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BUSH 2112
Sep 17, 2012

I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon.

god i hate this fat gently caress and his disgusting glistening chins. gently caress you, goddamn butterball rear end motherfucker.

[ed] balls

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Relevant Tangent posted:

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.

This is why Trump won

That DICK!
Sep 28, 2010

so i haven't been paying attention much - keith ellison clearly was (is?) DNC frontrunner with support from Schumer Bern and the Gang, then you have Tom Perez leading with the losers everyone hates in the party rn and Peter Buttgauge and one or two others right? Why has BG gained so much momentum and who are his major backers other than Cher?

Keith Ellison seems like a cool dude with good policies and stuff but he doesn't come off as all that charismatic and the Nation of Islam stuff, no matter how actually relevant it is to his beliefs, is just another Solindra type thing for Republicans to harp on about so if this Peter fella is good I guess that's fine

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011

Coolguye posted:

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:).

yeah the scary part is what's going to happen when we use up all of our fossil water

bean mom
Jan 30, 2009

so u cant swear on twitter anymore???

Lindsey O. Graham
Dec 31, 2016

"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."

- The Chief

Shageletic posted:

drat.

at least there's the internet......?

until my party kills net neutrality

:smug:

Leviathan
Oct 8, 2001

I hear the jury's
still out.. on science.
Fun Shoe

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

i'm pretty sure i'd still laugh if i rewatched shaun of the dead, superbad, idiocracy, and the bill murray scene from zombieland

RUM HAM
Sep 25, 2009

posting on a nazi page as the trump admin throws another one of doc brown's special logs in the furnace to propel the fascism train to 88mph

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Tonetta posted:

Things I seen in the last 3 hours in my friends of friends feed:

Banning most of the media is good
It reaching upper 70's in areas where it's normally blizzarding this time of year is a great thing that they want to keep happening
A religious person praise god for the warm weather
"Lets kill the trannies now"

No one lies snow. Anyone who pretends otherwise isn't actually human in any meaningful way. We need snow, sure, because it's a necessary part of the environment, but no one likes it.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

https://twitter.com/blueinmo/status/835223519613059077

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

https://twitter.com/AP/status/835243957869244420

Jon Carbuncle
Sep 21, 2002


Soiled Meat

RUM HAM posted:

posting on a nazi page as the trump admin throws another one of doc brown's special logs in the furnace to propel the fascism train to 88mph

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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.

Stephen Miller is pacing up and down his office rn vowing that when his battle station is completely he'll show everyone

boethius
Jul 10, 2001

Space bunnies have three ears


YESSSSSSS

:getin:

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

More banned than I thought:

https://twitter.com/Mike_P_Williams/status/835213245631836161

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

here it is i knew i saw something recently about that


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

Look at the millionaire over here bragging about having 3 bucks extra.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

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

Super Troopers, or maybe Beer Fest? Though you have to drink during Beer Fest, and lol if you don't do a strike-out during the strike-out scene.

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
they'll still hafta make prisoners pick fruit tho

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

https://twitter.com/JonSchweppe/status/835200904903213057

https://twitter.com/Bow2kaos/status/835226920891514881

Gilmentum!!!

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

Relevant Tangent posted:

Super Troopers, or maybe Beer Fest? Though you have to drink during Beer Fest, and lol if you don't do a strike-out during the strike-out scene.

forgetting sarah marshall

seeing jason segel's penis will never not be funny

The Ol Spicy Keychain
Jan 17, 2013

I MEPHISTO MY OWN ASSHOLE

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/835239138735579136

christ, what an rear end in a top hat

boethius
Jul 10, 2001

Space bunnies have three ears


Gotta have those safe spaces.

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



the reporters allowed in to the gaggle had their recorders going

https://mobile.twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/835243891133669376

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Nonsense posted:

Also I think I said it in December. The press should have ceased coverage and or attending Trump's gigs. He'd go nuts.

I called CNN being shut out 2 months ago. Most laughed and said their ratings would skyrocket. We shall see.

RUM HAM
Sep 25, 2009


THE SO CALLED HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT IS LEAKING FAKE REPORTS TO THE PRESS TO ENDANGER AMERICA. SAD!

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

SpaceGoku posted:

yeah the scary part is what's going to happen when we use up all of our fossil water

implementation of drip irrigation cuts water waste in even the current economy down to near-zero and leaves only 14 aquifers at risk of depletion over the entire planet, even under current agricultural distributions - obviously if this continues to be a problem after implementation, farms can be shifted among regions to give various aquifers a break. they presumably would anyway under an ideal farming setup where you can use large parts of african scrubland to grow sorghum and maize variants, which is not even remotely a rare biome/habitat type and is extremely well suited to growing these crops

even today water consumption could be solved very quickly if water was not close to free at any and all volumes. if you were to price water fairly at volumes over 2000L/mo the market would presumably correct around that within a couple of years.

the issue is that you don't actually want to do that as it would involve tripling to quadrupling the price at that level (potentially higher in drought-prone areas like oklahoma). Not because it would hurt residential areas directly (their consumption is actually less than the margin of error on water consumption reports) but because literally anything that makes things more expensive to farms will increase food prices - which need to keep coming down if banishing hunger is to be a goal we take seriously

the way you handle the issue in the united states would be to have the government order farms to modernize to drip irrigation and shoulder the cost for the farms that need to do the update in the next 5 years or whatever - shouldering the cost of the upgrade in return for responsibility over the long term

of course that will definitely involve raising taxes in some way or another.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Feb 24, 2017

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.
My god

That's..

That's JIM GILMORE'S music!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWx1KRi-xQ

SpiderHyphenMan
Apr 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
...I thought DHS was fully in Trump's corner.

MasterSitsu
Nov 23, 2013

fits my needs posted:

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?

America will retweet Jake Tapper's last words but do nothing about it.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Goddamn I need to get off this Trump poo poo starting to see double, nothing to see here.

Shageletic fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Feb 24, 2017

Lindsey O. Graham
Dec 31, 2016

"We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term."

- The Chief

Yinlock posted:

what if they actually paid their employees though and didn't work them to exhaustion, would that fix things

i love you as a poster and never stop posting but, i can't help it:

lol, just, lol

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fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
What if....Donald John Trump was president?

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
happy friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUn3rZ2g5pA

BUSH 2112
Sep 17, 2012

I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon.

boethius posted:

Gotta have those safe spaces.

lol i made an idiot trumpist delivery driver at work break down into a sputtering rage by saying this. i'm basically gonna get fired eventually, over the last few weeks i've lost the ability to hold back my thoughts about what insufferable idiot babycunts trumpists are and i'm pretty sure my boss is getting pissed at me. good thing i already have another job, and another one lined up in about two months, because it's been really cathartic and i highly recommend it if you can get away with pissing them off

Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

tacodaemon posted:

the reporters allowed in to the gaggle had their recorders going

https://mobile.twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/835243891133669376

Spicy such a little baby bitch jfc

William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"

Arch conservative.

Viagra addict.

Clarinet player.

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







lol they banned the bbc on the eve of trump's trip to london?

how stupid are these people

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Shageletic posted:

It's her opening "joke" at CPAC

kidding on the square, naturally

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Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

fits my needs posted:

The conservative mentality of being a self centered rear end in a top hat doesn't discriminate by race lmao

See Dinesh D'Souza and Bobby Jindal

"wait, i'm one of the good ones!!"

*ICE agent looks at skin color, looks at Official ICE Whiteness Palette in hand" hm says here you are not

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