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Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

I was given 1 of these. Mr beast approved

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:14

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# ? May 26, 2024 08:33

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Manifesting, the Secret, and Calvinism all boil down to �if bad poo poo happens to you it�s because you deserve it �

manifesting is about asking for things, which is heresy in calvinist circles

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:14

Willa Rogers: Mar 11, 2005

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

From the same place where this 28 year old started a side hustle in her spare time that now makes $50k a month

ah, parental help!

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:15

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

Willa Rogers posted:

ah, parental help!

she probably said it was student loan money because if she said paycheck protection program money that would be admitting she knew it was fraud on the record

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:16

Fleetwood: Mar 26, 2010; biggest hochul head in china

blatman posted:

its called the x files now

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:17

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

webcams for christ posted:

that's the thesis behind this article / study: Study: Record sickness rates led to recession in Germany

It's amazing that "immunity debt," an utterly unscientific concept with zero basis in reality, is still coming up so often. It's weirdly grounding, in a very disturbing way.

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:32

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

Paradoxish posted:

It's amazing that "immunity debt," an utterly unscientific concept with zero basis in reality, is still coming up so often. It's weirdly grounding, in a very disturbing way.

Once you realize that the people trying to get you to assume more personal risk are operating from a theory of disease less grounded in reality than what was commonly believed among medieval peasantry, it does sort of clarify things

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:34

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Ladies and Gentleman. Please rise for the singing of our National Anthem

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Ux0A4OHSo

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:41

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

From the same place where this 28 year old started a side hustle in her spare time that now makes $50k a month

22 year old*

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:42

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

err posted:

Anyone else think that AI Taylor Swift porn thing is a false flag, potentially by some anti-AI group/individual or rival country, to accelerate AI legislation?

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1751132539912143331

taylor swift having a huge smile under obviously different lighting whilst three enormous black penises enter her butthole

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:53

FUCK COREY PERRY: Apr 19, 2008

an egg posted:

i am so immense i have my own weather system. i cannot exercise due to the disruptive effect on the tides

# ? Jan 28, 2024 22:57

Willa Rogers: Mar 11, 2005

The Oldest Man posted:

she probably said it was student loan money because if she said paycheck protection program money that would be admitting she knew it was fraud on the record

if it was PPP she was a student & the government "loaned" her money so I guess it was technically the truth. :shrug:

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:03

Scrub-Niggurath: Nov 27, 2007

the best music streaming service was google play music because it had both the best algorithm by far but also really good curated pre-made playlists, both of which of course went away when it got folded into YouTube

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:06

anime was right: Jun 27, 2008; death is certain
keep yr cool

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Manifesting, the Secret, and Calvinism all boil down to �if bad poo poo happens to you it�s because you deserve it �

and the entire point of that is people who are powerful need to feel like their power is for a reason and its because theyre better and poor people are just worse people. otherwise they might have to think for six seconds about other peoples emotions.

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:07

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

to be fair, someone getting only $5k from PPP would probably just be like an uber driver or some other non-tyrant gig worker

PPP would have been a great program if those were the primary recipients

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:08

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

https://x.com/dai_alectic/status/1751631813225713954

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:15

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

the best music streaming service was google play music because it had both the best algorithm by far but also really good curated pre-made playlists, both of which of course went away when it got folded into YouTube

I don't really love Apple Music for reasons that are hard to describe, but it's the only one that I'm aware of that vaguely has a UI structure of listing artists in an actual list, then the albums. Every other service seems to do some favorites style bullshit and/or use big rear end picture icons.

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:18

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

I will gladly switch from Spotify to a better service that also lets me put playlists in folders in folders

no one else seems to have the technology

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:30

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

webcams for christ posted:

I will gladly switch from Spotify to a better service that also lets me put playlists in folders in folders

no one else seems to have the technology

Have you heard of mp3s

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:31

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

loquacius posted:

Have you heard of mp3s

I never recovered after my main music HDD failed after what.cd got shut down. very sad day

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:37

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

what.cd was the pinnacle of human cultural achievement

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:38

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

webcams for christ posted:

I will gladly switch from Spotify to a better service that also lets me put playlists in folders in folders

no one else seems to have the technology

Foobar2000 has always been there, waiting for you

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:38

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

One of the advantages is that your phone acts as a backup, if the unthinkable happens I can just yank everything back off it

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:38

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Shear Modulus posted:

what.cd was the pinnacle of human cultural achievement

yeah, rip

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:40

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

Also I use spotify for work to listen to the same work performed by 50+ different orchestras/conductors in a row for comparison and it's annoying to find and download that many every time, especially when I won't go back and listen to 48-59 of them later, even if what.cd were around

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:44

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

KirbyKhan posted:

Foobar2000 has always been there, waiting for you

was that the program that didn�t even have a volume slider? you had to add it yourself

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:55

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019; Can't post for 19 hours!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

https://fortune.com/2024/01/27/what-is-manifesting-gen-z-millennials-spiritualism-mysticism-entrepreneur/

Can�t make ends meet? You just don�t want it bad enough, you loving loser

The money was from the government, part of scheduled COVID relief for college students.

# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:57

Nephzinho: Jan 25, 2008

webcams for christ posted:

I never recovered after my main music HDD failed after what.cd got shut down. very sad day

I have a backup in my parents garage of that dead drive that I've been meaning to find for years.

# ? Jan 29, 2024 00:09

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

lol love western "democracy". do what we say or else we kill u

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The EU will sabotage Hungary�s economy if Budapest blocks fresh aid to Ukraine at a summit this week, under a confidential plan drawn up by Brussels that marks a significant escalation in the battle between the EU and its most pro-Russian member state.

In a document drawn up by EU officials and seen by the Financial Times, Brussels has outlined a strategy to explicitly target Hungary�s economic weaknesses, imperil its currency and drive a collapse in investor confidence in a bid to hurt �jobs and growth� if Budapest refuses to lift its veto against the aid to Kyiv.

Viktor Orb�n, Hungary�s premier, has vowed to block the use of the EU budget to provide �50bn in financial aid to Ukraine at an emergency summit of leaders on Thursday.

If he does not back down, other EU leaders should publicly vow to permanently shut off all EU funding to Budapest with the intention of spooking the markets, precipitating a run on the country�s forint currency and a surge in the cost of its borrowing, Brussels stated in the document.

�This is Europe telling Viktor Orb�n �enough is enough; it�s time to get in line. You may have a pistol, but we have the bazooka�,� said Mujtaba Rahman, Europe director at Eurasia Group, a consultancy.

The document declares that �in the case of no agreement in the February 1 [summit], other heads of state and government would publicly declare that in the light of the unconstructive behaviour of the Hungarian PM . . . they cannot imagine that� EU funds would be provided to Budapest.

Without that funding, �financial markets and European and international companies might be less interested to invest in Hungary�, the document stated. Such punishment �could quickly trigger a further increase of the cost of funding of the public deficit and a drop in the currency�.

J�nos B�ka, Hungary�s EU minister, told the FT that Budapest was not aware of the financial threat, but that his country �does not give in to pressure�.

�Hungary does not establish a connection between support for Ukraine and access to EU funds, and rejects other parties doing so,� he said. �Hungary has and will continue to participate constructively in the negotiations.�

But in a sign of the rising pressure on Budapest to strike a compromise, B�ka said Budapest sent a new proposal to Brussels on Saturday, specifying it was now open to using the EU budget for the Ukraine package and even issuing common debt to finance it, if other caveats were added that gave Budapest the opportunity to change its mind at a later date.

The document, produced by an official in the Council of the EU, the Brussels body that represents member states, lays out Hungary�s economic vulnerabilities � including its �very high public deficit�, �very high inflation�, weak currency and the EU�s highest level of debt servicing payments as a proportion of gross domestic product.

It lays outs how �jobs and growth . . . depend to a large extent� on overseas finance that is predicated on high levels of EU funding.

A spokesperson for the Council of the EU said they did not comment on leaks.

Brussels has wielded its financial leverage against member states before, such as with Poland and Hungary over rule of law concerns and Greece during the eurozone crisis, but a strategy to explicitly seek to undermine a member state�s economy would mark a major new step for the bloc.

Three EU diplomats told the FT that many countries backed the plan. �The mood has got harsher,� said one. �What kind of union do we have if we allow this kind of behaviour?�

Another said: �The stakes are high. It is blackmail.�

B�ka told the FT that Budapest wanted �to explore the possibility of a more constructive and European solution� and has proposed it could support the �50bn plan if it was given an annual veto on the payments. Other EU countries have already refused this suggestion as they fear Orb�n would seek to block it every year and extract further concessions.

But one of the diplomats added there was �no way� Orb�n would get a veto over funding.

B�ka said �the political pressure on Hungary is continuous and strong� but that it did not influence his government�s negotiations.

�We had to take a step, and we trust that the other party will be similarly flexible,� he added.

