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The Fury Road fleet is up for sale if you were in the market for a new car: Need a new ride? https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/mad-max-fury-road-cars-trucks-for-sale
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:https://twitter.com/CharlotteBellis/status/1433781936904970241?s=19 What the gently caress, quoting for new page
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aphid_licker posted:What the gently caress, quoting for new page Hell yeah, it's who we are
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Has anyone posted the "Hans, are we the baddies" meme lately?
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Meanwhile, the common media and educated liberal perception of the war here (in my experience) is a friendly government agency official going "sir, you need to respect women" to an old Afghan guy. The old Afghan guy wants to understand but gosh darn he'll need another couple decades of help to get there. The benefit of having only a tiny fraction of your population involved in these imperial occupations
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:If I remember it correctly they called the police because he was a black man wearing a scarf while it was cold outside. I listened to the audio from the police when it first circulated and he is more compliant than about anyone else and never once resisted. He basically was so scared and nervous he threw up as they were pinning him to the ground. And then after the cops had had their fun choking him out the EMTs rolled in and gave him a lethal dose of ketamine meant for a 240lb man. High fives all around.
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RFC2324 posted:a little more good news, since it hasn't migrated from the denver thread Apparently one of the cops was a former 2651 in the Marines
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Fallom posted:And then after the cops had had their fun choking him out the EMTs rolled in and gave him a lethal dose of ketamine meant for a 240lb man. High fives all around. Yeah, I can't help but think that's only going to get worse. Cops using bootlicker EMTs to drug "dangerous suspects" after they've been Mirandized and then trying to get them to confess or incriminate themselves while drugged. "Oh no, your Honor! He totally said that BEFORE the drugs kicked in! Tell 'em, EMT Steve Dave!" 
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I’d be interested in seeing how many billionaires were born out of the war in Afghanistan. E: on second thought I’m not interested in being that mad.
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Best Friends posted:Meanwhile, the common media and educated liberal perception of the war here (in my experience) is a friendly government agency official going "sir, you need to respect women" to an old Afghan guy. The old Afghan guy wants to understand but gosh darn he'll need another couple decades of help to get there. It's so strange how it ends up looking so much like what the British empire did and yet it's not colonisation. You'd think the entire argument is based on none of the whites wanting to move there.
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boop the snoot posted:I’d be interested in seeing how many billionaires were born out of the war in Afghanistan. The movie War Dogs made it clear that *anyone* could turn the wars into their own personal ATM if they just had the seed money. But I'm particularly interested in who was behind opening the poo poo like Burger King and Popeye's. I also want to know how many soldiers were compelled to rack up massive debt on their Military Star cards or lured in by the siren's call of buying a Mustang or Harley that they'd "practically have paid off by the time they made it home!" When you have an AUTO DEALERSHIP in a war zone, it's pretty clear that the mission parameters have changed. "Hey, we've got 'em as a captive audience, might as well bleed 'em financially as well as physically!" The defense contractors are noli tangere, that's rarified air that'll never be challenged short of another revolution, and that ain't happening. But the carrion eaters? They need to be known to the public.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:https://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-florida-parents-lined-chiropractors-121035592.html I hope this rear end in a top hat charged a thousand bucks apiece.
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Godholio posted:I hope this rear end in a top hat charged a thousand bucks apiece. It will be hilarious if he gets sued because they’re now worthless. I’m shocked someone has tried getting Traditional Chinese Medicine “doctor’s” to try writing these bullshit notes.
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If you ever find yourself stationed in Colorado Springs, or just move here, you'll see commercials for the local crackpot chiropractor, Dr. Kristen Kells, on every station's morning news. Except often she's not hocking her chiropractic practice, she usually uses her DC credentials to push her weight loss business, and now she's onto red light therapy. Her commercials just loving ooze of homeopathic horseshit. Though she does acknowledge a BS when titled in commercials, with no indication in what that BS is in. I remember being in a BA geology program at one point, if there isn't an underwater basketweaving equivalent BS she probably coasted through online, I might actually display something resembling shock.
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Obtaining a BS is just time, money, and knowing how to play the game. If you can avoid failing bad enough your college kicks you out you can practically get a degree in what ever you want from any university even if you're a dumb. I'd say that Ph.Ds are where it truly starts being a matter of not only playing the game but being able to produce work that won't embarrass the faculty.
