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facialimpediment posted:A while back, there was a big bit about Eric Adams (NY Mayor) being the future of the Democratic Party. I didn't really get it, but now I do. Reminder this idiot decide to be paid in bitcoin and to get other city employees to do the same.
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Jul 1, 2022 19:11
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:He was paid a regular check and then bought crypto with his first 3 checks. He was never paid in crypto specifically. Oh wow that’s even dumber. Since you’re removing the protective barrier of the money being real and having value, as opposed to just getting it as worthless in the first place.
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Jul 1, 2022 19:21
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Boston still working hard to maintain the "racist shithole of New England title" it values and guards with so much jealously. https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1543295490971910145?s=20&t=Xabl2y-0MMZzqV7vpdQAGg
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Jul 2, 2022 22:52
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silvergoose posted:No we really loving hate them Then why did Boston have a huge increase in Catholic School enrollment in the 1970s?
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Jul 2, 2022 22:58
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maffew buildings posted:Congrats to all the Bostonians who are able to in the year 2022 not say the slurs out loud You know they had to beat their kids and random LGBT and Jews to keep it in...but they did it! Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jul 2, 2022 |
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Jul 2, 2022 23:07
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pantslesswithwolves posted:On the contrary, my retirement plan of dying in a gunfight with Proud Boys has never looked better. Come on you're not dying against these poo poo heads. They'll probably get more ND's way before getting any EKIA's don't sell your retirement experience short.
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Jul 2, 2022 23:29
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facialimpediment posted:Not really finding out how the hell this happened over in Battle Creek, MI as there has been nothing worse than a minor thunderstorm here: Battle Creek, Methigan
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Jul 3, 2022 00:48
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Jul 3, 2022 15:54
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Can someone explain to me what a halo is as I don’t really watch F1?
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Jul 3, 2022 18:07
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shame on an IGA posted:tldr the "most technologically advanced racing series on earth" took some 70 years to invent the rollbar 
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Jul 3, 2022 18:17
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That Works posted:What the hell
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Jul 4, 2022 19:12
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facialimpediment posted:It's apparently a Smithfield Foods pork processor protestor. Not finding anything about a Death Star! My wife also mentioned that the area has a very large Jewish population. So take that for what it’s worth, but I wouldn’t bet on it being unrelated.
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Jul 4, 2022 20:58
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Of course the one time police don’t kick someone in the head…sigh.
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Jul 5, 2022 01:11
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RIP to my Childhood GOAT You gave this man some gas and blasting caps and he'd give you art. Those 1970s Godzilla films, along with Return of Godzilla are such a central part of my childhood (in part because they're fun as hell and US distro at the top making them a very common VHS release that was easy to get at even Sam Goody's (yes I'm old). Do yourself a favor and pour one out to Nakano and put one on the TV today. https://twitter.com/Patrick_Macias/status/1544263080728997889?s=20&t=wl7NLz_5uYkc-hb9PLDrFQ Yes, this counts as news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGd5Nnl_Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6c_LuvJRuQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GslZKWemeEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHgwl1cb4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sb7e0iKqWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpxRVCNEoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhnPJ9wLTFI
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Jul 5, 2022 16:01
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facialimpediment posted:Update: it wasn't enough to just have a Magic Bullet Yeah, I'd rather have my homie Nakano under my hat. Sigh...no other Godzilla fans here? CRUSTY MINGE don't leave me hanging!
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Jul 5, 2022 16:20
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Wrong Theory posted:Dang. I keep a copy of life magazines Godzilla issue at my work desk with a small statue. Anyone that smokes around explosives is ok in my book. Yeah man would also be smoking and doing stuff on set. Man was just that baller and I never heard of him loving up anything. Nakano was just an absolute mad lad in both dreaming up and then achieving some of the most awesome explosions and miniature destruction bar none.
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Jul 5, 2022 18:24
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Not a super fan, but I'll say I enjoy kaiju when I watch them 
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Jul 5, 2022 18:52
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's been a long time since I watched Godzilla movies. Like, around the time the puff daddy song godzilla came out. Very much so. If you have HBO Max, they actually have a ton, including a lot that Nakano did work on. Also if you don't have HBO Max...I can help out. 
