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Morbus
May 18, 2004

eyebeem posted:

HAHAHA Awesome.

Throw him under the bus, Donnie.

Am I the only one who is actually apprehensive of Zinke being thrown out? He might be a shitter, but we could end up with so, so, SO much worse. I really don't want to see someone in the vein of Pruitt, or even Tillerson, who would be actively dismantling the Dept. of Interior vs. just being a generic lovely corrupt Republican.

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Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

gently caress off you pos

https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/923985118712205312
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/923985260005806080

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
So the NFL might blow up again. The owner of the Texans Bob McNair referred to cracking down on player protests to make sure that "the inmates aren't running the prison" and the entire team had to be talked down from a walkout. Meanwhile their biggest star player (who isnt hurt anyway) did not show up at all today.

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe


:pwn:

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

You have a right to arms, not ears.

Quorum
Sep 24, 2014

REMIND ME AGAIN HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE?

Mustached Demon posted:

For one, it's basically a giant blue ball sack and a wittle tiny red penis.

Correct, unfortunately the giant blue balls have a four-year refractory period

Crow Jane
Oct 18, 2012

nothin' wrong with a lady drinkin' alone in her room

The bald dude looks exactly like one of my neighbors, it's kinda creeping me out

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So the NFL might blow up again. The owner of the Texans Bob McNair referred to cracking down on player protests to make sure that "the inmates aren't running the prison" and the entire team had to be talked down from a walkout. Meanwhile their biggest star player (who isnt hurt anyway) did not show up at all today.

Holy poo poo that was an incredibly dumb thing to say.

Moktaro
Aug 3, 2007
I value call my nuts.

Mustached Demon posted:

A few hundred developers can be devoted to automated poo poo detect services. Shortly after Ted Cruz will file a complaint asking why he always ends up at the taxi cleaner.

Can't resist a setup like that! :v:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTcHpPDCu8

Some Pinko Commie
Jun 9, 2009

CNC! Easy as 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣!
https://twitter.com/MQuinnton/status/923925668089475073

farraday
Jan 10, 2007

Lower those eyebrows, young man. And the other one.

Morbus posted:

Am I the only one who is actually apprehensive of Zinke being thrown out? He might be a shitter, but we could end up with so, so, SO much worse. I really don't want to see someone in the vein of Pruitt, or even Tillerson, who would be actively dismantling the Dept. of Interior vs. just being a generic lovely corrupt Republican.

True he could probably be worse but don’t undersell the disastrous impact of blatant corruption at interior as he’s responsible for our natural resources. Beyond that the self destruction of another memeber of his cabinet makes confirmation even more difficult.

Your Boy Fancy
Feb 7, 2003

by Cyrano4747

Trasson posted:

So he's super smart? Hawaiian shirts are awesome, you can enchant them for more AC and wear them under other armor, and they're absurdly rare for their use.

Everyone shouldblearn from Northam, I suppose.

Except getting overcharged in shops and having to put a lot of work in to make him useful.

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010

Against All Tyrants

Ultra Carp

There Bias Two posted:

Holy poo poo that was an incredibly dumb thing to say.

According to the ESPN article that reported it he apologized afterwards and "Felt horrible," but... yikes.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!

Acebuckeye13 posted:

According to the ESPN article that reported it he apologized afterwards and "Felt horrible," but... yikes.

You'd give him the benefit of the doubt that he just misspoke but he's Trumpist scum.

Fuschia tude
Dec 26, 2004

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

Kale posted:

I'm sorry but how do you not be aware of that. Who the gently caress even gave it to them then? Did they just ship out there all on their own and a $300 million contract fell from the sky?

Whitefish said they just called up PREPA out of the blue. PREPA said Whitefish was the only company to make an offer requiring no money down.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Morbus posted:

Am I the only one who is actually apprehensive of Zinke being thrown out? He might be a shitter, but we could end up with so, so, SO much worse. I really don't want to see someone in the vein of Pruitt, or even Tillerson, who would be actively dismantling the Dept. of Interior vs. just being a generic lovely corrupt Republican.

Why on earth do you think Zinke isn't in the same vein as Pruitt?

They're doing the exact same poo poo.

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

Dietrich posted:

Dude blockchain describes a real thing that is being used for any sort of system that needs secure distributed transaction tracking. Inventory is a big one, where instead of keeping everything centralized you can use blockchain to allow every partner to own their own copy of the ledger.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/blockchain/

there are literally dozens of solutions to do the same thing and they existed for at least a decade before Bitcoin came along. What you are describing uses literally 0 of the innovations that Satoshi brought to the space. Zero. None. It's just a Merkle Tree that they're calling "blockchain" for some unknown reason.

edit: ok distributing it is a BIT more than a Merkle tree but the primary innovations of the Blockchain are:

1. Busywork = ability to vote on the ledger's state
2. Distribution of tokens based on confirmation of the ledger

If you don't have the busywork, you don't have a blockchain. Microsoft is as vulnerable to buzzword creep as anyone else, and this is an example.

theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Oct 27, 2017

hanales
Nov 3, 2013

Fuschia tude posted:

Whitefish said they just called up PREPA out of the blue. PREPA said Whitefish was the only company to make an offer requiring no money down.

What are they buying a mattress on credit?

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

hanales posted:

What are they buying a mattress on credit?

I imagine Trump looooves no money down deals. He can get work done for free AND weasel​ his way out of subsequent payments.

