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midterm predictions
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blue wave 61 10.57%
red wave 65 11.27%
stalemate 92 15.94%
goku 359 62.22%
Total: 459 votes
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Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown

Vim Fuego posted:

got a before picture?

No but you could get an approximation by turning off your monitor








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smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Spaced God posted:

I'd rather suck every dick in Altoona before I set foot in Pittsburgh

this is actual PA's state motto

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Mayor Dave posted:

No but you could get an approximation by turning off your monitor

Daniel Dales Dick
Apr 8, 2020

”With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore"
Cassidy threw em all to the wolves! Hopey never would have been this disloyal.

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Ham Cheeks posted:

A strong dog came up to me, tough kind of a pup, and said: ‘I want to thank you, Vim Fuego, for choosing cool ranch.’ And he had tears coming down his eyes,” Fuego said. “This wasn’t just a statement, because he had tears coming

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1607890348902342656

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



what if there was a laxative commercial that took the song "you can't always get what you want" and changed it to "you can't always poo poo from your butt"

skaboomizzy
Nov 12, 2003

There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

PDP-1 posted:

my parents were both medical workers and on their first date my dad had to stop by the cadaver lab to pick-up/drop-off some school related stuff. she thought he was really cool because he was taking that class so early in his curriculum, like he must be doogie howsering that poo poo to go so far so fast

they've never commented on whether or not they pointed and laughed at the cadaver's junk

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)


more like Barnum Pun Shoes amirite

https://twitter.com/ThePunnyWorld/status/1607881653011054594

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

where's this one but his face is a fat man titty body

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007

tacodaemon posted:

what if there was a laxative commercial that took the song "you can't always get what you want" and changed it to "you can't always poo poo from your butt"

but if you try sometimes you may find you poo poo when you pee

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Shifty Nipples posted:

but if you try sometimes you may find you poo poo when you pee

this one goes out to Shifty Nipples, the thread's resident Hufflepuff

https://twitter.com/ThePunnyWorld/status/1607899229757784065

PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

this is the exact reason i haven't signed on to donate my body to science after death

[me, ghostishly]: no, see this tank of formaldehyde is quite chilly! it's not normally like this!

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

smarxist posted:

where's this one but his face is a fat man titty body

turn off your monitor

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown

smarxist posted:

where's this one but his face is a fat man titty body

Monitor!!!

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Filthy Hans posted:

turn off your monitor

go post about it in qcs

Stupid Boxes
Feb 9, 2004

good grief!
sleepy Jimbee she’s a rag doll munchkin (standard so not too short) just a mush when she isn’t rampaging across the floor demanding treats and toys

Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007

Filthy Hans posted:

this one goes out to Shifty Nipples, the thread's resident Hufflepuff

:mad:

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

PDP-1 posted:

this is the exact reason i haven't signed on to donate my body to science after death

[me, ghostishly]: no, see this tank of formaldehyde is quite chilly! it's not normally like this!

If you want some actual competence out of your boys in your next Dwarf Fortress foray, I suggest naming one of them Filthy Hans

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

CODChimera posted:

go post about it in qcs

TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

tacodaemon posted:

what if there was a laxative commercial that took the song "you can't always get what you want" and changed it to "you can't always poo poo from your butt"

so please, please, please
let me.. poo poo from my butt
Lord knows it would be the first time

/oboe rises in volume

PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Filthy Hans posted:

If you want some actual competence out of your boys in your next Dwarf Fortress foray, I suggest naming one of them Filthy Hans



i did, you were my chief medical dwarf, you died in buddykin's blood pipe incident with the rest of them

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

PDP-1 posted:

this is the exact reason i haven't signed on to donate my body to science after death

[me, ghostishly]: no, see this tank of formaldehyde is quite chilly! it's not normally like this!

"remember that seinfeld about shrinkage?"

"sir it's 2044"

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

PDP-1 posted:



i did, you were my chief medical dwarf, you died in buddykin's blood pipe incident with the rest of them

Missing for a week?!? I didn't even know I was ever there. BUDDYKINS!! :argh:

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

PDP-1 posted:



i did, you were my chief medical dwarf, you died in buddykin's blood pipe incident with the rest of them

oh :saddowns:

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

PDP-1 posted:



i did, you were my chief medical dwarf, you died in buddykin's blood pipe incident with the rest of them

Getting PMs from the mods after they saw I'm a miner

SomethingBeautiful
Oct 22, 2008

Some celestial event. No- no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea

PDP-1 posted:



i did, you were my chief medical dwarf, you died in buddykin's blood pipe incident with the rest of them

you need to take a hint from your favorite president next time and build a wall

around buddykins

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Vim Fuego posted:

Getting PMs from the mods after they saw I'm a miner

PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Vim Fuego posted:

Missing for a week?!? I didn't even know I was ever there. BUDDYKINS!! :argh:

buddykins built an irrigation pipe to our mushroom farm, but it ended up floodykins-ing the place

so he built another drainage ditch which cleared out the farm but left a whirlpool nearby that was shallow enough for the dwarves to path through but had a high enough flow to knock them off their feet and down the drainage pipe.

everybody died due to that except emfive

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1607839869597876224

Ever since The Verge reported that Twitter shut down its communications office, it’s been harder to confirm information about the company, which seems to be the way that CEO Elon Musk likes it. However, increasingly, Twitter trust and safety chief Ella Irwin seems more willing to confirm or deny rumors to media outlets, a move that’s possibly irking Musk. Over the holiday weekend, Musk tweeted to directly contradict a statement Irwin provided to Reuters, causing even more confusion over what’s going on at Twitter—and whether there’s tension brewing between Musk and Irwin.

