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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Alright real fast, all you hip woke young dudes and dudettes.. who should I be following on twitter for CE/political poo poo? I’ve got popehat so far. Do you want more or less serious accounts or funny accounts that are often political?
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Funny accounts would be great too, same as far as serious ones. Here's a bunch of people I really like, most of them are nobodies outside of twitter https://twitter.com/NuclearAnthro cool guy who's getting his PhD in nuclear weapon related anthropology, posts lots of cool nuclear/cold war stuff https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson big leftist comedy account, sort of a one trick pony in that he mostly just dunks on dumb conservatives but he's pretty clever, gets posted here fairly often https://twitter.com/RussiawithoutBS good Russia/Ukraine commentary, kind of an anti-tankie leftist, former military, would fit in well here https://twitter.com/surfbordt good left politics/Russia commentary https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang leftist soldier with a podcast dedicated to leftist soldiers, would fit in extremely well here if he doesn't already post here https://twitter.com/pattymo more of a joke account but like a lot of former weird twitter joke people now often jokes about politics since the world is falling apart https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck see: pattymo https://twitter.com/crushingbort see: boring_as_heck https://twitter.com/Bro_Pair writer and I think former FYAD goon, lots of good analysis on stuff, formerly worked closely with @mobute until the latter got outed as a creep https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins our very own Brown Moses https://twitter.com/cd_hooks reporter in Texas who has lots of good political analysis and is also pretty funny https://twitter.com/blippoblappo kind of a cross between @crushingbort and @cd_hooks ? https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic member of extremely popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, all the CTH guys are funny and worth following but he's the funniest IMO It's really all down to personal taste but I really only directly follow people that are really funny or have an interesting niche like NuclearAnthro because if you follow a bunch of serious business politics people/reporters/etc then your twitter ends up being more or less like watching the news all day which gets kind of depressing even if you can tailor it to be of much higher quality.
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Nov 1, 2018 07:37
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Eej posted:pixelatedboat sucks and that's amplified by him posting constantly about American politics from the glass house of Australia Say what you will but the man can throw a tantrum with the best of them!
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Nov 1, 2018 21:13
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I'm kind of conflicted about them but their logo whips rear end.
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Nov 2, 2018 01:04
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Bolow posted:https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1058439421983383554 My dad sprays atrazine on the farm, is he going to turn gay?  I was actually talking with him earlier this year and he was saying that it wasn't used as much as it used to be because it's a lot more dangerous than newer herbicides but since there's now a lot of weeds that have developed resistance to the newer herbicides they've had more success by going back to atrazine. Hopefully the pendulum swings back the other way in another decade so they don't have to use that poo poo as much. He even mentioned a couple weeks ago that a few people were using loving paraquat because nothing else was working. Resistance to herbicides/pesticides/antibiotics is a big loving deal y'all. Gotta have rules and regulations in place so the valuable tools we depend on for modern live don't stop working completely. my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Nov 2, 2018 |
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Nov 2, 2018 21:38
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I think the amphibians going extinct is mostly a hell fungus that got spread everywhere so like, that's only partially our fault!
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Nov 2, 2018 22:40
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'm surprised round-up is still so widely used. It's been around 20 odd years now and still works well enough, but I'd have thought a resistance would have built faster. It's getting to be a huge problem. Resistant amaranth is loving everywhere and it's super hard to kill, that's why they're busting out the paraquat and all sorts of new formulations of different herbicides mixed together.
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Nov 3, 2018 00:42
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Syrian Lannister posted:I don’t know what makes it worse, the red tire or the unbuttoned shirt exposing the belly button I'm the shorts that you tie instead of button
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Nov 3, 2018 21:43
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I can’t grasp what kind of alien mind could possibly draw a comparison between Trump and Jesus. Maybe he's the antichrist and has magic powers that trick the evil and corrupt??
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Nov 4, 2018 19:45
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Missionary Positron posted:What if voter suppression does its thing and the GOP manages to somehow hold on the House? The strychnine flavored kool-aid.
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Nov 5, 2018 19:01
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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.
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Nov 5, 2018 20:59
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Inshallah we shall commence 1000 years of liberal darkness
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Nov 6, 2018 08:23
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Casimir Radon posted:We can play too. Ha I never heard the critics didn't like it. I thought it was pretty good+original.
