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I LICK APE PUSSY posted:I just want to find a cure for cancer. Or more achievable, an immunotherapy that doesn't require chemo to go with it. That altruism will vanish once you get rich, hippie.
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Milo and POTUS posted:What far left (entire... lmao) individuals or organization have been gobbling Putin's balls? I don't doubt there are some retards who do so because there really are dumb folks across the spectrum but there is no way possible way "leftists" have quite the hard-on for the shirt deprived authoritarian oligarch.
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Milo and POTUS posted:That altruism will vanish once you get rich, hippie. I'm not management track or PHD track. I've aimed my career to stay in clinical development doing research.
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I LICK APE PUSSY posted:I'm not management track or PHD track. I've aimed my career to stay in clinical development doing research. IF you work for a CRO youre part of the scum contributing to high healthcare and pharmaceutical costs
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Nope, not a CRO. But hey this business wouldn't really function without them. Covance, et al makes the world go round.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:You don't become a billionaire in pharmaceuticals by being a nice person. I was just about to post this. Good people don't become billionaires. You might find some multimillionaires who are genuinely good people who have been lucky in business while not stepping on anyone's neck, but the only way anyone becomes a billionaire is by being a ruthless piece of poo poo. Their tax avoidance alone causes orders of magnitude more suffering than any deranged serial killer. You wouldn't see anyone here crying a single tear if someone put a bullet in Dennis Rader's skull and he had a loving family. How many people's lives would be saved if the government had an extra 900 million for healthcare or assisting the homeless or a hundred other things that are underfunded? Are all those poor people's lives less important than a few hundred rich fucks getting to have the world's largest dick measuring contest?
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I'm getting my guard card and polishing up on my butler skills, because I'm pretty sure the proletariat are gonna lose this one.
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my kinda ape posted:How many people's lives would be saved if the government had an extra 900 million for healthcare or assisting the homeless or a hundred other things that are underfunded? In America? None. No one without a crispy hundred million or more would see a cent of that. America has a systematic chain of problems top to bottom and there's only one way out, and it's the same way out France took at the end of the 18th century. Destroy the oligarchy, nationalize their assets, use the biens nationaux to rebuild the nation from the ground up. Of course in this day and age, destabilizing the top end of every major corporation in the western hemisphere will almost certainly collapse the global economy and potentially society as a whole, but at least we'll get to break out the guillotines and live out some serious Mad Max poo poo for a few decades. It'd be worth it. The stories told to subsequent generations would hopefully ward them off from rebuilding the pre-collapse world.
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I’m willing to be the first generation to move towards change. Actual change. Not pedantic pedestrian bullshit. Actual change. The get money out of politics change. Edit I mean like accept the costs and understand it may not pay off for my generation, but my kids. And theirs.
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my kinda ape posted:I was just about to post this. Good people don't become billionaires. You might find some multimillionaires who are genuinely good people who have been lucky in business while not stepping on anyone's neck, but the only way anyone becomes a billionaire is by being a ruthless piece of poo poo. Their tax avoidance alone causes orders of magnitude more suffering than any deranged serial killer. You wouldn't see anyone here crying a single tear if someone put a bullet in Dennis Rader's skull and he had a loving family. How many people's lives would be saved if the government had an extra 900 million for healthcare or assisting the homeless or a hundred other things that are underfunded? Are all those poor people's lives less important than a few hundred rich fucks getting to have the world's largest dick measuring contest? I can post my experiences with the ultra rich if you'd like. They don't get where they are by being nice.
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I called it the Slavic Crime Yacht for a reason. It was tongue in cheek sure but there is no doubt in my mind he was involved in some very shady poo poo.
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I can post my experiences with the ultra rich if you'd like. They don't get where they are by being nice. Give us the slavic crime juice, spare no details
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Dead Reckoning posted:A lot of people were all in on the "Russia/N. Korea/Iran are just having perfectly understandable reactions to the belligerent foreign policy of George W. Bush and I'm rooting for them as counterweights to American power because I want to see the Bush/Cheney group failing/embarrassed" until right around 2008. See also gobbling WikiLeaks cock for making the US look bad and enabling Manning. Was it really a lot, or was it an idiot fringe?
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Kazinsal posted:Give us the slavic crime juice, spare no details Try the owner contracting a small auckland company to do some very specialised work for us to the tune of 600k, then screwing them over by not paying up for nearly six months. If they had gone out of business from having to eat that, it would have been entirely due to him.
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US blames Best Korea for Wanna Cry Attacks. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42407488 Does this mean Cyber War were declared?
