EdamAnchorman
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Saw them in Philly last night. First time seeing them since the Yanqui tour, and my first show since COVID. Really wanted to hear Mladic but they ended with BBF3 instead, not too bad.
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Turns out that if you begin with a view that information (binary yes/no, 1's / 0's) makes up the fabric of our universe, the dimensions of space and time can readily emerge from this basis. This would mean that space and time aren't even fundamental to the universe, they emerge from information. So the basic building blocks of the universe may be as simple as yes/no or on/off?
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On 4/21/2022 at 10:58 PM, chenGOD said:
The Spanish one seems like a murder suicide...maybe the dude was anticipating being put on a sanctions list? He's not on any currently and his net worth was only like $450 million so Putin couldn't have valued him that much..or feared him...
Maybe he was just a low-level, low collateral damage kill for Putin to send a message to the others.
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
one of the interviews.
I wonder what this does to sperm count / fertility. Infrared light aside (hello burned balls), increased temperature in the scrotum is linked to lower sperm count / viability, no? I mean that's why the ballz exist outside of the body cavity in the first place.
If so, then we should all strongly encourage Carlson's followers to do this.
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Hey if they wanna dumb down their entire population, it might take a generation or so, but they'll reap what they sow.
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Soooo glad I got to see a live performance of this album on Halloween 2019 not long before COVID hit:
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26 minutes ago, ignatius said:
drone footage from chernobyl appears ot show that russians did dig trenches... unless this is some other area near there that was disturbed for some reason?
reddit comments so w/a grain of salt:
Russians reaping what they sowed?
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20 hours ago, iococoi said:
Always wanted to require an anchor and compass to be able to eat my pizza.
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4 hours ago, zkom said:
Taking selfies with the elephant's foot?
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11 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:
i have zero respect for the vast majority of people in this thread anymore, frankly i dont think i will be posting further
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48 minutes ago, zero said:
on some level, I'm almost eerily aligned with beliefs held by a trump supporter, in that I have never felt that the political machine in DC represents me. I feel pretty detached from all of it, hence why I didn't vote a few times over the years when I could of. but I also have a pretty good purview to be able to spot a scam, which is why I didn't vote for the orange guy.
I think that the level of feeling "represented" increases as you get to more local government. Recently I have really tried to read up on the candidates running in local and state elections before casting my vote.
I agree that the further up you get, the less it seems the politicians do what's right for their constituents, at least in America. I've continued to vote in the main elections, but after having to choose between the lesser of two evils too often, I have started to pay more attention to the primaries which I think are vastly more important than the final elections. We need grass roots movements to get people to pay attention to and participate in primary elections at all levels, I feel that could have the quickest positive impact.
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15 minutes ago, zero said:
think you answered your own question there man. I know it's not polite to call someone dumb, but I don't know any other way to describe it. you know those type of people that fall for obvious scams, buy crap products off of 24 hr shopping channels, get suckered into high pressure sales tactics. those are all prime targets for the NY City slickster! and that is unfortunately a massive chunk of the US population. his supporters don't care as much that he's from NYC, because he sure acts and talks a lot like people in their tribe...all the low brow petty shit he's known so well for saying and doing. therefore he somehow gains an iota of their trust, and then they start buying into more and more of the trump show.
I think until donald started his political thing, many of us totally underestimated just how many people like this there are out there, because we usually interact with people with somewhat similar viewpoints as our own. that's why as much as I don't like trump and what he's done to this country, he deserves some small golf clap for his carny smarts, and his non-stop ability to keep his supporters rolling in the pig shit he throws out for them. the fact that he has duped millions of people into believing he is fit to be US pres, is why I say he totally deserves the unofficial title as the biggest con man in the world.
Yes, and people who tend to fall for scams like this are probably not very successful in life (ofc there are outliers, but by and large they're probably not successful). This orange man comes along and lets them feel that their lives are not where they want them to be because of the swamp in DC, or the minorities coming from other countries and taking their jobs. They latch onto that and get to say, "yeah, I didn't get that job because the system is corrupt or because that minority got it over me", which is easier than saying, "I didn't get that job because I'm not as qualified or as smart or hard-working as the other person". It's much easier to blame others or "the system" for their own problems.
I feel that these people have always been here, but they have stayed out of politics because there were few candidates they could get behind. The problem is that Trump came along and gave them a unifying voice, something they could all rally behind, even if it was only for his own personal gain.
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I keep wondering how the poorest, the dumbest, the most racist of Americans have identified so much with and blindly follow a rich New Yorker who doesn't care about them at all. They were just so hungry to latch on to anyone who was so vocal about being anti-establishment and racist.
From my armchair psychiatrist viewpoint, they want something/someone to blame for their lousy lot in life, instead of looking in the mirror and realizing their own situation is probably because they're not smart enough or hard-working enough, etc.
IMO we're lucky he doesn't give two shits about most of his followers and their well-being. Imagine if these morons all got behind someone with actual charisma, someone who could wield actual political power other than, "I'll take my voting bloc and go home".
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53 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
That was a different Ukraine government.
All sides ignored the minks agreements, which were flawed from the get go both in theory and in practice. Putin used "the defense of the people of donetsk and luhansk" as cover, much the same as they tried to use the even flimsier "de-nazification" cover for this particular invasion.
