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elmer chud
May 18, 2018
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Let's play real life monopoly

https://dclandlord.org/play-real-life-monopoly/

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Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


Yeah just put your name and address in reply to that tweet and a bunch of us friendly landlord "advocates" will come "help" you

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010


Pretty much everything on The Worst Things for Sale belongs here



It costs $13 and is made of plastic

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

COMRADES posted:

Isn't Australia letting a bunch of migrants drown in the ocean and then fishing bodies out while the gov't goes "see we are tough on immigration?"

Oh no I thought they just sent them to concentration camps to die of starvation :ohdear:

feller
Jul 5, 2006


I’m at work so pretend i screencapped this

https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/2018/8/the-royal-family-drinks-this-water--and-you-can-buy-it-on-amazon

Tetracube
Feb 12, 2014

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

I drank this and my genes got all messed up. now I'm starting to have opinions on age of consent laws

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
There was deffo an article about Australian Coast Guard ptsd as a result of finding tons of corpses in the water

lol


quote:

According to a new poll from Gallup, young Americans are souring on capitalism. Less than half, 45 percent, view capitalism positively.

"This represents a 12-point decline in young adults' positive views of capitalism in just the past two years and a marked shift since 2010, when 68 percent viewed it positively," notes Gallup, which defines young Americans as those aged 18 to 29.

Meanwhile, 51 percent of young people are positive about socialism. This age group's "views of socialism have fluctuated somewhat from year to year," reports Gallup, "but the 51 percent with a positive view today is the same as in 2010."

:ussr:

Moridin920 has issued a correction as of 01:18 on Aug 17, 2018

jeffery
Jan 1, 2013
the proletariat will have an almost perfect score. the bourgeoisie will be in last place due to excessive murders

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

ate all the Oreos posted:

Don't worry all the rich people will feel zero effects from global warming and most of the 2 billion deaths will be poor third worlders dying of floods and famines because we diverted all the remaining arable land to producing almonds and corn, then refused to let them immigrate as their countries were literally swallowed up whole by the ocean because maybe they're just faking it and they're actually terrorists.

Exactly. That's why cleansing thermonuclear fire is the right option because canned sunshine doesn't see privilege.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

Moridin920 posted:

There was deffo an article about Australian Coast Guard ptsd as a result of finding tons of corpses in the water

lol

:ussr:

You'd be surprised at what can cause PTSD. Soldiers that do all their fighting through drones can get PTSD as can therapists who deal with traumatized people. PTSD is rampant among people that drive trains for a living if they end up with something like a person jumping on the tracks in front of them.

As for the young hating capitalism...well really, can you blame them? They're getting hosed over by it.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Oh I'm not surprised at that I'm just remarking on the barbarism of Australia's government

Vaginal Vagrant
Jan 12, 2007

by R. Guyovich
Good, honest, barbarians would just machine gun the migrants, Australia I'm afraid is all too civilized.

certified potato
Feb 27, 2011

JnnyThndrs posted:

Carbon monoxide is a pretty good method; you just go to sleep and your corpse is nice and rosy. Cars aren’t the go-to they used to be because of pollution controls; the most effective way nowadays is a small, well-sealed area with a couple charcoal grills going. They’re huge emitters of CO and you can pick ‘em up cheap and not arouse suspicion. Make sure you do a test run with a good CO meter; you should get a reading of at least 2000ppm to ensure a quick death. Google ‘death by hibachi’ for more details. The lead singer of Boston, Brad Delp, went out this way.

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lol truth

edit: did this, am dead

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Elderbean posted:

Lol think of all the garbage products that left a carbon footprint on the planet that future generations will be paying for. Like imagine starving to death because Shrek 4 and Billy The Big Mouthed Bass had to be shipped to every corner of the globe.

imagine suiting up to head into The Dead Zone so you can mine the rich trash deposits.

XTimmy
Nov 28, 2007
I am Jacks self hatred

SniperWoreConverse posted:

imagine suiting up to head into The Dead Zone so you can mine the rich trash deposits.

The only people given PPE in the trashmines will be the guards. The rest of us will just have to slip a Jimmy cap on like an Indian sewer diver and pray.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Soldiers that do all their fighting through drones can get PTSD

I don't really like when this is used as an example of "gosh even these guys get PTSD", because a lot of people think the drone thing is like playing a videogame when in reality there's an awful lot of "go somewhere, blow up some guys and their family in crystal clear HD, then hover around the location for 4 hours and watch their almost-dead bodies crawling around with no legs, shoot the people who come to try to help the injured, then circle around watching them die for another 4 hours because you also have to confirm the kill and make sure the area's completely dead."

A lot of people (especially the military itself) don't take the psychological effects of murdering someone and being forced to watch them slowly die very seriously and it's way hosed up.

g0lbez
Dec 25, 2004

and then you'll beg
Well that's a little disturbing. I figured manning drones was basically watching blurry people blow up from far away at low resolution.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

g0lbez posted:

Well that's a little disturbing. I figured manning drones was basically watching blurry people blow up from far away at low resolution.

they spend serious money on sensor packages for drones

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:
They upgraded their PTSD package and it cannot be cancelled, it's HD and available 24/7

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
Its fun listening to the ice cold banter of a drone pilot as he chops a stray dog and several vaguely humanoid figures into mince from so far away the bullets take whole seconds to reach the target.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

LAUGHS

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004


more like neoliberal

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

ate all the Oreos posted:

I don't really like when this is used as an example of "gosh even these guys get PTSD", because a lot of people think the drone thing is like playing a videogame when in reality there's an awful lot of "go somewhere, blow up some guys and their family in crystal clear HD, then hover around the location for 4 hours and watch their almost-dead bodies crawling around with no legs, shoot the people who come to try to help the injured, then circle around watching them die for another 4 hours because you also have to confirm the kill and make sure the area's completely dead."

