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I'm only giddy as gently caress, because not even two months ago, I didn't know poo poo about this and a friend of mine told me what had happened with such fellonious glee. I'm gonna try to look for someone that wrote up a pretty comprehensive tl;dr version for me in the Germany thread, but the quickest tl;dr I can come up with is: Volkswagen was pretty much the tip of the ice berg, and VW-Daimler-BMW had a massive cartel-tier operation of conspiracy to commit fraud.
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Do German captains of industry plot their evil schemes over liters of beer and oversized pretzels? Because if that's the case, I'm on board with the whole emissions thing.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I'm only giddy as gently caress, because not even two months ago, I didn't know poo poo about this and a friend of mine told me what had happened with such fellonious glee. I thought this was well known. Basically every german manufacturer was doing exactly what VW was doing to skirt emissions standards.
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Think PEDs in competitive cycling, but with cars, and there's five Lance Armstrongs.
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At least the BMW diesels have an emissions control system that could work.
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Wait, I want to hear more about these pretzcycles.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I thought this was well known. Basically every german manufacturer was doing exactly what VW was doing to skirt emissions standards. It's not even just that they all individually did it, it's that they all met thousands of times to discuss how to do it more efficiently while sitting around a Hofbräuhaus table wielding pig's knuckles, pretzels, and foaming beer steins.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:It's not even just that they all individually did it, it's that they all met thousands of times to discuss how to do it more efficiently while sitting around a Hofbräuhaus table wielding pig's knuckles, pretzels, and foaming beer steins. Before taking three weeks off in August with no access to email?
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Madurai posted:Wait, I want to hear more about these pretzcycles. 
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Having been to Milwaukee I can safely say this is accurate. Milwaukee rules.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Think PEDs in competitive cycling, but with cars, and there's five Lance Armstrongs. Lances Armstrong 
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Lances Armstrong Okay, this made my day
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Lances Armstrong
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ManMythLegend posted:Having been to Milwaukee I can safely say this is accurate. Yeah, I like it here. At one point not too far before WWI it had more German speakers than English speakers, which is probably where that cartoon originated from.
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Nov 6, 2017 21:00
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I TOLD YOU TO STOP THROWING COPIES OF ATLAS SHRUGGED AT MY DOG https://twitter.com/brookefoxnews/status/927621878214258688
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Nov 6, 2017 21:08
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Is that supposed to be better? Because it sounds like it's saying hey don't worry these two dudes successfully found something else besides their considerable personal and political differences to be worth beating the gently caress out of a guy for!
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Nov 6, 2017 21:22
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I mean, how thin of a veneer of reason donyou even need to justify patriotism like that?
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Nov 6, 2017 21:24
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I sure hope Trump doesn't visit nz Although apparently he called our equine minister to congratulate her on winning and told her he had followed the race with interest - yeah right. Half our own media can't understand how the party with the largest vote share isn't in power, he sure as gently caress won't
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Nov 6, 2017 21:28
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Someone slept with someone else’s wife. Or robbed their dog of healthcare unclear so far.
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Nov 6, 2017 21:29
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Ok so the guy ran onto Rand Paul's property and tackled Paul from behind, per the arrest warrant. Weeeeeeird. https://twitter.com/samstein/status/927632780799995905
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Nov 6, 2017 21:38
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"Believing the defendant to be deathly allergic to bees I tackled him away from a nest he was about to step on in order to save him from sure death, a son his healthcare would be unable to cover him. Regardless of the innnacuracy in my knowledge of his allergy and the placement of said bees nest my reasoning was to save him from himself, and you must acquit."
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I sure hope Trump doesn't visit nz What are you talking about he should understand perfectly.
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I sure hope Trump doesn't visit nz He understands just fine. Your PM got the largest number of votes in the electoral college, and would have gotten the most votes overall if it hadn't been for all the voter fraud.
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M_Gargantua posted:"Believing the defendant to be deathly allergic to bees I tackled him away from a nest he was about to step on in order to save him from sure death, a son his healthcare would be unable to cover him. Regardless of the innnacuracy in my knowledge of his allergy and the placement of said bees nest my reasoning was to save him from himself, and you must acquit." Your honor, I saw “Good Girl” or whatever that movie where Macullay Culkin dies from bee stings. Can’t judge a man based on bees.”
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Soulex posted:Your honor, I saw “Good Girl” or whatever that movie where Macullay Culkin dies from bee stings. Can’t judge a man based on bees.” He was trying to save Rand from his mother coming to drop him off a cliff
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Nov 6, 2017 22:07
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https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/927637248815726592 Lol
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Nov 6, 2017 22:09
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See you chums on the other side.
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facialimpediment posted:I TOLD YOU TO STOP THROWING COPIES OF ATLAS SHRUGGED AT MY DOG OH YEAH? WELL YOUR HOSTAS ARE poo poo AND YOUR LAWN IS PERENNIAL RYE INSTEAD OF KENTUCKY BLUE. https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/927641651044024320
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Yeah, not going to vacation there anytime soon. I'm thinking the Caucasus instead Not Chechnya or Dagestan
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2017 moves fast. Seems like they were purging family rivals just a month ago
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Ceiling fan posted:He understands just fine. Your PM got the largest number of votes in the electoral college, and would have gotten the most votes overall if it hadn't been for all the voter fraud. Ok fair point
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If Rand didn't want these thibfs happening to him he could have paid for private security or altered his behavior. Now I suppose he wants police protection and the tax payer to foot his medical bills. Parasite.
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I'm actually amazed that a war has started and the Decorative Hate Squash or his Twitter-making GBS threads had nothing to do with it. Thanks, humanity, for making me feel like we all suck together.
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bird food bathtub posted:I'm actually amazed that a war has started and the Decorative Hate Squash or his Twitter-making GBS threads had nothing to do with it. Thanks, humanity, for making me feel like we all suck together. Lebanon doesn't have a PM right now so I'm wondering who actually declared war. Some intern in Hezbollah's political wing got cute on Twitter when his boss stepped out to take a poo poo?
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Are they going to let this fizzle out like the campagin to liberate Qatar or they going to go all in with the blooded, veteran divisions fresh from the battlefields of Yemen?
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And the Lebanese prime minister just resigned too. This is very weird.
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Casimir Radon posted:Yeah, not going to vacation there anytime soon. I'm thinking the Caucasus instead Not Chechnya or Dagestan I heard Georgia is lovely. Would still recommend Jordan for that Levant feel.
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Casimir Radon posted:They might not be acting up quite this much with a normal president in charge. Making it look like the other guy started it is an art with origins lost to the sands of time.
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"Saudi Gulf affairs minister Thamer al-Sabhan told Al-Arabiya TV that Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon's prime minister on Saturday, had been told that acts of "aggression" by Hezbollah "were considered acts of a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia by Lebanon and by the Lebanese Party of the Devil." This is all there is to it. Not exactly Germany invading Belgium so I wouldn't get -too- worked up just yet.
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