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Rebel Blob posted:Herschel Walker flashed a fake police badge at his debate. So does this count as impersonating an officer?
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Bird in a Blender posted:So does this count as impersonating an officer?
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Mustard Iceman posted:does SNL have two people that can make this sketch or does Kenan Thompson have to run back and forth on-stage? They got a black guy to replace Chris Redd
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Mustard Iceman posted:does SNL have two people that can make this sketch or does Kenan Thompson have to run back and forth on-stage? Lol, SNL had a dude in blackface play Obama. We're lucky if they just have Kenan play both roles instead of going back to that well, honestly.
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I get to work the election this year! Been trying to for a couple of years and the stars have never aligned but I’ll be a Support Judge (greeting/line-length-counting/sticker-handing-outing/assisting with setup and answering questions/misc) this year. I’m excited! Lol to make this more current-events-relevant, apparently a decent chunk of my in-person training will be about reporting electioneering and de-escalation techniques. The longest video of the online training has been on how to not blow yourself up while lighting the propane heater if you’re at a drive-up tent. Riven fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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Oct 15, 2022 21:30
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Of all the current issues that are going on, "the election officals can accidently blew themselves up" was NOT something on my election shenanigans bingo card.
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Riven posted:I get to work the election this year! Been trying to for a couple of years and the stars have never aligned but I’ll be a Support Judge (greeting/line-length-counting/sticker-handing-outing/assisting with setup and answering questions/misc) this year. I’m excited! Might make for a cool "Ask/Tell" thread.
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Oct 15, 2022 22:31
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BiggerBoat posted:Might make for a cool "Ask/Tell" thread. Nice, yeah I think I’ll start one AFTER the election as I’ll probably have a lot more to say after that.
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Oct 15, 2022 22:54
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Local politics disrupted by accusations of voter fraud because someone detonated the polling location and evaporated all the votes. Good luck, I ran the poll book (checking IDs and handing out ballots) for the primary and the worst we got was a guy screaming about not being able to vote cross party during the primary, hoping that it is relatively quiet during the November election. Make sure you wear a mask to avoid covid but also so people don't know your face lol
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Oct 15, 2022 23:16
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Mendrian posted:You've just described every neighborhood in Seattle! It's kinda sad, the only real historical record of the Ballard area are from Almost Live skits.
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Freakazoid_ posted:It's kinda sad, the only real historical record of the Ballard area are from Almost Live skits. And with good reason too...
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Freakazoid_ posted:It's kinda sad, the only real historical record of the Ballard area are from Almost Live skits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyz6mkvlEgA
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Oh god I haven’t thought about Almost Live in like 30 years. Thanks, I guess?
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I'm not looking forward to whatever happens after the next round of elections. Some of these maniacs are going to win, and the rest will take to the media platforms to spend the rest of their days screaming that their election was rigged, provoking even more chaos. https://twitter.com/KateSullivanDC/status/1581640114018533377?s=20&t=icV9m1CvdSKWmFjUdfsozg https://twitter.com/KateSullivanDC/status/1581642013488738306?s=20&t=icV9m1CvdSKWmFjUdfsozg
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm not looking forward to whatever happens after the next round of elections. Some of these maniacs are going to win, and the rest will take to the media platforms to spend the rest of their days screaming that their election was rigged, provoking even more chaos. I mean, rhetorically this is smart politics. Answer the question you wished they asked, and deny the press any credibility as a watchdog or overseer. Now, to be fair, the press has by and large abrogated that duty on their own say-so, but nobody’s going to complain about a politician being mean to a reporter, the Gianforte Insight.
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selec posted:I mean, rhetorically this is smart politics. Answer the question you wished they asked, and deny the press any credibility as a watchdog or overseer. Now, to be fair, the press has by and large abrogated that duty on their own say-so, but nobody’s going to complain about a politician being mean to a reporter, the Gianforte Insight. It's unpleasant to see but I really can't argue with giving the press the respect it deserves.
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I don't know what to make of this but get ready for $185/lb snow crab prices. I mean...not that I can afford it anyway but... https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/alaska-snow-crab-harvest-canceled-climate/index.html Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the waters around Alaska. Scientists say overfishing is not the cause quote:The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in recent years. Maybe once rich people can no longer eat crab and lobster they'll do something about temperature rise.
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Snow crab is by far the worst of those kinds of crabs in terms of what you get out of it. Dungeness crab is the best for that, IMO
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Can't afford that either so will take your word for it.
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We will likely look back at these catastrophic die offs and wonder how we could be so casual about them, and the answer will be there was no money in caring, and if it doesn’t earn we don’t care. It’s another little brick on the road to the living envying the dead. I’m sure it’s not part of a food chain outside of rich people though, probably not an issue!
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selec posted:We will likely look back at these catastrophic die offs and wonder how we could be so casual about them, and the answer will be there was no money in caring, and if it doesn’t earn we don’t care. It’s another little brick on the road to the living envying the dead. Living through is 6th mass extinction really blows. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe the guardian posted:Earth’s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment, as humans continue to clear forests, consume beyond the limits of the planet and pollute on an industrial scale.
