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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Yeah, not to backseat moderate but that was a well thought out joke based on current events. Definitely was a shitpost though. Now I'm having a Dean Pelton moment where I don't know what's a pun or not and I can't tell if the joke is going way the gently caress over my head or if there wasn't a joke to begin with. Either way, shame on an IGA should wear that sixer like a Purple Heart.
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May 2, 2021 01:47
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Flikken posted:Dude got trapped in a porta potty in Gettysburg I KNOW GODDAMNIT
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May 2, 2021 02:01
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Was it you? Tbf I wish it would have been because that would have meant that I spent my day having an experience I’d never forget at a Civil War battlefield instead of attempting to install sliding doors on my closet and dealing with every possible curveball that a 110-year old building can throw at someone doing a pretty basic bit of home improvement.
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May 2, 2021 02:18
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boop the snoot posted:It annoys me that half of those people probably wouldn’t line up for a line half that long for a vaccine. Solution: get your J&J shot and you get $20 to spend at White Castle.
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May 3, 2021 18:01
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PeterCat posted:https://www.stripes.com/news/us/high-court-rejects-west-point-case-with-thomas-dissenting-1.672138 So can someone tell me why I’m wrong in thinking that Thomas was right that the court should have heard this case? On its face this seems pretty ridiculous and awful to me.
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May 4, 2021 02:23
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boop the snoot posted:Harambe did nothing wrong. drat right he didn’t. He was a gorilla reacting to something new entering his environment. All Zookeepers Are Bastards
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May 4, 2021 18:49
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That Works posted:Lmao they'll never get a cent for Rudy. Goddamn they walked right into that one.
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May 4, 2021 20:34
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Check your bingo cards to see if you had “Delhi about to run out of water”  https://twitter.com/timesofindia/status/1389809382498586626 This is some scary, scary poo poo going on there.
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May 5, 2021 12:35
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here's something fun to read: https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2021/05/04/how-local-companies-are-filling-open-roles.html Lazy rear end workers, only motivated by the desire to make more money, unlike business owners who are motivated by- Notahippie posted:It sounds like a lot of critical infrastructure (including O2 transportation, which is part of why the O2 situation is hosed up) is hurting because enough people have COVID that they can't staff anything anymore. Everything I’ve read about India suggests that they are facing the absolute worst case scenario in terms of health care collapse and also that of critical industries like transportation, which is just compounding the other issues more. It’s super scary and I wonder how close we came to seeing that in NYC and other places here in the US last year. I’ve said this before and maybe I’m still just broke brained from 2020, but even though the US is increasingly vaccinated and the vaccines are effective, I still don’t think we’re out of the woods with this, not by a long shot.
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May 5, 2021 14:44
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Few people have come to know the “true” story of the origin of Sinko de Mayo. It is my pleasure to set the record straight. (USER WAS CAST INTO THE BRINY DEEP FOR THIS POST)
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May 5, 2021 19:08
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The Washington Post ran this op-ed by Cathy Merrill, the CEO of Washingtonian Magazine, one of the DC area’s more well-known “lifestyle” magazines. It’s full of boomer handwringing about workers not coming back to the office full time, and has this little cherry in it:quote:While some employees might like to continue to work from home and pop in only when necessary, that presents executives with a tempting economic option the employees might not like. I estimate that about 20 percent of every office job is outside one’s core responsibilities — “extra.” It involves helping a colleague, mentoring more junior people, celebrating someone’s birthday — things that drive office culture. If the employee is rarely around to participate in those extras, management has a strong incentive to change their status to “contractor.” Instead of receiving a set salary, contractors are paid only for the work they do, either hourly or by appropriate output metrics. That would also mean not having to pay for health care, a 401(k) match and our share of FICA and Medicare taxes — benefits that in my company’s case add up roughly to an extra 15 percent of compensation. Not to mention the potential savings of reduced office space and extras such as bonuses and parking fees. Do you interpret that as a threat? If so, you join the entire editorial staff of the Washingtonian, who had this to say: https://twitter.com/abeaujon/status/1390648703703261186 Such an effective executive that she prompted her entire editorial staff to take lightning quick action; that op-ed was published last night! Also press F to pay respects to Cathy Merrill’s Twitter mentions because “ratioed” does not even begin to describe what’s happening to her account right now.
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May 7, 2021 15:38
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The president of the company my wife used to work at once referred to reply-all as “gangbanging the company.”
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May 8, 2021 17:20
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There might be some new problems brewing at the Chernobyl reactor site. Scientists are well aware and are attempting to find solutions, but it’s not great, not terrible at least for now.
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May 9, 2021 14:00
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https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1391897869137887234?s=21 faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrt
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May 11, 2021 02:16
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boop the snoot posted:Any time you ask about someone’s guns from an official standpoint it is very obviously to enter you into a database so they can come take your guns later.  You can take my guns after you’ve palpated my enlarged prostate with your cold dead fingers I think that’s how this works
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May 11, 2021 13:28
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1392241000089800709 This is to the southeast of Tel Aviv. I don’t recall this happening in 2014 or the other major flare ups since 2008. Countdown to when Israel just seizes the entirety of the West Bank for “security reasons.”
