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highme posted:A few years ago, before Uber/Lyft was available here, I was at the winter beer festival in downtown Portland with a friend, his dumbfuck neighbor and a few of my buddy's clients from Eugene, all white men. We decided that we were going to change venues and headed to a bar just across the river in inner SE Portland, probably a mile or so walk. While people started hemming and hawing over how to get there, I just started walking and they all fell in line. The first few blocks after crossing the river is in an industrial section with a pretty good sized chunk of homeless living in the area. The pearl clutching & asking if everything was safe from all of the dudes was hysterical. Especially my buddy's dumbfuck neighbor who I've gotten into with before when he said he & his wife were going to take tactical shooter classes in case they're ever in a mass shooting situation. I love Portland even though I know it has it's problems, but I've just sat in the park in with the elephant and just hung out with the homeless people and it's not scary at all. That's so funny. Homeless people ain't going to cause a mass shooting situation.
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1glitch0 posted:I am so conflicted on whether he's doing this stuff as a strategy (which seem unlikely because he's so stupid) or if he's so stupid he just babbles things (which seems unlikely because who could be that stupid?). Old folks who are losing it are like this all the time. They ramble and forget to put parts of conversations in and assume you know what you're talking about and whatnot.
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1glitch0 posted:I love Portland even though I know it has it's problems, but I've just sat in the park in with the elephant and just hung out with the homeless people and it's not scary at all. That's so funny. Homeless people ain't going to cause a mass shooting situation. Republicans want to mass shoot homeless people.
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One time I walked past a homeless person and I wasn't scared in the least. Even made eye contact!
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BrandorKP posted:They transport big transformers by heavy rail cars think 350 metric tons big. Tanks are heavy but they aren't heavy. Tanks are something one could put on a low boy Mafi. That photo isn't good enough but normally one can read tare, net max and gross max allowable on a rail car like that. I see where it is I just can't read it. Given that it's prefix is DODX, it's almost certainly designed for what it's doing. Trains are ridiculously efficient. Been studying trains lately and they are drat near magic. Their contact surface is so small (something like two coins worth for a full sized locomotive) Due to this greatly reduced friction a train can pull around a ton of weight with only about 3 kilograms worth of force required.
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Calibanibal posted:One time I walked past a homeless person and I wasn't scared in the least. Even made eye contact! Well, you're better than a lot of people I work with.
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I know in the grand scheme it isn't the most important thing in the world, but who fits the bill for the 4th of July Parade in DC? I hope to hell the local DC government isn't stuck with the bill for Trump to haul in a bunch of military equipment and flyovers so he can feel like a tin-pot dictator.
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Katt posted:Trains are ridiculously efficient. Been studying trains lately and they are drat near magic. Their contact surface is so small (something like two coins worth for a full sized locomotive) Due to this greatly reduced friction a train can pull around a ton of weight with only about 3 kilograms worth of force required. Also part of why it takes them forever to stop.
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Katt posted:Been studying trains lately and they are drat near magic.
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Phenotype posted:All the tanks and planes planned for the parade are just support for the piece de resistance: I know this is supposed to mock him, but I always have concerns about this type of imagery. Many extreme right wing folk love the hell out of Warhammer 40k and unironically think the emperor of mankind is awesome. I doubt this piece has its intended effect. Kind of like how lots of neo-nazis love the crap out of American History X for making them look 'badass' in spite of the film's intended message.
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cochise posted:Saving her for the finals maybe. So uhhhhh, don't ask how I know this, but currently, the tanks are too fat and require two recovery vehicles per tank. If one of them breaks down, it's gonna be a shitshow.
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Car Hater posted:So uhhhhh, don't ask how I know this, but currently, the tanks are too fat and require two recovery vehicles per tank. If one of them breaks down, it's gonna be a shitshow. They aren't being driven just parked and shown off, and trucked in and out.
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oh good, another round of "let's express our progressive liberal bonafides by sneering at nonwhite and/or poor people who live in red states" thanks for this entirely fresh take, paul krugman
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luxury handset posted:oh good, another round of "let's express our progressive liberal bonafides by sneering at nonwhite and/or poor people who live in red states" quote:So if you really believe that Americans with higher incomes shouldn’t pay for benefits provided to those with lower incomes, you should be calling on “donor” states like New Jersey and New York to cut off places like Kentucky and let their economies collapse. And if that’s what you mean, you should let Mitch McConnell’s constituents know about it. He's not saying that, he's calling out Republicans for being hypocrites. Which isn't exactly a revelation or anything, but he's not saying it's a bad thing for the rich to subsidize the poor.
