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M_Gargantua posted:Too wholesome for 2019 I think this is slightly outside the bounds of regular CE stuff, but gently caress it. https://twitter.com/tomandlorenzo/status/1191522859862151168?s=19 Fuckin hell yeah, Keanu's happy.
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Man, I'm seasonal NPS at one of the top parks in the country and poo poo is so goddamn turbofucked. Like, you think that article is bad, and it is, but it's just a layer of poo poo on top of what the parks are already going through. Like, hiring is such a mess that we lose people faster than we gain them, especially in critical areas like facilities maintenance. People are stuck in endless details where they're underpaid and overworked for the jobs they've been put into, but also can't do critical long-term planning because everyone's on detail filling in for everyone else, right up to the Superintendent level (Neither Grand Canyon nor Yosemite have Superintendents right now, and Grand Canyon hasn't had one for nearly a year) And the maintenance backlog at the parks is massive, and keeps getting bigger and bigger. There's a ton of critical work that needs to be done that isn't, because there's zero money (Which of course is a cherry on top of the poo poo sandwich of the proposal to privatize campgrounds, as that's more money effectively being funneled out of the parks). And all of this is happening when more and more people are coming to the parks, at a level that is frankly unsustainable with current resources dedicated to the parks. poo poo's hosed and it's only going to get more hosed, especially if there's another shutdown. e: Grand Canyon dog tax 
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facialimpediment posted:I think this is slightly outside the bounds of regular CE stuff, but gently caress it. I thought that was Helen Mirren in the thumbnail.
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facialimpediment posted:I think this is slightly outside the bounds of regular CE stuff, but gently caress it. 
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Disneyworld and Disneyland do it on on purpose to keep rodents down That's like an indoor botanical conservatory I went to, they keep quails for pest control. You're checking out the plants and every now and then you see one of the little guys doing that little head-down quail run across the walkway. It's super 
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Gorka got banned from YouTube because he wouldn't stop playing Imagine Dragons on his "show"
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Casimir Radon posted:Gorka got banned from YouTube because he wouldn't stop playing Imagine Dragons on his "show" What an appropriate ban reason regarding his conduct and content. 
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KirbyKhan posted:Current Event: I got my wedding video back y'all! Bombing the forums with this link like Turkey bombing the Kurds. P good music choice with Caesar and H.E.R. Congrats to you and your lovely bride!
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Man, I'm seasonal NPS at one of the top parks in the country and poo poo is so goddamn turbofucked. Like, you think that article is bad, and it is, but it's just a layer of poo poo on top of what the parks are already going through. Like, hiring is such a mess that we lose people faster than we gain them, especially in critical areas like facilities maintenance. People are stuck in endless details where they're underpaid and overworked for the jobs they've been put into, but also can't do critical long-term planning because everyone's on detail filling in for everyone else, right up to the Superintendent level (Neither Grand Canyon nor Yosemite have Superintendents right now, and Grand Canyon hasn't had one for nearly a year) And the maintenance backlog at the parks is massive, and keeps getting bigger and bigger. There's a ton of critical work that needs to be done that isn't, because there's zero money (Which of course is a cherry on top of the poo poo sandwich of the proposal to privatize campgrounds, as that's more money effectively being funneled out of the parks). And all of this is happening when more and more people are coming to the parks, at a level that is frankly unsustainable with current resources dedicated to the parks.
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I’m term NPS (but have been here for 7 months), I get the feeling that these problems have been around for more than a minute. All of our department heads are acting (I think our maintenance section just got an actual head?), and we’re on our 2nd acting superintendent (they can only stay for a max of 120 days). All of our GS 5 staff (science techs) are term, which means we could be replaced yearly if people wanted to...as are 2 of our GS 7’s.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Man, I'm seasonal NPS at one of the top parks in the country and poo poo is so goddamn turbofucked. Like, you think that article is bad, and it is, but it's just a layer of poo poo on top of what the parks are already going through. Like, hiring is such a mess that we lose people faster than we gain them, especially in critical areas like facilities maintenance. People are stuck in endless details where they're underpaid and overworked for the jobs they've been put into, but also can't do critical long-term planning because everyone's on detail filling in for everyone else, right up to the Superintendent level (Neither Grand Canyon nor Yosemite have Superintendents right now, and Grand Canyon hasn't had one for nearly a year) And the maintenance backlog at the parks is massive, and keeps getting bigger and bigger. There's a ton of critical work that needs to be done that isn't, because there's zero money (Which of course is a cherry on top of the poo poo sandwich of the proposal to privatize campgrounds, as that's more money effectively being funneled out of the parks). And all of this is happening when more and more people are coming to the parks, at a level that is frankly unsustainable with current resources dedicated to the parks. I volunteer in Shenandoah and yeah  . Our group is super conscientious in reporting everything we do since the NPS has a price tag associated with each trail structure rebuilt and mile weeded which they report back to Congress each year to illustrate how in the hole they are. This year our sub-section alone ended up doing +1,100 volunteer hours which was equivalent to an extra free seasonal in our section of the park. The rangers are all super great to work with but they've been hurting for at least the past five years I've been going out there.
