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[quote="“Mr Interweb”" post="“475921442”"] ITT Tech went under a few years ago thanks to the Obama admin, which probably wouldn’t have happened if Trump were president. [/quote] Last year. ITT Tech went under last year.
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Every (corrupt) retired politician in history has got to be loving kicking themselves for all the time, energy, and potential profit they wasted by bothering to pretend to be anything but a giant piece of poo poo.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:46
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HootTheOwl posted:Righto, what's his name then? Australian cartoonist, you might have heard of him. Fought and died in the war against political correctness.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:46
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Grassy Knowles posted:Last year. ITT Tech went under last year. Huh, wasn't as long ago as I thought it was (I generally have a bad sense regarding the passage of time). Still, it was under Obama, so NYAH.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:47
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DreamShipWrecked posted:DeVry is a lovely for profit college that just settled a $100 million lawsuit because it was scamming it's students. The head is now going to be in charge of the department that stops unis from scamming their students. There is some kinda curse over this administration which puts the very least qualified person in charge of everything. poo poo is really dire, when "Rick Perry, minister of energy" sounds comparatively sane. I can't wait for Arpaio to become attorney general. But then again, for all of those jobs there is one person who would be an even worse fit for them. He's handing them out. He literally has all of those bad traits.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:47
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Mr Interweb posted:Huh, wasn't as long ago as I thought it was (I generally have a bad sense regarding the passage of time). It's okay, we're like 7 months into the Trump admin and it feels like it's been 10 years.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:48
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Discendo Vox posted:Water levels are rising way higher than most residents expected in Port Arthur and Beaumont. 911 systems in the effected areas are currently collapsing under the weight of calls. Right now volunteer systems like this one are crucial to getting residents help. The linked site is basically a silicon valley-scale version of that infopost I set up with wren a couple days back, except they're also geolocating those in need of rescue on a map and connecting them with rescuers, as well as coordinating relief efforts, contact information for rescue volunteers, phone numbers, and a ton of other things necessary to keep getting people to safety as the conventional emergency systems falter. I feel like a complete idiot, but I'll ask anyway since this is important. Can anyone give a more detailed description of how to help with this? I've been looking for how to add names and locations to the map but I'm getting a bit lost, and at this point I'm pretty sure all my bungling is doing is adding to the site being slowed down.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:48
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Red Baron posted:What's in those sites? I assume it's mostly petroleum-related pollution or something, right? It's not like barrels of radioactive waste or something? I'm not as clear on superfund sites as I'd like to be considering that they're suddenly underwater now... The hosed up thing about this kind of pollution is that it is a slow killer, and without good data you may not actually realize that you're being statistically hosed by it. In areas of New York, actors like Union Carbide and Grumman created underground plumes of lovely pollution: https://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/1990/4182/report.pdf That by itself isn't alarming until you look at a map like the one below where when check off something like kidney cancer, and where this water table pollution lies, you see a correlation. https://apps.health.ny.gov/statistics/cancer/environmental_facilities/mapping/map/ osker fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 03:49
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DreamShipWrecked posted:DeVry is a lovely for profit college that just settled a $100 million lawsuit because it was scamming it's students. The head is now going to be in charge of the department that stops unis from scamming their students. Welp. My wife just started teaching an anatomy course there... Welp.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:49
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Why not hire Snowden as cyber security chief for the NSA?
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Aug 31, 2017 03:49
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Rip Testes posted:Why not hire Snowden as cyber security chief for the NSA? Nah, that job goes to Putin.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:50
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cant cook creole bream posted:There is some kinda curse over this administration which puts the very least qualified person in charge of everything. Its not a "curse." Its a deliberate attempt to hamper the government institutions designed to regulate and stop corruption and greed by putting in people who make a living off that same corruption and greed by the people running things who are all about profiting off that corruption and greed. Its what happens when a country decides you should stop electing "politicians" (aka, life long civil servants) and start electing "businessmen" (aka, lifelong capitalists who have never cared about anything but profit). The entire Department of Education is being replaced with a For Profit model because that's the goal.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:51
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RC Cola posted:Welp. My wife just started teaching an anatomy course there... Welp. Sorry you married a fake teacher with a scam job.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:51
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RC Cola posted:Welp. My wife just started teaching an anatomy course there... Welp. I mean, in reality your education is based on your educators, not the university. So kids can still get a good education there. The degrees just aren't worth much.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:51
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[quote="“Mr Interweb”" post="“475921513”"] Huh, wasn’t as long ago as I thought it was (I generally have a bad sense regarding the passage of time). Still, it was under Obama, so NYAH. [/quote] Oh, yes, just that things were less than a year from turning out very differently.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:51
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Rip Testes posted:Why not hire Snowden as cyber security chief for the NSA?
