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VH4Ever posted:Why do you think Inslee is pushing so hard to host his own debate, if need be? He should. The establishment has only establishment interests at heart. If there were a way to get people to focus on what Warren's policies were instead of how much they'd like to get a beer with Biden, then that's what we should be focused on. I don't know how effective that will end up being. Mostly I'm just advocating for an end to the 2-year president-a-thon we do in this country because I think it's functionally useless to everyone but media shareholders. The voters who want to know policy get nothing from it. The voters who don't give a poo poo don't watch it. The candidates are forced to speak in inhuman rhythms to avoid becoming memes, etc.. So if Inslee's got an idea to stage an actual conversation that isn't beholden to the warped Miss America thing we have now, I hope he does it. Prester Jane posted:Individuals like the one you were responding to absolutely do not understand what leadership is either. They think leaders exist to enable the crowd to move in the direction the crowd has decided to go, and that's just not how Humanity Works, has ever worked, or will ever work until such time as humanity has evolved into a state of pure energy. This is uh, quite a reach based on misunderstanding my point. I tend to agree with you most of the time. But to be clear no, I don't think that. I think that leadership should take chances and push people towards ideals and should inspire people who otherwise wouldn't care into actions they otherwise wouldn't take. Traingulating gets us nothing but underwhelming technocrats. Ershalim fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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Data Graham posted:What is planet earth An extremely temporary spike in physical complexity. Don't worry, it's about to sort itself out.
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Ershalim posted:
You're right, I did misread you. I apologize for that. The attitude I was criticizing in my post is very real*- but that's not what you were actually saying and I jumped the gun there and went aggro for no good reason. I do apologize again for that. *and to be honest I've been looking for an excuse to wail on that particular nail and I need to check myself a bit.
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Prester Jane posted:You're right, I did misread you. I apologize for that. Oh it's fine, you're right that that's a through-line in US politics, and I definitely could have been clearer to start with. What you're railing against is kind of the reason Pelosi is so obnoxious to most of us, despite being effective at keeping the caucus in line for stuff like the protections of the dreamers and getting the ACA through. She just doesn't, ever, put herself out in front and say, "we need to do this because it's the right thing to do" unless she's absolutely sure people are already there. Being a little yelly and jumping the gun is ultimately a good thing here. It lets the laggy-rear end political triangulation operators know that there are people in that direction, should they ever feel up to joining us.
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Petr posted:An extremely temporary spike in physical complexity. Don't worry, it's about to sort itself out. I know you're just being glib, but from a pure physics standpoint, this is wrong. Life is shockingly good at creating entropy. Even at the human scale, this pans out. If you compare the amount of "organisation" we've brought to the table to the amount of entropy we created by simply converting highly-organized fossil deposits into loose CO2, the local universe is most likely more disorganized because of our presence. And creating these deposits in the first place also increased entropy via photosynthesis. If the universe was actively searching for a way to reach its heat death as fast as possible, coming up with life like we have on earth would be a great strategy. Aramis fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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Aramis posted:If the universe was actively searching for a way to reach its heat death as fast as possible, coming up with life like we have on earth would be a great strategy.
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Bubbacub posted:I still can't get over that this is how the president of the USA talks. I can't get over how that is how he thinks economies work
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Bubbacub posted:I still can't get over that this is how the president of the USA talks. I can't get over the fact that he's set the bar so low that if he does the absolute most basic function of his job without making GBS threads himself, the media blows him for days.
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Aramis posted:I know you're just being glib, but from a pure physics standpoint, this is wrong. Life is sockingly good at creating entropy. This is actually the essence of a recent theory I read about -- that the formation of life may be favorable from a universal perspective because it increases (overall) entropy faster than abiotic processes. https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/
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DarkHorse posted:I can't get over how that is how he thinks anything work
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I can't get over the fact that he's set the bar so low that if he does the absolute most basic function of his job without making GBS threads himself, the media blows him for days. He literally read works off a prompter and people like Joe Scarborough who calls him a threat to the republic every morning was filleting him lol
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DarkHorse posted:I can't get over how that is how he thinks economies work he's defensive about getting ripped off because he himself conceptualizes business deals as something which only generates profit when he defrauds, takes advantage of, or otherwise screws someone else in the art of the deal it's pretty clear that the only way trump was ever briefly successful at real estate tycoonery was by taking advantage of new york property tax abatements. and then in the decades since as his personal fortunes have cratered he's been getting hosed left and right from his own combative incompetence, which he interprets as people unfairly loving him, the protagonist of reality
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Aramis posted:I know you're just being glib, but from a pure physics standpoint, this is wrong. Life is sockingly good at creating entropy. This was the background behind one of the recent Dan Brown books.
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What in the gently caress is this moron even prattling on about? Like it really is incredible to be reminded how truly loving stupid he is.
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he is pissed that the senate doesn't want to play the tarrif game anymore and is telling them they are wrong.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:If we don't eventually blow up the universe I will be very disappointed in the human race. That would be really rad. But Okay, listen. I have a phD in theoretical astrophysics. And I can tell you, the amount of energy needed to blow up the universe is really, really big. Just from some rough calculations, it would require the equivalent of over 100,000 Hiroshimas (if you can wrap your head around that). I don't think its going to happen.
