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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread

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1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

GOP rep learns that old people are the only reason he’s a GOP rep in upstate New York. 

4 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.

But they are closing Social Security offices.

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5 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

Hey, Mike, fuck you and your constituents.

3 hours ago, Hermanator said:

The face of maga when they've just managed to convince themselves trump is about peace when he starts talking about invading Canada

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So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.
But they are closing Social Security offices.

It’s a brilliant way to kill social security.
18 hours ago, GenXer said:

This was my policy in college. Don’t date psychology majors. They’re trying to figure their own crazy.

You missed out. Bigly.

1 hour ago, Auto Driller said:

So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.

But they are closing Social Security offices.

hmmm i'm starting to see the actual plan here...🤔 

'don't be silly, of course we're not going to cut social security, we would never! we're just going to make it increasingly difficult for you to actually figure out how to get it until you give up and die.'

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1 hour ago, Auto Driller said:

So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.

But they are closing Social Security offices.

Feature, not a bug.

 

47 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

You missed out. Bigly.

I have legit crazy and personality disorders in my family. I sure as hell wasn’t going to invite more in. I needed respite from that shit. Great sex be damned. Hard pass. 

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20 minutes ago, GenXer said:

Great sex be damned. Hard pass. 

This.  This right here is the type of quitter talk that exemplifies why America could go to the moon 60 years ago and today can't figure out how to keep the body panels on a shitty looking truck.  It's this kind of talk that encapsulates everything that's wrong with this country.

So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.
But they are closing Social Security offices.

Nice trick, eh?
1 hour ago, GenXer said:

I have legit crazy and personality disorders in my family. I sure as hell wasn’t going to invite more in. I needed respite from that shit. Great sex be damned. Hard pass. 

You're not wrong.  I married legit crazy. It didn't end well and it side-tracked my life emotionally and financially so much that I'll never fully recover...especially with regards to finance.

But, damn, fucking crazy in college was...Stick Around Bob Ross GIF by Originals

14 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

You're not wrong.  I married legit crazy. It didn't end well and it side-tracked my life emotionally and financially so much that I'll never fully recover...especially with regards to finance.

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21 hours ago, GenXer said:

This was my policy in college. Don’t date psychology majors. They’re trying to figure their own crazy.

Define "date"

11 hours ago, troph said:

difference is my dad thought he was a baller. he also loved three piece suits and lifting his pinky when he drank a martini.

Sounds Player to me.

1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

You're not wrong.  I married legit crazy. It didn't end well and it side-tracked my life emotionally and financially so much that I'll never fully recover...especially with regards to finance.

But, damn, fucking crazy in college was...Stick Around Bob Ross GIF by Originals

Right there with you.

1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

You're not wrong.  I married legit crazy. It didn't end well and it side-tracked my life emotionally and financially so much that I'll never fully recover...especially with regards to finance.

But, damn, fucking crazy in college was...Stick Around Bob Ross GIF by Originals

 

8 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Right there with you.

That makes three of us.

Sounds Player to me.

The slacks were gray.
The style was impeccable.
You know what I’m talking ‘bout.
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16 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Any leopards in South Florida?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-latinos-deportations-south-florida-cubans-venezuelans-d3b1cc3b59adec62a8c55557e91df9f2

This is my favorite. Yes, I broke the law, took advantage of the system, and got to stay. Fuck them, send them home.

Barbara Canales, a 49-year-old certified nursing assistant who lives in Hialeah, said her mother brought her as a young girl from Honduras with a visa and overstayed it. It took them many years to legalize their status and to be able to bring other family members.

“That’s why I totally agree that you need to take illegal immigrants out of the United States. I’m sorry, but they should do it,” Canales said, adding that she feels most of the migrants arriving in the past few years are different. “When you come in with a visa is a totally different story.”

Blows my mind that people don't know that we shrank the numbers of allowed yearly immigrants from certain countries.