While 26 member states have a plan B to send money to Kyiv outside the EU budget, that would require national parliaments� ratification, causing delays and uncertainty.

Several capitals have considered whether it is feasible to use Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union, which would allow Brussels to strip Budapest of its voting rights or, one diplomat said, block disbursement of money. But others have rebuffed the notion given that it requires unanimous support and many countries are reluctant to deploy such a serious sanction.

B�ka said it was important that EU unity was �preserved�, adding: �That is why we are willing to make compromises so long as they do not affect our vital interests.�

He added, however, that if the compromise effort failed, Hungary�s original proposal of a separate Ukraine fund outside the EU budget would be Budapest�s preference.

# ? Jan 29, 2024 00:14

Joey Steel: Jul 24, 2019

Xaris posted:

there's been a rash of these lately with big flashing NYT bylines and poo poo about BIGGEST DEPOSIT EVER~ FOUND IN ~~ALASKA~~ ~~NEVADA~~ ~~UTAH~~ SALTON SEA. while it may be true, doesn't mean we'll actually get it at. america's lost a lot of industrial base to even do anything of the sort, to say nothing that it's vastly cheaer to plunder from the third world instead.. but it's a narrative for a reason.

The industrial base is available for grinding up rocks and throwing them in piping hot acid baths. The water might be an issue, but there are solutions for that as well. Of course that means there will be a superfund site there in the distant future.

Sydin posted:

The US has always been and continues to be stupidly wealthy in terms of the availability of raw materials. It's just that lean supply chains and global shipping ended up making it way, way, way cheaper to import materials from the overseas slave pits than it was mine/produce domestically where you have to deal with all this bullshit like overhead costs and workers who want "safe" working conditions and an environment somebody might vaguely expect you to help pay to "clean up" after the fact.

Of note is that it is a critical resource for the near future and when globalization starts to falter due to politics/energy prices, US labor will have a heck of an opportunity as well when it gets tapped into.

# ? Jan 29, 2024 00:21

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

von der leyen starting to �gently caress with the money� in her crusade against russia might get interesting

# ? Jan 29, 2024 00:26

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Jel Shaker posted:

von der leyen starting to “gently caress with the money” in her crusade against russia might get interesting

Seems like a poor choice since Europe is still buying tons of Russian energy products.

# ? Jan 29, 2024 00:27

Horseshoe theory: Mar 7, 2005

Mr Hootington posted:

Seems like a poor choice since Europe is still buying tons of Russian energy products.

Didn't stop them from helping :amerikkka:

to blow up Nordstream.

# ? Jan 29, 2024 00:35

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Watching some dumb poo poo about WWII and listening to how in late 1944 Germany "only" had 800k armed soldiers in the eastern front. wonder if the US even has the industrial base left to arm and outfit 800,000 soldiers.

# ? Jan 29, 2024 01:01

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Obviously we don't need them with flying murder robots, but,

# ? Jan 29, 2024 01:02

3des these nuts: Nov 10, 2023

Scarabrae posted:

manifesting a detroit lions superbowl victory

anime was right posted:

you can shape reality not reconstruct it entirely

anime was wrong

# ? Jan 29, 2024 01:10

RealityWarCriminal: Aug 10, 2016

europe would have been much better off allying with the world power it shares a border with

# ? Jan 29, 2024 01:22

Danann: Aug 4, 2013

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Obviously we don't need them with flying murder robots, but,

bad news about where the flying death muder robots are made

# ? Jan 29, 2024 01:33

Shageletic: Jul 25, 2007

a_gelatinous_cube posted:

I actually cancelled my Spotify sub this month and switched to Youtube Music because of how god awful their shuffle and smart shuffle are. Spotify's shuffle isn't actually random. It uses an algorithm to play you the songs it thinks you want to hear, so you can have a playlist with hundreds of songs and it will just play you the same few songs over and over again every time you try to shuffle it, and the more it plays those songs the more it weights them to play again. They also took away their like and dislike buttons which baffles me. It kept feeding me Five Finger Death Punch songs no matter how much I blocked the songs which was the last straw for me.

I had over 1300 hours of Spotify use from work last year and have always used it a ton so things might bug me more than the average person, but it just has been getting more and more garbage with it's app and algorithm every single year I've used it.

You can change this in the settings. Had to do that recently

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anime was right: Jun 27, 2008; death is certain
keep yr cool

3des these nuts posted:

anime was wrong

guess i was lion the whole time

# ? Jan 29, 2024 01:39

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