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Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CommieGIR posted:

Its fixed.

Awesome...also nice Gamera avatar.

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Cyks
Mar 17, 2008

The trenches of IT can scar a muppet for life

Flying_Crab posted:

accidentally ordering 2 full cases of good TP like 2 years ago is really paying off. I still have an entire cabinet in my bathroom full of TP.

A case of TP from Costco lasts just enough to make me have to renew my membership the next time I go in. I'm onto their tactic.

Woofer
Mar 2, 2020

CommieGIR posted:

Its fixed.

We have a thread for election chat.

just trying to shitpost my way through this

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Cyks posted:

A case of TP from Costco lasts just enough to make me have to renew my membership the next time I go in. I'm onto their tactic.

I'm up to about 1 case of paper towel a year.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Flying_Crab posted:

I'm up to about 1 case of paper towel a year.

But is it quality? I’d imagine you have to be careful to avoid awful rear end ripping “office building grade” tp.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Kirkland stuff is pretty good.

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


Meanwhile tropical storm Eta has decided it's sick of Florida's bullshit. https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-11-04-eta-forecast-florida-central-america-flooding-rainfall

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



MazelTovCocktail posted:

But is it quality? I’d imagine you have to be careful to avoid awful rear end ripping “office building grade” tp.

It’s fascinating how cheap toilet paper is simultaneously tough enough to savage your butthole and weak enough to give you shitfinger.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Midjack posted:

It’s fascinating how cheap toilet paper is simultaneously tough enough to savage your butthole and weak enough to give you shitfinger.

:iiam:

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Storms come and go, but florida is forever.

Woofer
Mar 2, 2020

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Storms come and go, but florida is forever.

Climate change just burst into the room like the kool-aid man.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Florida will just grow with time, waves waxing and waning upon the rocks, when someday, another ice age will freeze the poles, and florida man will reign once more as the glory of life returns once again to the peninsula.

People think it will be roaches that survive the apocalypse, I think it'll probably be a couple from Gainesville.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1324054176691871749?s=20

Just gonna keep staring into the middle distance

Eason the Fifth
Apr 9, 2020

there's only one thief in the marine corps, the rest of us are just getting gouged at the PX

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


Ethiopian civil war maybe, just what we needed: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/04/ethiopia-on-brink-as-pm-orders-military-response-to-attack

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
I guess they have a use for all those M1 carbines they're selling now?

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


What's kinda wild is that five percent of the population apparently have half the mechanized divisions. Not sure what political science has to say about trackocracy

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

aphid_licker posted:

What's kinda wild is that five percent of the population apparently have half the mechanized divisions. Not sure what political science has to say about trackocracy

That honestly sounds like how the Saudi National Guard is structued, and the Republican Guard was in Iraq to an extent, along with Syria. They’re designed as anti-coup forces more even the national defense.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Seems like it would suck a shitton to be proper leg infantry in a desert

aphid_licker
Jan 7, 2009


MazelTovCocktail posted:

That honestly sounds like how the Saudi National Guard is structued, and the Republican Guard was in Iraq to an extent, along with Syria. They’re designed as anti-coup forces more even the national defense.

Amusingly enough the five percent is the separatists and not the central gov:

quote:

The Tigray region is home to a large portion of federal military personnel and where much of its equipment is located, a legacy of Ethiopia’s brutal 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, its northern neighbour.

Some analysts estimate that Tigray could muster more than half of the armed forces’ total personnel and mechanised divisions.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

aphid_licker posted:

Amusingly enough the five percent is the separatists and not the central gov:

:lol: That is certainly different for once.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Arguably Egypt when the military flipped on Mubarak but then again they turned out to be playing the long game so...

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011


Where do I find the one-of-these for today?

And I guess tomorrow as well while we're at it.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Lake of Methane posted:

Where do I find the one-of-these for today?

And I guess tomorrow as well while we're at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cml57TSaisw&t=296s

HD remaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGRK6uFx1k&t=16s

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
I just noticed that I completely forgot about the 'roni for the last couple of days.

Welp, Germany is up to 20k new infections and the US breached 100k. :smith:

GoGoGadget
Apr 29, 2006

Saw some mention of the alleged fact that the Vice President is able to choose who decides what gets voted on in the Senate, so Harris could recognize the Minority Leader instead of the Majority Leader. If this is true, and they don't do that, then you'll know the Biden presidency is going to be doing nothing but decorum-seeking.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
The vice president can rule on points of order, which is extremely powerful for a person not beholden to decorum.