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14 hours ago, mchookem said:

hmmm i'm starting to see the actual plan here...🤔 

'don't be silly, of course we're not going to cut social security, we would never! we're just going to make it increasingly difficult for you to actually figure out how to get it until you give up and die.'

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This is the plan for everything, find something that works, break it, add in red-tape, understaff it, give it more responsibilities than it can handle, then stand back and say. "see government is bad at things just like Reagan said!"  Then sell it off to their big money guys.

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So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.
But they are closing Social Security offices.

Yeah, the free market is a bitch for poor, old, uneducated, and isolated people. Its very inefficient to deliver water, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, and mail to rural areas.

The democrats, even when they were a racist party, literally paved the way for communities across the country to exist. That democrats were the only thing standing in the way of elimination of these services must be a giant surprise to people obsessed with trans and immigrants.
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30 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

Yeah, the free market is a bitch for poor, old, uneducated, and isolated people. Its very inefficient to deliver water, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, and mail to rural areas.

Bingo.

The cost to deliver electricity to the sticks exceeds the revenue the sticks pay into the system. Same with delivering mail, and building and maintaining lots of miles of road to serve those communities, etc.  If we were to "run the country like a business," we would 100% shed ourselves of the money-losing locations like.....most every rural community in America.  

The reason we DON'T is because....government is NOT a business.  It does many things that COST money, and do not MAKE net money.  That's not to say those things aren't/shouldn't be "paid for" (it costs money to pave the road to Bumfuck), it's just that each line-item at issue doesn't necessarily pay for itself.  We ALL pay to pave the road to Bumfuck, even though it only serves .0000000000000000000000000000001% of the population.  We do that because we've agreed that we want a NETWORK and SYSTEM of roads (as just one example).

We are so fucking stupid.  The very communities that went Trump at an 80% rate are the communities most dependent on government largesse if you look at a localized ROI analysis.  Without the rest of us subsidizing Bumfuck through various government expenditures, Bumfuck would be unlivable.  But Bumfuck voted for a plan to "END GOVERNMENT!"  Good luck with that.

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56 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


Yeah, the free market is a bitch for poor, old, uneducated, and isolated people. Its very inefficient to deliver water, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, and mail to rural areas.

The democrats, even when they were a racist party, literally paved the way for communities across the country to exist. That democrats were the only thing standing in the way of elimination of these services must be a giant surprise to people obsessed with trans and immigrants.

The goal here is the Russian model.  Sell off everything that the government does profitably and then just leave the unprofitable stuff undone (but leave it undone in such a way as to enrich certain favored government allies who are charged with "doing" the undone thing).

Have you ever been to rural Russia?  The roads are typically not paved.  There very frequently is not running water.  Electricity is spotty.  Broadband is . . . ha--that's funny.  But goddamn--they fucking love Putin in rural Russia.

10 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

The goal here is the Russian model.  Sell off everything that the government does profitably and then just leave the unprofitable stuff undone (but leave it undone in such a way as to enrich certain favored government allies who are charged with "doing" the undone thing).

Have you ever been to rural Russia?  The roads are typically not paved.  There very frequently is not running water.  Electricity is spotty.  Broadband is . . . ha--that's funny.  But goddamn--they fucking love Putin in rural Russia.

Yep, this. Stalin was not a Communist, he was a Stalinist. We are seeing similar shit

13 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

The goal here is the Russian model.  Sell off everything that the government does profitably and then just leave the unprofitable stuff undone (but leave it undone in such a way as to enrich certain favored government allies who are charged with "doing" the undone thing).

Have you ever been to rural Russia?  The roads are typically not paved.  There very frequently is not running water.  Electricity is spotty.  Broadband is . . . ha--that's funny.  But goddamn--they fucking love Putin in rural Russia.

 

the rise of american oligarchs 

3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep, this. Stalin was not a Communist, he was a Stalinist. We are seeing similar shit

Communist is similar to Christian as in they are labels plastered over things that aren't in any way actually Communist or Christian. 

Communism and Christianity do not exist today.

