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doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

I seriously doubt that, the possum would be dead... He probably shared the bottle and gave his new friend a few nips at most.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2017 20:00

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 05:14

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Actually following the link and reporting back, doing godly work. :3:

# ¿ Dec 3, 2017 20:13

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Solice Kirsk posted:

English is a garbled mess of the worst parts of every other heavy drinking language ever created. Therefore it is the purest representation of humanity.

Uh excuse me? Kaikista muista juoppokielist� vai? Ei kai sent��n.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2017 12:10

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

The MSJ posted:

Swans are usually so quick to judge, and then attack, people. Maybe this man has discovered the secret to swan-human harmony. Zeus raping that woman definitely does not count.

Zeus counts.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2017 01:24

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Former DILF posted:

i give it like maybe 5 years before the earth is surrounded by some bitcoiners dyson sphere

Former DILF posted:

actually thinking about it, if i don't surround the earth in a dyson sphere, I won't enjoy the benefits thereof so i think by the logic of hte market I'm obligated to begin a dyson sphere bitcoin mining entrepreneurship

A Dyson sphere would not surround the earth, it would replace it. It is a sphere build around and fully encompassing the Sun. You would live on the inside surface of the sphere. Well actually you wouldn't as such a megaconstruct is not really feasible for any civilization that would actually need to harness 100% of the energy of a star.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 21:33

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Solice Kirsk posted:

Still seems like a short term solution. I mean, the sun is going to burn out eventually and then what? Your stupid sphere is useless. We, as a species, need to find a way to generate endless power from cold, not heat. Why don't scientists just work on that? Idiots.

Well, there is zero-point energy. I mean not really but it's an idea.

Uh, and the sun is gonna be around for really long time. You don't need to plan your poo poo until the heat death, that's overkill.

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# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 23:01

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Samuringa posted:

They finally did it, the perfect con to get rid of tech bros

https://twitter.com/techinsider/status/973640227205144576

This reminds of The Quantum Thief. It's a good book you should read it.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 02:47

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

The hard thing about being tall is all the looks of reverence and adoration, fear occasionally, you get from the shorties. If you aren't really secure in who you are it can cause anxiety.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 21:11

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

A dog could be CEO, just have the COO do the all the work, and occasionally go pet the dog for strategy advice.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2018 19:55

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Burkion posted:

Cause it don't mean poo poo.

I can say the words without embracing their meaning especially if it'll get me a job I want or just get me through the day if it's some official nonsense

That's how I feel about life. :shrug:

# ¿ Apr 21, 2018 16:21

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

I'm a video game player, what is so special about Fortnite that is inciting that kind of think piece?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2018 22:24

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

The argument is not new, but the classics stick around. And, I guess I should also say, there may be some merit to those old fears. Take that as an admission that I am old now. Surrender to reality, and then cope with it best you can.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2018 22:32

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Darth Walrus posted:

IIRC, the science says that art can�t encourage specific behaviour (so playing TF2 won�t make you blow off your own feet with a bazooka), but it can influence your worldview (so it may well help you think of Germans as psychotic mad scientists and Russians as big, violent, and none too bright, and make you slightly more open to the idea of solving problems through violence). Which isn�t really all that surprising when you think about it - how many cultural mores and perspectives on the world did you pick up from the entertainment you consume?

Video games are not exempt from scrutiny you would give any other form of art. I personally picked up nihilism, communism, mysticism, etc. (from books mostly) but I am a terrible nerd and most people will not have the same experience.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2018 00:44

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Ser Pounce would not approve.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2018 21:28

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

I read that as "Ghost Form" and it made more sense that way.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 20:13

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

You should drink fermented buttermilk, builds some character and is great for your guts and bones too.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2019 16:33

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Samuringa posted:

It was a terrible movie, no one should be forced to remember it.

I think I saw it, Rose MgGowan castrates a twink with garden scissors in the finale?

# ¿ Jan 20, 2019 22:08

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

ultrafilter posted:

That's The Doom Generation. It's not a good movie.

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Nope. The twink gets castrated by Nazis. I can't remember whether they were played by Skinny Puppy or if that was another gang of thugs.

It's funny what little things stick in our minds. I always associated "generation X" with that movie.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 03:33

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Why would some future society wanna revive some dude? Isn't the brain and your mind a complex mess of firing neurons, a soup of chemicals, and some meat? You think you they can bring you back from some chunk of ice? Good luck dude.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 12:52

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

I assume that is from discovery, so there would be no judge in the room.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2019 13:45

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

That's the god Saturn, also known as Kronos.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2019 18:09

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

FreudianSlippers posted:

Korea being a former Japanese colony makes anti-Japanese sentiment sort of understandable. Like Irish people not caring for the English, Filipinos disliking Spaniards and/or Americans, or Algerians distrusting the French.

I imagine if the American ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo was half Belgian and had a beard like King Leopold some people would be irked.

Is it xenophobic? Yes, but it's based on historical grievances rather than race.

This kind of sentiment is prevalent in Europe too. I only have personal experience with being a Finn, but here on public TV we literally show a film about fighting against a Russian invasion on independence day.

We have a conscription army, and everyone knows you are training to fight in case Russia invades again.

This probably sounds more extreme than it actually is, but all are just statements of fact. Finns also like selling things to Russia and being on Putin's good side.

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# ¿ Jan 2, 2020 06:43

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Seems like a fools errand, not just because jfc don't do that, but also because your proportions are gonna be all hosed up if you just lengthen your legs.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 21:35

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

I tried to write a "clever" post but can't, i'm sleep deprived and half drunk. Still wanted to say Paul Verhoeven is a genius and an underrated director.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 12:48

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Magneto may actually be telekinetic and just thinks he's "the master of magnetism" so that's how he uses his power.

