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Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

pantslesswithwolves posted:

So not only are we in the Worst Timeline, we’re also in the weirdest:

Elon Musk quietly dating musician Grimes


Our reality seems to be procedurally generated.

This news gave me hard gas. It also loving reads like ya Musky boy was trying HARD to get in those grimy leggings and made a weak as gently caress connection between Roko's Edging Experiment and his veneer of technicality to do so.

I want a new seed on this game file. Resources are too far apart and generational spawn camping is OP. Nerf Caucasian Mediterranean spawns plz.


This pup is osha approved

Immanentized fucked around with this message at 01:53 on May 8, 2018

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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


I heard Grimes was kinda musky so this isn’t much of a stretch.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

Sounds like 4 dishonorable women trying to sully the good name of this man. Why then had they not come out before? Huh?

-MAGA chud

You have it backwards!

Trump has HATED Schneiderman for years, therefore all of the women are honest, trustworthy, and Schneiderman should resign.

I'm sort of shocked Trump hasn't tweeted yet. Should be any minute. He sort of called this in a 2013 tweet because there's always a tweet.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Roko's Basilisk getting someone laid is even weirder than the time Dwarf Fortress got me laid.

Chichevache
Feb 17, 2010

One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

shame on an IGA posted:

Roko's Basilisk getting someone laid is even weirder than the time Dwarf Fortress got me laid.

You don't get to drop this line and walk away.

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

Chichevache posted:

You don't get to drop this line and walk away.

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

Chichevache posted:

You don't get to drop this line and walk away.

Not empty

Viva Miriya
Jan 9, 2007

shame on an IGA posted:

Roko's Basilisk getting someone laid is even weirder than the time Dwarf Fortress got me laid.


Chichevache posted:

You don't get to drop this line and walk away.

Tell us the story bitch.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://www.fedsmith.com/2018/05/07/opm-proposes-changes-bring-federal-benefits-closer-private-sector/

quote:

The OPM letter states that private companies are providing less compensation in retirement benefits. In effect, the goal is to have the Federal government cut its expenses by following a similar path.

Love to gut the last good retirement system. Can't wait to just die at my desk.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Aren’t defined pension plans common in government jobs and pretty much extinct elsewhere?

Nystral
Feb 6, 2002

Every man likes a pretty girl with him at a skeleton dance.

boop the snoot posted:

Aren’t defined pension plans common in government jobs and pretty much extinct elsewhere?

And aren’t they THE primary benefit for staying in soul sucking government work for like 20 years?

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

boop the snoot posted:

Aren’t defined pension plans common in government jobs and pretty much extinct elsewhere?

I know Deloitte still offers a DB pension plan with a five year vesting period. Most of the others that I'm aware of are either governments (state or local), or nonprofits/education.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Nystral posted:

And aren’t they THE primary benefit for staying in soul sucking government work for like 20 years?

It's the only reason 90% of the people I know doing 20 decided to do 20. Though most of those people were "well, I'm a 30 year old alcoholic with no translatable skills and I've already done 10 years so I might as well just do 10 more."

The other 10% are inexcusable idiots.

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
There's a few niche industries that still have a good old fashioned pension, the gov is just the biggest one.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Schneiderman resigned.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

psydude posted:

Schneiderman resigned.

Who's the deputy AG/soon to be acting AG?

Thelonious
Jul 16, 2005

Some good stuff on PBS right now about Y'all Qaeda. The iteration of this thread while all that poo poo happened was loving amazing. FBI agent Mark was it? poo poo owned.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mans-land/

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


I don't think this got posted earlier today but, if it did I blame drinking delicious scotch. Just read through this whole article and if Chapman, the AF TSgt, doesn't get awarded a Medal of Honor after Slabinski is awarded tomorrow, just doesn't make sense.

http://www.newsweek.com/navy-seals-seal-team-6-left-behind-die-operation-anaconda-slabinski-chapman-912343

quote:

The controversy revolves around Operation Anaconda, a March 2002 attempt to surround and destroy a large Al-Qaeda force. It took place in eastern Afghanistan and cost the lives of eight Americans, seven of them on Takur Ghar. Chapman was among the dead. Using Predator drone footage and other evidence, the Air Force has argued that a SEAL Team 6 unit mistakenly left him for dead while retreating under heavy fire. Afterward, the Air Force claims, Chapman fought on for an hour, badly wounded and alone, before Al-Qaeda militants killed him as he provided cover for an approaching helicopter.

