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April LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of April?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 4.84%

John Kelly

13 20.97%

Jared Kushner

1 1.61%

Ty Cobb

6 9.68%

Ben Carson

4 6.45%

Ryan Zinke

1 1.61%

Scott Pruitt

18 29.03%

Kellyanne Conway

7 11.29%

Rod Rosenstein

6 9.68%

Write-in

3 4.84%

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04-04-2018 , 07:41 PM

#151

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

They're turning on his administration. They love Trump though.

One thing I noticed about deplorables is that they hate the government as much as we do. The difference comes from the fact that they absolutely adore Trump. They would love it if his entire cabinet was dissolved and Trump did everything himself.

04-04-2018 , 07:46 PM

#152

Johnny Truant

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What fox reports is providing him with his policy. It’s like the secret spy message in the classified ads, except not secret.

04-04-2018 , 08:14 PM

#153

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny Truant

What fox reports is providing him with his policy. It’s like the secret spy message in the classified ads, except not secret.

The opposite of A Beautiful Mind.

If I wasn't **** at PS, I'd put Trump's head on Russell Crowe's in A Beautiful Mind doing math formulas and **** like that.

04-04-2018 , 11:09 PM

#154

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

04-04-2018 , 11:10 PM

#155

DrChesspain

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I voted for Zinke when I meant to vote for Pruitt.

LOL on me.

04-04-2018 , 11:24 PM

#156

DrChesspain

Guest

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

I think I may just try to do a 3-day beer tour where I can walk around in a boozy haze and don't have to figure anything out or worry about transportation.

I'd like to do that in Amsterdam, but not with booze.

04-04-2018 , 11:33 PM

#157

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Spoiler:

04-04-2018 , 11:50 PM

#158

kerowo

lolcat

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37,190

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Apparently a one bedroom flat consumes 36 units per day (however much that is, I don't know but it sounds like a lot. I assume one unit is one KwH). All I know is that I've been billed £270 per month for the last 4 months. Despite the fact that I wasn't in Scotland for December and shut my power off for my entire flat, they have my power consumption the same as November.

Given that my previous bill was £222 for 3+ months, I doubt that this is an accurate representation of the power I consumed.

Even crazier is that I can't see the electronic bill because they have me listed as changing to a different power supplier even though I never did. So I have limited access to my account.

****ing Scottish Power. They're the Comcast of Scotland when it comes to customer service.

After dealing with Italian power bills I can only assume that Europe uses the bones of ancient saints carved into dice to randomly generate records which they then record by rubbing balloons on their ****ing "jumpers" and touching the computer case.

04-04-2018 , 11:57 PM

#159

jjhender

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Yeah, I think it's probably about time to find another site to help out with their ad revenue by lurking. This is just embarrassing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth

Reconstruction is a very interesting period of time and was a disaster for the former members of the slave population. When the Civil War ended, everyone agreed that slavery was over, but no one knew exactly what that meant. If Lincoln would have lived, things would have probably moved along at a slower pace. Instead, the Radical Republicans seized control, passed highly progressive laws that couldn't be enforced, and it led to the era of Jim Crow.

04-05-2018 , 08:16 AM

#160

zikzak

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0:30

04-05-2018 , 09:03 AM

#161

Namath12

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Quote:

If Lincoln would have lived, things would have probably moved along at a slower pace.

If my memory of Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of Abraham Lincoln is accurate, and there is no reason to believe that it is not 100% accurate, this claim is somewhat dubious.

04-05-2018 , 09:13 AM

#162

Victor

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

Yup, well-oiled machine in place now.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...99183425802240

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/stat...11757726810112

(Contract would be illegal in Calif, BTW)

lol libertarians as always

04-05-2018 , 09:22 AM

#163

Money2Burn

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South Korean scientists are trying to make Horizon Zero Dawn a documentary

Quote:

KAIST’s President Sung-Chul Shin said in a later statement: “I would like to reaffirm that KAIST does not have any intention to engage in development of lethal autonomous weapons systems and killer robots.”

This however contradicted the university’s stance in a now-deleted announcement that described what the program would focus on: “AI-based command and decision systems, composite navigation algorithms for mega-scale unmanned undersea vehicles, AI-based smart aircraft training systems, and AI-based smart object tracking and recognition technology.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.vi...robots-weapons

04-05-2018 , 09:57 AM

#164

DudeImBetter

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So this guy must be inputting data wrong. Maybe massively underestimated amount of particles in universe? He suggests humans will have used up all particles in the universe just in what it is we require to physically exist...in 8604 years. Can someone review?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BradyHaran/...e_numberphile/

04-05-2018 , 10:14 AM

#165

Trolly McTrollson

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Pretty sure he's a crank.

04-05-2018 , 10:19 AM

#166

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,422

It's mentioned in one of the very first comments, but population growth can typically be modeled by a logistics curve (if you draw one in a plane is looks like a horizontally elongated "S"). It will approach an upper bound at some point.

Since it's clear we won't be doing much to combat climate change in the near future I don't think we really need to worry about any doomsday overpopulation scenarios. All of the places with high birth rates are probably going to be either deserts or underwater in another 200 years, tops.

04-05-2018 , 10:22 AM

#167

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jjhender

Yeah, I think it's probably about time to find another site to help out with their ad revenue by lurking. This is just embarrassing.

You're probably right but uBlock seems to work fairly well...

04-05-2018 , 10:26 AM

#168

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

Isn't this the old rice on a chessboard problem? If you compound anything it'll take over the universe pretty quickly.

04-05-2018 , 10:44 AM

#169

bobman0330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DudeImBetter

1.011^8604 ~= 10^40, so sure, whatever. That's ten thousand billion billion billion billion. The key question here is, who cares?

04-05-2018 , 10:51 AM

#170

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

When my friends debated in high school/college - various lines of argument would always show X leads to nukes being used, and therefore X must be avoided. Often times it was a ridiculous argument like skinheads would get nukes or something if we don't do Y.

But you still had to rebut it somehow. So another team found the nano-bot "grey goo" article (where all matter in universe is taken over by exponentially increasing nano-bots). They'd argue that nukes are preferable to grey goo, because nukes only destroy the earth.

Now the judge was left with two ridiculous theories that rightfully nulled themselves out.

04-05-2018 , 11:56 AM

#171

simplicitus

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https://twitter.com/mtsw/status/981874779283181568

04-05-2018 , 12:01 PM

#172

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

What's Flynn Effect?

04-05-2018 , 12:05 PM

#173

fatboy8

journeyman

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 341

On today's "The Daily" podcast, farmer who voted for face eating leopard party talks about getting his face eaten.

04-05-2018 , 12:08 PM

#174

simplicitus

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The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day.
Flynn effect - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

04-05-2018 , 12:15 PM

#175

Huehuecoyotl

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The GOP's swift move from defender of middle America from rapacious liberalism's tax raises to the party of oligarchy raising taxes on middle America for tax breaks for millionaires.

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