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Nov 6, 2018 18:30
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Casimir Radon posted:There's one particularly heinous Reconstruction era thing I'd never even heard of until I saw it. Reconstruction was a colossal failure and that's a big part of why our country is so hosed up today. The rest is because capitalism.
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Nov 6, 2018 18:46
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FAUXTON posted:The voting precinct i've been attending since 2012 and have never had to wait at had a 15 minute line in 38 degree weather and they'd already run out of stickers and the line was growing behind us, at 6PM. Too bad, half the breweries in Lincoln are giving a free beer to anyone with a sticker. Probably the same in Omaha/elsewhere.
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Nov 7, 2018 02:00
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Nate Silver is worthless I don't know why anyone would put any stock in what he says.
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Nov 7, 2018 02:26
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:They absolutely want that, but they've been so thoroughly indoctrinated by conservative brainworms that they won't vote for the people who'd give it to them. That and the dems have pretty much decided that those people aren't worth fighting for which leads to people thinking well why would I vote for the dems when they clearly don't give a gently caress about rural people? Also guns+abortion are more important to rural people and have been thoroughly adopted as Republican talking points.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:17
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 sweating bullets Also Nebraska appears to have passed Medicaid expansion woo
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Nov 7, 2018 07:34
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DoktorLoken posted:https://twitter.com/sykescharlie/status/1060062097860648960?s=21 Is that more than a percentage point for Evers? Walker can ask for a recount if it's within a point.
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Nov 7, 2018 08:06
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If it stays at more than a percentage gap when those last precincts come in Walker can't even ask for a recount hahahahahaha get hosed rear end in a top hat
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Nov 7, 2018 08:21
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Fallom posted:Yo what's the latest on that cop that iced a dude for the crime of answering the door to his apartment You're gonna have to narrow it down a lot.
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Nov 8, 2018 15:24
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FAUXTON posted:I wonder who Russia's next target is going to be, if oil prices get back down to sub-$50 per barrel. Finland, maybe? Didn't they (in the past 6 months or so) roll up a bunch of extremely shady businesses that had been building military bunkers in areas that would have strategic importance for an invasion along the coast? That turned out really well the last time they tried it!
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Nov 14, 2018 19:50
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I just read this article by the last executive editor of Gawker that lays out exactly how Facebook is loving our country to death and it's really good. Y'all should read it to the end. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-gizmodo-gawker-trending-conservatives_us_5b6c9b16e4b0530743c83f58
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Nov 15, 2018 07:12
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That's why it's a tactical watch
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Nov 17, 2018 23:52
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Trump backing Pelosi is pretty smart and has no negative outcome. She will bend over to be bipartisan anyway while alienating some democratic congresspeople as a result. Makes her look like a quisling and seem illegitimate. She should be gotten rid of anyway, this fear of no one else is as good or their is no heir apparent is bullshit. Let someone learn the ropes and start to learn and whip now, while they only have one chamber, rather when she croaks or encounters a stiff wind. Seriously, it's baffling that people keep saying she's the only one who can do it. Sure she might be great at the job but she sucks in a ton of other ways so I'm sure at least one of the two hundred some Democrats in the house can probably figure it out how to do an ok job of it.
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Nov 18, 2018 00:56
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Aren't Finns in general kind of...I don't know how to say it, militaristic but in a good way? edit: maybe martial is a better word? my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Nov 22, 2018 18:05
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Why does the right think that all socialists have taken a vow of asceticism?? It’s completely baffling.
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Nov 24, 2018 03:33
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CoffeeQaddaffi posted:The mistaken belief that a desire for a social safety net is at odds with a capitalist/consumerist society? Well socialism is kind of by definition at odds with those things but that doesn't mean "nobody can have nice things".
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Nov 24, 2018 03:42
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There's no reason a sufficiently strong economy can't give *everyone* a good quality of life and meet individual demand for certain luxury goods. Can we give everyone a megayacht? No, probably not. Can people who want nice shoes get them? Doesn't seem unreasonable at all to me. The only way anyone should think otherwise is if they believe there isn't enough to go around to even meet everyone's basic needs or if you think an upper class should be allowed to consume an outrageously disproportionate amount of resources while others suffer with little to nothing because both of these types of people deserve it.
