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FAUXTON posted:$80 worth of sushi at once is like what a table of 4 would order. It was a to-go order. It was probably 2-3 signature rolls or something. Sushi places here in redneckistan florida have rolls in the $20 range so I wouldn't be surprised to see an $80 tab in DC for a single person at a semi-swank sushi place.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:31
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The Trumpians have been confined to the Navy Yard area, which is nothing but luxury apartments and a cultural wasteland (the perfect spot from which to Make America Great Again), so you can bet the sushi there is overpriced as hell compared to the rest of DC.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:34
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It's more like they're quarantined to the wharf area so they never have to see anybody darker than vanilla yogurt. Those apartments are dumb and insanely expensive; like 3.5k for a 1br.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:08
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More UK government collapse news: Borris Johnson is gone, foreign secretary. He's the guy with the dumb hair, probably the second most important person in the government, at least in terms of trying to take over the Tory party. I'm going out to get beer, I want to enjoy all this poo poo.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:20
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The sun is rising on Asia.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:21
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Lol there is no way the British government doesn't collapse.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:23
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Does Labour have enough votes to form a coalition and take it over?
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Jul 9, 2018 15:25
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FAUXTON posted:$80 worth of sushi at once is like what a table of 4 would order. Good Sushi in DC can be expensive. My fiance and I turn into unashamed fat people when we go out for sushi and easily spend 150 bucks between the two of us, so 80 bucks isn't unfathomable.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:31
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psydude posted:Does Labour have enough votes to form a coalition and take it over? Not really, it'd take an alliance of a chunk of parties that don't really like each other all that much. I'm putting my bets on the whole house of cards going down over the next few days and us getting an early general election. btw, while nobody in power wants to say it, everything that's happened so far has essentially killed Brexit.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:34
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Hexyflexy posted:More UK government collapse news: Borris Johnson is gone, foreign secretary. He's the guy with the dumb hair, probably the second most important person in the government, at least in terms of trying to take over the Tory party. Came here to post this, but you beat me to it. Just another rat fleeing a sinking ship.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:36
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Boris didn't quit. He got shitcanned. He was apparently still writing his "resignation" letter when they announced he was gone.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:37
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Isn't Boris one of the top contenders to take over if May falls? It's like a bunch of idiots trying to knife each other in a revolving door.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:38
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psydude posted:Does Labour have enough votes to form a coalition and take it over? I thought Labour was itself barely holding together between the baddem equivalents and Corbyn.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:39
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Hexyflexy posted:Not really, it'd take an alliance of a chunk of parties that don't really like each other all that much. I'm putting my bets on the whole house of cards going down over the next few days and us getting an early general election. Even if we don't end up a full-blown general election, there's definite scope for Tory leadership contest. That takes around 3 months to complete - 3 months of negotiating time we don't have when both sides wanted an outline Brexit deal to be sorted by October. We are well and truly hosed.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:40
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Isn't Boris one of the top contenders to take over if May falls? It's like a bunch of idiots trying to knife each other in a revolving door. He was.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:40
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The sushi house next to the Good Guys in DC seems fairly decent and not mega expensive.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:42
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Isn't Boris one of the top contenders to take over if May falls? It's like a bunch of idiots trying to knife each other in a revolving door. He wouldn't make the top 5 right now. He has done himself no favours as FS.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:42
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Countdown until Trump tries to nominate him for Commerce Secretary.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:43
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Isn't Boris one of the top contenders to take over if May falls? It's like a bunch of idiots trying to knife each other in a revolving door. 
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Jul 9, 2018 15:48
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they cloned gerald ford but accidentally made him dumber
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Jul 9, 2018 15:48
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:they cloned gerald ford but accidentally made him dumber Gerald Ford probably was just a brainstem after playing football in like leather helmets and poo poo back in the day, lol. Still, compared to Trump? lol
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Jul 9, 2018 15:51
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https://twitter.com/Toxic_Shop/status/1016332978195222528 loving lol
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Jul 9, 2018 15:53
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Jul 9, 2018 16:09
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Here's an interesting article in The Atlantic about how Canada has avoided politics that favor child concentration camps, travel bans on Muslims, and voluntary trade wars. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/canadas-secret-to-escaping-the-liberal-doom-loop/564551/
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Jul 9, 2018 16:10
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Casimir Radon posted:I can't make that out? "You don't know what you're doing" over and over
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Jul 9, 2018 16:11
