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raditts posted:So if I understood that segment right, the F-35 is basically the equivalent of paying thousands of people to dig holes and then refill the holes, only it also wastes a lot of resources we could use for other things? With the additional caveat that you're not just wasting your own money, you're wasting ours too. Britain's paid for and been wanting these things in service since 2012, and now its expected they'll be ready by 2018, largely because the software on the craft still needs to rewritten up to standard, and full combat capability isn't expected by some until the middle of the next decade. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26124894 Unfortunately, many western militaries - UK and USA especially - are obsessed with possessing the most advanced and up to date technology, admittedly partly from many years of letting updates go by the wayside, but it can also result in gaps because they retire already functioning technology too early, whilst banking too much on stuff that isn't ready yet - its an admittedly similar issue with the aircraft carriers these fighters are meant to be serving on.
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The thing with the Church and the treatment of scientists is that its ultimately rather convoluted, even after the points it wasn't hilariously corrupt (and that's even speaking as a Catholic). Some parts gave to the progression of science, others have tried to hold it back. Unfortunately, not everyone can be Georges Lemaître, and many of those who espouse themselves as Catholic (like old Papa Bear) don't seem to realise what the modern day Church's views on a lot of issues actually are. Not that one can't disagree with the Vatican, but if people are going to claim its part of their religion, they might want to be sure what that religion actually says. But yes, Neil is awesome, and I hope his work helps to inspire others to better map out the universe and such as we step into the future. I wonder if he's ever met Brian Cox, because it feels like such an obvious meeting but I'm not sure that its ever come to pass.
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raditts posted:Hahahaha this is perfect, you should post that one to twitter. ...Is it wrong that I find the lyrics seeming to sum up Republican politicians and their opinions near-perfectly?
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...Huh, I just realised, when it comes to dodging tax law, Fox News and co will gladly say that well, its 'legal' and thus entirely fine, regardless of spirit of law versus its letter or whatever. But government healthcare is terrible despite also being totally legal now because...?
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Mar 14, 2014 20:40
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DutchDupe posted:She comes across as a total twit. She got into an exchange with Steven Yeun and basically said, "How can it be satire if people on the internet are threatening to rape and kill me ...If that is her logic, that partly seems like an inability to distinguish Colbert from his fanbase as well. Which, admittedly, can be a bit understandable - since by the base logic of it, to be a fan of something, it must appeal to you in some fashion. The inverse however, is not true, in that just because Colbert's fans may think or feel something, doesn't mean that Colbert himself does. And in this case, his original remark would be satire, whilst the more aggressive of his 'defenders' would likely get a stern talking to from the man himself if he found out about it. Probably the thing that more irks me than anything else about this, and admittedly its a bit on a tangent from the actual subject matter itself, but how she claims that a 'white man' can't understand how a person of colour feels with regards to her issues. Because clearly, all minorities of a different skin colour must feel the same about racially satire based on a particular sub-culture and ethnicity within the very, very broad definition of 'asian'. And that anybody who has white skin couldn't possibly understand being made fun of by a stereotype that mocks the way they speak. Not as if there's a whole continent of them with differing cultural backgrounds and accents with a decent amount of immigration...
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" as if she doesn't understand how the internet works. Just because bad people online say bad things to her doesn't make her point valid, but she's literally spent the entire day arguing this and retweeting everyone who supports her. I mean, I guess someone who spends their whole day on twitter is bound to be a self-aggrandizing publicity monger, and it definitely comes across she is more interested in defending herself than whatever cause she was trying to start here.
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Chromatic posted:Her and her idiot followers are now attacking him for showing her face on TV because she's been getting all kinds of threats. But having her name be the main focus in mainstream CancelColbert articles and a disastrous interview with the Huffington Post is apparently ok. Please tell me someone has thrown this at Colbert's twitter account.
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JohnSherman posted:You know, given how much of the planet is covered in water, why aren't black boxes designed to make recovery in oceans easier? They... kinda are? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_locator_beacon The problem is that, given the density and fluidity of water, you simply can't get that much range of any kind of transmission, let alone one meant to be generated by a relatively small part of the plane. Certainly not enough that it could be tracked by satellites in orbit, which means the best way to pick them up is to have a boat in the water with the right equipment - this is why search planes are being used for spotting purposes, rather than detecting the signal, as the levels at which they fly reduces their effectiveness. Add in multiple search areas the size of entire countries, with the additional depth issues, and it really is a proverbial needle in a haystack situation. Just that you might hear the needle screaming at you if you get close enough.
