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The 2nd company called me again today and we are gonna set up an interview some day this week before work around 6:30AM. The HR guy seemed pretty chill. I was pretty buzzed when he called today and called him Dude by mistake. I quickly corrected myself and said Sir but he laughed and said Dude is fine, we are construction workers after all. He said green hirees start at $15/hr but since I have a lot of experience I can probably get more. If I can get close to $20/hr I will be pumped. They do mosly backbone fusion splicing on telephone poles, in manholes (lol CSB), and as demarc feeds -- which is what I also have a crap load of experience in. Needless to say I am pretty confident and excited. I told him I was in the middle of a huge project at my current job and couldn't screw over my co-workers by leaving so I would need to give a 3 or 4 week notice. My weed will be gone tomorrow after TWD and I will start another t-break on Monday morning. To get rid of all my temptation I even turned all my kief from my grinder into a .63g puck for tomorrow. I think I spent more days not blazing than blazing in 2015 to be honest. Surprise surprise.
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That grill's name sounds like a Boston person saying 'Cool Bar' Looks p good though. Now you're a MUYUH
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Can America get a new boogy man? I'm quite sick of all the anti Islamic bullshit people post on Facebook lately. I would be on board with making the commies our boogy man, other than the threat of nuclear weapons, we got some cool as technology, the space race, and other cool loving poo poo.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Can America get a new boogy man? I'm quite sick of all the anti Islamic bullshit people post on Facebook lately. I would be on board with making the commies our boogy man, other than the threat of nuclear weapons, we got some cool as technology, the space race, and other cool loving poo poo.
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I swapped my winter tires onto my civic Friday night, and I believe they saved my life a couple times yesterday. East Michigan was armageddon, I drove from Detroit to Flint and back, and I stopped counting at 20+ cars in ditches. Had a particularly harrowing incident on a black iced freeway overpass, where a car nearly rear ended me as it spun off the road. Luckily I applied the brakes gently so when all 4 wheels broke traction I was still pointing relatively straight and was able to stay in my lane. I made two 911 calls during my travels. Hope nobody got seriously hurt or killed, the first snow of every year is a brutal time to take a roadtrip and I will never do that again! I feel pretty rotten today, I spent about 4 hours white knuckling yesterday and I guess being tense that long had a physical effect.
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You Am I posted:
Even the grills are backwards in Aus. I've got the exact same one but the side burner is on the left.
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Tommychu posted:Even the grills are backwards in Aus. I've got the exact same one but the side burner is on the left. I hate it on the left, so I make sure to always buy one on the right. Just seems easier for me. Also, took a fun mountain ride on my way home today (Ortega hwy for socal goons). Passed probably 70-80 bikes. And also ran in to what looked like a super well off Porsche club. Two 996 GT2s, one each of 996 and 997 GT3s, and a 993 (I think, whatever the late 80s were) turbo with a RUF bodykit. All sounded loving amazing.
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ilkhan posted:Soon as a few bad apples stop spoiling the whole barrel, sure. But just think of all the brown people you could shoot!
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ilkhan posted:Soon as a few bad apples stop spoiling the whole barrel, sure. Calling ISIS Muslim is like calling the KKK a Christian cosplay group, but even so... Highest estimate I can find puts ISIS at 200k strong. There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. That's 0.013% of all Muslims. That's not even a rounding error.
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88h88 posted:I'm in London at a gig. I just heard a grime version of a James Brown track. KozmoNaut posted:After a concert tonight, I got sick and tired of waiting for the bus for ~30 minutes while standing in crappy slush weather, so I decided to try out this newfangled DriveNow on-the-spot minute-by-minute electric car (they're all BMW i3s) rental thing. The handy-dandy app told me that there was a car less than 5 minutes away by foot, so off I went. Sure enough, the car was there and I unlocked it with my RFID card that I also use for public transport. Apparently you can unlock/lock the cars using the app, too. So was last night gig night for a few of us? who did you guys go see? I saw Steak Number Eight who are Belgian post-rock/sludge and who played an amazing gig. Go see them if you like that sort of thing. I'm sure we have had discussions about Electric Wizard in this thread in the past so that should definitely be some of you.