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Man, hard to believe it's 11 years since conservative white America lost its loving mind:  Never would've thought that as I watched Obama get elected in Chicago. How naive we all were.
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Speaking of NPS...I’m counting down to shutdown time again. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-04/another-government-shutdown-donald-trump-won-t-rule-it-out The current CR expires on the 21st of this month. Who wants to go into thanksgiving and Black Friday with the government not getting paid again?  Terrifying Effigies posted:I volunteer in Shenandoah Thank you. Our volunteers loving rock, I love working alongside them
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Here's something: Summer Zervos, who used to be on the Apprentice, said Trump sexually assaulted her. He called her a liar, so she sued him for libel. Associated Press posted:Lawyer: Trump's phone records back details of woman's sex assault claim
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Knives Amilli posted:Is NPS fuckery a result of Trump or have these issues been around been lingering? Lot of this stuff has been a long time coming, though obviously the administration hasn't helped. The biggest issue is really Congress - getting the parks the money and people they need to function is only going to come through legislation, but despite promises from the administration nothing has happened (What a shocker!).
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NPS gets hosed hard during a shutdown. Almost 90% of everyone got sent home last time. It was only slightly before my time, but that’s when stupid poo poo like “Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park were cut down so people could off-road in that area” happened. Or people kept visiting and throwing away their garbage, but there was nobody there to come collect it...so it piled up. I’m scared of imagining what Florida Man will come up with this time, because Biscayne is impossible to close. We’re 95% water, with multiple marinas in park waters. The best they can do is to close the visitor center, but that has zero impact on whatever boaters decide to come into the park. Park boundaries are also defined by depth on the eastern border, so when the sea level rises a little bit our boundary is going to creep inwards a bit 🙃
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191708086140047361?s=19 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191708902041227264?s=19 We're going to invade Mexico, aren't we?
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SimonCat posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191708086140047361?s=19 Well now that we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle East after securing the oil, our dick is ready to lustily plunge itself into yet another beehive. pantslesswithwolves fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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Hey the Mexican American war was probably the “easiest” war the US ever fought! Surely that will happen the same way again!
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hobbesmaster posted:Hey the Mexican American war was probably the “easiest” war the US ever fought! Surely that will happen the same way again! And the training and experience soldiers gain will cause the Second American Civil War!
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Wait a minute, the family that got wasted in Mexico were LeBarons? Mormon LeBarons? THESE LeBarons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron
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not caring here posted:Wait a minute, the family that got wasted in Mexico were LeBarons? Mormon LeBarons? Mormons in Mexico tend to be weirdos - even by Mormon standards - trying to evade US laws on polygamy.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Mormons in Mexico tend to be weirdos - even by Mormon standards - trying to evade US laws on polygamy. My experience is that Utah Mormons consider them a little odd, but not odd enough that we should try to do anything to shut down their communities, even the ones in the US.
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Starship Troopers, movie version, starts with a news report about some Mormon colonists getting killed by bugs after settling one of their planets.
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So let me get this straight... They are Mormons who immigrated to Mexico to avoid our laws but still hold birthright citizenship to the US. This sounds shady as gently caress and I won’t be surprised for one second they were running drugs to make some extra money.
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LingcodKilla posted:So let me get this straight... Mormons have a long tradition of doing this. Mitt Romney’s father was born in Mexico for example.
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Casimir Radon posted:Starship Troopers, movie version, starts with a news report about some Mormon colonists getting killed by bugs after settling one of their planets. Hahah holy poo poo
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Mormons in Mexico tend to be weirdos - even by Mormon standards - trying to evade US laws on polygamy. A gently caress death murder cult sounds a little more severe than "more weird". Seriously, ervil lebaron was a loving psychopath linked to at least 25 murders, armed stand offs with Mexican locals, drug smuggling, and who knows what else. If these are the same lebarons, I have no doubt that it was a cartel knocking out the competition, or the locals finally come to gently caress them up for digging 300 illegal wells in a drought stricken part of the country.
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That Works posted:Roger Stone's trial starts today https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1191747763563835392?s=19 Even jury selection is a clusterfuck in this case!
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Chichevache posted:No, it'll be more like a.... "police action". I just remembered that a US invasion of Mexico was one of the news stories on the original Robocop.
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That Works posted:Hahah holy poo poo Better they die by bug than have their ship commandeered by the Belt.
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