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Nov 24, 2018 21:32
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The American left is basically, from right to left and also in order of exponentially increasing scarcity: neoliberals who run the Democratic party, socdems who don't want to completely do away with capitalism but want something more like Scandinavia, democratic socialists who want to do away with capitalism and who's ideal economy varies wildly from person to person, and finally like seven actual communists/anarchists/etc. Everyone older than like 35-40 had their brains melted by the Cold War and would rather call themselves a pedophile than a socialist. Younger people see conservative media screaming about how these appealing social policies in Scandinavia and elsewhere are SOCIALISM and we say well I guess let's be socialist then!
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Nov 25, 2018 08:03
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As Nero Danced posted:There's also the kid in the top corner who is refusing to do it who said it was totally a nazi salute. One of the kids in the pic posted something to the effect of "we even got the black kid to do it!" before it got in the media.
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Nov 25, 2018 21:57
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I don't think AlexanderCA is out of line here, it's good to be able to explicitly define what you do or don't believe in. This lady made a pretty good comic outlining the basics of what socialism is and the difference between it and communism. Part 2 is more what you're looking for but both parts are worth reading. https://medium.com/@icelevel/whos-left-wendi-socialism-and-communism-79377c1491f6 https://medium.com/@icelevel/whos-left-wendi-socialism-and-communsim-3b8e1f7e8e7b
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Nov 26, 2018 07:25
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BadOptics posted:https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1067262170889707520 A prominent "intellectual" conservative supporting fascist death squads? What a surprise!!
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EBB posted:When the superblight finally kills all the crops we're all equally hosed regardless of borders Fortunately that was the most unrealistic part of Interstellar. Also with regard to there being fewer Monarch butterflies around that's largely because herbicide resistant crops allow farmers to have few to no milkweed in there fields these days which the Monarch requires to survive. Fewer milkweed = fewer Monarchs. On the other hand the no-till methods allowed by herbicide resistant crops are WAY better for the soil and massively reduce erosion. Interestingly I have seen it theorized that there were only so many Monarchs in the first place because large scale agriculture allowed the type of milkweed they prefer to thrive and that their populations were probably much lower a couple hundred years ago. Unfortunately nobody was really keeping track back then so we can only speculate. Also as someone posted earlier they're definitely a case of people only caring about pretty animals while we ignore a thousand other less glamorous species to die off with little concern.
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https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1067795769879654401?s=20 Dump this fucker in low orbit with no chute so he has time to think about where he went wrong This is the Pinochet supporter guy from a day or two ago.
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This was the guy with the underage prostitute jet that Trump and a ton of other rich people were known to hang out on right?
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Nov 28, 2018 18:40
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The signal is coming from inside the rear end!
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Nov 29, 2018 02:25
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Waroduce posted:Please explain off target editing and its problems I'm kinda behind on all the crispr/cas9 stuff but IIRC there's a possibility of unintentionally changing genes which you're not looking to change. As with any random mutation this is almost always a bad thing for the organism in question. my kinda ape fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Nov 29, 2018 |
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Hexyflexy posted:I know bugger all about cutting edge low level genetic work, but a long time ago a friend of mine taught me a buttload about it when he was working in the field and I still have a bookshelf of mid 2000s text books on genetic biochem I read through from time to time. It's nuts complex and I'd happily prosecute anyone that tries any experiments out on a living human unless they could give me a half ton (literally) of supporting documentation before they did so. I may be a bit anal about that kind of research. You can't really edit the genetics of an organism that's more than an embryo as every cell contains it's own copy of the organism's DNA that's been passed down from the single cell embryo through division. To gene edit an adult you would have to somehow change the DNA of every cell, or at least a big enough percentage that the edited ones are creating the desired effect. Attempts to do this have had uh, unfortunate consequences from what I've been told. Plants are easy because they have totipotency and can be grown into an entirely new plant from any given living cell with the right application of hormones so if you can isolate a cell that's successfully received your edit then you can just grow a plant from that and breed the gene(s) into the population as normal. With animals you pretty much have to do it to an embryo, hope it takes, and then hope it grows up normally. Quite a bit trickier. So basically for human/animal gene editing we're restricted to making babies and hoping we didn't insanely gently caress them up on accident. Definitely something you want to have an absolute mastery of before you try it on humans.
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Soulex posted:Delete one line of code and you might crash the system Pretty much. Fortunately a lot of our code doesn't actually do anything at all so a random change in a random place often won't hurt anything. On the other hand the slightest change in an important section will make it so you never make it to birth or past being a small clump of cells.
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