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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

What twitter am I following for Alex Jones court deets?

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1994 Toyota Celica
Sep 11, 2008

by Nyc_Tattoo

Squizzle posted:

the golden path would be excellent tho

some of our finest moments as human people have come from meeting one another as mutually alien cultures and each discovering how the other expresses their essential humanity

we thrive when we come to recognize those shapes and depths of the soul of whole humanity that we had before been blind to

and the world now is so knowable and connected that the only ways our legacy will have that opportunity is if we push outward until we no longer know each other, or collapse inward andforget what weve already learned together

and idk about you, but im an explorer
and im comin

well sure, and sign me up for the first navigator-less far explorer/colonizer vessel, but lol if we'll ever get to that point if the only humans who make it off the rock are cyber-clones of the peter theil and the trump dynasty

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

realtalk trump could never own a dog because he'd get intensely jealous of the attention the dog got from people in his eyesight (he hasn't gained object permanence so this is an issue)

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
i guess im kind of surprised that Jones doesnt have an "off" setting, but im also really not surprised at all

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

What if it was a robot FDR shooting nazis with both hands (also rack-mounted field guns on his battle chariot)

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Fidel Castronaut posted:

I need something bad to happen to Hannity for the trifecta of right wing media idiots. Like maybe he sent Shep Smith dick pics or something.

dude wouldn't cheat on Donny

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Yinlock posted:

look i just want alex jones to admit on a court record that he's full of poo poo

why do you want to take this from me


well i'm happy

mannerup
Jan 11, 2004

♬ I Know You're Dying Trying To Figure Me Out♬

♬My Name's On The Tip Of Your Tongue Keep Running Your Mouth♬

♬You Want The Recipe But Can't Handle My Sound My Sound My Sound♬

♬No Matter What You Do Im Gonna Get It Without Ya♬

♬ I Know You Ain't Used To A Female Alpha♬

theflyingexecutive posted:

What twitter am I following for Alex Jones court deets?

Charlie Warzel and Jonathan Tilove have been both livetweeting the proceedings

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Turdfuzz posted:

y ppl talk balls itt??

Ed Vag real?

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

theflyingexecutive posted:

What twitter am I following for Alex Jones court deets?

This guy's good

https://twitter.com/JTiloveTX/status/854407677832830976

deathbysnusnu
Feb 25, 2016


Coolguye posted:

society as a whole responded pretty rationally to the massive increase in average life spans over the last 50-75 years with crashing birth rates so i'm actually not convinced it's true we're 'not ready for it'.

as far as any time soon well that is kind of up in the air, rodent model longevity treatments are working bigly. there's a long way to go, naturally, but we've already lived long enough to see communications go from pretty privileged and sparse to utterly ubiquitous bordering on all-pervasive even as the definition of 'communications' has increased in scope so much that someone from 1980 would not understand the word if you used it in the 2010 context. 30 years is now officially a long loving time in terms human progress.

Even if we could say have perfect DNA replication without loss of telomeres, every day on earth is a day your aorta might dissect, or you might have a stroke, or a heart attack, or one of those cells turns into cancer. No one really dies of "old age", you just eventually roll a catastrophic die one day after a life time of decent rolls. That's not even counting car wrecks or what not.

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
lol alex jones is living out the end scene of mrs doubtifre where robin williams is like 'but i am mrs doubtfire' and the judge is like 'you killed a man' and robin wiliams just cries for 3 uncomfortable minutes and then hangs himself

MysteriousStranger
Mar 3, 2016
My "vacation" is a euphemism for war tourism in Ukraine for some "bloody work" to escape my boring techie job and family.

Ask me about my warcrimes.

alnilam posted:

Agreed about public funding but there is a big difference between "paying people to pursue something," i.e. maybe a few dozen researchers which yes has happened plenty of times, vs causing "an entire field" to abandon more pressing problems and focus on a pet issue, which has not, thanks in part to our history of publicly funded medical research

This is a problem with breast cancer right now. There are other, more lethal, more common, cancers that need to be addressed. But so much attention and money is around breast cancer now that it sucks people towards it. It's turned into too much of a marketing and social juggernaut largely because of some very rich female boosters of it. This stuff has happened. It's not like it happens all the time. But a person rich enough to create a "social awareness campaign" around their pet issue or just loving buy out the hospital (or poo poo donations too a university) can totally cause a mess.

