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TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

ruthkanda forever

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McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

Is it just me or does it look like everybody in this video is whiter than mayonnaise?

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

McNally posted:

Is it just me or does it look like everybody in this video is whiter than mayonnaise?

I kinda just focused in on the ridiculousness that is the car itself. I know innately, without having to be told or to verify it separately, that the only "black" present within a kilometer is on the car itself. I did verify before I posted though. Blanquitos through and through.

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status/1621118762652155905?t=K6jZZxXeRxH1gDdXU4MwtQ&s=19

For anyone that's worked in or around healthcare this isn't a surprise. The real surprise is that when they sued they got the emails for exactly what the UR department was doing to deny the claims.

I know some Social Workers who left frontline clinical work for managed care and insurance companies, I don't blame them but I just don't know how you work for such a terrible entity without it hollowing you out

As a recent cancer patient this pisses me off so much. I'd want his lawyer–seems like he knows this BS really well. Sure biologics are too expensive, but gently caress the insurers for prioritizing profits and executive pay and not upholding their end of the bargain.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
:ccb:

https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1621274249938747401?t=4jHIiGylLr-Uq5Rl2GpjfQ&s=19

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010


So what I'm hearing is I need to take matters into my own hands.

How much helium to lift 350 to shooting altitude.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

bulletsponge13 posted:

So what I'm hearing is I need to take matters into my own hands.

How much helium to lift 350 to shooting altitude.

Calm down there Lawnchair Larry.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Calm down there Lawnchair Larry.

I'm sorry I care about the security of America!

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Drop this special operator out of an even higher balloon.

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Ultra Carp
I managed to find some footage of the balloon being launched:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPmeLibaVwg

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Mr. Nice! posted:

Fifth circuit struck down the Lautenberg Amendment with regard to DV restraining orders. Founding fathers didn’t care about DV, so we can’t restrict firearms for the same reason.

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicyfoundation/pages/3970/attachments/original/1675361904/United_States_v_Rahimi_Opinion.pdf

Also republicans approved Ilhan Omar for the foreign affairs committee yesterday just so they could vote to remove her today.

US jurisprudence is a joke







pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

bird food bathtub posted:

Working as an EMT was giving me emotional problems because I would see, over and over again, how my presence there as a representative of US health care was destroying the lives of some of the patients I was trying to help. They would call 911 when poo poo got bad, but that just ended up spiraling them further in to debt because just my rig showing up was going to cost thousands and thousands of dollars. So even if they got acute help, the next time someone was dispatched to help the next call they were worse off. They frequently could not afford whatever was necessary to actually fix the problem, but they couldn't afford to have me come out either. Yet they couldn't not have me come out because they'd be loving dead, so Misery-go-round spun on and on making some CEO somewhere richer and richer.

Hey, as long as you were getting your minimum wage slice of the hundreds of thousands of dollars charged for this care, why are you complaining?

quote:

I genuinely do not understand how more terminally ill cancer patients don't strap these fuckers to chairs and start removing parts until the screaming stops.

I've thought the same thing many a time and the worst thing that I'm dealing with is an $850 bill for something my insurance decided wasn't covered. I don't know how a person gets into medicine and then laughs about denying people life-saving medicine.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

US jurisprudence is a joke

Gun owner here who is similarly sickened by this. In this context, DV victims would be well advised just to shoot their abusers and plant a gun near them rather than attempt to go through the courts. gently caress this stupid country.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
The US wants to ensure that both abusers and also their victims can be equally armed. This is the fair solution...
:negative:

Unless the victim did drugs, then they can't be armed.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

mlmp08 posted:

The US wants to ensure that both abusers and also their victims can be equally armed.
:negative:


They absolutely don't want that. They'd be just fine with the abusers having a monopoly on violence since their whole worldview is predicated on it. Remember that teenage girl that killed her pimp and got convicted for it

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Milo and POTUS posted:

They absolutely don't want that. They'd be just fine with the abusers having a monopoly on violence since their whole worldview is predicated on it. Remember that teenage girl that killed her pimp and got convicted for it

I am related to, and know, the most backwards, “conservative”, misogynistic dumbass wife beaters you can imagine.

Your not wrong.

But not one of the idiots is allowed to own a gun, and they’re all living off government assistance together since their wives and children have PO’s on them. They are all felons and none has ever voted. All were ardent Trumpers.

I come from some great breeding stock, lemme tell ya.

Thankfully the system worked in their case and their further damage to society is greatly hindered.

We’ll never get a loving working effective system in place so long as the 5th circuit… exists?

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

We’ll never get a loving working effective system in place so long as the 5th circuit… exists?

