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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Speaking of, let's see how the Doomsday Clock is doing these days. The doomsday clock got extremely dumb after the Cold War ended.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I've wondered, doomsday happens, what do they do? Have someone quickly change it before the bombs hit? Is it now hooked to a monitor system to automatically update? Or do they just say gently caress it and pound tequila? Lawrence Krauss is kept in a nuclear fallout shelter at all times, and will solemnly turn the clock to midnight if humanity destroys itself. NoEyedSquareGuy fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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Aug 12, 2017 02:34
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Mustached Demon posted:Air drop hella weed on NK duh. Actually marijuana is legal in North Korea and is regularly smoked by the population from what I understand
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The doomsday clock got extremely dumb after the Cold War ended. What, why? There are still stockpiles of ready-to-fire nuclear weapons across the planet. Bogatyr posted:Maybe it's his "art of the deal" in action... I am interested to see how not being a credible spokesman is an advantageous position... As an American citizen, I really appreciate the shell game being played against us concerning the use of our military. It's exciting.
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Aug 12, 2017 02:42
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jesus loving hell venezuela guam and nk. nice nice i always wanted to die
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Aug 12, 2017 02:49
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Can someone please translate that bit after 'I wish...' it's breaking my brain
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Synthbuttrange posted:jesus loving hell venezuela guam and nk. nice nice i always wanted to die Welcome friend to your natural state
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Aug 12, 2017 02:51
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Synthbuttrange posted:jesus loving hell venezuela guam and nk. nice nice i always wanted to die I think there was a bit of Iran, too.
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Spoiler alert on the Monday press conference https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/896183677864091648 I can think of no reason this is not a great idea at this exact moment.
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n3wt posted:Can someone please translate that bit after 'I wish...' it's breaking my brain GAH I only read the highlight.  ow
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Aug 12, 2017 02:53
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I believe that there are some parts of Africa and South America that would not be targeted in a world wide nuclear holocaust so the human race may survive , maybe.
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farraday posted:Spoiler alert on the Monday press conference I think I am changing my opinion on whether Evil Competent or Evil Incompetent does more damage towards "incompetent" again.
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Aug 12, 2017 02:55
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farraday posted:Spoiler alert on the Monday press conference Let's alienate the country that holds most of the national debt right before congress takes on the subject of national debt.
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Aug 12, 2017 02:56
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I found The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in a used bookstore recently, and reading it has given me some perspective on Trump. No question that Trump is dangerous - but he's dangerous because he's reckless and stupid. If he had half the cleverness or rhetorical gifts of Hitler, we'd really be screwed. It took a World War and millions of deaths for Hitler to be deposed. Most likely, Trump's going to go down because of shady business dealings and disreputable ties to Russia. I just hope it happens before we all die in a rain of nuclear hellfire.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The doomsday clock got extremely dumb after the Cold War ended. And then it got less dumb.
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n3wt posted:Let's alienate the country that holds most of the national debt right before congress takes on the subject of national debt. The United States holds by far the majority of the national debt. Of course he's alienated them too.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And then it got less dumb. It's not that it was any less needed as much as their time adjustments started to feel sort of all over the place.
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https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/896186292836368384 https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/896186637654384640 
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n3wt posted:Can someone please translate that bit after 'I wish...' it's breaking my brain "I wish they had me for the last eight years instead of Obama. I would have been better than the last three presidents actually, but that time has passed. I'm here now though, so you'll be taken care of." Except his dementia-addled brain produces his usual word haze instead.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The doomsday clock got extremely dumb after the Cold War ended. Uh India-Pakistan anyone?
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Bicyclops posted:It's not that it was any less needed as much as their time adjustments started to feel sort of all over the place. I like to think of it as a handy barometer for gauging the irrationality of those controlling the weapons! A stupid scale.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Speaking of, let's see how the Doomsday Clock is doing these days. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzzawz/we-asked-a-doomsday-clock-scientist-about-trumps-fire-and-fury-threat
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:And then it got less dumb. I don't really mean the concept of having a clock got dumb, I mean post 1991 they lost focus and have changed what the clock is supposed to measure several times and during the cold war you can look at the rises and falls and clearly match them to specific real world rise and fall in tension but in the modern day like, the odds of the world ending during obama was apparently higher than during the cuban missile crisis and electing trump only moved it by 30 seconds and they talk about stuff like it measuring killer robots and stuff now.
