CannonFodder posted:

After my parents die I plan on strapping on a SCUBA rebreather attached to a helium tank. I'm not so much of an rear end in a top hat to have them bury me, but after that all I would be waiting for is nuclear fire.

I have accepted eventual death and go through the rest of my life upbeat and accepting of all. My bp is borderline high because I'm fat, but I don't feel stressed. Unless someone cuts me off when driving, gently caress that

VitalSigns posted:

If I'm posting in this thread at the same time, it's perfectly normal social drinking, right?

ParaPraxis posted:

I loving love this thread.

GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:

FBI doesn't generally deal with suicide. I wonder what the protocol is for those tips? Do they just shrug them off or pass them on to a local authority?

Wubbles posted:

If there so many unhappy people in this thread, "prescribing" drinking is extremely irresponsible.

Wubbles posted:

What? It is! That sort of talk risks affecting people in a very destructive manner. I'm not saying that any of you, personally, are going to make people abuse alcohol, but individual affirmations like these do make some contribution.

There's a reason people are going out of their way to tell the guy who was talking about killing himself that he should get help.

Dystram posted:

Put your faith in the police state, comrade.

Wubbles posted:

Oh, yeah. Well, at least I've been reminded of how good I am at suppressing unhappy things.

At any rate, it's probably not a great idea to advocate destructive behavior in what is apparently a hub for the depressed, be it alcohol abuse or murdering bankers or whatever else.


see the difference one comment can make?

SedanChair posted:

Khisanth Magus posted:

As long as you are half time in grad school(so 1 class a semester) your loans will go back into deferment and you won't have to pay poo poo, and the subsidized ones won't even accumulate any interest.

SumYungGui posted:

RATIONAL ACTORS, FREE MARKET...oh gently caress why are so many of our educated people leaving the country?

Though I am a bit curious. Do they not see the student loan bubble coming and think this can go on forever, is there some reason it won't actually happen that I don't understand or is there some finance industry horse-poo poo wizardry with no grounding in reality that can be pulled to somehow suck even more money out of the situation as the whole system burns to the ground?

It's the last one isn't it?

a shameful boehner posted:

I got a lovely BA in Political Science (I now work in IT in a completely unrelated field natch) and I was one day from taking out the first semester's of $30,000 worth of loans to go to a sub-T3 law school in south Texas.

Instead, I said "gently caress that poo poo", withdrew my application, moved back to Colorado, and am student loan debt-free and have been working at a steady job for the last 6 years. Probably one of the best decisions of my life.

I'm extremely fortunate that I was able to escape with as relatively little debt as I did from undergraduate education. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be saddled with six figure debt that isn't dischargeable (which is the most horrifying loving part, frankly) and not have a degree that could realistically get me a decent job anywhere.

In fact, if I ever go back to school for further education, it's going to be in a trade like welding, carpentry, plumbing or some type of mechanical repair, which is probably what I should have gone to school for in the first place.

Nessus posted:

They took the genuine sense of satisfaction that comes from exerting effort towards a goal and decided to conflate that with putting huge amounts of effort into meaningless bullshit, then further added that doing so was morally valuable in its own right. I suppose this did get a lot done, but it hasn't left a great legacy.

Warchicken posted:

The student loan bubble will burst when millions upon millions of people can't pay their student loans and just stop giving even a hint of a gently caress about it, right? Won't the banks start garnishing the wages of like 50 percent of the entire country at once at that point? How exactly can we expect that to play out?

E: I'm halfway through my doctor of musical arts and pedagogy degree and will probably clear 100 grand in debt when all's said and done, but if I can have a living wage I'm fine with paying it back. As long as I can live a simple life with the bills covered while being a professional musician and educator I'm fine, I don't need to be rich or even middle class. But I have a feeling that even with three loving degrees and an extreme level of expertise that's not gonna be a possibility without working myself to death, and that's a big part of my desire to emigrate too because I really don't give a poo poo if it hurts a bank.

FourLeaf posted:

One of my good friends is ranting on Facebook about how the Civil War wasn't actually about slavery and how Robert E. Lee was really a cool person (because it's Confederate History Day or something?). This is really upsetting me (the perils of having white friends i guess). I don't even know what to say. So disappointing.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Here you go

Install Windows posted:

Yeah in a lot of those places people easily go decades without seeing a black guy except on TV.

BUSH 2112 posted:

The grocery store I work at is union, and we have two self-checkouts. The places around here that aren't union are the ones that don't have them, so idk. Really, it's not taking hours for anyone, it's just that instead of having a cashier, there's a coordinator that takes care of any problems with them. It's pretty much a win-win: the company gets two lanes open, and the coordinator is free to do other things instead of having to sit behind a register.

Spatula City posted:

lol, they might try, but it'd be pathetic. Young women will turn out in droves to vote in the First Female President. Considering the terrible records almost every major Republican candidate has on women's issues, that would more than counterbalance any "youth appeal". This is even assuming they could get competent at appealing to younger voters. The only one who could would be Rand Paul, and he's definitely bad enough on women's issues to give Clinton another advantage.

amanasleep posted:

This is almost comically nonsensical, since the majority needed to impeach is one they already have, and the majority they do not possess is not sufficient to convict. This is leaving aside that the NSA stuff is about the last thing that any Republican congress would use as grounds for impeachment.