I generally don't agree with much of the takes making GBS threads on Democrats, but holy gently caress they're the worst on court capture. From the Supreme Court to the chudgy circuits - their solution is basically vote harder and shrug about it.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Milo and POTUS posted:

They absolutely don't want that. They'd be just fine with the abusers having a monopoly on violence since their whole worldview is predicated on it. Remember that teenage girl that killed her pimp and got convicted for it

Did she use a gun?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Crab Dad posted:

Did she use a gun?

Yeah. The man started sexually abusing her at 11, trafficking her at 13, she shot him to death when she was 16. She was tried as an adult and given LWOP. She was pardoned at age 44, in 2022.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


mlmp08 posted:

Yeah. The man started sexually abusing her at 11, trafficking her at 13, she shot him to death when she was 16. She was tried as an adult and given LWOP. She was pardoned at age 44, in 2022.

I hope the prosecution all developed cancer of the rear end and died a slow death.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Crab Dad posted:

I hope the prosecution all developed cancer of the rear end and died a slow death.

They in fact, did not.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

mlmp08 posted:

Yeah. The man started sexually abusing her at 11, trafficking her at 13, she shot him to death when she was 16. She was tried as an adult and given LWOP. She was pardoned at age 44, in 2022.

For extra credit, guess her race.

(You only need one guess.)

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

mlmp08 posted:

Yeah. The man started sexually abusing her at 11, trafficking her at 13, she shot him to death when she was 16. She was tried as an adult and given LWOP. She was pardoned at age 44, in 2022.

shoulda run him over, the legal way to murder people

or become a cop i guess, but too young for that

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

Lemniscate Blue posted:

For extra credit, guess her race.

(You only need one guess.)

LATINE cause if she was black they’d never let her out

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/Ugarles/status/1621289442974613504?t=UlLOoj7LfrNUVRJO_N02nw&s=19

Didn't Rob Schneider turn into a right wing chud?

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

In a big way, yes.
https://twitter.com/az_rww/status/1507941399974404103

Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Feb 3, 2023

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!



The funniest part about this photo is that one of these people went on to have a very successful career in comedy and television.

The other person is Rob Schneider.

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009
Seems like China is giving the classic Roswell response about their surveillance balloons. I don't blame them, the US literally did U2 and B47 (57?) overflights all throughout the cold war.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1154114264/chinese-spy-balloon-us-pentagon-china

Suicide Watch fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Feb 3, 2023

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

I'm surprised the US acknowledged it, seems like it would be easier to feed disinfo if we pretend we can't see it

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


shame on an IGA posted:

I'm surprised the US acknowledged it, seems like it would be easier to feed disinfo if we pretend we can't see it

It's harder to figure out what a device is receiving when it's passive.

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



shame on an IGA posted:

I'm surprised the US acknowledged it, seems like it would be easier to feed disinfo if we pretend we can't see it

It's surprising if you assume whoever authored this offical hot take wants calm relations with China. It's not if you don't

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB



Really loving old we haven’t worn that uniform for around 3 years.

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
If I were a Chinese diplomat I'd say "Wasn't our balloon, we have a loving space program"

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

shame on an IGA posted:

I'm surprised the US acknowledged it, seems like it would be easier to feed disinfo if we pretend we can't see it

As someone whose work day is currently revolving around the balloon and reports about the balloon, there wasn't going to be much pretending we couldn't see it. It's very, very obvious.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously


Ugh yeah, I rewatched Judge Dredd and fun nostalgia and surprisingly good set designs. Not a good movie by any stretch but entertaining, except for Schneider. Somehow manages to be the worst part.

He was doing casino shows nearby this summer so got to hear nonstop radio ads during baseball games, including a joke about why are there cash for gold places everywhere, who’s carrying bars of gold, pirates? That was much better told when Pete Holmes had it on an album a decade ago.

slurm
Jul 28, 2022

by Hand Knit

fknlo posted:

As someone whose work day is currently revolving around the balloon and reports about the balloon, there wasn't going to be much pretending we couldn't see it. It's very, very obvious.

I wonder if some random guy will try to snag it

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

slurm posted:

I wonder if some random guy will try to snag it
At 60,000 feet?

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

People send hobby balloons up there. I’d believe somebody could whip something together if they were motivated.

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

Tiny Timbs posted:

People send hobby balloons up there. I’d believe somebody could whip something together if they were motivated.
Well, this just got interesting. . .

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

Suicide Watch posted:

Seems like China is giving the classic Roswell response about their surveillance balloons. I don't blame them, the US literally did U2 and B47 (57?) overflights all throughout the cold war.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1154114264/chinese-spy-balloon-us-pentagon-china

We also did spy balloons, so there's precedent.

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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Ugh yeah, I rewatched Judge Dredd and fun nostalgia and surprisingly good set designs. Not a good movie by any stretch but entertaining, except for Schneider. Somehow manages to be the worst part.

I have a soft spot for it too. And god those sets were cool

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