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Aug 31, 2017 03:53
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Robot Hobo posted:See, you say this as a joke now, but in like a month it's going to be "Oh poo poo, he actually pardoned Snowden AND THEN made him head of the NSA?!?" Trump doing a good thing is the craziest hypothetical of all.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:55
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HPanda posted:I feel like a complete idiot, but I'll ask anyway since this is important. Can anyone give a more detailed description of how to help with this? I've been looking for how to add names and locations to the map but I'm getting a bit lost, and at this point I'm pretty sure all my bungling is doing is adding to the site being slowed down. Sure! Sorry I'm completely exhausted (I did a bunch of crisis counseling via phone today) and didn't write the directions correctly. Totally my bad. What you want to do is: Connect the map people with people who need rescue by. 1. Find people who need rescue. 2. Give people this information: https://twitter.com/MinifridgeTF/status/902883286774632448 And tag your post #HarveySOS so people who are signed up can add it to the map. People are looking through that hashtag and geovalidating for rescue. I'll fix my earlier post. WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 03:58
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Same Great Paste posted:Every (corrupt) retired politician in history has got to be loving kicking themselves for all the time, energy, and potential profit they wasted by bothering to pretend to be anything but a giant piece of poo poo. It turns out Republicans have actually always wanted to elect a giant piece of poo poo because they're giant pieces of poo poo themselves and they wanted someone like them running the government
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Aug 31, 2017 03:58
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I got two people on my facebook feed that are in the muck of it, trying to be helpful (and posting public). https://www.facebook.com/peter.vazquez.79/posts/10210653062224262 Peter was at Standing Rock. He's a passionate, righteous warrior. I don't know if he affiliates 'antifa', but he's definitely a Water Protector and an Activist. Follow his feed. Support what he's doing. He'll have intel you won't find in the media, and you might have some intel to share with him that he ain't got yet. https://www.facebook.com/aylin.altinok.1 I met Aylin in Flint, at The Wolves Den, the night the articles came out featuring recordings of some guy in the Landbank talking about Niggers not paying their bills. That's body armor in her profile pic - from Standing Rock. Scroll back in her feed, she was in Charlottesville; she was in Boston. She's down to punch Nazis. Fights for LGBTQA rights. Turkish by Michigan. She's a badass warrior and you should follow her and you should fund her. These are the people conservatives are slurring, when they imagine some black-bloc boogie-man and insult activists. I probably know a few others heading that way. I've got a hippy bus picking me up at hippy-noon tomorrow. We're doing Flint for a couple days, gathering intel, crowd-funding supplies, charting a course and heading south. I'm pretty ignorant about all this, but what's the actual task at hand right now? Immediate help finding and evacuating people trapped in homes... I know a lot of boats have shown up to pledge to help, but I saw one case of coast guard refusing boats entry (with guns out) in my feed, and I heard one case of someone with a boat needing a navigator that knows the streets they're traveling. Where are the humans gathering? Like, with Katrina, there was the 'Superdome' (remember when those walmart trucks rolled up?)... are there ad hoc refugee camps popping up? Is this a 'climate refugee' situation - ought cities be sending busses and pledging to take however-many-people and help them handle their trauma and losses? I'm not imagining giant FEMA camps that house people /down there/ for months while cleanup happens... like, what are the actual needs? what are the actual plans? Who''s doing what? How best can I help?
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Aug 31, 2017 04:04
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Sorry, schedual says tomorrow's derail is everyone posting their cat's paw pads. Finally, a derail I can get behind! Every time I hear anything about the education department my anxiety goes up. I fear Betsy will work to get rid of the income based repayment forgiveness, and I will be paying loans until I burn off my fingerprints and disappear.
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My grandpa was on a submarine and then on a battleship in the pacific during ww2. He stole an army jeep for his ship captain to take home. He was headed to Japan when the war ended. He rarely talked about it. The rare times he did he'd talk about how you could see ships all along the horizon. He saw the bomb as a horrible but necessary event that probably kept him, and all those others, alive. Also, much to my grandmother's dismay, he taught me a lot of dirty sailor songs.