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Calibanibal posted:That would be really rad. But So what you're saying is that some other race is going to beat us to destroying the universe first?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I just... how do conservatives not literally die from the sheer exhaustion of just being so scared and angry at everything at all times?  It's not even our own created system you stupid fucks. The Romans invented it and the British passed it to us.  Jesus christ American regressives are the most stupid fucks on Earth. "Hey while we are at it did you know zero is actually a number made up by the Middle East and India? That's not as good American number! Let's get rid of zero and go back to Roman numerals!" 
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Prester Jane posted:So what you're saying is that some other race is going to beat us to destroying the universe first? As long as they do it with enough Cobra Commander-like cackling, I wouldn't even be mad.
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Good news https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinElliott/status/1136051903203336193
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From several pages ago, but I kind of agree with this and my cuz who works for a major climate activism non-profit says they do too. If the climate crisis is relegated to a debate, then it opens up candidates to say "I already talked about it" and ignore it as a subject in future debates and platform conversations. The winning strategy would be to force candidates to recognize the intersectionality (I know I'm appropriating this word) of climate with jobs, with the student debt crises, with national security and have it be a part of every debate and forum.
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Calibanibal posted:That would be really rad. But Huh? 100,000 hiroshimas doesn't sound NEARLY enough to me. Hiroshima is not even a blip to the universe, at that scale its literally unnoticable. I dont think 100,000 hiroshimas would even do much to the sun.
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Rigel posted:Huh? 100,000 hiroshimas doesn't sound NEARLY enough to me. Hiroshima is not even a blip to the universe, at that scale its literally unnoticable. I dont think 100,000 hiroshimas would even do much to the sun. Yeah, you'd more like need Tsar Bomba level power, not Hiroshima levels of power.
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Rigel posted:Huh? 100,000 hiroshimas doesn't sound NEARLY enough to me. Hiroshima is not even a blip to the universe, at that scale its literally unnoticable. I dont think 100,000 hiroshimas would even do much to the sun. Do you think that perhaps 150,000 hiroshimas might be enough?
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Rigel posted:Huh? 100,000 hiroshimas doesn't sound NEARLY enough to me. Hiroshima is not even a blip to the universe, at that scale its literally unnoticable. I dont think 100,000 hiroshimas would even do much to the sun. I mean, isn’t the sun constantly producing reactions much, much more violent than Hiroshima literally all the time?
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A super nova is like a quadrillion (give or take an order of magnitude) Hiroshima bombs and that only takes out a solar system... The amount of energy it would take to theoretically blow up the universe would be like a googleplex of Hiroshima bombs. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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Just take the lid back off Chernobyl, the universe will be gone in a matter of months
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https://twitter.com/WaywardWinifred/status/1136619581693485057 Lol Politico is such a pile of poo poo. Invited by workers apparently means uninvited lol
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Leon Sumbitches posted:From several pages ago, but I kind of agree with this and my cuz who works for a major climate activism non-profit says they do too. They're not going to do that either
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Why isn't this word spelled "firey"? The English language is weird. Because it's a cannibalistic homunculus of a language.
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Rigel posted:Huh? 100,000 hiroshimas doesn't sound NEARLY enough to me. Hiroshima is not even a blip to the universe, at that scale its literally unnoticable. I dont think 100,000 hiroshimas would even do much to the sun. Calibanibal claims another victim. e: Make that several victims.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Good news TurboTax 2019 Edition: Only $799.99 per filing!
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TulliusCicero posted:
This is some Veep poo poo. Jonah Ryan for President
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Good news I'm really happy about this as a tax accountant. What they did was criminal. Now, the government is free to make their own free file software instead of letting intuit trick customers.
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friendbot2000 posted:https://twitter.com/WaywardWinifred/status/1136619581693485057 Employees don't count as people, duh.
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An Olympic swimming pool of hiroshima explosions
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skeleton warrior posted:Why the gently caress are all the brokebrains in this thread reading “Jay Inslee is angry that as a single issue candidate, the DNC won’t let him have a special debate all about his single issue” as “the DNC is forbidding any discussion of climate change at any of the 12 debates it is sponsoring”? The DNC didn't just refuse to sponsor a debate on the issue of climate change; they said (according to Jay Inslee, anyway) that any candidate who participates in a non-DNC climate debate will be barred from the official Democratic debates. Can you think of any reason they'd do that, other than to suppress discussion of climate change? Cause I sure can't.
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I just imagine Bernie kicking down the door to a bunch of CEOs in a meeting and acting like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Dogma now
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The Pussy Boss posted:The DNC didn't just refuse to sponsor a debate on the issue of climate change; they said (according to Jay Inslee, anyway) that any candidate who participates in a non-DNC climate debate will be barred from the official Democratic debates. Can you think of any reason they'd do that, other than to suppress discussion of climate change? Cause I sure can't. I thought that was standard practice, at least in 2016. Not that "you can't participate in non-DNC climate debates or you are out", but rather "you can't participate in ANY non-DNC debates or you are out". Same with RNC.
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