Dapper_Swindler posted:

How bad is that? for someone who is economically retarded.

GalacticAcid posted:

Re: Gawkerchat ~ Sam Biddle is excellent

Squizzle posted:

Now is the winter of his discount tent.

toanoradian posted:

People had given it one smiley responses and "few pages back, but..." posts, how much more love does it need

richardfun posted:

This one didn't get nearly enough love

Electric Bugaloo posted:

Ars Technica, hands down.

The site is worth reading for John Timmer alone. He's one of the few people doing God's work in really reporting on the intersection of science and politics. He's a tremendously gifted communicator and his work is always easily palatable to laypeople while maintaining a deep level of accuracy and respect for the science it's presenting.

He's one of the handful of (relatively) mainstream sources doing any sort of comprehensive coverage of politically-backed denial movements and GOP attacks on science and scientists.

Bhaal posted:

This will drag down securities for just about everybody for a while, which will make rich people cranky and could have more knock on effects if it got really bad, but over in the states mostly it will be used as a news event to reinforce whatever position someone wants to push as per usual.

Full Battle Rattle posted:

probably because it's not his joke



still makes me laff everytim tho

Shifty Pony posted:

To expand on this an implosion in China would be bad news for a lot of major corporations because they made significant chunks of their income there. Everyone and their brother was betting on China to be their next hot market and for some such as the automakers and Apple that was really starting to look like the case.

But short term what I think we'll see is a lot of Chinese upper class folks frantically getting their money out of China and into things the CCP can't claw back. Vancouver's and California's real estate markets might get even more hosed up.

LeeMajors posted:

Because even disgusting monsters are still probably somewhat human in personal life.

I think its a pretty pic, but he's a pretty deplorable human.

Inferior Third Season posted:

Is there anyone who hasn't driven past a sporting goods store and seen this same joke on one of their signs?

The post was funny not just for the old joke, but because the context was perfect - with a literal discontented person in a literal cheap makeshift tent in winter.

GalacticAcid posted:

When is the first The Rent Is Too drat High Party primary?

Jimmy McMillan posted:

"Freedom of Life Law"
Legalizes(ing) Prostitution
(Sex for; Money or Gifts.)

(This law gives sexually active seniors the opportunity to all this natural chemical balance to reproduce the cells that keeps life revolving. Seniors who choose to live out the remaining time of their life without a "Wife" or a "GIrlfriend" isn't anyone business and should have the right to spend their money any way they like without any legal/ government intervention. No one has the right to interfere with the cycle of life. The Human stimulation is greater than the artificial stimulation of Viagra that might and can/ could be a health risk.)

A man or women will have the right to live out the fullness of freedom under the constitution. This nation for too long has prevented (Call Girls, Prostitution) sexual freedom. This matter isn’t any business of the US Government. If a person wants to pay for sex in any way they should have the right to do so. Man and women has the right to make out with the person their choice without any government rules and regulations from any State, City, Town or County within the territories of the United States of America.

(NOTE) I do not want a wife neither a girlfriend. this law gives me the Right to choose. All I want is for someone to take care of my needs and wants. even if it means exchanging money or gifts. The passing of the Gay Rights Bill opens the door for the necessary need for these changes to be implemented. This law gives the human animal the opportunity to be sexual engage any way they want to even if it means the exchange of money or gifts.

Muscle Tracer posted:

weclome to the real world, where everyone has redeeming qualities

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/a-look-at-the-very-different-charitable-donations-of-texas-senate-candidates/ posted:

Tea party favorite and former state litigator Ted Cruz preaches a message of smaller government and less spending. His personal tax returns indicate he also spends little on charities.

[...]

Cruz’s tax return shows adjusted gross income of $2.04 million in 2010 and $1.5 million in 2009 with cash charitable contributions of $19,137 and $4,818. Cruz did not identify the charities he supported. The family’s tax returns reported “various charities.”

Both tax professors said it is not necessary to itemize charitable deductions.

