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Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

boy are my arms tired posted:

"i see you have lost a total of $5000 over the course of the year, please, enjoy this lobster dinner on us"

e: oh damnit skaboomizzy, my unique joke!!!!!!!

Apparently it's a bit smaller on meals, more of a you haven't won the last three times you've been in. Although when people are spending $5000 over the year and haven't been in for a few months, they'll send you free rooms and whatnot.

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Turdfuzz
Jul 23, 2008

Baloogan posted:

like, daily.
man i post skype chats with my dad p often itt :shrug:


buy ur dad a account or just give him urs

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

whydirt posted:

I'm a Willenial

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
millennials arent real

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
when you're as high powered and forward focused as trump you cannot retain any promises of the past. the past is behind us and we need to focus on the future without worrying too much about who did what, what they said, and what came of it. we've got too many problems to deal with for that kind of finger pointing and blame wrangling. we need to come together in order to support our great friend Russia.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

whydirt posted:

I'm a Willenial

i owned this album as a young lad. changed my life.

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

euphronius posted:

outraegeuoisly racist and unconstitutional thongs

i'll take 2

punchymcpunch
Oct 14, 2012



Gringostar posted:

being born in 81 i'm in the odd place of being both a gen-x and millennial but not really either and it owns

its like bein blade

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


euphronius posted:

unconstitutional thongs

Mods?!?

Thom and the Heads
Oct 27, 2010

Farscape is actually pretty cool.
anyone older than 40 is a boomer, anyone younger is a millenial

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Pruitt's EPA is already poisoning people http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/05/california-farm-workers-just-got-poisoned-nasty-pesticide-greenlghted-trump

quote:

On May 5, more than 50 farmworkers outside of Bakersfield, California, were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide that apparently drifted from a nearby field—at a high enough level that "twelve people reported symptoms of vomiting [and] nausea and one person fainted," reports the television news station Kern Golden Empire. "An additional twelve workers did not show signs of any symptoms," the station reported. "However more than half of the farm workers left before medical aide arrived."

quote:

Many public health experts, scientists, and environmentalists have for years been pushing for a ban on chlorpyrifos, and last year it was looking like the Environmental Protection Agency intended to instate one. According to the National Pesticide Information Center, exposure to the chemical through inhalation can cause initial symptoms like "tearing of the eyes, runny nose, increased saliva and sweat production, nausea, dizziness and headache," followed by possible "muscle twitching, weakness or tremors, lack of coordination, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and pupil constriction with blurred or darkened vision." Chlorpyrifos is an endocrine disrupter, and major studies (here, here, and here) have found strong evidence to suggest that even at very low doses, the chemical triggers effects among children ranging from lower IQ to higher rates of autism. More here.

But in March, the EPA abruptly changed its stance on chlorpyrifos, greenlighting it instead of banning it. The decision, among the first major ones made by Scott Pruitt in his tenure as EPA chief, caused outrage in public health circles. Dow AgroSciences applauded the decision. "Dow AgroSciences remains confident that authorized uses of chlorpyrifos products offer wide margins of protection for human health and safety," the company declared in a press release.

quote:

The parent company, Dow Chemical, has cultivated a cozy relationship with the Trump administration. The company delivered $1 million to the president's inaugural committee, the Center for Public Integrity notes. Dow Chemical Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris attended a postelection Trump rally. Trump named Liveris chair of the American Manufacturing Council, vowing the chemical exec would "find ways to bring industry back to America."

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
It's surely been ~90 days since the travel ban, did the Trump administration figure out what the hell is going on??

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

Mirthless posted:

Lady I worked with was in the VIP club at the local casino, which is something like 250k/yr in total expenditures, and I know she wasn't making more than 70k/yr at the job she was working

Like, drat, I get it, you're good at gambling, but you've literally gambled your entire year's salary four times over, maybe you have a problem???

lol

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment

hahahaha. need a reaction shot of the kid.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




XK posted:

Interesting note about PA. By state law, no law enforcement can use mobile speed measuring devices except for the State Police. Local police can't used any kind of radar guns or anything like that. As a result, PA doesn't have speed trap locales.

Also, one time I got pegged for doing 65 in a 25, while coasting down a hill on a straight country road with no intersections. It's basically a road surrounded by only wide ranging fields. I rarely ever do more than 10% over the limit, and I'm a super cautious law abiding driver, but I took it as a safe opportunity to speed for just a moment. I coasted to the top of the hill, dropping to about 20, then got on the gas on the down slope. My plan was to coast from the bottom of the hill to the traffic light about a mile away. I was already coasting when I hit the bottom of the hill, I saw a State Trooper perched in a barn. I knew he got me.

