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CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


PookBear posted:

holy gently caress dude the constant NOTHING MATTERS coming from you is loving unbearable

Not nearly as unbearable as posting about posters.

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Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009

piL posted:

He didn't say vote, he said present viable alternatives. That means doing the work to make those alternatives viable--campaigning for both people and ideas, working to change public ideas.

Edit: you know, democracy poo poo.

I did, I do; double gently caress you democracy is the current situation not some sort of cure. It's not my job to groom candidates for political office it's my job to work for a living.

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Keep it :munch: worthy, guys.

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piL
Sep 20, 2007
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Taco Defender

Soul Dentist posted:

double gently caress you

K.

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Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

I'm originally from one town away from Plano, TX, so I can gleefully present this, the state of our democracy:

Rap performance given to Plano city council

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
I got like 5 seconds into Plano guy yesterday before I turned it off. Is there a decent payoff or just bad desperate dad rap for 2 minutes?

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
That guy is also a piece of poo poo transphobe who always stirs up poo poo for the wrong reasons.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
Folks. Y’all know the rules. Come on.

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless

Stultus Maximus posted:

Reporter upset that Biden doesn’t get her pussy wet enough:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1504278550756614150

I'm going to read this as a parody of the way the media reports on women, and I don't feel like expending any further mental capital in seeing whether she's being serious or not. But it works pretty well as a critique of that phenomenon.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

FrozenVent posted:

Folks. Y’all know the rules. Come on.

Agreed that guy rapping at the council meeting shouldn't have been posted

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Stultus Maximus posted:

Reporter upset that Biden doesn’t get her pussy wet enough:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1504278550756614150

Milley looks like he was just kicked in the nuts from behind a second before that photo was taken.

Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

joat mon posted:

NASA said they used a red filter to optimize visual contrast.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-reaches-alignment-milestone-optics-working-successfully

Another article mentioned that the galaxies in the background were not identified, but didn't say whether they weren't ID'd because NASA didn't name them in the press release or because they were newly discovered.
Anyone got a link from NASA or similar source that the background galaxies are new discoveries?

They aren’t new discoveries but it’s like the difference between knowing something big is there and getting the details right about it.

This is a comparison from a previous IR space based telescope from 10 or so years ago.

https://twitter.com/gbrammer/status/1504369779540480002?s=20&t=RfMYSua4KTPp73AVg0iDHw



Also, NASA rolled out the SLS for the first time yesterday. Click through for very big.

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1504493971300622340?s=20&t=TM2eI_elhHQu53thLrhiag

Edit: from this morning, mid-trip to the pad:

https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1504823113871245314?s=20&t=FQvxoNh-u9JdOrFvOPqdUA

Thwomp fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Mar 18, 2022

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
I’m like 80% sure I met this NPC/enemy in elden ring.

https://twitter.com/time/status/1504760633342021645?s=21

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Kazinsal posted:

Just put an age cap and term limits on public service. The term limits prevent ghouls from holding an office for 40 years, and the age cap prevents each retiring 85-year-old death cultist from being replaced with a slightly newer octogenarian death cultist every other term.

You're not thinking big enough.

Let's just go fuckin' full "Logan's Run." Only set the age at something like 65 and not 30.

No one will ever say "50 is the new 30" *ever again*.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Milley looks like he was just kicked in the nuts from behind a second before that photo was taken.

The Joint Chiefs enjoy Rochambeauing each other.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
The JWST is a bright point for me in the last year or so of poo poo. I didn't honestly expect it to work as I'm a pessimist by nature. Space stuff is the cool and good stuff about humanity to me and one of my favorite refuges from how lovely people can be.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

mlmp08 posted:

I’m like 80% sure I met this NPC/enemy in elden ring.

https://twitter.com/time/status/1504760633342021645?s=21

If you think you know how hosed NFTs are, you should watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

It's literally hyper-2008.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

mlmp08 posted:

I’m like 80% sure I met this NPC/enemy in elden ring.

https://twitter.com/time/status/1504760633342021645?s=21

This guy is freaking insane, full stop. You should hear how he feels decentralizing Crypto by forcing power users to store 48+ Terrabytes of Crypto locally is the future.

ASAPI
Apr 20, 2007
I invented the line.

CommieGIR posted:

This guy is freaking insane, full stop. You should hear how he feels decentralizing Crypto by forcing power users to store 48+ Terrabytes of Crypto locally is the future.

Truly the currency of the future when you need a storage array to use it.

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

Wasabi the J posted:

If you think you know how hosed NFTs are, you should watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

It's literally hyper-2008.

I dont think so but Im not watching that guy drone on for 3 hrs

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


CommieGIR posted:

This guy is freaking insane, full stop. You should hear how he feels decentralizing Crypto by forcing power users to store 48+ Terrabytes of Crypto locally is the future.

