Slavvy posted:

Yeah this. It's up there for the weirdest poo poo we've found in the solar system thus far and makes absolutely no sense at all.

Mine the asteroids, eradicate scarcity.

Grey Fox posted:

spacetoaster posted:

Yes, if you think some European countries and white people are the only cultures that produce anything of value.

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Cracker King posted:

So this is a bomb? (Randomly found "cardboard computer" on imgur)

zoux posted:

Bohemian Nights posted:

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9434549/school-shooting-oregon-umpqua-community-college

C.M. Kruger posted:

You'd think the Japanese would be maybe a bit considerate towards war refugees.

Baloogan posted:

Salvor_Hardin posted:

This is my favorite piece of soviet propaganda. It's hanging in my bathroom.

Noosphere posted:

SquadronROE posted:

#Coffeegate going strong.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

he died a year ago, from oldish age and hard street living

C.M. Kruger posted:

5/13/90

To Sybil,

Lamentably, I killed your cat while trying just to sting it. It was crouched, as usual, under one of our bird feeders & I fired from some distance with bird shot. It may ease your grief somewhat to know that the cat was buried properly with a prayer & that I’ll be glad to get you another of your choice.

I called & came by your house several times. We will be in the Dominican Republic until Thursday. I’ll see you then.

Love, Jimmy

huskarl_marx posted:

one of the most disturbing things about the bundy standoff is how gleefully i've seen supposed allies of liberation call for the blood of these men, men who've been pushed to the edge by the same uncaring system that's created the thug youth of the urban city and the daesh jihadist of the mideast

Nosfereefer posted:

The only way intake nicotine that isn't fundamentally immoral.

quote:

Let’s acknowledge first that this Q actually preceded the last one, and that you just inserted an artful little bridge-sentence in your question-text to suggest otherwise. I know you’re interested in tobacco and the covert gradual suicide that is habitual tobacco use. My own situation is not all that different from Tom Bissell’s, who had some article about chewing tobacco in Tumescent Male Monthly or something last year that I resonated with on many frequencies. I started smoking at twenty three after two years of dabbling in clove cigarettes (which were big in the early eighties). I liked cigarettes, very much, but one thing I did not like was how hard they were on the lungs and wind in terms of sports, stair-climbing, coitus, etc. Some roofer friends back home got me started on chew as a cigarette-substitute at I think age twenty eight. Chew doesn’t hurt your lungs (obviously), but it also has massive, massive amounts of nicotine, at least compared to Marlboro Lights. (This, too, is all very condensed and boiled down; sorry if it’s terse.) I have tried probably ten serious times to quit chewing tobacco in the last decade. I’ve never even made it a year. Besides all the well-documented psychic fallout, the hardest thing about quitting for me is that it makes me stupid. Really stupid. As in walking into rooms and forgetting why I’m there, drifting off in the middle of sentences, feeling coolness on my chin and discovering I’ve been drooling. Without chew, I have the attention span of a toddler. I giggle and sob inappropriately. And everything seems very, very far away. In essence it’s like being unpleasantly stoned all the time… and as far as I can tell it’s not a temporary withdrawal thing. I quit for eleven months once, and it was like that the whole time. On the other hand, chewing tobacco kills you—or at the very least it makes your teeth hurt and turn unpleasant colors and eventually fall out. Plus it’s disgusting, and stupid, and a vector of self-contempt. So, once again, I’ve quit. It’s now been a little over three months. At this moment I have in gum, a mint, and three Australian tea-tree toothpicks that a Wiccan friend swears by. One reason you and I are chatting in print rather than in real time is that it’s taken me twenty minutes just to formulate and press the appropriate keys for the preceding ¶. Actually speaking with me would be like visiting a demented person in a nursing home. Apparently I not only drift off in the middle of a sentence but sometimes begin to hum, tunelessly, without being aware of it. Also, FYI, my left eyelid has been twitching nonstop since August 18. It’s not pretty. But I’d prefer to live past fifty. This is my Tobacco Story

spacetoaster posted:

I think that has more to do with some gun-unfriendly places trying to make untried/unuseful/unworkable tech mandatory for all firearms.

There are people advocating smart gun tech be mandatory right now even though it's crap.

Also a lot of people are also fed up with the gun restriction stuff too. We were told that there would be rivers of blood in the streets when the assault weapons ban went out of effect. Instead, infuriatingly I know, the opposite has been happening.