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TulliusCicero: Jul 29, 2017

Shifty Pony posted:

Well he shat this out this morning while making GBS threads:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151451067437191168

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151451068431294464

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151451591171543041

Whining about "directions on a shampoo bottle" is a new one to me I have to admit. If those weren't there what would you have to read in the shower to avoid thinking about the impending doom of the planet?

I actually happily missed his continuing temper tantrum

I thought for once someone had convinced him to shut the gently caress up

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Mr Ice Cream Glove: Apr 22, 2007

mcmagic posted:

It was always SO easy for any person of color to jump on the wingnut welfare train. Even more so in the Trump era. All you have to do is have zero integrity or moral core!

Diamond and Silk will eventually run for office

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:31

SocketWrench: Jul 8, 2012; by Fritz the Horse

Casey Finnigan posted:

It's also funny because those 80s action movies were campy as hell, with plots about as complex as the stuff that little kids come up with during play-pretend, and most of the time the fight choreography in them looks far worse than any given modern action movie.

Weird Al did it best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n1hKQULa9Y

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:31

Blind Duke: Nov 8, 2013

In Portuguese culture people have 4 names, two first names one chosen by each parent and two last names derived from their own last names. My father tried his best to get most of it in via shoving a first name into the middle name field. He is completely submerged in the Fox bubble, so he sees it as inefficiency of Big Government and not an unwillingness to accept names that don�t fit a white enough format.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:33

theflyingorc: Jun 28, 2008; ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS; Young Orc

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Do it Iceland style and just name literally every child Bjorn Bjornson until it becomes so confusing you need an app to not gently caress your cousins.

...the reason for Icelanders having the app to dodge incest isn't because of their naming convention, it's because there's only 320k of them, total.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:34

Rauros: Aug 25, 2004; wanna go grub thumping?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1151285132730523648

Having just finished my dissertation, this was giving me a panic attack, because I didn't believe someone could make it that far and plagiarize like that. Then I saw how she blatantly didn't use her own words. Yikes.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:36

pseudanonymous: Aug 30, 2008; When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

theflyingorc posted:

...the reason for Icelanders having the app to dodge incest isn't because of their naming convention, it's because there's only 320k of them, total.

Their naming conventions don't help.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:36

Dielectric: May 3, 2010

Solaris 2.0 posted:

Watching a news report on how the Smithsonian is celebrating 50 years since Apollo 11.

Realize once again boomers love celebrating the achievements of their parents as they have none of their own.

Also I love space and Apollo 11 but boomers have created a political climate that makes achievements like that or the marshall plan or whatever impossible in today�s world. Its a shame, imagine what we could do if we bothered to gear the full force of the government to solving climate change, or ensuring universal healthcare/education...

This is why I cried through most of the Apollo 11 movie. I felt a terrible sense of loss.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:38

Dr. Red Ranger: Nov 9, 2011; Nap Ghost

Coredump posted:

Goddamn this hit me hard. I've had to deal with this with my father. A man who is otherwise very intelligent and knowledgeable has been otherwise brainwashed when it comes to politics. Its a loving shame.

It's all of Our Dads. I had to block mine on social media because he wouldn't stop insisting that Obama started family separation, it's all a hungarian conspiracists' fault, and that everyone trying to help the caravans is in fact a human trafficker and they should all be rounded up, tried and executed. His ThoughtStop is well practiced.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:39

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names posted:

1. People have exactly one canonical full name.
2. People have exactly one full name which they go by.
3. People have, at this point in time, exactly one canonical full name.
4. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by.
5. People have exactly N names, for any value of N.
6. People�s names fit within a certain defined amount of space.
7. People�s names do not change.
8. People�s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events.
9. People�s names are written in ASCII.
10. People�s names are written in any single character set.
11. People�s names are all mapped in Unicode code points.
12. People�s names are case sensitive.
13. People�s names are case insensitive.
14. People�s names sometimes have prefixes or suffixes, but you can safely ignore those.
15. People�s names do not contain numbers.
16. People�s names are not written in ALL CAPS.
17. People�s names are not written in all lower case letters.
18. People�s names have an order to them. Picking any ordering scheme will automatically result in consistent ordering among all systems, as long as both use the same ordering scheme for the same name.
19. People�s first names and last names are, by necessity, different.
20. People have last names, family names, or anything else which is shared by folks recognized as their relatives.
21. People�s names are globally unique.
22. People�s names are almost globally unique.
23. Alright alright but surely people�s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name.
24. My system will never have to deal with names from China.
25. Or Japan.
26. Or Korea.
27. Or Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Russia, Sweden, Botswana, South Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, France, or the Klingon Empire, all of which have �weird� naming schemes in common use.
28. That Klingon Empire thing was a joke, right?
29. Confound your cultural relativism! People in my society, at least, agree on one commonly accepted standard for names.
30. There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly. (Yes, yes, you can do it if your algorithm returns the input. You get a gold star.)
31. I can safely assume that this dictionary of bad words contains no people�s names in it.
32. People�s names are assigned at birth.
33. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.
34. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.
35. Five years?
36. You�re kidding me, right?
37. Two different systems containing data about the same person will use the same name for that person.
38. Two different data entry operators, given a person�s name, will by necessity enter bitwise equivalent strings on any single system, if the system is well-designed.
39. People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.
40. People have names.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:41

