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Solkanar512 posted:gently caress these mountain climbers. Any rear end in a top hat with $100k can pay a bunch of people to carry them up and then they get to act like they've "accomplished something important". Then they brag about how they're "doing it for their kids and family" as though they're somehow doing good stepping over bodies and leaving a mountain of frozen poo poo and empty oxygen bottles while possibly killing themselves or their guides. A rare topic wherein GBS and D&D are of one mind. Personally I was only vaguely aware of climbing Mount Everest from having read a few YA books about the first successful summit attempt when I was little. It was the GBS thread that inspired me to look into it and... oh my God rich people ruin everything. There's absolutely no achievement left in summiting Everest anymore. Well, I take that back; it's one hell of an achievement for the sherpa who drags your incompetent rear end up there, but it's no loving achievement for you. All the real work of mountaineering and as much of the risk as possible is shut it off onto the sherpa. You know how dangerous to koombu icefall is, yeah? We'll all those ropes and all those ladders and that path that guides you right through the koombu or all laid out in the dead of night (when its safest) by a special team of Sherpa known as the "Ice Doctors". Only the very best of the best professional mountaineers would stand a (slim) through of getting through the koombu icefall without sherpa. Just so very very basic things for spending any amount of time on that mountain depend completely on the sherpa. Everest Sherpa aren't just bringing up all the gear, they're the ones setting up camp, they're the ones cooking the meals, they're the ones hiking several miles away from camp to get ice thats safe to melt down and drink*, they're the ones carrying 4 bottles of oxygen up to the summit. *decades of everyone just making GBS threads wherever/hundreds of rotting corpses has contaminated the ice near the camps and made it very unsafe to drink. At that altitude you are being turbo dehydrated through your lungs, so you absolutely must drink a lot of water even if you're not active. All that ice has to be carried in by sherpa, and the sherpa have to carry in the fuel for the kerosene burners to melt the ice. That bit about where the senior Sherpa talks about how everyone swears they're never coming back and this is their last year- and they're right back there again next year reminds me of some guys I met once who did Alaskan crab fishing. According to them they would all swear it off at the end of every season, and then grumpily show right back up at the boat when it was time to go. Because they wanted a better life for their kid and they didn't want their kids to have to the things they were doing to provide
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cr0y posted:Damnit Rogan can you please go back to interviewing brilliant people across all of academia and talking about funny poo poo youve done and stop giving these jackasses a platform. he's been providing the worst of the worst a platform for literally years, consistently, op 
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Google Butt posted:he's been providing the worst of the worst a platform for literally years, consistently, op Amazing how far technology has come, we can get so many vampires into a photograph.
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Master Twig posted:It's crazy how someone can make an entire career out of ignoring the southern strategy. White Racists love the brown guy who says "actually the people dislike you for being racists are the real racists!" 
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socialsecurity posted:I'm sorry I wasn't aware that banning a debate outside the predefined ones based on rules that have existed for years is banning all conversations of climate change. Next time why don't you just make your (bad) point instead of posing dumb hypothetical questions No one said they were banned about talking about it, but being punished for talking about it anywhere they goddamn please, including in other "debates" is bullshit. It's too important an issue and it clearly seems to be a policy to help Uncle Joe
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Biden/Rogan 2020 Hey Joe! Where you going with that dumb in your hand?
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/JustineStafford/status/1136711094683217920?s=19 Glad to see Baby Trump Blimp survived it's attack.
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Google Butt posted:he's been providing the worst of the worst a platform for literally years, consistently, op So I just conducted an experiment with this picture and can confirm that if you hold this picture up to a jar of cucumbers they turn into pickles within a couple moments.
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Young Freud posted:Glad to see Baby Trump Blimp survived it's attack. Well actually all she managed to cut off it was the heel spur, so technically its even more sound that it was before.
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Joe Rogan is the most credulous person I’ve ever seen, period. He’s like Trump in that he believes whatever the last person to talk to him says 100% without a shred of evidence. I remember like 10 years ago seeing a video of him interviewing Les Stroud, the Survivorman guy, and Stroud starts talking about allegedly encountering a Sasquatch while filming an episode of the show and it’s clear Les is bullshitting him to hype up the show, and you can see on Joe’s face how utterly, credulously enthralled he becomes with the idea. That was the moment when I realized “wow, Joe’s really dumb and will believe anything, holy poo poo.”
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nine-gear crow posted:Joe Rogan is the most credulous person I’ve ever seen, period. He’s like Trump in that he believes whatever the last person to talk to him says 100% without a shred of evidence. He has completely fried his brain hard, yet somehow people see him as a credible source on loving anything
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lol an oped piece from John Delaney just showing up in WaPo against Medicare for All. Is this guy not tired of getting owned or what?
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Failed Imagineer posted:Joe has always been dumb as gently caress and bad. Take it to the primate thread.
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nine-gear crow posted:Joe Rogan is the most credulous person I’ve ever seen, period. He’s like Trump in that he believes whatever the last person to talk to him says 100% without a shred of evidence. The only things he'll push back on are bad martial arts opinions and contrails. Otherwise yeah, he'll believe whatever the last person told him, and if the very next day he has a guest to debunk it he'll go "oh yeah.... that last guy was full of bullshit".
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Demon Of The Fall posted:lol an oped piece from John Delaney just showing up in WaPo against Medicare for All. Is this guy not tired of getting owned or what? For some reason I thought you were talking about John Mulaney. I was horrified and appalled, yet intrigued.
