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Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1072732961865269248

Bert Roberge has issued a correction as of 10:14 on Dec 12, 2018

# ? Dec 12, 2018 10:07

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# ? May 23, 2024 01:28

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1072801016125493255

:thunk:

# ? Dec 12, 2018 11:33

Gum: Mar 9, 2008; _{oho, a rapist

time to try this puppy out}

https://twitter.com/pamfoundation/status/1072617041008488449?s=19

# ? Dec 12, 2018 11:36

Slugnoid: Jun 23, 2006; Nap Ghost

Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

Forest fires 200,000,000 gallons
Cities 150,000,000 gallons
Almonds 36,000,000,000 gallons
Wetlands 10,000,000 gallons
someone who is good at ecology please help me budget this. my state is drying

# ? Dec 12, 2018 11:46

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

Forest fires 200,000,000 gallons
Cities 150,000,000 gallons
Almonds 36,000,000,000 gallons
Wetlands 10,000,000 gallons
someone who is good at ecology please help me budget this. my state is drying

How are almonds still so relatively cheap if they take so many resources to grow?

Subsidies?

# ? Dec 12, 2018 11:51

voiceless anal fricative: May 6, 2007

Bert Roberge posted:

How are almonds still so relatively cheap if they take so many resources to grow?

Subsidies?

Because they don't pay for the water, only for the delivery mechanisms.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 11:55

Koschei: Sep 14, 2007; Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Mycroft Holmes posted:

welp, I'm probably going to have a job when the new year starts. It's going to have excellent benefits, full healthcare, dental, etc.

the bad news is now I work for the Defense Logistics Agency and therefore helping the US and it's allies murder browns.

Radicalize your co-workers and take over the organization!

# ? Dec 12, 2018 11:58

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

Bert Roberge posted:

How are almonds still so relatively cheap if they take so many resources to grow?

Subsidies?

Make the cost public and the profits private :capitalism:

# ? Dec 12, 2018 12:56

Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

Dreddout posted:

Welcome back buddy

thank you friend

# ? Dec 12, 2018 13:09

Plutonis: Mar 25, 2011

Look for Yasha Levine's "Pistachio Wars" if you want to see the insanity that is Cali's agriculture

# ? Dec 12, 2018 13:16

frankenfreak: Feb 16, 2007; I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

Gum posted:

https://twitter.com/pamfoundation/status/1072617041008488449?s=19

Of all the bizarre poo poo in this timeline, Pam Anderson's political awakening os one of the more perplexing to me.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 14:00

Impkins Patootie: Apr 20, 2017

# ? Dec 12, 2018 14:12

Zombies magazine: Oct 17, 2005; Firmly grasp the

woke pam is loving wild

# ? Dec 12, 2018 14:35

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

Zillions magazine posted:

woke pam is loving wild

Trump should appoint her ambassador to France.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 14:40

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/DavidCovucci/status/1072530998443892736

# ? Dec 12, 2018 15:05

Feral Integral: Jun 6, 2006; YOSPOS

Bert Roberge posted:

How are almonds still so relatively cheap if they take so many resources to grow?

Subsidies?

You'll want to check out the latest dollop. Also, prob chomp on one of those wood dowel things they give people for shock treatment so you don't grind your teeth down at the absurdity

# ? Dec 12, 2018 15:44

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Almonds and pistachios are paid for with human misery.

Oh and if you're interested in the California nut game, I can recommend digging into the topic of Nut Theft. This article is kind of long but totally worth the time.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2186526/nut-job

quote:

“When you look at the logistics needed to complete this crime,” he told me, all signs point toward an organized group. “You steal 370,000 pounds of almonds, you’re not �going to sell it on the side of the road.”
In recent years, nut theft has �exploded into a statewide problem. More than 35 loads, worth at least $10 million, have gone missing since 2013. The number and style of the thefts—quick and professional, as if the characters from�Ocean’s Eleven�had descended on the Central Valley—have drawn the attention of federal organized-crime�investigators and prompted the creation of�a regional task force.�

Apparently the Armenian mafia and other cartel-like groups have been orchestrating elaborate thefts of nut harvests. They send fake drivers with forged documents to pick up truckloads of nuts (which can be worth millions of dollars) and then steal them, repackage them, and sell them on the black market. The problem is getting pretty severe, but the only person empowered to stop it was a lone agricultural Detective. However he managed to attract some attention, and A Nut Theft Task Force was created, and in 2015 there was something called "The Emergency Nut Theft Summit"

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:09

ol qwerty bastard: Dec 13, 2005; If you want something done, do it yourself!