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Jul 2, 2019 20:23
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1glitch0 posted:I'm also so unhappy that I have to think about Donald Trump so much since I dismissed him when I was like 8 years old in the 80s as a stupid weirdo. But I guess that's why we call it the hell world timeline. This exactly, I'm tired of having to care about Trump. No-one in history has received as much attention while deserving none of it.
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luxury handset posted:oh good, another round of "let's express our progressive liberal bonafides by sneering at nonwhite and/or poor people who live in red states" It's more about the hypocrisy. If a blue state were found to have federal dollars comprising 20% of its budget, the RWM would be baying for blood.
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G*d I wish Trump was gone so I could go back to not thinking about politics.
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Lemming posted:He's not saying that, he's calling out Republicans for being hypocrites. Which isn't exactly a revelation or anything, but he's not saying it's a bad thing for the rich to subsidize the poor. It also has this fun quote too quote:In fact, the best argument against “Medicare for All” skeptics like me, who worry how voters will react to proposals to eliminate private insurance, is that Republicans will scream about a government takeover of health care — and Fox News viewers will believe them — whatever you do. Edit: Calibanibal posted:G*d I wish Trump was gone so I could go back to not thinking about politics. I also wish Trump wasn't president so you could stop thinking about politics
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Katt posted:Trains are ridiculously efficient. Been studying trains lately and they are drat near magic. Their contact surface is so small (something like two coins worth for a full sized locomotive) Due to this greatly reduced friction a train can pull around a ton of weight with only about 3 kilograms worth of force required. I've written about it in the climate thread but the marine mode is even better, about an order of magnitude better. A panamax ship can move 78,000 MT (metric tons) at 15 -20 knots for a full day ( so 480 nautical miles) and only will burn approximately 25 metric tons of fuel! But trains can be electrified.
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my bad, i try to defeat the nyt paywall by ctrl-a ctrl-c in a split second and this makes some chunked text here's something lovely https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/738059913/trump-administration-sends-out-notices-of-500-000-fines-for-those-in-u-s-illegal quote:The Trump administration is seeking to fine some immigrants in the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of dollars for failing to take steps to leave after being ordered to do so, according to government documents obtained by NPR.
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haveblue posted:It's more about the hypocrisy. If a blue state were found to have federal dollars comprising 20% of its budget, the RWM would be baying for blood. I have a distant cousin I had not seen since I was a child. One of the first things he said to me, immediately after asking where I live, was that half of all babies born in New York City are on Medicaid.
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/GadiNBC/status/1146111881565933569 Why are these pictures not the headline of every national newspaper and every national news site?
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https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1146139159427465216 About drat time.
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Arglebargle III posted:Why are these pictures not the headline of every national newspaper and every national news site? It makes the white people sad
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So any more info on why Pence got sent back to DC and every country is holding emergency security meetings today? I notice Donald hasn't been tweetering
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Do we even know if the shoes existed, and Nike didn't just whip up a Photoshop and fake Kaepernik story because they knew the chuds would give them millions of dollars in free advertising again?
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Calibanibal posted:G*d I wish Trump was gone so I could go back to not thinking about politics. What kind of charmed rear end life do you have that you can not think about politics?
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FuturePastNow posted:So any more info on why Pence got sent back to DC and every country is holding emergency security meetings today? I notice Donald hasn't been tweetering Dunno what happened with Pences plane but russia had a sub catch on fire. So no...not "every country"
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Jaxyon posted:What kind of charmed rear end life do you have that you can not think about politics? Middle class, straight, white guy?
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FuturePastNow posted:So any more info on why Pence got sent back to DC and every country is holding emergency security meetings today? I notice Donald hasn't been tweetering https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1146121275296944134
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Jaxyon posted:What kind of charmed rear end life do you have that you can not think about politics?
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Calibanibal is a troll poster yall. But at least he's not posting ~primary chat~
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Previa_fun posted:Calibanibal is a troll poster yall. He's weirdly committed too, he gets very few bites in this thread.
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Jul 2, 2019 20:46
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Lol what
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1146139159427465216 'Invited', though. Sounds like it'll be a 'directed by the WH to not show up' moment.
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Jul 2, 2019 20:49
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Lol Trump was going to push the big red button
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Arglebargle III posted:Why are these pictures not the headline of every national newspaper and every national news site? A man masquerading as a "journalist" got punched once so that's more important.
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DaveWoo posted:https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1146139159427465216 I like how we've stopped pretending any of these people will ever be confirmed
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The Glumslinger posted:
I would never accuse Calibanibal of thinking about politics
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