August Current A E S T H E T I C S: enjoy a refreshing SAINT PEPSI

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > August Current A E S T H E T I C S: enjoy a refreshing SAINT PEPSI

«‹›2 »

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

https://twitter.com/MoiraDonegan/status/1024656230856486912

Love this normal world where people argue that stuff like this is just about "submissiveness" and nothing to do homophobia

# ¿ Aug 1, 2018 20:12

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:57

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

The only Ostrich related thing I have to add is apparently because the farmers take the the eggs away from the parents and raise the babies themselves, farmed ostriches are way more horny for humans than they are for other ostriches. Which to me makes slaughtering them for meat and leather extra awkward

# ¿ Aug 2, 2018 08:24

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

I know GunChat is verboten but come on...

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1025404721937481728

# ¿ Aug 3, 2018 21:26

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

At this point I'm starting to believe the NYT hiring Sarah Jeong was done as a sociological experiment on white fragility

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1025458689208139776

# ¿ Aug 3, 2018 23:23

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1026883796719882240?s=19

# ¿ Aug 7, 2018 18:58

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Sarah Jeong is good and one of my favourite recent articles I read was the one she wrote about Epic going ham on a 14 year old kid throwing copyright law at him because he streamed Fortnite cheats on youtube and they are not giving up on suing him for unauthorized modification resulting in a derivative work and then consequently publicly displaying said derivative work.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2018 01:42

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

FAUXTON posted:

did going after him with the CFAA not work or something? Iirc that's got a bunch of vague poo poo that can be argued by high-powered lawyers as being pretty much anything in breach of the EULA.

IANAL but wouldn't using the CFAA basically be bringing federal charges onto a 14 year old kid for hacking a video game?

# ¿ Aug 8, 2018 02:13

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

well if we can't shoot across the border can we at least chip the non whites

https://twitter.com/pdxlawgrrrl/status/1026905360727138304

e: BONUS CONTENT

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1027024163809251331

# ¿ Aug 8, 2018 04:36

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/saudi-arabia-canada-latest-egypt-russia

quote:

Meanwhile, the United States � one of Canada�s closest allies � has so far refused to wade into the row, describing both countries as close allies in a written statement from the state department.

�It�s up for the government of Saudi Arabia and the Canadians to work this out,� said Heather Nauert, a spokesperson for the state department, on Tuesday. �Both sides need to diplomatically resolve this together. We can�t do it for them.�

The United Kingdom was similarly muted in its response, with a foreign office spokesperson saying: �Canada and Saudi Arabia are both close partners of the UK, and we urge restraint during the current situation,� a foreign office spokeswoman said.

What the heck guys, you don't have our backs against the Saudis? That Orb must have some good mind control poo poo in it.

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 04:11

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Steezo posted:

A while back when people were seriously talking about asteroid mining I was hoping Dyson arrays would be brought up as a possible energy crisis or global warming solution.

Remember the microwave generator in sim city? That but without missing or just use something else to transfer energy or reflect/absorb some light and heat to counteract global warming. But I'm sure the sulfur dioxide/super cancer idea would win instead.

poo poo, with engineered algae we could be producing oil in space.

My point is space! Lets fund the everloving poo poo out of NASA. Who knows what practical applications they'll come up with but I love the ones we got out of the space race.

There was a great thread a couple days ago that I can't find anymore cause Twitter search sucks but it was about how Polynesian migration success varied greatly based on what kind of islands they ended up on. On the low islands with minimal freshwater and arable land they could barely survive even though they could walk around and breathe the air and catch fish from the ocean as compared to a space colony.

Also there are massive nickel deposits in Australia that haven't been touched because they're too difficult to reach and thus uneconomical. Space mining is obviously magnitudes more expensive and harder to do.

Basically at this point in time putting people in space is stupid and we should take that money, look at the stars with robots and spend the rest on not turning the only habitual rock in the known galaxy into a thermal shithole

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 20:48

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

psydude posted:

I don't think space exploration and saving Earth are a zero sum game.

I'll believe that it when Bezos and others spend as much money on reversing the effects of climate change as they do on space exploration

# ¿ Aug 9, 2018 22:37

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

On one hand football gives a lot of under privileged kids a chance at life on the other hand I can't agree with the concept that people should feel like the only way to better their lot in life is to develop holes in their brain for our amusement.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2018 03:22

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

"I think I'm gonna land it, like uh... in a safe, in a safe kind of manner? I think I'm uh gonna try to do a barrel roll and if that goes good, I'm just gonna go nose down and call it a night."

