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Klaus88 posted:Has one of LLs wild salvos hit a little closer to home then usual? quote:The short, five-minute videos feature three main characters: overbearing Scott “Gov” Govinksy (Government), his trusting girlfriend, Alexis (Alexis de Tocqueville), and Alexis’ best friend, Libby (Liberty), who vainly tries to get Alexis to ignore Gov’s bad advice. Hahahahahahaha
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah, LED's or gently caress off. Those compact florescent or what ever are garbage and I understand the backlash against them. LED's are so good now though. LEDs are still better though.
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Aug 24, 2015 01:52
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Oh Putin-san you are so manly I wish you were our dictator  
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I guarantee no one in the Russian government refers to Putin by his first name.
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Julio Cruz posted:I guarantee no one in the Russian government refers to Putin by his first name. He prefers "Daddy"
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Clochette posted:He prefers "Daddy" The fact that the Russians called the Tsar's "Little Father", that is probably true.
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VitalSigns posted:Oh Putin-san you are so manly I wish you were our dictator getyourgrubbyhandoutofmypocket is a really long username for facebook. They must be running out of conservative "zinger" names.
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Aug 24, 2015 03:44
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I found this on a gas pump: BEWARE OF WILL SMITH!
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Aug 24, 2015 03:45
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413881/-Race-love-hate-and-me-A-distinctly-American-story
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Fulchrum posted:A sizeable amount. Besides the other points being completely false (except in cold weather, where CFLs tend to suck...though for LEDs there's no problem); no, tungsten-filament incandescents are not safe to dispose of: https://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/87/8703sci2.html
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Defenestration posted:Putting Shaun King on there is especially vile. Considering the fact that right wing media completely made that poo poo up to discredit him. i was just surprised to see paul wall the people's champ on there i guess he still has the internet goin' nuts
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Jurgan posted:I don't get the background image here. Since when does LL101 care what the White House thinks? Since it supports the narrative they're trying to push, duh!
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I found this on a gas pump: BEWARE OF WILL SMITH! Well hello schizophrenia mixed with a dash of racism.
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VitalSigns posted:Even though my dad gets super-mad about PC environmentalists and complained about the light bulb ban, I had to respect that he still went out and bought a bundle of the fluorescent bulbs for the house when they came out because he looked at the savings and it was worth it. A friend of mine finally replaced all the bulbs in his restaurant to LEDs. Electric bill went from ~$1200/mo to ~$700/mo. I'm sure he's kicking himself for not doing it sooner.
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Choadmaster posted:A friend of mine finally replaced all the bulbs in his restaurant to LEDs. Electric bill went from ~$1200/mo to ~$700/mo. I'm sure he's kicking himself for not doing it sooner. I wish I could convince my grandparents to swap out their 15 or so hundred watt bulbs for LEDs, that would make a big dent in their electricity bill.
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Choadmaster posted:A friend of mine finally replaced all the bulbs in his restaurant to LEDs. Electric bill went from ~$1200/mo to ~$700/mo. I'm sure he's kicking himself for not doing it sooner. That's what I never got about the whole "gently caress energy effecient bulbs." Like why the gently caress did people want to just throw money away for no apparent reason beyond spite? It always boggled my mind that there was such an outrage about using them. I changed over as fast as I could to save money. My parents, die hard team R voters, changed over as fast as they could to save money. Then I'd go to a store and some jackass is standing in the light bulb aisle ranting at some poor clerk there about how terrible this stuff is, and the clerk is just standing there having to take this person's insane rant while trying to show them whatever options they do have. Aren't they supposed to be, at least on the face of it, the party for fiscal conservatism, so why rage against something that is fiscally conservative?
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Refind Chaos posted:That's what I never got about the whole "gently caress energy effecient bulbs." Like why the gently caress did people want to just throw money away for no apparent reason beyond spite? It always boggled my mind that there was such an outrage about using them. I changed over as fast as I could to save money. My parents, die hard team R voters, changed over as fast as they could to save money. Then I'd go to a store and some jackass is standing in the light bulb aisle ranting at some poor clerk there about how terrible this stuff is, and the clerk is just standing there having to take this person's insane rant while trying to show them whatever options they do have. Aren't they supposed to be, at least on the face of it, the party for fiscal conservatism, so why rage against something that is fiscally conservative? The (classical) liberal argument is that the government didn't have to step in and ban any lights before then. People switched from rushlights to manufactured candles, from candles to oil lamps, from oil to gas lights, and from gas to incandescent electric without the government needing to step in and ban the old technology, people just saw that the replacement was brighter, safer, and more cost effective and switched over, so why do they need to force it this time? The paleoconservative argument is gently caress anything new especially if it's being pushed by big government marxists.
