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boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
A&W was my first corn dog nugget experience and for that, I thank them.

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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

White Castle is garbage, I'm not denying that, but I'm not lining up in Orlando. I just prefer it over Krystals, but we didn't have those in Illinois when I was a kid, just WC.

And how you eat your potatoes is your business.

That said, Sonic tots are the worst fast food potato. :colbert:

/\ the gently caress, popeye's? Was that part of the deal with the devil for the perfect fast food chicken sandwich? Did he also get their southern lady from the commercials?

Sonic tots are paradoxically the worst chain potato but also the absolute best tots that exist

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Remember when we couldn’t have multi page derails about stupid poo poo without the president tweeting the dumbest poo poo you’ve ever heard?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

boop the snoot posted:

Remember when we couldn’t have multi page derails about stupid poo poo without the president tweeting the dumbest poo poo you’ve ever heard?

On the other hand, fast food and goons. I regret posting that White Castle story, sorry.

SeaborneClink
Aug 27, 2010

MAWP... MAWP!
Now I want Whattaburger

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Bill and Melinda Gates are splitting. Wild.

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1389316412259270657?s=20

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

boop the snoot posted:

Remember when we couldn’t have multi page derails about stupid poo poo without the president tweeting the dumbest poo poo you’ve ever heard?

Oh he's still done it, and more frequently now in press releases, but it's just now whiny rants with zero actual power. It's kind of nice that the Bill Gates divorce has more actual impact.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010



Some tell colbert so he can finally make the Stephen and Melinda gates foundation.

Notahippie
Feb 4, 2003

Kids, it's not cool to have Shane MacGowan teeth

Bill Gates is gonna do that thing where divorced middle aged guys get publicly real weird about their sex life and I don't know if I'm going to be able to deal with it.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Notahippie posted:

Bill Gates is gonna do that thing where divorced middle aged guys get publicly real weird about their sex life and I don't know if I'm going to be able to deal with it.

Hope ur not vaxxed then

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Notahippie posted:

Bill Gates is gonna do that thing where divorced middle aged guys get publicly real weird about their sex life and I don't know if I'm going to be able to deal with it.

He’s 65. I don’t think that’s middle aged anymore since he’s now on medicare.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously


Whoa, Bezos' split cost him $35 billion (worth $61 billion now). Wonder what this tab will be.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Every middle-aged teacher in the Greater Seattle area just bought a gym membership.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


(e: Bill) Gates probably finally got around to watching Ex Machina and decided to buy Alberta or something.

SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 22:20 on May 3, 2021

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

fknlo posted:

Holy poo poo that's a wrong opinion.

White Castle is absolute garbage tier poo poo that you should only eat while blackout drunk at best, and even then there are better options. The people that rave about it are from garbage cities with garbage food scenes. Like St. Louis.

If you have strong opinions about the relative merits of fast food joint you really shouldn't be talking poo poo about anyone's food scene.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Notahippie posted:

Bill Gates is gonna do that thing where divorced middle aged guys get publicly real weird about their sex life and I don't know if I'm going to be able to deal with it.

About that.

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1389327441039085570

What tends to happen with really rich people is that the conspiracy theories tend to drown out the painfully obvious, skeezy stuff. Like, why go after the Gates 5G nanomachine manmade lab virus scamdemic hoax when the Epstein poo poo is right there?

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011


Is there an idiomatic psychology term for ... this?

Other examples like, "choosing clothing inappropriate for the weather" or "irritability or angry outbursts" don't indicate a specific mental illness, but are correlated to help point in the right direction.

I'm thinking something more clinical-sounding "screeds on a sandwich board" or telling 5th period that god has a plan for you that includes a kick in the crotch.

tacopie
Apr 29, 2009
Man I'm sad to hear that Popeye's cajun rice is gone. I used to get red beans with cajun (I remember it being called dirty?) rice all the time when we were in Guam.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
poo poo pillows must've really sold over time if Mike's blowing this much on private cloud server/services.

https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1389255156194320384

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
He's also a former crackhead who went ultra Jesus to get clean and that kind of transferring of one life and brain destroying addiction for another usually doesn't end well, so he might bankrupt himself sooner than later

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

facialimpediment posted:

poo poo pillows must've really sold over time if Mike's blowing this much on private cloud server/services.

https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1389255156194320384

You could’ve built his website for $14.95.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



boop the snoot posted:

You could’ve built his website for $14.95.