That's one heckuva mood

# ¿ Aug 11, 2018 06:24

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

my kinda ape posted:

Just speculating but I think that one got cut off and his sentence started with "I don't think" or something like that. Pretty sure he was saying he was planning on crashing it.

That definitely makes more sense

# ¿ Aug 11, 2018 07:30

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Stultus Maximus posted:

I'm gonna read that as performance enhancing drugs.

juicin up to own the cons

# ¿ Aug 11, 2018 22:54

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Soulex posted:

I mean as a reason why students join. Roll tide because they have a great academic and research program? I dont think so. The same reason why athletes arent lining up at Harvard specifically for athletic programs.

Fandom is a large driving force. College football is massive in the south. Many schools are considered for athletic programs and not as much for academia in these regards. The "weight" of their degree pales in comparison to the experience of being there. That is big for fans. The live experience is a large driving force for fandom in general. Some other forces deal with the sense of community or the location of the university.

You can believe whatever you want to though. I get excited talking about this stuff because I live it and breathe it every day. I also hope Im not coming off as eccentric. I also understand that I dont have to convince you to believe me. The two references I had were my books for class. Im sure my professor can give me some others if needed.

Edit: alright whatever. gently caress you guys.

Buddy, everyone loves a game of sportball but in the context of college athletics, the drain they impose on finances, the patriarchal culture leading to the various abuses and cover ups and in the context of football, brain holes, it's all pretty indefensible.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2018 06:41

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

mlmp08 posted:

I didn’t attend my university for sports reasons, but the beauty of the campus, reputation for having cool cultural events, ethnic food, live music, parties, etc all definitely played a part. One could argue that’s stupid, but meh?

College athletics could use reform but saying they’re bad outright is off to me. Also I get supremely annoyed by STEM nerds who swear up and down that literally nothing but STEM and business school is worth a poo poo. These same nerds seem to get mad at sports for some reason, just can’t put my finger on it...

It's not like Humanities and Social Sciences aren't the ones that take the hit over STEM though. College athletics aren't bad but the state they're in is so far over that any meaningful change is gonna be like chopping off a limb.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2018 16:35

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Milo and POTUS posted:

The bat with barbwire thing seems like it'd be more trouble than it's worth even though it looks cool. I've been thinking about this and I think studding it with acorn nuts seems the way to go

Doesn't driving poo poo through a bat severely compromise its long term durability

# ¿ Aug 13, 2018 11:04

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

The end of the oceans

quote:

Even more disturbingly, these falls mirror similar declines in marine life around the world. According to a 2015 report by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, populations of marine vertebrates including fish, turtles, birds, whales, dolphins and seals fell by half between 1970 and 2010. And although the drops in numbers were most extreme during the 1970s and early 1980s, in recent years they have accelerated again, suggesting a similar study conducted today would find an even greater decline. And in a separate study the United Nations found that, although demand for fish is still rising, almost 90 per cent of the world�s fisheries are fully fished or overfished.

There is no question these headline figures disguise considerable variation between species and regions. (The study of Australian fisheries found the biomass of exploited species actually increased in areas where they were protected from fishing.) But that should not divert our attention from the fact that declines were worst in those species humans rely upon for food: the WWF study found populations of tuna, mackerel and bonito dropped by 74 per cent in the same period. Or that other studies estimate the populations of large species such as whales, dolphins, sharks, seals, rays and turtles have declined by more than 75 per cent on average, with some species, such as right whales, leatherback turtles and blue whales, declining by 90 per cent or more.

Half of all marine vertebrates gone in 40 years. A third of large fish in Australian waters gone in the past decade. Ninety per cent of the world�s fisheries already at their limits or beyond. These figures speak to a reality few want to acknowledge, and the decline is made even more shocking by the fact that it has taken place so rapidly.

...

The threat posed by plastics, PCBs and other forms of marine pollution may be immense, but it pales into insignificance against that of climate change, something that was made heartbreakingly clear in 2016 and 2017, when the Great Barrier Reef suffered devastating back-to-back bleaching events that killed almost half of its coral.

The mattering won't matter when our oceans are devoid of life anyway

# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 01:05

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

shame on an IGA posted:

I still maintain the techlord elites will kill the vast majority of us with engineered bioweapons and then manifest destiny whatever's left of the earth. If the history of the americas teaches us anything it's that genocide works if attempted on a large enough scale.

Man, the environment is going to kill most of us long before some dweebs do some genetic poo poo to take out the poors. The climate has literally changed before our very eyes and nobody in the position to do anything about it cares. Part of it is probably cause the average age of a US politician is like 60 years old so they quite literally will all be dead before it goes to hell.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 04:41

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

As Nero Danced posted:

All this talk about the climate clusterfuck heading our way is making me just as anxious as I was when I started reading up on nuclear war possibilities, but at least with that one I could comfort myself by saying it probably won't happen. It's like at this point we need Thanos needs to snap his fingers a couple more times. Or more realistically a spanish flu part two.