With regards to the original point, Peter Theil totally has enough money to fund a lot of vampire research, buy a vampire hospital, launch a vamprisim awareness campaign, and engage in vampirism. That it's asinine won't hurt. For every "breast cancer awareness" where massive harm is done by driving money and attention to only one thing at the expense of others but there is actual science and research to do, there's also some "vaccines gave my kids austism" nonsense out there which is total bullshit and harmful on every level and forces the medical and scientific community to waste time and money combating lunatics with a public platform. But the root problem is the same, rich fuckers.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Gringostar posted:

dark horse, louisiana

jindal gutted the gently caress out of education in ways brownback could only dream of, new orleans is just as much of a failed city as detroit with the added benefit of both being below the water line and in the path of hurricanes, deepwater has started to kill off the fishing industry there and they let BP get away with it because of course, and unlike kansas republicans are still mostly loved there

:sigh: yeah

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/854408656988889088

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
tell alex jones his children are just crisis actors

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

paranoid randroid posted:

i guess im kind of surprised that Jones doesnt have an "off" setting, but im also really not surprised at all

tfw you become your gimmick

orange sky
May 7, 2007

ohhh yeah that would be a good idea

get a kickstarter running called "calling out to whoever has the piss tape" - is there a "chip in" feature where it doesn't have a target and just accumulates? It would be loving crazy to watch people put their money into it. Of course this had to be controlled by a mediator but still, imagine the values it would reach if you could donate internationally.

gently caress, now I want this.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

mormonpartyboat posted:

tell alex jones his children are just crisis actors

:master:

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

MysteriousStranger posted:

This is a problem with breast cancer right now. There are other, more lethal, more common, cancers that need to be addressed. But so much attention and money is around breast cancer now that it sucks people towards it. It's turned into too much of a marketing and social juggernaut largely because of some very rich female boosters of it. This stuff has happened. It's not like it happens all the time. But a person rich enough to create a "social awareness campaign" around their pet issue or just loving buy out the hospital (or poo poo donations too a university) can totally cause a mess.

lol

Hamelekim
Feb 25, 2006

And another thing... if global warming is real. How come it's so damn cold?
Ramrod XTreme

On the one hand we got Trump, on the other we are seeing the end of so many Conservative pundits. I almost think it's worth it.

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock

orange sky posted:

ohhh yeah that would be a good idea

get a kickstarter running called "calling out to whoever has the piss tape" - is there a "chip in" feature where it doesn't have a target and just accumulates? It would be loving crazy to watch people put their money into it. Of course this had to be controlled by a mediator but still, imagine the values it would reach if you could donate internationally.

gently caress, now I want this.

pissasination markets

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
https://twitter.com/GideonResnick/status/854411558327341057
https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/854411698610089984

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Chill Nazi Frog posted:

wait was this what happened with those oregon squatter redneck guys?

Because the prosecutor got overzealous. He could have made other charges stick but lol

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal
Trump needs to pardon Jones.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

MysteriousStranger posted:

This is a problem with breast cancer right now. There are other, more lethal, more common, cancers that need to be addressed. But so much attention and money is around breast cancer now that it sucks people towards it. It's turned into too much of a marketing and social juggernaut largely because of some very rich female boosters of it. This stuff has happened. It's not like it happens all the time. But a person rich enough to create a "social awareness campaign" around their pet issue or just loving buy out the hospital (or poo poo donations too a university) can totally cause a mess.

