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Echo Chamber posted:Caught up the last four episodes in the past two days. Yay, I got relive the Kavanaugh saga. It really should be no surprise that the country's headed towards destruction when you can't find the money in the budget to even invest in a decent sprinkler system but boy howdy can the cops shoot up favelas. Bust Rodd posted:This episode was really cool and good but I have to admit I had no idea that Brazil was the 5th largest country in the world. 5th most populous too.
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Bust Rodd posted:This episode was really cool and good but I have to admit I had no idea that Brazil was the 5th largest country in the world. Who could blame you, what with all that land that no white man has ever seen and all, I'm surprised anyone knows about Brazil!
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Oct 9, 2018 18:25
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IRQ posted:Who could blame you, what with all that land that no white man has ever seen and all, I'm surprised anyone knows about Brazil! Map nerd and geography geek here. I've known about this since I was a little kid. But it was surprising back then, because most world maps in books were still in the Mercator or Miller cylindrical projection. So, the USSR was absurdly huge at the top of the map; Canada was merely ridiculously huge; China was a big, single-colored blob, so that was easy to grasp as #3; the USA was #4 which wasn't hard to believe with Alaska lording over North America... and then there's Brazil, which wasn't even as big as Canada's Ellesmere Island.
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Oct 9, 2018 18:36
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Two weeks ago, a really chill Brazilian friend of mine from school in the US asked me out of knowhere whether the NSDAP was classified as right wing or left wing, which blew my mind. Turns out a professor of his was basically using memes to point out they were basically socialists (get it, it's in their name), and the conversation shifted to how socialism destroyed Brazil up until now, and they have an election coming up. At this point I could easily guess where the conversation was going. So he introduced me to Balsonaro, who he felt really good about. I knew nothing of the guy, but quick googling yielded that he was pretty drat right wing, which surprised me, knowing my friend, who wasn't right wing at all. He linked me some more videos about who Balsonaro "really" was, and it had a massive cult-of-personality feel to it that reminded me of the huge wave of support Bernie Sanders got from young folks. Some other poo poo was straight-up PragerU-links. I was perplexed bit told him I'd look into the dude some more and then left it at that. This last episode really cleared up how this dude got a fuckton of support by young folks that declare every negative piece about him as fake news. It's so loving mind boggling.
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Oct 9, 2018 19:51
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Numberwang posted:Honestly I'd believe devil's triangle is a drinking game before I believed "Have you boofed yet?" referred to farting. Kavanaugh almost certainly wasn't lying about Devil's Triangle being a drinking game. This is a derail but this is such an easily researched thing that it grates on me that its going to be treated as ridiculous for all time. Kavanaugh Yearbook Scan: https://archive.org/details/cupola-1983/page/n24 News mentioned Kavanaugh and Judge having "Devil's Triangle" in the yearbook entry but there was a bunch of other people who had it too. -There's 9 different people who mention it in their entry in a class of a bit over a hundred. Almost 10% of a class bragging about engaging in MMF threesomes in their yearbook entry strains credibility. -On page 203, there's another student who has "Devil's Triangle Founder Of The Name" in their entry. I can't think of anyway to square this with everyone's insistence that Devil's Triangle was a sex act, much less a commonly understood term for one -On page 160, someone says they were "Lost In Devil's Triangle". Perfect sense as a drinking game, not so much in the MMF threesome sense. -There's other references that are more ambiguous but all of them make more sense as a drinking game then a sex act imo. ("**** Devil's Triangle" on page 223. "Devil's Triangle (Participant)" on page 226) The Avenatti claim about "FFFFFourth of July" being an acronym (Find Them, Feel Them, French Them, gently caress Them, and Forget Them) is obviously wrong as well. After 5 minutes of looking at the yearbook, there's no way anybody could honestly believe it. There's an absolute ton of "FFFFFFFFF" references and no one seems to care at all about the number of F's used. It goes from 4 to 10+, which doesn't make sense if it's acronym but does match it being an onomatopoeia as Kavanaugh claimed in his testimony.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:49
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tarlibone posted:Map nerd and geography geek here. I remember learning in middle school that Brazil was huge (mid 90s) and the narrative then was that it was a sleeping giant similar tonthe US before WW2 and all of the sudden something will happen that will make Brazil a top 3 economy overnight.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:53
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bull3964 posted:Don't worry, we all won't be around long enough to worry about it This won't affect the US, we pulled out of the Paris climate control accords so our country won't be affected by whatever decision they make, right? B since they control the global warming?