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May 11, 2021 23:24
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I’ve posted about this before here and there, but from late 2009-2010, my then-girlfriend (now wife) and I waited out the Great Recession by living in Egypt and teaching English. Our time there also coincided with the Gaza Flotilla Raid. Despite our best efforts to keep politics out of the classroom (to protect our students and the institution as we knew the Mukhbaharat had informants in classes who were monitoring for criticism of the government or Islamist sentiment), people were upset and angry over that incident in particular and wanted to discuss it. In addition to some well-founded criticism about Israel’s conduct, the majority of the poo poo I heard frankly made me understand Israel’s siege mentality. Namely people throwing out straight up anti-Semitic stuff about how Jews control the media and the banks, that Israelis were told to stay away from the WTC on 9/11, and also that Jews had the secret ability to fly. This came from students who were otherwise bright, friendly and in many cases were already professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc) in established careers. Hearing goofy poo poo like that definitely casts the historical problem with anti-Semitism into sharp relief. But at the same time, Israel’s national history being rooted in existential trauma and conflict at its inception to 30 years later has had a toxic and corrosive effect on its modern psyche. It’s turned vigilance into paranoia and defensiveness into aggression now that those existential threats are gone. Egypt, Jordan or Syria are never again going to war with Israel, Hamas or PIJ will never march on Tel Aviv, and even Hezbollah- arguably the most capable group in the region- cannot threaten the existence of Israel itself. Politicians like Netanyahu have formed a Faustian bargain with the more toxic elements of the ultranationalist Israeli right in order to stay in power, and the extreme has become the mainstream now and there’s no walking it back. Israel has become an apartheid state and there’s no disputing it. Even if some of its politicians make paeans about peace with Palestinians, they’ve effectively ruined any chance of them ever having a territorially contiguous state of their own, and there’s no way that Israel will guarantee them political sovereignty or binational status because demographics would threaten Jewish political power. Israel is just one huge tragic tale of about victims becoming oppressors, to the detriment of the values of Judaism itself. I used to love the Middle East and considered myself something of an Arabist but after watching the entrenchment of authoritarianism following the failed Arab uprisings of 2011 and Israel’s descent into madness I can’t even read the news without feeling bitter and depressed about that whole cursed region.
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May 12, 2021 16:18
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I saw the video and I’m not linking to it here but yep, a crowd pulls a guy out of a car and just straight up envelops him in a storm of fists and improvised clubs, including an Israeli flag on a pole, and then beats his motionless body some more. gently caress this all so much.
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May 12, 2021 21:17
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TL; DR- someone’s love for big tittays allowed for the compromise of critical infrastructure and led to fuel shortages across the mid-Atlantic. https://twitter.com/LikeAndBlock/status/1392640160655945729
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May 13, 2021 15:20
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Jesus Christ it’s way too soon for this. Here in DC we’re still at less than 40% of the population vaccinated.
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May 13, 2021 19:09
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facialimpediment posted:The alternative case is that there are a decent chunk of people that are more like "well, why should I get vaccinated if I still have to wear a mask everywhere?" Giving these people the "hey, get vaccinated so you can have those indoor parties and go nuts" argument probably gets you more people vaccinated, which is the only thing that really matters anymore. The problem is there’s no enforcement mechanism. We don’t have vaccine passports because Republicans will claim they’re the Mark of the Beast and there are plenty of fake cards out there. There’s going to be a non-insignificant number of sovcit assholes who will be like “YOU CANT ASK ME IF IM VACCINATED, THAT VIOLATES MY HIPPO RIGHTS!” I’m still skeptical about this. We’re at like 46% of the total population vaccinated, which still isn’t close to even the lower numbers hypothesized to hit herd immunity.
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May 13, 2021 19:44
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Meanwhile getting back to our other ongoing shitstorm https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1392914849903042566 If Hezbollah is entering the conflict, it’s going to be a wholly new level of escalation. They actually have rockets that go well beyond “pipe bomb with fins” and are better trained, well disciplined and have been preparing for all out war with Israel since 2006. That said there are definitely other smaller, less capable groups that could have launched a few rockets as well, but Israel will definitely hold Hezbollah accountable if even a crappy rocket hits somewhere in Northern Israel and does some damage. Edit: likely launched by a Palestinian militant group near one of the refugee camps, not Hezbollah https://twitter.com/Beltrew/status/1392916060333133829 pantslesswithwolves fucked around with this message at 20:03 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 19:56
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A Bad Poster posted:gently caress debt. Holy poo poo  , what a callback to 2005 forums lore Also I haven’t seen this discussed here, but it looks like the rot in the SOF community I sn’t just confined to the SEALs. Delta is specifically mentioned here as having some serious problems with its operators getting into some shady poo poo like drug trafficking and murder. This article also refers to a lot of murders and suspicious deaths that have occurred at Fort Bragg that have not been prosecuted or adequately investigated. I have a friend who was in SF and he’s hinted at seeing some dark poo poo in the community during his time in. I know better not to ask. Glad this forum led me to not enlisting as an 18X back in the early 2010s.