The timeline of the contradictory statements went like this: On Friday, Dec. 23, Reuters reported that Twitter had seemingly removed the social media platform’s #ThereIsHelp feature, which was designed to share suicide-prevention resources alongside certain content.

Shortly after Reuters’ report went live, Irwin emailed Reuters to confirm that the feature was “temporarily removed.” She said that it would be brought back this week, once Twitter finished “fixing and revamping our prompts.”

"We know they are useful, and our intent was not to have them down permanently,” Irwin told Reuters.

The very next day, at 6:27 a.m. on Christmas Eve, Musk tweeted to contradict Irwin’s statement, saying that Reuters’ report was false and the feature was never removed. In another tweet soon after, Musk declared Reuters’ report “fake news,” while reminding Twitter users that “Twitter doesn’t prevent suicide.”

Approximately 12 hours later, Reuters confirmed that the feature was restored, continuing to contradict Musk’s statement that the feature was never removed. That second report credited “two people familiar with the matter” as saying that the #ThereIsHelp feature had been down for two days and claiming that the takedown order had come from Musk.

As of this writing, it’s still unclear which Twitter executive is telling the truth. A tweet linking to the initial Reuters report currently displays a community note sharing Musk's statement clarifying that the report is false, suggesting enough users rated Musk's statement above Irwin's. Musk did not respond to tweets from both legacy blue checks and Twitter Blue verified blue checks, asking if he was calling Irwin a “liar” or if he planned to fire Irwin.

Twitter did not respond to Ars’ request to clarify. Perhaps due to the holidays, Irwin has gone silent on Twitter; her last tweet was sent on Dec. 20.

“Direction of Ella”

According to her LinkedIn profile, Irwin joined Twitter’s trust and safety team last June, after working in similar roles at Google, Amazon, and Twilio. She rose to the top trust and safety post after Yoel Roth exited Twitter shortly after Musk took over.

Many Twitter users became familiar with Irwin after her handle appeared as a watermark during Musk’s release of “The Twitter Files,” indicating that she was the one feeding journalists internal files from Twitter.

A few days later, when Twitter began suspending journalists, the Washington Post reported that internally, the suspensions were marked as ordered not by Musk, but by “direction of Ella.”

It’s possible that after a few media cycles scrutinizing Twitter safety features, Irwin’s interest grew in setting the record straight, and she will likely only continue to be scrutinized for any trust and safety policy changes as long as she remains at Twitter. But with the communications department seemingly nonexistent—and after Musk’s rush to contradict one of the few official statements provided by a Twitter exec to media since his takeover—it seems unlikely that Irwin will clarify anytime soon whether she made “false” statements about Twitter removing the suicide prevention feature.

While Irwin dealt with some backlash from users who have defended Musk as a proven truth teller, Musk was busy introducing another new Twitter feature that has become controversial. On Dec. 22, Twitter added Views to the other metrics publicly displayed on tweets. These view counts now appear alongside likes, comments, and retweets.

Over the next couple days, however, many users had criticized the new feature. Some suggested that it went against research on platforms like Facebook and Instagram and could negatively impact mental health of Twitter users. But perhaps millions more hated the feature simply because of how janky the views display looked jammed next to retweets and likes. By Dec. 24, Musk announced that soon Twitter users would be able to toggle the feature off.

“I think almost everyone will grow to like it,” Musk tweeted, almost like it was his Christmas wish to introduce a universally popular Twitter feature and blissfully break free from all the backlash he's faced since stepping up as Chief Twit.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

PDP-1 posted:

not WH, but i was at a local chain burger place where the guy behind the counter got confused by my order and said sorry, i'm high as gently caress right now. then he just put one of every kind of food thing they had under the heating lamps into a bag until it was full and asked if that was ok with me. i said hell yes buddy and he rang up the total at like $6

mate i think you found jesus

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

PDP-1 posted:

buddykins built an irrigation pipe to our mushroom farm, but it ended up floodykins-ing the place

so he built another drainage ditch which cleared out the farm but left a whirlpool nearby that was shallow enough for the dwarves to path through but had a high enough flow to knock them off their feet and down the drainage pipe.

everybody died due to that except emfive

PDP-1
Oct 12, 2004

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
i paused the game and caught this nifty shot of emfive getting swept down buddykins' ill-advised drain



luckily for him by that point enough water and goon guts had built up that he survived the fall due to his spider silk dress armor absorbing the impact

Substandard
Oct 16, 2007

3rd street for life
Please tattoo "it was good enough for your mom" onto my penis before you let the students use my cadaver

Daniel Dales Dick
Apr 8, 2020

”With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore"
Make Jimbee a dwarf! Make Jimbee a mod!

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

Substandard posted:

Please tattoo "it was good enough for your mom" into my penis before you let the students use my cadaver

get it while youre still alive

Daniel Dales Dick
Apr 8, 2020

”With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore"

Substandard posted:

Please tattoo "it was good enough for your mom" onto my penis before you let the students use my cadaver

"It was goo"

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Maybe $7 per eggs tops depending where you shop

For the free range brown ones

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Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Stupid Boxes posted:

sleepy Jimbee she’s a rag doll munchkin (standard so not too short) just a mush when she isn’t rampaging across the floor demanding treats and toys



aww!

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