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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

The Lord of Hats posted:

Everyone knows that the true measure of geographical worth is miles of freshwater shoreline, which is why Minnesota is the best state in the nation.

Alaska is obviously superior.

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Oath Keepers are literally police.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

evilweasel posted:

This might be the downside of eyeballing data, but I'm not seeing any indication that going to mail-in changed turnout in CO or Washington at all. Turnout patterns look unaffected by the date they went to mail-in.

You could opt in to exclusively voting by absentee ballot (by checking a box on your registration form even) for a little more than a decade before Washington finally got rid of in-person voting entirely. No idea how that affects the turnout, though.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007


https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/885850877881454592

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007


tbf, this is remarkably honest advice.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

FizFashizzle posted:

iirc didn't it turn out that more conservative organizations were targeted because like a billion scam right wing organizations were created the day after obama won?

like wasn't it just a numbers thing?

iirc, they also checked Yes for a question equivalent to "Are you doing things illegal for your type of organization?" on their registration forms.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007


this tweet was:

Richard Spencer arrested (don't know who took this photo)

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

AceOfFlames posted:

(Seriously, wtf am I supposed to wear that doesn't have nazi connotations? Getting too old for graphic tees and I tuck in most of my shirts because the clothing industry hates men shorter than 1.75 m. I do think that those white polos would look better with jeans, though)


* straw boater
* brown Wayfarer sunglasses
* white short-sleeved button up shirt
* khaki pants

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007


clearly the defining characteristic of the progressive is the Wayfarers

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Hollismason posted:

Ah yes the "hills" of New York State



(That's White Face Mountain)

The Adirondacks are part of New York State

Ah, yes, a hill entirely below the tree line that you can drive to the top of and park in a parking lot and then either walk a quarter mile to the summit proper or take the elevator.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/ShannonODKOMO/status/905133069249593344
https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/905210818341462016
https://twitter.com/TerryKIRO7/status/905177061039398912
https://twitter.com/northbendwx/status/905141675227361280
https://twitter.com/KSeattleWeather/status/905108110901100546
https://twitter.com/JCMacQ/status/905066386833129472
https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/904829737092104192
https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/905301440444456961

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Sep 6, 2017

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Feral Integral posted:

Holy freaking crap! How weird is it for people to have this poo poo going on? I've never lived in a state where this is, like, a problem D:

It has never happened before in my lifetime and is incredibly surreal.

edit: Oh, and we're also setting record high and low temperatures and went for two months straight without measurable rain (and are currently on a ~20 day streak), so we're miserably hot in addition to being unable to breathe.

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Sep 6, 2017

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/landcameras/status/905313082682916865
https://twitter.com/pnwmf/status/905314691164979201

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

For posterity:
https://twitter.com/AnchorageDSA/status/907464475694874625

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Ravenfood posted:

Well, how do magnets work? :colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

Interviewer: Why do magnets repel or attract each other?
Feynman: What does "why" even mean, man? Let me tell you about ice...

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Sep 16, 2017

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Kelly posted:

I'm fairly uninformed about the ins and outs of this stuff - how does this happen? How are they able to access the information of contacts in Kushner's phones? Is this via a phishing attempt or is there some super secret thing they are doing that allows them access to people he simply has in there as a contact?

They didn't attack Jared's contacts via Jared's phone, they identified Jared's contacts and attacked them directly.

As to how, or whether this is an accurate assessment or an exaggeration, who knows?

But there's fun things like https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1289 and https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1302 where you attack the operating system running on the target phone's WiFi chip via a malformed WiFi packet, and once you've taken control of the WiFi chip's operating system, you attack the phone's operating system via defects in the phone's WiFi device driver.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Lord Hydronium posted:

To be clear, the last excuse on this was "I never said Obama didn't call the families", right?

Evergreen:
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/895720756155305984

I don’t know why this thread started quoting that tweet, the correct tweet is this one:
https://twitter.com/evilsharkey/status/864548377660317696

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

PhazonLink posted:

reminder, Donnie said the holes are for so we can see drug dealers on the other side and dodge the drugs they toss over.

They might be to allow small animals to cross the border unhindered.

Large animals are completely hosed, of course.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

All these vacant Republican seats are just going to get filled by Nazis.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Which apples grow best on the mountains of west coast Montana?

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Vladimir Putin posted:

You know he didn’t have to do this interview. He has to get up out of bed and put on a suit brush his teeth comb his hair and travel to the interview. You have to make an effort to go.

He could of just stayed in bed.

FAKE NEWS! He doesn't have hair.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Your Taint posted:

Is this as big as I think it is? Twitter offering to be a willing co-conspirator in foreign influence on American elections.

No, its Twitter selling ad space to legitimate news organization.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Grapplejack posted:

RT is a government funded news wing that acts as propaganda for Putin. It would be like if Fox was made into official state news, and then tried to buy ads in England for pm elections.


Chilichimp posted:

LOL, its Russian state sponsored news.