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

Couple pages back now, but, ya�ll motherfuckers acting like Dolph Lundgren only played Drago :rolleyes:

Shameful. Dude was He-Man, The Punisher and the Universal Soldier.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:43

theflyingorc: Jun 28, 2008; ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS; Young Orc

pseudanonymous posted:

Their naming conventions don't help.

Are you insinuating that you think last names are an important part of why you haven't hosed your cousin

That's not how the world works - you don't meet a nice girl, hang out for a bit, then find out her last name and go "oh no you have the same last name as my grandfather, we're probably related, better not make babies!"

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:43

Angry_Ed: Mar 30, 2010; Grimey Drawer

nine-gear crow posted:

Couple pages back now, but, ya�ll motherfuckers acting like Dolph Lundgren only played Drago Shameful. Dude was He-Man, The Punisher and the Universal Soldier.

To be fair the picture from the tweet in question is of Ivan Drago, and do you really expect chuds to remember Masters of the Universe or The Punisher?

EDIT: Ok they'd probably remember The Punisher, but I don't think they'd first think the Dolph Lundgren version.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:45

Nail Rat: Dec 29, 2000; You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!!

Especially because the vast majority of your relations won't have the same last name as you in America, so if you'd just gently caress any girl, it could happen. Except it's 300 million people and not 320k.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:46

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

nine-gear crow posted:

Couple pages back now, but, ya’ll motherfuckers acting like Dolph Lundgren only played Drago Shameful. Dude was He-Man, The Punisher and the Universal Soldier.

Plus he can smell crime and runs around like a hound.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:47

Nosre: Apr 16, 2002

friendbot2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1151259160949997568

fascists are dressing up as antifa and startin poo poo. Be careful out there goons

Is 'Minecraft boogaloo' a new "clown world'/'fren'/pepe?

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:47

Mahoning: Feb 3, 2007

mcmagic posted:

This is dumb. The whole point was having hearings in the news for the next 6 months, not skipping right to the point where the impeachment fails in the Senate....

What do you think "refer to the judiciary" means? If it is referred to the House Judiciary Committee, THEY will be the one's investigating and doing all the hearings over the next few months. THEN there will be a vote by the House Judiciary whether to proceed with a vote in the House.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:48

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Dr. Red Ranger posted:

If you've ever argued with a Boomer hooked up to the right wing media machine, every conversation is like that. They're like a markov bot that was only ever given Fox News talking points. You criticize something they like and suddenly it's an unending stream of consciousness of diversions and false equivalencies. They've been taught CrimeStop from 1984 but instead of requiring the mental discipline to recognize and avoid conflicting thoughts they just flood the conversation with junk data like a pavlovian response.

That's why they like gish galloping short brained pillocks like Shapiro so much.

Coredump posted:

Goddamn this hit me hard. I've had to deal with this with my father. A man who is otherwise very intelligent and knowledgeable has been otherwise brainwashed when it comes to politics. Its a loving shame.

As someone that has to deal with an aging father who is 100% sucked into the abyss, don't let it ruin your life.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:49

SocketWrench: Jul 8, 2012; by Fritz the Horse

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1151456184425209856

AOC won by 71%

This feels like another Republican attempt to try and capture something popular.
Oh a black man won the presidency? It must because he was black, let's run our own black candidate but with policies that suck balls.
Oh, minorities and immigrants are getting popular in politics, let's run one too, but with policies that suck balls.