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HPanda posted:I feel like a complete idiot, but I'll ask anyway since this is important. Can anyone give a more detailed description of how to help with this? I've been looking for how to add names and locations to the map but I'm getting a bit lost, and at this point I'm pretty sure all my bungling is doing is adding to the site being slowed down. I hosed up. They don't want most folks doing that, it's too involved. What they want is: WrenP-Complete posted:
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Aug 31, 2017 04:07
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Red Baron posted:What's in those sites? I assume it's mostly petroleum-related pollution or something, right? It's not like barrels of radioactive waste or something? I'm not as clear on superfund sites as I'd like to be considering that they're suddenly underwater now... Sometimes residential areas are built right on top of what are now superfund sites. For example, West Calumet in East Chicago, IN used to have heavy industry and now suffers high lead contamination. There was a housing project built on that land too, and I think they're pretty much razing that during the cleanup. Not to mention an Elementary School. It's surprising how they clean it up. Apparently they just go in and scoop out a bunch of dirt, put some new dirt in, and then it's clean?
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Aug 31, 2017 04:10
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It's a miracle. Fox News viewers may finally grasp reality. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348639-poll-majority-of-voters-think-trump-is-tearing-the-country-apart#.WadV3zOLA6E.facebook
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Aug 31, 2017 04:11
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So, uh, how long do those generators keeping the horrifying plagues in that lab have left in them? Because that's kind of a big loving story.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:14
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Fruity Rudy posted:It's a miracle. Fox News viewers may finally grasp reality. I really want to think the 'invisible' 11% saw "Fox News Poll" on the clipboard and *fed* it to the survey taker.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:16
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Fruity Rudy posted:It's a miracle. Fox News viewers may finally grasp reality. I have to say, I'm always a bit surprised/impressed when Fox still publishes polls with results like this.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:17
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https://www.facebook.com/stacey.hesslerows/posts/10213158483213185 This's the hippy bus I'm hopping on tomorrow afternoon. We're getting ready, and looking for information on how best we can plug in. I know these cats can put a kitchen together like nothin', start servin' delicious vegan food and using best practices to avoid food-born illnesses.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:17
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Archonex posted:So, uh, how long do those generators keeping the horrifying plagues in that lab have left in them? Because that's kind of a big loving story. It's a non-story and bad journalism, the containment is more involved than that and includes physical barriers.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:23
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Koalas March posted:ok, it's official Grandpa chat was interesting. 
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Aug 31, 2017 04:25
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:It's a non-story and bad journalism, the containment is more involved than that and includes physical barriers. Condoms?
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Aug 31, 2017 04:27
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:It's a non-story and bad journalism, the containment is more involved than that and includes physical barriers. I figured. Then again I figured it'd be best to mention it. This has been a year of incompetence and what the gently caress moments.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:30
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News media is very vague, fox. Aren't you technically news media?
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Aug 31, 2017 04:34
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Crabtree posted:News media is very vague, fox. Aren't you technically news media? they're news entertainment. Assured by law that they are not required to be factual
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Aug 31, 2017 04:35
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Azhais posted:they're news entertainment. Assured by law that they are not required to be factual They're still media.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:37
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Mr Interweb posted:I have to say, I'm always a bit surprised/impressed when Fox still publishes polls with results like this. It really is. However the Fox News polls tend to be top notch as they're run by an independent body.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:40
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Tarantula posted:Grandpa chat was interesting. they're just jealous of our awesome grandpas
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Aug 31, 2017 04:41
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Lightning Lord posted:They're still media.  "Oi, you *oval office*...ah'll 'ave you know that nonna my ~mehdia ehmpirah~ is *ac'tul* news. Ain't no bloody fukkin' money innit! Too much competition! Tella oval office whut he wants'ta 'ear an' *that's* 'ow ya gently caress'em good'n propah."
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Gonna be interesting to see what happens to Trumps poll numbers over the next two months. Eventually Trump is going to realize taht people are paying more attention to all the flooding and disaster relief than they are too him, and that is going to make little baby Donnie jealous af. He is going to try to make himself the center of attention again, and in the process he is almost certain to lash out at the victims of Harvey in some way. Trump isn't the biggest show in the US at the moment and that is not a situation he can accept. Trump may require effulgent praise in order to function, but he would much rather be despised than ignored. Ignored is a a far worse fate than hated for Trump.
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