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When you're talking a serious amount of money a lot of people stop being able to comprehend what that looks like. It's not even necessarily a lot of money either, in the scheme of things. I've never seen what an Ostrich coat looks like. I didn't even know that was a thing that people owned outside of industrial revolution era factory barons.
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One of the PHS officers I work with used to be AF and got assigned to Thule. He got out of it by...becoming PHS.
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I've always pronounced it Thuul. I don't care if it's wrong.
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Aug 2, 2018 01:44
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I would have preferred if Manafort could be allowed to defend his purchases if he busted into a song, but it's probably hard to make lyrics that fit in 'ostrich jacket'. Court is really missing out on a golden opportunity.
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Aug 2, 2018 02:14
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I'm on some kind of hellish mailing list where the Pentagon Force Protection Agency sends me notices about every goddamn post in NCR doing things. Oh the phone lines at the Pentagon are down from 12am-2am tomorrow. Oh there's an active shooter drill at Meade. Oh there's a fire drill at WRNMMC. I seem to be the only one for my office that is subscribed to everything and I'm convinced that whoever the exchange guy is happened to remember me from 15 years ago to gently caress with me.
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Aug 2, 2018 20:34
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It's kind of a semi-big deal for the region because the Druze are spread over Israel/Syria/Lebanon (mostly) and loving with them is ill advised. They largely want to be left alone, so rocking the boat is probably not the best idea.
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Aug 2, 2018 21:06
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Ah yes, the town that found out that taxation is not in fact theft.
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Aug 2, 2018 21:27
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It's a shame too because the springs and the surrounding areas are absolutely gorgeous. It's just a chud refuge.
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Aug 2, 2018 22:51
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I too believe an organization that has gone to great lengths to hide the extent of their money is magically claiming they no longer have any.
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Aug 3, 2018 21:35
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I also completely forgot for a minute that the new CEO is Ollie-loving-North.
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Aug 3, 2018 22:51
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wow the springs really is a libertarian magnet
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Aug 3, 2018 23:13
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i have never doubted the piss tape
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Aug 4, 2018 13:22
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can a state charge an individual on a state level offense related to a crime they were federally pardoned for? or does that fall into jeopardy issues would laugh if the nyag just charges manafort with all the crimes and uses his signed acceptance of the federal pardon as evidence but i dont think it works like that
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Aug 4, 2018 14:09
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yeah i'm just imagining manafort sitting in a nyc courthouse and the lawyer being like 'mr manafort did you do all these crimes' 'no' 'then why did you accept a pardon and admit to all these crimes' and then manafort using the chili defense unsuccessfully
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Aug 4, 2018 14:24
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Gen-X is just as bad if not worse than the Boomers, as they're more conservative on a whole. Most of your real shits in congress are Gen-X, and it'll only get worse as THEY get older.
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Aug 4, 2018 18:11
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There's different standards for what constitutes a specific generation. It's best to think of them as "what major events / time periods were the defining period of their early adulthood" Lost Generation = WW1 Greatest Generation = WW2 Silent Generation = Post-WW2/Early Cold War Boomers = Vietnam Generation X = Reagan Generation Y / MILLENNIALS = Post-Desert Storm, 9/11, GWOT Generation Z / "Digital Natives" = GWOT, Great Recession
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Aug 4, 2018 18:33
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The judge is an old school ballbuster that insists the prosecution tries absolutely no funny business and sticks to their case. Basically this is the best option in the event the special council tries and pull a Bundy - i.e. goes for the flashy dunk and misses it when they could've done a layup and made it.
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Aug 4, 2018 21:10
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There's probably a sliding scale on how in shape you have to be to stand in body armor under whatever temperature. 110-115 degrees with full battle rattle? Yeah that's easy enough (*cough loving kill me*) when you're in the best shape of your life and practically carved out of wood. I don't think these guys are.