Anyway, just so I can more accurately target the date of your departure, do you mean that the US House will vote to impeach if the Republicans gain a simple majority in the US Senate?

computer parts posted:

Was Clinton's cruise missile campaign?

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

They must have had a ton of fun writing that.

Boon posted:

It's actually a pretty good exercise as far as military planning goes... which is the whole point since it's at JPME which is an extensive course with the purpose of developing those skills. Military planning, by the way, extends to things such as "A giant hurricane just crashed into our east coast" and "Oh holy poo poo, a nuclear reactor just went critical from tsunami damage" You know. Things you'd actually want the military to be able to effectively assist with.

But eh, gently caress whatever I don't understand.

hobbesmaster posted:

Most Hispanics are white, yes.

You know "Hispanic" is an ethnicity, right?

SickZip posted:

Abstractly, why should he receive anything? He received "stolen goods" as much as you can say that any white person did from intergenerational transfers.

If were talking about racism in the span of his personal lifespan then . Truly he suffered as a denizen of Hawaii who then shuffled from liberal institution to liberal institution. He is a suffering victim and not someone who disproportionally received benefits and sentiments meant to help those suffering from the legacy of racism and slavery since he's "black" but lacks all the unpleasant rough edges and cultural markers generated by the actual legacy.

absolem posted:

someone suggested that this argument be taken to its own thread, and that makes a lot of sense, could someone either do that for me or give me some pointers? I'll pay you in not making GBS threads up this thread like this anymore.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

If you do do this, shoot Xylo an email or PM or whatever first because I recall he had some specific rules for the last time jrodefeld did something like this.

e: welp

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3636675

quote:

Environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer is taking aim at Republican politicians who reject climate change.
The retired hedge fund manager’s super political action committee, NextGen Climate Action, announced plans Wednesday to plunge $100 million into seven congressional and gubernatorial races, where Democratic candidates face opponents who have publicly expressed doubts about anthropogenic climate change or who receive donations from the fossil fuel industry.

"The debate on climate change is settled," Mr. Steyer told Reuters. "It is here, it is human-caused, and it is already having a devastating impact on our communities, but we need to accelerate the level of political support to address this critical issue before it's too late."

Steyer has thrown his financial backing behind Democratic candidates in the past, including President Obama and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, but the NextGen campaign represents a more concerted effort to counter the massive sums being spent on Republican candidates by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch’s super PAC, Americans for Prosperity, according to NextGen's chief strategist, Chris Lehane.

"We're spending a drop in the big-oil bucket compare to what the fossil fuel industry is spending,” Mr. Lehane told the Associated Press. “All Tom is trying to do is really to level the playing field."

Steyer has already pledged $50 million of his own funds to NextGen and hopes to entice likeminded donors to match his contribution. Still, it is unclear if Democrats will be able to compete with Republican super PACs. The Koch brothers reportedly poured $400 million into the 2012 elections.

What NextGen lacks in spending power, it plans to make up for in pointed strategy. NextGen strategists will focus calculated ad campaigns that play on issues central to local constituencies in seven states. Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania are all in the super PAC’s sights.
“We are not going to be talking about polar bears and butterflies,” Lehane told the Los Angeles Times. “We are going to be talking about how this issue of climate impacts people in their backyards, in their states, in their communities.”

Caros posted:

Damnit! That motherfucker! I just finished putting up a carefully crafted Libertarian thread

SirKibbles posted:

I like how black people and libertarians are a separate group, they aren't even trying to hide it's a movement for white people only anymore

SirKibbles posted:

Better late than never which is looking increasing likely as Obama's term comes to a close.

XyloJW posted:

Speak of the devil...
The rule was "don't" but you know, I think I'll allow it for containment purposes.

absolem posted:

Sorry about that. By the time I noticed someone suggest I contact you, I had already made the thread. I tried to make it something that could serve a more general purpose, but that probably didn't work.


I mean, my OP was a clusterfuck, and his was well written. Of course I still disagree with a lot of what he said, especially bashing ideas for the people originating them being nutty. On the other hand, I too dislike Molyneux (both stephan and peter, heh), although I don't think he's charismatic at all.


Then, after we do that, we can follow it up with a classic response to nuclear failures, a giant cover!

Install Windows posted:

It's not about accurate data, it's about what the people who pay them want to know. X organization wants to know what "millenials" think, pollster duly uses the reported age of the interviewee to assign the response to the generation.

paranoid randroid posted:

Has O'Keefe been even remotely as influential as he was before Breitbart dropped dead? I swear all I've seen him in the news for since has been him being a knobby little sex predator.

MaxxBot posted:

Is it that inconceivable that I want to hear the argument of people that disagree with me? I understand that a gun control argument would derail this thread. That's why I simply want people to tell me their reasoning while I sit here and listen. I want to understand your position without ruining the thread by starting a gun control argument. I do not feel some obligation to defend my side of the argument, I just want clarity on what exactly you are supporting and what policies you want enacted.