December Current Events: chaos actual out, we're boned

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That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I work in academia, and have worked for a for real terrible sexpest and worked for and with a lot of normal but definitely more socially awkward individuals, some on the spectrum, some just compulsive. The field attracts that sort.

Based just on what's available I'm not getting a true creep vibe from it. Dude might be awkward and made some others feel uncomfortable which is the kind of thing he needs to be called out on, but not seeing a lot just from this.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 15:35

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 06:15

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

FrozenVent posted:

Why is it so hard for famous people to just say �I�m sorry, I didn�t mean it / I�ve since learned from my mistakes, it won�t happen again, and I apologize for all the harm and anguish I�ve caused.�?

Instead of going �here�s what really happened.�?

Very true.

As a scientist who is also married to a scientist, we're especially bad about this. We want to nitpick, analyze and explain everything and it's hard to shut it off. My wife and I both have had to realize we need to just not always perfectly understand why everything that might have happened did and just stop and say "ok that was hosed up and my fault and I'm sorry" etc.

Edit: also just like I am doing right now we like to Devils Advocate literally anything and everything.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 15:56

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/1068915229415723008

please not proud boys, please not proud boys, please not proud boys

Hahah I'm not that bad. Just, I can kinda see it why Neil as an academic might respond that way if he thinks like a lot of us seem to, but also as a celebrity would, and it's bad.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 16:16

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

mlmp08 posted:

gently caress that, mock him for bringing up a "person's vital spirit energy" while tweeting non loving stop about how star wars or other sci-fi/fantasy aren't scientifically accurate.

100% this

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 17:07

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Sometimes nerds just need to get shoved into a locker.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 18:04

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

shame on an IGA posted:

The BudK catalog selling 500mg amoxicillin capsules "for fish" is the greatest public service of our time.

Except antibiotic overprescription and underuse (not taking the full dose before stopping) is a huge public health risk wrt evolving antibiotic resistant bacteria.

That said, yeah providing cheap access to necessary drugs is awesome and I support it in any way. Just hope people are using the amox responsibly.

My graduate school hosed up my insurance enrollment and I didn't have dental when I thought I did. So I had a filling break and had to get an emergency root canal / crown. All in all it ran about $4500. I was only pulling in about $2k / month after taxes in grad school and had no real savings to speak of. I had to borrow about $1k from a friend just so I could make rent and keep from getting evicted. I spent the next 8 months living on essentially rice and beans etc just to get back to normal and make the rest of the payments. I looked into suing my school but that would have cost more $$$ and with an unsure outcome. I didn't want punitive damages, I just wanted them to fix what they hosed up (did not actually enroll me in the poo poo I was supposed to be enrolled in).

It loving sucked and without a richer friend to bail me out I would have become homeless just because a loving root canal.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2018 22:33

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Even if she's a pretty meh congressperson if she just keeps owning idiots online it's cool with me.

Like, even if she doesn't get much accomplished at the actual legislative level, her being popular with the younger voters is a nice way to ensure that the party keeps some pressure back to the left instead of just constantly trying to be the GOP-lite wing.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 14:29

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Duzzy Funlop posted:

France-protests update:

https://twitter.com/DailySabah/status/1069333678290075648

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 16:01

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I always keep a couple cans of Blue Runner red beans around. If I am super lazy or sick and want something filling just grill some sausages in a pan or the oven, heat up can of beans, serve over rice with some tobasco or crystal, loving great.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2018 15:14

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

My new house puts me squarely between Electric Boat and the new London sub base, gonna get hit with fallout so hard.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2018 18:51

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

CommieGIR posted:

https://twitter.com/Medium/status/1070672326860136448

Chances are in a real Civil War, half these guys would be dead within the first few minutes.

quote:

Archer has been trying to enlist in the military for years, he said, but has consistently been turned down due to a childhood back injury. The following day, he did the next best thing. Role-playing as a private military contractor working for the shadowy mega-corporation Sierra Dynamics (to which the UFS had farmed out certain unsavory tasks), Archer was fully decked out in LBX Snow Raptor camo and carried a KWA Ronin short-barreled rifle and an HK45.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 17:25

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I feel like there's not exactly a huge multitude of white collar crimes just waiting to be prosecuted if we could just only please have backdoor access to every electronic device please.

"Your wages will increase because of these tax cuts" is another fun thing the government says too.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 15:59

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Trump and Bush 43 are equally bad and should be hung for treason and war crimes respectively if we lived in a just world.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 16:31

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Flailing doesn't accurately describe what's going on in the UK right now I guess?

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 15:28

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

DownByTheWooter posted:

CRITICAL LIFE LESSON .
"Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"..
There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food".
"When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence". "They get used to that and start to eat again.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side". "The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd".
"Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.
One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to share this with your friends.
God help us all when the gate slams shut!