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Aug 4, 2018 21:12
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psh it was only like a mile inland who needs maps anyway when you've got a lieutenant on the spot
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Story time please Vasudus posted:
I posted this in 2012. The event itself happened in 2005 long before any of the ISIS shenanigans. Said LT is now a civilian high up in the Pepsi corporation that his daddy got him a job.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Lol that's gold. How in the hell would a berm stop smugglers anyway It largely wouldn't, it was mostly window dressing and keeping people from just straight up walking over. Our solution has always been to just pop a tank nearby and have thermals spot them way out. But we didn't really have the equipment to spare, and we needed something that the Iraqis could do presumably if we left. The borders there are a goddamn nightmare of crisscrossing rocks, streams, and crevices that the maps do not do proper justice. So it was also trying to standardize the concept of 'hey dipshits, use the border checkpoint'.
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there was some politician recently (not TRUMP) that was like 'hey, the majority of our astronauts are from Ohio <crowd cheers> what's wrong with this state to the point they want to leave the planet? <crowd mumbles> i forgot the exact details of it
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no this will just get put into the collection of 'things the president has said on twitter' and be forgotten about
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Aug 5, 2018 18:50
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manafort is a crime elemental, a golem made of smaller, lesser crimes the voltron of crimes
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Aug 6, 2018 22:02
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North California chuds that are mad they can't divert all the river water to their fields, which would pretty much nuke the multi-billion dollar fishing industry in the process.
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Mine didn't want to bring Arab babies into America, even though they would be half.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Popehat/status/1026843794753314817 Popehat isn't concerned.
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Aug 7, 2018 17:10
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I'm sorry but 'Suck my dick, you fuckman' will be the all time greatest thing ever said in court.
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Aug 7, 2018 17:21
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Guess we better nationalize all social media and regulate it like a utility.
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Aug 7, 2018 19:43
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FrozenVent posted:This but unironically. i wasn't being ironic 
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Aug 7, 2018 20:46
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Don't forget also that Jeong was targeted in the first place for a lot of harassment because she's a minority woman that writes articles about tech, and tech is the worst culture. So calling out tech stuff as garbage gets you a target on your back.
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Aug 7, 2018 23:45
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Don't worry, Yemen will stabilize pretty soon when everyone dies of famine or dehydration.
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Aug 8, 2018 15:54
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Climate refugee crises are going to be wild. It's all fun and games until like 200m people have to relocate before 2055 as most of the arid parts of the equator become completely uninhabitable for 9 months of the year.
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Aug 9, 2018 02:23
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it has to pass congress looking forward to the tweets saying that obstructionist democratic congress is weak on space
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Aug 9, 2018 19:46
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I always found that the statement 'technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic' to have a corollary: technology that is sufficiently understood will be utilized by idiots. See: Starcraft 1 intro video. Except I don't think space flight is anywhere near that level yet. We still kinda have to send insanely smart people up there.
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She's also said she won't vote for Pelosi as speaker, so they can't use that as a boogeyman either. It's a shame that republicans don't believe in evolution, because this is evolution in action. The antibiotic resistant tuberculosis of leftist politics, brought about because of such a hostile environment.
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While I don't necessarily want term limits (it'll never pass anyway) there's a lot to be said about how many old fuckers there are in congress. Like 80 years should be the cutoff, meaning 74 for the Senate and 78 for the house. Not that it would have mattered since it's Orrin-loving-Hatch, but when he downplayed some economic thing (I forgot what, it was like 4 months ago / 80 years in TRUMP dimension) by saying he worked as a janitor to pay for law school I wanted to scream. Yes yes he would have just said something else. So many tech related things are failing to be properly regulated because three quarters of congress were adults before the invention of the goddamn transistor. We don't have to go all Logan's Run on things, but there needs to be way less people making decisions that have considerable impact on the future when they won't even be alive to see it.
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Aug 10, 2018 13:19
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Pelosi needs to step aside because she represents one of the richest congressional districts in the country, has lovely opinions, and has failed to adapt to the changes in the country. She's a lovely centrist obsessed with decorum, just like Schumer. She is most assuredly a good speaker in the sense that she can control the caucus and such. I say this as a former lovely centrist democrat that was forced to evolve my views in light of the last two years. https://twitter.com/internethippo/status/881161169469403137
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Just as soon as we pass campaign finance laws that have actual teeth and overturn Citizens United.
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