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Fister Roboto posted:I thought Great Britain was England + Scotland Pregame some motrin for this one https://youtu.be/rNu8XDBSn10
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Well my point is that last century saw the end of their empire abroad and this century might see it devolve into nothing more than England plus a few random islands that don't care enough and aren't important enough to push for their own independence given the fact that by the time they won independence they'll likely be little more than a sand bank. The funny thing is the Queen is gonna wind up with more political power than the government since she is (I think) the only thing really linking together stuff like the Falkland islands and the Cayman islands back to England. PookBear fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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So this budget-request bomb was just dropped.quote:President Trump has asked Congress to impose an $18 billion cut in non-defense spending in its appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2017. According to a leaked document, the White House has suggested that about $3 billion be taken from R&D programs. Several key congressional appropriators have said it is too late in the fiscal year to consider such large cuts. We're already under a continuing resolution with no budget in place so yeah, despite the words by Congress, this could indeed prove to be a thing. Such deep, immediate cuts, coupled with next year's budget request that cuts deeper yet, will be ruinous to vast swaths of U.S. R&D. Layoffs of scientists, engineers, terminations of postdoc and grad student appointments, internships, cessation of project new starts and already-starteds. It's the kind of poo poo only an idiot with no knowledge of the appropriations and budgetary process could demand. It's senselessly wasteful and destructive. If this happens, there won't be any way to recover. We will have literally traded the world's most enviable R&D engine (and probably tens of percent of future GDP, indefinitely, as a consequence) for that hosed up wall
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Chinese spies can't steal your r&d if you cancel it all
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at the date posted:hey you dumb bitch, try reading 50 words past the clickbait headline Only read Friedman for the humor value.
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https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/847233709849755648 Agreed.
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The Iron Rose posted:So this budget-request bomb was just dropped. This is, literally, going to bring our Scientific infrastructure to a grinding halt and will have catastrophic and long term impacts.
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Shhh. We don't need science to MAGA; it's all just liberal PC lies like global warming.
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Reverand maynard posted:If the scots leave I wonder what impact this would have on Ireland. If I remember correctly, Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein/IRA leader) said that Brexit was a violation of the Good Friday Agreement. So, you know...extrapolate from that.
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In a really cynical way I could see the defunding of NIST Manufacturing as a Bannonesque plot to halt further automation and save the white working class. The rest of it is pants on head stupid though. Seems like they still think that all the DOE does is think up ways to undercut poor, honest oilmen and coal barons struggling to make ends meet.
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unbutthurtable posted:If I remember correctly, Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein/IRA leader) said that Brexit was a violation of the Good Friday Agreement. https://www.google.com/amp/www.inde...9011.html%3Famp
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The Iron Rose posted:So this budget-request bomb was just dropped. As an actual Civil Engineer, my favorite thing in the next year is going to be when the bid finally comes out in the range of 100 hundred billion dollars. I literally cannot wait.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:As an actual Civil Engineer, my favorite thing in the next year is going to be when the bid finally comes out in the range of 100 hundred billion dollars. Mexico's gonna pay for it anyway. If anything he should art of the deal it to make the price higher so Mexico pays more. For reals though, Trump is balls deep in the construction and real estate world, with all the corruption that implies. He's gonna build his god drat wall no matter what it costs because whatever impact it has on the country, such as dismantling the nation's future through R&D, is meaningless to him compared to personally enriching himself.
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BigDave posted:And the Isles of Man, Gurnsey and Jersey. If they want to complete the set we'll happily give them New Jersey
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I would pay to get New Joisy out of the union. Give it back to the queen with a stipend.
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I was about to say there's nothing wrong with New Jersey, but that's a blatant lie, so I'll settle for arguing it's not Mississippi.
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we should just get rid of the south. split just like it was in the civil war.
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TBeats posted:we should just get rid of the south. split just like it was in the civil war. Nah. This time keep Virginia and lose West Virginia. Also, let all the black people emigrate first.
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See, I've seen enough confederate flags in loving Michigan to know that it's less that the South as a region is terrible and more that dumbfucks in suburbs and rural areas are literally the worst, and unfortunately the South just happens to have a lot of suburbs and rural areas. Edit: Kicking the South out of the Union would rid us of John Lewis and leave us with Steve King, and I cannot possibly imagine a worse fate
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The french can have Mississippi and Louisiana. I have a small place in my hate filled heart for Alabama. Florida and Georgia can be set aflame or glassed over or have the government weather conspiracy machine wipe them out. Nothing can redeem either of them. I spent a whole four miles of my life in Joisey and I flat refuse to waste another foot of transport or moment of time there.