# ¿ May 11, 2020 04:40

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Mario is also an artist and a magician, just see what he does with a flower or a raccoon suit.

# ¿ May 14, 2020 05:35

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

The Queen is just a muppet, the Crown, a metaphysical entity, is the one who owns all the poo poo.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2020 07:22

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Phlegmish posted:

if we're dethroning God I'm in

Yes, now step in this salt circle and suck my dick, it's magic.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2020 12:17

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

luxury handset posted:

the article says these guys formed a corporation to purchase the house. everything they're doing is part of a business, it's just portrayed as a bunch of cool gamer friends living in a party mansion. it's calculated

I wanna say they calculated wrong, but who the gently caress knows anymore. Trump is president, big time streamers make lots of money, etc.

Also can someone explain McMansion beyond big expensive lovely house. Really get into the housing bubble and various grift involved with it. My theory is that America is a decaying nation, and the McMansions are just a symptom.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 02:48

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

What a delightful animal abuse fantasy.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 07:50

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Elviscat posted:

Nah, they're just a modern version of something that's been happening for centuries.

The West Coast is booming (and other cities in the US, and suburbs being White Flighted to) so there's a crushing demand for housing, and a lot of wealth, back in the day this would've meant shanty towns and mansions for the wealthy andwhatnot, but we have codes and poo poo now, so instead it's tract homes and mcmansions, they are built to standard floor plans, out of the cheapest materials permissible, and codes are flaunted or skirted wherever possible.

The luxury features of yesteryear are replicated through structural foam, because marble and hand carved hardwoods are ruinously expensive. Most of these developments have arrangements where 1 or 2 out of 100 homes are inspected, so code violations and poo poo abound, but it takes a few years to realize your outlets are melting, and the tar paper on your roof is run under the flashing, and by the time you do, the development LLC has dissolved, and there's no one left to sue.

What makes these homes so attractive, is they're pre-built, all you have to do is plonk down a downpayment and take out a 30 year loan, and voila, brand spankin' new house.

The irony is, for 20-30% more you can contract a reputable design-build firm, and have them build you an entirely custom, beautiful house that is inspected for quality building at each step. My buddy down in CA works for a firm that does this, they specialize in sustainably sourced building materials, and eco friendly construction (solar, great insulation values etc) but it's way harder to get this done, since you have to organize a temporary place to live, construction loans etc.

It's by no means a new thing though, I've worked on houses built in Seattle from the Boeing Boom of the 50's all the way to the early 2000's that were just built like poo poo, usually we were remodeling them to a higher standard. I've seen a few on the East Coast that were falling down when they were built in the 1800s, and have been scabbed onto for over a century to keep them standing, barely, the Mcmansions of that era.

My own, current house was built as a temporary logging shelter in 1911, and whooo boy it's been an adventure.

E: this is meant specifically to place McMansions in a historical context, not to refute that America is a dying nation, btw.

Also thank you for this post, very informative.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 09:10

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

The division between old and new money has always been there.

That said I would never buy a mansion of any kind if I won the "jackpot". It would be a network of luxurious apartments with almost no furniture or signs of life, in the centers of cities like London, NY, Prague, etc.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 14:31

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

zedprime posted:

Because I'm not immune to aspirational wealth stuff and I actually hate the video game article for hitting too close to home, I ran the numbers on owning a network of studio apartments like that after winning the lottery. For the huge capital cost and ongoing costs of a luxury studio, you need to turn it into your job to administer them if you want more than 2 or 3. I.e. spend time and effort running them as AirBnBs or getting stuck in to real estate to buy in bubbling spots and sell before it pops. Your residuals from investing the lottery money elsewhere isn't going to cover more so you need to put the capital to work if you want to own more.

Owning that shits for the birds. Buy a bunker in the mountains and just visit cities.

Fair point, so just one in Helsinki and hotels for the rest of the world.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2020 15:57

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

AlbieQuirky posted:

How tall are you?

Or, how flightless bird are you?

Do you have a reference.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2020 02:45

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Goons aren't sex-mad, more like sex-sad.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2020 15:38

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

By popular demand posted:

Well Thailand is the place to do that so I can't fault the monkeys for not doing their homework.

Shouldn't blame them really, they grew up in that culture.

Also Sperm Fountain, I bet it wasn't even real cum. :mad:

# ¿ Jul 30, 2020 15:42

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Are guys really gonna go into bi v gay in the weird news thread.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2020 07:36

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:

Even if it works perfectly 100% of the time (which it will not), and even if it never pokes out anyone�s eye or stabs their brain (which it will), the question is: why? Does anyone think that looks faster or more efficient than letting a person do it? Are they going to put these in drugstores like blood pressure testing machines? I�m just not seeing the market.

Why would anyone automate anything? Because it's more efficient. If the robot works you can fire the people who used to do its job. It will never be sick, never sleep, never unionize. Make no mistake capital wants to replace all humans with robots, because robots are slaves with no rights. Until Judgement Day anyway.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2020 10:03

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Elviscat posted:

Why should he be fired? Flagellation is a time honored method of atonement.

Can't blame the dude 'cause his method of doing it was a little wrong.

Can catholic priests even be fired? Do they get moved to a closed convent in the Vatican or something if all else fails? Excommunicated by the pope?

The Catholic Church is like a crazy cult, love it.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2020 09:45

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 05:14

doverhog: May 31, 2013; Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

I want my simulant (check).

# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 06:33

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