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twistedmentat posted:Gotta keep that wealth out of the economy! That's then only way for the economy to be fixed! Pretty sure this kind of thing proves the whole 'trickle down economics' idea to be a load of baloney in practice. Unless of course they mean it trickles off the beach, next to the luxury resort they have on the Cook Islands.
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Y-Hat posted:I guess the entire concept of the Holy Grail came when some monk decided, "Hey, Jesus had to have drank from something." More than that, it wasn't even the same drat thing as that cup - that was considered the Holy Chalice, a general concept which was just 'yeah, its the cup Jesus drank out of'. The Holy Grail was originally just a macguffin of Arthurian lore, which then expanded into being the vessel Jesus' blood was caught in when they punctured his sides, and then less literate members of the clergy and laymen heard two 'holy cups' and assumed they had to be same drat thing. Didn't help that actually translating the Bible for local readers to understand just wasn't done for a long time, so its not as if your average follower could actually check their references. Also goddamn Bill O'Reilly. 'There will never be equality thus we shouldn't even try' - guess we should go back to the days of Irishmen being considered parasites upon a young America, eh?
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Benedick Cuckold posted:Yeah, I don't think Stewart has ever been very sympathetic towards Israel. I don't know why people constantly act surprised whenever he fails to suck Israel's dick. I guess because he's (culturally) Jewish? Pretty much. A lot of people wrongfully assume (as with most cultural associations really) that just because Jon is Jewish, he's gotta be behind a Jewish nation - when in reality there is nothing necessitating that relationship, since of course, not every family of Jewish descent decided that it suddenly had to up and settle down in the Middle East again after WW2. Of course, what people also forget is that Zionism generally disagrees with a lot of the views that Stewart himself holds, so it'd be a bit weird if he actually started supporting a Zionist platform.
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Hazo posted:What a weird battle for O'Reilly to pick. Then again he's probably scared because he himself is one of the "powerful people" he's talking about here: ...O'Reilly argues half the time that the Obama Administration - as in, the government, and thus technically the nation by way of being the State - oppresses people's religious freedoms, personal beliefs, private medication, and so forth. Does he think they're not doing it intentionally then?
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Hazo posted:Yet in reality they are doing zero of those things you listed. The Obama administration supports gun ownership, private industry, religious freedom, the free market, everything else conservatives love, but according to O'Reilly and crew they're still "radicals" because No I was more pointing out that by his logic, given what he claims they're usually up to, the Obama administration must somehow be sitcom-esque figures who just stumble into being the collective archnemesis of 'Murica. I know they're actually not, but for Bill to suddenly be arguing it seems like we've stepped into a parallel dimension for a bit.
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Ema Nymton posted:I hope he does it as if he transforms into him occasionally like Mr.Hyde. "Tonight on the show we have Jane Fonda!... J-jane Ffffon... Oh no! I can feel it coming on! ...Please, please let this happen. It makes for a good kind of subtle jab by association as well, for people who don't already get the joke, wherein the 'monster' Stephen supports various bits of right wing lunacy.
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comes along bort posted:For reference: Pardon my language a bit, but why the gently caress are sports coaches getting more pay as public employees than your freaking President?
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haveblue posted:Also, the President's compensation is dictated by law and much harder to change. The BBC has an article on this, a few years old, but still roughly accurate. The people most likely to be earning more than the Prime Minister are NHS employees (something like 6000 of them, out of the millions employed, got more than his £142.5k), BBC managers, University Heads, or otherwise governmental. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11333472 Here, you can check out some of the highest earners in various places. Note how all but a few don't even come close to a million pounds.