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May 14, 2021 15:40
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Maaaaan where the gently caress are my rebates and prizes for getting a vaccine when it was offered to me back in March?! This is like throwing a pizza party for the kids who slacked on the group project.
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May 14, 2021 17:00
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Cythereal posted:
I saw that post. They’re still using the standing metric of four people shot in one incident. It doesn’t differentiate between “active shooter” incidents where a gunman starts shooting random people in a targeted or semi-targeted event or an incident like a gang shooting or domestic violence. This isn’t to downplay the horrific impact of gun violence or to suggest that there aren’t things we as a country should be doing to stop it, but claiming stats like this gives the impression that there’s been nearly 200 active shooter incidents in the US which simply isn’t the case.
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May 14, 2021 20:51
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boop the snoot posted:I’m sure the victims feel the same way. I think you're talking past each other. The point is that different circumstances require different policies to effectively address, unless what you're advocating for is abolishing private gun ownership in the US as the solution to all violent crime. In and of itself, that's not a dishonest position to take, but if that's what you're advocating for, then by all means advance it here. edit: ^^^ yeah that
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May 14, 2021 22:10
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I remember the  in the Israeli press back in 2014 when Obama did the apparently brazenly anti-Semitic act of preventing US airliners from flying into Ben-Gurion because some Hamas rockets landed near there.TBF I don’t trust the Biden administration itself to put any pressure whatsoever on Israel, but I do trust the leftward flank of the Democratic Party to try and do so. At least until the DNC primaries them.
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May 16, 2021 03:45
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Defenestrategy posted:Is it just me being a contrarian or have people gotten worse at making snappy names to slam people and events with. Are you feeling a little Grumpy Trumpy after you got your Fauci Ouchie or something?
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May 17, 2021 23:22
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https://mobile.twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1395119265095852035 Naturally Chud Twitter is aflame with this because being a socialist means no nice things ever and you can only wear dresses made of cast off burlap and the one pair of wooden clogs you’re allowed to own. If this is true I’d rather make fun of her for giving money to Elon Musk. That’s the only counterrevolutionary crime that’s been committed here. 
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May 19, 2021 22:54
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Sprinkle my ashes with those of my dogs in our favorite woods, the oceans and over our favorite overlook so that way some part of us will always be there. That assumes that we live in a future where civilization exists and Viking funerals are still banned. If that’s not the case, I hope my fellow marauders will put a couple of pounds of tannerite in my chest cavity and use my remains for target practice while a deaf mutant plays “Welcome to the Jungle” on an out of tune guitar.
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May 25, 2021 02:00
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CommieGIR posted:The dude was not a Nazi, that was from an ""anonymous source"" leaked to the Russian Press. Brown Moses blew that rumor up fast. But Brown Moses gets funding from the Atlantic Council which is linked to the CIA; same with Robert Evans of your favorite podcast that he’s on :tankiesay:
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May 25, 2021 22:29
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Pine Cone Jones posted:Have a cat and shut up. quote:Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, which in the 1960s intended to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. In an hour-long procedure a veterinary surgeon implanted a microphone in the cat's ear canal, a small radio transmitter at the base of its skull and a thin wire into its fur.
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May 26, 2021 00:21
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RFC2324 posted:Colorado just legalized pot delivery, and the governor just announced 5 one million dollar lottos for people who got vaccinated. So the whole lottery thing is cool I guess but it still feels pretty stupid to me since the state governments are effectively bribing the kids who hosed off on the group project just to come to class, so to speak. Is there a potential payout for people who got vaxxed as soon as they could or is it just for the “Hmmm well the Freedom Eagle Patriots Tactical Network said on Facebook that the vaccines are made out of fetal tissue of future Trump voters so I dunno about this” holdouts?
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May 26, 2021 03:33
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Did you know that engineers are overrepresented in jihadist groups by a significant factor when compared to other militant groups and society at large? Brings to mind some interesting questions- not saying that FrozenVent could have been the 21st hijacker on 9/11, but it is curious that he’s never confirmed his whereabouts on that day, especially whether he may have missed a flight. Interesting indeed.
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May 26, 2021 20:18
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McNally posted:"Bombard his whistleblower site with tips about the time Crenshaw engaged in a smear campaign against someone who tried to whistleblow about sexual assault at the VA as can be found at this link: https://www.newsweek.com/rep-dan-crenshaw-linked-smear-campaign-female-vet-led-va-secretary-watchdog-says-1553928" is probably not something I can encourage as a mod. I was already planning on just filling it up with the plots to Apocalypse Now, the Dirty Dozen and Platoon but this also works
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May 29, 2021 01:56
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facialimpediment posted:Didn't have this development on my bingo board! Bennett is a major figure in the ultranationalist Israeli right and Lapid is a figurehead of the dwindling Israeli left. I think just about everyone in Israel is sick of Bibi and just wants to kick his rear end out after 12 years in power. Then Bennett’s coalition will turn their knives on Lapid and push ahead with implementing their settler colonialist project in the West Bank.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CPjd80jnYOV/?utm_medium=copy_link NO BLOOD FOR olive OIL!
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