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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Short selling is fine, this story is short selling combined with blatant market manipulation.

Isn't this guy already under investigation by the SEC?

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Crain posted:

What is dryvying?

It's some kind of ride-sharing app run by an MRA ex-revenge porn baron.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Jeb communications director Tim Miller asking the tough questions

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Zombie Samurai posted:

Wait... what?

Checked Drudge Report recently?

(It's not true.)

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Mr Interweb posted:

Wait, I'm confused. If the pill (Plan B) blocks implantation, then there's no baby that starts to get formed, so how is it killing babies? I mean, this is before the process starts, so if they don't have any abortion related issues with regular birth control pills, what's the distinction?

If you're a hardcore pro-lifer, you believe that life begins at conception, which occurs shortly before implantation. So while the fertilized egg is floating around waiting to implant, it's a baby, and if implantation doesn't happen, that baby dies. Therefore, birth control is murder.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Swords used by someone who believed he was a reincarnation of ancient warriors don't count.

Also, QOTD candidate:

"And I remind them that I’m a former soldier and I make sense, I think, because soldiers really have to live in the real world, we have to be reality-based, because bullets rip through flesh." --Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY), on why he supports action on climate change.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

MariusLecter posted:

Anchor "Here we go again" :smith:

Soon we will reach the mass shooting event horizon where mass shootings are so frequent they overlap with each other and we have continuous, endless mass shooting all across america forever

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I wonder if they'll just keep doing this instead of making unique articles from this point forward.

It's gotta be taxing to try and come up with a new funny take on shootings every time.

They've only ever posted the one article, it's us who keep linking to it.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Watch as it turns out that these are actual ISIS terrorists. And then the country loses its mind.

Maybe this would finally be the motivation to make guns harder to obtain.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I'm in a real bad and worried mood so I gotta ask. What would a Trump presidency look like exactly? What is the extent of what he could do with the power that comes with being the PoTUS? How much damage could he theoretically do? What checks and balances could there be to stop him from being a total monster? I'm asking this as a serious question, so please don't post one of the trillion jokes about a Trump America. I've read and laughed at them all.

All the mechanisms the US government has to stop a Presidential action require the cooperation of Congress or the Supreme Court. If all 3 of them are in agreement there's not a whole lot to be done about it (without a revolution, at least).

He's not going to be President, though, even after this.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

sudo rm -rf posted:

Joe, I got a procedural question.

How long can a president sit on a bill before deciding to veto or sign it?

10 days. If he takes no action, it becomes law at that point, unless Congress has adjourned during the 10 days, in which case it dies.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

euphronius posted:

Where did humans come in.

Bison are the original native americans :smugdog:

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Luigi Thirty posted:

Inside Edition paid $1000 according to MSNBC. Also random members of the public are sneaking in now. One of them literally stole a Popsicle from the freezer and left.

To whom? Some ethically challenged security guard?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Zombie Samurai posted:

If I can interrupt for a second, I'd like to invite you all to stare deep into the well of forced, awkward horror that is Ted Cruz trying to appear human.

And if that isn't enough, there is somehow sixteen hours of rehearsed lines and emotionless hugs to drown in.

This is the political campaign equivalent of a dead drop- this footage is intended to be cherrypicked by PACs for TV ads, but they can't actually say that because it would be illegal coordination.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Isn't the media basically opening up the suspects' family to violent reprisals and identity theft and etc by broadcasting their photos/social security info/private IDs on live air? That's incredibly invasive to people who are otherwise innocent and had nothing to do with the shooters.

Yes, just one of the many wonderful reasons that was such an outrageous act.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Facebook already has a moderation system including humans, they'll just add pro-ISIS to a "delete on sight" list that already has stuff like child porn.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
"Well I think this whole notion that somehow we need to say no more Muslims and just ban a whole religion goes against everything we stand for and believe in. I mean religious freedom’s been a very important part of our, our history." --Dick Cheney

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
You also have specific vaccines the right wing doesn't want to become prevalent like Gardasil (because sluts).

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
It's pretending to be a state but they don't have the infrastructure of a state, the taxes they collect are probably not at sustainable levels, and they're hamstrung by the need to wrap everything in fundamentalist Islamic dogma.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

happyhippy posted:

Is this a phone/text vote thing? If so then why worry. About as reliable as a gun show background check.

It appears to be some kind of voluntary online feedback service, so garbage.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Martin Shkreli is truly dedicated to being human garbage.

Apparently he then went onto Youtube and started thinking out loud about other musicians whose work he might want to monopolize.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
This guy is really something.

quote:

During the hearing, the judge issued a gag order for law enforcement and the parties involved. As the judge and attorneys were discussing who was included in the gag order, Dear interrupted.

"The babies that were supposed to be aborted that day, could you add them to that list?" he said.

King requested that the judge order prompt discovery in the case so the defense team can learn "the depth of Mr. Dear's mental illness."