In retrospect I should probably put a warning on any climate fuckery content for people with anxiety cause the consistent trend lately in the reporting is that we've been really underestimating how hosed the world already is. The oceans don't even have to rise to gently caress us over if we've already halved all marine life on the planet.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 10:18

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

The major thing about human poop is that it contains human waste, which means by definition the stuff in it is not beneficial for us. If it's manure from humans, you would have to more stringently treat it because it contains pathogens that are fully capable of infecting other humans since you don't have the convenient cross species barrier. There's also the possibility of trace medications showing up in stool but that's mostly done through urine.

Speaking of:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/n...ersation/108339

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653518313328

quote:

Antidepressants don�t just affect human libidos. New research shows that female starlings fed food spiked with the antidepressant fluxoxetine (Prozac), were less �attractive� to males and so less likely to mate. This is the latest evidence highlighting the potential harm of the drugs that we are releasing into the environment.

Our sadbrains meds are slowly leeching into the environment and loving with animals because we currently do not treat wastewater to remove trace amounts of medication from it. As if climate change wasn't enough.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2018 12:59

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/

quote:

It was considered one of the CIA�s worst failures in decades: Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities systematically dismantled the agency�s network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected U.S. spies. But since then, a question has loomed over the entire debacle.

How were the Chinese able to roll up the network?

Now, nearly eight years later, it appears that the agency botched the communication system it used to interact with its sources, according to five current and former intelligence officials. The CIA had imported the system from its Middle East operations, where the online environment was considerably less hazardous, and apparently underestimated China�s ability to penetrate it.

�The attitude was that we�ve got this, we�re untouchable,� said one of the officials who, like the others, declined to be named discussing sensitive information. The former official described the attitude of those in the agency who worked on China at the time as �invincible.�

lol

# ¿ Aug 16, 2018 00:23

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

EBB posted:

at least put up a couple tall apartment buildings in the bay area

Doesn't fix anything cause they'll just put high end units up everywhere just like they do right now Vancouver, although maybe there's less money laundering in Bay Area real estate

# ¿ Aug 21, 2018 06:06

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

EBB posted:

If you put an "empty house tax" on top of property taxes boomers will finally eat the politicians.

We're doing this in Vancouver along with some other anti laundering things so we'll see how it goes, maybe I'll be able to get a house someday before I die

# ¿ Aug 21, 2018 15:31

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/catlinnyaa/status/1031951136415260678?s=21

Aw the story is less funny https://twitter.com/DurnkCorgi/status/1031975987649470464?s=19

# ¿ Aug 21, 2018 20:56

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Handsome Ralph posted:

For those that didn't remember, Hunter is the dipshit congressman who vaped during sessions and spent campaign money on Steam games.

Ok but we'd all do the same if we could

# ¿ Aug 21, 2018 23:25

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

EBB posted:

the pup part is cool, i just don't keep a toxx.xls or anything

Well yeah that's cause you aren't a savage and instead keep a toxx.xlsx

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 00:01

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

A brief distraction for you

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

quote:

Santa Clara Fire paid Verizon for "unlimited" data but suffered from heavy throttling until the department paid Verizon more, according to Bowden's declaration and emails between the fire department and Verizon that were submitted as evidence.

The throttling recently affected "OES 5262," a fire department vehicle that is "deployed to large incidents as a command and control resource" and is used to "track, organize, and prioritize routing of resources from around the state and country to the sites where they are most needed," Bowden wrote.

"OES 5262 also coordinates all local government resources deployed to the Mendocino Complex Fire," an ongoing wildfire that is the largest in California's history, Bowden wrote.

The vehicle has a device that uses a Verizon SIM card for Internet access.

"In the midst of our response to the Mendocino Complex Fire, County Fire discovered the data connection for OES 5262 was being throttled by Verizon, and data rates had been reduced to 1/200, or less, than the previous speeds," Bowden wrote. "These reduced speeds severely interfered with the OES 5262's ability to function effectively. My Information Technology staff communicated directly with Verizon via email about the throttling, requesting it be immediately lifted for public safety purposes."

Verizon did not immediately restore full speeds to the device, however.

"Verizon representatives confirmed the throttling, but rather than restoring us to an essential data transfer speed, they indicated that County Fire would have to switch to a new data plan at more than twice the cost, and they would only remove throttling after we contacted the Department that handles billing and switched to the new data plan," Bowden wrote.

