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fermun
Nov 4, 2009

LordArgh posted:

maybe i'm blind, but i don't see anything pyramid-shaped in that image




This collection of images from May 12th may help.

edit: credit for this goes to unmannedspaceflight.com user ZLD who gathered the images and created the gif.

edit 2: this mountain is 5km in elevation from base to peak.

fermun fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jun 24, 2015

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fermun
Nov 4, 2009

It is a steep mountain a dwarf planet which has no plate tectonics. A solitary 5km(16,000 foot) mountain without any foothills on a non-geologically active body and there is no crater centered around it so it does not immediately look like a crater's central peak, geologically inert so not an upwelling of magma followed by erosion. There are a couple of possible explanations for its existence but its presence was totally unexpected and weird.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Ron Jeremy posted:

I thought one of the definitions of a planet was that it cleared its orbit...?


Ceres is a dwarf planet, it directly orbits the sun and is large enough that its gravity overpowers its structural integrity so it has been pulled into a spherical shape.


Casket of Reverend Pinckney.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/08/11/the-most-depressing-statistic-imaginable-about-being-a-new-parent/

Having your first kid makes you more depressed than your spouse dying.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Mount McKinley is being renamed to Denali, the Koyukon Athabascan name for it. It had been named McKinley in 1896, and there's been a movement to restore its original name. There were congressional hearings this year and the National Park Service had no objections to the name change. There's been a motion to rename it every year since the 1970s, Alaskan representatives trying to get it renamed and Ohio (McKinley's home state) representatives blocking it.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009


Socks were always meant to be worn with sandals.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

VagueRant posted:

But all the Americans making fun of 9/11 with memes and whatnot in some weird attempt to be edgy always comes off as so desperate.

That's not what it is at all, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2015/07/teenagers_and_9_11_trutherism_jokes_how_these_memes_became_a_phenomenon.2.html

There were jokes from day 1, there always are after every tragedy but 9/11 has been particularly bad at taking up cultural space. When bombarded with recurring annual calls to action about a thing that happened 14 years ago that no one but conspiracy theorists really care about anymore, people make it into a joke, they push it out of the way so that things that matter now have room in the public consciousness. 9/11 is everywhere, in places you wouldn't expect it, and annual 9/11 jokes are not about being edgy at all, they are about making it so we don't have to all constantly mourn something that most of us don't have an emotional gut reaction to anymore. This article puts it perfectly, it's about making it a punchline until it's played out, then it's history and every single American, even ones who weren't alive at the time, no longer need to be emotionally invested in it and we can treat it as a piece of history we can think on before acting.

https://vine.co/v/eBqe0vT5Hab

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

More like FOOL CHAIN.


More like circle of UNNECESSARY DEATH.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Y'all Qaeda is pretty good, but I prefer Vanilla ISIS.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/692870108910219265/video/1

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://vine.co/v/O30F1F6m15B

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/717817071615229957/photo/1
https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/717817943145521153

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/september-11th-redux#/

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
http://twitter.com/SovietVisuals/status/772818681684381696

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/822916148190711808
They've set up pics in the briefing room that show an angle which doesn't let you see how empty it was.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
The small crowd size was an optical illusion created by a white covering over the grass which has never been used before!



White covering over the grass at Obama's 2nd inauguration.


The first press conference of the administration is to lie to reporters in an attempt to bandage Trump's bruised ego. There's going to be some seriously stupid poo poo that will go down when his stupid loving thin-skinned ego gets hurt by a foreign leader.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Melania Trump currently has only 2 tweets she's favorited on Twitter. https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/likes

edit: http://archive.is/HQZGW

fermun fucked around with this message at 04:14 on May 3, 2017

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

ah yes, stalinism, a current extant example of the far left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcXNXKtu8z4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

fermun fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jun 3, 2017

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Source is an article about how Democrats need to stop trying to win centrist voters because centrist voters do not exist: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/dems-can-abandon-the-center-because-the-center-doesnt-exist.html

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/DerrickQLewis/status/897235297485901825

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
On Confederate monuments:

Where they are.


When they were erected.

Source: http://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_splc.pdf

It's about hate, not heritage.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/Moreno/status/906764058375766016

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Picnic Princess posted:

So much has been happening in our world, can someone offer an abridged version on exactly how Juggalos became our frontline allies?



dont even fink about it posted:

The FBI pissed them off when they declared them a gang, largely because some juggalo-types are low-level criminals, ICP's lyrics are violent, and facepaint. Broadly, being a juggalo can now mean you lose custody of your kids or can't get a job. In addition to this, ICP is anti-racist, and has become politically active. Whatever else is going on, juggalos tend to be a rowdy lot, so we'll see if the juggalos and Nazis will have a hatchet fight on the National Mall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV5OVMpaHz0

To add to these points, another thing is that the declaration by the FBI means that cops automatically have probable cause whenever they are dealing with a Juggalo. If they pull a Juggalo over and there's an ICP bumper sticker or they are wearing an ICP shirt or have an ICP tattoo, etc. then the cop can search their car without a warrant. It's an incredible violation of civil rights which makes it something we need to fight against, and the fact that the Juggalos are generally showing up to protest all this other hosed up poo poo going on as well makes them more or less natural allies.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/VeggieTales/status/907263316363497473

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/GarbageApe/status/922861572766273538

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/anthony-rapp-kevin-spacey-made-sexual-advance-when-i-was-14

Anthony Rapp says that when he was 14, Kevin Spacey (26 at the time) made sexual advances on him.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Rand Paul's next door neighbor since 1993, Dr. Rene Boucher, has violated the NAP, broke 5 of Rand Paul's ribs and bruised his lungs. No motive is known. Dr. Boucher worked with Rand Paul in the past at the same hospital, Boucher is an anesthesiologist and general pain medicine physician.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Reddit has banned incels. They can't even participate in a circle jerk.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
Subway Jared has become a sovereign citizen



fermun
Nov 4, 2009


This part of it is the funniest part to me. Not only did they send Mnunchin horse poo poo, but all his rich as gently caress neighbors also got minorly inconvenienced and got real mad about it. Oh no, trapped in a $50 million dollar mansion for 2 whole hours?!?!?!


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fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Potential BFF posted:

Psh, boulders? Get out of here with that low-effort heartlessness.






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