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After taking back the House—and relevant committees like Financial Services and Intelligence—Democrats are preparing to launch a major investigation into Deutsche Bank’s habit of loaning Trump massive sums of money and, per Politico, “whether Russia was involved.” Among its hires, the House Financial Services Committee has reportedly recruited veteran investigator Bob Roach, who is said to be “remarkably familiar” with money-laundering matters, in addition to Abigail Grace, a former career official at the National Security Council who left the White House last year, and whose hiring resulted in a shrieking tweet about “witch hunt[s]” from the Oval Office. According to Politico, Democrats believe that Robert Mueller’s investigation has done little to explore the Deutsche Bank angle to Trump’s finances. “There’s a heightened need to look into anything that could compromise the president or the country, particularly if it’s not being investigated elsewhere,” said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. “I don’t know that to be the case, but I just haven’t seen any external signs that that’s happening
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:05 |
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# ? May 31, 2024 21:07 |
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:06 |
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Slim Pickens posted:*Starts searching zillow for land in Alaska* We're not that hosed yet, but if you have kids, you might buy some land in Montana or Idaho or somewhere that will be relatively decent most of their lives.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:07 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:We're not that hosed yet, but if you have kids, you might buy some land in Montana or Idaho or somewhere that will be relatively decent most of their lives. Upper midwest would be a better bet wouldn't it?
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:08 |
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Popsci tried to find which places will have a similar climate in 2080 to places you know now, and the result was kind of depressing. To keep your current temperature band, you’ll have to go ~500 miles north. That means FL gets tropical heat, NC will have temps more like FL now, and PA will be more like NC is now. https://www.popsci.com/2080-american-towns-climate
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:16 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Upper midwest would be a better bet wouldn't it? It's already unseasonably hot im the summers and bitterly cold and snowy here.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:19 |
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Go adopt if you want children. They're already here.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:20 |
mlmp08 posted:Looking forward to the world finally coming together to combat climate change and OH MY GOD FROM THE TOP ROPE, IT’S THE OBSOLESCENCE OF ANTIBIOTICS I've been doomsaying this as a job for a while
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:20 |
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It'll be some ancient version of the Spanish Flu that comes up from the melting permafrosts, something older than our subgenus of humans that spreads like wildfire with an obscene mortality rate among the healthy.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:22 |
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I think we need to build a wall to keep all the Bible Belt fuckos out when their summers get too unbearable. "Ask your friend Jesus for some help with that, dumbass"
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:25 |
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Too bad I don't have a spare $500,000 to buy property somewhere and prep the gently caress out of it. Too bad I don't have a spare $20,000 to prep where I'm at. All the while the rich are prepping and buying property in New Zealand for their escape when our society finally collapses.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:26 |
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Soulex posted:I wanted to write a short story about how Earth is basically Alien Timmy's third grade science experiment and hosed it all up. Read the sequels to Forever War. That goes to everyone.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:27 |
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I think "The Water Knife" paints a pretty good picture of what the world will look like in 40 years.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:29 |
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Naramyth posted:It's already unseasonably hot im the summers and bitterly cold and snowy here. Average high in Duluth in the warmed months is still shy of 80s. Average max for the year is just shy of 89. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth,_Minnesota#Climate Not sure you could do much better in the lower 48 than the north woods/Wisconsin/UP
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:30 |
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Slim Pickens posted:Where's the johns that were supposed to be bigger than Kraft? Maybe they meant physically.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:31 |
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Y’all such Debby downers. Look on the bright side. You or your children may get a chance to heroic on the Fury Road or whatever.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:33 |
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I bought my friends who are having kids rifles instead of savings bonds.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:35 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Average high in Duluth in the warmed months is still shy of 80s. Average max for the year is just shy of 89. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth,_Minnesota#Climate
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:36 |
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Never seen a tree, slowly dying of cancer and worshipping a biker gang leader? Sounds like a bright future
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:37 |
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LingcodKilla posted:Y’all such Debby downers. Look on the bright side. You or your children may get a chance to heroic on the Fury Road or whatever. Like they'll find the fuel to keep big block V8s on the road. The grim future is exclusively 1980s Merc diesels.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:37 |
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CommieGIR posted:Like they'll find the fuel to keep big block V8s on the road. And they render down human fat into biodiesel
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Slim Pickens posted:And they render down human fat into biodiesel Glad we could work a Soylent green solution into this.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 22:41 |
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More than 50 ex-national security officials tell Trump his national emergency is not justified https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/more-50-ex-national-security-officials-tell-trump-national-emergency-n975701 In a letter, the former officials said redirecting funds to build the border wall could hurt national security by pulling resources from programs that keep the U.S. safe. quote:WASHINGTON — Fifty-eight former U.S. national security officials told the Trump administration in a letter Monday that they are aware of "no emergency that remotely justifies" diverting funds to build a border wall. Link to the letter itself: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5749671-National-Emergency-Joint-Declaration-2-21-19.html
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Bored As gently caress posted:More than 50 ex-national security officials tell Trump his national emergency is not justified Might as well have posted this straight to resistancehole.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 23:13 |
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This will be the one that does Trump in! *nothing happens* Nevertheless,
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 23:14 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:More than 50 ex-national security officials tell Trump his national emergency is not justified Yeah the Great Orange Fecal Smear will get right on that and start giving a gently caress at about half past never.
