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canyoneer posted:It's a true story. Buck Compton, UCLA catcher and football player, bounced a grenade off a guy's helmet while the other dude was sprinting away the day after D-Day. No schadenfreude, but I got to meet Buck before he died (he gave a talk at my high school near where he lived). Super nice dude, made a lot of jokes about the actor playing him making him look too handsome and too cool.
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Scruff McGruff posted:If you watch any of his regular videos you'd get pretty quick that the whole video is basically an over-the-top joke. But we don't, so in a vacuum being a insufferable twat ironically will still get you being called an insufferable twat.
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For those that didn't watch the whole thing He had his kids in the back seat Hopefully CPS takes them
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Samfucius posted:No schadenfreude, but I got to meet Buck before he died (he gave a talk at my high school near where he lived). Super nice dude, made a lot of jokes about the actor playing him making him look too handsome and too cool. That guy not only played football and baseball at UCLA, he played in the Rose Bowl and was on the same baseball team as Jackie Robinson. Then he enlisted, volunteered for the paratroops, won a Silver Star for a small-unit raid on a German artillery emplacement that became a textbook example used in teaching others how to do the same thing, was wounded in battle, turned down an offer to play pro baseball after the war, became a cop, got married, adopted two kids, attended law school at night, became a lawyer, became a district attorney, was the DA who prosecuted Sirhan Sirhan, was appointed to the California court of appeals where he served 20 years before retiring, and later died at home at the age of 90 surrounded by family. No schadenfreude either, unless it's that none of us is likely to come close to a life that awesome. 
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Phanatic posted:That guy not only played football and baseball at UCLA, he played in the Rose Bowl and was on the same baseball team as Jackie Robinson. Then he enlisted, volunteered for the paratroops, won a Silver Star for a small-unit raid on a German artillery emplacement that became a textbook example used in teaching others how to do the same thing, was wounded in battle, turned down an offer to play pro baseball after the war, became a cop, got married, adopted two kids, attended law school at night, became a lawyer, became a district attorney, was the DA who prosecuted Sirhan Sirhan, was appointed to the California court of appeals where he served 20 years before retiring, and later died at home at the age of 90 surrounded by family. Ok man, you gotta post this in the badass thread for heaven's sake.
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gunchat and CHECK THIS BADASS talk best scamper.... *cocks shotgun* .....ya hear me??  
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Huggybear posted:this insufferable douche is in no way funny and completely over-exaggerates the role the US played in the war so I guess the schadenfreude is on you I'm not even American but this is very funny to me e: because you are an idiot CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK has a new favorite as of 08:50 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Well there it is. The dumbest loving thing I'll read all month. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-berkeley-delete-publicly-available-educational-content Tl;dr: Berkeley has 20k+ free videos online, lectures and course content, got some complaints from blind people that they were poorly accessible for them, in response Berkeley are going to delete them all. Complaints were not from Berkeley students or staff, just some members of the public.
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I bet they never saw that coming.
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They're just removing them from public access (log in required), not nuking them off the face of the earth. I suppose it's much, much cheaper than redoing them all to comply with the DoJ order.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQA9M1t0dEA
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Memento posted:Well there it is. The dumbest loving thing I'll read all month. Heh, so much for the tolerant left. actually that sucks
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Wasabi the J posted:Heh, so much for the tolerant left. We had a meeting last week about maintaining our WCAG 2.0 declaration of compliance and we decided the easiest way was to break the accessibility in other parts of our application to retain consistency and remove parts which could not be made compliant. It's just the nature of the game really.
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Jamfrost posted:They're just removing them from public access (log in required), not nuking them off the face of the earth. I suppose it's much, much cheaper than redoing them all to comply with the DoJ order. I like all the people who think just running them through an automated caption program would solve the problem. I've done some freelance captioning through http://crowdsurfwork.com/ and university professors are a bunch of mush mouthed mumblers with weird accents. Plus university lectures tend to have a bunch of specialized jargon you have to google if you aren't familiar with the subject. Automated captioning doesn't work well unless people speak very clearly. Making it accessible for the visually impaired with descriptive video is another whole thing. That's basically impossible to automate.
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Serephina posted:But we don't, so in a vacuum being a insufferable twat ironically will still get you being called an insufferable twat. This is posted every time someone doesn't get a joke.
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Decrepus posted:This is posted every time someone doesn't get a joke. 
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The Shaw brothers make a war movie.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0kg2GWVHo
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A lot of Shadendreude with the Switch launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-srOfRqNc
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Huggybear posted:
None of that is true.
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Humphreys posted:A lot of Shadendreude with the Switch launch:  I wonder how widespread this is. It seems pretty bad.
