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Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

orange juche posted:

Hey two finger, test this and tell me how accurate it is? Living north of the equator, we do not have Tim Tams in the US, so I can't really do this.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/michellerennex/dont-come-4-me-pls

E: an actual current event, apparently Tim Tams are a thing in the US now as of February 1 this year. I'll have to find them on a store shelf somewhere.

Publix has them. We used to trade some of our snacks for Tim tams the aussies stockpiled during my last afghan deployment

# ? Mar 11, 2017 06:58

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# ? May 8, 2024 05:10

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

Publix has them. We used to trade some of our snacks for Tim tams the aussies stockpiled during my last afghan deployment

did you suck a cup of tea through one

# ? Mar 11, 2017 07:22

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

so in 2015 i got sent to like month long rehab for just being a huge drunk, I'm sure you all remember me drunk posting a LOT. 2016 and 2017 I worked on not drinking a lot and even had months of time booze free.

Since loving january 20 all that poo poo has gone out the window gently caress all this poo poo

Don't let dumbfuck donnie win by falling off the wagon. I've heard multiple alcoholics already say something to the effect of 'I'm a loving alcoholic and I am NOT relapsing for that dumb orange bastard'. So that's my HCT comment.

And Jake Tapper is a good dude:
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/840441656642031617

# ? Mar 11, 2017 07:28

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

yeah bro we all love you HCT

# ? Mar 11, 2017 07:32

M_Gargantua: Oct 16, 2006; STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES; Exciting Lemon

Yeah HCT. Don't end up like me. My drinking and shitposting have skyrocketed in the last few months.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 07:39

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

yeah i'm just glad that no matter what i haven't touched a drink

life still is poo poo sometimes but it's better than waking up with all that guilt and shame

# ? Mar 11, 2017 07:50

orange juche: Mar 14, 2012

Two Finger posted:

did you suck a cup of tea through one

How do you do a tim tam slam without burning the poo poo out of your mouth? Like it seems like an interesting idea but I'd think hot beverages are a bit much.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 08:10

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

U.S. court voids 3 Texas congressional districts

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A federal court panel late Friday invalidated three Republican-drawn congressional districts in Texas, including one in Travis County, for violating the U.S. Voting Rights Act.

However, in voiding the districts, drawn by the Texas Legislature in 2011, the panel did not mandate or discuss any remedies to correct the problems.

But the ruling has the potential to create more districts with larger populations of Latino voters, “and probably more Democratic districts, which would be good for Democrats in Texas, and also nationally,” said Michael Li, redistricting counsel at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.

The panel, in a 2-1 ruling, said District 35 — held by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin — was improperly drawn with race as the predominant factor to minimize the number of Democrat districts and to attempt to unseat Doggett by boosting the Hispanic population, making it more likely that voters would choose a Latino candidate.

“The political motive does not excuse or negate that use of race; rather, the use of race is ultimately problematic for precisely that reason — because of their political motive, they intentionally drew a district based on race in a location where such use of race was not justified by a compelling state interest,” the ruling said.

By drawing Doggett’s district with a majority Hispanic population extending into San Antonio, the Republican-controlled Legislature was able to “create the facade of complying” with the Voting Rights Act while eliminating an existing Democratic district, the panel ruled.

The panel also invalidated Districts 23, held by U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, and 27, which includes southern Bastrop County and is held by U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi.

The court action in the long-delayed case will have a far-reaching effect. By requiring the three districts to be redrawn, the judges’ order will change the lines on an undetermined number of nearby districts.

Looking at Hurd’s district, the judges determined that the Texas Legislature drew its lines to manipulate Latino voter turnout with “the intent and effect of diluting Latino voter opportunity.”

“Defendants’ decision to place Nueces County Hispanic voters in an Anglo district had the effect and was intended to dilute their opportunity to elect their candidate of choice,” said the 196-page ruling, including a dissent by Justice Jerry Smith.

Friday’s order also said that plaintiffs who challenged the map had proved that the Legislature intentionally diluted votes “through packing and cracking” District 26 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The order, however, mentioned nothing about invalidating that district, most likely because it had been redrawn in 2013 and the court panel was assessing the legality of the 2011 map, Li said.

The order also did not specify how the invalidated maps should be corrected, but normal practice would be to have the Texas Legislature redraw the congressional lines, Li said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the order, Li said.

Paxton also could ask the panel to halt the effect of its ruling while the appeal proceeded. If denied, Texas also could ask the Supreme Court to stay the ruling.

“Tonight is a victory for the voting rights of all Texans,” Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said Friday. “Republicans have ensured that the dark days of discrimination in Texas continue to loom, but the sun will soon shine. In time, justice prevails.”