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Oct 10, 2018 13:38
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swickles posted:I remember learning in middle school that Brazil was huge (mid 90s) and the narrative then was that it was a sleeping giant similar tonthe US before WW2 and all of the sudden something will happen that will make Brazil a top 3 economy overnight. From what I heard, in the 2000s they were doing pretty well because of high oil prices, but cheap rear end shale oil production in the US and Canada tanking the price hurt them pretty bad.
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Oct 10, 2018 16:23
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swickles posted:I remember learning in middle school that Brazil was huge (mid 90s) and the narrative then was that it was a sleeping giant similar tonthe US before WW2 and all of the sudden something will happen that will make Brazil a top 3 economy overnight. It's pretty hilarious how almost all of the BRICS countries were the next big thing 15 years ago, and almost all of them have imploded spectacularly
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Oct 10, 2018 20:11
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webmeister posted:It's pretty hilarious how almost all of the BRICS countries were the next big thing 15 years ago, and almost all of them have imploded spectacularly Right now it feels like half the world is about to implode so it seems quite fitting.
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Oct 10, 2018 20:36
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It's amazing how capitalism is able to make a planet with an overabundance of resources somehow on the verge of collapse. We have more poo poo than we know what to do with, yet somehow everybody is also running out?
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Oct 10, 2018 23:30
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It feels like there's been a huge rightward shift around the world for the last few years, and I'm not sure there are any signs of things getting better. Many democracies had far right people take charge, Canada and France managed to barely squeak by, and the countries that were already super oppressive had big milestones for their consolidation of power, like China appointing its dictator for life and Israel finally putting down in words their policy for only jews to have self-determination. It also feels like all this came out of nowhere, with seemingly unrelated reasons for the far right rising in every country. Is it just the natural progression of things?
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Oct 11, 2018 00:08
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It's just what happens once media technology can disseminate messages across the whole world at once Far right concepts, like cults and religions, exist in the first place because they are very good at self-propagation to the point of out-competing other ideas and cultural memes. All the moreso once there is mass media. Mass media is never going away, but hopefully we invent mass education sometime soon to balance it out Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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Oct 11, 2018 00:40
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Dumb Lowtax posted:It's just what happens once media technology can disseminate messages across the whole world at once The Internet makes idiots, and idiocy in general, powerful.
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Oct 11, 2018 00:48
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SickZip posted:Kavanaugh almost certainly wasn't lying about Devil's Triangle being a drinking game. This is a derail but this is such an easily researched thing that it grates on me that its going to be treated as ridiculous for all time. Have you seen Eyes Wide Shut? "Who do you think those people were? Those were not just some ordinary people. If I told you their names... no, I'm not going to tell you their names... but if I did, I don't think you'd sleep so well at night."
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Oct 11, 2018 02:42
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Kavanaugh took a long time to answer “drinking game” for Devil’s Triangle which implies lying. Also he said boofing is farting but obviously nobody would write in their yearbook, “Have you farted yet?” And “Renate alumnus” is clearly sexual since Renate herself was offended when she found out about it. If it was just some indication of friendship, which grammatically and logically doesn’t make sense, then she wouldn’t be upset. We have a SCOTUS judge who is a likely sexual assaulter and definite alcoholic who perjured himself but Republicans overlooked it and Democrats were unable to exploit as usual because reality is the darkest timeline. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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Oct 11, 2018 03:00
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I know this seems likena contrarian opinion but, I actually really like the term boofing as a synonym for farting.
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Oct 11, 2018 03:09
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It isn't weird until you think it's also cool and normal to ask people things like "have you boofed yet" if it means farting.
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Oct 11, 2018 04:49
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Nobody since maybe the early 1900s has called farting boofed, cause farting is already perfect.
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Oct 11, 2018 05:02
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In some SNL podcasts recorded last year, the hosts sometimes use boof in the context of, “this episode really boofs it.” Sounds like a synonym for beefing it, wiping out, eating poo poo. It isn’t unbelievable that, 35 years prior, in high school (wherein - and science proves this - everyone says stupid poo poo,) it could have had scatalogical implications It’s also not unbelievable that kavanaugh did sex no-nos
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Oct 11, 2018 05:24
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pwn posted:In some SNL podcasts recorded last year, the hosts sometimes use boof in the context of, “this episode really boofs it.” Sounds like a synonym for beefing it, wiping out, eating poo poo. It isn’t unbelievable that, 35 years prior, in high school (wherein - and science proves this - everyone says stupid poo poo,) it could have had scatalogical implications if it's anything other than farting like he said, it was lying under oath which means he shouldn't be sitting on the bench. That's why these silly questions matter and the fact that they were just glossed over as silly questions is so infuriating.