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Jul 5, 2022 20:17
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Bored As gently caress posted:I was legitimately surprised how many Godzilla movies HBO Max had. Those were a staple of many childhood sleepovers. Those were great to watch and then play with your godzilla toys and Transformers and GI Joes. ASAPI posted:The wife and I did a Godzilla marathon for the 4th. You're all putting huge smiles on my face right now. 1970s Godzilla is just Godzilla being a bro for humanity and helping out, it's a huge face turn over time. lolI will always love puppy dog Goji from Megalon. Hell even had the WTC art of Megalon and Godzilla fighting on top for my 6th Birthday. Now I get/got to see my son (and when she was younger) daughter love Godzilla. It rules. I can actually explain the reason HBO has so many. It's due to some existing distribution deal with Criterion (it's also on there), and Criterion licensed the entire Showa series (1954-1975) and put it out on BR, but they also had TV/Streaming rights. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Jul 5, 2022 20:31
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Dum Cumpster posted:https://twitter.com/JimJournalist/status/1544668907319033859 Rebuild it with a statue of Sherman that also breathes fire every six hours. So basically Godzilla Sherman The Statue.
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Jul 6, 2022 16:21
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facialimpediment posted:Police chase livestream as of 1:10 PM EST: Is it a white guy and is he shouting wooooooo and talking about space mountain?
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Jul 6, 2022 18:27
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A.o.D. posted:I have seen way worse in the crimegun thread than what that guy used. Somewhere a Brazil and Filipino Khyber gunsmith is looking at that picture and having a tear in their eye, like the Italian dude playing the Native American in the littering commercial. Abe was good for bilateral relations and in general while doing some things that were very dumb and counterproductive like with the Republic of Korea*, while generally ignoring things like the Imperial Household (because if they wanna play Japanese crusader Kings with their monarch that’s fine with me), otherwise I can’t complain too much. I’m also totally aligned with the idea of revamping article 9 completely. It wasn’t born so much out of a bad concept, by the kind of idealist US lawyers who drafted the postwar Japanese Constitution, it clearly was both productive in curbing enthusiasm for war, but was way too stringent. I mean Germany was constrained in certain actions, but otherwise has and continues to have a regular military. So dropping the S is fine with me. *Which is bad and pointless and only helps the PRC, which benefits neither Japan or the ROK in the long run.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:58
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Ummm nah I’m good. I will say the new Beavis and Butthead do the Universe was incredible. So goddamn side splittingly funny. I have to imagine if you’re high it’s even funnier, and the best part is it is exactly like Beavis and Butthead it as you remember it in all the best ways. Like seriously everyone should watch it, also possibly while high.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Honestly, I thought it'd be good, but the amount of times it had me straight cracking up was amazing. It was and also it was a good sci Fi movie in general. But my god the jokes were just on point and the funny and also I loved the cameos in the court scene. The cool part was they resisted the urge to "adult content it up" which shows just how good the original model was. A brilliant thing is just how no one picks up on anything (until the very end) and constantly thinks their talikng about non sex related things. Also "eat rear end"
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Handsome Ralph posted:Thanks for this. I was aware of the SDF to normal military stuff and South Korea hating his guts as well as the textbook stuff, but everything else was news to me. Actually he generally had good relations and was extremely supportive of US policy and the security alliance and alignment on many other matter. Look I’m not defending his family or his garbage dump relations with the ROK, but in generally Abe was pretty good, at least from points of foreign policy and some other areas such as trade, China, DPRK, and to an extent Russia. W may not have liked him, but that’s probably because Kozumi and W really hit it off and had an excellent relationships. Interestingly enough the people of Taiwan are actually taking it really hard, messages from all the major political parties across the spectrum, the people at large. Abe and Japanese PMs have been extremely Pro-Taiwan.
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PookBear posted:right wing authoritarian had foreign policy goals that aligned with the US Hey it works out sometimes. I wouldn’t consider the LDP or Abe authoritarian, right wing, yes, but not authoritarian though. I’m not trying to do a love letter to Abe, but he was generally a plus, while with Korea he was a putz. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Looks like something from Cyberpunk 2077 poo poo that thing looks like a bolter from Warhammer 40K. Also very valid points on Abe. Perhaps I should rephrase it to he was useful, but also detestable. Also Japanese airsoft nerds about to get super regulated.
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Jul 9, 2022 05:17
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I want my, https://youtu.be/4x9Dt-romH8
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Jul 10, 2022 01:16
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I already hated myself for the Dire Straits reference. https://youtu.be/4IdbjiHSPRo
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Jul 10, 2022 01:22
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Japan’s (maybe) getting a military again. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/world/asia/japan-election-abe.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/world/asia/japan-election-abe.html?referringSource=articleShare Which honestly I’m fine with and I’d imagine most here are too.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Just so long as it's used as part of a united deterrent in the face of an increasingly imperialist China and not some inane dickwaving contest with Korea over some birdshit-covered rocks. 
