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Terrifying Effigies posted:Have to keep reminding myself "oh yeah, we're in Year Two of a historic global pandemic too." I'm still waiting on my second of two stimulus payments
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facialimpediment posted:My general understanding is that most pipe infrastructure in the country is buried between 4-5 feet underground, below any potential freeze line, in any climate with freeze/thaw potential. Texas buries their lines to about a foot, partly because under that first foot is a shitload of limestone. Most utilities house their equipment indoors because of that freeze/thaw potential, Texas puts all their poo poo outdoors so it cools off faster in the summertime. Their entire system is built for summer. This has happened like 2 or 3 times in the last decade and federal recommendations were the same and ignored every time. I'm actually surprised by the lack of a load shedding plan by the utility though. Thats just extreme incompetence. Like actual trying incompetence.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Apparently, you can't criticize the TX situation unless you work in the field. I lived in California when it was being hosed in the rear end with a barbed wire dildo by Enron so I think I'm technically qualified under this argument.
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Iain posted:I wish I would have bought one of those rugs from Bagram when I had the chance. I wouldn't pay that much for one, but I don't even remember how much they were at the bazaar outside the PX. Yeah, at the time they were super cheap at the bazaar but I remember thinking "Why would I spend even a single dollar on that?" The cooler rugs at Bagram in 2012 also had drones and AKs in rings around the towers. Now, the better part of a decade later, I wish I had bought enough for a lifetime of Secret Santas. Instead, I bought bootleg DVDs of the then-new Dredd and the whole Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Wasn't a bad use of my money by any means, but it also wasn't a sick 9/11 rug. EDIT: AND loving ARMY CUSTOMS MADE ME THROW AWAY THE BOOTLEGS WHEN I LEFT COUNTRY. SUCH BULLLLSHIT.
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Feb 18, 2021 05:53
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Lake of Methane posted:Tweetstorm from a public works director in Alvin, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Deleted.
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Arc Light posted:EDIT: AND loving ARMY CUSTOMS MADE ME THROW AWAY THE BOOTLEGS WHEN I LEFT COUNTRY. SUCH BULLLLSHIT. That sucks. The last time I went through a customs that gave any poo poo at all about bootlegs, the rule was only one bootleg per media, so you could have ten movies if they were all different movies, but it would get confiscated if you had ten copies of one movie.
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Feb 18, 2021 06:03
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The gently caress? Why would you want more than one copy at a time when DVD and CD burners definitely existed? It's not like Nero burning ROM didn't exist 18 years ago.
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Feb 18, 2021 06:08
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The gently caress? Why would you want more than one copy at a time when DVD and CD burners definitely existed? 29 copies: less so
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Arc Light posted:Yeah, at the time they were super cheap at the bazaar but I remember thinking "Why would I spend even a single dollar on that?" Granted, I'm a civilian, but I'm slightly surprised they a) gave a poo poo and b) were that anal that they made you dump them, especially given mlmp08's experience.
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Why are you even keeping the sleeves/cases of bootlegs and not just stacking those $1 discs on a spindle labelled Linux Distros? /\ the entire job of customs is to be anal. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 06:16
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Thw entire job of every branch is to make everyone miserable
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Feb 18, 2021 06:36
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Watching the last couple of Eva episodes had been my plan for the flight to Manas. I just remember standing in front of the amnesty box thinking "Well, I guess I get hosed one last time before I leave" If I'd known in advance that the Army even had customs at the Bagram pax terminal, I would have put the discs in an unlabeled case, but by that point I'd already been stuck at my fob for an extra month past my projected rip/toa and I just wanted to get home. Edit: so instead of then spending three days in Kyrgyzstan watching movies and anime, I spent the entire time eating candy at the chow hall. Like, almost every single minute I wasn't sleeping or turning in gear. I'm amazed I didn't give myself diabetes. I just sat there and ate. They had kit-kats and reese's peanut butter cups for the taking. It was amazing. Arc Light fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 06:47
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Milo and POTUS posted:This is a pretty good eulogy is it original It is, though inspired by this classic eulogy of Jesse Helms
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Feb 18, 2021 06:53
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God yeah that chow tent just outside the big tents that always had hot chocolate and candy.
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Feb 18, 2021 06:53
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Ted Cruz apparently fled to Cancun: https://twitter.com/Trx1000/status/1362261395610468352 https://twitter.com/JaneAusten1813/status/1362261154160988162 https://twitter.com/JakeNelsonMN/status/1362272855438852097
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Feb 18, 2021 07:01
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lol that Army customs people actually do customs inspections.
