|
AlBorlantern Corps posted:Hmm. I have a nephew with autism. Not so bad he can't be unsupervised sometimes, but bad enough he is probably unemployable and unable to financially support himself. His mom and dad are both likely to die before me, being eight years older. This seems like a conversation you should have with your sister.
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 03:08 |
|
|
Zapf Dingbat posted:Love it when I almost cry at work after reading the news about SE Asian refugees being eligible to be deported. Let me tell you 'bout your blood bamboo kid It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:57
|
|
|
Zapf Dingbat posted:Love it when I almost cry at work after reading the news about SE Asian refugees being eligible to be deported. Not just any refugees, but refugees from a war that we exacerbated and refugees that fought alongside the US in that war. e: I guess refugees from a war or situation that we exacerbated isn't too uncommon.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:58
|
|
|
kidkissinger posted:Let me tell you 'bout your blood bamboo kid I love you
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:58
|
|
|
it is tiring thinking "but that's illegal" every time they do something illegal but at least the courts should strike down this most recent profanity.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:58
|
|
|
blunt posted:Reminder that Piers Morgan allegedly hacked, among others, a dead girl's phone. he also hosed a pig.*
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:58
|
|
|
PhazonLink posted:he also hosed a pig.* I thought that was David Cameron.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:59
|
|
|
Hieronymous Alloy posted:Get him signed up for your state's support system NOW and with any luck by the time the rest of the family dies the support system will still exist. FTFY
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:59
|
|
|
Squalid posted:Eh, you can kind of create measures of fitness in a specific context but when it comes to nature you kind of have o throw your hands up and say “past performance is not indicative of future results.” Saying "evolution is survival of the fittest" then trying to declare figs or snails or humans or bacteria "the fittest" is missing the point by a mile and is a good way to explain evolution very wrongly to people so they don't get it and think it sounds fake.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 21:59
|
|
|
yeah survival of the fittest means only the sexiest animals survive. darwin was english after all.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:00
|
|
|
Fitness meant most able to adapt to a changing environment, not your buff uncle and his gunshowGroovelord Neato posted:yeah survival of the fittest means only the sexiest animals survive. Darwin was really into carnivorous plants, because of how they blurred the lines.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:00
|
|
|
CommieGIR posted:Fitness meant most able to adapt to a changing environment, not your buff uncle and his gunshow
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:01
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1072945944222670848
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:02
|
|
|
Teresa May: 200 yes - 117 no
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:02
|
|
|
i hope people remember me as a champion quarterback in the national football league and an international movie star
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:03
|
|
|
It's BritPol but it looks like May survived the "no-confidence" vote, 200 to 117. EFB
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:03
|
|
|
Theresa May wins. It's not a great margin for her.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:04
|
|
|
marshmonkey posted:Teresa May: If the question: "Do you have confidence" , or "affirm no confidence"
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:05
|
|
|
Well to be fair, she is pretty transparent about how honest she is.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:05
|
|
|
AlBorlantern Corps posted:If the question: "Do you have confidence" , or "affirm no confidence" 117 votes for no confidence, she remains PM
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:06
|
|
|
evilweasel posted:i hope people remember me as a champion quarterback in the national football league and an international movie star Unfortunately, they'll only remember that time you horribly embarrassed yourself in middle school
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:06
|
|
|
That votes is solely of people in her party, it doesn't include the opposition With how slim the majority is, if even like 10% of them vote against the Brexit deal, it would be sunk
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:07
|
|
|
Whoops.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:07
|
|
|
Crow Jane posted:Unfortunately, they'll only remember that time you horribly embarrassed yourself in middle school Yeah, Tickleshits
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:07
|
|
|
Crow Jane posted:Unfortunately, they'll only remember that time you horribly embarrassed yourself in middle school thank god they only remember one!