Let me try again with the appropriate punctuation:

No, its Twitter selling ad space to legitimate news organization⸮

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Phoix posted:

A take so bad even t_d downvotes it



Isn't the Air Force the Christian fundamentalist death cult of the US military?

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

DreamShipWrecked posted:

I'm sure it was posted further up thread but holy poo poo is this some facist stuff.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/928097146993369088

"Peace through strength"? That sounds like it should be posted in giant black and white letters on the side of a re-education camp

It's a Reaganism.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Same Great Paste posted:

Has someone already pointed out 1) those aren’t the real totals, and 2) their fake totals don’t even add up to 538?

No, because 1) those are the real totals, and 2) there were seven faithless electors.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Serrath posted:

Just an alternative explanation to the idea that he’s losing it: he quickly admitted it was him when the tape dropped and tried out several methods of damage control before settling on his apology video. Moore has tried a different tactic of simple blanket denial and I think trump didn’t consider that as a tactic at the time and wishes he did. I think he’s floating the idea now because he thinks it’s working for Moore and he’s testing the waters to see if people will challenge him on it on the chance that he might be able to get away with the same strategy.

The problem with this interpretation is that Trump has been denying the tape since January, long before Moore.
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/934613506678296576

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Mr Interweb posted:

How does such a thing make ANY sense from an actual logical perspective?

What kind of Republican waffles between a child molester and a not-a-child-molester, and has the scale tipped in the former's favor because of lack of punishment of a completely unrelated Democrat for a far less serious offense?

People aren't logical.

"The accusations against our guy are lies and their guy is also a rapist!" is a perfectly human rationalization.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Yes, slightly more Republicans voters would stay home on election day or write in another candidate.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

pubic void nullo posted:

Why is he releasing official statements via YOSPOS?

That's the wrong font for YOSPOS, he's very clearly issuing the statement via the Windows 95 shutdown screen

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

axeil posted:

The idea of blockchain is interesting though and could have applications for certain corporate database ledgers that need to be 100% fraud proof and also don't really care about how long it takes to process a transaction.

Unfortunately, that's about all it's useful for.

While Merkle trees (i.e. what blockchains were called when they were invented 40 years ago) are useful for a variety of things, there are faster, easier, and better ways of making fraud-proof ledgers.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

HappyHippo posted:

Since we're all talking about it...

The Bitcoin miners are necessary to keep the transactions going, correct? So when the projections point out that the Bitcoin network will consume more power than the US in a few years, basically it will become impossible for the network to keep running and transactions will be impossible?

The mining difficulty automatically resets to keep the average number of blocks mined per hour to around 6, which means as people stop running mining operations, the mining difficulty will decrease to keep up with the lack of demand.

The fun thing is that the difficulty reset happens after a block is mined, so if the difficulty gets super high and enough people stop mining, the next block may never get mined, the difficulty will never reset, and all Bitcoin transaction processing will cease forever.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

GreyjoyBastard posted:

I'm honestly surprised I didn't make the leap from "this cryptocurrency is inherently deflationary due to the blockchain, which is also a transaction processor, getting increasingly hard to process" to "this cryptocurrency will cost an increasing amount of electricity". :saddowns:

Bitcoin isn't deflationary because mining gets hard, Bitcoin is deflationary because the mining reward automatically halves after every 210,000 mined blocks, which is roughly every four years due to the automatic difficulty adjustments.

Also, because ownership of Bitcoins is determined by public key cryptography, it is possible to permanently destroy existing Bitcoins by destroying the private key necessary to prove ownership. Or you could just outright transfer ownership of a Bitcoin to a random number that isn't a part of a public-private keypair, deliberately making it impossible to access. And since the total number of Bitcoins is controlled by an algorithm and not a government, as time passes, all Bitcoins will inevitably be destroyed.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Terebus posted:

Can someone tell me about how Mario is super racist?

He perpetuates the stereotype that all Italians are polymath doctor multi-displine Olympic athlete archaeologists, which simultaneously downplays the achievements of all successful Italians and is hurtful towards Italians who aren't quite so successful (e.g. they're only doctor-kart champions or pro tennis-archeologists, etc.).

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Snowman_McK posted:

Jeff Monson is too good for this world. (please don't tell me the reasons Jeff Monson is terrible)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8XYTEyu0C8

The frogurt is also cursed.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

BootStrap posted:

I also had to look up "democracy sausage". I thought it was another name for gloryhole. :bahgawd:

It is a type of sandwich.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

This post got lost in all the tip chat:


Prester Jane Is Right, etc.

pseudorandom name fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Dec 14, 2017

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

So how about that leaked Daily Stormer style guide.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Can someone give me an example of what a Crisis PR firm does?

Hire private investigators to stalk Harvey Weinstein's victims.

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May 6, 2007

Koalas March posted:

Honestly telling people trump is taking away their porn is probably a good way to mobilize (lovely) men.

Trump is capping your Steam downloads!

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