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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

duckmaster posted:

You realise that the European parliament elections are literally like voting for the city dog catcher right?

Yeah, and we don't elect Nazis for city dog catcher, either.

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Phanatic posted:

No, they do not. They haven't had that for years. The law was that you had to keep to a "reasonable and prudent" speed, until 1998 when a guy ticketed for going 102mph appealed all the way to the state supreme court which ruled that that was unconstitutionally vague. So for the time between that decision and when the legislature passed a 75mph limit the next year, Montana had no speed limit at all, although you could still get ticketed for reckless or careless driving.

And as for "because," Montana's roads were safer during the "reasonable and prudent" era.

http://mediatrackers.org/montana/2014/12/02/montanas-speed-limit-make-highways-safer

So much for the tolerant left.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

bookkeeper posted:

What the gently caress am I reading

The Aristocrats Omegaverse!

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose
I think God exists but is really into atrocity tourism.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose
Goons don't get jokes, vol. 144.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

I assumed, somehow, that this was going to be a swastika pattern.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose
All I see is purestrain gold and triangles.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Nuevo posted:

I dig the lines indicating possible escapes of half-people.

There's a lot of landmines in the DMZ.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

mobby_6kl posted:

Nobody ever complained about my sausage :shrug:



No Doobie Dog, chart unusable forever.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

I assumed this was more Jordan Peterson poo poo at first.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

SerialKilldeer posted:

:same:

Some crackpottery on planet formation:



I loving hate this.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose
Good thing I'm not a serial killer :v:

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

C.M. Kruger posted:

https://twitter.com/CombatCavScout/status/1032276519161192448

"a powerpoint slide, to rival the gods" -unnamed staff officer

God help me but I easily comprehended this chart.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Ensign Expendable posted:

Please explain why there are three cyberspace bars emerging from the physical dimension.

I said I comprehended it. I didn't say I could translate it into plain English.

I think it's that cyberspace effects operations in all three of those physical dimension cube block thingies.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Bongo Bill posted:

In the context of pets, money can be used as a substitute for effort.

That's true for almost everything, though.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Also pre-Brexit the pound was worth something like $1.60.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose
Echidnas aren't mythical!

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

I'm somehow Upper Middle-Brow and Low Brow at the same time.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

SerialKilldeer posted:

Thanks!

What the heck is with the "unwashed salad bowl" entry?

Some dude made up a rule about it and people are dumb so they followed it.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Carbon dioxide posted:

The English language is incomplete.



Welp, I'm saving this image for consultation when I write my next manuscript.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

I don't know what particular special information this periodic table is supposed to illustrate, but it's also way out of date given all the currently known elements have official names now instead of the placeholder ones used here.

Kinda want to submit this to Periodic Videos and ask them WTF?

Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 03:59 on Aug 21, 2021

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

It's pretty accurate for what it's describing, though.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

OnlyBans posted:

I never got that distribution with the SAT. When I first took it in 7th grade, I got a score that would have gotten me admitted to most colleges and when I took it again in HS I just got one question wrong. It's a ridiculously easy test. I never took any classes for it and I don't see how taking a course could improve your skills for something that is not hard. The evidence is obviously against me but I don't get it.

Nobody cares.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

OnlyBans posted:

Sure, but being sane right out the gate doesn't drive engagement. It's all about metrics.

I think it matters a lot because the purpose of gathering the data is to presumably do something with it. Let's think of a couple different ways we can fix this issue:

1) Radically change how schools are funded
2) Increase bussing
3) Subsidize SAT/ACT prep classes
4) Eliminate standardized testing as a metric for colleges

If the difference in SAT/ACT scores is because of family income, options 3 and 4 look like really appealing solutions. On the other hand, if the difference is a function of school quality (indirectly measured here by family income) it would drive options 1 and 2 as solutions.

Options 1 and 2 are politically radioactive (Biden and Harris ran against bussing in the most recent election!) whereas 3 is a great neoliberal solution and 4 can be implemented piecemeal by institutions -- importantly those institutions can also implement their own gatekeeping measurements to replace the old one.

Right now, as a society, we are moving towards option 4 and hailing it as a great victory. When in reality all it is doing is rather than centralizing the racist and classist selection process it is diffusing responsibility to a large number of independent institutions. That doesn't make it easier to identify and solve, it makes it harder to see and address at all. It will just add another unwashed dude to the quad ranting about how this or that particular university is racist.

You desperately need to be atomic wedgied.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

I am going to stick your head in a toilet and flush it.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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fosborb posted:

one of the funnier elements of the last few days is that op obviously took a PSAT and everyone's just running with "I took the SAT in middle school"

terrible chart:



Ah yes, the pissat test.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Check the rap sheet.

Of loving course it is.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Scarodactyl posted:

Vaccines rule I'll take all of them please.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

This dude is actually mocking a Tory MP who said that Doctor Who having a female lead caused crime to go up, so his graph being broken is really beside the point.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Scarodactyl posted:

I did both of those and my friends had smart phones in high school.

Congrats, you're the Ubermillenial.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Captain Hygiene posted:

I don't give a poo poo about any Pokémon

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Despite having diverged hundreds of millions of years ago octopodes and humans share huge amounts of genetic material. There's something like 69.3% genetic similarity between octopus and human eyes.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

OwlFancier posted:

You should come to the UK so you can get shot in the head by a screaming british man with an assault rifle wearing mostly yellow.

As long as they say "Wot's all this then?" first.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Splicer posted:

Younger readers may not recall that before 1996 people really, really hated twins.

Well, it wasn't a very good movie.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

SiKboy posted:

You are dead to me.

I may have had it confused with Junior.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose
Sikhs are cool and have good food.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

DontMockMySmock posted:

How is Jabal the "father of nomadic shepherds" if he's pre-Noah, and hence all his descendants died in the Flood? Do they just mean that he invented the idea of nomadic shepherding? Why the distinction between "father" and "inventor"?

It's shocking, but this part of the Bible isn't considered historically accurate.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

OwlFancier posted:

Extrapolating the trend, everyone in the UK will have been a minister by some point next week.

Can I be Ag & Fish? I know I'm an American but so is Boris.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

Who the gently caress would knowingly eat fish from the Gowanus anyway? Are there fish in the Gowanus?

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

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Smellrose

SiKboy posted:

Is there any part of the Gow you would eat fish from?

No. I'm shocked there's anything alive in it at all besides those weird extremophile bacteria that live on pollutants and can't survive outside superfund sites.

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