With regards to the original point, Peter Theil totally has enough money to fund a lot of vampire research, buy a vampire hospital, launch a vamprisim awareness campaign, and engage in vampirism. That it's asinine won't hurt. For every "breast cancer awareness" where massive harm is done by driving money and attention to only one thing at the expense of others but there is actual science and research to do, there's also some "vaccines gave my kids austism" nonsense out there which is total bullshit and harmful on every level and forces the medical and scientific community to waste time and money combating lunatics with a public platform. But the root problem is the same, rich fuckers.

It isn't getting more attention because of rich boosters, it gets more attention because, Hey, titties. Everyone likes titties. Please save the titties.

Also, "Buy our product and help us protect titties" is extremely effective marketing.

Kung Food fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Apr 18, 2017

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

yes yes yes

do it Trump

do it, throw him off the Tarpeian Rock of your illegitimate empire and :sever: the very people that propped you up

(he won't. :sad:)

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


Hamelekim posted:

On the one hand we got Trump, on the other we are seeing the end of so many Conservative pundits. I almost think it's worth it.

Trump is worth it for the sweet release of death by nuclear hellfire, of course.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

deathbysnusnu posted:

How much + witness protection do you think it would take to flip some FSB guy?

i dont know but im willing to donate to it

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Kung Food posted:

It isn't getting more attention because of rich boosters, it gets more attention because, Hey, titties. Everyone likes titties. Please save the titties.

e.g. all of the "save the boobies" and "save the tatas" bumper stickers, shirts etc.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Coolguye posted:

society as a whole responded pretty rationally to the massive increase in average life spans over the last 50-75 years with crashing birth rates so i'm actually not convinced it's true we're 'not ready for it'.

as far as any time soon well that is kind of up in the air, rodent model longevity treatments are working bigly. there's a long way to go, naturally, but we've already lived long enough to see communications go from pretty privileged and sparse to utterly ubiquitous bordering on all-pervasive even as the definition of 'communications' has increased in scope so much that someone from 1980 would not understand the word if you used it in the 2010 context. 30 years is now officially a long loving time in terms human progress.

Average life expectancy increases were because of reduced childhood mortality. If you made it to adulthood you had good chances to hit your sixties at least. "Individuals are living longer than ever" isn't true.

As far as crashing birth rates, well, no poo poo, when polio isn't killing half your kids you have fewer

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Shageletic posted:

Out of state hucksters descended, fed bad data and no volunteers, ignored local activists and concerns, tried to meme their way to victory.

did it work??!?!

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Lastgirl posted:

yes yes yes

do it Trump

do it, throw him off the Tarpeian Rock of your illegitimate empire and :sever: the very people that propped you up

(he won't. :sad:)

"About 500 BC, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh legendary king of Rome..."

I can't help but read that as "Lucius Tarquinius Super-Bus".

deathbysnusnu
Feb 25, 2016


eonwe posted:

i dont know but im willing to donate to it

I would have to think long and hard if emptying my entire savings would be the thing that put the piss tape over the top. My instinct would be yes, but I think I'd run it by my wife first.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

paranoid randroid posted:

today on Dirty Jobs, im joining the Pinkertons

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

ahahaha yessss

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
His first episode after this court battle is over is going to awesome I hope.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

deathbysnusnu posted:

Even if we could say have perfect DNA replication without loss of telomeres, every day on earth is a day your aorta might dissect, or you might have a stroke, or a heart attack, or one of those cells turns into cancer. No one really dies of "old age", you just eventually roll a catastrophic die one day after a life time of decent rolls. That's not even counting car wrecks or what not.

age-related research doesn't just focus on telomeres, there are 7 known factors in the disease we generally call aging and research on the subject demands that all 7 are addressed. death-resistant cells, which result in cancerous growths, are actually one of the 7 causes.

worth noting that a new functional cause of aging hasn't been discovered since 1982 when up until that point causes were being discovered roughly every 5-7 years, so there's reason to believe we have at least a clear picture of the problem set at this point.

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The "thirty years of progress" poo poo is dumb too, everything we have now that we didn't widely have in 1980 was already in active development before then. The progress of the last thirty years has been outsourcing that poo poo to China so analog cell phones no longer cost $1500 and memory costs aren't the primary limit to computer technology.

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