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:07
|
|
|
Story time! When I was in my teens, I was in the boy scouts, and one of the adult leaders was a guy named Mr. Tran. Really nice guy, really generous, and I still remember when he took my patrol out to the local airport to teach the Aviation merit badge. Sometime later in college, I'm volunteering at a local aviation museum, and one of the exhibits has a gimmick where Vietnam veterans can write their name on a sandbag. Well, imagine my surprise when I see Mr. Tran's name on there. I confirmed with his son later, and learned that he'd been an A-37 Dragonfly pilot for the VNAF who managed to escape to the US. I'm not sure how to finish this so all I'm gonna say is that the very thought that he could be deported because of some xenophobic motherfucker in the White House who has never sacrificed anything for this country or any other is, without question, one of the most disgusting things imaginable.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:08
|
|
|
Margaret Thatcher won her vote too
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:08
|
|
|
The Glumslinger posted:That votes is solely of people in her party, it doesn't include the opposition it also pretty much matches the reports she was going to lose the brexit vote by a hundred votes
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:08
|
|
|
The Glumslinger posted:That votes is solely of people in her party, it doesn't include the opposition Corbyn will probably wait until either a deal is struck or the no deal brexit happens before he pushes for an actual NC vote, you really want the tories to be solely to blame for this.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:09
|
|
|
Seems like our two nations could solve both of our problems if the Brits just sucked it up and entered the union as several new states. We'd get more non GOP Senators and EC points, you'd get a solution to Brexit that doesn't require you to crawl back to the EU with your tail between your legs or run out of food. e: even if it didn't work, the two dumbest electorates on earth would be quarantined in one nation ee: Even your conservatives would win, as they'd get the joy of running of empire once more Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Dec 12, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:11
|
|
|
Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah, really the only objective measure of "fitness" in an evolutionary context would be overall reproductive success, in which case bacteriophage have every other organism beat by several orders of magnitude. It's a silly descriptor, but fine if you don't over-fit your worldview to it yeah, and notice this compares fitness between individuals, rather than between species as InsertPotPun was doing. Owlofcreamcheese posted:Saying "evolution is survival of the fittest" then trying to declare figs or snails or humans or bacteria "the fittest" is missing the point by a mile and is a good way to explain evolution very wrongly to people so they don't get it and think it sounds fake. Right. All organisms alive today are in a sense equally fit: each one represents a legacy that has survived on this earth for 3+ billion years. Is a species that evolves, reproduces into trillions of individuals and billions of tons of biomass, and then goes extinct in a mere 10 million years, more or less fit than another than never tops 3,000 individuals and a ton of biomass but survives for 100 million years? The question makes no sense, even if we had a definition of fitness whereby we could answer the question, that answer would be meaningless and indicate nothing about the organisms and processes involved. By contrast if you are interested in predicting changes in the species make up and proportion of biomass within a specific field over a ten year study, then you can start quantifying a measure of fitness that makes sense in that context. Squalid fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Dec 12, 2018 |
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:12
|
|
|
marshmonkey posted:Teresa May: People were expecting ~80 in the UKPOL thread so that's a significant margin There is speculation that Corbyn can call a no confidence vote on the government and succeed, maybe
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:13
|
|
|
Aren't PMs chosen by a majority vote of all of parliament, not just the majority coalition? Feels weird that they hold onto the job by having the support of the majority of the majority, rather than enough of the majority to be 51% of all of parliament.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:14
|
|
|
Similarly, I hope to be remembered as 'buffer than Schwarzenegger'
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:14
|
|
|
evilweasel posted:thank god they only remember one! Everybody remembers a different one, and then at your funeral they all compare stories
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:14
|
|
|
marshmonkey posted:Teresa May: i don't understand how she's not out on her rear end when a third of her caucus wants her gone. boehner was forced to retire when only 20 or so republicans in congress went against him. Acebuckeye13 posted:Story time! When I was in my teens, I was in the boy scouts, and one of the adult leaders was a guy named Mr. Tran. Really nice guy, really generous, and I still remember when he took my patrol out to the local airport to teach the Aviation merit badge. yeah this vietnam stuff is extra hosed up because i think it would pretty much only cover the political refugees from after south vietnam fell. it's purposefully being a dick to people who sided with us decades later. it's so loving stupid.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:14
|
|
|
I hope I’m remembered as a good poster
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:17
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1072954250832035840 Love me!
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:19
|
|
|
axeil posted:it's purposefully being a dick to people who sided with us decades later. it's so loving stupid. Who even wants them gone? Like who is their presence affecting, besides their own families?
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 03:08 |
|
|
MasterSlowPoke posted:Who even wants them gone? Like who is their presence affecting, besides their own families? None of these policies are based on reason. The cruelty and racism is the point.
|
|
#
?
Dec 12, 2018 22:21
|
|