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selec posted:I’m sure it’s not part of a food chain outside of rich people though, probably not an issue! Well, pretty much. Four or five crops feed the whole planet. Menus will change and people will become more accustomed to eating the fish that grow in the new niches.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Living through is 6th mass extinction really blows.
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So are we gonna invade Haiti? Seems kinda likely. Should we? No, we are the protection racket who keeps taking all their money and beating the poo poo out of them. https://twitter.com/miamiherald/status/1581075134722588672?s=46&t=KpPg-xhe8av_04-paGTfrA Impossible to take this demon country seriously when it talks about Ukrainian sovereignty and does poo poo like this.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Well, pretty much. Four or five crops feed the whole planet. Menus will change and people will become more accustomed to eating the fish that grow in the new niches. That reminded me and I haven't thought about it an a while but even if we move more and more to a vegetable based diet and eat less meat, don't we have an issue with pollination and what not because all the bees are dying as well?
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BiggerBoat posted:That reminded me and I haven't thought about it an a while but even if we move more and more to a vegetable based diet and eat less meat, don't we have an issue with pollination and what not because all the bees are dying as well? Yeah turns out all these complex systems we barely understand are connected and “harmless” changes to the complex system we don’t understand will etc etc,…, envy the dead.
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pretty sure most states try to train poll workers literally up to the evening before inperson voting, please try to be a poll worker so a chud doesnt get in. its mostly sitting at a table and checking a list.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Well, pretty much. Four or five crops feed the whole planet. Menus will change and people will become more accustomed to eating the fish that grow in the new niches. I think they were talking more about the other sea critters that might munch on em. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/alaska-snow-crab#overview posted:Seals, sea otters, octopi, other crabs, and a wide variety of fish prey on Alaska snow crabs.
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BiggerBoat posted:That reminded me and I haven't thought about it an a while but even if we move more and more to a vegetable based diet and eat less meat, don't we have an issue with pollination and what not because all the bees are dying as well?
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selec posted:So are we gonna invade Haiti? Seems kinda likely. The U.N., Haiti, and 93 other countries asked for this. It's not a violation of sovereignty.
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Yeah Haiti was even asking Canada for troops. It's not the US being the US on this one.
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If anything I feel the Biden administration is actually reluctant to send troops out. Which is an odd but nice change.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM0uZ9mfOUI the standard edgy lib *takes off glasses* take is that it's already too late. why should anyone care? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't know what to make of this but get ready for $185/lb snow crab prices. I mean...not that I can afford it anyway but... I'm sorry but the use of the phrase "shock and awe" is what really leaps out to me here
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The U.N., Haiti, and 93 other countries asked for this. It's not a violation of sovereignty. “No, the staggeringly unpopular guy people are in the streets protesting asked us to prop him up, this so totally not like the US propping up dictators and strongmen.” I am disgusted but not surprised that people would take this stance. How many Haitians do you think need to oppose him before we should stay out of it?
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selec posted:So are we gonna invade Haiti? Seems kinda likely. When using a source, please be very clear what is something the source explicitly says and what is its implication, consequences, or otherwise your argument based on it.
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Koos Group posted:When using a source, please be very clear what is something the source explicitly says and what is its implication, consequences, or otherwise your argument based on it. Would it be appropriate to post a short history of the ongoing US efforts that have hosed Haiti over to give the thread context? Because it’s pretty bad, I don’t see it being a popular point of discussion so I wanna know if it l’s 1. Allowable and 2. Worth the effort
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At the very least, I think a summary of the current situation in specific wouldn't go amiss. I've been halfway following it and still don't have a good grasp of where (say) public opinion in Haiti is, and presumably some other people here are less familiar.
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selec posted:Would it be appropriate to post a short history of the ongoing US efforts that have hosed Haiti over to give the thread context? Because it’s pretty bad, I don’t see it being a popular point of discussion so I wanna know if it l’s 1. Allowable and 2. Worth the effort I would welcome it. My sense from afar is that the situation has deteriorated enough that there's at least some support for intervention among Haitians but idk if that impression is just manufactured consent. The track record for interventions have been awful, though there's some difference between like deposing Aristide and whatever this would be.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:At the very least, I think a summary of the current situation in specific wouldn't go amiss. I've been halfway following it and still don't have a good grasp of where (say) public opinion in Haiti is, and presumably some other people here are less familiar. Well, I think you can summarize it pretty well in about two articles. Before the possibility of intervention was broached, note the sympathetic tone and concern for Haitians was present in the coverage, and while gang violence is mentioned, there isn’t conflation of protestors with gangs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/16/haiti-protests-fuel-ariel-henry/ Now, just a month later, when protests are ongoing, how is this being framed; “Powerful gangs are destabilizing the country” lmao, no, you had it right first WaPo, inflation is destabilizing the country: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/15/haiti-biden-un-security-resolution/ “The United States has long been reluctant to deploy military forces in Haiti” is a blatant lie for any reasonable understanding of “long” by individuals who are not dogs. That’s some real loving consent manufacturing being done when that is stated outright as a fact. We stole the entire legitimate wealth of the nation-state within my lifetime, which hasn’t been so long. selec fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Oct 16, 2022 |
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