I had meant to grab only a little bit of it but goddamn, it's nice to have some decent news for a change

# ? Mar 11, 2017 08:12

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

orange juche posted:

How do you do a tim tam slam without burning the poo poo out of your mouth? Like it seems like an interesting idea but I'd think hot beverages are a bit much.

eh i mean the biscuit starts to melt before you can pull too much through and it loses a lot of heat on the way through anyway

idk i mean just try it and when your skin starts peeling off might be time to stop

# ? Mar 11, 2017 09:29

Softface: Feb 16, 2011; Some things can't be unseen

HCT don't be like me. I drink because I'm still enlisted and whenever I walk past the TVs showing news at work I have to place my hands over my mouth and scream.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 09:29

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

quote:

How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze

The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their military capabilities. In reality, however, that program has implemented revolutionary new technologies that will vastly increase the targeting capability of the US ballistic missile arsenal. This increase in capability is astonishing�boosting the overall killing power of existing US ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three�and it creates exactly what one would expect to see, if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike.

Because of improvements in the killing power of US submarine-launched ballistic missiles, those submarines now patrol with more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles in their silos. US submarine-based missiles can carry multiple warheads, so hundreds of others, now in storage, could be added to the submarine-based missile force, making it all the more lethal.

http://thebulletin.org/how-us-nuclear-force-modernization-undermining-strategic-stability-burst-height-compensating-super10578

Uh... wow :stare:

# ? Mar 11, 2017 11:00

Epiphyte: Apr 7, 2006

Missionary Positron posted:

http://thebulletin.org/how-us-nuclear-force-modernization-undermining-strategic-stability-burst-height-compensating-super10578

Uh... wow

quote:

We cannot foresee a situation in which a competent and properly informed US president would order a surprise first strike against Russia or China.

Yeah, about that....... :trumppop:

# ? Mar 11, 2017 12:04

bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

Epiphyte posted:

Yeah, about that.......

Whether by accident or not it sounds like they were pretty drat accurate, "competent and properly informed" does not exactly summon images of the orange pissbaby.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 12:51

aphid_licker: Jan 7, 2009

Doesn't that ignore the missiles the Russians have driving around in those huge trucks? Or was that a Cold War thing they don't do anymore?

# ? Mar 11, 2017 13:10

A Handed Missus: Aug 6, 2012

Erdogan has found more Nazis :siren:

Turkey referendum: Dutch are 'Nazi remnants' - Erdogan

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Dutch as "Nazi remnants and fascists", as a row grows over a cancelled Rotterdam rally.
Earlier, the Dutch government withdrew landing permission for a plane carrying Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu.

He was originally scheduled to speak at Saturday's rally in support of a Yes vote in a referendum which would give Mr Erdogan greatly increased powers.
The rally was banned for security reasons, Rotterdam's mayor said.

"Ban our foreign minister from flying however much you like, but from now on, let's see how your flights will land in Turkey," President Erdogan said at a rally in Istanbul.
Mr Cavusoglu also warned Turkey would impose heavy sanctions if his visit were blocked.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a statement (in Dutch) that the Turkish threat of sanctions made "the search for a reasonable solution impossible".
Therefore the Netherlands was withdrawing landing rights, he said.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 13:17

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

A Handed Missus posted:

Erdogan has found more Nazis

Turkey referendum: Dutch are 'Nazi remnants' - Erdogan

makes sense, it's not like the dutch basically lynched anyone that helped the nazis or anything (they may well have actually lynched them, i'm not really certain)

# ? Mar 11, 2017 13:51

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

aphid_licker posted:

Doesn't that ignore the missiles the Russians have driving around in those huge trucks? Or was that a Cold War thing they don't do anymore?

Yeah, they still have road mobile ICBM launchers. I guess the article's idea of a surprise first strike is a scenario in which the launchers are still in their bases and not yet dispersed .

# ? Mar 11, 2017 14:01

MA-Horus: Dec 3, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Two Finger posted:

makes sense, it's not like the dutch basically lynched anyone that helped the nazis or anything (they may well have actually lynched them, i'm not really certain)

Great-grandpa was kept as a hostage by the Nazis (he was a judge)

His sons were in the Dutch Resistance, and were apparently quite good at Killing Nazis and blowing poo poo up.

I don't think current-day Dutch will give two shits about this, but the older generation would be a little irked. These are the people who scream "GIVE US BACK OUR BICYCLES" at every Dutch/German soccer game, after all.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 14:29

devmd01: Mar 7, 2006; Elektronik
Supersonik

Missionary Positron posted:

Yeah, they still have road mobile ICBM launchers. I guess the article's idea of a surprise first strike is a scenario in which the launchers are still in their bases and not yet dispersed .

That scenario is in the article...nuke an entire 800 square mile forest to ensure you get all of em. Hail Satan.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 14:31

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

devmd01 posted:

That scenario is in the article...nuke an entire 800 square mile forest to ensure you get all of em. Hail Satan.

I think you mean 8000 square miles:

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To destroy or expose the remaining launchers, United States planners would have the nuclear forces needed to undertake truly scorched-earth tactics: Just 125 US Minuteman III warheads could set fire to some 8,000 square miles of forest area where the road-mobile missiles are most likely to be deployed. This would be the equivalent of a circular area with a diameter of 100 miles.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 14:44

Genocide Tendency: Dec 24, 2009; I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.

SwampDonkey posted:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/10/workplace-wellness-genetic-testing/

This will die in the courts.