Quote for today: "The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living."

Any true Chemistry professor would have been like "what the gently caress are you talking about this is chemistry shut the gently caress up or leave" about 3 seconds into that story.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 17:41

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

DownByTheWooter posted:

it's got about a hundred layers of stdh

Oh sure, just that one is the most bonkers unnecessary thing.

And awesome, a government shutdown is like the single worst thing that can happen to my spouse and I career-wise right now. Great.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 18:10

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Why the gently caress Nancy or Chuck didn't just say "get mexico to pay for it like you promised" is a mystery to me.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 18:55

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

M_Gargantua posted:

Because they are smart academics yet poor at saying words, as well as spineless.

Sadly I resemble this remark.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 19:33

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Rhymenoserous posted:

I mean a combine already costs a cool half mil just by itself, I�m pretty sure you could convince most farmers that for a 50% increase and the ability to run longer operating hours and they can fire a few operators the cost would be worth it.

The entire self driving car thing isn�t much of an argument. Combines move slower, can be geofenced into a known area and largely won�t be moving faster than a brisk trot. To say the challenges between getting the two techs is radically different is probably an understatement. I doubt combines are going to have to worry about other combines brake checking them just to be cocksuckers unless some farmer fires up the battlebot protocol in an attempt to light a shitload of money on fire at rate unseen outside of the DoD.

Footloose reboot opening scene gonna be weird.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 03:25

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Handsome Ralph posted:

He also went to URI and spoke to my ROTC detachment once. Seemed like your normal run of the mill noble back then.

I'm at URI. He doesn't really come up. Small world.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 09:33

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

"Says who" you loving moron lmao forever, get shanked oval office

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 18:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

So cool these people didn't come out when it would have loving possibly mattered.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 20:08

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Proud Christian Mom posted:

it wouldnt have mattered

Yeah I know. Just, to do it now says more about the person releasing it than the President.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 20:16

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

M_Gargantua posted:

Well a lot of them signed NDAs are would be liable for a civil suit that would probably get thrown out but still cost them money. Now the flood gates are open and everyone is finding out that not only are trumps NDAs nearly unenforceable but that even breaking them you'll be somewhat protected by people who oppose trump.

Ah yeah I guess that makes sense

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 20:53

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Vasudus posted:

chaos timeline challenge:

name five major events that occurred this year without using the internet to cheat

lightning round challenge:

name five major events that occurred last year without using the internet to cheat

final challenge:

name one mass shooting from this year and last year

Oh haha this is super easy dude.

*thinks for a few seconds*

Oh gently caress

# ¿ Dec 13, 2018 23:39

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

mlmp08 posted:

He does run the parks, but IIRC girl scouts don't wear that color anymore, so he lost his chance.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 15:56

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

You can do civil forfeiture without even pressing charges right?

# ¿ Dec 16, 2018 17:33

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

If I'm dying and the world is over, I'm taking some finance douchebags or billionaires with me

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 19:13

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

The Iron Rose posted:

so about 54 million americans then?

When did having a retirement savings account become a symbol of bourgeois decadence again?

When making enough to save / stay out of debt became abnormal instead of expected.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 19:50

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Godholio posted:

Oh, I don't really care about RI and DE...in fact RI is probably mostly Patriots/Red Sox fans, so it's probably for the best.

Hey!

# ¿ Dec 18, 2018 11:38

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

gently caress yeah yardarm

https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/1075073578880634880

# ¿ Dec 18, 2018 18:04

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

EBB posted:

Meanwhile, a dusty warehouse full of Jupiter missiles is unlocked...

nice

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 19:46

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

DoktorLoken posted:

https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1075493822719758337?s=20

It's real

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 22:10

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

A Bad Poster posted:

I'm imagining the homeless who would very quickly become the Molemen that would be the permanent inhabitants of that system, too.

Was thinking the same.

Great place to do carjacking too

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 03:12

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

bird food bathtub posted:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

Stolen from D&D. Buzz feed with another amazing(ly horrifying) scoop. FinCEN is probably fully penetrated by Russian cyber warfare at this point and financial information on anyone they want to target is probably already exfiltrated.

drat...

quote:

Six sources told BuzzFeed News that at least two FinCEN analysts were reported to Treasury�s inspector general over suspicions that they might have been working against the interests of the US.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 20:00

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Nukes away

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 23:27

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Secdef Allen West

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 00:56

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

SecDef Tom Cotton.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 01:08

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

McNally posted:

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 01:48

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 06:15

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Arc Light posted:

So what's the term for when you knew somebody was going to be lovely, but you couldn't foresee just how awful they'd pan out to be? Like milkshake duck on meth.

.

Fredo

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 12:51

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