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Leperflesh posted:the house freedom caucus, e.g. the maga assholes on the far right, own their party and know it and despite being a tiny minority in the house they are flexing and matt gaetz is their current leader This leaves out the fact that McCarthy gave the Freedom Caucus a silver bullet to use against him at any time just so he could say he was Speaker for 9 months. Like it was the most poisoned poison pill one could imagine and he just said “yep yep, sounds good” and gave them the right to remove him with 1 vote He’s a loving dipshit
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Amy Pole Her posted:Banshee was also beautifully directed. The episodes with Starrs character in prison training to defend himself from the albino.. the fight itself… beautifully done. I was worried it was going to end on a cliffhanger with no real finish because it wrapped up right before COVID. I figured that's what killed the show but it turns out that was just a wrap and they did a good job ending things.
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Freaquency posted:This leaves out the fact that McCarthy gave the Freedom Caucus a silver bullet to use against him at any time just so he could say he was Speaker for 9 months. I thought the ability of any member to introduce that measure was already just part of the parliamentary rules of the house
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Leperflesh posted:I thought the ability of any member to introduce that measure was already just part of the parliamentary rules of the house The House adopts rules at the beginning of the session like at the same time they're electing the speaker, so I think McCarthy allowed that rule change in order to get votes.
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Silly Burrito posted:Looks like we may get a new Speaker of the House. Won't be overnight
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Leperflesh posted:like it's amazing, literally all any republican leadership has to do is let go of the last 20 or 30 years of extreme obstruction assholery and go to the super milquetoast center-right dems in the house and senate and negotiate compromise positions, in which the dems will gleefully give away 80% of their needs as an opening position for negotiation, and then they could pass bipartisan bills No War But Culture War
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dirty shrimp money posted:Won't be overnight Probably not, but judging by the current Republican votes, McCarthy is gone. This has never happened before in our history.
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Silly Burrito posted:Tyranny of the minority taken to the extreme. Did you read this book? I'm waiting on it at my library.
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MaximilianK posted:Did you read this book? I'm waiting on it at my library. No, but it’s on my list.
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FizFashizzle posted:Good lord oh my god. i've heard about this for a lot of new construction -- the laminated beams and chipboard they are using basically can't get wet and houses aren't exactly easy building to keep moisture out of. So there have been major issues not long into the life of newer houses.
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Silly Burrito posted:No, but it’s on my list. I'll report back but I'm currently going through "How Democracies Die" and it is just reinforcing my ideas that we are hosed already. And its from 2018.
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FizFashizzle posted:Good lord LoFi Timber what in tarnation 
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Double but I still get a good laugh thinking about the YOUNG GUNS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY magazine cover, complete with dipshit McCarthy and his head full of grey hair. you sack of poo poo
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This is like when they renamed the Patagonian Toothfish to Chilean Sea Bass.
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idk what that is about or if it goes into it if I were to click through, but it sure seems like someone trying to act like medium density fiberboard (MDF), which is construction material made by compressing ground up wood with resin, is some kind of bespoke, decorative material
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Blowjob Overtime posted:idk what that is about or if it goes into it if I were to click through, but it sure seems like someone trying to act like medium density fiberboard (MDF), which is construction material made by compressing ground up wood with resin, is some kind of bespoke, decorative material Yeah hipsters coopting the subwoofer-box-material-you-can’t-get-wet as a crucial structural member is 
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Glad to see no Dems decided to vote to retain him as some dumb-poo poo, decorum-poisoned gesture across the aisle
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dirty shrimp money posted:Won't be overnight You were saying?  FizFashizzle posted:Good lord Hm yes when I think timber I think MDF. Freaquency posted:Glad to see no Dems decided to vote to retain him as some dumb-poo poo, decorum-poisoned gesture across the aisle I could see doing it from a "devil you know" standpoint, because good lord I can only imagine the crazy they'll get now. Not like the Dems are going to be able to put in their own speaker or anything.
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Freaquency posted:Glad to see no Dems decided to vote to retain him as some dumb-poo poo, decorum-poisoned gesture across the aisle He kind of burned that bridge to the ground with demands no one could deal with because McCarthy is a 'strong leader' as I understand it. It seems like all he had to do was put forward something Dems could at least sort of agree to that would still be awful and he refused to do that. I mean he had an impossible position to defend because he's a moron, but...well I guess the captain went down with the ship on his position.
