Thoatse posted:

TROOF 1: In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards. Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will. Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

TROOF 2: However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps. Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection. All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever. Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

TROOF 3: Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable. Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average. Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule. Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed. The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire!!!

Red Baron posted:

anyway I’m sure you both mean well, I just get riled up about it.

Louisgod posted:

effort posting is exhausting




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Thoatse posted:

TROOF 1: In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards. Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will. Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

TROOF 2: However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps. Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection. All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever. Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

TROOF 3: Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable. Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average. Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule. Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed. The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire!!!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

words mean whatever you want!

WrasslorMonkey posted:

I think The Sopranos kind of explained how Italian those Italian-American mobsters are. They went to Italy and hated the food.

Side note: I also looked up that "gabagool" pronunciation of capicola and is seems like that isn't very Italian either. The Italian-American food and words seem to be bastardizations of their "true" Italian forms, not that I'm complaining.

a.lo posted:

limp dick calvin posted:

I’ve only seen like 5 episodes of the sopranos

Spaced God posted:

i grew up where the sopranos was filmed during the time it was filmed so i feel like i've culturally osmosed the sopranos

Spergin Morlock posted:

did you ever drive on the same roads as the intro while listening to the song?

Lpzie posted:

denizens of the Trump thread... no matter what happens, keep in mind the fremen of Dune. the strongest warriors in the galaxy. they didn't get that way by being posting pals, living a great life tooping with friends, happily care free, misspelling the Padishah Emperor's name, etc... they struggled, fought, died, got sixers, definitely Did Not Get Mad, and THRIVED!!! let's keep that in mind this holy day season

Louisgod posted:

my overall point is these "how to reduce your drinking lists" tend to be nothing more than glorified new year resolution mantras designed to make people think that because they're kinda somewhat reducing their drinking for one month that they get an atta-boy or whatever. the lists tend to look like this:

1. Finding yourself drinking wine too early in the day? Instead of popping that cork at 5:30, wait until 6 pm as it's technically the evening, which is socially acceptable to begin getting your drink on! After all, mommy needs her wine.

2. Fellas, do you find yourself drinking whiskey every night? Try switching to a more expensive brand, that way you can convince yourself you're drinking it for the flavor and not because you're chemically addicted to it! It has hints of smoke and oak or some poo poo!

3. Do something rewarding before you make yourself a drink! Fold that pile of laundry, do all the dishes, spend time with your kids - your brain loves to be rewarded, and what better way to convince yourself you deserve that drink than first accomplishing a menial task you should be doing regardless!

we all have vices yet alcohol is one of those socially acceptable products which nobody wants to admit does so, so much more damage than we realize.. mentally, physically and emotionally. I suppose I'm bitter considering how many alcoholics I know.

Louisgod posted:

my overall point is these "how to reduce your drinking lists" tend to be nothing more than glorified new year resolution mantras designed to make people think that because they're kinda somewhat reducing their drinking for one month that they get an atta-boy or whatever. the lists tend to look like this:

1. Finding yourself drinking wine too early in the day? Instead of popping that cork at 5:30, wait until 6 pm as it's technically the evening, which is socially acceptable to begin getting your drink on! After all, mommy needs her wine.

2. Fellas, do you find yourself drinking whiskey every night? Try switching to a more expensive brand, that way you can convince yourself you're drinking it for the flavor and not because you're chemically addicted to it! It has hints of smoke and oak or some poo poo!

3. Do something rewarding before you make yourself a drink! Fold that pile of laundry, do all the dishes, spend time with your kids - your brain loves to be rewarded, and what better way to convince yourself you deserve that drink than first accomplishing a menial task you should be doing regardless!

we all have vices yet alcohol is one of those socially acceptable products which nobody wants to admit does so, so much more damage than we realize.. mentally, physically and emotionally. I suppose I'm bitter considering how many alcoholics I know.

Harton posted:

I reward myself with hits from the bowl after every household chore I accomplish. Do the dishes, smoke a bowl, put away a basket of laundry, smoke a bowl, clean the kitchen, smoke a bowl.

