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shame on an IGA posted:HOLY poo poo HULU JUST ADDED THE ENTIRE RUN OF KING OF THE HILL November off to a good start.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Having just filled out an absentee ballot, I'd like to mention that having access to the internet is invaluable for deciding who to vote for for things like the school board. I never really cared about those sort of things before. Yeah. The paper here had a good write-up on the local races (online), which was pretty helpful in figuring that poo poo out.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:36
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He looks like every creepy right wing dude who lived in your hall freshman year.
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Nov 2, 2018 12:48
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Steezo posted:Remember when Russia shot down a passenger airplane like it was Iran in the 70's and no one gave a poo poo? Or Russia in the 80s?
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Nov 2, 2018 16:40
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Internet VFW was probably a more accurate description at this point. Which reminds me, can Mr. Nice get us Internet VFW trucker hats with NDSMs on them?
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Nov 2, 2018 19:06
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How can they arrest people in Mexico.
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Nov 2, 2018 19:33
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Vasudus posted:I'm looking at approximately 500-600k for a townhouse in an area that is metro accessible. The good news I guess is that the metro expansion that is coming in 2022 goes through a huge swath of underdeveloped areas so there will be...exactly the same that exists now except further out, as stuff that exists here and now closer to DC will be priced twice as high. I bought my house in Columbia for $335k in 2015 and my neighbor's house with the same floorplan just sold for $425. At this point I'm not sure I could afford to buy another house in the same area.
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Nov 3, 2018 09:01
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Amazon is in advanced talks to open HQ2 in Northern Virginia (specifically Crystal City) Sorry, Vas.
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Nov 3, 2018 16:18
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Waroduce posted:I run A team of software developers out of Atlanta who are all sitting on at least 2 properties waiting to cash in when Amazon moves in and I bet stand up is going to consist of them bitching real hard Monday I'm up in central MD, but I'm guessing the housing price insanity will ripple outwards as people get pushed out of the beltway. If this is the case, I guess I'll rent my house out after I move away and collect some of that sweet, sweet real estate bubble money.
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Nov 3, 2018 16:36
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Vasudus posted:If I plan to consume more than four beers or two drinks in approximately 6 hours of time I need to prepare like I'm going on the mother of all benders. Shitloads of water, vitamin B, asparin, the works. It's lame as hell. I turned 29 recently and didn't drink for 4 days afterwards because apparently 6 drinks over 8 hours was too much for me to handle.
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Nov 3, 2018 17:34
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Doesn’t having an HQ there make a lot of sense? Tons of defense companies do it for the same reason. It's more that dropping an additional 50k workers and their families in the area is going to have hilarious results for the housing market and the healthcare, transportation, and education infrastructure of the surrounding counties.
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Nov 3, 2018 18:38
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BigDave posted:NoVa is gonna start to resemble Mega City One from Judge Dredd. With even worse urban planning. I guess it's also important to mention that the reason it's a huge issue is that the DC area is already effectively at full employment, especially for tech jobs. Even if some contractors in Raptors with Gadsden license plates make the move to Amazon, there's still going to be a net demand.
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Nov 3, 2018 18:49
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MA-Horus posted:Tbh better than loving Toronto we can't afford higher housing prices or more traffic Hey I'm not trying to get into a traffic pissing match here, but to go ~25 miles in DC rush hour can typically take 1.5-2 hours. psydude fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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Nov 3, 2018 19:26
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That Works posted:That's 5-10 miles in Boston. Oh I'm not even talking about DC itself. I'm talking about the commuting area around it. e: I guess the moral of the story is that spending on infrastructure in major US metropolitan areas is so bad that what SHOULD be an economic gain in terms of tax base ends up becoming a burden. psydude fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Nov 3, 2018 |
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Nov 3, 2018 20:02
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Milo and POTUS posted:American transportation infrastructure is dogshit from top to bottom like pretty much everywhere I've ever been. Is there any place it's not god awful? NYC? They've been complaining about the metro recently, but it's roughly on par with your average European city in terms of service and access.
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Nov 3, 2018 20:09
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Eej posted:The 401 stretches from Windsor to Quebec City and when it crosses through Toronto expands from 4 to 16 lanes because its the main corridor for all US-Canadian shipping on the East Coast so the scale is entirely different here. Only tangentially related, but I recently drove to NB for work after flying in to Bangor and it was the only time in traveling for work to over 25 different countries that I've ever been stopped and interrogated by immigration. They were very concerned that I was an illegal immigrant taking a job from a Canadian citizen or something. The irony wasn't lost on me. To be fair this has never happened at the airport in Canada, just the border crossing in the middle of nowhere.
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Nov 3, 2018 20:40
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facialimpediment posted:There was a shooting yesterday in Tallahassee at a yoga studio, two women dead. Uneventful in the curren- oh gently caress, Incels again. Does anyone have that picture of the contemplative kid in cargo shorts wearing a fedora and sandals? Because this story merits that.
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Nov 3, 2018 20:44
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SquirrelyPSU posted:You realize there are plenty of people that live in Adams and York Counties and commute to Baltimore/DC right I've known some of these people. They were loving miserable and usually had health problems from sitting in their car for 4.5 hours each day. Like yeah I get that you can have a million acres and a sweet Texas sized house in Chambersburg for what you'd spend on 20 acres and a normal sized house in Frederick, but what's the point if you're never home/too fat to enjoy it?