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Oct 11, 2018 05:26
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There were so many simple ways to answer the questions he was asked ("A lot of those yearbook references were crude references to sex or alcohol, but I've matured over the decades," or "I may have blacked out when experimenting with alcohol when I was too young to do so, but I have no knowledge of any connection at all to Dr. Ford and I've since drastically cut down my alcohol consumption to appropriate levels,") that the fact that he had to lie so much, redirect, and be generally evasive is a huge loving red flag. It's thus likely that he is guilty of the accusations and any of them (not to mention all the perjury) should disqualify him from serving as a judge at any level.
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Oct 11, 2018 06:24
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It's not so much that he's lying as he is such a terrible liar. And nobody gives a gently caress. Nobody. Just piss on everybody's faces and tell them it's raining. And of course he's a bad liar. He's a loving idiot. You don't get to be #1 pick for fascist stooge by having a brain, independent will, principles, or skills.
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For anyone wondering why this is all happening now, Mark Blyth—an economics professor at Brown University—gives a lot of excellent hour+ talks on the subject. Here's one of his storer ones that condense many of the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4nZ43N8Qy0 TDLR: a common theme for the last few decades is capital in the social democracies selling out labor to maintain profit margins. We're reaching a point where the current system in the west is squeezing people to the breaking point, which leaves them much more susceptible to populist appeals from both the right and left. Tack on a whole bunch of looming crises resulting from climate change, and a resurgence of authoritarianism in traditionally conservative countries like Russia and China... we're probably in for a rough few decades, and we're better positioned to endure than a lot of places. Countries with less wealth and stability are in for a poo poo time, and folks suck in developing nations where climate change will hit hardest are probably completely hosed.
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Atomizer posted:There were so many simple ways to answer the questions he was asked ("A lot of those yearbook references were crude references to sex or alcohol, but I've matured over the decades," or "I may have blacked out when experimenting with alcohol when I was too young to do so, but I have no knowledge of any connection at all to Dr. Ford and I've since drastically cut down my alcohol consumption to appropriate levels,") that the fact that he had to lie so much, redirect, and be generally evasive is a huge loving red flag. It's thus likely that he is guilty of the accusations and any of them (not to mention all the perjury) should disqualify him from serving as a judge at any level. Yeah, like as a judge he should really understand cross-examination 101. You don't ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to. Does he think that somehow they were genuinely curious about what those terms actually meant? The whole point of asking those questions is that you either get them on the record as having done the thing they've been accused of doing, or they perjure themselves, and a judge should KNOW THAT. Refusing to answer would have been better than lying. So not only does lying demonstrate that he's a lovely person, but also that he's specifically lovely at the job he was supposedly being interviewed for.
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Oct 11, 2018 07:43
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"I don't feel comfortable answering that question." "That subject has nothing to do with the position for which I'm nominated." "I don't remember, it was 35 years ago." I mean, gently caress, if I can come up with reasonable answers to the questions he was asked, does that mean I'm qualified to be a Supreme Court justice? Or does that mean I'm over-qualified? Oh wait, now I remember, in Der Trump Reich the least-qualified and/or most-criminally-exposed people get the positions of power! 
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Oct 11, 2018 08:30
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It's a bit odd that in the US the word 'boof' means some kind of butt stuff (anal sex, buttchugging, farting) but here in Australia it's usually associated with heads ('boofhead' means 'fat head' or idiot, 'boofy' means 'a bit of a fat head' or 'a bit of an idiot' or a bouffant hair style). Apparently we got it from 'bufflehead' in the 1940s but I have no idea if that's true.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's a bit odd that in the US the word 'boof' means some kind of butt stuff (anal sex, buttchugging, farting) but here in Australia it's usually associated with heads ('boofhead' means 'fat head' or idiot, 'boofy' means 'a bit of a fat head' or 'a bit of an idiot' or a bouffant hair style). Apparently we got it from 'bufflehead' in the 1940s but I have no idea if that's true. I hadn't actually heard that word until the Kavanaugh thing, at least not counting how you'd transcribe words uttered in an urban patois, i.e. "boof=booth," "teef=teeth," "birfday=birthday," "earf=Earth," etc. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Atomizer posted:I hadn't actually heard that word until the Kavanaugh thing, at least not counting how you'd transcribe words uttered in an urban patois, i.e. "boof=booth," "teef=teeth," "birfday=birthday," "earf=Earth," etc. Why on earth did you feel the need to add that exception?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's a bit odd that in the US the word 'boof' means some kind of butt stuff (anal sex, buttchugging, farting) but here in Australia it's usually associated with heads ('boofhead' means 'fat head' or idiot, 'boofy' means 'a bit of a fat head' or 'a bit of an idiot' or a bouffant hair style). Apparently we got it from 'bufflehead' in the 1940s but I have no idea if that's true. I’m Australian as well, and I’ve definitely heard boof used as slang for sex. Could be a regional thing, though I’ve definitely heard boofhead a few times. Hell, the coach of our national cricket team until recently was a bloke nicknamed Boof.