And it got owned for about that expenditure it seems.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

maffew buildings posted:

He's also a former crackhead who went ultra Jesus to get clean and that kind of transferring of one life and brain destroying addiction for another usually doesn't end well, so he might bankrupt himself sooner than later

Don't worry, he'll be curled up next to a crack pipe again once Dominion has his money.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



facialimpediment posted:

poo poo pillows must've really sold over time if Mike's blowing this much on private cloud server/services.

https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1389255156194320384

apparently rolling his own hardware was an idea to prevent "big tech" from "censoring" him for hate speech. Note there's no back ups in that order, nor firewalls. dude's server would have worked for about 30 fuckin seconds before getting absolutely wrecked, if it had ever gotten off the ground.

Also if he'd spawned a new hive of hate speech and insurrectionists then his colo would have just shut off power to his rack tile lol.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

orange juche posted:

apparently rolling his own hardware was an idea to prevent "big tech" from "censoring" him for hate speech. Note there's no back ups in that order, nor firewalls. dude's server would have worked for about 30 fuckin seconds before getting absolutely wrecked, if it had ever gotten off the ground.

Also if he'd spawned a new hive of hate speech and insurrectionists then his colo would have just shut off power to his rack tile lol.

If there's one thing I can tell you from doing IT Engineering for 15 years, its that Conservatives in IT tend to cut a LOT of corners than most companies want to tolerate, and are embarrassingly bad at even basic security.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1389...ingawful.com%2F

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/high-court-rejects-west-point-case-with-thomas-dissenting-1.672138

High court rejects West Point case, with Thomas dissenting

By JESSICA GRESKO | Associated Press | Published: May 3, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a woman who says she was raped as a West Point cadet, with Justice Clarence Thomas alone arguing that the court should have heard her case.

The woman, who attended the U.S. Military Academy from 2008 to 2010, had sued saying the academy's leadership tolerated a culture that was hostile toward women and failed to provide adequate support for cadets who are assaulted, among other things. But lower courts said her lawsuit against the U.S. government couldn't go forward.

Thomas said in a dissent that the high court should have taken the case to reconsider a 70-year-old precedent that prevents members of the military from suing the United States when they are injured while doing their duties.

It is the second time in as many years he has noted his disagreement when the court has declined to revisit the issue. Thomas says the case the court decided decades ago has led to bizarre and surprising results, including barring the former cadet's case.

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"Under our precedent, if two Pentagon employees—one civilian and one a servicemember—are hit by a bus in the Pentagon parking lot and sue, it may be that only the civilian would have a chance to litigate his claim on the merits," Thomas wrote in a 3-page dissent.

In the West Point case, lower courts said the woman's claims were barred by the so-called Feres doctrine, which comes from a 1950 Supreme Court case. In it, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Tort Claims Act does not give members of the military the ability to sue the United States for injuries that "arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to" their active duty service in the military.

Thomas wrote that "Feres was wrongly decided; and this case was wrongly decided as a result." Thomas gave one reason the court may be unwilling to take up the issue.


"Perhaps the Court is hesitant to take up this issue at all because it would require fiddling with a 70-year-old precedent that is demonstrably wrong. But if the Feres doctrine is so wrong that we cannot figure out how to rein it in, then the better answer is to bid it farewell," he wrote. Thomas cited about half a dozen cases where the court had overturned a precedent including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which outlawed segregation in public schools and overturned the court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

Some liberals are particularly concerned now about the court agreeing to revisit precedents. They're worried that the court, which now includes six conservatives and three liberals, might also revisit and overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Thomas has previously said that the court's "abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should be overruled."

In 2019, however, both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, and Thomas, a conservative, indicated they wanted to revisit the Feres doctrine. They said they would have taken a case involving a Navy lieutenant, Rebekah Daniel, who gave birth at a naval hospital and died due to a complication. Her husband was barred from suing because of the Feres doctrine. Ginsburg has since been replaced on the court by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

The Biden administration had urged the court not to take the West Point case. It noted that if Congress wants, it can change the law to permit lawsuits currently barred by the Feres doctrine.

golden bubble
Jun 3, 2011

yospos

The Army has release a video of what it actually looks like when using GAMER-vision (Microsoft augmented-reality headsets).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eWpjUOLR0w

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008


So can someone tell me why I’m wrong in thinking that Thomas was right that the court should have heard this case? On its face this seems pretty ridiculous and awful to me.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

pantslesswithwolves posted:

So can someone tell me why I’m wrong in thinking that Thomas was right that the court should have heard this case? On its face this seems pretty ridiculous and awful to me.

