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facialimpediment posted:East Palestine, Ohio could go boom very shortly: Is 400 gallons right? Doesn't seem like much Midjack posted:I have to wonder if stuff was this whacked out in Rome in the 60s BC. Someone post the Pompeii tweets
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is 400 gallons right? Doesn't seem like much woops, 400K gallons. Missed the K!
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Feb 6, 2023 05:03
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tbh 400 gallons of water wouldnt have put it out either ~technical correctness on a forum~ *guitar sting*
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Guarantee they’re thinking about it, even if it wasn’t done/photographed. Real enough.
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Midjack posted:I have to wonder if stuff was this whacked out in Rome in the 60s BC. Seeing as how Julius Caesar founded the Triumvirate and had effectively destroyed the Roman Constitution (which had been under repeated assault for over a generation), and violent purges had become something of a norm, I would argue that things were more hosed up in 60 BC Rome.
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Crossposting from the ME thread:Flavahbeast posted:huge quake in SE Turkey, I think 7.8 would be the largest magnitude on record Brown Moses posted:There's just been a second earthquake So at first there was a strong earthquake in southern Turkey/northern Syria at night while people slept in their homes, then there was a second strong earthquake in the region as people were searching in the rubble and the already damaged buildings. Pretty much the worst case scenario. Erdogan said Turkish deaths alone are over 900 after the first earthquake, but considering the second one and the frail state of buildings and civil society in Syria, it wouldn't surprise me if the number of casualties reaches five figures. This is just terrible all around 
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An earthquake woke a bunch of people up in Buffalo less than an hour ago. Epicenter is within the metro area, a few miles east of downtown. USGS estimates it at 3.8±0.2 on the moment magnitude scale, three kilometres deep. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jlqv/executive e: Bad post timing. To be clear, this one isn’t generally devastating. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Feb 6, 2023 13:02
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So, the Turkey situation. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ Monster quake hits. Eleven minutes later, there is an aftershock that would be significant on its own, almost in the same place. Nine hours after that, there’s another major quake centered a hundred kilometers to the north.
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Feb 6, 2023 13:13
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Old man yells at https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1622364859076677633
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Feb 6, 2023 16:42
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what on earth that’s confused even for him
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Complex pattern… of a straight line?
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Platystemon posted:Complex pattern… of a straight line? Nothing a Sharpie can't fix! Also: I love how EVERY deal he makes is somehow the greatest deal ever.
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Feb 6, 2023 16:57
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Platystemon posted:Complex pattern… of a straight line? The amount of people I've seen talk about it "maneuvering" or "loitering over sensitive areas" is insane.
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Feb 6, 2023 16:59
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I got a sensitive area it can loiter over
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VSOKUL girl posted:whereas DS9 you can only sometimes watch out of order I bounced off DS9 season 2 a number of times. I loving hate everything about the maquis. So stupid. So when I was IK in SciFiWiFi I ran a competition to show me the very best of DS9. Didn't care about spoilers or order or anything. Each poster got a few sentences to set the stage for the episode if they wanted to. Doing it that way was the only way I could get interested in the show enough to watch past season 2. Which I eventually did (Except the stupid baseball episode because baseball is stupid).
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Old man yells at Alright then, where's the body of the pilot? CommieGIR posted:Nothing a Sharpie can't fix! He's lost sight of the fact that he wouldn't be the one making the deal and that giving Dark Brandon credit for the best deal ever would run counter to Donnie Safbrains' messaging.
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CainFortea posted:I bounced off DS9 season 2 a number of times. I loving hate everything about the maquis. So stupid. So when I was IK in SciFiWiFi I ran a competition to show me the very best of DS9. Didn't care about spoilers or order or anything. Each poster got a few sentences to set the stage for the episode if they wanted to. This about sums up my experience with DS9 as well. For whatever reason the show never "clicked" for me. I can see why others enjoy it. I just don't.
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ASAPI posted:This about sums up my experience with DS9 as well. It did click, but I had to watch the best of the best first. Then go back and fill in the rest of it by watching it.
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When I was a kid DS9 seemed like a lame knockoff of TNG and I never caught it except randomly in the middle of seasons. Watching it from the beginning changed my mind real quick
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ASAPI posted:This about sums up my experience with DS9 as well. That’s fair, I was watching during the original run and got invested in the characters and story arcs and felt they paid off well, but would understand trying to watch 25 years later and dealing with some of the clunkier eps. I still think the two part ep with changelings on earth and how the Federation must contend with trading democratic freedoms for security theater, and how that is shown to be a way for a free society to destroy itself as a completely disproportionate response is a masterful take on 9/11, and it aired in 1996. I had a similar experience with Babylon 5, had been hearing for years it was comparable to DS9 so gave it a try but couldn’t get invested and bailed mid way through season 1. I liked some parts but not enough to keep watching. Hyrax Attack! fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Hyrax Attack! posted:That’s fair, I was watching during the original run and got invested in the characters and story arcs and felt they paid off well, but would understand trying to watch 25 years later and dealing with some of the clunkier eps. I still think the two part ep with changelings on earth and how the Federation must contend with trading democratic freedoms for security theater, and how that is shown to be a way for a free society to destroy itself as a completely disproportionate response is a masterful take on 9/11, and it aired in 1996. Yeah Babylon 5 is rough. I've tried multiple times to get into it but so much of it is so dated that it's hard to get into.