Bastardized versions of fascism have replaced communism and Christianity and wear the label like a little red hat. 

Yep, this. Stalin was not a Communist, he was a Stalinist. We are seeing similar shit

The other thing we’ll see is open bribery and extortion. “Hey judge, you ruled against us. Thats a shame” One day later “whoops your son was arrested for…”
1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:


The other thing we’ll see is open bribery and extortion. “Hey judge, you ruled against us. Thats a shame” One day later “whoops your son was arrested for…”

Add to that contractors. There is 1 project I was positive would be DOA. Nope, good to go. NSF led. Been with the same group for 20+ years and have not done shit. Massive overhead, etc.

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the rise of american oligarchs 

Guilded Age?

Age of Entitlement?

Age of Enblightenment?

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3 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

Guilded Age?

Age of Entitlement?

Age of Enblightenment?

Age of Enshittenment

The age of 'the likes of which no one's ever seen'

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Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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Yeah that vacant look in their eyes just screams intelligence. 

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 
 
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Because they know what those diseases look like and do.

i mean when you have a passle of kids you're bound to lose one here or there

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Anti-vaxxers: when you want to kill a child and get away with it.

34 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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That's an image of two people sharing a single brain cell, if I've ever seen one.

On 3/19/2025 at 8:38 PM, RomaVicta said:

The process for earning a masters or PhD has become, seemingly to me (an idiot), an assembly line of templates and specific directions for writing. Passive voice. Over-describing a single item. Adoption or creation of words that are not needed.

Recently, I read a description of a process where I work. If done correctly one might hope to attain "connectedness" with another person. There's already a word for what the writer wanted to convey, but the person's mind and writing were full of academic sounding words and forms that are tedious and sometimes obscure.

It's my guess that back when graduate degrees were rarer, the candidates were actually gifted intellectuals who did not worry about articulating their thoughts and discoveries. They arrived to grad school having already established a voice and ability to array information in a natural way.

I cringe when I hear someone talk about what the data says. Where I work, we must seek "data-driven" solutions. 

This shit will all pass when some other arcane or needless phrase appears from some doctoral candidate striving for a new expression to distinguish their largely useless investigations from the other useless investigations conducted on nearly the very same subject.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure the elite intellectuals who defined graduate degrees in the past are still present in that system and doing brilliant, useful work. I also think peddling grad degrees as a resume enhancer is a racket kind of like student loans. $$$$

I write for a living. I'm sensitive to overuse of the arcane. I'm not an elite writer, but I know what I'm doing and don't copy a template. Those who need one are not elite intellectuals in my humble opinion.

 

On 3/19/2025 at 8:45 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Well, in this day of specialization and poor basic education, even the very learned in their field are often very poor writers.  And that's been true for a very long time.  Theses and dissertations outside the humanities, and a lot in the humanities, I'd wager, will make your eyes bleed.

 

On 3/19/2025 at 8:55 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

At nearly every mentorship or informational interview I have, I tell grad students and interns to learn how to write clear declarative sentences and to practice turning five pages of work into one. Without AI.

 

I work with a lot of technology architects and work with them on written and live presentation comms.  It's always a battle to elevate the message out of the SME level they like to live in to something the rest of the world can understand that they are taking into account important constraints and objectives.  They will talk about the what and how all day but completely forget why we're doing it in the first place.

 

23 hours ago, GenXer said:

I have legit crazy and personality disorders in my family. I sure as hell wasn’t going to invite more in. I needed respite from that shit. Great sex be damned. Hard pass. 

Yeah, I had one woman coming on to me hard when I was still single and she said her theme song was "Strong enough to be my man" by Sheryl Crow so I listened to the lyrics and said "nope"

 

@troph  With your experience with your dad I'd bet you would love the old British Sitcom "Keeping up appearances"

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1 minute ago, troph said:

I’m gonna check it out 

Teaser: Woman's last name is Hyacinth Bucket but pronounces it Bouquet.

 

1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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