I think this is one of his stopped clock moments.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



PeterCat posted:

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/high-court-rejects-west-point-case-with-thomas-dissenting-1.672138

High court rejects West Point case, with Thomas dissenting

By JESSICA GRESKO | Associated Press | Published: May 3, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a woman who says she was raped as a West Point cadet, with Justice Clarence Thomas alone arguing that the court should have heard her case.

The woman, who attended the U.S. Military Academy from 2008 to 2010, had sued saying the academy's leadership tolerated a culture that was hostile toward women and failed to provide adequate support for cadets who are assaulted, among other things. But lower courts said her lawsuit against the U.S. government couldn't go forward.

Thomas said in a dissent that the high court should have taken the case to reconsider a 70-year-old precedent that prevents members of the military from suing the United States when they are injured while doing their duties.

It is the second time in as many years he has noted his disagreement when the court has declined to revisit the issue. Thomas says the case the court decided decades ago has led to bizarre and surprising results, including barring the former cadet's case.

article continues below

"Under our precedent, if two Pentagon employees—one civilian and one a servicemember—are hit by a bus in the Pentagon parking lot and sue, it may be that only the civilian would have a chance to litigate his claim on the merits," Thomas wrote in a 3-page dissent.

In the West Point case, lower courts said the woman's claims were barred by the so-called Feres doctrine, which comes from a 1950 Supreme Court case. In it, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Tort Claims Act does not give members of the military the ability to sue the United States for injuries that "arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to" their active duty service in the military.

Thomas wrote that "Feres was wrongly decided; and this case was wrongly decided as a result." Thomas gave one reason the court may be unwilling to take up the issue.


"Perhaps the Court is hesitant to take up this issue at all because it would require fiddling with a 70-year-old precedent that is demonstrably wrong. But if the Feres doctrine is so wrong that we cannot figure out how to rein it in, then the better answer is to bid it farewell," he wrote. Thomas cited about half a dozen cases where the court had overturned a precedent including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which outlawed segregation in public schools and overturned the court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

Some liberals are particularly concerned now about the court agreeing to revisit precedents. They're worried that the court, which now includes six conservatives and three liberals, might also revisit and overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. Thomas has previously said that the court's "abortion precedents are grievously wrong and should be overruled."

In 2019, however, both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, and Thomas, a conservative, indicated they wanted to revisit the Feres doctrine. They said they would have taken a case involving a Navy lieutenant, Rebekah Daniel, who gave birth at a naval hospital and died due to a complication. Her husband was barred from suing because of the Feres doctrine. Ginsburg has since been replaced on the court by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

The Biden administration had urged the court not to take the West Point case. It noted that if Congress wants, it can change the law to permit lawsuits currently barred by the Feres doctrine.

Politics is fuckin hard, but I think I know why the administration is trying to get the court to leave Feres alone. The admin thinks they have a shot at getting legislation pushed through that would overrule Feres. They know however that they have not a single fuckin hope of pushing through legislation guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion in Congress, cause that's the reddest of red meat to conservatives, and if the Supreme Court revisits Feres, and overturns it, then they go and say "hey that was pretty fuckin easy, wonder what else we can overturn" and then they shitcan Roe along partisan lines. Thomas is right (Feres should be gone), but for the wrong reasons, since he wants to revisit other poo poo too like Roe v Wade.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 02:39 on May 4, 2021

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

pantslesswithwolves posted:

So can someone tell me why I’m wrong in thinking that Thomas was right that the court should have heard this case? On its face this seems pretty ridiculous and awful to me.
The article has zero mention of what reasoning was put forth by those rejecting the appeal, which seems like a major oversight. It mentioned that liberals in general are concerned about overturning precedent given the conservative domination of the Court, but didn't give any time to the actual words of the Justices (if any). Curious if this is one of those things that looks ridiculously bad on its face, but turns out to be a lot more complicated.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”

golden bubble posted:

The Army has release a video of what it actually looks like when using GAMER-vision (Microsoft augmented-reality headsets).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eWpjUOLR0w



Neat, those dudes are in my old BDE. Reminds me of using thermal view with set of PSQ-20s just with a lot more clarity on what the gently caress you're looking at.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

orange juche posted:

Politics is fuckin hard, but I think I know why the administration is trying to get the court to leave Feres alone. The admin thinks they have a shot at getting legislation pushed through that would overrule Feres. They know however that they have not a single fuckin hope of pushing through legislation guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion in Congress, cause that's the reddest of red meat to conservatives, and if the Supreme Court revisits Feres, and overturns it, then they go and say "hey that was pretty fuckin easy, wonder what else we can overturn" and then they shitcan Roe along partisan lines. Thomas is right (Feres should be gone), but for the wrong reasons, since he wants to revisit other poo poo too like Roe v Wade.

