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fermun posted:he's already announced his candidacy and had like 4 2020 campaign events. tbh he could just be grifting; he's been asking people for money continuously since he started running and it hasn't stopped since he won
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I really hope that zuck fundamentally upsets everyone else's stomach as well and he jeb!s the primary but in a world where trump won I can't take that for granted fuuuuvk
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Aug 3, 2017 14:50
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lancemantis posted:tbh he could just be grifting; he's been asking people for money continuously since he started running and it hasn't stopped since he won my man this is trump. you know it's both
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lancemantis posted:tbh he could just be grifting; he's been asking people for money continuously since he started running and it hasn't stopped since he won His newly-nominated ambassador to Surrenderland is a woman who gave $400k to his compaign. It's just a straight-up mechanism to purchase government appointments.
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Aug 3, 2017 14:54
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DeVos has openly admitted that she bought her cabinet seat.
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Citizen Tayne posted:His newly-nominated ambassador to Surrenderland is a woman who gave $400k to his compaign. It's just a straight-up mechanism to purchase government appointments. isn't this how ambassadorships have always worked like, for two hundred years
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Aug 3, 2017 15:01
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I can def. imagine trump suffering a stroke or aneurysm while yelling at the tv
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:isn't this how ambassadorships have always worked We at least tried to pretend it was based on competence for a while there.
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Aug 3, 2017 15:09
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Citizen Tayne posted:I grew up an hour outside Philadelphia and my dad was from north Jersey but okay 'immigrants cant assimilate' -- tori cmos
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Aug 3, 2017 15:10
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silver lining of the zuckrun: this will involve him saying mean things about Trump for several years. even if notoriously thin skinned and vindictive Trump doesn't direct whatever yes-man replaces Sessions to take a look into Facebook's operations, other countries will probably start cracking down on Facebook as a way to curry favor with Trump.
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fritz posted:'immigrants cant assimilate' -- tori cmos Come on, this is bad even for you
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Silver Alicorn posted:I can def. imagine trump suffering a stroke or aneurysm while yelling at the tv it's going to be poop-based, 100%. he's going to go full Elvis and the world will lol. OFC he prob. has a TV opposite the toilet so we're both right; squatting, straining and shouting, something goes pop
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i know this thread loves gettin' mad about the word engineer so enjoy some local news http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/dining/a-boiled-peanuts-restaurant-called-tasty-nutz-just-opened-in-tampa/2332350 quote:"Food engineer" Albion Williams Jr.'s Tasty Nutz Peanuts were initially created in 2011 and sold the traditional way — at a roadside peanut stand. Following the enthusiastic reception of his product, Williams decided it was time to expand his endeavors. however the absolute best part of this is his website: http://www.tastynutzpeanuts.com/ 
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quote:Shervin Pishevar, Hyperloop One co-founder, told CNBC, “We’ve got the Hyperloop working. It’s the dawn now […] of the commercialization of the hyperloops. We’ve got conversations and dialogues with governments around the world.” https://futurism.com/hyperloop-one-passes-second-full-system-test-faster-than-ever-before/ y’all ready for the hyperpoop
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Aug 3, 2017 16:06
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Rex-Goliath posted:I really hope that zuck fundamentally upsets everyone else's stomach as well and he jeb!s the primary but in a world where trump won I can't take that for granted 
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fun little article in the guardian today keying off of los angeles winning the 2028 olympics had this tidbitquote:Voters in LA County have approved $120bn for investments in transport over the next four decades, one of the most ambitious public works in US history. Voters also approved $3.5bn to tackle homelessness. meanwhile on the other side of the country, the ny subway system is undergoing a "summer of hell" and is on the brink of collapse, and the tunnels that connect nyc and nj have less than ten years of usable life left in them (and the dipshit governor of nj cancelled the renovation and expansion plan for them and put the money into a casino and giant shopping mall) in conclusion: west coast best coast
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Citizen Tayne posted:We at least tried to pretend it was based on competence for a while there. most foreign policy is run straight out of the state department in D.C. leaving little for most ambassadors to do other than attend fancy dinners it's a pretty sweet gig for most countries it isn't like the 19th century when ambassadors could unilaterally make agreements with countries
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this morning marketplace basically did a brief "millennials are killing brands!!!" bit talking about how kids these days don't want to pay more for ketchup just because it says Heinz on the label death to brands
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Aug 3, 2017 16:31
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reagan was the one who really started handing out ambassadorships to rich donors, but they were mostly the slots in nice places that didnt matter. bundle $1.1million for his re-election, get appointed to represent us interests in aruba, that sort of thing. countries where the us relationship had real stakes (china, japan, ussr, britain, etc) still got experienced professionals it didnt really matter that much - as has been said, almost all diplomacy is done though the state department (phone or fax or flying people around for meetings) or at least it was until the trump presidency