A lot of people (especially the military itself) don't take the psychological effects of murdering someone and being forced to watch them slowly die very seriously and it's way hosed up.

Well, yeah, that's exactly the problem; you have a ton of people thinking "well that guy isn't in any danger, how can he possibly develop PTSD?"

Turns out that pushing a "make people die" button can be pretty traumatic.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

ArmZ posted:

more like neoliberal

:wrong:

Korremar
Mar 1, 2010

You are so big!
So absolutely HUGE!

far from the only time "I'm a liberal" is met with laughs

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

This is virtue signalling.

Actually it’s propaganda not written by a liberal graduate student.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
I could swear I read a 70s or 80s sci-fi story about a soldier with PTSD after fighting in a war where he remote-controlled a terminator suit and mowed down people who were basically fighting him with sticks and stones. Can’t remember what it was called or who the author was.

E: the idea of PTSD from remote warfare has at least been around for a bit, was my point, not just “oh, I read a sci-fi story once”

Pirate Radar has issued a correction as of 13:30 on Aug 17, 2018

Clawtopsy
Dec 17, 2009

What a fascinatingly unusual cock. Now, allow me to show you my collection...

Pirate Radar posted:

I could swear I read a 70s or 80s sci-fi story about a soldier with PTSD after fighting in a war where he remote-controlled a terminator suit and mowed down people who were basically fighting him with sticks and stones. Can’t remember what it was called or who the author was.

E: the idea of PTSD from remote warfare has at least been around for a bit, was my point, not just “oh, I read a sci-fi story once”

it was called "the forever war circa 2030" and the author was the west

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Pirate Radar posted:

I could swear I read a 70s or 80s sci-fi story about a soldier with PTSD after fighting in a war where he remote-controlled a terminator suit and mowed down people who were basically fighting him with sticks and stones. Can’t remember what it was called or who the author was.

E: the idea of PTSD from remote warfare has at least been around for a bit, was my point, not just “oh, I read a sci-fi story once”

The sequels to Ender's Game kinda do this too

Collapsing Farts
Jun 29, 2018

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I didn't know it was a surprise to people that guys who order around flying death machines to pulp other people might get disturbed by the process

They're sitting completely safe yeah and that probably contributes to their PTSD. Only full blown psychos wouldn't start questioning the morality of it and your own role in it after you've hamburgered a bunch of people with your death drone before heading off to lunch while your coworker next to you talks about the latest game of thrones episode

Collapsing Farts
Jun 29, 2018

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I've seen a lot of those infrared war videos where apache pilots/drone pilots shoot up people and I think they are disturbing as gently caress. You see people explode and they have no idea what's happening and absolutely zero chance to fight back

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

Collapsing Farts posted:

I've seen a lot of those infrared war videos where apache pilots/drone pilots shoot up people and I think they are disturbing as gently caress. You see people explode and they have no idea what's happening and absolutely zero chance to fight back

Now imagine what will happen when the guns are inevitably turned against us.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Spazzle posted:

Now imagine what will happen when the guns are inevitably turned against us.

We use our little rag-tag band of freedom fighters and the second amendment to win :patriot:

Collapsing Farts
Jun 29, 2018

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One of the crazier videos is the one where an american attack helicopter is wiping out a whole band of enemy soldiers from a safe distance (business as usual) and this one guy with a machinegun, surrounded by his dead comrades, starts desperately firing at the helicopter he just spotted and somehow miraculously wrecks one of the helis systems so it has to retreat

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Pirate Radar posted:

I could swear I read a 70s or 80s sci-fi story about a soldier with PTSD after fighting in a war where he remote-controlled a terminator suit and mowed down people who were basically fighting him with sticks and stones. Can’t remember what it was called or who the author was.

E: the idea of PTSD from remote warfare has at least been around for a bit, was my point, not just “oh, I read a sci-fi story once”

Sounds like Old Man's War, in which the protagonist breaks down after fighting an army of tiny people who were no more than few inches tall and armed with literal peashooters

Spazzle
Jul 5, 2003

Pirate Radar posted:

I could swear I read a 70s or 80s sci-fi story about a soldier with PTSD after fighting in a war where he remote-controlled a terminator suit and mowed down people who were basically fighting him with sticks and stones. Can’t remember what it was called or who the author was.

E: the idea of PTSD from remote warfare has at least been around for a bit, was my point, not just “oh, I read a sci-fi story once”

It is more recent, but The Forever Peace starts out like that.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Spazzle posted:

It is more recent, but The Forever Peace starts out like that.

Yeah, that’s probably the one you’re thinking of.

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kuddles
Jul 16, 2006

Like a fist wrapped in blood...

Platystemon posted:

This is virtue signalling.

Actually it’s propaganda not written by a liberal graduate student.
It reminds me of all those "I used to be a hardcore liberal but now I'm conservative" or "I used to be atheist but now I'm Christian" things where the conversion stories are always the most unconvincing made-up horseshit.

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