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ilkhan posted:Soon as a few bad apples stop spoiling the whole barrel, sure. The entire objective of ISIS is to encourage distrust and alienation of muslims by non-muslims. To get people to favour throwing the baby out with the bathwater. On the side of people posting bollocks on facebook etc, it's a little unfair to totally blame the kind of usual suspects for having a stereotypically redneck/xenophobic attitude when they're being submitted to a campaign engineered to push those buttons as much as possible. Ask someone like Cat Interceptor (not picking on you, Cat, but you're the first openly Christian regular I thought of) how they feel about being associated with the Westboro Baptist Church or the like just because they're nominally the same religion. At the same time, if someone's definitely a member of ISIS, feel free to practice your Mozambique drill on them.
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InitialDave posted:Most people who aren't idiots have worked out that this means getting the good apples out the barrel, not letting any more fall into it, then throwing the bad ones away. Preferably keeping the barrel in one piece so it can be refilled with good ones.
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That isn't true at all. Most muslim groups have publically disavowed daesh and aq after every attack, but it is under reported (no one seems to remember a huge candlelight vigil in Tehran after 9/11, for example). Very littlr after abortion clinic bombings or OKC, probably because those churches, righfully, don't think they have to answer for a tiny, extreme minority. Muslims shouldn't have to appogize for every lovely thing someone claiming to be muslim does any more than Japanese americans for Pearl Harbor. Demanding a group basically be responsible for a small minority and apologize for all thier actions is kinda hosed up and reduces their humanity. nm fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Nov 22, 2015 |
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nm posted:Demanding a group basically be responsible for a small minority and apologize for all thier actions is kinda hosed up and reduces their humanity.
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Tomarse posted:So was last night gig night for a few of us? who did you guys go see? I'll be sure to check them out. I saw a local band called Fløjl, it was just this tiny thing with like 30 or 40 people, so we basically all just hung out and shot the breeze afterwards. It was also the release party for the vinyl of their third album (300 copy run, very local stuff), so just as a joke I made sure to get their autographs on my copy  It's poppy Scandinavian rock, so probably not to your taste: https://youtu.be/TVGspD61GY0 Tonight, it's Black Tusk and High on Fire 
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Nov 22, 2015 20:53
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Religion is poo poo, hth.
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InitialDave posted:Unless they're gun owners, in which case gently caress the lot of them, small-penised baby killers, amirite? I don't really care much about guns, but equating them to religon and race is pretty funny.
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SuperDucky posted:Religion is poo poo, hth. QFT. I'll unashamedly celebrate Christmas though, in the spirit of getting together with family to get drunk and overfed whilst exchanging either handmade gifts that mean something or terrible tat as a running joke.
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You're British, right? Yeah, religion has a much different connotation and implementation here in the deep south of the US. This is probably my last 'holidays' with my incredibly racist, gently caress you, got mine, you're going to hell if you don't believe every letter in the bible was divinely put there by the hand of god and the world is 6000 years old parents before I tell them to gently caress off forever. Also they don't drink so
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nm posted:I don't really care much about guns, but equating them to religon and race is pretty funny. SuperDucky posted:You're British, right? Yeah, religion has a much different connotation and implementation here in the deep south of the US. I'm half Scots.
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ilkhan posted:I agree with this, but I also think Christians are much more vocal about disavowing their extremists than Muslims, which leads to the perception (not fact) that the extremists are more mainstream than they are. Muslims have been extremely vocal about condemning ISIS, it's the media that aint reporting it or in the case of shitheads like Murdoch, deliberately misreporting it. I can name a few examples of Muftis for instance being completely clear about their condemnationa nd News Corp making it sound liek they somehow support ISIS. The two facts about ISIS and Muslims have to be remembered - a) ISIS is the old Iraqi regime come back to life and hence uses bullshit to get more suckers in - there is nothing religious about the leader's motivations and b) overwhelmingly targets Muslims. The "doctrine" they spew basically says anyone who is a Muslim that aint going to their area of control and pickign up a gun to fight with them is an apostate and to be killed on sight. If you are any other religion in their areas, you have a relative amount of safety if you pay the "I'm not a Muslim" tax. Being a Muslim and not holding a gun under their flag? You are a dead mofo. So yeah, to be clear, Muslims actually have the most to fear from ISIS and they know it. That's why it's the Muslims who are running the fastest away from the Syrian shithole, they are the ones who get tortured and shot first.
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I think another issue is that even moderate Muslims, which make up the majority, still hold views (generally) that are abhorrent to non Muslims. Christians (USA type) are fine with those views as long as they weren't spoken about by a brown person.
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Oh boy, religious generalization chat. Today's the first day where it's actually felt like winter for the year with a high of 44f. I'll miss putting the top down but at least the heater works amazingly. Maybe I should invest in a hard top for winter.