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I think MDF is used often and does have some pros besides just being cheap but the joke is that article calling it Lofi timber?
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:You were saying? He was saying we may not get a new Speaker today, and that’s true. Probably not unless they all get together and agree on someone. Psssh. Yeah right.
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Grittybeard posted:He kind of burned that bridge to the ground with demands no one could deal with because McCarthy is a 'strong leader' as I understand it. It seems like all he had to do was put forward something Dems could at least sort of agree to that would still be awful and he refused to do that. He also made promises before that he reneged on, so short of making actual changes to the House rules or agreeing to some power-sharing measures it was going to be a non-starter anyway, but I was still slightly surprised that he didn’t peel off any Ds
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Pron on VHS posted:I think MDF is used often and does have some pros besides just being cheap but the joke is that article calling it Lofi timber? Yes. Engineered/manufactured materials used in home construction are more commonly something other than MDF - for example, cement-bonded particle board is moisture resistant and commonly used in construction, and Oriented Strand Board (OSB) is very commonly used as sheathing and underfloor on homes. Some people just generically call all of these "MDF" without knowing what that means. Actually-MDF swells and crumbles when it absorbs moisture, so it's completely inappropriate for any exterior use and probably inappropriate for many interior uses where occasional moisture can penetrate... and yet, it's very commonly used in cheap kitchen cabinets, as a substrate under melamine or similar for cheap kitchen countertops, etc. So it's not like "this cheap poo poo is the wrong choice" actually stops homebuilders from using it anyway! It's used for speaker cabinets because of its stability of shape and acoustic qualities. I wonder if that's where the "lofi" idea comes from, but I would have thought it'd be "hifi" instead?
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Silly Burrito posted:He was saying we may not get a new Speaker today, and that’s true. Probably not unless they all get together and agree on someone. I misread then. I'm ashamed of myself.
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Kurgarra Queen posted:I’m watching The L Word right now and I think it just may have cracked my egg if I watched it 20 years ago. I need to go back and watch The L Word one of these days, just because 20-something me just didn't know how to process any of it at the time (in a "I don't know why I feel weird things while I watch this and it makes me uncomfortable so I'm going to avoid it" way), and I'd like to see how I'd react to it now. Freaquency posted:He also made promises before that he reneged on, so short of making actual changes to the House rules or agreeing to some power-sharing measures it was going to be a non-starter anyway, but I was still slightly surprised that he didn’t peel off any Ds Weren't there some Dems saying that if he wanted to reach across the aisle to save his rear end, he'd have to set any promises he made in stone first because they didn't trust him?
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Shinji2015 posted:Weren't there some Dems saying that if he wanted to reach across the aisle to save his rear end, he'd have to set any promises he made in stone first because they didn't trust him? Yea. I think Jayapal in particular told him to gently caress off unless he comes back with something concrete 3 DONG HORSE posted:Just landed in Austin but if the airport is any indication, this town is gonna be rad. Oh man you’re in for a treat
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First recommendation was Roaring Fork for dinner. I'm here
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3 DONG HORSE posted:First recommendation was Roaring Fork for dinner. I highly recommend hitting up Canje if you have the chance. It’s high end Afro-Caribbean and is hands down the best place I’ve eaten there. https://canjeatx.com/
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Kalli posted:Dems really need to just do nothing except have a list of demands and buckets of popcorn. Is it against House rules to have food on the floor? If not, I would just be chilling at my desk chomping popcorn as loudly as I could.
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Russian Guyovitch posted:I highly recommend hitting up Canje if you have the chance. It’s high end Afro-Caribbean and is hands down the best place I’ve eaten there. That shall be tomorrow's dinner
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Today is a pork Chile verde appetizer followed by rainbow trout. Pics later. I'm eating.
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Russian Guyovitch posted:I highly recommend hitting up Canje if you have the chance. It’s high end Afro-Caribbean and is hands down the best place I’ve eaten there. it's not even that high end -- it was so good and reasonably priced compared to some restaurants in town. what kinds of food do you want to eat? i can give you my recs. I'm guessing you're downtown if at the roaring fork?
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Kalli posted:Dems really need to just do nothing except have a list of demands and buckets of popcorn. Proven by the opposition results oriented decisions that will absolutely not happen from what I can tell.
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