They get so close...those two brain cells line up to rub together and then swish past each other completely

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FizFashizzle: Mar 30, 2005

SocketWrench posted:

This feels like another Republican attempt to try and capture something popular.
Oh a black man won the presidency? It must because he was black, let's run our own black candidate but with policies that suck balls.
Oh, minorities and immigrants are getting popular in politics, let's run one too, but with policies that suck balls.

The GOP's first "Look a black guy" was Michael Steele, who was president of the RNC and who's presently drinking himself out of bed every morning and telling evangelicals to go gently caress themselves.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:50

TulliusCicero: Jul 29, 2017

Nosre posted:

Is 'Minecraft boogaloo' a new "clown world'/'fren'/pepe?

Not surprised in the least terminally online nazi channer dipshits mind's gravitate to loving Minecraft

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:51

ewiley: Jul 9, 2003; More trash for the trash fire

Nosre posted:

Is 'Minecraft boogaloo' a new "clown world'/'fren'/pepe?

I'm guessing it's because you can kill the NPC/villager people all day and there are no repercussions, I know this because I watch my 10-year-old do this all the time.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:51

PT6A: Jan 5, 2006; Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

SocketWrench posted:

This feels like another Republican attempt to try and capture something popular.
Oh a black man won the presidency? It must because he was black, let's run our own black candidate but with policies that suck balls.
Oh, minorities and immigrants are getting popular in politics, let's run one too, but with policies that suck balls.

They get so close...those two brain cells line up to rub together and then swish past each other completely

It�s because they honestly believe their own bullshit about Democratic �identity politics� and �virtue signaling.�

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:53

Piell: Sep 3, 2006; Grey Worm's Ken doll-like groin throbbed with the anticipatory pleasure that only a slightly warm and moist piece of lemoncake could offer; Young Orc

Nosre posted:

Is 'Minecraft boogaloo' a new "clown world'/'fren'/pepe?

Yes, they believe that they can't get hit for planning any crimes as long as they append "in minecraft" to their statements.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:53

SocketWrench: Jul 8, 2012; by Fritz the Horse

TulliusCicero posted:

Lol at the comments

"Where's all the Clinton footage?!" "This is not a Trump issue!"

I think Donny would disagree!

Why the gently caress do they think anyone cares if Bill Clinton goes down? Is it just "team" mentality?

For a lot of people, it absolutely is a team thing. That's exactly why we are where we are now and why morons like that one woman who was detained will vote Trump again

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:54

theflyingorc: Jun 28, 2008; ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS; Young Orc

Piell posted:

Yes, they believe that they can't get hit for planning any crimes as long as they append "in minecraft" to their statements.

So it's the equivalent of "Someone Who Isn't Me" in drug forums?

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:55

nine-gear crow: Aug 10, 2013

Angry_Ed posted:

To be fair the picture from the tweet in question is of Ivan Drago, and do you really expect chuds to remember Masters of the Universe or The Punisher?

EDIT: Ok they'd probably remember The Punisher, but I don't think they'd first think the Dolph Lundgren version.

Fair. I�m just bemused by how much of a sociopathic, room temperature IQ�d gommba Eric Trump is that he completely missed the point that the reason why Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Benedict Cumberbatch are big action stars is because they�re good actors and people connected with the characters they played on a human emotional level. Which is a step too far for Eric Trump, the Liquid Snake of Trumps.

...Also that film making techniques and audience tastes have evolved in the 30 years since Eric was a boy to allow for a wider range of actors to convincingly play action heroes so you don�t need walking beef slabs who can�t emote or enunciate to fit the bill anymore (but they�re still always welcome).

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:56

Skippy McPants: Mar 19, 2009

mcmagic posted:

It was always SO easy for any person of color to jump on the wingnut welfare train. Even more so in the Trump era. All you have to do is have zero integrity or moral core!

I dunno, easy is a relative term. You can get paid, but I imagine it's a very pyrrhic existence where most of the people who'll talk to you are also condescending and bigotted to your face.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:56

Ornedan: Nov 4, 2009; Cybernetic Crumb

Nosre posted:

Is 'Minecraft boogaloo' a new "clown world'/'fren'/pepe?

Explained in the thread, but Minecraft is there so they can insist they're only talking about a game. Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:56

SocketWrench: Jul 8, 2012; by Fritz the Horse

RuanGacho posted:

Yesterday I heard one of my local elected fret about antifa coming to town and how can we unmask them because of the Tacoma ICE attack.

