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Current event: It's the 79th anniversary of WWII kicking off. Also, it's my birthday 
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SlightlyMad posted:Rolls right off the tongue. Operation MASAGA: Making South America Great Again 
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Sep 1, 2018 07:05
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Can someone give me a quick overview of what could possibly happen in the 2018 midterms? Like, both best-case and worst-case? iirc the Senate can't go blue over open positions or something, but I've lost track over special elections / resignations / close races in both house and Senate over the year
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Sep 3, 2018 19:43
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facialimpediment posted:John Kyl is replacing John McCain. John Kyl is a former high-level GOP senator, is currently the Sherpa for the Kavanaugh nomination, and if you don't see why that's bad: That was such an easy dunk and she still had to be fed the line 
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Sep 4, 2018 18:27
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As little as it would surprise me that a member of the current administration would display an affection for the white supremacy move on television, that whole SECRET SYMBOL drama got little more than a rolling of the eyes to me, and I used to get paid to identify Nazi symbols. This video seems to make it even more clear that she gets a message on her phone, smirks, looks at the camera, makes that dumb ring sign and keeps looking around ominously like she knows she's being watched while hiding a smile. https://twitter.com/ManInTheHoody/status/1037124624557830144 I mean, I understand people have racism-fatigue or something under this administration, but to shoot immediately for WHITE SUPREMACY instead of some juvenile joke seems like grasping at straws.
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Sep 5, 2018 06:38
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I can't even google a picture of this "white supremacist hand gesture" and D&D still seems to be 100% convinced that's what it was and is melting down over it. Yes, I know, water wet, etc.
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Sep 5, 2018 08:05
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Fallom posted:Here you go bud Well, I learn a new dumb thing every day, I guess. I genuinely thought it was the dumb ring game thing that started being a thing again recently, mostly because she appeared to receive a message, smirked, then did the thing while glancing at the camera and still suppressing a smirk. Do she or her associates have some form of history/connection with white supremacists at least? Where there's smoke, there's fire etc?
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Sep 5, 2018 16:34
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mods changed my name posted:Doesn't she associate with the trump admin / gop?? Yeah, I just read up on her and I don't think any employee of Stephen Miller has an excuse in that regard
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Sep 5, 2018 18:28
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The House is having a loving Twitter hearing?
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Sep 5, 2018 20:00
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I laughed a lot, then I thought it was getting old, and then I laughed a lot again at the end https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1037414684994007040 , she decided to invoke racehttps://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1037468070992916483 Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Sep 6, 2018 |
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Sep 6, 2018 07:33
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Hot Karl Marx posted:There are receipts! With the amount of documentation and sources Woodward has done on everything in the past, I'm not at all surprised
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Sep 6, 2018 18:33
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I'm getting reports that Madagascar just shut down every port of entry
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Sep 7, 2018 06:52
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In our reality, the world is brought to its knees by a plague the US failed to contain on account of broken government, and Madagascar ends up being the sole country left to accept survivors for treatment
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Sep 7, 2018 08:07
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I'm not even 5 minutes in, but holy poo poo, Elon is awkward as hell. I mean, for any other person, I'd assume it's them being nervous, but this dude? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI /edit: I dare you to get past 19 minutes of this, because that's where I had to trigger ye olde ejectonne seate It's an insane person hungry for crazy talking to an incredibly nervous insane person that may or may not be autistic and/or high /edit: He doesn't even smoke weed, he takes a fake-hit off Rogan's blunt like I would do when I was 14 and trying to drag on a cigarette to make the older kids think I was cool without inhaling Like, Mark Zuckerberg could probably fake a hit from a blunt more convincingly Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Sep 7, 2018 13:07
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Vahakyla posted:Aight here is the second time. loving Absolutely incredible /edit: I just realized that someone probably told her "no, no, that thing you did last time that caused controversy? Do it on live TV again, but use it in the 'proper ay-okay' manner, that'll put the discussion to rest" This administration has the greatest loving consultants and advisers Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Sep 7, 2018 13:49
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Her name is Bash... Bash the Fash
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Sep 7, 2018 13:56
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It's like they took the "Joke's on you, I was just pretending to be retarded" meme and ran with it
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Sep 7, 2018 15:05
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Hey, uh, we have dumber things to argue over I think. Here, like this President that just said this book must be a scam, because I don't say dumb things, if I said dumb things, I wouldn't have become President https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1038027233519001600
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Sep 7, 2018 17:00
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This got a chuckle out of me https://twitter.com/KristinMinkDC/status/1038396317830193153
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Sep 8, 2018 14:06
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When's this thing supposed to make landfall?
