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Ms Adequate posted:Okay I may have exaggerated a touch but New Orleans' population was halved, almost 2000 people died, 80% of the city flooded, and I can find damage figures anywhere from $70billion to $160bil. It could be worse but I'm not sure that a city hit that hard and not prompting a response beyond Congress going "how can we blame the army corps of engineering" bodes well for future changes in course. Capitalism found a way to turn that to its advantage instead of having to pay higher taxes to deal with climate change; the fact New Orleans got gentrified is exactly why I don't think his arguments about what capitalism will do are entirely credible.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:How the mighty are fallen or become LibDems anyway. How many are left in the Cuktigs? Imagine which one of them asked for a plain nandos
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Ratjaculation posted:Imagine which one of them asked for a plain nandos All of them. Only the driest, plainest chicken for them.
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Pesky Splinter posted:All of them. Only the driest, plainest chicken for them. No! My joke was about not wanting it to have a funny tinge
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The population is only 15% smaller now than before Katrina, the city really wasn't that badly hurt. Some of the people, sure, but that's not what counts. A city being written off means abandoning it, like Chernobyl. What the hell? Have you been to NOLA? Pre-Katrina the entire french quarter would have people walking around in at night, every night. Now it's only lively on the weekends. Everyone who worked downtown in those service industry jobs used to live three blocks north of Rampart or in the Lower Ninth. Now, because out-of-town white money came in and bought up loads of the homes that were underwater for weeks, they live in loving New Orleans East which takes 45 minutes to drive from on a good day.. It's totally unsustainable..nothing but service industry will ever exist in the city. i am harry fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Sep 18, 2019 |
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“Excuse me, my chicken isn’t cuked thoroughly”
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I really want to go to New Orleans because I hear it has amazing food and drink and nightlife but I think being in a swamp would be awful and also I'm deeply uneasy about going to the USA because people just occasionally start shooting each other there. it's the police i'm most scared of I feel exactly the same about Las Vegas but replace swamp with desert. e: I also have a tendency to loudly discuss very communist things after a few drinks and I'm not certain how well that would go down in a bar in the american deep south lol
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ThomasPaine posted:I really want to go to New Orleans because I hear it has amazing food and drink and nightlife but I think being in a swamp would be awful and also I'm deeply uneasy about going to the USA because people just occasionally start shooting each other there. it's the police i'm most scared of Same for NO but replace food and drink with music. But also same, I'm boycotting the US because of [waves hands generally at state of US, esp borders]. I have not yet tested this boycott in the face of my boss telling me to visit HQ...
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Just buy a gun, you’ll be fine!
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The southwestern US deserts look absolutely beautiful and I would like to visit them, though possibly in the winter.
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i am harry posted:What the hell? Have you been to NOLA? Pre-Katrina the entire french quarter would have people walking around in at night, every night. Now it's only lively on the weekends. Everyone who worked downtown in those service industry jobs used to live three blocks north of Rampart or in the Lower Ninth. Now, because out-of-town white money came in and bought up loads of the homes that were underwater for weeks, they live in loving New Orleans East which takes 45 minutes to drive from on a good day.. It's totally unsustainable..nothing but service industry will ever exist in the city.
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OwlFancier posted:The southwestern US deserts look absolutely beautiful and I would like to visit them, though possibly in the winter. Jokes aside my partner and I are vaguely talking about doing a road trip, flying into Los Angeles or San Francisco then going up to Vegas via the Salton Sea (GTAV tourism honestly), then going up into the pacific northwest (absolutely love the misty pine trees and mountains landscape) and flying back from either Seattle or Vancouver. She originally wanted to fly into New York and drive across the country first and while I'd like to see the city lol if I'm sitting in a car for days on end driving through the plains. In any case it sounds like a great little extended holiday if we can get the time off and come up with enough money.
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OwlFancier posted:The southwestern US deserts look absolutely beautiful and I would like to visit them, though possibly in the winter. Zion park is what you're after. Desert on the drive in and then an absolutely amazing park with desert on the drive out. You can drive around Bryce canyon too
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ThomasPaine posted:Jokes aside my partner and I are vaguely talking about doing a road trip, flying into Los Angeles or San Francisco then going up to Vegas via the Salton Sea (GTAV tourism honestly), then going up into the pacific northwest (absolutely love the misty pine trees and mountains landscape) and flying back from either Seattle or Vancouver. She originally wanted to fly into New York and drive across the country first and while I'd like to see the city lol if I'm sitting in a car for days on end driving through the plains. In any case it sounds like a great little extended holiday if we can get the time off and come up with enough money. Do fallout tourism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sOyZdtVA0
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Wile-E-Coyote tourism is quite fun if you're passing through that bit of Arizona.