Zelensky won the 2019 election with 73% of the vote, and while his popularity did decrease (significantly), the citizens of Ukraine have clearly expressed their preference through supporting him during the war:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/596806-russian-invasion-transforms-zelensky
So if you want to side with the citizens, you would not surrender.
Why do you think they will simply lose? Would you have said the same (i.e. surrender) to the NVA during the Vietnamese War?
Yeah yeah yeah but Nazis.
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10 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:
Who was that brunette girl with the glasses everyone here had a hard on for around the Millennium?
Leah? And pretty sure only a few people (xelah?) had a hard on for her.
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14 minutes ago, dcom said:
I figured as much. And damn, that article is from six years ago...
So what's a viable alternative? Natural fibers? Cotton is still a polymer, albeit a natural one (cellulose-based). Do we even know that natural polymers won't also cause negative health and environmental effects? So what, then, leather breeches or nudity??
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I wonder if little bits that come off of your synthetic fiber clothing are considered microplastics. I mean, they're definitely synthetic polymers, and just take a look at all the little fibers that your clothes shed. It's probably not a stretch to think that those bits are falling into your food or getting rustled up in the air that you breathe. Might have to start wearing a mask when I change the lint trap in my dryer.
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5 hours ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:
im not a troll im discussing the war, its you guys who keep talking about me. yes, you included. ive asked you all to stop lots of times and even chen has but youre all just so desperate for gossip in your boring lives, just as boring as mine, that you cant help but comment. so for the love of god keep the thread on topic from this point on thank you very much
You're shouting so loudly about the nazis. Yes, there are probably nazis there as Chen has pointed out, but why are you shouting so loudly about them with all the other horrible stuff going on?
We all get that nazis are bad, but it's like the house is completely on fire and you're screaming that someone left the oven on. Yeah you want the firemen to go in and put out the fire but not unless they can run through the flames and make sure that the pesky oven is off as well.
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Totally agree. It's unfortunate that it seems to be in our nature to crash headlong into things without thinking about or caring about long-term effects too much. We'll have to try to "evolve" into new ways of thinking or future generations will face many hardships that were created by past generations.
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3 hours ago, ignatius said:
if there's ever a reckoning i hope we through the industrial assholes who keep forcing plastic onto everything into volcanos.
I'm against plastics in general but the reality is that there is no economically-viable alternative that the public will accept. Nobody wants to see this stuff clogging up landfills or choking waterways but most people also don't want to pay the extra cost (sometimes substantial) it would take to make the products they buy more environmentally-friendly. We dug ourselves into this hole very early on and we're at the point now where it would be difficult to break our addiction to plastics.
I wouldn't say that anybody is forcing plastic onto consumers. Unfortunately, it ultimately allowed businesses to create things at a lower price, and the public ate that up. We obviously can't count on businesses to do what's morally or environmentally right, so what's the solution? Enough people have to be willing to pay more for a better alternative, at least in the short run, or there need to be subsidies / penalties for producing plastic-free / rich products.
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2 hours ago, thefxbip said:
''Alexander Serdyuk has stopped talking to his mother. He is nervously watching war edge ever closer to his home in Lviv. She is 1,500 miles (2,400km) to the east in Russia, denying that any of it is actually happening.
“I can’t speak with her,” says the 34-year-old Russian who moved to Ukraine 10 years ago. “She doesn’t understand me. She says it’s just Nazis killing each other, and that we are responsible for all this.”
“She just doesn’t believe me,” he adds. “We used to speak with each other a lot, but now there’s just no point.”
It’s the same for Natasha Henova. She has already fled her home near Kharkiv with her young sons and husband, as the bombs crept ever closer to their village. When she called a cousin who lives near Moscow to update her, however, the conversation was almost as upsetting as the war itself.
“She is sympathetic but says that we are being lied to,” says Henova, a 35-year-old English language tutor. “She says it’s all America’s doing. I say OK, but why are Russians hitting us if it’s all about America? She says Ukrainians have been so cruel to people in the Donbas.
“She said Ukrainian soldiers must surrender. She even invited me to come to Russia to be with her. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I’m desperately struggling here to keep Ukraine independent and she invites me to go to Russia.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/ukraine-russia-families-divided-over-war
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
My co-worker and labmate is from Belarus. He says he can't even talk to his parents anymore because they are saying much of the same things. They used to speak a few times a week but he has given up even calling them at all recently.
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17 hours ago, Nebraska said:
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1 hour ago, ambermonke said:
In all seriousness though, I hope all the fighters in Kyiv can continue to hold the line. Also I wonder if there's a way to cripple Moscow's nuclear capabilities via cyber assault, although I'm not sure how antiquated their launch systems are.
Some people have questioned whether or not the systems that control Russia's nuclear weapons would even fully function if they were to want to launch them (due to neglect, lack of funding, etc.).
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25 minutes ago, thefxbip said:
Seeing shit like this, and remembering the whole Trump admin debacle, i hope it remind us the importance of simply speaking the truth.
When pure lies become the norm shit go south real quick.
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I got him to give me a demo version of one of these CD-Rs and I gotta say it was quite good.