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Feb 18, 2021 07:02
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Efbed bad, welp, I'm 50/50 on the Ted Cruz thing but a likely hoaxy thing is perfect for this kind of night. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1362279849897811973?s=19
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C.M. Kruger posted:Ted Cruz apparently fled to Cancun: I see it confirmed by journalists but didn’t he have this haircut a few days ago? https://twitter.com/persona49820853/status/1362270792587767808?s=21 Best confirmation so far: https://twitter.com/davidshuster/status/1362272883775582209?s=21 (MSNBC reporter)
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hobbesmaster posted:(MSNBC reporter) Schuster's long gone, can't use him for any kind of confirmation of anything. https://twitter.com/zachheltzel/status/1362279420531122176?s=19 Still hilarious fun though! https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/1362281523693690881?s=19
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Feb 18, 2021 07:05
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Oh I thought he was back as of a few years ago. Apparently not!
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ManMythLegend posted:lol that Army customs people actually do customs inspections. Back in 2008, they tossed absolutely all of our poo poo on the way out of theater. A couple guys had a spare round on them. I watched a soldier throw multiple grenades (pin-in) into the amnesty HESCO. That one led to a MSG pulling him aside to say that while he had amnesty, maybe rethink his whole life if he flew down here with grenades carefully tucked away deep in his pack and only got rid of them after the threats of the customs brief.
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Feb 18, 2021 07:09
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I really really really want it to be true but even if it isn't: https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1362280070530945025?s=19 TED CRUZ COSPLAY Edit: oh god I just typed Ted Cruz cosplay and put that idea on the internet gently caress
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Feb 18, 2021 07:11
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that's definitely Cruz because it is the most on brand thing he could do right now
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maffew buildings posted:that's definitely Cruz because it is the most on brand thing he could do right now He hasn’t sent any cryptic letters to San Francisco newspapers. 
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Feb 18, 2021 07:19
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facialimpediment posted:I really really really want it to be true but even if it isn't: Ted Cruzplay
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facialimpediment posted:I really really really want it to be true but even if it isn't: khaki shorts are cruz control for cool
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Feb 18, 2021 08:16
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ManMythLegend posted:lol that Army customs people actually do customs inspections. The only Navy Customs I've ever met involved whistles and salutes.
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If people don’t riot over this Texas thing then you can probably put a nail in the coffin of the possibility of us ever doing anything about anything except bending over and taking it. They do this poo poo because we let them. And they’re going to continue doing it forever. BECAUSE WE LET THEM I’m going to maybe victim blame now: we are tacitly okay with everything that happens because all we do is bitch online. As long as we have internet, they have us corralled. boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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The economy isn’t even shut down but since coronavirus is messing with human capital they are dumping TRILLIONS of our tax dollars into fixing it. What I’m saying is General strike Start casually bringing up general strikes to your pals. Make it a buzzword.
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Feb 18, 2021 13:59
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Minimal developments on the Ted Cruz thing, but it sure seems like more of a thing. His staff isn't saying poo poo and https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1362388503246434305?s=19
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boop the snoot posted:If people don’t riot over this Texas thing then you can probably put a nail in the coffin of the possibility of us ever doing anything about anything except bending over and taking it. Maybe once upon a time there was an American identity, and maybe we were like a WWII movie where the guy from Brooklyn was interested in the life of the guy from Iowa and vice versa, but those days very much seem to be gone. And I'm pretty sure whatever fabled American identity there was only applied to those that pass the paper bag test. And so we're left with tribalism and politics driven by "owning" the other side, where memes are about as deep as most people go. And where the conservative side is deliberately being feed insane propaganda to the point that 1 in 5 of them think that obvious bullshit like Q-anon is real. I'd love to both sides this, but there's nothing comparable on the other side. So how the gently caress do we move forward with this? How do we get a farm family struggling to get by to connect with a city family struggling to get by and realize that they really just want to have some security and feel like their kids have a future? How do we get them both to realize that both Chucks can go gently caress themselves and that the real fight is the people vs the wealthy, and that there's 99 of us for every 1 of them? Personally, I think we're too far gone into our tribes and into a blue/red, urban/rural to come back. The US was too big/diverse to be governed well by adults, and the adults left the building a while ago. But man, would I LOVE to be wrong.
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I’ve reported so much actual hate speech on Instagram to absolutely zero effect. Always get a notification that “we’ve reviewed your report and found that it didn’t go against our community guidelines,” even for posts that say poo poo like “the day of the rope is coming.” Now I know that the bar is posting stuff that’s against billionaires parachuting in and stealing chunks of someone’s home. Thanks, Zuck!
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Facebook banned their own facebook page as part of their new moderation policies, but also they didnt ban any of those nazi groups or misinformation or... Working as intended OP
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Facebook banned their own facebook page as part of their new moderation policies, but also they didnt ban any of those nazi groups or misinformation or... Social media was a mistake.
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