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Jul 10, 2022 20:42
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Spoggerific posted:The LDP winning yet again and even more is probably not going to do good things for privacy, individual freedoms, and LGBT rights in Japan. No, I don’t think the population would support it and even now getting article 9 redone is not a done deal and it’s not even clear if the public would support it. I mean Japan isn’t gonna be cranking out aircraft carrier after aircraft carrier.
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A.o.D. posted:I swing between "yeah it makes sense for them militarily and for US strategically for them to have a military" and "Japan building an aircraft carrier should be casus belli for every nation on the Pacific Rim" depending on how much they demonstrate that they've not moved on from WWII style nationalism. I tend to think more the former generally, the fact that the LDP (as whole or in policy) has no desire to dump the security treaty indicates, to me fwiw, that they value US support and wouldn't do anything to truly jepordize it. I do agree it depends on their future behavior, but I also think with Russia and China, there is a way to build common ground with Japan and Korea, with Moon gone* it will be interesting to see if Japan realizes they have far more common ground with the new conservative government. * Moon was quite poo poo for constantly letting the North play him for support/sunshine policy era style, suspending military exercise with the US, enabling and supporting that stupid Singapore meeting as some sort of potential breakthrough and some sort of accomplishment with getting two sociopaths to sit down with each other. I should state this is only me talking about in the foreign policy area. Edit: ^haha I love that totally not a helicopter carrier or something that could be modified or newer version that allows for VTOL F35s to takeoff, it's just your standard destroyer. Fantastic troll job by the JMSDF. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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If Germany was okay, why not Japan? I’m not saying that as a gotcha, just a question of what the difference is? Now if your answer is Germany should’ve got the Morgenthau plan, then its no distinction and I get your point.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Fetterman trolling, and it's only July God, I love Fetterman so so much.
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A.o.D. posted:There are a lot of ways of assisting with a military effort that are of utmost importance that have nothing to do with handling bullets and launching warships. Japan is well positioned to provide meaningful assistance in most of those capacities. They don't have to violate their laws to be a critical partner in the defense of Taiwan. I’m not sure how Japanese military deployment outside the home islands work unless it’s a UN peace keeping force or non combatant role (I want to say Iraq), but I’m not even sure on what support they can give. That said supporting with military equipment may be easier after donations to Ukraine. I do think if Japan had long range attack capabilities or even regional attack capabilities, it helps to reinforce deterrence and gives a credible threat, that Japan can respond on its own and without resorting to the US nuclear umbrella. We just need to get the ROK and Japan back on the same page, birdshit islands are dumb, Chinese artificial islands, not so much. It’s part of the reason the Japanese are developing their own marine force, plus Russia and the occupied islands is a way to channel all the nationalism into something other than stupid dick waving contest with the ROK, which I’ll admit are mostly aggravated by Japan.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:The stroke was the weekend before the primary. There weren't an awful lot of undecideds at that point. Connor Lamb is basically skim-milk Biden. Also lots of Dems got really really mad when Lamb tried the Fetterman is a socialist but. Kenyatta Green was interesting in that when he appeared at the debate he had only just been granted a mistrial in a corruption trial he’s indicted in. I honestly didn’t know who he was until the debate. On the plus side both of them have pledged to support Fetterman with no reservations. My biggest concern is the Nazi gently caress running for Governor. The piece of poo poo was at 1/6. My wife is literally trying to convince us to move if he wins. Shapiro is a fine candidate, but the stakes are so high, as if Hitler wins, he’s got a majority of Nazis in the Reichs…I mean PA legislature.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Mastriano is nightmare fuel, full-stop. It’s amazing how little Corbett could accomplish and that Penn State of all things probably helped in losing. The funniest thing was how they were never able to pass any gun expansion laws except that suing the local municipality thing, but they tacked it onto a bill about copper theft and the PA Supreme Court said you can’t do that. Honestly, I wouldn’t voted for him, but I miss candidates like Tom Ridge, being the “bad option.” Ridge actually gave a really great speech on public service for my commencement. Even my family who despises Republicans were saying it was really a good speech and a good message.
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Arcella posted:I honestly believe the true answer to Fermi's Paradox is that it's so expensive in energy/resource terms to even approach the speed of light or otherwise make a slower than light self-sustainable/colony ship that even if there is life elsewhere it's just too hard to make it out of your local area. That or we start using the warp…granted that has its own issues. Do we have a astropaths and gellar fields yet?
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