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I hate to interrupt religious hatechat (lol no I don't), but speaking of that particular Christian holiday that is quickly approaching, a reminder:Sockington posted:Registration closes tomorrow people.
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Great Beer posted:Oh boy, religious generalization chat. It was 18F with the sun up yesterday. Pretty sure it was in the 40's the day before. :wisconsin: I live in an apartment in a tiny little historical downtown area with super narrow streets, and there's a holiday parade going down Main St, right by my apartment at the moment. All of the sudden my entire apartment lights up bright orange, and I look out the window to see a hot air balloon, sans the balloon, mounted to the back of a van shooting huge jets of fire into the air.  Also, just got back from kart racing with my motorcycle road-racing compatriots/rivals in the first of our off-season championship series. Wiped the floor with those jerks and got a rad lovely plastic trophy.
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Raluek posted:I hate to interrupt religious hatechat (lol no I don't), but speaking of that particular Christian holiday that is quickly approaching, a reminder: Sockington posted:Registration closes tomorrow people. For all you blind AI Goons who will inevitably jump on to the AI:SS bandwagon after registration closes. GET YOUR poo poo TOGETHER.
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The box I sent last year never arrived but tracking absolved me of blame and guilt. But that said, not going in on it this year.
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Bajaha posted:For all you blind AI Goons who will inevitably jump on to the AI:SS bandwagon after registration closes. GET YOUR poo poo TOGETHER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGL-buZ94Y
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Rhyno posted:The box I sent last year never arrived but tracking absolved me of blame and guilt. But that said, not going in on it this year. drat it, if I got you was gonna send a floor pad
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I'm out for AISS this year. 
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MrChips posted:I'm out for AISS this year. Me, too. I put a ton of time and money into last year, hunting down Ken Block's co-driver's family to help get some super rare stuff. A Colin McRae commemorative shirt, a Subaru Rally Team shirt straight from Ken Block's team, WRC VIP lanyards from rallys around the world, among some other things. To say the response was tepid is putting it mildly... sorry, santee, I had already contacted a WRC team before you specified your t-shirt size. 
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Winter is indeed upon us. I went for a couple mile walk in a T-shirt and shorts earlier, and only got mildly sweaty. Edit: SuperDucky posted:It's by no means an oversimplification to say that organized religion, as currently implemented, is a net negative for humanity. Fully agree.
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The Locator posted:Winter is indeed upon us. I went for a couple mile walk in a T-shirt and shorts earlier, and only got mildly sweaty. It was 82 today, I even turned on the AC for a while since it felt warm in the house. Should drop a bit next week.
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12 degrees this morning at 4 am. Now it's 35, what the gently caress. Also, my comment wasn't really directed at religion, I'm just loving sick of all the negativity against other humans. I've unfriended a boatload of people on Facebook. And it's mostly against the refugees that kills me. I know they are crying terrorist can get in, but people forgot that the 9/11 hijackers seemed to breeze through every thing. These are people fleeing the very people we are against, why do you hate them? Ok sorry for the derail, but people are dumb and Facebook just gives them an outlet to be stupid. Edit: sold the v8 jaguar xjs today. Got what I paid, I would have loved to keep it, but I just don't have the time to work on it and lost interest in it. I'm sure with some work it would have been fun Kinda just feeling a little sad about it, but it was time to move on. BrokenKnucklez fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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So I'm not unaware of AMSR, I just thought it was a bit of silliness a few years ago and died. Yeah I'm wrong about the died bit, I had no idea it was THAT popular. Annyway I'm reading the logs of a user we want to know why there's so much bandwidth being dragged from, usually that means porn buuuuuuuuuuut..... I've seen some really odd stuff on the web, this isnt anywhere near the weirdest but still. And the user in question has AMSR on all day, every day. So far I see some guy massaging chicken meat, a bunch of extremely well endowed women talking in whisphers, stroking microphones, massage roleplays, shopping trips(?) zombie wars and singing bowls. I get the stare at the boobs thing and there are some very tasteful boob sets on display... the rest of it is kinda beyond me. Also the fact a few of these things have very good production values, seems like a waste of time to speak softly and crinkle paper. User just gets quietly told to knock it off, no breach of company policy. And one of the strangest things I've needed to explain to a company director and then trying explain that yes, millions of viewers on Youtube really do sit and watch / listen to some guy rubbing sandpaper with wooden blocks. And that is literally more popular - far more popular - than watching awesome boobs whispering.
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ilkhan posted:Soon as a few bad apples stop spoiling the whole barrel, sure. No Neo-Con Trumpisms in AI please.
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