Ataxerxes
Dec 2, 2011

What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?
The is a program running for tech people, it's a 90 day trial of what it's like to live in Finland. Some of you might be interested : https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/05/finns_woo_techies/

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Ataxerxes posted:

The is a program running for tech people, it's a 90 day trial of what it's like to live in Finland. Some of you might be interested : https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/05/finns_woo_techies/

Hmmmmmmmmm oh poo poo wait I’m terrible at coding

Sleng Teng
May 3, 2009

Ataxerxes posted:

The is a program running for tech people, it's a 90 day trial of what it's like to live in Finland. Some of you might be interested : https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/05/finns_woo_techies/

This seems pretty neat but west coast focus is a bummer!

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
The CE thread knew about the Wuhan coronavirus on January third, so it’s only appropriate that we hear about COVID‐20

https://www.bt.dk/samfund/covid-19-from-mink-could-turn-into-a-new-global-pandemic

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/JCSkewesDK/status/1324039467011870720?s=20

https://twitter.com/julianrademeyer/status/1324204013378744321?s=20

12 people have been confirmed to be infected with the newly mutated version of the virus so far

quote:

Denmark is culling its mink farm population (it is the 2nd largest producer in the world!). This is potentially bad news, of the order of “pneumonia of unknown origin reported in Wuhan”:

– Mink are close relatives of ferrets and ferrets are the lab animal of choice for human respiratory infections.
– Not covered in the BBC article but hinted at in the science one, a mink farm presents a virus with an essentially infinite population for the first few serial transmissions and thus more pathogenic viral strains are no longer at a disadvantage. Viral infections in battery farm conditions are known to promote virulence and, accidentally, pathogenicity.
– The mink have already succeeded in re-transmitting it to humans, which is the first case of back-infection from an animal receptor population (no cases of this so far for dogs or cats). Hardly unexpected: virology labs use serial passage in ferret populations to “weaponise” viruses for transmissibility etc.

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Nov 5, 2020

Ataxerxes
Dec 2, 2011

What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?

Sleng Teng posted:

This seems pretty neat but west coast focus is a bummer!

Well, the official application page doesn't seem to have that focus:
https://www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi/90-day-finn/

You sort of need to write why you want to come here, but that west coast seems to have been put there by that newspaper.

Sleng Teng
May 3, 2009

I thought that might be the case so I did gloss the TOC:

quote:

Criteria for the decision

Helsinki Business Hub has the right to choose freely to the participants. The following criteria will be considered in decision making.

- The campaign is targeted for top talent in the US west coast, so primely the participants are chosen from the US.

However I think the article put a lot of undue emphasis on it and it costs nothing but a little time anyway to apply so nbd!

Ataxerxes
Dec 2, 2011

What is a soldier but a miserable pile of eaten cats and strange language?

Sleng Teng posted:

I thought that might be the case so I did gloss the TOC:


However I think the article put a lot of undue emphasis on it and it costs nothing but a little time anyway to apply so nbd!

Ah, sorry, I missed that. But being from the US should be good.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Platystemon posted:

The CE thread knew about the Wuhan coronavirus on January third, so it’s only appropriate that we hear about COVID‐20

https://www.bt.dk/samfund/covid-19-from-mink-could-turn-into-a-new-global-pandemic

Look, as a left - leaning Australian, I've rarely had good things to say about the more populist elements of our foreign policy over the years but uhhh

Yeah. gently caress off, we're full.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
This geneticist thinks that the press has overhyped the story.

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1324085761449304067

Even so, minks should have been mincemeat in March.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Everybody gets a voucher for a guilt free coat this year

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Platystemon posted:

This geneticist thinks that the press has overhyped the story.

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1324085761449304067

Even so, minks should have been mincemeat in March.

Minks are so awesome, and this is hosed up. Mink Farms should be a thing of the past.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

CommieGIR posted:

Minks are so awesome, and this is hosed up. Mink Farms should be a thing of the past.

I already thought they were, what the hell 2020.

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ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Three days ago I randomly heard a little song playing, and right or wrong or undeservedly it's unshakable now. Straight, from 16 years ago;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jyc5JUFysQ

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