Yeah clearly Beer Judge and Amy Covid Barrett won't overturn Roe without this as cover.

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?

facialimpediment posted:

About that.

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1389327441039085570

What tends to happen with really rich people is that the conspiracy theories tend to drown out the painfully obvious, skeezy stuff. Like, why go after the Gates 5G nanomachine manmade lab virus scamdemic hoax when the Epstein poo poo is right there?

Bro the people who are making the most noise about the 5g bullshit don't give a gently caress about epstein. They're mad at hillary

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Yeah clearly Beer Judge and Amy Covid Barrett won't overturn Roe without this as cover.

Tara Reade has a better case than Christine Ford did.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
Say, what happened to Andrew Cuomo and his litany of sexual harassment/misconduct accusers? Did we have to ignore that because he's a brave DNC hero and we can't lose more of them?

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

maffew buildings posted:

Say, what happened to Andrew Cuomo and his litany of sexual harassment/misconduct accusers? Did we have to ignore that because he's a brave DNC hero he's a man in a position of power and we can't lose more of them?

No consequences came of it, which is the more common outcome than the alternative.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Tyro posted:

Yeah I took an Uber to a Covid test at a suburban urgent care back in January and you were supposed to call from your car for your appointment. The receptionist was genuinely baffled when I said I wasn't in a car and asked if they could please hurry it up because it's cold out. I ended up waiting in the parking lot for almost half an hour before they let me in. At least it was only uncomfortable, not dangerously cold.
You're lucky as there've been multiple reports of mass vaccination sites turning away anyone not using car or motorcycle. This is a massive equity issue. While the yuppies forgoing car ownership as a lifestyle choice can adjust their schedule and open their pocketbooks to solve the issue for themselves, I'd wager that the majority of people that don't own cars in America have financial reasons. Places outright turning them away on arrival is abominable and literally risking lives.

quote:

Daniel Filipkowski of San Francisco finally managed to get an appointment for his vaccine at the Oakland Coliseum. He got his confirmation email Sunday with all his details. He headed down via BART on Monday. But when he got there, he and others who walked across the pedestrian bridge from the BART station were in for a shock–despite all the public announcements encouraging people to take transit to the Coliseum, he was turned away.

“There’s no walk-ups,” Filipkowski said he was told by an official waiting at the end of the bridge. “I show him my phone, the emails, there’s nothing in the email that says no walk-ups. So he says you have to get in your car and go around.”

Of course, Filipkowski took BART, so he didn’t have a car. Instead, he hailed a Lyft. Half an hour and $100 later, he finally got his jab.

Despite the fact that the Oakland site is one of the few places people can reach relatively easily on public transportation, and despite the fact that the site was promoted as a transit-accessible venue for vaccinations, the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) is turning away anyone who doesn’t show up ensconced in a giant hunk of metal and glass.

...

Update from Alameda County: “The Pedestrian Village has served an important function, but it remains underutilized and we continue to hear from community members that the mobile units are highly preferred. At this time, Alameda County does not intend to keep the Pedestrian Village open if/when the site transitions to local control,” wrote Neetu Balram, Public Information Manager, Alameda County Public Health Department, in an email to Streetsblog
The response mirrors a recurring trope in conversations involving non-car modes of transportation: "no one is using the sidewalk/bike lane/bus, so why fund it?!" This obviously ignores that much of the under-utilization stems from these options being so underfunded as to be non-viable. If you're turning people away and they're going home and telling their community they got turned away, people will either put in extra effort to get access to a car or just write off the vaccine entirely because a discriminatory system failed them. Similarly, if a bus only runs once every hour, does not keep to its posted schedule, and is poorly connected to the broader network, it discourages all but those who have no other option. Hence the folks who can afford it choosing to drive for the relative flexibility over their mismanaged local bus systems.

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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

golden bubble posted:

The Army has release a video of what it actually looks like when using GAMER-vision (Microsoft augmented-reality headsets).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eWpjUOLR0w



That looks like they're just running the 53-year old Sobel algorithm on everything, how much did this cost?

I'm in the wrong fuckin career

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 03:31 on May 4, 2021

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