Ah yes decentralization by making the hardware requirements unobtainable to those that aren't at least r/homelab types.

Vorkosigan
Mar 28, 2012


Grip it and rip it posted:

I dont think so but Im not watching that guy drone on for 3 hrs

I didn't think I'd like it, but it's fascinatingly laid out. I did take it in 20m chunks during work downtimes though.

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006

Vorkosigan posted:

I didn't think I'd like it, but it's fascinatingly laid out. I did take it in 20m chunks during work downtimes though.

Same here. He has it broken into easily digestible sections of 10-25 minutes that I listed through over the course of multiple sittings. Most of the basics I already knew, but I never delved into the actual NFT stuff because it just seemed like a scam from the get go.

A grad school classmate is pretty far down the crypto hole, even works for a crypto finance company in NYC. We talked a few weeks back when I was down in the city and it was thoroughly annoying to talk to him when everything goes back to crypto. He also had been watching a ton of youtube Ukraine reporting that was all Russian propaganda. I luckily was able to dig him out of that since he knows what I do for the Army, but, man, was everything else blockchain this and NFT that.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

I watched that entire video last time it was posted. I didn’t think I would, but it was fascinated and really perfectly laid out. It’s loving insane how screwed crypto is. It’s a massive scam. NFTs are literally promoted by crypto because they were running out of suckers to sell their coin to to get real money out of the martlet.

I wish they’d show that video in every school in the world.

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".
Who watches videos at 1x speed, 1.5x min maybe 2x if its slow, I got poo poo to do

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


lightpole posted:

Who watches videos, let me read an article or transcript while I'm taking a dump, I got poo poo to do

Wingnut Ninja
Jan 11, 2003

Mostly Harmless
I drove back from San Diego yesterday with a new guy in my squadron who only has a vague idea of what cryptocurrency is, so I spent a while explaining how it and NFTs are massive scams. Reference to the Dutch tulip bubble was brought up.

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006

Wingnut Ninja posted:

I drove back from San Diego yesterday with a new guy in my squadron who only has a vague idea of what cryptocurrency is, so I spent a while explaining how it and NFTs are massive scams. Reference to the Dutch tulip bubble was brought up.

I prefer calling it virtual beanie babies.

On a side note, political science researchers from Dartmouth and Stanford put out a study showing that all the talk of Americans being really pro political violence are extremely flawed and over stated, and most Americans don’t actually want to kill their neighbors.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116870119

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
I don't think you can traffic fentanyl and child sex slaves using beanie babies though.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

I prefer calling it virtual beanie babies.

On a side note, political science researchers from Dartmouth and Stanford put out a study showing that all the talk of Americans being really pro political violence are extremely flawed and over stated, and most Americans don’t actually want to kill their neighbors.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116870119

I think a more useful question than "are americans pro political violence is", is "at what point, if any, would you consider political violence".

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Dead Congressman (likely old age, he was 88):

https://twitter.com/lruskin/status/1504989060451868675

He was an active Congressman, so there will probably be either a special election soon or it'll just be held in November. It's a solid Republican seat, so doesn't affect control or anything.

https://twitter.com/christos_ioa/status/1504992254011736068

https://twitter.com/JoePostingg/status/1504992612255682560

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Mar 19, 2022

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
goddamnit

https://twitter.com/DVNJr/status/1504996230849564672?t=Kr-Z5-oSHPblpH3kaeY-3g&s=19

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010
https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1504951811899338760?s=20&t=vf_FdvjrlkQaokzj7Bexpg

Another Osprey tried to satisfy its thirst for blood. Casualties still unknown.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003



Well that sucks.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
CNN is saying 4 dead in the Osprey crash in Norway.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Hannibal Rex posted:

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1504951811899338760?s=20&t=vf_FdvjrlkQaokzj7Bexpg

Another Osprey tried to satisfy its thirst for blood. Casualties still unknown.

Osprey is hubris against the gods of flight.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Hannibal Rex posted:

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1504951811899338760?s=20&t=vf_FdvjrlkQaokzj7Bexpg

Another Osprey tried to satisfy its thirst for blood. Casualties still unknown.

Osprey is hubris against the gods of flight.

BUG JUG
Feb 17, 2005



It hungers.



Rip Norway dudes. :(

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

CommieGIR posted:

Osprey is hubris against the gods of flight.

And yet it is still safer than other military helicopters per flight hour. A true testament to helicopters.

But also riding in helicopters is fun.

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
How big of a bonus are they offering the people flying the Ospreys? Gotta be some big bucks being thrown at them or no one would get in the drat things.

Do the marines have flight WOCS like the army, where any idiot private can apply to fly aerial screws?

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