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glennmagusharvey · 2017-05-27 03:11:42

i hope your grandmother recovers

Vorpy · 2017-05-27 06:44:35

CONDOLINIS (which are better than condolences by at least 3mg of gold atoms)

I offer them to you, and hope you and your gramgram get better

lrdgck · 2017-05-27 07:22:27

I wish you the brain problems remain a mere possibility.

(ie. she's fine)

Vorpy · 2017-05-27 07:28:22

lrdgck wrote: »

I wish you the brain problems remain a mere possibility.

(ie. she's fine)

heeeeeeeeeeey gacker you a thirsty lil nigggggggggggggga wannna fuck me n shit

yaaaaaaaaaa

lrdgck · 2017-05-28 13:48:13

What?! B-baka! It's- it's not like I like you!

Stormtroper · 2017-05-28 14:51:56

so guess who only had two hours of sleep and forced to stay up for around eight hours while her grandmother turned out to need emergency care in hospital over possible brain problems

I hope she gets well soon.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-05-29 14:52:47

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2017/Pres/Maps/May29.html#item-8

hey, i'm not the only one who has been relating real-life events to stories

just that I was citing RWBY and Cross Ange and this person is citing King Lear

lrdgck · 2017-05-29 15:16:31

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benis

Look at the mayor's name and the number of inhabitants, before the moderation smarts out. (Also, I'd post it as a picture but I just found out there's no print screen on my keyboard, or I was unable to locate it.)

fourteenwings · 2017-05-29 15:40:02

I thought UberA/A.D using a realtime Aria hologram to cover up their face whilst speaking to the real Aria was just Pretty Little Liars being unrealistic but it turns out digital face-grafting is real.

They still have plots about a digital murder boardgame and "A"rcher Dunhill impregnating Alison with Emily's stolen eggs.

just that I was citing RWBY and Cross Ange and this person is citing King Lear

Gatchaman CROWDS Insight~

This actually reminds me of how when the TV show Empire started everybody and their [all the people who probably copied the first guy or even the like... printout that was given to the media] compared it to King Lear.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-05-29 16:03:20

lrdgck wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benis

Look at the mayor's name and the number of inhabitants, before the moderation smarts out. (Also, I'd post it as a picture but I just found out there's no print screen on my keyboard, or I was unable to locate it.)

oh gosh the vandalism on that article is persistent and goes back a while

also what exactly does 1488 mean in spurdo sparde memedome

Stormtroper · 2017-05-29 16:14:15

ebin :DDDD

^ It's not a spurdo sparde thing, it's a neonazi thing. "H" is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 is "Heil Hitler", and 14 refers to this 14 word phrase.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-05-29 18:37:46

I hear that MP3 patents have expired!

Stormtroper wrote: »

^ It's not a spurdo sparde thing, it's a neonazi thing. "H" is the 8th letter of the alphabet, so 88 is "Heil Hitler", and 14 refers to this 14 word phrase.

Fucking nazis, always ruining everything fun about memes.

Stormtroper · 2017-05-30 16:38:32

OTOH, tird reich spurdo

Heh, my professor told me years ago I should not expect they'll ready up a seat for me.

You're in a pure physics thing, right? Looking at the positions contest thing, I think that (besides underfunding) the fact that it's an engineering faculty has to do with it. The ones for pure math and physics courses have steep requirements, while the more closely related to engineering ones are very lax. I'm guessing that it has to do with much of engineering workplace being outside academia (with much better wages too) so the university can't be too picky about it.

The one for solid mechanics has no requirements besides a degree. Hhhmmm...

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-01 16:49:52

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/01/nigel-farage-is-person-of-interest-in-fbi-investigation-into-trump-and-russia

I knew Nigel Farage was a jerk.

lrdgck · 2017-06-01 19:46:07

By the way, what does the global liberal left think about Russia? It's like the left and the right swapped their stances on Russia over the last, I dunno, ten or twenty years.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-01 20:27:47

Well, over the last few decades, Russia also went from bastion of communism to something very much not communist, but probably more akin to the darkly-humorous oligarch-dominated eastern-European politics that you joke about.

I dunno what the "global liberal left" thinks as a whole, and it probably thinks nothing as a whole since that's a pretty darn lot of people that could be put into that category and I'd expect a wide range of opinions.

But personally, I don't like Putin and his various allies (shady oligarchs and such) one bit, nor do I like their screwing with world politics for fun and profit (in Ukraine, in Syria, in the US, and in the EU), though my problem is with them rather than with the Russian people, a good darn lot of whom don't like Putin anyway.

As for geopolitical leadership these days, China might be a good bet. They're actually sticking with the Paris Agreement, which means screw those US conservatives who kept on saying that the US should avoid a climate deal because China would be let off the hook. Meanwhile China is racing past the US at renewable energy implementation.

Some people in the US resent China for being big, and try to point to excuses with regards to currency manipulation and whatnot, but honestly, China is, like it or not, the most populous country in the world. It ain't gonna be small, and it certainly ain't gonna be small after modernization.

But back to Russia...I'm not sure how much liberals were really all that enamored with Russia beforehand. Long before Trump was ever a thing, there were still lots of reports of disregard for civil/human rights in Russia, especially with regards to political corruption and homophobia. Maybe you had some people who were pro-socialism/pro-communism/pro-Marxism, but Russia's been divorced from communism for a while now that associating Russia with communism seems more like a meme than anything else. Meanwhile, right-wingers just sorta used Russia as a way to invoke Cold-War ideas of military preparedness for their hawkish desires, and it was never particularly strong -- see how easily they folded on Trump's connections to Russia, going with the bullcrap conjecture that Hillary Clinton might start a war with Russia and Trump wouldn't.