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Now admittedly the concept of Church's teaching self defence classes isn't exactly new either - often you'll find them in more impoverished and/or dangerous parts of the world, where both the clergy and the laymen have to be able to defend themselves. But there's the thing - defend themselves, using the fact churches tend to be good gathering spots with at least some space. Not act like it somehow promotes the faith. For a little more context, the full quote that pastor used was Luke 6:26, and I quote: "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets." Its part of a general set of stuff regarding how those who have present luxuries should realise that these won't last forever, especially if/when God decides to even the scales - its from the same part as the whole 'blessed are the poor' stuff. Its basically 'hindsight's a bitch', not 'be on the lookout to kick some dudes in the face'.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:I like that even while making fun of Hannity for being a reactionary rear end in a top hat he totally threw Youseff Islam under the bus because he said that the clerics or whoever were in their right to do what they want and a fatwah is kinda meaningless. I can't stress that last one enough. There's a fatwa for countries like the UK wherein, because of how ridiculously long the sun is up during Summer - and thus, typically overlapping with Ramadan - that says they don't have to literally fast from sunrise to sunset, just 6 to 6 will do. Wonder if Hannity would take that to mean thats their operational hours to destroy 'Murica.
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The thing about the bowing bit is that the Fox News guy explaining it is partly right, but fails to either realise or note (I wouldn't be surprised if it were a deliberate omission) that bowing as an apology tends to either be lengthy, frequent, or outright on the floor (the concept of dogeza, for the Japanese). If one simply bows deeply, its a sign of great respect, unless you deliberately hold it for longer than normal, in which case, you're pretty much waiting for acknowledgement of the apology you're likely giving. Bet you anything if they saw him bowing to David Cameron or the Queen, they'd raise the alarms on Britain taking back the former colonies.
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Apr 29, 2014 18:48
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raditts posted:It shouldn't shock you that people on Fox News are deliberately ignorant of foreign customs. Who gives a gently caress about them, this is MURRIKA! Not even in their hemisph- wait, wrong thread.
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raditts posted:There's also the new chapter in the saga of racist anti-government trashbag Cliven Bundy, where out-of-state "militias" are staging an occupation of his backwater town in Arizona, to the point of setting up "checkpoints" and intimidating / having armed standoffs with local residents. Something brought up in the comments section (yeah, yeah, I know) which is a pretty valid question is just how the hell these people plan to afford doing this. I realise some are past retirement age and might just have some money they're sitting on, but a number of them you'd think would have jobs. Wonder how well 'I sided with Cliven Bundy' will look on a resume.
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Strange Quark posted:There's a whole lot of misinformation out there. Even stuff like milk isn't actually all that good for you. What a lot of people forget that the reason its called a 'balanced diet' is that everything has to be in proper proportion, and even then, accounting for where you're starting from. Ie, if you're lacking iron in your blood, then even a balanced diet needs an increased focus on either red meat, or green products that contain it, like broccoli. Any food to a given extreme can be bad for you - fruit and vegetables are merely less likely to immediately meet that extreme, and offset an assumed default in which they are not present. But yeah, Page is Pryde, reprising the role from X-Men Last Stand. Which is fair deuce, given how all over the place the timeline already is for the X-Men film franchise (true to its comic book counterpart) before even throwing in a 'history has to be altered!' monkey wrench.
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...I will confess, that Daily Show interview got to me a bit. I may not be on the same part of the spectrum as Suskind's son, but a lot of the basic issues - communication, interests, etc - are still there in some form. At least Suskind and his wife are the kind of parents who will actually try to keep communicating and expand their son's horizons in spite of the challenges, rather than many parents who, much to my mother's disgust, try their best to just ignore it, hope schools will deal with it (and even worse, many won't), or blindly expect a cure. Hope his book does well and sets someone right. On the whole Pope/Socialism thing, does noone at Fox news realise that socialism, and the 'communism' of the soviet states are very different things? John Paul II was against the latter because it actively oppressed people, like those in his homeland of Poland, whilst also dividing the world along sharp political lines and causing far more trouble than it was worth. If he had complaints against communism, I doubt - though if I am incorrect, fair enough - its economic ideas were a significant factor. And then on the Nigeria thing... unfortunately, as the Sister says, its way more common than regularly gets reported on. I think this particular incident got brought up because of A) The scale of it, rather than individual incidents piling up, but instead several hundred schoolgirls at once and B) That the Nigerian government tried to deny that it was still an issue, instead claiming that most of the girls were already rescued - they really weren't of course, and this got people pissed off enough to protest. The BBC actually went on to explore the damages done that get ignored, discovering that towns like Gamburo can be leveled, but scarcely anyone, even domestically, ever reports on it.
