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CommieGIR posted:He's not the one doing the work. At all. He only reaps the benefits. So, no, I suspect we'd do fine. He bought his way in on paypal, also. Musk has done nothing in life but use his father's apartheid era emerald mining money to buy things that made more money for him.
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Errol Musk emigrated to the USA right after Botha resigned from office. 
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You mean to tell me he's not the real life ~Tony Stark~ he's being worshipping as?
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He's a South African gem tycoon who's just so happened to invest in things that could be used to cover for massive amounts of money and materials being shuffled around internationally. The "benefits" of his criminal enterprise is ancillary. He is a thug.
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Wasabi the J posted:He's a South African gem tycoon who's just so happened to invest in things that could be used to cover for massive amounts of money and materials being shuffled around internationally. He's also a known associate of some of the biggest cartels in Mexico and they're the target audience for starlink internet and such.
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Mr. Nice! posted:He bought his way in on paypal, also. Musk has done nothing in life but use his father's apartheid era emerald mining money to buy things that made more money for him. Someone linked this Reddit post “Evidence that Musk is the Chief Engineer of SpaceX” earlier this month and it’s the greatest argument against its own thesis. quote:When the third chamber cracked, Musk flew the hardware back to California, took it to the factory floor, and, with the help of some engineers, started to fill the chambers with an epoxy to see if it would seal them. “He’s not afraid to get his hands dirty,” Mueller said. “He’s out there with his nice Italian shoes and clothes and has epoxy all over him. They were there all night and tested it again and it broke anyway.” Musk, clothes ruined, had decided the hardware was flawed, tested his hypothesis, and moved on quickly.
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Everyone says that Elon Musk’s daddy was rich from apartheid emerald mines, but that is very unfair. He was rich from apartheid government construction contracts. The emerald mining was a small side venture.
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Defenestrategy posted:Here's my hot take: He wont. But his money will
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Defenestrategy posted:Here's my hot take: "Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." John Maynard Keynes
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All those nazis certainly helped us land on the moon.
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Grip it and rip it posted:All those nazis certainly helped us land on the moon. watching newsreels of your old bosses hanging around can be quite motivating.
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When Bitcoin last crashed in what, 2017 (?), the price was around like 20,000€. It's currently sitting just shy of 50,000€. 
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Time to buy!
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numberrrrrrrrrrrr, but say it like a lumberjack says "timber"
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Duzzy Funlop posted:When Bitcoin last crashed in what, 2017 (?), the price was around like 20,000€. It's amazing the poo poo people will buy when they're panicking. I'm waiting for the tether pump to nuke itself, good luck bitcoin.
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AZ/Oxford finally has a good, solid clinical trial that wasn't completely hosed up by communications or bad dosing patterns: it's good! https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1373904880885063685?s=19 Probably gets an EUA in 3-4 weeks.
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lulac-fort-hood-fort-benavidez/ "Last week, after a meeting in Milwaukee, the national council of the League of United Latin American Citizens passed a resolution calling for Fort Hood, the nation’s largest active-duty armored base, to be renamed Fort Benavidez" This would be a good change.
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PeterCat posted:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lulac-fort-hood-fort-benavidez/ That would be awesome. I always hated saying that I was stationed at Ft Hood. The name even sounds ghetto. Saying I was stationed at Ft Benavidez, then educating people on that bad rear end would be awesome.
