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Delthalaz posted:Wasn’t this the inspiration for the Andromeda Strain? That was a quiz and you picked the two I made up.
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GWBBQ posted:That was a quiz and you picked the two I made up. You only sort of made that one up, though. Atomic gardening was an actual thing, with seeds being exposed to gamma radiation from a cobalt source to induce mutations that might have commercial use, and thousands of useful cultivars were developed. If you get a red grapefruit at the grocery, it probably originated with this process. Nowadays genetic modification is far more precise and useful, but people find it scarier and creepier than just blasting seeds with gamma rays. Pvt.Scott posted:If you read the Old and New Testaments with a critical eye, one perfectly reasonable conclusion you could come to is that God is a monster. This is why the concept of the Demiurge slipped into Christianity for a while. The God of the Bible was so lovely that he couldn’t possibly be the supreme being. Says right there in the OT that God's not omnibenevolent: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." It's the Christians that had to come up with theodicies to allow them to preserve this "God is good" nonsense. The Jews just straight up went with "He's really powerful and can gently caress your poo poo up so we'd better obey him." Phanatic has a new favorite as of 06:38 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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Phanatic posted:You only sort of made that one up, though. Atomic gardening was an actual thing, with seeds being exposed to gamma radiation from a cobalt source to induce mutations that might have commercial use, and thousands of useful cultivars were developed. If you get a red grapefruit at the grocery, it probably originated with this process. None of them can photosynthesise from gamma though. As far as I know the only organism that can obtain energy from gamma radiation is a type of black mold.
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With back to school now here, I've done a story on one commune-style college that was briefly the center of drug culture in North America. Enter Rochdale College.
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Phanatic posted:Says right there in the OT that God's not omnibenevolent: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things." It's the Christians that had to come up with theodicies to allow them to preserve this "God is good" nonsense. The Jews just straight up went with "He's really powerful and can gently caress your poo poo up so we'd better obey him." The other side of the Jewish view is that sometimes it isn't God being a dick for the sake of being a dick but putting you through trials to make you stronger in the end. That or because you were being a dick and He wanted you to knock it the gently caress off.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The other side of the Jewish view is that sometimes it isn't God being a dick for the sake of being a dick but putting you through trials to make you stronger in the end. That or because you were being a dick and He wanted you to knock it the gently caress off. Or that your dad was dick. Or your grandfather was a dick. "Sins of the father..." and all that.
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Phanatic posted:You only sort of made that one up, though. Atomic gardening was an actual thing, with seeds being exposed to gamma radiation from a cobalt source to induce mutations that might have commercial use, and thousands of useful cultivars were developed. If you get a red grapefruit at the grocery, it probably originated with this process. There was a Pulitzer-prize-winning play around this, "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds." I have no idea how well it's stood up; I only know about it because a monologue from it was *really* popular in Speech and Debate competitions. See also "Bury The Dead", by Irwin Shaw, and the last scene from "Our Town".
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GWBBQ posted:That was a quiz and you picked the two I made up. Ahh that explains it. The first one was totally the Andromeda Strain then.
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I found a really interesting article about the 1973 Walpole Prison uprising, and the unnerving implications it creates about the US incarceration system, and the concept of prisons in general. quote:Guards issued a strike ultimatum on March 14, when they demanded Boone’s immediate removal. Those that reported to work complained about the presence of civilian observers. They resented that individuals could monitor job performance and report violations of prison regulations, and felt ganged up on by the presence of formerly incarcerated individuals. On March 15, eleven prisoners were released from 10 Block and entered the general population, and two hundred guards walked out of Walpole in an official guard strike. Guards that were normally present at all times in corridors left their positions entirely unattended. The guards’ union continued to demand that Boone leave. Boone responded by suspending 150 of them for five days without pay. quote:The inmates developed a high degree of organization. According to one observer: “When we visited Walpole, the prisoners had ended their work strike. The guards were still out. And we found a complex society at work, a society that puts out official state documents, records and printed forms, building materials, light handicrafts, license plates and 18,000 meals a day for its population…it has its workers, its employers, its organizations, its cooks, craftsmen, educators, even its artists.” quote:From March 15 to May 18, the NPRA both functioned as the elected representative of the prisoners at Walpole, and was responsible for running nearly the entire institution. Prisoners ran a school, conflict resolution, and counseling, and demonstrated the inadequacy of the traditional ‘correctional’ workforce. During the whole time of the non-violent takeover, not a single outbreak of murder or rape occurred. https://libcom.org/history/1973-prisoners-take-control-walpole-prison
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The Golden Gael posted:With back to school now here, I've done a story on one commune-style college that was briefly the center of drug culture in North America. Enter Rochdale College. cool. i had never heard of this.