The SEALs, however, reject the claim that Chapman was alive when they fled. “The SEALs did not want to be told—officially—that they left a comrade on that mountain alive,” says a former defense official, who, like most sources mentioned in this story, requested anonymity for security reasons or to describe sensitive high-level discussions about members of classified units.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost
Trump's going to pull out of the Iran Deal tomorrow at 2pm.

We have no strategy for the aftermath, because strategy is for pussies.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Nick Soapdish posted:

I don't think this got posted earlier today but, if it did I blame drinking delicious scotch. Just read through this whole article and if Chapman, the AF TSgt, doesn't get awarded a Medal of Honor after Slabinski is awarded tomorrow, just doesn't make sense.

http://www.newsweek.com/navy-seals-seal-team-6-left-behind-die-operation-anaconda-slabinski-chapman-912343

Wait isnt Slabinksi the guy kicking in heads and canoeing humans?

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

I'm torn, Newsweek Reborn is an unreliable parody of itself but otoh, team tomahawk would totally pull some poo poo like that.

As for the :iit: sexual encounter, I had invited a nerdy girl from my autocad class over, she said that she'd always wanted to learn DF when I mentioned it while she was talking about minecraft, so I obliged and then ~40 minutes of lecture on the difference between [d]esignate and [b]uild later, shoved her tits in my mouth just to make it stop.

'Tism is as 'tism does.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Thelonious posted:

Some good stuff on PBS right now about Y'all Qaeda. The iteration of this thread while all that poo poo happened was loving amazing. FBI agent Mark was it? poo poo owned.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mans-land/

TARP GHOST SHALL LIVE IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





shame on an IGA posted:

I'm torn, Newsweek Reborn is an unreliable parody of itself but otoh, team tomahawk would totally pull some poo poo like that.

As for the :iit: sexual encounter, I had invited a nerdy girl from my autocad class over, she said that she'd always wanted to learn DF when I mentioned it while she was talking about minecraft, so I obliged and then ~40 minutes of lecture on the difference between [d]esignate and [b]uild later, shoved her tits in my mouth just to make it stop.

'Tism is as 'tism does.

i read that as her wanting to hook up with you and you drat near loving it up

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I worked with Slab, when he was a Master Chief. He was one of the few guys in that outfit that treated me well. He and Chapman both deserve the MoH for what went down that day. It’s more likely than not that the dead body he (Slab) saw was that of Neil Roberts, and he mistook that for Chapman. He didn’t deliberately leave a man behind, though he did leave a man behind. That’s just something that they’re gonna have to accept. gently caress protecting the SEAL “brand” or whatever. They’re humans, mistakes happen. I saw plenty of them. They may want to project this aura of invincibility and what not, but it just ain’t true. They’re SEALs with extra training and tougher missions. Not gods, like they see themselves.

loving hated working with those guys. With a goddamned passion.

I think the craziest part of this story is that we knew about Chapman being alive and left behind in ‘05. I learned of it from other intel guys from the two four.

It’s the most asinine politics you can imagine.

