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Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
All Watched Over By Sucking Machines Of Loving Grace

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fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


Former DILF posted:

wow that's fascinating, if you have a link on this? i'd like to know more

e: bacteria have another thing that makes them strong, they can pass around snippets of DNA and immunize or otherwise empower anything that can use the genes they emit like, all the time.

bacteria own and are the true rulers of this earth. even our mass extinction pales in comparison to some they have done. CO2 aint poo poo against poisonous hydrogen sulfide wiping out the majority of life on earth

when we are gone they will continue on and devour the corpse of our society

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
Bacteria ain't got poo poo on bacteriophages. We are hopelessly outnumbered

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Former DILF posted:

wow that's fascinating, if you have a link on this? i'd like to know more

e: bacteria have another thing that makes them strong, they can pass around snippets of DNA and immunize or otherwise empower anything that can use the genes they emit like, all the time.

Here's the wiki article on it that has a brief summary paragraph that covers the basics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxworm#Biodegradation_of_plastic

I'm sure you can find other stuff on it too since it's an active area of research.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Tastykake posted:

bacteria own and are the true rulers of this earth. even our mass extinction pales in comparison to some they have done. CO2 aint poo poo against poisonous hydrogen sulfide wiping out the majority of life on earth

when we are gone they will continue on and devour the corpse of our society

I mean gently caress when some microbes first figured out how to make oxygen it killed nearly all life on earth because at the time oxygen was super duper toxic to everything since it was so reactive and nothing had evolved with it in the environment.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Just gotta get a grub that eats garbage and shits the finest exotic silks. Welcome to the future

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

SniperWoreConverse posted:

a grub that eats garbage and shits the finest exotic silks

mods please change my name to the aforequoted

solarNativity
Nov 11, 2012


Only 109 hours?

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

etalian posted:

lol

The Autoblow A.I. is loaded with a lot of math, and the sweat, tears, and potential carpal tunnel syndrome sacrifices of many people. But at the end of the day, despite all the statistics and machine learning, it’s still just a plastic can with a silicone sleeve that goes up and down on your dick.
It won't electrocute your dick though

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Dreddout posted:

It won't electrocute your dick though

You want a machine that can suck your dick and electrocute it at the same time? My friend the niche sex industry has got you covered as long as you have $1000+ to spend and a spare room to deploy the supporting hardware in.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Dreddout posted:

It won't electrocute your dick though

THEN WHAT GOOD IS IT

Piell
Sep 3, 2006

Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer


Young Orc

solarNativity posted:

Only 109 hours?

In a row?

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

The best part is I'm not even kidding, you can buy one right now. It's even self-lubricating!

ButtHate
Sep 26, 2007

Shame Boy posted:

Yeah we've known about bacteria that eat plastic for a while, both in the gut of those worms and also because something is consuming the plastic in several parts of the ocean. Plastic's got a ton of chemical energy locked up in it so any bacteria that figures out how to eat that poo poo efficiently is gonna have a big advantage, I'm surprised it hasn't happened faster tbh.

Something https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/22/microplastics-found-in-human-stools-for-the-first-time

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!



I'M DA TRASH MAN! I THROW TRASH AROUND DA RING AND I EAT IT!

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Shame Boy posted:

I mean gently caress when some microbes first figured out how to make oxygen it killed nearly all life on earth because at the time oxygen was super duper toxic to everything since it was so reactive and nothing had evolved with it in the environment.

Æons later, proto‐trees were like “watch this” and built indestructible trunks out of the polymer lignin.

They gobbled up carbon and pumped the atmosphere with enough oxygen to grow dragonflies with wingspans comparable to your armspan.

It took sixty million years before fungus evolved the ability to break it down. Before that, trees just got buried or bunt. Thing burnt well in an atmosphere of 35% oxygen (modern figure is 21%). Plant matter that escaped the fires became the coal deposits we dig up today.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Don Pigeon posted:

This is exactly why no one is going to go to Mars. No profit to be made there. you can't expect the private sector to care about places where exploitation is pretty much impossible.
the reason for going to mars for these rich people is the same reason they have yachts with yachts inside them

zebedy
Feb 25, 2006
well?
wth im a socialist now

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

etalian posted:

It’s still just a plastic can with a silicone sleeve that goes up and down on your dick.

You just described a safe sex Californian tittyfuck.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

what



.....loving what?

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
Bortles!

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001


Looks like he's on pace for a career game too!

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Tashilicious posted:

what



.....loving what?

Uh yeah. Wtf?

Guessing the provider has a deal going with them or something? That's some hard bullshit right there. 'sign up for our sportsball 10gb upgrade package!'

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Lol. At&t customers.

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Outrail posted:

Uh yeah. Wtf?