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Orlando Furioso posted:Even if we don't end up a full-blown general election, there's definite scope for Tory leadership contest. This was all laid out years ago when Brexit first came up. Like, each step has been crystal clear and May and the rest of the government continued to act like they are living in some fantasy land where they can tell the British public one thing and the EU the complete opposite and still manage to come together. Stuff like Irish border difficulties leading to movement of goods and people difficulties is completely obvious if you want to take a minute to actually think about it instead of just hand wave the difficulties away. Edit: This is why avoiding slogans or simple objectives and focusing on concrete plans and paths forward is important. Brexit! or Dissolve ICE! just create a simple, imaginary path forward and allows people to ignore all the difficulties and pitfalls that might be in the way by making jumps in logic because they can't see the big picture. It's Engineering Systems applied. lightpole fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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Jul 9, 2018 16:12
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The Irish border thing is the best part of it all. "No free movement except for Ireland. And also all flights from Northern Ireland to the UK are domestic." So why wouldn't someone just fly into Dublin and drive to Belfast.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:14
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It's still amazing that they triggered the exit clause which will automatically end the UK's EU membership after two years, no matter if any exit agreement or interim agreements have been worked out. Unless every single other EU member agrees to an extension of the deadline. All the cards are in the EU's hand, because a hard Brexit will be bad for both sides, but far worse for Britain. That was political malpractice of the highest order.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:20
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lightpole posted:Edit: This is why avoiding slogans or simple objectives and focusing on concrete plans and paths forward is important. Brexit! or Dissolve ICE! just create a simple, imaginary path forward and allows people to ignore all the difficulties and pitfalls that might be in the way by making jumps in logic because they can't see the big picture. It's Engineering Systems applied. Hillary tried the "check out the extensive policy details on my website!" thing and got destroyed. So we get "abolish ice" and the details on the website describing how abolish ICE is actually reorganizing all law enforcement activities back into DOJ from DHS.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:20
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The BBC ticker is also breaking in new, exciting, and accurate ways
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Jul 9, 2018 16:22
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Current event: Audible has Stephen Fry reading the complete Sherlock Holmes collection for $100 or one credit. That’s my long loving bus rides taken care of for a while.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:26
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hobbesmaster posted:Hillary tried the "check out the extensive policy details on my website!" thing and got destroyed. So we get "abolish ice" and the details on the website describing how abolish ICE is actually reorganizing all law enforcement activities back into DOJ from DHS. Same poo poo is happening with Fight for Fifteen. "Oh it's just a slogan to get people on board with a living wage. What? A living wage in DC and Seattle is more than $15? Okay well let's stick with $15 because that's what we campaigned on."
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Jul 9, 2018 16:30
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Torrannor posted:It's still amazing that they triggered the exit clause which will automatically end the UK's EU membership after two years, no matter if any exit agreement or interim agreements have been worked out. Unless every single other EU member agrees to an extension of the deadline. All the cards are in the EU's hand, because a hard Brexit will be bad for both sides, but far worse for Britain. That was political malpractice of the highest order. Everyone backing this dumb idea knew the obvious outcome of leaving the negotiations up to the Tories, knew the Tories would be the ones doing the negotiating, and backed it anyway. Hell that's worse than the mere negligence implied by malpractice, it's straight up intentional harm. It'd be one thing if Labour was in power at the time and were expected to maintain hold of parliament but they didn't and weren't expected to regain power. That's a bet on a horse that ain't even breathing.
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hobbesmaster posted:Hillary tried the "check out the extensive policy details on my website!" thing and got destroyed. So we get "abolish ice" and the details on the website describing how abolish ICE is actually reorganizing all law enforcement activities back into DOJ from DHS. People will follow the simple slogan in the face of complexity because they can understand the slogan and then don't have to think the process through. Applying systems thinking to politics, pushing people to actually avoid making those leaps in logic and think the process through can help moderate political views.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:41
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Info on the Thai coach. God drat.quote:As for the coach who has been trapped with the boys, Mahtani said she has learned he has a "tragic" story. He was orphaned after a disease spread through his town, killing his parents and his younger brother. He moved to a monastery, but has moved back to the region to care for an ailing grandmother.
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Jul 9, 2018 17:05
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If even a single of the remaining four kids dies, I'm gonna be heartbroken. The last couple of days have had me rooting for them so drat hard, I need this, 2018, just give me this
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Jul 9, 2018 17:17
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Info on the Thai coach. God drat. From what I can find, Ekapol Chanthawong (the coach) is seen as a godsend in Thailand, and the parents are thankful for his presence. quote:But for many in Thailand, Ekapol, who left his life in the monkhood three years ago and joined the Wild Boars as an assistant coach soon after, is an almost divine force, sent to protect the boys as they go through this ordeal. A widely shared cartoon drawing of Ekapol shows him sitting cross-legged, as a monk does in meditation, with 12 little wild boars in his arms. quote:“If he didn’t go with them, what would have happened to my child?” said the mother of Pornchai Khamluang, one of the boys in the cave, in an interview with a Thai television network. “When he comes out, we have to heal his heart. My dear Ek, I would never blame you.” Source  Duzzy Funlop posted:If even a single of the remaining four kids dies, I'm gonna be heartbroken. The last couple of days have had me rooting for them so drat hard, I need this, 2018, just give me this
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Jul 9, 2018 17:20
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Political cartoonists aren't loving around with the child seperation bullshit going on, goddamn. https://twitter.com/thenib/status/1016336170932940800
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Niton posted:Political cartoonists aren't loving around with the child seperation bullshit going on, goddamn.  like those kids in cages have a tv to even look at.
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