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Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

The Swamp Monsters.

They can license Scooby Doo characters for mascots.

There are no swamps in Cleveland.

They should name the team the Cleveland Commodores after Commodore Perry and the battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Cleveland Tourists

Cleveland Firestorm

Flikken
Oct 23, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it
Cleveland Rocks

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
The Cleveland Depression

Stultus Maximus posted:

Continuing to have a normal healthy democracy here
https://twitter.com/RepHertel/status/1338250529365954560

I do seriously believe that there will be blood spilled due to all these dipshits, but I hope that these are being taken seriously and the people who made the threats dealt with.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


The Cleveland Edmund Fitzgeralds

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Ultra Carp
Hey, names for Transportation Secretary that aren't blatant lobbying from mayors:

https://twitter.com/ClaytonGuse/status/1338262461598806016

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007
The Cleveland Opes

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Hekk posted:

There are no swamps in Cleveland.

I meant for the Washington football team.

Cleveland, I don't know poo poo about besides being in Ohio, and that's already cursed them enough.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
The Cleveland please stop forgetting we're a baseball team

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007
The Cleveland 48ers. (They last won a world series in 1948).

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011

https://twitter.com/UticaEric/status/1338201667527794688

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
The Cleveland Show

(I don't know anything about baseball)

*(Are we talking about baseball?)*

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
The Cleveland Show was too good to be affiliated with actual Cleveland.

The Cleveland Drew Careys.

The Cleveland Mimis.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
Football Team is the second goddamn best football team name in the league and I hope they never change it

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Putin built an inch-for-inch replica of his office at his dacha in Sochi so he can pretend to be Working Hard! from Moscow while he's really at the beach:

https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1338154232055205889?s=20

You KNOW Trump absolutely would have built a fake Oval Office at Mar a Lago in 2017 and never set foot in Washington again if he thought could've gotten away with this.

Retrowave Joe
Jul 20, 2001

Nick Soapdish posted:

The Cleveland Edmund Fitzgeralds

I like the direction but it doesn’t roll off the tongue. How about the Cleveland Steamers?

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Are the Proud Boy using “Russian Oil Based” tools?

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS
Cleveland Baseball Team would be the perfect match for Washington Football Team

Both are amazing names

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?
The cleveland torsos

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Porfiriato posted:

Putin built an inch-for-inch replica of his office at his dacha in Sochi so he can pretend to be Working Hard! from Moscow while he's really at the beach:

https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1338154232055205889?s=20

You KNOW Trump absolutely would have built a fake Oval Office at Mar a Lago in 2017 and never set foot in Washington again if he thought could've gotten away with this.

There are an ungodly number of Oval Office replicas.

Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ, Truman, FDR, and both Bushes presidential libraries all have them. There are public Oval Offices in Alabama, New York, and Oregon (at Medford’s airport; can be booked for conferences). There are private homes with Oval Offices in Ohio, Minnesota, New York, and London.

There are also portable Oval Offices, one of which sold at auction in September.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Cleveland Baseball Club

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

Im sure they have replicas in the CoG bunkers too. Have to look good while the country gets nuked.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

facialimpediment posted:

Cleveland Baseball Club



Also conveniently a new jersey bowling pin.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Terrifying Effigies posted:

Not quite that ( :( ) but apparently the FDA finally relaxed most of the restrictions on folks who were deployed in Europe over 1980-1996 (minus the UK) earlier this year:

https://www.fda.gov/media/124156/download


Haven't been able to donate for years even though I'm a universal donor since I spent a couple years in Germany as a kid in the late 80s.

Same, but UK. Hooray mad cow prions that may or not be present.

Edit: Cleveland Baseball Browns

Godholio fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Dec 14, 2020

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

Cleveland Spiders sounds like it might be a contender, that would be lots of fun. Seattle is getting an NHL expansion with the Kraken and that was a brilliant choice, zero games played or players signed and their merch has sold like crazy, even to people who don’t care about sports.


Porfiriato posted:

Putin built an inch-for-inch replica of his office at his dacha in Sochi so he can pretend to be Working Hard! from Moscow while he's really at the beach:

https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1338154232055205889?s=20

You KNOW Trump absolutely would have built a fake Oval Office at Mar a Lago in 2017 and never set foot in Washington again if he thought could've gotten away with this.

Kinda forgotten amid the civil war but I remember when the Ukrainian strongman was deposed his ludicrous Michael Jacksonesque estate was opened for tourists. Fascinating glimpse into how those guys live, gotta wonder what Putin’s estates are like.

quote:

The golden bread, solid gold bricks in the shape of a loaf, was found on a table in one of the rooms in Mezhyhirya, Yanukovych's 350-acre mansion in northern Kiev. The object has become a symbol of the alleged corruption and affluent lifestyle of Yanukovych, who fled Ukraine and is in Russia.

quote:

Documents evaluated the estate's assets at around $180 million, including lavish Spanish furniture, a floating dining hall in the shape of a pirate ship, a massive greenhouse.

quote:

One of the receipts found in Yanukovych's home showed a purchase of 32 chandeliers in 2010. The most expensive one, the chandelier for the main hall, cost $11 million. A year earlier, seven tablecloths were purchased for $12,712.