My question is why is there even such a big market for pistachios and almonds which are, let's be honest, poo poo-tier nuts. Is this linked to the global conspiracy to ruin cookies by putting almonds in them?

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:15

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Yes, kind of

Pistachios and dried fruits are actually delicious, especially ones grown in the middle east (particularly Iran) but the California companies that produce them have a monopoly on them, and use their financial influence on Washington to encourage sanctions and embargoes on countries that would be their competition. They also aggressively push for their own nuts to be sold. With their monopoly secure they can make the nuts as poorly as they please, and do such things as use fracking wastewater to water the nuts. It's a nightmare

Edit:

“Pistachio Wars”: How the Resnicks’ Snack Food Fortune is Fueling the Assault on Iran

twoday has issued a correction as of 16:29 on Dec 12, 2018

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:23

Arcella: Dec 16, 2013; Shiny and Chrome

ol qwerty bastard posted:

My question is why is there even such a big market for pistachios and almonds which are, let's be honest, poo poo-tier nuts. Is this linked to the global conspiracy to ruin cookies by putting almonds in them?

My guess is almond milk?

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:26

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

almonds rule

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:27

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

the advertisements for pistachios with that goddamned cgi elephant are all over MSNBC

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:40

ikanreed: Sep 25, 2009; I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

emdash posted:

almonds rule

Eat raw almonds.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:46

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

Zillions magazine posted:

woke pam is loving wild

Wasn't she always kind of ecolo, like anti-fur and pro-wildlife and stuff? I vaguely remember something like that from the 90s.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:50

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

Too bad she's a big time zionist donor though

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:51

DiggityDoink: Dec 9, 2007

ol qwerty bastard posted:

My question is why is there even such a big market for pistachios and almonds which are, let's be honest, poo poo-tier nuts. Is this linked to the global conspiracy to ruin cookies by putting almonds in them?

Pistachios are not poo poo tier, they're delicious.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 16:52

SplitSoul: Dec 31, 2000

MonsieurChoc posted:

Wasn't she always kind of ecolo, like anti-fur and pro-wildlife and stuff? I vaguely remember something like that from the 90s.

PETA, I think.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:00

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

MonsieurChoc posted:

Wasn't she always kind of ecolo, like anti-fur and pro-wildlife and stuff? I vaguely remember something like that from the 90s.

She was big into PETA.

Mr. Lobe posted:

Too bad she's a big time zionist donor though

Yeah her political position is basically those left-of-center Israelis who know how to say the obvious about how a tiny minority of landlords make it impossible for anyone to own a home, and how "reforms are needed," but never manage to get anywhere because they still unconditionally support the imperialism that reinforces capital.

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:00

The Saucer Hovers: May 16, 2005

Mycroft Holmes posted:

welp, I'm probably going to have a job when the new year starts. It's going to have excellent benefits, full healthcare, dental, etc.

the bad news is now I work for the Defense Logistics Agency and therefore helping the US and it's allies murder browns.

fuk u

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:07

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'

DiggityDoink posted:

Pistachios are not poo poo tier, they're delicious.

we need to abandon saudi arabia to be friends with iran so we can get their delicious nuts

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:24

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'

also so california does not begin to resent the absence (of water)

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:25

MizPiz: May 29, 2013; by Athanatos

Tastykake posted:

we need to abandon saudi arabia to be friends with iran so we can get their delicious nuts

But without the context

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:36

Whorelord: May 1, 2013; Jump into the well...

munching on ahmedinejad's tasty iranian nuts

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:39

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

We need to call on the UN to take action now, and finally do something to get BOFA legislation passed once and for all

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:43

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Mycroft Holmes posted:

welp, I'm probably going to have a job when the new year starts. It's going to have excellent benefits, full healthcare, dental, etc.

the bad news is now I work for the Defense Logistics Agency and therefore helping the US and it's allies murder browns.

browns

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:48

Poniard: Apr 3, 2011

Hey that's what the interviewer said

# ? Dec 12, 2018 17:50

Punkin Spunkin: Jan 1, 2010

Vox Nihili posted:

classics

holy poo poo, rest in piss

# ? Dec 12, 2018 18:33

Retromancer: Aug 21, 2007; Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.