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Lightning Knight posted:I mean yes but as far as I know there are no weapons platforms maintained in space and that doing so is barred by treaty, no? Trump is, being the embodiment of everything lovely about the '80s but now worse and more senile, imagining something like Reagan's Star Wars but with gold leaf Trump branding, I'm sure. Technically only weapons of mass destruction are banned in space. A nation could put say a gun platform in orbit but no one has because once one nation does everyone will.
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Aeolusdallas posted:Technically only weapons of mass destruction are banned in space. A nation could put say a gun platform in orbit but no one has because once one nation does everyone will. Unless that thing is a giant rear end railgun what would be the point of that? And that would probably be classified as a WMD.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:09
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Lycus posted:What's the message here? We have to be centrist about this otherwise centrism wins?
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Dec 19, 2018 03:09
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Has any advertiser ever pulled their ads from a piece of media because that media said something too leftist? I dont think that has ever been an issue that has come up since tv is controlled by pretty big companies that will never allow a leftist show on
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Dec 19, 2018 03:10
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Has any advertiser ever pulled their ads from a piece of media because that media said something too leftist? Something about Israel probably.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:15
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cheetah7071 posted:"we aren't allowed to complain about advertisers or nobody will every produce anything controversial ever again" The best response to Nate's hot take is Nike voluntarily inserted itself into an intense political fight solidly on the progressive side by running this ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-grjIUWKoBA And saw a 31% sales increase. Progressive politics aren't brand cancer like conservative hate is.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:17
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:When Nate tries to be a pundit it never goes well. This isn't because he's unusually bad at punditry, it's because pundits are trash and it is impossible to be a good pundit
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Dec 19, 2018 03:18
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Unless that thing is a giant rear end railgun what would be the point of that? Shoot other country's satellites, maybe? I'm not a space warrior, so I don't know if that would easier from the ground. Lycus fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Dec 19, 2018 03:18
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BardoTheConsumer posted:I support building a wall out of bitcoin miners. Your way works too, we can save billions in climate change measures if we grind all bitcoiners into filling for the wall and get take their exponential energy growth out of the equasion.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:21
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Lycus posted:Shoot other country's satellites, maybe? I'm not a space warrior, so I don't know if that would easier from the ground. Voluntary Kessler Syndrone... I like it!
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Dec 19, 2018 03:22
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Has any advertiser ever pulled their ads from a piece of media because that media said something too leftist? Overtly left programs aren't economically viable under a corporate advertising model and don't make it to air in the first place. The thing that Nate worries about is the status quo.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:25
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eke out posted:seriously what the gently caress is he even talking about jesus, its like hitler screaming about how he will rebuild hamburg with golden roofs as the bombs fall on berlin and soviets hosed up his child SS soldiers. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075210867678109697 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075210869007622144
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Dec 19, 2018 03:27
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bartlebee posted:But if it's just steel slats won't they just push the drugs through? Goddammit he is stupid.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:27
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Lycus posted:What's the message here? We have to be centrist about this otherwise centrism wins? Recent exemplary statistician != Street reporter. Meanwhile, the masses react to Nate's hot take https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/1075126307397267457
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Dec 19, 2018 03:31
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I missed the notification but apparently corsi is lodging a sovcit argument against Mueller. Edit: this....is this real? https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1075201487813427201?s=19
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Dec 19, 2018 03:37
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Lycus posted:What's the message here? We have to be centrist about this otherwise centrism wins? Reads to me like he's trying to insinuate that there's almost like maybe a causal link to the fact that most of the news media is "milquetoast both-sidesism with a pro-corportate bent".
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Dec 19, 2018 03:43
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cr0y posted:I missed the notification but apparently corsi is lodging a sovcit argument against Mueller. Corsi's entire defense essentially this entire time has been boiling down to: "I didn't do crimes, you did crimes!"
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Dec 19, 2018 03:44
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Munkeymon posted:Reads to me like he's trying to insinuate that there's almost like maybe a causal link to the fact that most of the news media is "milquetoast both-sidesism with a pro-corportate bent". His subsequent tweets confirm that he's arguing against these boycotts.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:45
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cr0y posted:I missed the notification but apparently corsi is lodging a sovcit argument against Mueller. it looks like a random sovcit filed this in Corsi's case but there's not anything in it that suggests Corsi had anything to do with it
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Dec 19, 2018 03:46
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cr0y posted:I missed the notification but apparently corsi is lodging a sovcit argument against Mueller. Lol that is insane. Got to the part about "the world is ending in 2050 for real!" Before the craziness got to me.