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whiteyfats posted:None of that is true. The Truman administration didn't have any more nukes to drop, so if Japan refused to surrender and the Soviets invaded Japan, Washington would have been caught in a bluff. The idea was to make both of them think we could keep doing that every few days for a while. Saying the US won the battle of the Pacific "by the skin of their teeth" is a bit of a stretch, maybe. After Midway, Japan had basically lost and was treading water at every point afterward. I guess before that it was pretty ugly for the US and things could have gone differently. It's not like the US blew out Japan in 1942.
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Slugnoid posted:The Shaw brothers make a war movie.. Add some more blood and this would look very much like Hacksaw Ridge. The "serious war film" where a guy uses a dismembered torso as a shield while charging with a BAR.
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Humphreys posted:A lot of Shadendreude with the Switch launch: This is why you never buy launch hardware.
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Railing Kill posted:The Truman administration didn't have any more nukes to drop, so if Japan refused to surrender and the Soviets invaded Japan, Washington would have been caught in a bluff. The idea was to make both of them think we could keep doing that every few days for a while. The US had a third bomb set for production after Nagasaki. They didn't have one immediately to drop a few days later, but they were working on another Fat Man for assembly around August 20th. Production was slow because scientists were still figuring out the kinks in the process, but a third bombing in 1945 was absolutely within their grasp and theoretically they could have continued dropping bombs every few weeks. I know that's technically not "every few days", but I've heard that claim a lot and the wording usually implies that America had basically made two devices that were so rare and expensive that they'd be forced to bluff after using them, like the heroes in a space opera getting a superweapon to defeat the evil empire.
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It's been a long time since my History of WW1 and WW2 class, but I thought the US was gonna beat the USSR to a Japanese invasion by several months.
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Railing Kill posted:The Truman administration didn't have any more nukes to drop, so if Japan refused to surrender and the Soviets invaded Japan, Washington would have been caught in a bluff. The idea was to make both of them think we could keep doing that every few days for a while. Eh, I would disagree on that, even. The US was on the ropes for basically a few months, but after that, Japan had little to no chance of winning. The USA's production could just overwhelm them, regardless of what Imperial Japan did.
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whiteyfats posted:Eh, I would disagree on that, even. The US was on the ropes for basically a few months, but after that, Japan had little to no chance of winning. The USA's production could just overwhelm them, regardless of what Imperial Japan did. We were also "on the ropes" in the sense that you could theoretically get Mike Tyson on the ropes by sucker punching him in the nose before the match begins. Once he stands up, something bad is about to happen to you.
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chitoryu12 posted:We were also "on the ropes" in the sense that you could theoretically get Mike Tyson on the ropes by sucker punching him in the nose before the match begins. Once he stands up, something bad is about to happen to you. They should have invaded Hawaii. That would have properly hosed the US.
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Solice Kirsk posted:They should have invaded Hawaii. That would have properly hosed the US. Do you mean an invasion instead of the Pearl Harbor attack or an invasion in 1942 or something? Because Japan never would have had the logistics to support such an invasion.
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Oh boy here we go again! Surely this war discussion will be better than the last, eh lads?
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's been a long time since my History of WW1 and WW2 class, but I thought the US was gonna beat the USSR to a Japanese invasion by several months. Also the small matter that the USSR had almost no navy, sweet gently caress-all for the equipment needed to stage even an unopposed amphibious landing, no experience with amphibious assaults, and no naval logistics to support an amphibious invasion. If you want a more detailed explanation, head over to A/T for the military history thread.
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Hi there I'm immensely loving stupid let me tell you how the US actually lost WWII ~lets out loud long fart~
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OldTennisCourt posted:Hi there I'm immensely loving stupid let me tell you how the US actually lost WWII ~lets out loud long fart~ Everyone lost WW2 except the US, who made loving bank.
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What a strange http://i.imgur.com/ULn4n6s.mp4
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http://abc7chicago.com/food/new-peeps-flavored-oreos-reportedly-turning-peoples-poop-pink/1786781/ People are pooping pepto-bismol pink because of the new gimmick Oreos
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Kurieg posted:http://abc7chicago.com/food/new-peeps-flavored-oreos-reportedly-turning-peoples-poop-pink/1786781/ I've had some and as that one tweet in the article implies, you'd have to eat a whole package to get a bright pink effect.
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There are people out there (because of course there are) who must play colour wheel with their poo poo and piss. Hmm, today I think I'll mix peep oreos and anise licorice and, by incredible coincidence, the pink colour and green colour will turn my poop back to brown!
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Gorilla Salad posted:There are people out there (because of course there are) who must play colour wheel with their poo poo and piss. When I drink all night the next morning's pee is usually a super dark yellow (almost orange) and smells like a truck stop bathroom. Also one time I finished a bottle of 151 and half a bottle of Captain Morgans and my pee smelled like rum the next day. My friends mom told me that means my liver couldn't process all of the alcohol and that it was super bad.
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