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The thing with the ice sheets melting is that its basically become a point of no return thing. See, part of what the poles matter is that the ice they have actually reflects sunlight away (being sheer white and all). But, if they've melted into sea water, then that water is capable of absorbing and retaining the heat, which in turn raises temperatures and further enables more ice to melt, rather than the water re-solidifying. Antarctica then has the caveat that, as an actual landmass simply buried under ice, rather than a huge chunk of ice simply covering a continent sized area, the water runs off and thus can't be back in place to freeze over the same area again. Long story short, we really should have been paying attention. And of course, for all the politicians talking about oh they'll let the next generation deal with it, I am arguably in that generation, so I say: Screw them for leaving the mess to us. Edit: Please tell me this gets on either show tonight. Seems perfect with the apparent environment theme. Astro Nut fucked around with this message at 13:18 on May 15, 2014 |
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Would it be wrong of me to think that the reason the NRA are afraid of smart guns is because they watched Skyfall, and thus think the whole thing is some kind of British plot?
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Probably the dumbest part of the woman's counterargument was 'unvaccinated children are generally healthier than vaccinated children', because that alone makes it pretty clear she fails to realise that's the entire point. Fight off weaker/dead disease, hopefully gain immunity from the more serious threat. Suppose its a side effect of this being a generation where the major diseases of mankind that can be prevented already have been in most developed nations, and those that remain have yet to have a sufficiently developed countermeasure. So you have a number of people who just don't realise and/or appreciate the sheer importance of this kind of thing - gone are the days when men like Jonas Salk can end up national heroes.
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Grand Fromage posted:The craziest motherfuckers aren't even the vaccines cause autism people, but the ones who seriously claim vaccines don't work at all. How the gently caress? When's the last time somebody you knew got smallpox? It's gone. Completely. Fifty years ago everybody knew that one kid who got disabled from polio, when's the last time that happened? I don't even how can you possibly argh. As I said above, we're basically in a generation where people have the breathing room in which to get ignorant about this sort of thing. Maybe we should send them to India, and have them ask about how a big deal getting the polio vaccine there (as of this year, India has declared itself polio free, after three years without a case) was.
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twistedmentat posted:Gotta love the Olymics being hosted in countries where Capitalism is completely rampant and have zero regulations. I wouldn't be surprised if, as with Sochi, there was an idea of 'Well if we put the spotlight on them, it'll force them to work on their issues!', forgetting that this mostly works when a country is already taking steps to improve, and such events are more where they prove it to the world. In addition, the World Cup is starting there next week, and there's been riots by the populace of Brazil with regards to whether or not they should be really hosting this thing when there's rampant unemployment and income inequality on a massive scale. Crime is also rampant to a point that some try to take only the bare essentials with them when they go out, and one woman, whilst being interviewed by local news, was almost robbed. See here. Add in the general, bloated costs of such events, and the people of Brazil - and any tourists heading there - have very, very good reason to be concerned.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:"Jindal acknowledged that oil industry attorneys were involved in drafting the bill." Because that's how democracy is meant to work, right? Seriously though unless there was someone additionally representing those who, you know, were screwed over by BP, that's all kinds of hosed up.
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raditts posted:Hahaha, you don't know anything at all about America, do you? To be fair, similar practice probably goes on here in Britain too. I just know its kinda (somewhat hilariously) why Falkland talks are doomed to fail - the Argentinians have regularly refused to even turn up if someone, you know, actually comes from the islands to represent them. Feels like it should be standard procedure.
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The most frustrating thin about that climate change segment was when the republican derided it as signing on with 'Obama's green dream'. As if merely association with the President somehow made it an outright bad idea. No actual explanation on why its so horrendous to them.
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Alpha3KV posted:What got me about those clips was the way they couldn't hide how pissed they were about how appealing to black people was effective. That whole episode should be shown to the next Republican who acts all puzzled as to why they don't get the minority vote. That's the thing that got me too. How DARE the man actually get a better representation of the different demographics in his constituency in order to win. How dare the far right not be the only thing that matters.
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Obama made a strong bit of reaffirming his faith in order to try and ward off the idiots who claimed he was a Muslim (which somehow is unacceptable for the President of what is supposed to be a secular nation?), but otherwise I would say generally falls in the 'believer, but doesn't let it blindly lead him' category. On the World Cup conspiracy note, I would have called what the actual hell on them somehow supposing that it, along with marijuana legalisation and the like being some of eurphoric distraction organised by Obama to take eyes off his eeeeevil schemes, but then I recall how they think Iraq troop withdrawals were agreed, and conclude they cannot understand the concept of things existing any longer than the current President has been in office.