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If your near Zion and feeling adventurous https://www.thewave.info/
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Bundy posted:Jumped ahead to reply etc but I went through a miscarriage in 2012 and I wasn't devastated by it because I give a poo poo about pro life or religion or anything else but because we'd just gone through a loving miscarriage, and "was it anything we did/could have done differently?" were among the first thoughts we had between us. I can't speak for others but we certainly bonded with the bump and felt serious loss after the fact, with both of us pro choice atheists. Guavanaut posted:I was responding to jabby to agree that it's never a matter of 'fault' or 'blame', not to any individual case, and unfortunately a lot of their propaganda has, by its rhetoric, caused people to internalize feelings of personal fault and blame over pregnancy loss in ways that they wouldn't have done in the past. Obviously it's not a reasonable ask for an individual in that situation to somehow rationally decide to think about it in the manner of a different decade, but it's never someone's 'fault', and I think the driving forces behind that view of pregnancy are the same as the driving forces behind "you have to do pregnancy perfectly (and what does that say about you if you can't)" and in turn behind regressive bills to allow investigations into whether miscarriages are 'legitimate' and stuff which legitimately boils my piss. (I'm also not saying you personally did or did not look at it in that way, that's not my business, but I'm saying some people definitely do, and it's a bit messed up that the old fashioned view of "sometimes it's just not meant" is closer to medical reality and seems mentally healthier than some of the pressures we put on now.) Sorry if I was unclear there, it's specifically the fault bit that I pin on that kind of poo poo.
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Bobstar posted:But also same, I'm boycotting the US because of [waves hands generally at state of US, esp borders]. I have not yet tested this boycott in the face of my boss telling me to visit HQ... Being married to a woman from deepest rural Mississippi, I don't get this option with my boss 
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I mean, don't buy US anyway where you can because it's generally, the cheapest most awful poo poo they could develop. ULTRACAPITALISM in that country has resulted in companies selling inferior products that barely work so they can shovel more money into CEO bonuses and shareholder pockets. See: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Pretty much every US car manufacturer, etc.
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coffeetable posted:china unironically makes the best everything now
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Jose posted:Zion park is what you're after. Desert on the drive in and then an absolutely amazing park with desert on the drive out. You can drive around Bryce canyon too Utah is pretty cool. You can drive from here:  to here:  in just over a day.
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coffeetable posted:china unironically makes the best everything now You should see the cheap lovely stuff they sell to Egyptians. I'm sure it comes as part of the bargain - we'll invest in you if you buy our lovely stuff. As if Egyptians couldn't make their own lovely stuff.
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Boris didn’t provide a signed affidavit to the Supreme Court for his reasoning behind proroguing parliament. Presiding judge basically said “bit odd innit?” He’s shot himself in whatever is left of his foot, again.
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coffeetable posted:china unironically makes the best everything now Yes, but only the first time you order from them. The second time onwards theres a very good chance the quality will suck absolute poo poo. Rotate suppliers after every big shipment till you find one that doesn't drop quality after they've "proven themselves" to you by doing good on the first order.
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#sacklaurakuenssberg is trending at 20k on twitter at the moment. Unlikely anything will come of it. If they comment at all, the BBC will say "Oh well, it was posted from a private account - nothing to do with us. Despite the massive influence she has on BBC political discourse, nothing to do with us whatsoever, as she purposely framed the argument, and indirectly encouraged her followers to spam his twitter account."
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Time to make fake posts that LK supports Corbyn and remaining in earth shattering leak! Redirect the vitriol to her and let her account be hacked or whatever. I’m going to hook up my coax to my tv and leech television, because gently caress the BBC. send me all the letters you want you paper wasting scumbags. Boomers will pay for it anyway and rightly loving so.
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ThomasPaine posted:I really want to go to New Orleans because I hear it has amazing food and drink and nightlife but I think being in a swamp would be awful and also I'm deeply uneasy about going to the USA because people just occasionally start shooting each other there. it's the police i'm most scared of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoVgQ82QcXY not a dig, just love Sunny posting
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Ratjaculation posted:I got a pass me down Huawei phone, after years on iPhone. It's battery lasts for a few days, its camera is great and, hell, I'm never talking to myself with it close by. Yeah I've got an honor phone which is a hauwei spinoff and it was cheap, the specs are great and the battery is beefy as hell. The camera sucks on mine tho but I don't really care about that. Tbh I'd rather Chinese govmt gets all my personal info than the UK govmt does
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Did some volunteering for refugee charity today - it's shocking how few resources they have! A lot of people go on about how great UK is for refugees who actually get their claims upheld, but it really didn't seem that way. Though hey they get a free bus pass! Nevermind that they are absolutely miserable and poor.
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Private Speech posted:A lot of people go on about how great UK is for refugees who actually get their claims upheld Literally only nazis say this.
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Tesseraction posted:Literally only nazis say this. I, uhh, maybe? Definitely people with fash tendencies, but that includes my current neighbours and landlord. They're all rather old though so it's not too surprising, I guess. They did go on about the whole "first safe country" thing a lot too.
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Tesseraction posted:Literally only nazis say this.
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