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I mean I'm pretty sure that fuckhead is a universal term for someone who's an idiot so I don't think any of this really clears things up.
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SlothfulCobra posted:It's not so much that he's lying as he is such a terrible liar. And nobody gives a gently caress. Nobody. Just piss on everybody's faces and tell them it's raining. It's the Russian strategy really. "Those uniformed soldiers carrying non-export models of Russian made weaponry suddenly showing up in eastern Ukraine just all decided to go their on vacaction on their own accord." Then just smile as no consequences occur.
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Fart Bonser was a great pitcher in high school but his arm just didn’t last.
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Phenotype posted:Why on earth did you feel the need to add that exception? This was self-explanatory, so why did you feel the need to ask that question? I wrote that I've never heard that word in my life in response to the post directly above mine which suggests that we in the US use "boof" to mean something else. The point was, no, we really don't use it, as evidenced by the whole controversy over what the word actually means.
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I just thought it was weird to feel the need to add "except when the urbans mispronounce words the way they do." You could have just said "I've never heard that word before" and it wouldn't have to sound vaguely racist.
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Phenotype posted:I just thought it was weird to feel the need to add "except when the urbans mispronounce words the way they do." You could have just said "I've never heard that word before" and it wouldn't have to sound vaguely racist. Well the "urban patois" part was a Rick & Morty reference, but despite that it's not remotely racist to refer to a given speech pattern as "urban." I mean you drew the "racist" implication yourself, and it's not racist even then because I made no reference to ethnicity nor any allegation of superiority or inferiority thereof. Hell, I affectionately use those pronunciations myself, except for "boof" which like I said wasn't a thing here (outside of preppie rapists, apparently.)
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TheBizzness posted:Fart Bonser was a great pitcher in high school but his arm just didn’t last. This reminds me that Grant Brisbee’s original Giants blog was called “Waiting for Boof”. And it’s so much funnier now.
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I’ve only ever heard boof referring to popping pills in your butt and I gotta tell you it sounds dumb but holy gently caress does it work. If I ever heard an adult refer to sex as boofing I’d immediately question the legitimacy of their sexual career in its entirety. The first time I boofed something I was convinced my friends had tricked me and there was no way it really worked and I was just silly for putting an e pill in my rear end and by the time I made back from the bathroom to the bedroom I was completely loving bombed. It’s INSANE how quickly it works. I just seriously doubt kids in 82 had good e-pills so they must have been boofing, like, qualudes or some poo poo. Also Atomizer, it might not have been racist but you’re absolutely not using patois correctly and backing up your weird choice with Rick & Morty makes you sound like a reddit troll so maybe take a step back from defending your hella dumb turn of phrase my dawg
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Bust Rodd posted:I’ve only ever heard boof referring to popping pills in your butt and I gotta tell you it sounds dumb but holy gently caress does it work. If I ever heard an adult refer to sex as boofing I’d immediately question the legitimacy of their sexual career in its entirety. 
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Atomizer posted:Well the "urban patois" part was a Rick & Morty reference, but despite that it's not remotely racist to refer to a given speech pattern as "urban." I mean you drew the "racist" implication yourself, and it's not racist even then because I made no reference to ethnicity nor any allegation of superiority or inferiority thereof. Hell, I affectionately use those pronunciations myself, except for "boof" which like I said wasn't a thing here (outside of preppie rapists, apparently.) Welp, he likes rick and morty and used the word "thereof" in a sentence, I guess he's off the hook for sounding kinda racist. Thems the rules.
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