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Yeah, its pretty much a desire not to see all the 'progress' made in the Iraq War being undone, since it would be the death knell in any argument that the cost in both manpower and money would somehow work out as 'worth it', when an even worse version of the terrorists you were supposedly combating come out of the woodwork and steamroll through everything. Mind you, it would be nice if the crazy terrorists weren't able to take over a country, but the rather simplistic response of Republicans ("Air strikes will fix it!") is not helping matters.
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Raenir Salazar posted:It's surprising just how much that could have gone wrong did go wrong with Iraq, you don't really get something like this happening in such a poignantly clear fashion in its brutal reality shattering than what's happening; a trillion dollars and over a hundred thousand lives and a functional if oppressive country destroyed with as you say, terrorists worse than the ones the US originally planned to combat coming out for nothing. Spec Ops the Line: The Real Thing. "The truth, Republicans, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not: A hero."
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Oh god, a 5-4 decision. And naturally, none of the ruling majority included the female justices. Wonder why. This unfortunately could give particularly conservative groups an opening with regards to opposing the wider aspects of the Affordable Care Act, and arguably, whatever is required by them to do as part of the law. Fortunately, most cases are somewhat hard to argue as being religious in nature (ie, they couldn't outright argue that they shouldn't pay taxes due to their beliefs, especially considering one of the more famous quotes of the Bible is 'Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's'), but what of say, employing workers of a different faith? Or maternity leave for parents having children born outside of a marriage? Or serving customers from the LGBT community? Sure, that previous case was shot down, but now there's new precedent that could support it so long as people cited their religious beliefs. If something is an actual religious matter, fine, a secular government should not impose, but this is the protection of corporate workers by a corporate entity. I just... gah.
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ChaosSamusX posted:To an extent this is true, but aren't the Asgardians in the Thor universe the people the Norse gods were based on after they went down to Earth (meaning the characters in Thor aren't quite the characters from Norse mythology)? Its complicated. Basically though, the myths of norse mythology aren't so much a recording as they are a general blueprint - the norse gods are made and remade with every ragnarok (which is a cycle in the Marvel universe), with general roles and personality intact, but slight details (such as hair, relationships, exact demeanour - thus handwaving all the oddities like blonde superheroic Thor) subject to potential change. I think only a select few asgardians know about this though. In any case, my main disappointment with this is going in knowing - unless they spin it off into a new character ala Beta Ray Bill, getting a new hammer and all - that this is gonna be temporary.
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Majorian posted:I honestly am not seeing how this gives them a better shot at sticking around, or it trickling into movie casting for that matter. As much as I like John Stewart, Hal Jordan is always going to be way better known as Green Lantern. I'm not holding my breath at seeing Stewart as GL in any upcoming movies. Well, prior to the big push on GL material due to the success of Geoff Johns' extended run with the series, which saw the movie and animated series and all, I would've actually pegged Stewart as the Lantern that most casual - certainly younger - audiences were aware of. Albeit mostly because Justice League made no attempt to introduce John by way of his normal origin of being Hal's backup, and as a result, anyone just tuning in casually assumed John was the Green Lantern. Seriously, I never even knew Hal was a thing until I started to actually read the comics (a friend brought GL: Rebirth to school). Maxwell Lord posted:The basic problem is that the Big Two are really bad at introducing totally new heroes with no legacy connections or anything. Doesn't help that most comic readers follow franchises and not creators. But this is probably closer to the heart of the issue. Altering existing characters in a dramatic fashion is also way easier for getting free publicity of the news media (Superman's dead! Now we have your attention, check out these four new possible characters.), compared to trying to get people to care about new characters entirely. Though this does make me kinda curious, do you guys think Stephen actively reads new comics, or was just made aware due to his persona and all?
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So, coal rolling is basically an excuse for people to be an rear end in a top hat in every way? I mean, spending 5k on a literally useless feature (if not likely hazard), spewing it in the faces of environmentalists, innocent bystanders, your own supposed 'friends'... It feels somewhat inevitable that these things are gonna end up killing someone.
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