Toxxupation posted:

thirty for thirty....*tents fingers*....owns

but FNL owns harder and if you don't "get" why sports are important or positive influences on their communities in their purest sense after watching it, well

Toxxupation posted:

season 2 is generally regarded as both the worst season of the show and one of the worst examples of "Terrible season of a fantastic show"

personally speaking i find it better than 1 because 1 had the godawfu love triangle which just dominated everything and never knew how to write street

but yeah watch FNL dudes, it...owns

TheOneAndOnlyT posted:

How the gently caress did John say that stadiums look like they're designed by coked-up Willy Wonka, start talking about the Marlins, and not once mention what happens when they hit a home run?

Kevyn posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3469773&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=46

Irish Joe posted:

Isn't it, though? What was the gun for, if not to enact violence upon another human being?

Its easy to downplay your local marijuana dealer as just a normal high school/college kid trying to make some extra cash; a kid with no violent intention and a bright future ahead of him. Yes, it is regrettable that some dolphins might get caught up in our tuna nets, but when you can walk down the street without getting shot, you'll know it was worth it.

Zero One posted:

The Michigan Supreme Court just ruled sentencing guidelines unconstitutional.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/07/29/state-supreme-court-rule-sentencing-guideline-unconstitutional/30857079/

Gaz-L posted:

Pfft, who put this 'cruel and unusual' thing here, must be a typo!

Y-Hat posted:

Sorry in advance for being that one contrarian goon, but screw it. This has been gnawing at me for the past couple of months.

I haven't regularly tuned in to Last Week Tonight for a couple of months because ever since the Snowden interview, the show format has gotten stale and predictable. It's still funny, but week in and week out, the format has almost always been as follows:

• Five-to-ten minute roundup of world news.
  
• An "And Now..." segue. Hardly ever anything else these days because it's cheaper to rattle off a bunch of news clips, and apparently HBO is skimping John on production money (sorta defeats the purpose of him going to HBO in the first place, but I don't call the shots).
  
• A main story that can always be summed up as "America sucks because of X public policy." At least when they did that with domestic spying, they had one hell of an interview lined up. When this is the topic every week, not even someone as funny as John can sugarcoat things enough to get me to tune in.
  

John is too talented and funny to let this show stagnate. It's a shame that it kinda has. I don't see why he doesn't do a main story on, say, foreign elections- like he did in his very first episode with India- or another going-on (bonus points if he ties it in with American foreign policy) once in a while. Americans are pretty ignorant of the world around them. And I know he can't do a big effort story like Jeff We Can every week, but he hasn't done something big like that in a while. We're overdue for something that's not the same old thing, but with each passing week I lose faith that we're going to get that.

Narcissus1916 posted:

I've been classified as bipolar in the past, and I actually got some medication that helped with the depression (Pristiq). And then my insurance ran out and I've had to go back to living medication free and its been fairly brutal.

A LOT of conversations I have with friends go something like this....
"you seem down, are you struggling with that stuff?"
"Dude you don't want to know."
"I'm four beers in, hit me with it."
*I proceed to tell him/her exactly how I feel and my mental state.
"That's too much. You, uh, should, uh, talk to, uh, someone, about that."

And if that struggle exists within friends I've known for literal years, how I do even begin to share this sort of thing with a romantic interest?

Propaganda Machine posted:

Not at all. I'm bipolar, and having made glib jokes about the Crazy Bipolar Girlfriend roommate I had in college, the diagnosis was a tough pill to swallow.

MVP posted:

Is there any evidence that shows like Jon Stewart, Colbert, and Oliver actually get anything done in terms of political reform?

Or is it just another "here's a problem, here's is a joke about it, let's move on" scenario?

Propaganda Machine posted:

This is true, but bipolar disorder is tricky since you have to manage both sides of the equation. Most patients do veer towards the depressive side, and that much is "easy" enough to deal with.

The manic side is trickier for a few reasons. Lithium is the all-purpose slegdehammer, but it can have brutal side effects and it it quite literally a difficult pill (or two, or three) to swallow. There's another one called Lamictal which I believe is lithium-based, but it's more referred to as a mood stabilizer than antimanic. It works if your symptoms aren't too severe, and in either case you really need to be using some kind of antidepressant as well.

I mean, think about it. There are extremely debilitating and opposite conditions that have to be dealt with simultaneously, and if you go too heavily with meds on either side, it can trigger the worst of the other. Imagine a sine wave. The best one can really hope for is to lessen the intensity. So, a bipolar patient, even with the beat treatment and meds possible is going to have mood swings. Unfortunately, the hope is that they veer depressive because while sadness sucks, mania is downright dangerous.