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I caught parts of Rogan's David Pakman interview about the Youtube/Crowder stuff and it is completely loving obvious he doesn't even have a basic understanding of what left/right or capitalism/anti-capitalism is. I don't even know what the gently caress he's going on about Google and Silicon Valley being leftist entities lol
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Next time why don't you just make your (bad) point instead of posing dumb hypothetical questions If this is a conspiracy by the DNC to arrange the debates so that topics Biden is bad on never show up, what are the topics you think Biden is “good” on that they’ll focus on instead? Edit: Tibalt posted:Careful buddy, talk like that'll get you a mean avatar. hahahaha look at you calling it and getting an avatar for calling it skeleton warrior fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Joe Rogan is the most credulous person I’ve ever seen, period. He’s like Trump in that he believes whatever the last person to talk to him says 100% without a shred of evidence. A sasquatch?! Those things are loving huge. Pull that up Jamie. No, the one we were looking at... yeah. Look at that loving thing. What a monster. They'll will gently caress. You. Up. And possibly eat you. Do you think Brock could gently caress up a squatch?
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I loved those Suvivorman episodes and then Les went all Bigfoot crazy and it was really strange. I dunno if he was really serious or just collecting a paycheck or what.
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are in the declaration of independence which is not legally binding. Checkmate, li*dies in climate-induced extreme weather event*
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Prester Jane posted:As much as I love to rant on and on about white privilege, the issue isn't whiteness, that's just how it's manifesting in our particular culture, the issue is privilege itself. Geeez, it's like the Chilkoot Pass all over again 
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skeleton warrior posted:If this is a conspiracy by the DNC to arrange the debates so that topics Biden is bad on never show up, what are the topics you think Biden is “good” on that they’ll focus on instead? He's bad on all the issues but he's unforgivably bad on Climate Change
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Joe Rogan was always bad even if his guests weren’t always so regularly deplorable.
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Data Graham posted:Geeez, it's like the Chilkoot Pass all over again China and Nepal aren’t requiring a ton of food per person though like the Mounties did
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Google Butt posted:he's been providing the worst of the worst a platform for literally years, consistently, op Could any of you good folks ID this crowd. I recognize the slimy Shapiro, who are the rest of them?
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I loved those Suvivorman episodes and then Les went all Bigfoot crazy and it was really strange. I dunno if he was really serious or just collecting a paycheck or what. Probably a mix of both. I know someone IRL who’s otherwise smart and sane and level-headed and I respect him a lot, but he’s also stone cold convinced he survived a run in with Bigfoot on a camping trip with his buddies when he was younger. And the way he talked about the ordeal was the same way Les described it to Rogan where it almost made you want to believe it, but then you step back and go “no, this is bullshit, what the gently caress?”
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TulliusCicero posted:
Just codifying into law that we don't have to do anything.
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bornbytheriver posted:Could any of you good folks ID this crowd. I recognize the slimy Shapiro, who are the rest of them? looks like jordan peterson, sam harris, dave rubin? don't know who the last guy is
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TulliusCicero posted:"Yes the Earth is dying and we all hosed, but you don't have the right to live on a sustainable Earth anyway" Corporate attorneys are a special breed of awful. It might just be because they've argued in favor of poisoning people since they've existed, or whatever, but their understanding of law is entirely literal. There isn't a statute that explicitly says that you have a right to live in place that will continue to exist, so there's no requirement to make sure people are taken care of. It's like Prester Jane said earlier, the politics of a sociopath, but legally it's a sound argument (because the laws need to be changed holy poo poo this country is run on paper that would crumble to dust if you touched it)
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Is this that lawsuit from the schoolkids over holding the Land in trust?
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So by this argument it's legal to start a massive forest fire.
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Ershalim posted:Corporate attorneys are a special breed of awful. It might just be because they've argued in favor of poisoning people since they've existed, or whatever, but their understanding of law is entirely literal. There isn't a statute that explicitly says that you have a right to live in place that will continue to exist, so there's no requirement to make sure people are taken care of. It's like Prester Jane said earlier, the politics of a sociopath, but legally it's a sound argument (because the laws need to be changed holy poo poo this country is run on paper that would crumble to dust if you touched it) When all the humans are dead, there will be nothing but Law, and the universe will be all the more perfect for it.
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Carew posted:looks like jordan peterson, sam harris, dave rubin? don't know who the last guy is Sam Harris
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Petr posted:I love the "cheap primary color cyclorama with some potted plants as a set" era of TNG but holy moly that episode. Surely even for the time, people realized that was embarrassing? What I've heard is the guy who directed that episode was just racist as poo poo and kind of went off the reservation making it, that the script was just 'they go to a planet that has poo poo they need but whoops they fall afoul of a plot by the leader to off his wife' which would have been fine without the trappings of the actual episode. Prester Jane posted:AmB5 was genuinely a half-step or so ahead of its time and was genuinely trying, and some of their takes on things are really really really Progressive for the time. (Like having a black man with a redemptive arc about dealing with addiction.) Other parts of the show though I just really well-intentioned examples of some of the cultural blindness that existed at the time. I think it does work a bit better when you look at it through the lens that most of the problems in the series are caused by someone focusing on the wrong thing. The Centauri arc features them focusing on personal aggrandizement over what's best for their people, the Narn arc is similar but for revenge, Dr. Franklin focuses on his job over his own health and wellbeing, etc. To wrap it back around it's the same problem as the republican party's focus on trying to make the lives of those without power just that little bit more intolerable every day because it makes their almost as powerless supporters feel better about themselves.
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