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I can post my experiences with the ultra rich if you'd like. They don't get where they are by being nice. I worked for Koch Industries in the late 90s during a break in service. I wrote interface software for their asphalt operations. It was pretty standard stuff. There were tables used that determined the varying volumes based on temperature and other factors. I noticed that the laws of physics applied to everywhere except one location. I dug into it and realized that location happened to be an Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Being naive, I asked my boss about it and was told they had a special contract. That didn't seem right, so I dug some more and realized that the poor Kochs were ripping off the Natives because gently caress them, I guess. I helped blow the whistle on those fuckers Sometimes I wish I had choked out Charles Koch when I rode the elevator with him, the world would be a better place.
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psydude posted:Glenn Greenwald and his followers represent a large slice of the far left wing. It's not as vast and embracing of Putin as the right, but it's still problematic because they're causing immense issues with the rest of the world's ability to put up a unified front. That isn't both sidesism, that's acknowledging that two disparate groups of idiots have bad ideas about the world. Glenn Greeenwald wants journalistic integrity and not immediately jumping to conclusions. He doesn't rant about leftist policies and the like. Leftists like him so he's seen as a leftist, I wouldn't say he's a person who goes around saying leftist policies (though he probably is). But you have a bone to pick with people left of you always so whatever. Maybe if journalists were a bit more like him we wouldn't have invaded loving Iraq or blame the election completely on Russia. Ye he can be a piece of poo poo and not trust anyone he doesn't know but he's better than people like Frum and other names I can't remember cause I just woke up. You have a bone to pick with leftists cause you blame every single problem on them. Maybe look at yourself first.
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I always sorta assumed that living in the US was kinda like here in Europe slightly rebranded and couldn't explain the political radicalism but this year I've really started to understand how hosed up it is. There was this article about how some poor people living in cheap housing near industrial plants were hosed to a point where after two generations they think that having asthma is just normal, the lead thing, and recently I read this piece about some low-pay worker guy who just sorta naturally expected to be literally homeless for a bit every time he loses a job and between that and this latest tax bill I get the guillotine talk now.
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Dead Reckoning posted:I'm getting my guard card and polishing up on my butler skills, because I'm pretty sure the proletariat are gonna lose this one. “Gonna lose?” I think we already had class war in this country generations ago, and the proles lost. Capital owns the government, the guns and the men who know how to use them already. The only thing that could level the playing field at this point is some kind of superbug that sweeps through the world quickly, and even then Peter Thiel will go hide in his private bunker until it’s safe to come out.
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Every conversation I have about giving medical or housing assistance to someone inevitably drifts to whether they "deserve it" or not. I do not care whether someone hosed themselves over or was hosed by fate, disease, etc. I do not care why someone is in poverty, today. I do not care if it ruins someone's "work ethic" by receiving assistance. There are idiots and assholes in every city, every state. I don't care if Joe Methhead wastes his life and OD's if he had access to therapy/counseling, medical care and housing, etc. Nobody deserves to die in the streets, regardless of circumstances. I also do not care if giving some rear end in a top hat state assistance makes them climb the social ladder and land closer to someone who is working their rear end off. Work should be rewarded, but life isn't fair and I'd rather have a social safety net in place in case either of us lose our jobs or get struck by super cancer. Sorry for the rant. This time of year, the conversations I have shared with friends/family, many of them Christians makes me disappointed and sad. If the standard of living that the 1% has right now is unsustainable for even another percentage point of the global population to reach, what does that say about our priorities and how utterly hosed we are?
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Glenn Greeenwald wants journalistic integrity and not immediately jumping to conclusions. He doesn't rant about leftist policies and the like. Leftists like him so he's seen as a leftist, I wouldn't say he's a person who goes around saying leftist policies (though he probably is). But you have a bone to pick with people left of you always so whatever. Maybe if journalists were a bit more like him we wouldn't have invaded loving Iraq or blame the election completely on Russia. Ye he can be a piece of poo poo and not trust anyone he doesn't know but he's better than people like Frum and other names I can't remember cause I just woke up. Lol what? I don't blame every single problem on them. I can just recognize that political extremism in both directions is dumb and dangerous. You, on the other hand, constantly whine about anyone who doesn't meet your strictest tests for ideological purity, as if the world operates on some sort of absolute binary scale of people who are and aren't sufficiently liberal. The dumbest thing is that you and I probably support a lot of the same policies. I think we should have UHC, should subsidize apartments for the homeless, and should tax the hell out of the rich. But your assertion that everyone must adhere to your rigorous standards is incredibly off-putting and turns off more people than it turns on, and reduces support for candidates who would otherwise be supportive of these issues. I spent part or my early 20s working at clubs that brought in a lot of anarchist bands and saw my fair share of people who insisted Mao and Pol Pot were perfectly justified in doing what they did and plenty of others who sold all of their poo poo to go live in hippie communes. So yeah, GiP has a way to go. psydude fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Dec 19, 2017 |
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They already figured out what caused the train crash. https://twitter.com/AP/status/943025705939554304 Generally in a train, you shouldn't be taking a 30mph turn at 80mph.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Glenn Greeenwald wants journalistic integrity and not immediately jumping to conclusions. That would explain why, rather than acknowledging when he’s wrong, he just goes back and deletes old tweets and then doesn’t talk about it. Technically, that’s not incorrect!