Cruz provided details of his charitable donations after a request from the San Antonio Express-News.

In an email response, Cruz said, “helping others, through public service and through private charitable endeavors, is a very high priority.”

Cruz said he has devoted many hours to charity, including serving on a charter school board in Houston; traveling to Nicaragua to help drill a water well for an impoverished village; serving on the advisory board of Living Water International; and providing free legal work to help 3 million veterans successfully defend the constitutionality of the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial.

Some politicians contend that religious organizations and charities should play a larger role in helping the needy and that government should do less to avoid dependency. The Texas Republican Party platform calls for “tough welfare reforms” and more partnerships “with faith based institutions, community and business organizations to assist individuals in need.”

When asked about his perspective on that, Cruz noted his opponents “have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth and are at substantially later stages of life.”

Cruz said he and his wife have two young children. After returning to a law practice after serving as the state’s solicitor general, Cruz said, he “worked and saved to build a solid financial foundation to provide for my children.”

Cruz has given $1,685 to Living Water International, a faith-based organized that helps deliver water in Third World countries. He also has given $5,000 to the Loma Linda University Global Health Institute.

quote:

Baltimore police officer Edward Gillespie flashed a picture of a sneering man wearing a turban and asked a classroom of fellow officers, “Who is he?”

“A terrorist,” “Muslim,” “Taliban,” various members of the class responded.

“Could he be special forces?” Gillespie asked.

“ISIS special forces,” someone joked.

As some in the class chuckled, Gillespie pressed his point. In an experiment in which college students were told to shoot a gunman — and not shoot the unarmed — participants were more likely to pull the trigger on those wearing hijabs or turbans. Later, he gave a real-life example: In a shooting in Las Vegas, he said, a man trying to intervene overlooked a woman who was involved in killing two police officers, only to have the woman turn the gun on him.

Rygar201 posted:

Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont.

Check out @SenatorLeahy's Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/685120043156418561?s=09

Rygar201 posted:

Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont.

Check out @SenatorLeahy's Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/685120043156418561?s=09

Rygar201 posted:

Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont.

Check out @SenatorLeahy's Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/685120043156418561?s=09

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...omepage%2Fstory

Highlights from a police anti-racism training session.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...omepage%2Fstory

Highlights from a police anti-racism training session.

Geostomp posted:

And people wonder why the police have come under so much criticism lately?

zoux posted:

heh

Rygar201 posted:

Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont.

Check out @SenatorLeahy's Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/685120043156418561?s=09

zoux posted:

heh

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/apploitation-city-instaserfs

San Francisco is basically a medieval manor where serfs run around buying things and doing things for the rich

Bhaal posted:

Smaller Asian countries near China will feel it far more, oh and Australia's real estate market has a dependency right now on exports of natural resources to China that is propping it up in its current state. If China reined back on that then the AUS housing bubble will be in for a shock and may pop completely.

But even if all that happened it wouldn't be a repeat of 2008 because that market (and the mortgages behind it) is nowhere near as financialized and leveraged up to literally criminally greedy levels like they were in the GFC.

But the larger factor: China isn't much of a consumer, so if their economy tanks then they just go through the common cycle: their imports dramatically slow down, and their currency inflates which makes them more competitive for goods and services that foreign markets want, which helps bring in business and get their economy stabilized. (Super over simplified macro econ)

When the U.S. economy tanked--well--we buy a lot of poo poo. So when our consumption rate falters then a lot of foreign markets are going to feel it, which impacts their income, slows their local economy and so on down the line. China's economy is big, but they don't really import that much in proportion compared to the U.S. or the eurozone.

This will drag down securities for just about everybody for a while, which will make rich people cranky and could have more knock on effects if it got really bad, but over in the states mostly it will be used as a news event to reinforce whatever position someone wants to push as per usual.

zoux posted:

zoux posted:

DisreputableDog attends a Ben Carson rally

zoux posted:

heh

zoux posted:

DisreputableDog attends a Ben Carson rally