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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


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

look out ed balls it's piccolo!!

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Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.
It is I,

Schnorkles

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Yinlock posted:

the whole solution to the "why doesn't he just kill the joker" thing is there too, since he doesn't kill no matter what and it doesn't have to make sense because he's a crazy man in pajamas.

maybe gotham pd should learn to loving aim

there's a (cancelled) comic series that is just about the Gotham PD and they're all traumatized as gently caress from e.g. Mr Freeze murdering their partner then getting sent to Arkham then breaking out and doing the same thing again with their new partner that is funny as hell.

FabioClone
Oct 3, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Will Jong Un or Trump be the dictator with the worst hair?

https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/835004913281191937

Anyway, the article suggests that despite their sanctions, the Chinese might be coming around to the idea that a North Korea with a full nuclear program isn't as bad as a destabilized one.

Any guesses on what will happen if the Chinese back off? Is Trump crazy enough to bomb North Korea? Or is he just going to burn them on twitter?

Or will the world mercifully end before this is an issue?

WarEternal
Dec 26, 2010

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!

Trash Trick posted:

I spoke to my conservative Indian coworker about this and his response was that liberals are pushing conservatives to the brink of insanity and polarizing everyone and that is why this happened.

...sounds to me more like what conservatives are doing.

HereComesEverybody
Mar 2, 2007

a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Could I get that gif of excited trump being peed on and then into his mouth?

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


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

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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FabioClone posted:

Will Jong Un or Trump be the dictator with the worst hair?

https://twitter.com/motokorich/status/835004913281191937

Anyway, the article suggests that despite their sanctions, the Chinese might be coming around to the idea that a North Korea with a full nuclear program isn't as bad as a destabilized one.

Any guesses on what will happen if the Chinese back off? Is Trump crazy enough to bomb North Korea? Or is he just going to burn them on twitter?

Or will the world mercifully end before this is an issue?

the chinese are going to continue to import north korean coal via the black market hth

Venuz Patrol
Mar 27, 2011
thank god nobody tore the trash bags off that one basement they were penned in at mar a lago last weekend

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

Zyla posted:

has there been any funny movie since 9/11?

like genuinely funny and holds up on repeat viewings?

i honestly can't think of a single one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsqfBdT93hk

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Citizen Tayne posted:

Batman doesn't exist

Most Americans know more about Batman than they do about Steve Bannon. All I'm saying is politics fans don't have a lot of room to talk when it comes to nerditry.

Tonetta
Jul 9, 2013

look mother look at ME MOTHER MOTHER I AM A HOMESTIXK NOW

**methodically removes and eats own clothes*

Shageletic posted:

Nytimes, LA Times, CNN, Buzzfeed, Politico

The best daily outlets going right now other than the Guardian

Thank u

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Zyla posted:

has there been any funny movie since 9/11?

like genuinely funny and holds up on repeat viewings?

i honestly can't think of a single one

borat

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

HereComesEverybody posted:

Could I get that gif of excited trump being peed on and then into his mouth?

gotta earn your yellow wings :colbert:

f#a#
Sep 6, 2004

I can't promise it will live up to the hype, but I tried my best.
Hi, what's been happening in Trumpland today?

DeepDickPizza
Oct 11, 2012

THREE TIME! THREE TIME!
The Queen has spoken.
https://twitter.com/cher/status/835241254497615874

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

this is the best parody account on twitter

MasterSitsu
Nov 23, 2013

Today is a landmark people will look back on where people normalized this kind of behavior out of fear of looking like they were exaggerating about how much of a dictator Trump aspires to be.

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

f#a# posted:

Hi, what's been happening in Trumpland today?

Trump appears to be worried about the fbi stuff re: russia imo

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Anybody want to unpack this one?

quote:

Feb 24 The new U.S. Federal Communications Commission chief will move to block broadband privacy rules, approved by the Obama administration, that subject broadband providers to stricter scrutiny than websites, a spokesman said on Friday, in a victory for internet providers like AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications Corp.

The spokesman for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Pai believes all companies in the "online space should be subject to the same rules, and the federal government should not favor one set of companies over another."

Pai plans by March 2 to delay the implementation of the rules which subject companies to stricter oversight than websites under Federal Trade Commission rules, the spokesman said. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Richard Chang)

That's all there is in the reuter's article.

Jazerus
May 24, 2011



HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

f#a# posted:

Hi, what's been happening in Trumpland today?

Not a drat thing he's so dull

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

mrbradlymrmartin posted:

lol u think that matters

meme magic has triumphed and if people aren't taking active steps to prevent the rise of the Mythos then they're foolish

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

MasterSitsu posted:

Today is a landmark people will look back on where people normalized this kind of behavior out of fear of looking like they were exaggerating about how much of a dictator Trump aspires to be.

Laffing all the way to the camps, I'm still waiting for the Mattering or the Trumpening, but I think the Trumpening might have a greater chance of happening. What do you think?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Buttgieg??

There is a guy called buttgieg???