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PeterCat posted:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lulac-fort-hood-fort-benavidez/ Here's an article about his MOH actions https://coffeeordie.com/medal-of-honor-roy-benavidez/?fbclid=IwAR0J0dsZgoIkSLWH27PAZb6v43IaJwjPCY_QisEYgiBpzAVQGpj8efuLfQI Or the official citation https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/roy-p-benavidez The relevant bits quote:In October 1964, Benavidez was among the first 125,000 American troops in Vietnam. Working as a military advisory alongside Republic of Vietnam soldiers, he helped train them in American military tactics. One day, while on patrol, he stepped on and triggered a land mine. quote:The blast wiped his memory clean, and the paralyzation that ensued made even the simplest movements painful or impossible. He was told he would never walk again. A dark cloud of despair hung over Benavidez as he looked over his broken body and contemplated life in a wheelchair — no longer useful to the Army and a burden on his family. He begged the doctor not to release him from the military, to just give him a little more time to recover. quote:Less than four years after he was nearly medically discharged from the Army, Benavidez was on his second tour in Loc Ninh province in Vietnam as a Special Forces NCO. Benavidez’s radio call sign was Tango Mike Mike, or That Mean Mexican as his teammates lovingly called him. quote:On May 2, 1968, he was off duty and listening to a sermon from the chaplain when he overhead some radio chatter and walked over to the communications stations to see what was going on. A 12-man Special Forces patrol, comprised of three Green Berets and nine Montagnard tribesmen had been surrounded by over 1,000 North Vietnamese infantry. All 12 of the men had suffered serious injuries. Benavidez ran to the helipad to greet the bullet-ridden helicopters that had failed to extract the soldiers. quote:In order to prevent disorientation when he touched down, Benavidez told the pilot to fly out in the direction of the team. As he was dashing toward them, a bullet hit him in the right leg, though he thought it was the prickling of a thorn. quote:Benavidez carried those too injured to walk to the HLZ while laying down suppressive fire. He knew he couldn’t leave Wright behind, so he ran back into the rampant jungle and found his dead body. As Benavidez dragged Wright’s body toward the helicopter, he was shot in the back. Almost simultaneously, a hand grenade exploded, peppering him with shrapnel and knocking him out. quote:Another chopper came in and tried to extract them, but they were shot down, too. The crew survived and joined the rest of the team in their defensive position. One last attempt was made by a new helicopter, manned by a crew of four officers. quote:Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez was awarded the Medal of Honor by Ronald Reagan in 1981. He appreciated being called a hero but said, “The real heroes are the ones who gave their lives for this country. The real heroes are our wives and mothers. The real heroes are the ones who are disabled in those VA hospitals. The real heroes are our future leaders who are staying in school and saying no to drugs.” Edit: forgot the part where he left his rifle behind because there'd be plenty on the ground. Just a medical kit and knife. stackofflapjacks fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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Our whateverthefuck handbooks we got in basic training had MoH citations in it and that dude definitely stood out among all of them. And that’s saying a lot because there’s some badass MoH recipients. Rename this whole shameful country after him imho.
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We had MoH citations lining the halls of the school house in AIT. There were a few that involved guys literally riding bombs from planes to ensure they would detonate. It's like if Airborne units were actually as metal as they claim.
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I like bringing him up in stupid stopping power discussions, usually with the point that the Human body can be capable of amazing things.
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PeterCat posted:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/lulac-fort-hood-fort-benavidez/  Who would win? A MoH winner who embodies everything we hold dear or 1 thicc traitory boi?
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ASAPI posted:We had MoH citations lining the halls of the school house in AIT. My company history in the 173d included this guy https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/ray-e-eubanks At least he died killing the enemy instead of dropping bombs on civilians e: fixed my phone posting grammar, added news https://twitter.com/TOLOnews/status/1374034057110126592?s=19 ISIS claiming responsibility for bombings and killings in Afghanistan. https://twitter.com/TOLOnews/status/1373482184481325057?s=19 Afghan news reporting that it's been a real poo poo year for Afghan government forces https://twitter.com/TOLOnews/status/1373300882159370240?s=19 It's also been a real poo poo year for civilians. The fighting season apparently didn't end with this past winter and continued straight through to this spring. UP THE BUM NO BABY fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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The flu right now is, more or less, not a thing. https://twitter.com/CDCFlu/status/1374013308550922240 Just goes to show what a monster COVID-19 is, these numbers basically don't exist.
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facialimpediment posted:The flu right now is, more or less, not a thing. COVID IS JUST A REALLY BAD FLU!!!! COVID DEATHS ARE SO HIGH BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS BEING REPORTED AS A COVID DEATH!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!
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bengy81 posted:COVID IS JUST A REALLY BAD FLU!!!! COVID DEATHS ARE SO HIGH BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS BEING REPORTED AS A COVID DEATH!!! I would assume if someone is admitted to the ER with respiratory illness they're tested for covid-19 and influenza, and people admitted to the ER for say, a heart attack aren't being tested? Honestly curious, I've always assumed that if anything deaths from Covid are gonna be under-reported because if a dude dies at home they're not gonna test a corpse.