Vorpy · 2017-06-01 23:57:00

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii don't like putin.

That's about it. Never met russianbebes.

Anonus · 2017-06-02 03:50:17

would it be okay to make a thread for nsfw thoughts

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-02 03:54:35

Anonus wrote: »

would it be okay to make a thread for nsfw thoughts

Yeah I guess so. Mark it NSFW, of course.

Stormtroper · 2017-06-02 18:47:03

I know that the gloabl illiberal left is infatuated with Putin, at least before the whole Trump thing.

Also, I presented my thesis today.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-02 19:51:07

Then who was complaining about Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church being horribly homophobic, and about other stuff about Putin's Russia suppressing opposition politicians and protesters in various ways? Also generally suppressing disrespect for the government -- remember Pussy Riot?

Stormtroper · 2017-06-02 21:25:23

Not the illiberal left, if that's what you mean.

BassFishing · 2017-06-02 21:27:30

Is illiberal left nutball tankies or socialists who end up defending Russia the country (not the government) against neoliberal nimrods like this one who blame the nation for Clinton losing:

https://twitter.com/timjacobwise/status/809188697002409988

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-02 21:33:03

So whose contribution to the world is Faberge eggs, autocracy, and pogroms?

Bluesy_Cowgirl · 2017-06-02 21:39:36

update: I still hate politics

Vorpy · 2017-06-02 23:20:36

Bluesy_Cowgirl wrote: »

update: I still hate politics

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-03 00:13:37

I generally try to avoid talking politics in terms of issue-wanking. Like, if someone asks me out of the blue "What do you think [issue]?" or "What do you think of [politician]?", I usually won't have much to say other than something relatively generic, because I'm not inclined to get into argument #68297106983 about abortion/gun rights/Black Lives Matter/governing philosophy (usually raised by libertarian nut types)/globalism/Obamacare/whether climate change is real/etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc..

So it's sort of awkward when I tell people I am a "politics geek" and they ask me about my opinions on issues. I don't want to look like I'm pushing my opinions on them because that's often counterproductive to supporting those opinions anyway.

So these days I instead tell people I'm an "elections geek".

Vorpy · 2017-06-03 00:23:42

Well, I don't hate politics per say, just the system and the people.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm just electing somebody to half-assedly try to do something, fail, but still collect their check signing off on shit that affects my daily existence.

Stormtroper · 2017-06-03 01:23:14

Is illiberal left nutball tankies or socialists who end up defending Russia the country (not the government) against neoliberal nimrods like this one who blame the nation for Clinton losing:

Presumably there's an overlap.

Tangentially related, I find it interesting that ancient math stuff is named mostly after Greek people, later on there's some Arab names, then Italian names, then English+German+French names and finally XXth century names come dominantly from the US/USSR.

Also Russia didn't invent autocracy.

@ Hating politics: With so much manipulation and treachery going it's easy not to want to get involved. It's an acquired taste.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-06-03 01:39:07

Vorpy wrote: »

Well, I don't hate politics per say, just the system and the people.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm just electing somebody to half-assedly try to do something, fail, but still collect their check signing off on shit that affects my daily existence.

Frankly speaking we have a political system that is based on building consensus doesn't give many ways to do stuff without getting consensus first. Like for example the whole "you need majorities of two groups of people to agree on something and then one other person too, or you need supermajorities of those first two groups" thing, for any major legislative changes.

Consensus is good and all but it doesn't make stuff easy when you have people who are serving in those roles who don't negotiate on good faith and approach things with an all-or-nothing, take-no-prisoners attitude filled with apocalyptic fervor.

Unfortunately, the Republicans figured out that they could gin up voter support for their (so-called) conservative ideology by invoking a combination of misplaced nostalgia (think the idyillic 1950s sitcom at the beginning of Pleasantville) and culture-war items (often grouped under the informal heading "God, guns, and gays").

The Democrats, meanwhile, sorta took their act as a sideshow, in a "they have to say those things to get elected" way, and attempted to continue governing by cutting deals, which -- while unsexy and unsatisfying -- nevertheless kept things going, and there was sort of a customary back-and-forth -- like how politicians would give angry speeches on the floor of legislature chambers during the day, and then get together at night in private to hammer out deals and negotiate on the exact wording of long passages of legalese and actually make decisions happen even if they were sorta unsexy and unsatisfying compromises.

Eventually, though, it wasn't "they have to say those things to get elected" anymore, because those people whose opinions were ginned up like that just to form the conservative voterbase gradually realized the bright idea of actually getting themselves elected to office to try to do those things. With little respect for institutional experience (which they often call "business as usual" or "the political elite", in a bad way of course), and even less for the notion of compromise, these "tea partiers" and such decided that the system didn't serve their desires (which they were right about, though whether those desires is a good idea is another matter), and declared the system broken. Then they went about breaking the system, so that it actually did become broken. (Self-fulfilling prophecy much?)

I mean, frankly speaking, if you've got one person going "I think that single-payer healthcare is a good idea, but I'm willing to listen to your concerns about possible adverse effects" and another person going "YOu"RE CONSPIRING TO TAKE AWAY MY GOD_GIVEN RIGHT TO LIFE USING DEATH PANELS!!!!!!11111eleventyone", you don't exactly get much done. Especially when you need the second person to sign off on it.

(You occasionally get people like that on the Democrats' side, but they are much fewer and farther between compared to the Republicans.)

Incidentally, some people have noticed that this isn't exactly new in American politics -- shit got REAL contentious in the decades before the Civil War for example. But then again, do we really want to have another Bleeding Kansas?

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