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hobbesmaster posted:Might as well have posted this straight to resistancehole. I just googled that and I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 23:17 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:I just googled that and I have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. https://resistancehole.clickhole.com/excuse-me-mr-trump-sir-but-respectfully-dr-trump-1825886973 Specifically the article I was thinking of
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Bored As gently caress posted:Too bad I don't have a spare $500,000 to buy property somewhere and prep the gently caress out of it. Too bad I don't have a spare $20,000 to prep where I'm at. I wont let you guys down
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 23:25 |
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Vasudus posted:It'll be some ancient version of the Spanish Flu that comes up from the melting permafrosts, something older than our subgenus of humans that spreads like wildfire with an obscene mortality rate among the healthy. Watch it turn out that the steady drumbeat of annual flu shots have conferred substantial immunity to the 1918 strain and nobody gets to fill the "flupocalypse" spot on their card.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 23:29 |
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My particular favorite part of all of this is the geopolitics of what's gonna happen when land dynamics greatly change. Montana/Wyoming/the Dakotas/Michigan UP/etc are going to be prime farm land in 2100. That also means a bunch of Canada is going to thaw and be prime farmland. Guess what, fuckers: we're gonna take that land when it comes time. Just like every other country is going to go to war over farmland like it's 1099.
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FAUXTON posted:Watch it turn out that the steady drumbeat of annual flu shots have conferred substantial immunity to the 1918 strain and nobody gets to fill the "flupocalypse" spot on their card. Exactly this. The 1918 flu was a combination of factors like globalization and concentration of people under the age of 30 together. Basically people over 30 had seen some of the 1918 flu antigens before By chance we went 30 years without any of them popping up. So when they did everyone under 30 was at a greater risk of getting severe flu. Compound that with people of that age circling the globe and living in close proximity along with increasing urban concentration of people and it was bad.
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My plan for the future is to ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
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# ? Feb 25, 2019 23:36 |
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I mean if the US goes full authoritarian we'll push south to the panama canal, relocate everyone in central america to south america, and use nukes to create a radioactive desert barrier with a division guarding the panama canal and the navy patrolling the central american coast with very loose rules of engagement
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That Works posted:Exactly this. The 1918 flu was a combination of factors like globalization and concentration of people under the age of 30 together. Basically people over 30 had seen some of the 1918 flu antigens before Yeah we're considerably more mobile than we were in 1918 as a whole, but demobilization after the war made a perfect storm for the virus's spread among that highly susceptible peer group. We don't really have that particular kind of concentration anymore but instead we have modern airports. The 1918 flu was of the H1N1 subtype, which we've seen (as a subtype) repeatedly since, and repeatedly even since flu shots became a thing. It's likely there's been some degree of resistance or immunity picked up but that doesn't mean the next flu won't be something completely new.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:I mean if the US goes full authoritarian we'll push south to the panama canal, relocate everyone in central america to south america, and use nukes to create a radioactive desert barrier with a division guarding the panama canal and the navy patrolling the central american coast with very loose rules of engagement Yeah, but if that area is no longer a land bridge and is instead two massive inhospitable deserts separated by a sea, we wouldn't have to worry about doing that.
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Florida and Texas no longer being states would go a long way towards fixing the country at least
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Viral hemorrhagic fever FTW. Cocolitzli or bust. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11304065/ Abstract In 1545, twenty-four years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, an epidemic of a malignant form of a hemorrhagic fever appeared in the highlands of Mexico. The illness was characterized by high fever, headache, and bleeding from the nose, ears, and mouth, accompanied by jaundice, severe abdominal and thoracic pain as well as acute neurological manifestations. The disease was highly lethal and lasted three to four days. It attacked primarily the native population, leaving the Spaniards almost unaffected. The hemorrhagic fevers remained in the area for three centuries and the etiologic agent is still unknown. In this report we describe, and now that more information is available, analyze four epidemics that occurred in Mexico during the colonial period with a focus on the epidemic of 1576 which killed 45% of the entire population of Mexico. It is important to retrieve such diseases and the epidemics they caused from their purely historical context and consider the reality that if they were to reemerge, they are potentially dangerous.
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FAUXTON posted:Yeah we're considerably more mobile than we were in 1918 as a whole, but demobilization after the war made a perfect storm for the virus's spread among that highly susceptible peer group. We don't really have that particular kind of concentration anymore but instead we have modern airports. We're shuffling and worldwide spreading flu antigens more homogenously than ever before so I bet flu A isn't gonna be quite a killer like that again unless we get a particularly distant crossover from another host that happens to spread easily in humans. I'm always amazed at how little flu gets attention given its amazing bodycount from year to year. E: my Black death lecture in class is fun as poo poo. I open up with "imagine the population of every state on the Atlantic coast dying in 5 years" and go from there. That Works fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Feb 26, 2019 |
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Everyone thinks the Flu is getting a cold. That is why.
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