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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: May 15, 2023, 02:37:13 pm »
Yes, but the threat of getting extradited to Brazil is significantly more motivating than having your ppower turned off

He’s been evicted before, and apparently begged to be let back in to feed his fish.

Fish that he didn’t have.

But that kinda pales in comparison of his other lies so yeah. I don’t think he will be extradited, considering the charges he’s facing in the US are… so, so much worse.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: May 15, 2023, 01:25:35 pm »
Considering how many times he’s failed to pay his rent, I imagine it is unlikely to vanishingly unlikely.

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General Discussion / Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« on: May 15, 2023, 11:17:51 am »
People seem to consider him some sort of financial wizard, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, so he’s good at PR :p

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General Discussion / Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« on: May 15, 2023, 11:13:52 am »
What impact has Musk made, exactly? He’s not a revolutionary, he doesn’t come up with the ideas himself. He’s just really good at PR.

He signed a contract to buy Twitter for $45bn before realizing it would be a waste of money, and tried to back out of it before getting sued to buy it. He is not a smart man.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: May 15, 2023, 11:10:24 am »
Chris Christie is a clear mercenary, criticizing Trump until he offered him a job, and then returning to criticizing him after he lost that job.

Closest rival, as evidenced by Trump goading him when he announced his 2024 bid, is DeSantis, and he’s playing with Disney in all the wrong ways.

It appears outside of his base, there’s not much love for Trump, but that was basically what happened last time too.

Maybe the media will learn their lesson from 2016 and not give him days of free air time, but I doubt it.

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I think it’s fake news trying to separate the leader of the cannon fodder from Putin.

Hopefully it works. If Putin’s only choice is to put raw recruits on the frontlines, that’s going to piss off even more wives and mothers.

The alternative is that Prigozhin is so mercenary he’s willing to invoke the wrath of Putin, and I’m not sure he’s that bananas. He’ll be avoiding windows for a while I imagine.

In other news, Zelensky has been continuing his relentless pressure on European leaders to continue supporting the Ukrainian defensive effort recently, visiting Italy, the Vatican, Germany, France, and now a surprise UK visit. I know nothing about his effectiveness as a leader, but he’s doing a pretty good job of keeping this at the forefront of the minds world leaders.

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General Discussion / Re: Mass psychosis
« on: May 14, 2023, 05:36:42 pm »
Isolating the chemicals is intelligence; indeed, using your arguments, the culmination of species-wide intelligence to get to that point. It didn’t just happen in a vacuum.

We’re also not saying that synthetic drugs are by and large good, and by the same token, that not all “natural” (unprocessed) drugs/plants are good.

You’re just talking new age nonsense. Yeah, heroin’s bad, so is ricin. There’s cyanide in apple seeds. All that sort of nonsense.

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General Discussion / Re: The Dream Thread
« on: May 14, 2023, 11:16:48 am »
“Wood eels come and go as they please, [person you know] is mysterious.”

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General Discussion / Re: Mass psychosis
« on: May 14, 2023, 11:13:22 am »
Tobacco use isn’t related to massive health risks at all is it? ::) you don’t even have to smoke the fucker for those health risks either!

Similarly, caffeine can be consumed from a plant (coffee!) and that can be processed naturally (through the guts of animals) so… I don’t really know what the point is.

Folks have been using plants to get high for centuries, and they only become bad now we have the ability to isolate the chemical components that have certain effects? Come on guy.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 14, 2023, 02:19:47 am »
Y'know, having never seen that word applied to food, I was pretty confused for a bit there. I mean, they do make edible pasties, but it's not exactly the primary expression of the item in question.

I read about clothing pasties in a book, and having never encountered the word outside of referring to the food, was ery confused why someone would be wearing pastries on their boobs.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 13, 2023, 10:30:14 pm »
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can’t be claiming something made from bread is a pasty if you’re claiming sandwiches can’t be made without bread!

Pasties are pastry!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 13, 2023, 09:50:54 pm »
Does this also mean if you order a pizza to your house, you have the lesser known of Schrödinger's thought experiments? Schrödinger's Sandwich: until you open the box, it both is and is not a sandwich.

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General Discussion / Re: Mass psychosis
« on: May 13, 2023, 09:23:23 pm »
You can overdose on anything dude. Water is essential for life, there is such a thing as water intoxication.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: May 13, 2023, 08:37:50 pm »
I think GO said they were sandwich adjacent.

Edit: though why we’re taking them as some sort of arbiter in this just because their vociferous in their opinion is questionable.

Think for yourselves! Free the sandwiches!

Edit2: if you want to think that putting something between two or another something is a sandwich? Go right ahead!

If you want to call a piece of bread between two pieces of meat a sandwich! You got it, bucko?

You want to call putting things on a single piece of bread an open-faced sandwich? You the boss, boss.

You want to call a hot dog in a bun a sandwich? Get out of here we don’t want your kind.

Edit3: are pizzas giant open-faced sandwiches?

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General Discussion / Re: Mass psychosis
« on: May 13, 2023, 08:27:53 pm »
That means basically everything humans do is synthetic. You don’t go from farm to plate without a processing step between there somewhere. Does that mean the body is artificial from the various foods we eat?

As for drugs, in order to actually consume them, there has to be a step to prepare it, even if that step is just to burn it or put it in food.

It is a ridiculous argument that synthetic drugs are more (or less!) dangerous than “natural” drugs, particularly considering the first paragraph. Paracetamol and aspirin are processed to shit, are they worse for you than whatever you do with coca, or cannabis buds?

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