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I remember reading a sci fi story once, I can't remember the name offhand, where the world was spinning along just doing its thing when all of the sudden combustion just stopped working. The False Vacuum idea reminds me of that.
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Alouicious posted:yeah man you stick it to those people who aren't posting in this thread Totally bitching out whomever isn't around is as American as apple pie.
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Jun 6, 2014 20:13
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Nckdictator posted:*Oskar_Dirlewanger* I'm not a violent guy, but I don't blame those Polish guards in the slightest.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:28
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Alhazred posted:Speaking of alcohol, withdrawal can actually kill you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens Oh yes. We get those from time to time at my hospital. One guy that we brought in after a passerby found him flopping around in a snowbank because he was so drunk that he was unable to walk had a BAC of .62. Dude was still talking to me in the back of my ambulance and feisty enough to take a swing at me when I tried to grab his wallet to get an ID. From what I heard later they spent four days drying him out in intensive care where he was treated for frostbite and pretty severe vitamin deficiency. He was easily and by far the most hard-core alcoholic that I've ever met.
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Jul 4, 2014 02:05
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Transmogrifier posted:He's been going into a bunch of threads posting that same post. Oh, it's supposed to be random and funny. K.
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Aug 1, 2014 20:01
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kittenmittons posted:Speaking of terrible crimes in Indiana, here's one from my hometown. I'm about six months older than that girl was. If she were still alive she'd probably be making the same anachronistic pop culture references that I do.
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Aug 2, 2014 06:46
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I see it the opposite way. Assuming humanity survives that long, then given the rapid progression of technology we've seen even only recently, we should be able to stop it by then. We'd probably just go to a different galaxy in a different dimension that was young and full of potential energy.
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Aug 2, 2014 06:52
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When the bombs fall and blast this little dirtball to a cinder, I'll have a tiny smile on my face.
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Aug 3, 2014 01:05
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Jack Gladney posted:Why wouldn't he just try to kill it? I know that a barber-surgeon amputation isn't probably a very attractive option, but if you think there is a loving evil devil on your head whispering to you the terrible secrets of the universe what do you really have to lose by sleeping on your back one night and smothering the fucker?  It's just a story, Poor Edward never lived in the real world.
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Aug 10, 2014 06:42
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Wildeyes posted:Yeah. During a crisis, a huge percentage of people loving freeze up and allow death to take them. This link goes into more detail about that phenomenon: I've seen that in my own life. Some crazy bum broke into my house once while my roommate and I were home, he held my roommate a knifepoint and demanded cash from the both of us. I gave him what we had on us, and then he told me to get into the closet while he took my roommate to go look for more stuff to steal. She wouldn't move, she was completely paralyzed with fear and didn't even look like she was hearing a word that was being said. She didn't speak or move (other than to sit in a chair) until the cops got there later on.
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Aug 27, 2014 14:36
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Solice Kirsk posted:Holy poo poo. Something similar happened to my roommates and I, but we were three in shape guys so we just kicked the poo poo out of the burglar. The dude didn't do anything to her right? Cause asking one person to go into seclusion while they force a woman into another room sets off all my rape alarms. He told me to get in the closet and I told him to go gently caress himself. He was sort of high, so he just stood there looking confused and vaguely waving the knife at me. I lost it at that point and walked into the kitchen, grabbed a butcher's knife, and came back and stabbed him in the shoulder. It wasn't a real deep stab, but it freaked him out and he ran away. Total haul: $70 and one of my steak knives. The cops never did catch him.
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Aug 27, 2014 16:30
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Nckdictator posted:Also, we just passed September 8th, the anniversary (1642, New England) of one of the first executions in what is now the US. Man, furries had it rough in colonial New England.
