Everything posted by Asithappens
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Fuck thieves
Seems like a humble brag thread.
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Fuck thieves
Yep. Inside job all the way.
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Justice Johnny "Rocket" Roberts: Umpire or Operative?
Didn't see where this was posted (and searched for it), so, oh well. Chuck Schumer came out and said that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch would "pay" if they upheld a recent anti-abortion case that's going to SCOTUS, which prompted a response from Roberts. While I'm not really a fan of Schumer (or of Roberts), I thought that Schumer (or his staff) played this brilliantly from a political perspective. Here iit is in case you haven't seen it: WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who only very rarely responds to criticism of federal judges, issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing remarks made by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at a rally outside the Supreme Court. Mr. Schumer, speaking while the court heard arguments in a major abortion case, attacked President Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees, Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh. “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Mr. Schumer said. “You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Chief Justice Roberts condemned Mr. Schumer’s remarks. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” he said in a statement. “All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.” Here's the brilliant part: A spokesman for Mr. Schumer said the chief justice had engaged in a willful misrepresentation. “Senator Schumer’s comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grass-roots movement on the issue of reproductive rights,” the spokesman, Justin Goodman, said in a statement. “For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Senator Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes,” he said. That was a reference to a famous analogy proposed by Chief Justice Roberts at his confirmation hearings, comparing judges with umpires. Last week, the chief justice declined to comment when the president called on Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two liberal members of the court, to recuse themselves from all cases involving Mr. Trump. Mr. Schumer’s remarks suggested that Democrats see a political advantage in criticizing the court, which they expect to issue consistently conservative decisions after the departure in 2018 of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. Chief Justice Roberts, for his part, insists that the court is not a political body. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/roberts-schumer-supreme-court.html?searchResultPosition=1
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New report finds only 16% of millennials qualify as ‘financially literate’ (& less than half of everyone else)
Well, the most correct answer is probably E.
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New report finds only 16% of millennials qualify as ‘financially literate’ (& less than half of everyone else)
The single biggest thing to learn about "finance" is to invest in a broad-based index fund. Vanguard Admiral, for example. Put money in at regular intervals and forget about it. You can't time the market. Your dumb ass neighbor/friend doesn't have any good stock tips.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Holy shit. That is fucked up beyond all constitutional recognition. I hope you're kidding.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Lol. What? How about this for "analysis"? "Alex Jones saying sources he has telling him 10% (30 mil) in US dead in 6 months. Even if this crazy fucker is 99% wrong, that's still 330k dead." Or hey, let's change the number to 100% dead in 6 months....
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Jack Welch: Ranked and Yanked
A true sociopath.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Meh. If they're that worried about it then don't go to sxsw.
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Jewish kid kicked off Anderson HS robotics team for making anti-Semetic joke
I see your point, but really? You can make some offensive joke against jews but it's ok because you are (or claim to be) a jew boy? And I'm part jewish, ftr. Oh yeah, but it only mildly plays into one of the oldest stereotypes against jews, so it's ok.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
How the fuck do you think the state idiots are handling this?
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Wtf does that mean? "Mitigate the spread somewhat"? So it took 6 days instead of 3 to spread the virus? The end result is the same. We're gonna get infected. All it takes is one to infect others. We're not gonna stop this.
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Jack Welch: Ranked and Yanked
You know what's good about this? Jack Welch is finally in hell. Fuck you, Jack. Fuck you hard.
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Jewish kid kicked off Anderson HS robotics team for making anti-Semetic joke
Just like blacks can casually toss around the n-word? Bullshit. If it's wrong, it's wrong. Stop with the identity politics bullshit. Jews and blacks don't get a free pass for being anti-semitic or racist. But that would have to acknowledge that whitey isn't the source of all evil in the world.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
You can't contain this. So, there was no time to do that.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
No shit. It's a fool's errand to attempt to contain this. It's out there.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but imo the stats here are bullshit. We don't know how many are affected/infected, therefore the case fatality rates are worthless. Are we having one death per 1,000; or one death per 10,000? And so fucking what if we get results back in an hour? In 30 minutes? Jesus, we're all (or most) gonna be exposed. Gotta go. Costco is awaiting my $800 purchase.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Not that I think the govt will not eff things up, but I completely disagree with this mentality: what do you expect? Perfection when it comes to containing the virus? It's not gonna happen. Especially when people can be asymptomatic for week(s) before they show symptoms. What are you going to do? Quarantine everybody who we might think is infected? For how long? This is like the guy who called it negligence for not taking the temperature of every person (not a sample, not a subset, not those who are showing symptoms) coming into the US from the "pacific" (however that is defined). I mean, jesus, you can have the virus and not show a temp, so what the fuck good is taking the temp of every single person? The point seems only to be to make people feel better. It's unrealistic and going to be phenomenally expensive and more disruptive than the virus itself.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
There was a recent story on NPR about zinc lozenges and their ability to lessen the symptoms of the flu (really). The problem is that only zinc works, and additives such as citrus/citric acid (?) reduce the effectiveness, and that most zinc lozenges sold in stores contain the citrus additive. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/10/803886479/taking-zinc-can-shorten-your-cold-thank-a-91-year-old-scientist-for-the-discover
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Yeah. What about that don't you understand, Forrest?
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
The virus is (basically) everywhere. Stop worrying about stopping the spread. Start worrying about what to do if shit hits the fan.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Ok, what are "some symptoms"? Runny nose? Cough? Scratchy throat? Jesus.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
March Madness, indeed.
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911 lone star - what the fuck is this horseshit?
This show is so bad it's great. Great, Jerry!
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Worst remake ever
The Longest Yard.