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Yeah, and to me, the fact that she's not claiming at least something like a bachelor's in physical therapy or something in the ads it was makes it really suspicious. Her ads are displayed as Dr. Blah Blah DC, BSc. That's it, no indication that she took something remotely related to human physiology. I know her ads aren't aimed at me, but the 10-50% of the local populace that are susceptible to her snake oil. I'm the target of every medical marijuana dispensary in town, so my own snake oil, in a way, but at least they're not making dubious claims during every morning broadcast television show.
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Defenestrategy posted:Obtaining a BS is just time, money, and knowing how to play the game. If you can avoid failing bad enough your college kicks you out you can practically get a degree in what ever you want from any university even if you're a dumb. Yeah as someone involved in higher ed - teaching grad level, going after my own EdD it basically breaks down to Associates- you show up and turn in OK work Bachelors - you show up, turn in OK work, and prove you can do a Core program Masters - You do above average work, and can network well Doctorate/PostGrad- you're a masochist e: Also, if anyone here identifies as Neurodiverse, and works in Security, Assurance, or high tech, my dissertation is going to be on greater inclusivity and accommodations for folks like us. I'd be honored if anyone wanted to share their experiences and provide suggestions on how things could be better Immanentized fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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I'm what people would call "neurodiverse" and I consider "neurodiverse" one of my most hated phrases. I am not neurodiverse, I suffer from a mental illness, thank you very much. "Suffer" is the key word there, because it's a very hard thing to live with and I don't want it sugarcoated.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm what people would call "neurodiverse" and I consider "neurodiverse" one of my most hated phrases. I am not neurodiverse, I suffer from a mental illness, thank you very much. "Suffer" is the key word there, because it's a very hard thing to live with and I don't want it sugarcoated. eh, neurodiverse and mentally ill are two different things, tho there tends to be overlap. neurodiverse is stuff like autism that is just there, while mental illness is usually triggered by something(usually trauma or drugs)
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Immanentized posted:e: Also, if anyone here identifies as Neurodiverse, and works in Security, Assurance, or high tech, my dissertation is going to be on greater inclusivity and accommodations for folks like us. I'd be honored if anyone wanted to share their experiences and provide suggestions on how things could be better You probably want to talk to me. Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm what people would call "neurodiverse" and I consider "neurodiverse" one of my most hated phrases. I am not neurodiverse, I suffer from a mental illness, thank you very much. "Suffer" is the key word there, because it's a very hard thing to live with and I don't want it sugarcoated. I've felt that way about it in the past but I've come around to thinking otherwise. Take autism for example: the rubric of illness and suffering just helps organizations like Autism Speaks infantilize people who actually have autism and would like to have input in how they are treated by the medical system, and justify dubious "treatments", or allow medical administrators to do things like deprioritizing autistic people when medical resources are scarce. I don't really want to end up dead because I have a certain diagnosis of mental illness on my file and thus be less likely to get a ventilator bed if I need one. I've watched awareness of neurodiversity grow over the course of my life. This may not be true where you are, but my perception is that now there is much greater awareness of the nature and forms of neurodiversity among parents and teachers than there was when I was growing up. My partner has two kids so I've been interacting with K-6th graders a lot the last few years. The neurodiverse kids I meet are in a much better place than I was at that age. There are places where it doesn't have to feel like an illness; there are ways we can live our lives where we feel as though we are enough. RFC2324 posted:eh, neurodiverse and mentally ill are two different things, tho there tends to be overlap. it gets confusing for people i think because not everyone with autism can care for themselves (and there's usually comorbidities involved that make it worse)
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RFC2324 posted:eh, neurodiverse and mentally ill are two different things, tho there tends to be overlap. Yeah, I've got both, though the mental illness part is an organic chemical imbalance, not a result of trauma. Kesper North posted:I've felt that way about it in the past but I've come around to thinking otherwise. Take autism for example: the rubric of illness and suffering just helps organizations like Autism Speaks infantilize people who actually have autism and would like to have input in how they are treated by the medical system, and justify dubious "treatments", or allow medical administrators to do things like deprioritizing autistic people when medical resources are scarce. I don't really want to end up dead because I have a certain diagnosis of mental illness on my file and thus be less likely to get a ventilator bed if I need one. That's fair, I'm probably just still angry over the people who persuaded me to try going off medications in middle school because ADHD was totally not a thing and you can get over it with Willpower™. I had been really good at math before that and since I never learned some critical concepts properly I couldn't hack math-heavy science courses, which sucked because that's what I wanted to do with my life. I'm a historian because I'm bad at math. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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So, uh.... you know the old "well what are you gonna do, ban KNIVES?!" Following a knife attack in a supermarket, all NZ supermarkets are no longer stocking knives.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:So, uh.... you know the old "well what are you gonna do, ban KNIVES?!" That seems... an unproductive response.