What really shocked me, upon diagnosis, was how unheard of it is. Again with the crazy bipolar college roommate, but for some reason I thought it was common knowledge, but it isn't. This is why I'm inclined to say that even just saying the word, and that this is not only a thing but more common of a thing than anybody really realizes, is a good and powerful first step for now.

muscles like this? posted:

They say that the law is supposed to be about more substantive persuasiveness and not just someone stating their opinion.

GutBomb posted:

Every job I've ever had required me to show a photo ID and social security card to gain employment there. I would think most working people have IDs already and the people having trouble getting ID are not employed (or not employed legally).

Gyges posted:

Edit:With some sort of set rotation you know exactly who is rotating out and how the court is going to be changed with a new President. Which isn't necessarily bad, but there's something to be said for not taking into account exactly who is being replaced on the bench come November.

Inferior Third Season posted:

I can't tell if this is a joke, because that is exactly what they do now.

webmeister posted:

Yeah fair enough, I guess that makes sense. But I still don't really see why a state government couldn't control fire departments or hospitals, as opposed to essentially unelected interested parties with very little oversight?

Pillow Hat posted:

Any more advice about getting bullshit removed? I have successfully disputed one item on my credit report in the past -- a medical bill that should have been paid by workman's comp (and eventually was). But I have a bad account on my report still. This is the situation: I had a CapitalOne card, which I canceled (because they're a bad company to work with) with zero balance. Months after canceling, CapitalOne permitted a charge from Amazon (annual Prime membership fee). I moved addresses and didn't tell CapitalOne since I had no open accounts with them. The unpaid balance accrued interest and ultimately resulted in a charge off.

How can I get this god drat poo poo off my report? It's dishonest.

swickles posted:

Don't pay anything, get everything in writing and write down the name, time and if they have one, the ID number of anyone you talk to. You can start by asking (in writing, USPS Certified mail with confirmation of delivery etc.) for them to verify the debt. Usually that resolves a good chunk of bullshit. Otherwise submit your evidence of cancellation and continue down that road.

bobkatt013 posted:

You do realize they did that to get people to come and get some income into the commonwealth? Also how can they be taking our jobs when they are American citizens?

socialsecurity posted:

If all those poor people without jobs would just pay more taxes all of their problems would go away.

Practical Demon posted:

Did you miss the part where almost half the population is below the poverty line? Yes, a lot of things need to be fixed in Puerto Rico, but it's not the citizens' faults. The US set up their economic rules to benefit the US, some corrupt PR politicians didn't do much to make it better, then the US kept making it worse, and now lovely US business people are preying on them.


Yeah, that'll happen every time.

bobkatt013 posted:

45% of the population is below the poverty line and the median income is 19,000

MrPablo posted:

How did they do it? Under the guise of preventing fraud, they changed the law to exclude student loans:

The bill was actually a handout to banks and credit card companies.

MrPablo posted:

socialsecurity posted:

If anyone could take a loan on ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD then file for bankruptcy who would be stupid enough to issue a loan for ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD.

bull3964 posted:

"There for the taking" is assuming a lot.

The people who would need to invoke those protections and sue are the people working 12 hour days likely at two jobs. They have neither the time nor the money to bring suit against these debt collectors.

Even if they can find someone to take their case for free, the simple act of taking time off to show up in court is likely beyond what they can afford to do.

This is a prime example as to why there needs to be government entities that are specifically tasked with enforcing regulations. Someone working minimum wage shouldn't be required to lawyer up to gain protection or collect punitive damages under the law.

MiddleOne posted:

This is why the state issues student loans in sane countries. Your future prosperity is always an investment for the state.

MrPablo posted:

MiddleOne posted:

Sorry, I'm not as read up on this as I'd prefer to be. What in particular are you referring to?

Fluorescent posted:

Anyone who can't afford to pay for college at all wouldn't be able to finish college on 50k. Just two years at my undergrad institution would've exceeded that.

bull3964 posted:

You are completely glossing over the time aspect of it. Even filling out the forms is likely to require a visit to a government office, an office that is likely closed wherever the person isn't working. The justice system is only really accessible to those that have some autonomy in their work hours, these people don't fall into that group. The cost benefit analysis of potentially losing a job in order to maybe get some money out of a debt collection agency doesn't work out.