Riot Carol Danvers
Jul 30, 2004

It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I worked with Slab, when he was a Master Chief. He was one of the few guys in that outfit that treated me well. He and Chapman both deserve the MoH for what went down that day. It’s more likely than not that the dead body he (Slab) saw was that of Neil Roberts, and he mistook that for Chapman. He didn’t deliberately leave a man behind, though he did leave a man behind. That’s just something that they’re gonna have to accept. gently caress protecting the SEAL “brand” or whatever. They’re humans, mistakes happen. I saw plenty of them. They may want to project this aura of invincibility and what not, but it just ain’t true. They’re SEALs with extra training and tougher missions. Not gods, like they see themselves.

loving hated working with those guys. With a goddamned passion.

I think the craziest part of this story is that we knew about Chapman being alive and left behind in ‘05. I learned of it from other intel guys from the two four.

It’s the most asinine politics you can imagine.

Yet it didn't become public knowledge until (WaPo? Can't remember the outlet) broke the story in 2016.

loving SEALs man.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Immanentized posted:

Confirmed. Second summit to be held to verify initial findings.

Had a pleasant evening hanging out with Immanentized.
10/10 would do again.

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
A dude in my squad's uncle sent him some tacky as hell Ranger flag while we were overseas playing security for seals. This one:



He hung it in their ready room while they were sleeping. They weren't very happy about it.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

LingcodKilla posted:

Had a pleasant evening hanging out with Immanentized.
10/10 would do again.

define "do"

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


McNally posted:

Melania isn't the problem, don't go after her just because her last name is Trump.
She knew what she signed up for, stop feeling sorry for her. She could walk away at any time but likes the ill gotten gains too much.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB



You guuna learn tomorra.

Immanentized
Mar 17, 2009

LingcodKilla posted:

You guuna learn tomorra.

Speaking of learning, that dude who shot the poo poo with us in the line for drinks. Yeah he was
Formerly the director of Federal Cybersecurity. Lots of big cheeses here.

Immanentized fucked around with this message at 12:40 on May 8, 2018

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones
AP reporting Angry Balding Orange may ban Rudy from interviews.

quote:

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s frequently off-message media blitz, which has included muddying the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and making claims that could complicate the president’s standing in the special counsel’s Russia probe.

Trump has begun questioning whether Giuliani, an old friend and former New York City mayor, should be sidelined from television interviews, according to two people familiar with the president’s thinking but not authorized to speak publicly about private discussions.

Trump also expressed annoyance that Giuliani’s theatrics have breathed new life into the Daniels story. It’s a concern shared by Trump allies who think Giuliani is only generating more legal and political trouble for the White House.

Giuliani, the newest addition to the president’s legal team, first rattled the White House last week when he sat for interviews on Fox News and seemed to contradict Trump by saying the president was aware of the $130,000 payout to Daniels from his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. He also suggested the October 2016 settlement had been made because Trump was in the stretch run of his presidential campaign.

After Trump chided Giuliani on Friday, saying the lawyer needed to “get his facts straight,” Giuliani put out a statement trying to clarify his remarks. But in weekend interviews, Giuliani appeared to dig himself a deeper hole by acknowledging that “Cohen takes care of situations like this, then gets paid for them sometimes.” He did not rule out the possibility that Cohen had paid off other women.

Trump, who has denied the affair with Daniels, was angry that Giuliani had given the impression that other women may have made similar charges of infidelity, according to the people familiar with his views.

Additionally, Trump has grown agitated in recent days by replays of Giuliani’s interview with Sean Hannity, in which he said that Trump knew about the payment but that it wasn’t a campaign violation. A clearly surprised Hannity then asked, “Because they funneled it through the law firm?”

To which Giuliani responded, “Funneled it through the law firm, and the president repaid him.”

Trump snapped at both men in recent days, chiding Hannity for using the word “funneled,” which he believes had illegal connotations, according to the people who spoke to The Associated Press. As for Giuliani, the president has not yet signaled to him to stop appearing on television but told a confidant recently that perhaps Giuliani should “be benched” — at least temporarily — if he can’t improve his performance.

The president has not publicly discussed dismissing Giuliani and has appreciated his sharp attacks on the Russia investigation and his forceful battles with the press, according to three White House aides and outside allies. The two men have spoken frequently, according to officials familiar with their interactions but not authorized to discuss private conversations.