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Sep 10, 2018 05:26
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Well, that's not good. But 4 days out, there's still a chance for it to change direction / not hit as hard, right? I mean, I figure it's only gonna gain strength on the way there, but...
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Sep 10, 2018 06:08
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EBB posted:Thanks for the nice PMs guys. SC governor is on TV and ordered the evacuation, talked to Mom and she's leaving. Good to hear. What's not so good to hear is this. Take it with a grain of salt, because it's from popularmechanics, but supposedly, the air leak the ISS suffered recently may have been due to sabotage https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a22984603/air-leak-iss-drilled-russia/
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Sep 10, 2018 20:05
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mods changed my name posted:Michael Moore is good and cool After thousands of schools in Germany went to see "Bowling for Columbine" as educational content way back when, I tend to disagree
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Sep 10, 2018 20:22
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mods changed my name posted:Seems like you should be mad at German schools for that So we're in agreement that - while having some absolutely valid points - it's a trash documentary produced by Michael Moore?
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Sep 10, 2018 20:29
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I don't know, he's always left a bad taste in my mouth with the poo poo he's pushed out. It's always an important issue that deserves to be highlighted, but he does with his...Michael Moore antics that really cast a massive shadow on what he does.
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Sep 10, 2018 20:35
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Woodward book showing up online It seems to be only 15 bucks on Amazon, so I might just grab the Kindle edition there
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Sep 11, 2018 06:13
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shame on an IGA posted:
Christ, was that at least from rainfall, or are those the first flooding waves from the hurricane?
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Sep 11, 2018 06:38
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From the GBS thread: Those sandbags are in for some work 
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Sep 11, 2018 16:00
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I'm past Chapter 4 of Woodward's book, and...I don't think I can take this. I mean, is there anything else worthwhile reading in this book outside of the confirmation, in excruciatingly-vivid detail, the incomprehensible idiocy going on in Trump's campaign, administration, and mind that we already know of? It's beyond sanity.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:48
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Godholio posted:Gotta admire their optimism. Logic, no. But the optimism is off the loving charts. This is apparently South Topsail Beach, by the way. Which is located roughly here  Hardest working sandbags in showbiz
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Sep 11, 2018 16:56
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Latest models apparently have Florence idling off the coast a bit and then turning south just after making landfall, NWS dudes are calling it the "storm of a lifetime". I'm guessing coastal NC/SC isn't gonna be very happy about this
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Sep 12, 2018 05:42
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Stormpost: the precipitation forecast makes it look like a decent bit of the NC coast between Wilmington, Havelock and Jacksonville might be getting over half a loving METER of rain over 5 days. Like, knee-deep water, coming from the sky, for every square meter. And that doesn't even include the storm surges.  Peep these numbers.    /edit: MCAS Cherry Point is right around where Havelock is, do bases like that get skeleton crews to remain behind during full evacuation? I'm assuming you'd want to fly out everything you can't cram in a shelter, but surely, the poo poo still needs to be under considerable guard. Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Sep 12, 2018 10:12
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But hey, don't worry, strong daddy's got this. He already did an incredible job with Puerto Rico, it'll be an even more incredible job when actual white voters of his are affected, nevermind the diversion of budget to ICE  https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1039600444568350720
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Sep 12, 2018 10:20
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orange juche posted:Thousands of idiots are going to die, and Trump will toss out paper towels to a crowd of Trump supporters and proclaim victory. Yeah, I read that too, but didn't point it out in my post, because I figured that either had to be wrong, or mean something else in the graphical context. It didn't make sense in the context of that graph to only demarcate a scale of up to 20 inches, but then have considerable spots of the map covered in precipitation density that is literally off the scale. If the majority of a region on a graph would be affected by something, you'd adjust the scale, which is why the graph didn't entirely make sense to me. Though, if the explanation behind this is that it's a static default scale that cannot handle anything above 20 inches of precipitation, and those numbers are accurate, then...nevermind the 93 inches in the middle. Everything between Wilmington and Havelock is getting more than a loving meter of rain between early Thursday and midday Saturday. God help them.