Of course if you look you'll note Fox News was carrying on about that yesterday.

I'd ask him what can we do to unmask these Nazis should they come to town and try shooting up a religious center or run over pedestrians

# ? Jul 17, 2019 15:58

Mahoning: Feb 3, 2007

Regarding "virtue signaling", it has always been funny to me that this is one of the biggest projections that right wingers engage in. THEY are the ones who try to "virtue signal" by engaging in dick measuring contests about who loves the military more, who honors the flag the most, who is the biggest patriot, etc. (to say nothing of the way evangelical Christians "virtue signal" their alleged Christianity)

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:01

Nosre: Apr 16, 2002

Piell posted:

Yes, they believe that they can't get hit for planning any crimes as long as they append "in minecraft" to their statements.

ahahah, galaxy brains, all of them

Mahoning posted:

Regarding "virtue signaling", it has always been funny to me that this is one of the biggest projections that right wingers engage in. THEY are the ones who try to "virtue signal" by engaging in dick measuring contests about who loves the military more, who honors the flag the most, who is the biggest patriot, etc. (to say nothing of the way evangelical Christians "virtue signal" their alleged Christianity)

There's a good hbg exploring the concept deeper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmM872874A

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:03

Groovelord Neato: Dec 6, 2014

yeah it's why it's so frustrating and useless engaging with them. everything they do is projection. there's no any way to reply to it.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:06

Luckyellow: Sep 25, 2007; Pillbug

I just remembered. Isn't today supposed to be when the judges will give their decision on the ACA case?

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:07

Ague Proof: Jun 5, 2014; they told me
I was everything

You don't actually need to use shampoo at all.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Do it Iceland style and just name literally every child Bjorn Bjornson until it becomes so confusing you need an app to not gently caress your cousins.

Erick Erickson is Icelandic?

Abolish Iceland.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:12

TulliusCicero: Jul 29, 2017

Groovelord Neato posted:

yeah it's why it's so frustrating and useless engaging with them. everything they do is projection. there's no any way to reply to it.

I spent like 2-3 hours arguing with a Qanon dude on Twitter yesterday who was convinced the rich are great (but not corporations) and white nationalists are bad, but we need to crack down on immigration and multiculturalism, and my personal favorite, Trump spent decades hanging out with Epstein to draw attention to the conspiracy of pedos. I told him I had no problem with anybody in any party going down if they were involved with Epstein.

He was surprisingly polite, but man, oh man it was like fighting cult programming. Also all governments that have killed their own people in the 20th century are inherently leftist governments, regardless of ideology, because only left government is big government :psyduck:

There is no logic hole they can't ignore, no insane contradiction they can't justify. I thought I could reach him by just explaining where his logic is just flawed or doesn't add up, but it is a wall of cult like thinking to smash through :smith:

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:16

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

Sweevo posted:

A related thing is family structure. Trying to work with software about kids and parents is like, absolute nightmare. It's like, everything is welded to the concept of nuclear family and you can tell everything else is patched in as a special case. Then real life is entering every crazy combination imaginable including a bunch of "I hope someone went to jail for this but I still need to enter this into this record keeping database"

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:16

pseudanonymous: Aug 30, 2008; When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

TulliusCicero posted:

He was surprisingly polite, but man, oh man it was like fighting cult programming. Also all governments that have killed their own people in the 20th century are inherently leftist governments, regardless of ideology, because only left government is big government

There is no logic hole they can't ignore, no insane contradiction they can't justify. I thought I could reach him by just explaining where his logic is just flawed or doesn't add up, but it is a wall of cult like thinking to smash through

It wasn't "like" cult programming. It was cult programming. Q-anon is a cult. Full stop.

# ? Jul 17, 2019 16:19

TulliusCicero: Jul 29, 2017

pseudanonymous posted:

It wasn't "like" cult programming. It was cult programming. Q-anon is a cult. Full stop.

Yeah no, after seeing first hand what they believe, as goofy as gently caress as they are that cult represents an existential threat to the safety of this country

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pseudanonymous: Aug 30, 2008; When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

TulliusCicero posted:

Yeah no, after seeing first hand what they believe, as goofy as gently caress as they are that cult represents an existential threat to the safety of this country

I dunno about that. They strike me as a particularly de-centralized, dis-incentivized to action group. Anti-vaxxers are probably far more likely to cause actual problems due to their spreading of contagion.

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