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Pvt.Scott posted:I don’t know what else to say, other than that I would tacitly approve of the actions of an individual or group executing a jailbreak/rescue operation on one of the concentration camps. Willem van Spronsen was a hero ChickenOfTomorrow has a new favorite as of 04:21 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Willem van Spronsen was a hero
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Well, poo poo. I didn’t know that there was already a martyr for the cause. I feel loving proud of the human race right now. God bless van Spronsen.
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Pvt.Scott posted:Well, poo poo. I didn’t know that there was already a martyr for the cause. I feel loving proud of the human race right now. God bless van Spronsen. are you being sarcastic? what are you trying to say here can you be more specific
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Pvt.Scott posted:Well, poo poo. I didn’t know that there was already a martyr for the cause. I feel loving proud of the human race right now. God bless van Spronsen. also a woman in Florida threw a molotov at a USCIS office last week, though that might just have been Normal Behavior For Florida rather than a case of laudable insurrection
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It was kind of interesting how the big media outlets barely reported on van Spronsen's action but love to lose their minds when some 8channer blows people away with an AR-15. Real head-scratcher
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Seriously, skilled tarp structure builders are rare these days
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a mysterious cloak posted:Seriously, skilled tarp structure builders are rare these days Tired: learn to code. Wired:
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:It was kind of interesting how the big media outlets barely reported on van Spronsen's action but love to lose their minds when some 8channer blows people away with an AR-15. Real head-scratcher if we're being truthful here and not speaking with irony poisoning, i genuinely thing they're afraid if they talk about something like that it'll encourage more people to actually stand up against the state vs they talk about mass shootings because they actually reinforce the status quo, and the more mass shootings that happen, the better for the ruling class
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In fairness, not that there's any reason to really give the news a charitable read, if it bleeds it leads and he didn't kill anyone. That's definitely part of it. Like how there was a shooting at an Alabama high school football game that wounded 10 people. I didn't see or read anything on the bigger "mainstream" sources. It looks like it barely made it above the metaphorical fold.
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the media is not reporting on anti-ice activity in general. there was mass protests by jewish communities across every major city in the usa last month and it took weeks for the movement to even be mentioned in the press (coincidentally, what seemed to finally break the silence was an ice guard running over a crowd of sitting protesters with a truck) we are in the part of the cycle where they don't tell you anything and trust inertia to do its job
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Kanine posted:if we're being truthful here and not speaking with irony poisoning, i genuinely thing they're afraid if they talk about something like that it'll encourage more people to actually stand up against the state This was what I was going for yeah 
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nankeen posted:the media is not reporting on anti-ice activity in general. there was mass protests by jewish communities across every major city in the usa last month and it took weeks for the movement to even be mentioned in the press (coincidentally, what seemed to finally break the silence was an ice guard running over a crowd of sitting protesters with a truck) Not to turn this thread too C-SPAM but your point is reinforced by pretty much any MSM coverage of Sanders (when they're not completely ignoring him and his popularity) or any article in the NYT or WaPo about his campaign. Those articles are truly...unnerving The ignore user function can be accessed by clicking on the "Profile" link at the bottom left of my post and then clicking the "ignore user" button on the bottom right of the profile page
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:
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what can we do to increase a crunk birds self esteem? i dont know a crunk bird irl, but i remember some of their posts in the past that i thought were funny
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I love and support u crunk birb
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I love and support u crunk birb
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Kanine posted:if we're being truthful here and not speaking with irony poisoning, i genuinely thing they're afraid if they talk about something like that it'll encourage more people to actually stand up against the state nankeen posted:the media is not reporting on anti-ice activity in general. there was mass protests by jewish communities across every major city in the usa last month and it took weeks for the movement to even be mentioned in the press (coincidentally, what seemed to finally break the silence was an ice guard running over a crowd of sitting protesters with a truck) The US mass media are "effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function" maintaining the economic, social, and political hegemony of the privileged. you dont have to read herman chomsky to grasp that but the book has a lot of evidence and case studies and stuff quote:It is our view that, among their other functions, the media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful societal interests that control and finance them.The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy. ChickenOfTomorrow has a new favorite as of 03:35 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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manufacturing consent is required reading for all americans imo
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Tashilicious posted:what Try it out if your druthers dictate
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Is it bad I find the fact she feels guilty about this way more unnerving than the fact her in-laws are openly trying to murder her? 
