Proud Christian Mom posted:He's a mini-Trump in that other rich people still don't respect him or really like him so he'll do literally anything to gain acceptance Acceptance from who though because blowing Trump on tv doesn't get you acceptance from anyone except a small sect of people.
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Pretty scary stuff. Except if you wish this Earth to be cleansed by nuclear fire, I guess.
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I read an article but I can't remember where, and the world overwhelmingly sees the US as the biggest threat to world peace. Leaps and bounds ahead of ISIS and North Korea even. Made me chuckle.
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TBeats posted:I read an article but I can't remember where, and the world overwhelmingly sees the US as the biggest threat to world peace. Leaps and bounds ahead of ISIS and North Korea even. Its like how we, the people who've been meddling in the Middle East and propping up and tearing down regimes for decades, say Iran is destablizing the region.
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dubzee posted:O hey some positive news! Is this the guy that aimed at the feds from a bridge and kept saying poo poo like "do I have a green light?", and I have a shot"?
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Is this the guy that aimed at the feds from a bridge and kept saying poo poo like "do I have a green light?", and I have a shot"? no, this guy is in his 50s.
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Christ, what a loving depressing article  God drat this administration.
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TBeats posted:what business does the AG have dealing with gang violence in a different country? is that normal? FAUXTON posted:If you're a lovely old plantation gnome who thinks the ills of your country stem almost entirely from a horde of hardened criminals rushing in over the border, then plenty. I know we're all about Macho Man Randy Savage SUPER SLAMS and piping hot artisanal takes on the notoriously difficult-to-insult Trump administration, but it is very common for the AG to work with international partners. See this article on the Hansa and AlphaBay takedowns reported last week in this very thread
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Well this is an interesting line of defense The CIA contractors who designed the torture program are comparing themselves to the manufacturers of Zyklon-B. quote:As contractor psychologists for the agency, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen played an integral role in designing the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program.They personally waterboarded Abu Zubaydah, a detainee effectively used as human guinea pig for torture. And the company they subsequently founded to contract with the CIA on the brutal interrogations earned them $81 million, according to the 2014 Senate torture report. Senator Dianne Feinstein called it “a stain on our values and on our history.”
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Stultus Maximus posted:Um, before 2005 he was a lawyer privileged enough to be gay and apolitical. Greenwald also has a flair for really dumb and hyperbolic statements such as "Kathryn Bigelow is a modern day Leni Riefenstahl" and "If Obama raped a nun on live TV, liberals would defend it, just like drone strikes." suboptimal posted:If you haven't watched PBS Frontline's documentary about the Bundy Ranch and Malheur occupations, you can watch it right here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/american-patriot-inside-the-armed-uprising-against-the-federal-government/ Watching this now, and it's still infuriating watching the Bundy's and militia leaders pretend that BLM took his cattle for no reason whatsoever. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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The Iron Rose posted:Just to bounce off this briefly. I get it if the idea of pulling a soldier for however many months for treatment is relatively galling, though I think the Obama Administration's regulations were a decent compromise. Meanwhile, I couldn't even get my wisdom teeth removed by Navy dentists because I was a year from EAOS.
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Also I'd like to point out there's nothing, medically speaking, that requires actually pulling a soldier for treatment with the singular exception for surgery. At which point you're effectively giving someone a year out of PT because it's contraindicated. While hormones have some effect (deleterious for MtF and positive for FtM), but if females can be infantry there's no reason why transgender people who have already met physical requirements can't continue to do their job, regardless. Just make them POGs and they'll be honestly fine for most positions after a month. There's a much better argument to be made about unit morale than there is one about cost or impairment, and even that argument is doomed to failure. Like many things in practice, I suspect the idea of transgender individuals serving will ultimately be a nonissue, with minimal effect either positive or negative. Still, it's foolish to leave potential talent on the table. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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cowboy elvis posted:I would have rather served with trans people than any drunks. They're far more of a liability than someone who needs to duck out for medical appointments regularly. Well that's the annoying thing! You don't even need them to duck out. Unless they want the surgery, you just need to monitor bloodwork and give them a prescription for pills. I visit my doctor maybe twice yearly for a bloodwork checkup and the rest of the time just pop 2 tiny pills a day. It was once every 3 months or so when I first started. Missing a day or a week or a month of medications won't do anything other than maybe give you a hair or two on your chin. I mostly just say this because as I'm someone who transitioned as a young teenager, and I really wanted to to go to OCS and earn my commission after Ash Carter announced that the policy was ending. And I feel as though folks are drastically overestimating the amount of care for transgender people is really necessary. Hormones aren't disruptive, and the vast majority of transgender people either don't want or don't get any surgery whatsoever. At which point, if you can get through boot and maintain PT standards, who gives a poo poo? Now admittedly, a majority of transgender people are the sort of folks you don't generally want in any military for mental health or ideological reasons, but there's a reason we already screen for those. Let them be the basis for rejection, not the very fact of being transgender itself. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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Joint Chiefs to Donnie: tweets are not orders, put it in writing you idiot https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/890584115669602304 https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/890584279566008322 Per Reuters.