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"i cannot be cucked as my wife and i do not engage in intercourse. my daughter was created by drawing semen directly from my balls which confused me greatly as i had previously believed that is where the pee was stored. thank you. "mr zuckerberg the question was about alternative energy sources"
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FMguru posted:reagan was the one who really started handing out ambassadorships to rich donors, but they were mostly the slots in nice places that didnt matter. bundle $1.1million for his re-election, get appointed to represent us interests in aruba, that sort of thing. countries where the us relationship had real stakes (china, japan, ussr, britain, etc) still got experienced professionals i read or listened to some article a little bit ago about how before reagan there was basically a gentleman's agreement that if you helped get someone elected you didn't immediately turn around and lobby the poo poo out of them once they were in office, and this one lobbyist firm was like "lol look at this cultural norm that assumes people have basic ethics" and did exactly that with Reagan and now it's standard operating practice everywhere thanks reagan
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ate all the Oreos posted:thanks reagan in conclusion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
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Cat Face Joe posted:"i cannot be cucked as my wife and i do not engage in intercourse. my daughter was created by drawing semen directly from my balls which confused me greatly as i had previously believed that is where the pee was stored. thank you.
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Luigi Thirty posted:https://futurism.com/hyperloop-one-passes-second-full-system-test-faster-than-ever-before/ i was looking back into pishevar because for some reason i remember him as being kind of scummy, the i noticed the mention of the "Hyperloop Alpha" thing musky wrote up and had the balls to call a "whitepaper", so I had to look a that again, and... 
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FMguru posted:fun little article in the guardian today keying off of los angeles winning the 2028 olympics had this tidbit quote:Voters also approved $3.5bn to tackle homelessness. i bet that buys a lot of those spikes that prevent people from sleeping under bridges
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yeah i wouldn't be praising LA over NY/NJ; that city is already hell and the olympics will make it a truly nightmarish one also LA managed to have like the only modern olympics that wasn't total economic ruination for the city because they utilized existing university faclities but lol if you think thats allowed anymore so theyll have to find land to build the expensive facilities all that money that was supposed to go to transportation will be eaten up building they'll probably tear down watts or something to make room
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Aug 3, 2017 17:35
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maybe the US will take down the IOC like they did FIFA and it'll be a reasonable event
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hobbesmaster posted:maybe the US will take down the IOC like they did FIFA and it'll be a reasonable event lol soccer is a 3rd tier ferrigners sport; americans love the summer olympics as its the event with the second most sports they were never wealthy enough to participate in
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hobbesmaster posted:maybe the US will take down the IOC like they did FIFA and it'll be a reasonable event i think that can be said to be the last thing that everyone on earth will agree was a Good Thing That The US Did Right There
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lancemantis posted:i was looking back into pishevar because for some reason i remember him as being kind of scummy, the i noticed the mention of the "Hyperloop Alpha" thing musky wrote up and had the balls to call a "whitepaper", so I had to look a that again, and... This makes me so drat mad No units Arbitrary assumptions Egotistical self-promotion It's all there
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wait how is a motorcycle this bad, and how is a train worse than cars
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Not a Children posted:This makes me so drat mad it has units though so it must be correct!
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lancemantis posted:i was looking back into pishevar because for some reason i remember him as being kind of scummy, the i noticed the mention of the "Hyperloop Alpha" thing musky wrote up and had the balls to call a "whitepaper", so I had to look a that again, and... lol forever
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also i'll save you the trouble: there is no bibliography or proper citations in that "whitepaper" and the "stress diagrams" were probably something he drew up in some app and tried to make look like something that he thought a simulator would output
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using 3d graphs when there ain't no 3d data shame! shame!
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3d graph offset from the front where the scale is smdh
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lancemantis posted:also i'll save you the trouble: there is no bibliography or proper citations in that "whitepaper" and the "stress diagrams" were probably something he drew up in some app and tried to make look like something that he thought a simulator would output this might be the most embarrassing thing I've ever seen Musk do
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i dont think anybody has actually ever read this paper like im just skimming through it for fun and its awful; this whole trend is built off of people just reading other peoples comments on it and regurgitating them, and the original comments are from the muskman himself, and people have raised millions of dollars off of this how could you read this and think that this is a totally shovel ready idea
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