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Mushrooms are super delicious and also not everyone likes them so this family totally going way, way out of their way to murder her. Where the gently caress do you get powdered mushrooms? I've never seen them even in the international stores. I guess they bought dried and ground them fine, like absolute psychopaths.
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You can get mushroom powder on Amazon.
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Yeah mushroom powder exists it's just in no way a common food additive in the way that, say, garlic powder is. That's a whole family of "lol she just doesn't like mushrooms and is pretending to have a life-threatening allergy, we'll show her by putting it in innocuous foodstuffs, nothing could possibly go wrong" At least the guy she's with gets it and has warned her. That's a good thing in this confluence of terrible people.
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FFT posted:Yeah mushroom powder exists it's just in no way a common food additive in the way that, say, garlic powder is. unlike that other husband who not only knew that his mother was poisoning his wife, he was fine with it (because he got mad when she swapped her little pitcher of sauce with his and he got sick instead after years of calling her a liar).
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woah what? lemme see that story
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FFT posted:woah what? lemme see that story Part 1 https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/03/poisoned-meals-my-mother-in-law-may-be-trying-to-make-me-sick.html quote:Dear Prudence, And finale http://www.startribune.com/turns-out-that-mom-in-law-really-was-tainting-her-food/152095325/%5C quote:Q A few months ago, you answered my letter asking for advice regarding a situation involving my hateful mother-in-law, whom I suspected of tainting my food or drink at family functions at her home.
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I've never understood the mindset of sneak whatever food in anyways what a person says they can't/won't eat. It's like who made them the mealtime police? I understand it can be frustrating at times to have to work around a dietary restriction, but when you have internet access it's not impossible to research an alternative be it a substitute ingredient or a different recipe altogether. When I was picked to bring the dessert to a gathering where one person had a tree nut allergy and another had a peanut allergy, my solution was to just make something with no nuts. Do I know if they were faking an allergy or not, no and I can't in good conscience take that risk. Even if it's just a 'I don't like X', no biggie, I'll just not use X or find a work around.
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M_Sinistrari posted:I've never understood the mindset of sneak whatever food in anyways what a person says they can't/won't eat. It's like who made them the mealtime police? I understand it can be frustrating at times to have to work around a dietary restriction, but when you have internet access it's not impossible to research an alternative be it a substitute ingredient or a different recipe altogether. When I was picked to bring the dessert to a gathering where one person had a tree nut allergy and another had a peanut allergy, my solution was to just make something with no nuts. Do I know if they were faking an allergy or not, no and I can't in good conscience take that risk. Even if it's just a 'I don't like X', no biggie, I'll just not use X or find a work around. A lot of people just get absolutely fuming about YOU DON'T EAT WHAT I EAT. Hell, bring up picky eaters around goons and the rage gets palpable. Or the spectre of the vocal vegan.
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