Guessing the provider has a deal going with them or something? That's some hard bullshit right there. 'sign up for our sportsball 10gb upgrade package!'

Only thing I can think of is that the persons cell phone plan is with the same company as the cable company, but the area they are connecting to the wifi does not have a sports package on their cable.

Homocow
Apr 24, 2007

Extremely bad poster!
DO NOT QUOTE!


Pillbug
stealing from the other thread because jfc



they forgot to mention the part where he praised the previous military dictatorship and said if he was ever elected president he would create a dictatorship

Captain Billy Pissboy
Oct 25, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice
they dont even bother to pretend anymore. theyve dropped the whole "capitalism is about freedom" charade and just openly support dictatorships

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
America has a long history of supporting dictators in Latin America.

Captain Billy Pissboy
Oct 25, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice

Platystemon posted:

America has a long history of supporting dictators in Latin America.

of course but didnt the media used to try and mask it behind "fighting communism" or "promoting democracy"?

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

of course but didnt the media used to try and mask it behind "fighting communism" or "promoting democracy"?

Mostly protecting business interests.

See banana republics.

Homocow
Apr 24, 2007

Extremely bad poster!
DO NOT QUOTE!


Pillbug
e: wrong thread

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Platystemon posted:

America has a long history of supporting dictators in Latin America.


Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

of course but didnt the media used to try and mask it behind "fighting communism" or "promoting democracy"?

cbc is canadian, don't blame us

Elman
Oct 26, 2009

Platystemon posted:

America has a long history of supporting dictators in Latin America.

That's unfair.

It's not just in Latin America.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

of course but didnt the media used to try and mask it behind "fighting communism" or "promoting democracy"?
this isn't new at all

the new york times was using the words democracy and freedom to discuss the start of the last rightwing military dictatorship in brazil and provided an extremely biased narrative in favor of the rightwing military coup
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/01/archives/military-region-in-brazil-rebels-against-goulart-general-proclaims.html

quote:

He said the troops' objective was to guarantee liberty.

General Mourão issued a proclamation to the country on the Juiz de Fora Radio.

He said, “For more than two years, the enemies of order and democracy, shielded by the impunity given by the President, have been acting without respect for the institutions, scorning the armed forces and weak‐ ening the respect due to the public authorities in any civilized nation.”

He continued: “Spurious organizations of political unions maneuvered by Brazil's enemies, confessed Communists, have be‐ come more audacious under the President's stimulation and seek to make the world believe they speak in the name of the Brazilian workman when they speak in the name of a foreign state whose imperialist interests they serve as subversive criminals to betray the Brazilian nation.”

General Mourão continued, “The present Government, whose intentions deny Brazil's sovereignty, has been serving those labor organizations, giving them official and semiofficial support, even giving them the power to hire and fire ministers, generals and high officials, seeking this way to undermine true democratic institutions and establishing totalitarianism, which is opposed to the republican and judicial order and even social progress.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/03/archives/in-the-nation-while-the-dust-is-settling-in-brazil.html
the new york time is fond of describing right wing coups as "stabilizing" in much the same way US intervention in the middle east is "stabilizing"

quote:

The news from Brazil of President Goulart's overthrow and flight has been received in Washington with quiet satisfaction. If the stabilizing effects of these events on orderly government are to be preserved and strengthened, the accent here should continue to be on the adjective “quiet” For gloating by Washington over the collapse of Goulart's effort to establish a neo‐Communist regime in Brazil—and prolong it by removing the constitutional ban against consecutive Presidential succession—would stimulate the natural impulse of Latin‐American peoples to resent any implication of yielding to United States pressures. And the anti‐Communist liberals of Brazil would be alienated by an official Washington interpretation that the “right” dispossessed the “left” in the almost bloodless revolution.

quote:

Goulart's overthrow affords another opportunity for the economic and social stabilization of Brazil. The attitude of the Johnson Administration appears to be the wise one of letting the dust of the peaceful, constitutional revolution settle, and leaving to the new regime the initiative for resuming the cooperation offered by the United States, on the sound conditions which Goulart accepted and then disregarded. The seemingly democratic character of the caretaker government which the revolutionists have instaled, and the prospect that its successor will be of like character, have led Washington to the hopeful assumption that this initiative will be forthcoming on acceptable terms. If this shall be confirmed by developments, the gathering menace to the freedom and security of the hemisphere, in its largest territorial nation, will have been dispelled.

quote:

The fear that it won't be arises from indications that a nationalist‐[high] officer combination will try to push Goulart into an assumption of absolute power during 1964 that this combination will exercise. Thus far, however, he does not have the Army support [which is] indispensable, and the Army as a whole remains the great protector of legality and democracy in Brazil.