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i thought the agricorps typically paid per bushel harvested or w/e per person rather than hourly

like i'm sure it'd work out to something ridiculous but i was under the impression that it was p directly comparable to how much more the resultant food would cost and that it wasn't particularly significant

yeah I mean the pay scale isn't per hour because the workers don't clock in or have timesheets but like I'm talking translated to hourly wages, $40-50/hr is usually what's floated as an estimate for how much you'd need to pay americans to work at the same rate

you'd probably still lose a lot of people because no one wants to be in those working conditions if they're not extremely desperate to get themselves and their families into a better situation

DeepDickPizza
Oct 11, 2012

THREE TIME! THREE TIME!

Shageletic posted:

Anybody want to unpack this one?


That's all there is in the reuter's article.

It means Net Neutrality is going to be taken out behind the barn and shot.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Lol buttgieg

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Penis butt gieg

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

holy poo poo

cher, not Jehmu? :cmon:

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



butt gig

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/835219281948332033

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


That's later tonight

:liara:

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Fiction posted:

This is very wrong but we're hosed either way. The best we can hope for is technology accelerates to the point where mitigation of global famine is possible.

did you know that this one man's advances in the area of plant pathology and genetics enabled india to be a net exporter of grain and banish famine from the subcontinent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

did you know that the primary source of malnutrition in india, one of the most famine-prone countries on the planet for the last 200 years, is now lovely roads rather than insufficient arable land

did you know that borlaug's dwarf grains banished that structural famine from the subcontinent the exact same year the mccarther genius grant winner called it "a pipe dream that india would ever feed itself" and further suggested that it should be left to starve as not to drag down the rest of the world

did you know that we are less than 1/3rd of the way to the solar-power limit of intensive agricultural yields, which is the only widespread agricultural problem we have not solved in a large-scale way yet (soil -> fertilizer from fixed ammonia, water -> drip irrigation systems that have extremely low waste, pests/fungus -> human-safe biological pesticides such as bacillus thuringiensis GMO'd into the food and fiber crops)

did you know that the UN officially forecasts the population of the earth to peak at 8.3 billion people due to the demographic transitions including female emancipation and increased prosperity that are causing fertility rates to plummet in all but 8 of the countries on the planet (even Yemen)

did you know that even if technology stopped innovating RIGHT NOW and we simply implemented the fertilizer/drip irrigation/pest resistant combo on opportunistic arable land we have RIGHT NOW in africa, europe, and central asia we could feed a 2000 calorie diet to every single one of those 8.3 billion people, and also produce enough cotton to clothe them properly, and do it on fewer acres of farmland than we have plowed today, which would, among other things, allow the amazon rainforest to grow back to its 1950 levels

did you know that the above factoid assumes that everyone keeps eating roughly as much meat as the average westerner does today, so in fact the poorest billion on the planet could eat roughly 4x more chicken, pork, and beef than the currently do and the above still holds

my dude, there are lots of reasons why the future might be scary, but food is not one of them. we already have the technology we need in order to feed the entire world from a farming aspect, and we do not need to kill half of the planet to get to our goals. what we need is more intense trade to deploy this technology and transport the goods to the people who need them (which is :eyepop: globalism :eyepop:).

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal

euphronius posted:

Buttgieg??

There is a guy called buttgieg???

Hey he is the mayor of my town, south bend Buttgieg has a South Bend.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

paranoid randroid posted:

well i mean lets not go crazy here; theres going to be massive voter disenfranchisement where ever they can manage it

Survival instinct will keep the white people from voting for him a second time. This time around they'd convinced themselves that he couldn't really win and was a protest vote. Four years on, the ones who are left won't make that mistake.

Inkel
Feb 19, 2004

College Slice
Salvadoran asylum seeker with brain tumor seized from Texas hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/sara-beltran-hernandez-texas-detention-brain-tumor


Muhammad Ali's Son Illegally Detained at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Attorney Says
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/m...ey-says-9164544

quote:

The Muslim son of America's most famous boxer says he was stopped at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, questioned twice about his religion, and then held for about two hours this past February 7.

:tif:

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014




:whitewater:

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

SpaceGoku posted:

yeah I mean the pay scale isn't per hour because the workers don't clock in or have timesheets but like I'm talking translated to hourly wages, $40-50/hr is usually what's floated as an estimate for how much you'd need to pay americans to work at the same rate

you'd probably still lose a lot of people because no one wants to be in those working conditions if they're not extremely desperate to get themselves and their families into a better situation

here it is i knew i saw something recently about that


quote:

Farm Worker Labor Is a Small Percentage of Produce Cost

Those salaries represent a fraction grocery bills. The average American household spent $515 on fresh fruits and vegetables in 2014, and about 28 percent of that—around $137—went to produce farmers. The farmers paid about a third of that to workers, while the rest went to farm maintenance and other costs. At current wages, farmworkers’ annual share of each family’s grocery bill at $45—less than 10 percent.

A Higher Wage Would Still Be a Small Part of the Price

Raising farm worker wages in the U.S. to $15 an hour—and annual earnings to $15,000—would represent a 47 percent wage increase. That might seem huge, but Martin says Americans spend so little on produce that it wouldn’t mean much for families’ grocery bills.

Remember that farmworkers’ share of each U.S. household’s annual grocery bill is $45. If farm worker wages go up by 47 percent, grocery bills would go up just $21.15 a year, or $1.76 a month.

so yeah quadruple their pay and it's like $3 a month more

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mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
borelaug

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