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bradzilla posted:Weapons of mass destruction contracted by the federal government to the lowest bidder The most capitalism thing is Army leadership specifically telling Congress "no more tanks, seriously, we have more than we can ever possibly use" and Congress going "too bad! Have more tanks" because there's money to be made selling tanks.
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safety precautions are for losersPlatystemon posted:
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 03:51 |
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ate all the Oreos posted:Also unlike the US and Russia, Britain's submarines have the full capability and authority to fire their nuclear missiles without any sort of transmitted code or order, they're just trusted not to because Britain is so incredibly good at training their military and life aboard the subs is definitely not a comical shitshow of mismanagement and underfunding Each sub is meant to have sealed orders from the Prime Minster on what to do if they lose contact, telling them to join other NATO forces, operate independently or whatever. Thatcher's was supposedly just "AVENGE US"
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 03:54 |
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Sestze posted:safety precautions are for losers There's not a big enough. Holy poo poo. For context I'm about to start a new job that includes possibly using some basic commercial pesticides and I have to read a big fat safety book, go through some training and know how to read the MSDS info at minimum. And I was told on at least three occasions, each time stressing very emphatically that aside from all the other safety bullshit we have to do if I ever have any issues with a client with regards to safety I'm to speak to my PM and they'll stop work and yell at them until things change.
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bradzilla posted:Weapons of mass destruction contracted by the federal government to the lowest bidder There's currently a local Denver podcast going over the history of Rocky Flats, one of the industrial production plants for the nuclear "pits" that went into the weapons. You can find it here, look for the episodes titled "Unclear Danger" : http://changingdenver.libsyn.com/podcast One of my family members worked there for like 25 years and by all accounts, it was a shitshow. A lot of the stories they told make it into the podcast. But it was also recognized as being the least shitshow of all the production plants in the country which uh, is saying something. Now, since there's a massive housing/construction boom, houses are literally being built right up to the property line.
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ate all the Oreos posted:The US does a mock nuclear war training exercise every year or two or something, where someone pretends to be the president (because if the actual president did it it would reveal how they would act) and even in the 100% simulated, completely consequence-free training exercise nobody has ever been able to bring themselves to order the counterattack Strudel Man has issued a correction as of 10:13 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/publiclibnews/status/1026813279765766144 Some wonderful inspiration from a local library.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 09:45 |
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That’s not Comic Sans.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 09:53 |
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Platystemon posted:That’s not Comic Sans. Not only that but it's not even close.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 09:58 |
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That font is actually called “Not Comic Sans, Not Even A Little”
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:02 |
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Not to be confused with another font, “This Ain’t Comic Sans XXX”
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:02 |
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Petition to have all the knock-off fonts re-named to things like "I can't believe it's not Times New Roman!", "Arial? It's not!", "Could this be Bodoni?", etc.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:04 |
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The Papyrus Is In Another Castle
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:11 |
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Helvetican’t
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:12 |
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This is exactly what Capitalism wants, to ignore the terrifying messages in place of font warfare.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:13 |
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ate all the Oreos posted:Also unlike the US and Russia, Britain's submarines have the full capability and authority to fire their nuclear missiles without any sort of transmitted code or order, they're just trusted not to because Britain is so incredibly good at training their military and life aboard the subs is definitely not a comical shitshow of mismanagement and underfunding While government cuts have probably been less than kind to the UK’s submarine fleet, the only comical shitshow in that ‘report’ was the author himself. He was a hysterical, paranoid idiot who spent a couple of days on the job before running away screaming after finding out that, among other things, crew on Vanguard-class boats live in the missile rooms (which is where the actual official quarters are, because the missile tubes are gigantic metal columns that take up about a third of the boat), and that the gate guards didn’t check his pass so often once they recognised his face. He then went into hiding under the assumption that the government would assassinate him for sharing these great and terrible secrets with the world.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:16 |
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Armani Glasses posted:This is exactly what Capitalism wants, to ignore the terrifying messages in place of font warfare. Big Printing wants us to think of anything that looks handwritten as inferior.
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Darth Walrus posted:While government cuts have probably been less than kind to the UK’s submarine fleet, the only comical shitshow in that ‘report’ was the author himself. He was a hysterical, paranoid idiot who spent a couple of days on the job before running away screaming after finding out that, among other things, crew on Vanguard-class boats live in the missile rooms (which is where the actual official quarters are, because the missile tubes are gigantic metal columns that take up about a third of the boat), and that the gate guards didn’t check his pass so often once they recognised his face. He then went into hiding under the assumption that the government would assassinate him for sharing these great and terrible secrets with the world. There was also that time they did a nuclear ICBM test targeted at Africa that actually flew at Florida. Then it was decided that the test was a success, with the argument that the success is that the test was carried out. Which is literally true, but not at all what people expect when you declare in official paperwork that the test was successful. And that was in 2017. Right before a vote about continuing the Trident program. The submarine and crew all passed the certification based on this. The particular person and report might be bogus, but poo poo is still really hosed up.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 11:17 |
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It's not like competence matters Once the first few nukes start flying, the world as we know it will end no matter where they end up
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Zzulu posted:It's not like competence matters For instance, if they all accidentally fly up and hit the North Pole, the Earth will be knocked out of its orbit and spiral down into the Sun.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 12:01 |
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lol if the UK accidentally nukes America I suppose if a full on nuclear war happens you can just fling them wherever you want, won't be many people who can trace trajectories to particular countries. Especially from subs.