Moktaro
Aug 3, 2007
I value call my nuts.

Your Boy Fancy posted:

Did somebody say NoVA turnout?! *rushes thread with endless phone bank logins*

Seriously though. If you worry, you can help with NoVA turnout. You already care more than most Americans. Might as well put the anxiety to good use, right? :)

They meant it in the "what if we held an election and nobody came?" sense though. :downsrim:

Seriously though, keep fighting the good fight.

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/923997072285507584

Reik
Mar 8, 2004

How is that his real Twitter?

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

Reik posted:

How is that his real Twitter?

grassley's twitter is a view into madness

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/655045612203675648

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe

Fuschia tude posted:

Whitefish said they just called up PREPA out of the blue. PREPA said Whitefish was the only company to make an offer requiring no money down.

ABCnews.com posted:

Eight congressional Democrats wrote to the Interior Dept. inspector general asking for a separate investigation, specifically mentioning concerns about any possible Whitefish connection to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke -- who is from Whitefish, Mont., the same town where the company is based -- or any other ties to the Trump administration. Whitefish is primarily financed by a private equity firm that is run by a contributor to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. We're concerned that Whitefish might have overstated its connections with the Trump administration to obtain the contract," the Democrats wrote in the letter sent Wednesday afternoon.

e- ABC article- http://abcnews.go.com/US/pr-gov-threatens-hell-pay-probes-300m-repair/story?id=50742628

NoEyedSquareGuy
Mar 16, 2009

Just because Liquor's dead, doesn't mean you can just roll this bitch all over town with "The Freedoms."

https://twitter.com/chuckgrassley/status/216651257228705793?lang=en

e:

https://twitter.com/chuckgrassley/status/164879420841140224

e2:

https://twitter.com/chuckgrassley/status/181554486110732289

NoEyedSquareGuy fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Oct 27, 2017

farraday
Jan 10, 2007

Lower those eyebrows, young man. And the other one.

hanales posted:

What are they buying a mattress on credit?

Prepa is flat loving broke and has no way to make money. If only there was some way to activate reciprocity agreements with the rest of the US bringing in thousands of utility workers immediately instead of paying exorbident rates to suspicious contractors.

Uncleanly Cleric
Oct 17, 2005


Fuschia tude posted:

Whitefish said they just called up PREPA out of the blue. PREPA said Whitefish was the only company to make an offer requiring no money down.

Looking over the contract, it looks pretty true. From what I can suss out PREPA is broke and had no choice but to go with someone they knew was going to gouge them.

There was no way to have a mutual aid contract with a guarantee they didn't have, which is what usually is required in these situations.

The contract, was a bad idea and contained a lot of misrepresentation, but it's also fairly clear no one was offering any other contract, terms, or even assistance.

It looks like a clear cut case of the mainland telling PR to get hosed again.

Oh, and Whitefish gets to dictate extrication costs if PREPA wants out.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/27/560422492/heres-what-s-in-that-300-million-whitefish-contract

Democrazy
Oct 16, 2008

If you're not willing to lick the boot, then really why are you in politics lol? Everything is a cycle of just getting stomped on so why do you want to lose to it over and over, just submit like me, I'm very intelligent.

I have REPEATEDLY turned my television to History Channel and have not seen Hitler ONCE!!!

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe

:agreed:

TheMadMilkman
Dec 10, 2007

FizFashizzle posted:

Chaffetz or Romney.

Chaffetz supposedly wants to be governor. And, because Utah is a broken place full of stupid people, he will likely win.

spaced ninja
Apr 10, 2009


Toilet Rascal

Democrazy posted:

I have REPEATEDLY turned my television to History Channel and have not seen Hitler ONCE!!!

The last time I actually watched the History Channel it was nothing but Pawn Stars and weird Hitler documentaries about how aliens were involved with him during WW2.

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe
Is that Grassley's real twitter, or a comedy spoof?

Neither would surprise me.

Good lord that's the real one.

HappyHippo
Nov 19, 2003
Do you have an Air Miles Card?

he's not wrong

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Yeah Chuck Grassley is in the right on this issue.

pumpinglemma
Apr 28, 2009

DD: Fondly regard abomination.

KickerOfMice posted:

Is that Grassley's real twitter, or a comedy spoof?

Neither would surprise me.

Good lord that's the real one.
Yeah, I immediately assumed spoof and then saw the blue checkmark.

Xae
Jan 19, 2005

withak posted:

Yeah Chuck Grassley is in the right on this issue.

Only because he misses being able to rub one out to Nazis goose-stepping on basic cable.

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe

pumpinglemma posted:

Yeah, I immediately assumed spoof and then saw the blue checkmark.

Hey I only recently learned what verification is.

:eng99: How do I Rread the tweetr?

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


I appreciate Chuck Grassley's twitter

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

KickerOfMice posted:

Is that Grassley's real twitter, or a comedy spoof?

Neither would surprise me.

Good lord that's the real one.

uh chuck grassley is a loving master of twitter, he owns real hard

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/261636623924621312

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/529356795924725760

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/627165154325565440

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theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

Xae posted:

Only because he misses being able to rub one out to Nazis goose-stepping on basic cable.

listen im going to need you to separate chuck grassley the senator from chuck grassley the twitter account

one is awful and the other is somehow amazing and too beautiful for this world

in summary chuck grassley is a land of contrasts

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