I say the courts because its going to pass right through both other branches of government.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 15:00

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Missionary Positron posted:

I think you mean 8000 square miles:

ALL HAIL THE CLEANSING POWER OF THE ATOM AND ITS PROPHET CURTIS LEMAY

# ? Mar 11, 2017 15:17

MA-Horus: Dec 3, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Two Finger posted:

ALL HAIL THE CLEANSING POWER OF THE ATOM AND ITS PROPHET CURTIS LEMAY

Eh I think more HG Wells was the prophet, Curtis LeMay was just the proponent.

I'm in the middle of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and it's just insane how fast the science and technology progressed. You have leading physicists calling the liberation of energy from the atom "Moonshine" in 1933, and 9 years later you have a self-sustaining chain reaction.

MA-Horus fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Mar 11, 2017

# ? Mar 11, 2017 15:32

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Since I post too much serious poo poo, here's a story of a Rhode Island guy that visited Florida as a tourist, got drunk, and became Florida Man.

https://twitter.com/LizetteNYT/status/840551831981969409

# ? Mar 11, 2017 15:41

FastestGunAlive: Apr 7, 2010; Dancing palm tree.

facialimpediment posted:

Since I post too much serious poo poo, here's a story of a Rhode Island guy that visited Florida as a tourist, got drunk, and became Florida Man.

https://twitter.com/LizetteNYT/status/840551831981969409

He looks like he was always Florida

# ? Mar 11, 2017 15:51

Missionary Positron: Jul 6, 2004; And now for something completely different

facialimpediment posted:

Since I post too much serious poo poo, here's a story of a Rhode Island guy that visited Florida as a tourist, got drunk, and became Florida Man.

https://twitter.com/LizetteNYT/status/840551831981969409

It turns out the real Florida Man was inside all of us the whole time.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 16:01

PookBear: Nov 1, 2008

I feel like we're coasting off our court system right now but if that ever goes the US is straight up hosed without a recovery options.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 16:13

bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

Reverand maynard posted:

I feel like we're coasting off our court system right now but if that ever goes the US is straight up hosed without a recovery options.

If you believe in anything, loving pray to it that Ginsberg and longer female life spans work out in everyone's favor.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 16:34

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

facialimpediment posted:

Since I post too much serious poo poo, here's a story of a Rhode Island guy that visited Florida as a tourist, got drunk, and became Florida Man.

https://twitter.com/LizetteNYT/status/840551831981969409

I feel like Rhode Island man is the Florida man of the northeast.
Source: Grew up in south eastern Mass/RI.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 16:37

Brute Squad: Dec 20, 2006; Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

Florida Man and family are my favorite superheroes.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 16:48

Zeroisanumber: Oct 23, 2010; Nap Ghost

bird food bathtub posted:

If you believe in anything, loving pray to it that Ginsberg and longer female life spans work out in everyone's favor.

I don't believe in God, but I still pray for her continued good health daily.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 18:04

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

turkey continues to be awesome

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/840610121269014528

# ? Mar 11, 2017 18:20

ded redd: Aug 1, 2010

Hot Karl Marx posted:

turkey continues to be awesome

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/840610121269014528

Watch Erdogan start a loving war.

And lose, because everyone is in prison.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 18:24

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

So the state of the world is looking good, then. Between Erdogan, Duterte, and Trump, I think we have the "paranoid narcissist with delusions and reactions bordering on the autistic somehow in charge of a country" triple play. Only the prize here is WW3.

So, yay :ohdear:

# ? Mar 11, 2017 18:58

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Everyone on twitter thinks they're Nihilist Arby's.

https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/840595004024377344

Pre-Trump, Bannon was basically a ghost: https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...m=.1e9d13ae32ec

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Mar 11, 2017

# ? Mar 11, 2017 19:00

ded redd: Aug 1, 2010

facialimpediment posted:

Everyone on twitter thinks they're Nihilist Arby's.

https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/840595004024377344

Pre-Trump, Bannon was basically a ghost: https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...m=.1e9d13ae32ec

quote:

At the same time Bannon said he was living with his ex-wife, she was under investigation for involvement in a plot to smuggle drugs and a cellphone into a Miami jail, a law enforcement document obtained by The Post shows.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 19:13

Gobbeldygook: May 13, 2009; Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

So the state of the world is looking good, then. Between Erdogan, Duterte, and Trump, I think we have the "paranoid narcissist with delusions and reactions bordering on the autistic somehow in charge of a country" triple play. Only the prize here is WW3.

So, yay

You forgot about Poland!

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Animosity between Mr Tusk and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who as head of Poland�s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is the true leader of Poland, has dominated Polish politics for over a decade. Mr Kaczynski blames Mr Tusk for a plane accident in Smolensk in 2010 that killed his twin brother Lech, then Poland�s president. Some PiS supporters believe Mr Tusk conspired with Vladimir Putin to bring down the plane and have called for him to face criminal charges; others highlight his grandfather�s brief, and forced, service in the Wehrmacht during the war.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 19:20