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Nov 4, 2018 13:59
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Milo and POTUS posted:This might be the thing that pisses me off the most about the hateful cyberpunk future. I've bitched about it before I know that Unfortunately, aside from call centers and other stuff, there isn't really a way to make service jobs WFH, so they'd just become automated out of existence.
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Nov 4, 2018 15:41
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Vasudus posted:It's either Pence or some other evangelical political appointee. Mattis would call it something like Operation Fine, Whatever, Stop Calling Me. I remember reading a while back that combat operations are supposed to be two randomly chosen words. Maybe they should start doing that for peacetime operations as well.
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Nov 4, 2018 16:31
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Thalantos posted:Man, Operation Iraqi Freedom sure was lucky they drew those two words for it! Nah, it was in relation to Odyssey Dawn. People were freaking out about the title implying that the US was going to get into another quagmire in Libya until the Pentagon pointed out it was randomly generated. I guess in the end it still resulted in a quagmire, but the US only wound up losing Benjamin Ghazi.
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Nov 4, 2018 17:15
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M_Gargantua posted:But at this point would you want the current Federal administration having control of every state's voting systems? At this point at least the liberal states are doing alright. A better way would probably be to create a nonpartisan commission to replace the Secretary of State position in each state, rather than the current politically appointed/elected system.
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Nov 4, 2018 17:53
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Milo and POTUS posted:I've never flown in. I've heard it's a fantastic airport Not right now. Like half of the terminals are under construction so it's a mess of exposed drop ceiling and construction materials.
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Nov 4, 2018 20:09
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Victor Vermis posted:A few weeks back I listened to 3am Christian Radio for an hour in the car after my aux cable took a dump. For funsies. "Trump sucks so much that divine intervention is the only explanation" is at least intellectually honest from an Evangelical point of view, I guess.
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Nov 5, 2018 14:03
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If Dems retake the house, I'll have a victory beer. If Dems retake the Senate, I'm breaking out the good scotch.
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Nov 5, 2018 18:50
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my kinda ape posted:I'm sure the plague of scam callers where you might get 5-10 calls per day from "card services" or "about your car warranty" probably cause a lot of people to not answer unknown numbers. And conservatives like my mom have been conditioned by the propaganda machine to think pollsters are fake news devils working against Republicans. This. I never answer my phone unless it's from a number I recognize. Like hell I'm going to answer a random number when 90% of it is spam.
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Nov 5, 2018 23:43
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FrozenVent posted:Meh it’s not like one vote makes a difference anyway. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/01/04/drawing-today-decide-virginia-state-house-race-majority-party/1002910001/
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Nov 6, 2018 08:04
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In some cases it may take several days for the results to be announced (and Georgia may go to a runoff for the governorship), but we should know by late Tuesday night/early Wednesday in the vast majority of races.
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pkells posted:MA always seems to have Republican governors. I think the only exception since the 80’s was Deval Patrick. Yeah essentially, although MA took a lot of its inspiration from the Swiss system, which is very similar. It was funny watching Obama and company routinely point out that the ACA Romney purported to be running against was literally of his own creation.
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Nov 6, 2018 17:07
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Comey is the green ranger of US politicians.
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Nov 6, 2018 18:46
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Vasudus posted:
Pfft, I've been drinking for the past hour and a half here in Austria.
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Nov 6, 2018 19:22
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DoktorLoken posted:I'm cracking open some good barrel aged stouts if tonight is good for us (IE Scott Walker loses and we at least take the House) I think Scott Walker is my third least favorite elected official after Trump and Cruz (Cruz being number 1, because at least Trump occasionally has moments of hilarious self awareness). What person hoping to run the most powerful country on Earth brags about his lack of education.
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Nov 6, 2018 20:03
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Bolow posted:https://twitter.com/ashtynsees/status/1059888278734823424 Provisional ballots are only counted in the event of a recount or a runoff, so he's technically correct, but he's being a dick about it.
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Nov 6, 2018 22:12
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A former CIA officer just defeated Dave Brat, a turbo crazy tea partier from outside Richmond who primaried Eric Cantor a few years ago.
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Nov 7, 2018 06:15
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Also, get hosed Kobach.
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Nov 7, 2018 06:18
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Rosen beat Heller in Nevada. Heller just conceded.
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Nov 7, 2018 09:02
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Democrats' control of the house is official.
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Nov 7, 2018 09:18
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Arc Light posted:Committees within the House of Representatives, at least, will flip from the GOP, once they're no longer the majority party in the House. The new chairperson and majority of members in each committee will be democrats. If the dems actually follow through on their campaign promises, expect to see a whole bunch of Trump administration minions getting subpoenaed to suss out their various crimes. This will be particularly entertaining because republicans made the House Oversight Committee significantly more powerful when President Obama was still in office, to better hammer his administration. Not to mention the GOP congressional agenda is dead. No more budget reconciliation to pass through bullshit like tax cuts or slashing the ACA. The downside is that they can still appoint all of the conservative justices they want until at least 2020 (when they're facing a much more competitive Senate landscape).
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Nov 7, 2018 12:05
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Florida legalized felon votes, which means black people who did time for a gram of weed can vote again. So the 2020 election may be a different story in Florida.
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The popular vote for the Senate is kind of arbitrary though because every state gets two senators. So Wyoming, which has a population of 580k people total, has the same number of senators as California, a state with a population almost 80 times that. e: Washington DC has a bigger population than Wyoming and they don't even get a vote in Congress despite paying taxes.
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