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cr0y posted:I missed the notification but apparently corsi is lodging a sovcit argument against Mueller. It's real in that a real crazy person filed a motion to intervene that will be swiftly denied.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:47
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Lycus posted:What's the message here? We have to be centrist about this otherwise centrism wins? Nerd needs to step off twitter and stroke his beloved models that don't work worth a poo poo
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Dec 19, 2018 03:49
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Lycus posted:Shoot other country's satellites, maybe? I'm not a space warrior, so I don't know if that would easier from the ground. There probally is already kill-sats in orbit but its one of those things we wont know about till some conflict kicks off between major powers and they are given the okay to engage. Though the common depiction of them is just sats filled with explosived and shrapnel shred the enemy ones. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Dec 19, 2018 03:52
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evilweasel posted:it looks like a random sovcit filed this in Corsi's case but there's not anything in it that suggests Corsi had anything to do with it David Andrew Christensen isn't some random sovcit, he's the absolute star of the @big_cases feed my man files insane interventions in like every high profile political case there is, i have a lot of respect for his crazy tenacity
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Dec 19, 2018 03:55
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Fallom posted:Nerd needs to step off twitter and stroke his beloved models that don't work worth a poo poo his models are pretty good actually (election day live model excepted)
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Dec 19, 2018 03:55
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cheetah7071 posted:his models are pretty good actually (election day live model excepted) yeah the midterm popular vote and dem seat gain (and r seat gain in the senate) ended up being almost exactly what the model predicted. he just gave us all a heart attack when the first results started coming in
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goethe.cx posted:yeah the midterm popular vote and dem seat gain (and r seat gain in the senate) ended up being almost exactly what the model predicted The actual correct measure of his success is that races he has at x% for a candidate to win go that way x% of the time. He did an article analyzing that a while back and the model was pretty good (though not perfect) at that
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Nonsense posted:"expertise"? I know this was a few pages ago, but I always thought that the Military Academies were at a disadvantage when it came to football. The Cadets have to maintain weight standards so your Center isn't a 300+ pound rock of a man. Your center is probably 225 to 250 so yeah the line is always at a disadvantage. (This is just my opinion, I don't know that it's a real thing)
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cr0y posted:I missed the notification but apparently corsi is lodging a sovcit argument against Mueller. Oh good, an insanity plea
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goethe.cx posted:he just gave us all a heart attack when the first results started coming in I think a bunch of Republican seats getting called early on broke the live model since they all suddenly became 100%R. Don't do that anymore, just stick with the pre-election model, Nate.
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SalTheBard posted:I know this was a few pages ago, but I always thought that the Military Academies were at a disadvantage when it came to football. The Cadets have to maintain weight standards so your Center isn't a 300+ pound rock of a man. Your center is probably 225 to 250 so yeah the line is always at a disadvantage. I think this is pretty much right. Especially wrt the undersized linemen.
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SalTheBard posted:I know this was a few pages ago, but I always thought that the Military Academies were at a disadvantage when it came to football. The Cadets have to maintain weight standards so your Center isn't a 300+ pound rock of a man. Your center is probably 225 to 250 so yeah the line is always at a disadvantage. This is correct, and also why the statement is absolutely loving idiotic. Also, the best skill players aren't looking to die in forever wars, they're looking to get paid in the NFL and thus go elsewhere. The best team of players assembled from the military would lose by triple digits to the worst team in the NFL. Probably to their practice squads as well.
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Conservatives believe that American soldiers are supermen that can do anything. (Until one exhibits a non-nationalist viewpoint, then gently caress 'em.)
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Do we know why Flynn has to leave the country?
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Turns out the best 1% of college football players for the last 20 years are better than the motley collection that managed to escape Texas and make it to Oklahoma this year.
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Alabama would lose by 60 to the worst team in the NFL. Army might literally have players die on the field.
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Dec 19, 2018 04:16
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CODChimera posted:Do we know why Flynn has to leave the country? Huh? I didn't hear anything about him having to leave the country. But as I understand it the judge made him give up his passport because theres a legitimate fear he will hightail it to some country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US so he can avoid going to jail.
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Dec 19, 2018 04:20
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Lycus posted:His subsequent tweets confirm that he's arguing against these boycotts. Huh, thought he was smarter than that but he has been in the professional media a while so he's probably get a bad case of 
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Lycus posted:Shoot other country's satellites, maybe? I'm not a space warrior, so I don't know if that would easier from the ground. The reason not to weaponize space is that it isn't too difficult to put 5,000 tons of rocket fuel under a conventional bomb with a few tons of nails and scrap metal and point it straight up. It explodes and now there's millions of bits of metal swirling about in LEO shredding any satellite of any kind essentially forever. This is a thing North Korea or Pakistan or Iran could do right now, and it would end things like weather satellites and cell phones and cable TV along with all the spy/laser satellites up there. Creating laser space platforms that give you one-sided nuclear capability is a good way to provoke a lower-tech country into hitting the "gently caress it" button and doing just that. It sucks we can't make Macross real, but it's a cost I'm willing to pay to have porn beamed directly to my phone.
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Charliegrs posted:Huh? I didn't hear anything about him having to leave the country. But as I understand it the judge made him give up his passport because theres a legitimate fear he will hightail it to some country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US so he can avoid going to jail. Isn't that why the travel restrictions don't kick in until Jan 4th? because he's going somewhere?
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