He pulled me over, said he was only going to write me up for 15 over, because he didn't want to cause me too much trouble, and wished me a happy birthday two days ahead.

That was over 15 years ago. That's the only ticket I've gotten in 20 years of driving in PA.

im almost positive that pegging isnt a legal punishment in that situation btw

punchymcpunch
Oct 14, 2012



whydirt posted:

I'm a Willenial

wicky wicky wah wah when are u gonna get on the property ladder

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/864165936575787008

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Thom and the Heads posted:

anyone older than 40 is a boomer, anyone younger is a millenial

gen x erasure

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Gringostar posted:

being born in 81 i'm in the odd place of being both a gen-x and millennial but not really either and it owns

I was born in the late 70s, so I'm close to the line but definitely on the X side of things, though my social circle is a mix of both so it's honestly a wash.

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



pretend i quoted myself talking about first gen and second gen millennials

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

Here's a really good longass article about video poker/slots and some other stuff. Just like people don't realize that the odds are really random, most people don't know that fake RNG generators are never actually perfect:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011
I'm an old millennial who went to college way late, so I get to enjoy both the crippling negative influence of Gen-X counter-culture and the lovely Millennial job market, plus I have a kid to take care of!

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment

He's not wrong.

punchymcpunch
Oct 14, 2012



Mirthless posted:

Lady I worked with was in the VIP club at the local casino, which is something like 250k/yr in total expenditures, and I know she wasn't making more than 70k/yr at the job she was working

Like, drat, I get it, you're good at gambling, but you've literally gambled your entire year's salary four times over, maybe you have a problem???

shes prob got a system

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Further, nothing Trump says as President matters.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

i like how much this story has been posted in this thread alone

i use the word 'like' very loosely here

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

change my name posted:

Here's a really good longass article about video poker/slots and some other stuff. Just like people don't realize that the odds are really random, most people don't know that fake RNG generators are never actually perfect:

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

i remember this it's a good article.

also rng generator eh....

OB_Juan
Nov 24, 2004

Not every day is a good day.


Dinosaur Gum
Some good tweets

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/864156341425676288

Baloogan
Dec 5, 2004
Fun Shoe

FactsAreUseless posted:

nothing matters.

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

euphronius posted:

gen x erasure

this is because boomers and millennials both hate "generation x" because it's some stupid edgelord poo poo that Gen-Xers are way too goddamn smug about

SpaceGoku
Jul 19, 2011

GobiasIndustries posted:

It's surely been ~90 days since the travel ban, did the Trump administration figure out what the hell is going on??

the temporary travel ban was supposed to be until they could devise new vetting processes for travel

I wonder if they did that

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Gringostar posted:

being born in 81 i'm in the odd place of being both a gen-x and millennial but not really either and it owns

It's like you have the advantages of both, with only some of the disadvantages of them. It does rule, hence why I can find fun in spending $10 on keno once in a while without getting pissed off that my numbers aren't coming up today.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

yeah farmers don't care about their workers and never have. pesticide drift has been a known problem for these communities for decades and they've never cared because they aren't legally culpable for it, which is loving bullshit.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Iron Crowned posted:

Casinos are really pissed about millennials too because they don't like to play slot machines

good

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


wash your produce

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



n o t h i n g



m a t t e r s

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Flavius Belisarius posted:

I'm an old millennial who went to college way late, so I get to enjoy both the crippling negative influence of Gen-X counter-culture and the lovely Millennial job market, plus I have a kid to take care of!

That's where you hosed up, goondolences

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

skaboomizzy posted:

"sure I lost $1000 at this blackjack table, but my Valued Player card got me an average-ish steak dinner so I had a pretty good night anyway"

In my younger, more stupid days, I once sat at a roulette table and lost an additional $100 (on top of what I'd already lost) because I was waiting for the cocktail waitress to come back with my "free" watered down vodka tonic.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Mirthless posted:

this is because boomers and millennials both hate "generation x" because it's some stupid edgelord poo poo that Gen-Xers are way too goddamn smug about

yes we are smug and edgy about the year we were born

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Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

triple sulk posted:

n o t h i n g



m a t t e r s


What does the map of North America look like?

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