"Huge sums were paid to German firms for the wooden panels and ornaments that were everywhere in the house," Lavrov said. "Those ornaments only cost approximately $2.75 million per room."

Besides the main house where Yanukovych had lavishly decorated rooms and his own church, the former president owned several guest houses, garages, a boat shed, a golf course, a spa complex and a wooden ship used for parties.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/02/ukraine-yanukovych/7223351/

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY
RIP John le Carre, one of my favorite writers. In his memory, please consider reading the beautiful and topical novel Gnomon, which was written by his son, Nick Harkaway - who is another, on his own merits.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33852053-gnomon

quote:

From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.

In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of ‘transparency.’ Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens’ thoughts and memories–all in the name of providing the safest society in history.

When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. The System doesn’t make mistakes, but something isn’t right about the circumstances surrounding Hunter’s death. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector and a true believer in the System, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn’t Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter’s psyche: a lovelorn financier in Athens who has a mystical experience with a shark; a brilliant alchemist in ancient Carthage confronting the unexpected outcome of her invention; an expat Ethiopian painter in London designing a controversial new video game, and a sociopathic disembodied intelligence from the distant future.

Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. In the static between these stories, Neith begins to catch glimpses of the real Diana Hunter–and, alarmingly, of herself. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world.

A dazzling, panoramic achievement, and Nick Harkaway’s most brilliant work to date, Gnomon is peerless and profound, captivating and irreverent, as it pierces through strata of reality and consciousness, and illuminates how to set a mind free. It is a truly accomplished novel from a mind possessing a matchless wit infused with a deep humanity.

This is one of my favorite books, and also deeply personally meaningful to me. It's about the dangers of ubiquitous surveillance and state control, but much of what it says also translates remarkably well for someone who lived through a decade plus in an abusive relationship where gaslighting was a major component. It provided a useful metaphor that led to me reconnecting to parts of myself I thought I'd lost forever, and were crucial to recovery. Harkaway is a hell of a writer, in my opinion, and you can see le Carre in his writing.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Acebuckeye13 posted:

Hey, names for Transportation Secretary that aren't blatant lobbying from mayors:

https://twitter.com/ClaytonGuse/status/1338262461598806016

I don't think my mind can conceive of the levels of grift that occur at the senior levels of the transportation industry.

E: In more fun current events, Central Pennsylvania is apparently about to get dunked on with a snowstorm on Wednesday. I'd post a link, but it sounds like storm totals rose substantially with the last couple of model runs since NWS posted preliminary guidance yesterday and they are refining all of their products before going live with it.

SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Dec 14, 2020

ASAPI
Apr 20, 2007
I invented the line.

Laranzu posted:

The government hack is so so much worse than just some emails.

The Russians apparently got so deep into Solarwinds that they had their code signing certificates and build chain. So they just plopped a dll file of their RAT, signed it, and wrapped it up into all the outgoing updates of the software. Solarwinds happily shot their code out to wherever they wanted.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1338305089597964290

Not sure if this slipped through, but this is serious business.

This goes under the, "poo poo, we done hosed up HARD" category.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
Also Google's account services went down for like an hour this AM. Wonder if that's related.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

ASAPI posted:

Not sure if this slipped through, but this is serious business.

This goes under the, "poo poo, we done hosed up HARD" category.

Yeah its probably one of the best hacks in ages. Major scandal.

https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1338337358605905920?s=19

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Dec 14, 2020

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


This is amazing and terrible.

https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1338184981684908033

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

Hey, names for Transportation Secretary that aren't blatant lobbying from mayors:

https://twitter.com/ClaytonGuse/status/1338262461598806016

P buttigieg was in the running for Secretary of Transportation, I thought.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008




What in the hot gay gently caress was that

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

hey the chilean total solar eclipse is starting right now and looks great on the weather satellite

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=global-fulldiskeast-truecolor-48-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
shots shots shots shots shots shots

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1338492511501815809?s=19

everybody

Spoggerific
May 28, 2009

pantslesswithwolves posted:

What in the hot gay gently caress was that

People joking about his eyepatch must have gotten to his head and now he thinks he really is Big Boss.

Laughing Zealot
Oct 10, 2012


Jesus that was some parody poo poo.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

That Works posted:

This is amazing and terrible.

It’s like a high school video production from 2009.

The trash on the Antifa car dashboard is a nice touch.

Why does Crenshaw’s handler have a crisp British accent? Where are this guy’s loyalties?

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
It tells you everything you need to know that these people think everyone having health care or trying to not destroy the environment is a bad thing

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CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

Pine Cone Jones posted:

The Cleveland Depression


I do seriously believe that there will be blood spilled due to all these dipshits, but I hope that these are being taken seriously and the people who made the threats dealt with.

My concern is, if law enforcement steps in to intervene, it'll turn into "THERE INFRINGIN' ON ARE RIGHTS TA PROTEST, POLICE STATE" and it'll just embolden them more.


Nobody would know who this guy was it not for fuckin' Pete Davidson.

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