Harton posted:

I reward myself with hits from the bowl after every household chore I accomplish. Do the dishes, smoke a bowl, put away a basket of laundry, smoke a bowl, clean the kitchen, smoke a bowl.

Louisgod posted:

my overall point is these "how to reduce your drinking lists" tend to be nothing more than glorified new year resolution mantras designed to make people think that because they're kinda somewhat reducing their drinking for one month that they get an atta-boy or whatever. the lists tend to look like this:

1. Finding yourself drinking wine too early in the day? Instead of popping that cork at 5:30, wait until 6 pm as it's technically the evening, which is socially acceptable to begin getting your drink on! After all, mommy needs her wine.

2. Fellas, do you find yourself drinking whiskey every night? Try switching to a more expensive brand, that way you can convince yourself you're drinking it for the flavor and not because you're chemically addicted to it! It has hints of smoke and oak or some poo poo!

3. Do something rewarding before you make yourself a drink! Fold that pile of laundry, do all the dishes, spend time with your kids - your brain loves to be rewarded, and what better way to convince yourself you deserve that drink than first accomplishing a menial task you should be doing regardless!

we all have vices yet alcohol is one of those socially acceptable products which nobody wants to admit does so, so much more damage than we realize.. mentally, physically and emotionally. I suppose I'm bitter considering how many alcoholics I know.

quote:

There is almost nothing in the words of the Constitution that even begins to support former President Donald J. Trump’s boldest defense against charges that he plotted to overturn the 2020 election: that he is absolutely immune from prosecution for actions he took while in office.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments on the question next week, and the panel will consider factors including history, precedent and the separation of powers. But, as the Supreme Court has acknowledged, the Constitution itself does not explicitly address the existence or scope of presidential immunity.

In his appellate brief, Mr. Trump said there was one constitutional provision that figured in the analysis, though his argument is a legal long shot. The provision, the impeachment judgment clause, says that officials impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate are still subject to criminal prosecution.

The provision says: “Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: But the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law.”

All the clause says in so many words, then, is that “the party convicted” in the Senate can still face criminal prosecution. But Mr. Trump said the clause implied something more.

The clause “presupposes that a president who is not convicted may not be subject to criminal prosecution,” Mr. Trump’s brief said.

A friend-of the-court brief from former government officials said Mr. Trump’s position had “sweeping and absurd consequences,” noting that a great many officials are subject to impeachment.

“Under defendant’s interpretation,” the brief said, “the executive would lack power to prosecute all current and former civil officers for acts taken in office unless Congress first impeached and convicted them. That would permit countless officials to evade criminal liability.”

Mr. Trump also made a slightly narrower but still audacious argument: “A president who is acquitted by the Senate cannot be prosecuted for the acquitted conduct.”

Red Baron posted:

maybe I’m sympathetic because I’ve been in that hole but I’m here for any amount of control exerted over any vice.

if you go from a very wet holiday to a only just damp January I say good for you. same for any other thing you feel the need to cut back on. if you take the first step, good job. if you slip after that, all good, let’s start over.

people get way too into “ah just gonna drastically change my life” and then get hurt when they can’t do it, but that’s the wrong take away. exercise, not drinking, not smoking weed, not doing whatever, just be gentle to yourself. change takes time, probably more than a month.

anyway I’m sure you both mean well, I just get riled up about it.

WrasslorMonkey posted:

Smoke two bowls and do the song.

William Bear posted:

Lol, this is a ridiculous idea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/us/trump-immunity-impeachment.html

Harton posted:

I reward myself with hits from the bowl after every household chore I accomplish. Do the dishes, smoke a bowl, put away a basket of laundry, smoke a bowl, clean the kitchen, smoke a bowl.

Bearjew posted:

2024 is the year of trump

WrasslorMonkey posted:

I think The Sopranos kind of explained how Italian those Italian-American mobsters are. They went to Italy and hated the food.

Side note: I also looked up that "gabagool" pronunciation of capicola and is seems like that isn't very Italian either. The Italian-American food and words seem to be bastardizations of their "true" Italian forms, not that I'm complaining.