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Growing up in Michigan I never understood the confederate flags either. But then again I saw them in California often
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Confederate flags are bullshit anyway. The stars and bars were a unit designation flag for a batch of confederates in Virginia. It was used as a cornerpiece of a flag, squared instead of 5/3 dimension, and never adopted as an official confederate flag, though there were a handful for its short run. It's pretty much a symbol of proud ignorance that those who buy into never understand.
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Atlanta's cool, just burn everything outside of a ten mile radius from i285 .
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KildarX posted:Atlanta's cool, just burn everything outside of a ten mile radius from i285 . yeah i liked atlanta, cool place and i highly recommend daddy d'z bbq joynt to anyone in the area
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:It's literally a symbol of proud ignorance that those who buy into never understand.
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I'll accept it worn ironically by the likes of Mandingo, and that will be my exception to "literally".
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:Confederate flags are bullshit anyway. The stars and bars were a unit designation flag for a batch of confederates in Virginia. It was used as a cornerpiece of a flag, squared instead of 5/3 dimension, and never adopted as an official confederate flag, though there were a handful for its short run. UMMMMM SLAVERY EXISTED UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES SO I GUESS YOU WANNA BAN THAT TOO???
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So, while Nunes is busy being tossing his credibility out of the window, the Senate Intelligence Committee is quietly and methodically working on its investigation under bipartisan leadership. It's been enough to make some Republicans in the house want to wash their hands of the whole thing to avoid embarassment.quote:The Senate Intelligence Committee will begin as soon as Monday privately interviewing 20 people in its ongoing investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 election as well as potential ties to the Trump campaign, its leaders said Wednesday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...b3a3_story.html psydude fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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House Reps come and go but no Senator wants to be caught on the wrong side of this because once they get the boot they aren't getting back in the club house
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shame on an IGA posted:Pregame some motrin for this one The part about countries who left through diplomacy sounded like the Countries of the World song from the Animaniacs. Also.. The British Antarctic Territory has a higher population than the Pitcarin Islands?
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I hope if anything comes of this it at least results in some public executions ala 17th century France. I don't think it's asking too much honestly.
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bengy81 posted:I hope if anything comes of this it at least results in some public executions ala 17th century France. This has been my hope to.. I live a life of disappointment and loneliness though.
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Genocide Tendency posted:The part about countries who left through diplomacy sounded like the Countries of the World song from the Animaniacs. You have a much lower chance of being raped in a science lab in Antarctica.
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In more local current events: http://whdh.com/news/police-trucker-drove-from-seattle-to-massachusetts-nonstop-fueled-by-drugs/quote:DEERFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Police have arrested a trucker they say drove nonstop from Seattle to Massachusetts fueled by crystal meth, LSD and cocaine.
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Genocide Tendency posted:The part about countries who left through diplomacy sounded like the Countries of the World song from the Animaniacs. It's taken me 23 years to notice the "Germany, now in one piece"
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redneck nazgul posted:You have a much lower chance of being raped in a science lab in Antarctica. read this if you want your skin to crawl quote:A study of island records confirmed anecdotal evidence that most girls bore their first child between the ages of 12 and 15. "I think the girls were conditioned to accept that it was a man's world and once they turned 12, they were eligible," Tosen said. Mothers and grandmothers were resigned to the situation, telling him that their own childhood experience had been the same; they regarded it as just a part of life on Pitcairn. One grandmother wondered what all the fuss was about. 
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"Pitcairn's 47 inhabitants, almost all of whom are interrelated"  this is like some The Hills Have Eyes poo poo.
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DoktorLoken posted:In more local current events: http://whdh.com/news/police-trucker-drove-from-seattle-to-massachusetts-nonstop-fueled-by-drugs/ The coke and meth I understand, but LSD?  either way, the man is a hero.
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FastestGunAlive posted:Growing up in Michigan I never understood the confederate flags either. But then again I saw them in California often Actually I'll have you know that many of the Texas and Southern folks I work with, stationed here in CA, have assured me this state is exclusively liberal vegan faggots so I don't know where you got that. Why no these dudes have not ventured outside of coastal metro areas.
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