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boop the snoot posted:We need trump to tweet and save us from ourselves. Here's something better. Apparently Two Scoops got so butthurt when Gorsuch criticized his poo poo talking of the judiciary that he almost pulled his nomination. He claimed that he was worried Gorsuch wouldn't be sufficiently loyal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...m=.d60fd81eadb7
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Yemen fired another ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia. https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/943077875284152320 Targeted the royal family this time instead of the airport. Likely shot down, the Saudis say it was "intercepted", but they said the same about the airport missile and very well could've been lying.
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facialimpediment posted:They already figured out what caused the train crash. Is there a reason all trains aren't on autopilot except for some guy watching out the window next to an comically oversized stop lever?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Is there a reason all trains aren't on autopilot except for some guy watching out the window next to an comically oversized stop lever? There's something called positive train control, which is basically this, but it wasn't implemented on that stretch of track yet.
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psydude posted:There's something called positive train control, which is basically this, but it wasn't implemented on that stretch of track yet. And this is America so the answer to the next question is "because money and lobbying"
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bird food bathtub posted:And this is America so the answer to the next question is "because money and lobbying" Probably. I'm not sure why they opened the track ahead of completion of the system, but something tells me it was political pressure to finish before the end of the year.
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Milo and POTUS posted:What far left (entire... lmao) individuals or organization have been gobbling Putin's balls? I don't doubt there are some retards who do so because there really are dumb folks across the spectrum but there is no way possible way "leftists" have quite the hard-on for the shirt deprived authoritarian oligarch. "B-but my team wouldn't do that!"
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Dead Reckoning posted:enabling Manning. I don't think Julian Assange posts here.
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psydude posted:Glenn Greenwald and his followers represent a large slice of the far left wing. It's not as vast and embracing of Putin as the right, but it's still problematic because they're causing immense issues with the rest of the world's ability to put up a unified front. That isn't both sidesism, that's acknowledging that two disparate groups of idiots have bad ideas about the world. My one legit actual far left (he's definitely a communist at this point) loves Glenn Greenwald and gets super upset any time I bring up Russia being lovely. Usually it results in some whataboutism from him, so basically he's a useful idiot for Putin at this point. quote:I just want to find a cure for cancer. Or more achievable, an immunotherapy that doesn't require chemo to go with it. About a year ago my dad was diagnosed with melanoma and had tumors in his lung and brain; he got on an immunotherapy trial (I don't recall the specific drugs) and as of a week ago or so scans can't detect any actual tumors in either location. 
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psydude posted:There's something called positive train control, which is basically this, but it wasn't implemented on that stretch of track yet. Just money. There's just not enough money to install it everywhere. The real problem is because we always have the American need to "do something" we've only deployed the system partially instead of waiting until we could make it ubiquitous. Much like Volvo's decision to skip the vaguely defined level 3 autonomy, or the Air France disaster over the Atlantic, people suck at keeping it together when they think the system can save them. Train engineers either need to be able to fully rely on trains slowing themselves or they need to be on point and do it manually. Relying on a patchwork of sometimes automated systems just makes people fail at maintaining positive control.
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https://twitter.com/theedmnetwork/status/942515121166860288 The DJ died.
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I LICK APE PUSSY posted:I just want to find a cure for cancer. Or more achievable, an immunotherapy that doesn't require chemo to go with it. Don't do it, N4I will crave your death.  my kinda ape posted:I was just about to post this. Good people don't become billionaires. You might find some multimillionaires who are genuinely good people who have been lucky in business while not stepping on anyone's neck, but the only way anyone becomes a billionaire is by being a ruthless piece of poo poo. Their tax avoidance alone causes orders of magnitude more suffering than any deranged serial killer. You wouldn't see anyone here crying a single tear if someone put a bullet in Dennis Rader's skull and he had a loving family. How many people's lives would be saved if the government had an extra 900 million for healthcare or assisting the homeless or a hundred other things that are underfunded? Are all those poor people's lives less important than a few hundred rich fucks getting to have the world's largest dick measuring contest? I don't trust anyone in here to decide who deserves to live and who deserves to die. Jesus loving Christ what is going on here? Sure there are probably a few that we could all agree on, but this is getting weird.
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