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That whole bit about the changeling menace was one of the things I really didn't like about DS9. The Federation is supposed to be better than us. Yes it's unrealistic but I don't care. It's space ships, it's okay to not be real. Edit: yea, B5 is rough to start. Still one of the best payoffs in TV though. Especially if you enjoy the Dominion War or the aformentioned "how much is our safety worth" things from DS9. It goes hard on that stuff.
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"hey, so your dad was kinda famous right?" "well, sorta" "well, what did he do?" "it wasn't really about what *he* did" https://twitter.com/PGourevitch/status/1622646384779198468
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrests-2-suspects-accused-planning-attack-baltimore-power-grid-rcna69324 Two Neo-Nazis accused of plotting to attack power substations in and around Baltimore. One of them is one of the founders of Atomwaffen. This is a pretty significant and serious threat.
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CainFortea posted:That whole bit about the changeling menace was one of the things I really didn't like about DS9. The Federation is supposed to be better than us. Yes it's unrealistic but I don't care. It's space ships, it's okay to not be real. That’s fair, although I appreciate DS9 writers take on the federation in how it’s shown as flawed and makes mistakes but overall still a good place to live. Little things like how Sisko’s dad runs a restaurant cooking non replicated food to preserve New Orleans culture, new books are being written, and many people aren’t in starfleet and that’s fine. I liked how the maquis offended Sisko by how he’s gotten so much from the Federation that he doesn’t understand why anyone would leave even if they have defensible reasons. Also excellent (if not perfect) takes on the Ferengi where Quark notes his people are greedy but at the same time never committed a genocide against other Ferengi, or how there’s a Klingon restaurant on the station populated by a guy who’s not constantly at war with everyone.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrests-2-suspects-accused-planning-attack-baltimore-power-grid-rcna69324 Good thing they're just lone wolfs.
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Edit: Guess I gotta be quicker on the draw in these parts! pantslesswithwolves posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrests-2-suspects-accused-planning-attack-baltimore-power-grid-rcna69324 Here's some fun context: https://www.businessinsider.com/electrical-power-grid-attack-us-infrastructure-terrorism-2023-1 quote:An Insider investigation has found that attacks against the electrical grid nationwide are at an all-time high — and experts say the greatest threat comes from right-wing extremists seeking to sow chaos and accelerate the devolution of the social order. The investigation, which includes an analysis of newly released Department of Energy data, visits to substations, a review of law enforcement records from nine jurisdictions, as well as neo-Nazi propaganda, and interviews with six power industry and extremism experts, found that attacks on the grid spiked dramatically last year, with a 72 percent increase over 2021. stealie72 fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Antifa yet again destroying our cities
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oh no, AI did a transphobe again https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1622669190497964032 #1 thing driving all of my thinking with all of this poo poo is that venture capital bros just took every mention of "crypto", replaced with with "AI", and we're back in the same dumb cycle again. We're even back to the Microsoft AI chatbot Tay proving it had the reich stuff at the slightest prompting.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I liked how the maquis offended Sisko by how he’s gotten so much from the Federation that he doesn’t understand why anyone would leave even if they have defensible reasons. That's the thing, though. The Maquis don't have defensible reasons. "Hi! We're going to settle these planets in a disputed zone! Thank you for fighting a war in defense of our territorial claims! Wait, what, some of these planets were ceded to Cardassia in the peace treaty? We demand you go to war over those planets! What do you mean no?! My family has lived on this planet for part of an entire generation! This is our ancestral home! We don't WANT you to move us to a new planet and set us up there! gently caress you, we're breaking off and are going to attack the Cardassians until we get what we want!"
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Looks like they moved back to a simpler AI when it happened which didn't have to content moderation tools necessary.
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McNally posted:That's the thing, though. The Maquis don't have defensible reasons. Also the maquis have bigly "Traditional Values" vibes with Eddington going on about how replicated food just isn't as good.
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Grip it and rip it posted:The Maquis were the good guys Maquis are the same kinds of people who go winter hiking on mountains and then die, while putting hundreds of other people at risk searching for their stupid rear end.
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Were the Maquis also involved in that TNG S7 episode where they have to go deal with a land dispute involving Space Native Americans and the Traveler shows up at the end to kidnap Wesley? I distinctly remember that involving the disputed colonies along the Cardassian border.
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Kazinsal posted:Were the Maquis also involved in that TNG S7 episode where they have to go deal with a land dispute involving Space Native Americans and the Traveler shows up at the end to kidnap Wesley? I distinctly remember that involving the disputed colonies along the Cardassian border. Same issue, but they weren't involved with the Maquis.
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