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Defenestrategy posted:I would assume if someone is admitted to the ER with respiratory illness they're tested for covid-19 and influenza, and people admitted to the ER for say, a heart attack aren't being tested? I honestly would like to know was well. Because what I posted above has been the idiot talking point I've heard since the first few deaths were reported. Really excited for the AZ trial to conclude. I've been a participant and I want to know if I got the placebo or if I hosed myself out of a chance at a shot for another two months...
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The COVID is overblown talk makes zero sense for dozens of reasons but where do these people think the 500k plus dead went to? Are they on a farm paid for by Soros with all the school shooting crisis actors? I mean, gently caress, they probably actually think that.
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Defenestrategy posted:I would assume if someone is admitted to the ER with respiratory illness they're tested for covid-19 and influenza, and people admitted to the ER for say, a heart attack aren't being tested? Death data tends to be reported at the county level, so there can be 3,000 different reporting mechanisms for primary vs secondary vs teritiary factors in determining cause of death. IANAD but generally, If someone dies at home and they are not in hospice care, there is an investigation determining cause of death. For covid related deaths it would say something like COD- pneumonia , primary factor - covid19, secondary factory , heart disease With 600k reporting instances there are likely a few cases where a motorcyclist crashes, they go to the hospital in a coma and in critical condition, catch covid and die of pneumonia, leading to these Facebook conspiracies.
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maffew buildings posted:The COVID is overblown talk makes zero sense for dozens of reasons but where do these people think the 500k plus dead went to? Are they on a farm paid for by Soros with all the school shooting crisis actors? I mean, gently caress, they probably actually think that. they didn't die, the media is lying, it's the flu they don't get much past that level of reasoning
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Defenestrategy posted:I would assume if someone is admitted to the ER with respiratory illness they're tested for covid-19 and influenza, and people admitted to the ER for say, a heart attack aren't being tested? I had to go to the emergency room for a non-respiratory issue right at the start of this whole mess a year or so ago and they tested me anyway. I'm not sure if that was a function of the hospital I was at, the early days of the pandemic, an overzealous doctor, or just a broader testing logic in a global pandemic.
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maffew buildings posted:The COVID is overblown talk makes zero sense for dozens of reasons but where do these people think the 500k plus dead went to? Are they on a farm paid for by Soros with all the school shooting crisis actors? I mean, gently caress, they probably actually think that. Just looking at excess mortality data from 2019 to 2020 (all causes of death) puts us about 430k higher than expected. The difference between the 430k excess and the 500k covid reported is probably some combination of 1. Less people getting other infectious diseases due to masks /hand washing 2. Less people on the road = less fatalities 3. Less obvious factors I cant think of, maybe related to heart diaease or suicide Edit-well it aint suicide. Sacrist65 fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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It's just so cool we live in an era where life has bumper lanes on it so all the people who would already have been dead in days gone by get to scream about Jesus, refuse to wear a mask, draw this out for everyone else and get elected to congress Active shooter in a grocery store because it's Monday in America https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/03/22/boulder-police-shooting-king-soopers/ maffew buildings fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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If it's a consolation, we're well on the way back to any random skin-breaking injury carrying a significant risk of death again
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So Italy, which was the first western country to have a COVID outbreak and should have the highest excess mortality in the western world has an excess death rate of about 70% of the US. If we had the same rate as italy, we'd have about 130k fewer deaths in 2020. So if you need a number to express how much ignorance and mismanagement costs in American lives, the answer is " at least 130k"
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Looks like someone shot up my old grocery store in Boulder, Co.  Edit: or maybe some shirtless guy shot himself in the leg and just scared everyone? Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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Grip it and rip it posted:Looks like someone shot up my old grocery store in Boulder, Co. There's early video from the scene with bodies in the parking lot, so it's a bad scene and the question is just going to end up how bad.
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Notahippie posted:There's early video from the scene with bodies in the parking lot, so it's a bad scene and the question is just going to end up how bad. At least 6 dead so far from what I'm seeing.
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