and warning off future generations. If you're into this subject I definitely recommend it. Or to anyone else, really. The subject is Onkalo, world's first "permanent" nuclear waste disposal site: 
Bastaman Vibration fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Aug 8, 2012 |
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Aug 8, 2012 21:11
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I'm so glad I ditched them for Spotify. Ugh.
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A Misandrist Duck posted:
http://smpalestine.com/2012/08/07/how-to-tell-your-friends-from-the-japs-in-time-1941-vs-turban-primer-in-redeye-2012/ 
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az jan jananam posted:http://smpalestine.com/2012/08/07/how-to-tell-your-friends-from-the-japs-in-time-1941-vs-turban-primer-in-redeye-2012/ Good to know that Time has always been poo poo. 
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Fluoride Jones posted:Good to know that Time has always been poo poo. That's probably one of the least worst examples of Time switching regional covers around. You want to find the one where the rest of the world had a cover story on the Arab Spring and the US had a fluffy "Anxiety is good for you!" cover.
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1stGear posted:That's probably one of the least worst examples of Time switching regional covers around. You want to find the one where the rest of the world had a cover story on the Arab Spring and the US had a fluffy "Anxiety is good for you!" cover.  e: Cuz I feel like I'm cheating.  
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Aug 8, 2012 23:00
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Fluoride Jones posted:Good to know that Time has always been poo poo. This one even makes sense...  
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Istrian posted:This one even makes sense... Does anyone have a bigger version of "matching_supervillain_blazers.jpg" ? 
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DanTheFryingPan posted:There is an incredibly interesting documentary about this called Into Eternity. It's about a huge cave called Onkalo being built in Finland to house nuclear waste. The waste should lay dormant for 100 000 years, and the documentary asks how we can possibly imagine building something so lasting. How can we understand how long 100 000 years actually is, and yet we're trying to safely store material that will be deadly for that long. To be fair don't most of the really dangerous isotopes burn out in the first couple hundred years or so? radio active decay can only produce a fixed amount of radiation so the longer the half life of an element the safer it is to be around for a given period of time. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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