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Pirate Radar posted:For instance, if they all accidentally fly up and hit the North Pole, the Earth will be knocked out of its orbit and spiral down into the Sun.
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I’m kidding, that’s the plot of a video game
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 12:30 |
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Armani Glasses posted:https://twitter.com/publiclibnews/status/1026813279765766144 It’s a Stephen Hawking quote. By ‘work’ I don’t think he necessarily meant some crappy 9-5 job, rather that you should never give up on your life’s work that you’re passionate about. Makes sense for a library.
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Armani Glasses posted:https://twitter.com/publiclibnews/status/1026813279765766144 lol arbeit macht frei
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SEX BURRITO posted:It’s a Stephen Hawking quote. By ‘work’ I don’t think he necessarily meant some crappy 9-5 job, rather that you should never give up on your life’s work that you’re passionate about. Makes sense for a library. Yeah and now he's dead
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 13:08 |
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Yeah and now he's dead but not before leaving his wife for a nurse and estranging his kids and then divorcing the nurse maybe ignore his life advice about dedicating yourself to work
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 13:37 |
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lol, the idea that you should find a purpose and structure in life isn't that controversial, dude
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steinrokkan posted:lol, the idea that you should find a purpose and structure in life isn't that controversial, dude "I just wanna be me, I'm my own man." *is a 45 year old living in his mom's basement*
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steinrokkan posted:lol, the idea that you should find a purpose and structure in life isn't that controversial, dude In a late capitalist world, where PhD graduates work as baristas and UK police are having to take on second jobs to make ends meet, it is spectacularly tone deaf.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 14:36 |
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https://twitter.com/OxfordWorker/status/1027086465338105856
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 14:46 |
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Wish more cops would meet their ends tbph
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https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1026936173091082242
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Strudel Man posted:Is there a source for this, because it doesn't seem very credible that no one would be willing to act as ordered when they know there will be no actual harm to it. Yes, my post 2 posts down from that one
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 16:11 |
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I know that in hell year 2018 it's super hard to believe that anyone wouldn't just mash the "end world" button as hard as they could under any circumstance but apparently there was a time this was true
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The continued existence of QR codes at all outside of ticket-taking is a weird capitalism quirk. I think I maybe scanned one in my lifetime, to test out the QR code app that I downloaded. I've certainly never seen anyone else scanning them. But some class of marketing person somewhere added "QR codes" to their toolkit a decade ago, and they're still peddling the same bullshits about them to upper management, who have no idea how the rabble lives so you can lie to them at will about how to market to the rabble.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 16:32 |
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PostNouveau posted:The continued existence of QR codes at all outside of ticket-taking is a weird capitalism quirk. I think I maybe scanned one in my lifetime, to test out the QR code app that I downloaded. I've certainly never seen anyone else scanning them. I lived in a poor country for a year the same year smart phones and qr codes exploded and I came back really confused about what their weird loving squares everywhere were It was like traveling to the future
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https://twitter.com/dacy_essex/status/1026992110615060480 Zeppelin Insanity posted:There was also that time they did a nuclear ICBM test targeted at Africa that actually flew at Florida. I assume they jokingly punched 'third world shithole' into the targeting computer and the experimental AI came to the logical conclusion. Outrail has issued a correction as of 16:44 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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PostNouveau posted:The continued existence of QR codes at all outside of ticket-taking is a weird capitalism quirk. I think I maybe scanned one in my lifetime, to test out the QR code app that I downloaded. I've certainly never seen anyone else scanning them. I'm pretty sure I uninstalled my QR code scanner months ago. I mean, I could unlock my phone, open my QR app, awkwardly aim my phone at a sign until it focuses while looking like an idiot, and then wait for Chrome to start up and load the website. Or, I could unlock my phone, open Chrome, google whatever the ad is for, and click on one of probably the first three results, all without having to actually come to a stop most of the time, just slowing down. I never come across them otherwise, outside of tickets like you said.
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bradzilla posted:Weapons of mass destruction contracted by the federal government to the ier friends, cronies, and companies they own a personal stake in.
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