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Using new light bulbs makes the ghost of American hero, Thomas Edison cry.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:I found this on a gas pump: BEWARE OF WILL SMITH! I tried to report Will Smith for spying on my checkbook, but Fbi.Government.org is down.  How high does this conspiracy go?!
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JFC I had to unfollow a family member because for the last few months its been nothing but right wing meme posts non-stop. I mean, literally no other kind of post on Facebook except that poo poo.
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Radish posted:Using new light bulbs makes the ghost of American hero, Thomas Edison cry. Yeah people literally/unironically believe that Edison's lightbulb couldn't possibly have been improved upon
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Refind Chaos posted:That's what I never got about the whole "gently caress energy effecient bulbs." Like why the gently caress did people want to just throw money away for no apparent reason beyond spite? The Utility Monster is real. I can't find the research, but they did a thing where people in a neighborhood were shown how much energy they consumed compared to their neighbors and were given tips on how to lower their consumption. Most people responded by lowering their usage based on a social desire to conserve electricity. There were some people who had the opposite reaction and became competitive about using more because gently caress EARTH.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The Utility Monster is real. That's not really the utility monster though. That's just a person being an rear end in a top hat. For it to be a utility monster, you need to short circuit the way utilitarianism determines morality. The person would have to derive more utility from that extra consumption than anyone else would, and continue to do so no matter how much energy they consumed.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yeah people literally/unironically believe that Edison's lightbulb couldn't possibly have been improved upon 
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Lightbulbs - static technology that will never ever need to change.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yeah people literally/unironically believe that Edison's lightbulb couldn't possibly have been improved upon You see, Edison was a captain of industry, you filthy communist. All technological progress and invention stems from these brave men who part the filthy water of collectivism using their superior bootstraps. He wasn't one of those lying scientists or high-and-mighty engineers that came up with these so-called "better" lightbulbs.
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Mr. Edison, there's a government fellow FROM OVER 100 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE at the door with a funny looking lightbulb, claims that over the course of those 100 some years people did in fact manage to develop a better lightbulb.
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Scruff McGruff posted:Mr. Edison, there's a government fellow FROM OVER 100 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE at the door with a funny looking lightbulb, claims that over the course of those 100 some years people did in fact manage to develop a better lightbulb. "Now, how can I steal this idea and patent it in my name and then sue them?"
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I'm not a  , but if I invented something and I went 100 years into the future and found that no one had created a better or improved version of my invention I'd probably be pretty disappointed.
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 But the Shah was poo poo and the whole reason Iran had the revolution, and that's somehow Carter's fault?  AK47's are unamerican. Also, that shotgun looks a bit big for trying to maneuver around a house.  Except the fact that the agreement did work and it wasn't until after it all fell apart (during the Bush administration!) that NK gained enough plutonium to build bombs. http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-21/iran-nuclear-deal-has-north-korea-written-all-over-it  Real American leadership by making arms deals with terrorists?  Jackie Mason, noted expert in international relations.
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Wait, what? It was wrong of Carter to give Iran to Muslims? How, exactly? Last I heard the nation was very heavily populated by Muslims. Who the gently caress else would the country belong to?
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I think they're saying that it's Carter's fault that the Shah was overthrown. http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/35-years-ago-an-iranian-revolution-thanks-to-jimmy-carter/
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Who the gently caress else would the country belong to?
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computer parts posted:The fluorescent bulbs do take forever to warm up though. Fortunately they're not the modern energy efficient technology. I don't even remember the last time I bought a CFL that didn't come to full brightness instantly, what are you talking about? That said, LED bulbs are clearly superior to both CFL and incandescent. EDIT Beaten many, many times. Who What Now fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Aug 24, 2015 |
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Scruff McGruff posted:Mr. Edison, there's a government fellow FROM OVER 100 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE at the door with a funny looking lightbulb, claims that over the course of those 100 some years people did in fact manage to develop a better lightbulb. I want to see the comic with a whaling ship captain and a oil lamp with a sailor telling him, "Captain, there's a man named Edison here that says he knows better than you."
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You cannot tell the difference between LED and incandescent. I challenge any shitlord who doesn't like them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:You cannot tell the difference between LED and incandescent. I challenge any shitlord who doesn't like them. Yeah, but I can SEE the difference if I look directly at the bulb.
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