That's a nice state you got there... would be a shame if something happened to it because you didn't upgrade to the super unlimited plan...

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 00:40

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

im sorry youre president actually has cheese for a brain

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1032057377120575490

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 01:43

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

If Obama was willing to ignore the Angry Black Man image and strongarm stuff through like the public option America would've been a lot better off be he wasn't willing to and he didn't even want the public option anyway so here we are. Trump getting elected is probably the biggest indictment of how much of a failure the concept of respectability politics is.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2018 21:06

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

Sergg posted:

Obamacare saved my life when I was a student in nursing school and had a sudden artery blown in my GI tract so ya'll can talk poo poo all you want but I would crawl over broken glass to vote for that man again.

This is equally as a valid of a take as Obama should have done more

# ¿ Aug 23, 2018 22:18

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1033062756893814785?s=19

# ¿ Aug 24, 2018 20:16

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

orange juche posted:

the loving comment thread on this is gold.

https://twitter.com/aastvaldsson/status/1033051347938099202?s=19

# ¿ Aug 24, 2018 22:34

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

bird food bathtub posted:

The best part is if they actually gave a poo poo about stopping "socialism" the way they're constantly braying about how they define it the answer is really, really simple; fix the poo poo that is making people say "Hey why not? I'm getting hosed over by this system harder and harder every day. Let's give it a try"

That is, of course, completely antithetical to the actual beliefs they act on and has precisely zero point jack poo poo to do with the actual definition of socialism.

I'm confused, how exactly are you supposed to improve the system for those currently suffering under it without making it more socialist

# ¿ Aug 25, 2018 22:35

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

https://twitter.com/TomiObaro/status/1031946036380614656

quote:

By far the most important pieces are those that were hauled away by British and French troops in 1860 after the sacking of the Old Summer Palace. In China today, it's difficult to overstate the indignity still associated with the looting of the palace, which had served as a residence to the last Chinese dynasty. Its gardens, art, and architecture were said to be among the most beautiful in the world. The palace held an array of wonders, not the least of which was a fountain adorned with 12 bronze heads representing the animals of the Chinese zodiac.

�The government in China doesn't think they're stolen objects. They think they belong to them."

When European troops reached the garden, the desecration of the palace became a mad frenzy. Soldiers stripped it of everything they could carry. The zodiac heads were wrenched from their bases and hauled away as trophies. When the soldiers had removed all they could, they torched what remained�retribution, they said, for the torture and murder of British envoys who'd attempted to negotiate with the Chinese. The grounds of the palace were so large and so intricate that the 4,500 troops needed three days to burn everything.

Most of the plunder was taken back to Europe and either tucked away in private collections or presented as gifts to royal families. Queen Victoria of Britain was given a pet Pekingese dog, the first of its kind ever seen in Europe. Unabashed by its provenance, she named it Looty.

Honestly can't be mad at China on this one

quote:

In the face of China's repatriation campaign�and the recent robberies�museums are now scrambling. Some have stood their ground, arguing the legitimacy of their acquisitions or touting the value to the Chinese of sharing their culture abroad. Others have quietly shipped crates of art back to China, in hopes of avoiding trouble with either the thieves or the government.

Arguing for the legitimacy of stolen artifacts is the most euro thing

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 06:22

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

The Iron Rose posted:

The whole point of democracy is that we can have discussions and make decisions on politics that affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people without hating each other or killing each other over it. To that end, I think you have to separate the man from the individual policies.

E: but that's the last I'll say about it. He'll get his hagiography from the rest of mainstream society. I'm hardly going to begrudge a little bit of complaining and humour about it.

It's ok if people predictably die as the results of your politics as long as you don't kill the people you disagree with?

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 17:09

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

psydude posted:

Nobody's saying that. McCain was one of the last members of the Republican party who was occasionally willing to cooperate on poo poo like campaign finance reform and projecting soft power. Good luck getting that from Tom Cotton.

It's the same reason why people were bummed when Kennedy retired from the bench. Yeah he had some horrible decisions, but he was also willing to vote the moderate position on some key stuff. You won't get that out of Kavanaugh.

Iron Rose's stance is explicitly that McCain was a good man and that politics are completely orthogonal to being a good person

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 17:41

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

If only there was a good gamer with a gun

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 20:28

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 22, 2024 16:57

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

mlmp08 posted:

Getting angry and shooting people outside the game is very NFL.

Madden 2020 will be the first major CFL video game release

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 21:15

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > August Current A E S T H E T I C S: enjoy a refreshing SAINT PEPSI

«‹›2 »