Events have shown the accuracy of this estimate. The Army was the principal agent in the protection of legality and democracy that was implicit in the overthrow of Goulart. But the Navy rose up against the President's release of 1,425 sailors who had been arrested for a mutiny in which Communist and neo‐Communist doctrines were asserted. And, though a handful of Admirals and Generals were pro‐Goulart, the officer echelons below sustained their repute as devoted guardians of legal and democratic processes.

Thereby constitutional government was preserved in Brazil because the national charter prescribes that Congress takes over when a President vacates his post. Thus the United States is relieved of the problem of recognition that is created when a constitutional government is overthrown by an unconstitutional one, especially in an allied nation.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/05/archives/brazil-coup-affects-whole-continent-overthrow-of-goulart-is.html
the new york time likes to also describe a rightwing miltiary coup on the eve of military dictatorship as bolstering moderates in article title

quote:

BRAZIL COUP AFFECTS WHOLE CONTINENT; Overthrow of Goulart Is Expected to Bolster the Moderates and Set Back the Communists

quote:

If a single motivation could be detected in the coup, which was engineered jointly by group of civilian state governors‐all nors—all of them, incidentally, elected officials in their own right—and of military commanders, it was their concern to maintain the democratic framework in Brazil.

quote:

The total image of the Brazilian revolution, as it began to emerge late this week from the initial confusion, seemed then to add up to a national desire for moderate and democratic solutions to Brazil's awesome social and economic problems, most of which were acutely aggravated by Mr. Goulart's politicking and mismanagement for the last two and a half years.

In this sense, the Brazilian coup could be regarded as both a powerful shot in the arm for the cause of democratic moderation in Latin America and as a bitter defeat for the Communist movements, notably Premier Fidel Castro in Cuba.
note how the new york times describes a contemporaneous democratic election in chile as problematic:

quote:

Among those, perhaps the most important is Chile where a crucial Presidential election is to be held next September. Following a key Congr essional by‐election in Curico Province last month, the chances of victory of Senator Salvador Allende, candidate of the SocialistCommunist Popular Action Front, had soared to the point of making Chile into one of Washington's gravest concerns.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/03/archives/reform-in-brazil-off-to-a-slow-start-despite-ease-of-goularts.html
the new york times headlines a coup and rightwing military dictatorship as reform and revolution

quote:

REFORM IN BRAZIL OFF TO A SLOW START; Despite Ease of Goulart's Ouster the Revolution Is Hesitant and Uncertain of Its Goals

quote:

The broadly based military and civil movement that rose against Mr. Goulart a month ago was fully agreed only on the main objective, which was to end the “intolerable situation” posed by Mr. Goulart's Administration. This proved surprisingly easy. Mr. Goulart's political “apparatus” of left‐wing nationalist army officers and sergeants, Communist ‐ infiltrated unions and radical students collapsed almost without the firing of a shot.

quote:

So far these indications of extreme rightist tendencies are isolated, but they are a source of concern to supporters of the regime who believe in its democratic reform potential.

quote:

There is freedom of the press under the new regime, and several newspapers, led by the independent Correio da Manha, have called for rectification of “excesses” committed in the first days of the revolution. Among these they include the suspension of political rights for 10 years of Celso Furtado, an economist. who headed Brazil's northeast economic development agency in a major cooperation effort with the United States under the Alliance for Progress.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


I sub kindergarten and am in regular contact with the kindergarten teachers across the district. There's a PHD at the city offices who's over our program. None of us have ever seen, or spoken, to this individual except for one time I had to ask about a flyer for a thing I was helping with (I needed his beaurocratic approval) and I had to ask around because none of us even knew who he was.

I bet his salary is deep into 6 figures. His office also has a secretary (that I had to go through to talk to him).

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Dead Beef posted:

stealing from the other thread because jfc



they forgot to mention the part where he praised the previous military dictatorship and said if he was ever elected president he would create a dictatorship

Note that the former dictator has referred to him as "beyond the pale".

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

this is dumb because the blowjobs in a porno are probably performed to look sexy but not get the guy to blow his load since that would make him have to take a break from filming to recuperate

basically this machine is going to give terrible bjs

Catpain Slack
Apr 1, 2014

BAAAAAAH

Plank Walker posted:

this is dumb because the blowjobs in a porno are probably performed to look sexy but not get the guy to blow his load since that would make him have to take a break from filming to recuperate

basically this machine is going to give terrible visually stunning bjs

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Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Plank Walker posted:

this is dumb because the blowjobs in a porno are probably performed to look sexy but not get the guy to blow his load since that would make him have to take a break from filming to recuperate

basically this machine is going to give terrible bjs

A novel spin on "garbage in, garbage out"

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