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Sep 12, 2018 12:11
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orange juche posted:I can't even comprehend over a meter of rain falling in 3 days, like that amount of water falling from the sky is just unfathomable to me. There is no loving way that plenty of people don't die in this. iirc, NWS precipitation scales still indicate precipitation per square meter, despite the imperial units for amount, so that's a literal ton, as in one thousand kilos of water per square meter, during the most intense couple of days. Like, swimming pool amounts of water. I genuinely hope that the difference in models is an indication of lack of accuracy, and there's still some hope for a milder outcome. /edit: ^^^^^ that unfortunately confirms the models from the last two days, so it doesn't look like they're too far off with their estimates. Welp
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Sep 12, 2018 12:46
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golden bubble posted:That's only the Global British Standard (GBS) model. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (GCMWF) model only predicts 46" of rain, and the Global US Standard (GFS) model is predicting 57" of rain. You can look at more models here: https://weather.us/model-charts/standard/north-carolina/acc-total-precipitation/20180918-0000z.html. The official US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predictions only go to 20-25" of rain. But still, there is no place on Earth than can handle two feet of rain in two or three days without flooding. Excellent, national models are only predicting just under a meter of rain over three days, but it's nowhere near the ludicrous estimates of more than a meter of rain. The fact that conservative estimates correct the potential to around a level of "loving catastrophic" from estimates of "beyond any amount of loving catastrophic we could imagine" is almost more terrifying than the weird models that have Florence going up and down the NC/SC coastline for five loving days before peacing out towards the NY coastline. /edit: That wasn't meant as a dig at you. It's just that I know the catastrophe-covering threads on SA tend to hype the worst possible outcome from following them over the past couple of years (which is why I take them with a grain of salt), but when the most defensive predictions still amount to what is going to be an absolute nightmare, it just scares the crap out of me. I have an army buddy from Charleston whose grandpa took off to Savannah with his family yesterday, while another buddy in chapel hill is staying put. And while Chapel hill is nowhere close to what Wilmington is facing, it just kinda freaks me out. Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Sep 12, 2018 17:22
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Come to think of it, any damage Chapel Hill sustains is probably duly deserved from a history of not wanting black people around. That place was a loving mystery to me when I went there for a wedding. It was like 'Get Out', except I was one of the white people there that wasn't read-in on what they're using black folks for
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Sep 12, 2018 17:34
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Seriously, when we were being ferried from the hotel to the ceremony and then along to the reception while taking a tour of downtown Chapel Hill on a Saturday with all the fraternities having cookouts and pep-rallies on their front lawn, I jokingly asked "Where do you hide your black people?, and everyone within earshot chuckled in this aww-shucks kind of manner like the naive German dude didn't know the lay of the land
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Sep 12, 2018 17:39
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Did I mention the only black person I encountered between daybreak and nightfall was a bartender at the reception? That place needs a loving investigation or something
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Sep 12, 2018 17:41
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No, I've lived in the south. I know the south. Chapel Hill needs an armed, sanctioned team of explorators/enforcers to come in and go "Okay, why is this place a statistical aberration in a region already plagued with racism? Let's set up tables for a summary tribunal right over there."
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Sep 12, 2018 17:49
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