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Sep 15, 2014 20:55
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That's the entire history of the human race, though. Remember that history is written by the winner; if our side burned an entire nation to the ground it was just the price of victory. If the enemy burned everything down and we won they're horrible, hideous monsters. Pearl Harbor is considered a dastardly, awful violation of America but lighting the entire drat island on fire in the Japanese theater? Pfft, whatever. Had to win the war somehow. "Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant." -Tacitus
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Sep 22, 2014 20:39
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BattleMaster posted:That's actually a good case study on why torture doesn't work. In the end though the entry of the Soviet Union to the war against Japan had more to do with their surrender than anything else; the US blowing away entire cities in a single day was just business as usual whether it came from one bomb or thousands. You're right to the extent that the Soviet invasion destroyed one of the last illusions that the diehards were hanging their hopes on, but the atom bombs certainly terrified them and helped push Hirohito towards the decision to surrender. The lot of them were under so much stress and so scared of the future that they spent a lot of time fiddle-loving around with imperial ceremony and interservice rivalries and trying to find a way out of dying a "glorious" death.
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Sep 22, 2014 21:35
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khwarezm posted:That depends, one of the problems was that the United States felt that guaranteeing the status of the emperor meant that the rest of the Japanese high command would be much more difficult to prosecute, and in any event whether Hirohito was actually 'clean' with regards to Japan's conduct during the war remains controversial. I don't think that it's particularly controversial, Hirohito was in it up to his neck, it's just not widely known because of post-war US-Japanese policy.
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Sep 23, 2014 15:46
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bean_shadow posted:Did Americans do the same to Germans? I mean, I doubt it but that's why I'm asking. The Soviets certainly raped and pillaged East Germany at least but Germany never did any damage to the United States. And the propaganda against Germany was more about ideology and propaganda against Japan was about race, seeing them as less than human whereas Germans were white. There were local atrocities and criminal acts, but by and large the Western Front was civilized by comparison. The Anglo-American and French armies were notorious for stealing anything that wasn't nailed down though.
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Sep 24, 2014 18:48
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I feel like I was reading somewhere that Stalin and the Soviets didn't really have the equipment ready to launch a landing on the Japanese islands? Maybe it was just the threat of it potentially happening even if it was an unrealistic one. They didn't have to, without the resources coming in from the mainland the Japanese couldn't sustain their war effort. Though there were active Japanese communist groups on the islands, and the Emperor was worried enough about the possibility of an internal uprising that he cited it as one of the reasons to surrender.
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Sep 25, 2014 05:54
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bulletsponge13 posted:As someone who is broke from 11 years in the Infantry, I can't imagine 90 years. This dude had to be a loving Terminator sent back to kill John Connor's great great grandfather or something. "Ride in the wagon? gently caress that, imma show these 16-year old kids how to march in winter."
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Sep 25, 2014 13:55
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Khazar-khum posted:The rest of the squadron felt Goering was a blowhard who cared only for his own advancement. The rest of the squadron was right, Goering was a grasping swine his entire life.
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Oct 15, 2014 16:41
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Dude did have a baller train set though.
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Oct 15, 2014 17:29
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Kanine posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKTx9YlKls He wrote other chilling things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKE7MK7KVc
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Oct 18, 2014 07:42
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Noisycat posted:Well, I think I read somewhere that they have DNA or something. I don't know if they could test me to see if anything matched. If they have actual DNA from the perp, then it'd be pretty easy for them to confirm with just a cheek swab from you.
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Oct 23, 2014 19:43
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That whole area is now a pleasant little stopover for people traveling between Minneapolis and Duluth. Gas, a few decent restaurants, and some really good caramel rolls at a place called Toby's. Hard to believe that it was ever destroyed by a forest fire. We get forest fires here in Minnesota, but not nearly as large or severe as the fires out west, and nothing as intense as the Hinckley fire has happened in my lifetime.
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Nov 8, 2014 04:32
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The loving Imperial Japanese Airforce didn't do a 10th of the damage to Darwin that Tracy did.
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Nov 20, 2014 02:35
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Ockhams Crowbar posted:The museum in Darwin has a darkened room where you can step in and listen to a sound recording made during Tracy by a priest. It's covered in warnings before you enter - and no joke, it's utterly terrifying to listen to. Youtube is magic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyuFmk6s_U
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Nckdictator posted:Not really unnerving but more of a case of hilariously bad luck. I worked that job in college. The sad thing is that if the robbers had just drawn down on them, the guards would've almost certainly given up the cash without a fight. There's no loving way that a couple of working joes are going to take a bullet for someone else's money.
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