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Cracked did a pretty good article today on the trans in the military issue. They interviewed three or four trans people, active, guard, and separated. http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2519-we-are-transgender-soldiers-what-you-should-know.html It's worth a look.
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facialimpediment posted:Joint Chiefs to Donnie: tweets are not orders, put it in writing you idiot So that's the IC, the JCS, State, the judiciary...who else is completely alienated?
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Recently, a woman in Fargo was filmed threatening some Somali immigrants with death for parking too close to her car. She's been fired: https://www.wday.com/news/4303528-mapleton-woman-fired-job-after-fargo-wal-mart-confrontation-sparks-social-media-storm
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Nurge posted:poo poo is going to get really cheap really fast once the people in charge notice practically everyone in europe is getting it for free or close to. Can't risk getting turbofucked by the übermensch globally. Same goes for everywhere else where it's feasible. Most of africa loses again I guess but that's not really changing anything compared to how it is now. The hyperrich of all nations already have more in common with each other than with their countrymen, and that's before CRISPR makes them literally their own race. e: pictured, the ruling class of the 2100s: 
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Doc Hawkins posted:The hyperrich of all nations already have more in common with each other than with their countrymen, and that's before CRISPR makes them literally their own race. I'm fuzzy on my Star Trek history. Wasn't it nuclear and resource wars THEN eugenics wars? We can't get anything right in this timeline.
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Doc Hawkins posted:The hyperrich of all nations already have more in common with each other than with their countrymen, and that's before CRISPR makes them literally their own race. We're going to get this and none of the Exoframe coolness
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It's shocking that placing a man who had a degree in Ranching is incapable of understanding the intricacies of a department almost entirely dedicated to Nuclear Physics.
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Would someone repost that post apocalyptic fan fic where two dudes meet and say "BUTTEREMAILS" and the dude replies "BIGLY MAGA" or something that would be great.
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Doc Hawkins posted:The hyperrich of all nations already have more in common with each other than with their countrymen, and that's before CRISPR makes them literally their own race. The hyper rich are just like the nobility of the mid teen centuries. They practice eugenics but the selection is based on money and land. The worst crime you can commit is to marry a commoner and lift them out of the peasant class.
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Doc Hawkins posted:The hyperrich of all nations already have more in common with each other than with their countrymen, and that's before CRISPR makes them literally their own race. I can't wait to chill at the falls on Olympus Mons. God drat that was a good cartoon.
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CommieGIR posted:It's shocking that placing a man who had a degree in Ranching is incapable of understanding the intricacies of a department almost entirely dedicated to Nuclear Physics. I can tell you that putting a medical doctor in charge of Health and Human Services can have the same effect. In the first quarter of that article, you can run a find\replace of DoE and HHS and it will be almost as accurate.
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A lot of the nuke stuff I was aware of but it was still a good read. This part though, quote:Late one night, just southeast of San Jose, at Pacific Gas and Electric’s Metcalf substation, a well-informed sniper, using a .30-caliber rifle, had taken out 17 transformers. Someone had also cut the cables that enabled communication to and from the substation. “They knew exactly what lines to cut,” said Tarak Shah, who studied the incident for the D.O.E. “They knew exactly where to shoot. They knew exactly which manhole covers were relevant—where the communication lines were. These were feeder stations to Apple and Google.” There had been enough backup power in the area that no one noticed the outage, and the incident came and went quickly from the news What the gently caress?
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Handsome Ralph posted:
Believe it or not, substations and access panels are well labelled. We had a similar incident happen to a datacenter I was under contract with, the guy cut the comms cables to the substation and started shooting the transformers. Thankfully, the comms going out set off an alert and a police officer drove by and spotted the guy and arrested him before he did any real damage.
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Interior Secretary threatens Republican Senator over healthcare vote. "Nice State you have there, shame if it didn't get any federal money" Republican Senator is an Appropriations Committee chairwoman, in charge of funding Interior Department. "Nice department you have there, shame if it didn't get any federal money or people" https://twitter.com/kasie/status/890606495737405442 Don't piss off the people that control your money. Aspiring Alabama Senator Mo Brooks (now in the House) put out a $10k ad using audio from the Scalise shooting. He pulled the ad after an outrage, then they started checking the ad agency. They also made "Thong Girl 3" and slasher movies. http://altoday.com/archives/18040-the-company-you-keep-mo-brooks-10k-senate-ad-guy-also-behind-thong-girl-3-slasher-movies facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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CommieGIR posted:Believe it or not, substations and access panels are well labelled. So did he get terrorism charges?
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LingcodKilla posted:So did he get terrorism charges? I don't know what they charged him with. I was just on the call when they reported he'd been arrested.
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facialimpediment posted:Interior Secretary threatens Republican Senator over healthcare vote. "Nice State you have there, shame if it didn't get any federal money" If your plan includes "Bully Alaskans" as one of its steps you should scrap it and go back to square one.
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CommieGIR posted:Believe it or not, substations and access panels are well labelled. I guess my biggest question would be, why? Like if he wasn't cutting the comms cables, and just shooting at the transformers, I'd chalk it up to idiot rednecks being idiot rednecks.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I guess my biggest question would be, why? They do it less now that proper site documentation is becoming a thing, but it used to be a big issue that substations were not well documented.
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