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Kesper North posted:it gets confusing for people i think because not everyone with autism can care for themselves (and there's usually comorbidities involved that make it worse) I was misdiagnosed as ADD(neurodiverse) as a kid, when it turns out it was in fact untreated mental illness, so super fun! Also, where do kiwis get knives now? Do you need to register your purchase?
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Defenestrategy posted:I'd say that Ph.Ds are where it truly starts being a matter of not only playing the game but being able to produce work that won't embarrass the faculty. That’s negotiable. Naomi Wolf got a doctorate, after all.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:So, uh.... you know the old "well what are you gonna do, ban KNIVES?!" And now only criminals will have freshly chopped vegetables.
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Cutco is already on it with their home distribution model. 2F, start watching for Vector Marketing fliers on local bulletin boards. Feel free to deface them.
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Defenestrategy posted:I'd say that Ph.Ds are where it truly starts being a matter of not only playing the game but being able to produce work that won't embarrass the faculty. I have a PhD and plenty of people here think I'm embarrassing so, y'know, YMMV.
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Possibly the most  thing I've seen in a while. https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1433922442850930696?s=19 The only more American thing would be if the gunshot victims were from a school shooting.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:So, uh.... you know the old "well what are you gonna do, ban KNIVES?!" That’s about the stupidest loving thing I’ve read today and I say this as someone whose country is trying to prestige COVID death rates before anyone else gets a chance to.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:So, uh.... you know the old "well what are you gonna do, ban KNIVES?!" Maybe I'm bad at google, but the news out of NZ is saying that the chain where the attack took place pulled knives from shelves until they determine how/if they want to store them differently or stop selling them and that another chain of markets are doing the same. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126285302/countdown-foodstuffs-remove-knives-from-sale-following-terror-attack If those are THE two chains that exist in NZ, never mind.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm what people would call "neurodiverse" and I consider "neurodiverse" one of my most hated phrases. I am not neurodiverse, I suffer from a mental illness, thank you very much. "Suffer" is the key word there, because it's a very hard thing to live with and I don't want it sugarcoated. My bad, I've not really seen it expanded to cover mental illness in the setting I'm doing stuff in, usually just the stuff that used to fall under "learning/processing issues". I'm coming at it after getting an autism diagnosis at 31 and figuring out "oh yeah that's why some stuff has been so hard", so my bias is towards that, rather that the illness side.
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mlmp08 posted:Maybe I'm bad at google, but the news out of NZ is saying that the chain where the attack took place pulled knives from shelves until they determine how/if they want to store them differently or stop selling them and that another chain of markets are doing the same. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126285302/countdown-foodstuffs-remove-knives-from-sale-following-terror-attack ok ok this makes sense, he didn't bring a knife with him but grabbed one out of a display or sale package after he was in the store and they're shutting this down until they can figure out how to force violent maniacs to pay for their weapons first
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Reports are basically saying the guy was on enough of a watchlist to have a 24/7 armed tail/surveillance but hadn’t actually committed a crime warranting jail until the moment he grabbed a knife off a shelf and started stabbing, and then was shot to death about 1 minute into his attack. Weird. Apparently, NZ authorities plan to release more info about his file later. Thankfully, he didn’t kill anyone, unless someone doesn’t pull through at the hospital.
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Immanentized posted:My bad, I've not really seen it expanded to cover mental illness in the setting I'm doing stuff in, usually just the stuff that used to fall under "learning/processing issues". I'm coming at it after getting an autism diagnosis at 31 and figuring out "oh yeah that's why some stuff has been so hard", so my bias is towards that, rather that the illness side. Eh, it's just a pet peeve of mine, don't take it personally.
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mlmp08 posted:Reports are basically saying the guy was on enough of a watchlist to have a 24/7 armed tail/surveillance but hadn’t actually committed a crime warranting jail until the moment he grabbed a knife off a shelf and started stabbing, and then was shot to death about 1 minute into his attack. I'd also like to point out that our police don't carry. It's not really clear if his tail was specifically authorised to do so, or whether there was weaponry close by in case they needed it, but it's a pretty big deal for armed response that fast here. As to why he wasn't in jail - he had been previously, and was obviously a person of great concern, but there was no legal standing to do so. Our terror laws are likely to change by the end of the month as a result.
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