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Serfer posted:The United States holds by far the majority of the national debt. Good to know. Just went and read Wikipedia. So China can't utterly screw the economy by dumping that, but could always find other ways wrt import/export.
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Wasn't the "trade crackdown" supposed to be announced last Friday or w/e?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The doomsday clock got extremely dumb after the Cold War ended. List of nations with nuclear weapons.  I'm not trying to be an alarmitst, but the US & NK are not the only players in this game by fart. <-----leaving that typo.   True. VVVVVVVV KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I don't really mean the concept of having a clock got dumb, I mean post 1991 they lost focus and have changed what the clock is supposed to measure several times and during the cold war you can look at the rises and falls and clearly match them to specific real world rise and fall in tension but in the modern day like, the odds of the world ending during obama was apparently higher than during the cuban missile crisis and electing trump only moved it by 30 seconds and they talk about stuff like it measuring killer robots and stuff now. Yeah, it's this. Someone can create another clock to measure Doomsday by Climate Change or Killer Robots or Apathy Because of Gizmos if they want, but the Doomsday Clock was a reliable source of measuring danger of nuclear annihilation until they got bored and weighted with a bunch of stuff that makes it seem a bit random.
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n3wt posted:Good to know. Just went and read Wikipedia. So China can't utterly screw the economy by dumping that, but could always find other ways wrt import/export. Its OK you guys still have NAFTA with Canada and Mexico! Oh right the negotiations for that start on Monday too.
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/896186292836368384 What in the gently caress is wrong with his brain? Yeah people are going to rush to visit nuke target Island.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I don't really mean the concept of having a clock got dumb, I mean post 1991 they lost focus and have changed what the clock is supposed to measure several times and during the cold war you can look at the rises and falls and clearly match them to specific real world rise and fall in tension but in the modern day like, the odds of the world ending during obama was apparently higher than during the cuban missile crisis and electing trump only moved it by 30 seconds and they talk about stuff like it measuring killer robots and stuff now. The Doomsday Clock measures how close humanity is to imminently self-destructing. It just used to be that the only means we had for that was nuclear weapons, but now climate change has helpfully given us more ways to suicide.
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boner confessor posted:sort of but not really Boston MSA has Rockingham County and Strafford County, NH
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No such thing as bad publicity!! F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I found The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in a used bookstore recently loving spoilers are getting out of hand. Arglebargle III posted:The rhetorical trick of "I support diversity in the abstract I just want all policies that increase diversity ended immediately," won't work nearly as well in a movement with concrete demands as it does in a white paper.  Concrete Demands Are you familiar with these geniuses? Even in the mocking manboobz translation there's not a single concrete ask. Cerno's no better-he's been living off what his family lawyer demanded for years. e: WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Boston MSA has Rockingham County and Strafford County, NH To clarify: my original post was regarding the relative economic & political strength of those regions, not whether big cities exist.
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Is anyone really freaking out about this North Korea thing? We've had tens of thousands of nukes pointed at us for decades.
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Arglebargle III posted:Is anyone really freaking out about this North Korea thing? We've had tens of thousands of nukes pointed at us for decades. It's really more a 'Trump and North Korea' thing people are worried about, though there's no real way to know for sure where the protist taking over Donny's brain will ultimately take him.
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Arglebargle III posted:Is anyone really freaking out about this North Korea thing? We've had tens of thousands of nukes pointed at us for decades. And tourism has never been better!
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Office Pig posted:It's really more a 'Trump and North Korea' thing people are worried about, though there's no real way to know for sure where the protist taking over Donny's brain will ultimately take him. Do you mean prion?
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Arglebargle III posted:Do you mean prion? I do actually, thanks.
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Arglebargle III posted:Is anyone really freaking out about this North Korea thing? We've had tens of thousands of nukes pointed at us for decades. Well, the situation's not THAT bad (fear of nuclear holocaust,) but that doesn't mean it's good. It's just one more needle on the trumpstack. Not everybody keeps up with facts like we newsnerds. As if the majority of people who mostly get news from a single source needed another thing to worry about right now.
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Kale posted:It's where he gets to announce his insanely bad policy decisions when twitter isn't even enough of a spectacle. Being on TV or a rally with all eyes on him is the only thing he loves more than his daily twitter shits. AKA when he needs way way way more than multiples of 140 characters.
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