Dear interrupted, "You're not my lawyer."

King told the judge the sharing of evidence was vital. "It's rather ironic that prosecutors have not disclosed one piece of evidence," he started.

Dear interrupted, "You're trying to silence me."

King told the judge "I think the problem is obvious, your honor."

quote:

The judge spoke to Dear and advised him of his right to a preliminary hearing within 35 days.

Dear told the the judge, "Planned Parenthood and my lawyer are in cahoots because they don't want the truth out."

King told the judge he wasn't confident that his client was competent to make a choice about his legal rights.

Dear interrupted, saying, "I'm competent."

He went on, "I'm not going to agree to mental health evaluations so they can't put me on psychotropic drugs so I can't talk like the Batman guy."

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Hulk Krogan posted:

I can't wait for the hourly version of Air BnB.

Lol if you don't think AirBnB is already used for this.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Joementum posted:

Quote of the day, "And Jesus Christ says we need to forgive, but I’m not like that."

I like how even the racist 9/11 truther thinks that continued military action in the middle east is a bad idea.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

as a reminder, i am almost certain a horse has one that before

A horse has never been the SI sportsperson of the year, although a jockey was once.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
A group of idiots go to the White House in order to burn a Quran. They are foiled when counterprotesters run up and steal it. Also, Jim Caviezel feels it necessary to take a few minutes out of his day to say something stupid.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

berzerker posted:

Lots of the value they add isn't even financial and has nothing really to do with regulations. It comes from being able to hail taxis to a specific location, see where that cab is so you're not waiting outside for 45 minutes before calling and finding out they never sent anyone, get a printed map of your trip for a receipt, and pay automatically without having to deal with the right amount of cash and how much to tip, etc.

All of those things should be possible with a traditional taxi company and occupational relationship, though, not the sort of "you're bound to the company but the company doesn't have responsibilities to you" grey zone that Uber established.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

euphronius posted:

What are they spending the money on???

PR campaigns to defeat all the local governments that try to interfere with them, also trolling Lyft.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Mojo Threepwood posted:

I know this is a tiny sample size, but overall is Airbnb reasonably ethical and not screwing anyone over?

AirBnB is wreaking havoc on the rental market in most major cities and in many cases listings are outright illegal.

They also have at least as scummy a PR operation as Uber.

haveblue fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Dec 15, 2015

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

shrike82 posted:

Count me as a pretty happy user of airbnb and uber :shrug:

Punishment: Death by guillotine

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Swan Oat posted:

Disrupt landlords and start squatting

Pretty sure exactly that has already happened via airbnb- someone signs up for a short-term stay and then finagles their way into remaining in the apartment long enough for tenant's rights to kick in and make getting rid of them far more trouble.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Hello. My name is Mandy Patinkin. You frequently quoted my most famous role. Prepare to die be admonished.

quote:

“I would like to be with Senator Cruz for a moment and I would like to respectfully ask him, since he quotes all the lines from ‘The Princess Bride’ and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya’s, lines, I would like to know why he doesn’t quote my favorite line?” That line, Mr. Patinkin said, was among the last his character utters in a movie that essentially taught that love conquers all.

“After the princess flies out the window and falls into Andre the Giant’s arms,” Mr. Patinkin said, “Inigo says to the Man in Black, ‘I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.’”

Mr. Cruz, in Mr. Patinkin’s heavily left-leaning worldview, is trafficking in the revenge business, appealing to anxious voters by saying of the Islamic State, “We will carpet-bomb them into oblivion,” and by exploiting fears about immigrants and Muslims.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Dare I ask what ended up happening with the 9/11 first responders bill?

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
They're just planning ahead for President Trump's executive order to shut down the internet.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
The third-most-hated man in America (behind shrike82 and Gail Wynand) defends his recent actions by going full Bulworth and threatening to have the Albanian mob rub out the Wu-Tang Clan.

quote:

“To me, what I’m doing right now in the media,” Shkreli continues, “raising prices, all this poo poo, believe what you want, but it’s interesting. It gets people talking. At the end of the day, that’s what art is. I don’t know if I can translate the poo poo into rap or not, but I’ll try… In 500 years, they’re going to talk about rap the same way we talk about Shakespeare. I just want to throw my hat in the ring, that's all. I don’t want to make money.”

quote:

[There's a ] big loving check in RZA and Cilvaringz’ pocket now, but if they’re starting to turn up on me… The Albanian community is a very weird community. We’re some of the most tight-knit kind-of kill for each other, die for each other motherfuckers there are. People say it’s one of the craziest ethnicities there is in terms of their loyalty and bloodlines and poo poo like that.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Clearly it's suspiciously un-American to fail to buy vast quantities of ammo at every opportunity.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Time to count the wishes I earned from thief death :c00l:

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haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



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7c Nickel posted:

How about "the pigfucker vote"? Better? No?

UK citizens can't vote here :confused: And why does one vote matter?

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