But many Trump allies both inside and outside the White House have grown anxious in recent days about Giuliani’s whirlwind and unpredictable interviews.

“They’re admitting to enough that warrants scrutiny. It shouldn’t be put on television shows off the cuff,” said Alan Dershowitz, the emeritus Harvard law professor who has been informally advising Trump on the Russia collusion probe. “This is not the way to handle a complicated case.”

Many in the White House have begun evoking comparisons between Giuliani and Anthony Scaramucci, another hard-charging New Yorker with a knack for getting TV airtime.

Scaramucci lasted 11 days before being fired. The former White House communications director himself drew parallels between his own burn-bright-burn-fast tenure and Giuliani’s performance.

“I am enjoying all of the comparisons between me and the mayor #RudyGiuliani,” Scaramucci tweeted Sunday. “He is loyal, tough and a fierce competitor. He fights and will win for @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. Big compliment thank you!”

Giuliani did not respond to requests for comment.

West Wing aides were blindsided by Giuliani’s TV appearances last week, and many senior advisers and members of the president’s legal team have been cut out of the decision-making process. But some aides have been reluctant to broach the subject with Trump because it only increases their liability, according to officials.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was among those surprised by Giuliani’s string of TV appearances, said Monday that Trump felt the former mayor “added value” to his outside legal team. On Friday, Trump said Giuliani was “a great guy but he just started a day ago.” He made clear Giuliani was still “learning the subject matter.”

Some West Wing aides have complained that Giuliani, who ran for president in 2008, was acting like a “principal” and not a member of a team. And some in Trump’s inner circle raised their eyebrows at Giuliani’s declaration that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was “disposable.” He also declined to rule out Trump invoking the Fifth Amendment in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia probe.

The episode revived worries in Trump’s inner circle about Giuliani, who enjoys the media limelight and has a tendency to go off-script. His behavior grew more unpredictable during the stretch run of the 2016 presidential campaign, when Trump chided him for falling asleep on the campaign plane, according to two former campaign officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

Giuliani also alienated a number of people in Trump’s inner circle by insisting that the only Cabinet position he would consider would be secretary of state. He did not get the post.

Giuliani’s remarks have also been watched with concern at the State Department and Pentagon after he weighed in recently on international affairs. He declared last week that North Korea would be releasing three Americans being held captive, which has not yet happened, and said the administration was committed to regime change in Iran, a stance Trump has not taken.

“He speaks for himself and not on behalf of the administration on foreign policy,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Monday.

https://www.apnews.com/ee2452ce9b2d4c1e829455d0e8ee2f96/Trump-considers-benching-Giuliani-from-doing-TV-interviews

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Immanentized posted:

Speaking of learning, that dude who shot the poo poo with us in the line for drinks. Yeah he was
Formerly the director of Federal Cybersecurity. Lots of big cheeses here.

Gah.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Isn't that Rudy's job now? Lol

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Probably, but he's getting more air time than the Anger Mango. Boss(' ego) doesn't like when the underlings show up too much.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
I mean wasn't Rudy named director of cybersecurity until he became trumps "lawyer"?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Here's some surveys/findings you can page through. It's a survey of Arab youth and their opinions on everything from economic prospects, ISIS, the US, MBS, and more.

http://www.arabyouthsurvey.com/findings.html

Spoiler: Their opinion of the US has gone way down over the last 2 years.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
Arab meaning Saudis or Arabs in general? Cause if it's Saudis I bet their opinion goes up at 2:00 today

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Not just Saudis: http://www.arabyouthsurvey.com/about_the_survey.html

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boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I mean wasn't Rudy named director of cybersecurity until he became trumps "lawyer"?

I don’t remember, so I want to say no because I feel like that’s something I would remember, but then I realize it’s 2018 and I already forgot what this administration did last week.

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