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August LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Mike Pence

1 2.04%

Jay Sekulow

6 12.24%

Jared Kushner

1 2.04%

Steve Bannon

11 22.45%

Kellyanne Conway

2 4.08%

Tom Price

0 0%

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

18 36.73%

John Kelly

2 4.08%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

1 2.04%

Rex Tillerson

7 14.29%

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08-02-2017 , 05:37 PM

#76

iron81

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I thought the transparent rocks for weddings were ice sculptures.

08-02-2017 , 05:42 PM

#77

bobman0330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I remember my friend going on a diatribe about how transparent rocks are a huge scam. His long time girlfriend also happened to be in the room. It was clear by the look of death she shot him that they had not previously discussed this issue. You know how it turned out.

The messaging here should be pro-colored gemstones, not whining about De Beers and materialism.

08-02-2017 , 06:00 PM

#78

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Good luck with that.

08-02-2017 , 06:07 PM

#79

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

This thread gets NSFW, but it's a worthy sequel to the classic LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama gag.

08-02-2017 , 07:07 PM

#80

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,422

Quote:

Originally Posted by ymmv

This feels like a Sklansky post, and the econ subforum looks pretty dead, so apologies ahead of time.

I'm as left wing as it gets. My gf believes ayn rand can do no wrong.

My argument goes - if you believe in the market knows best, how come that argument doesn't extend to saying the following:

"We are currently living in a free market, and the companies that are complaining about government regulations exist in a world where part of the "free market" includes operating in a way which addresses concerns of the common citizen.

The companies complaining about these regulations fail to realize that the regulations are being put in place to combat their desires, because their desires screw over common citizens. If they didn't want these regulations, they wouldn't take actions which compel voters to put the regulations in place"

Where am I mistaken?

Your first mistake was dating someone who has grown past adolescence that subscribes to objectivism .

08-02-2017 , 07:29 PM

#81

goofyballer

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Two amusing recent articles on a group of far-right activists in Italy trying to obstruct refugee aid boats that cruise the Mediterranean to keep African refugees from drowning by the boatloads

From July 21, NYT introduces them and their mission:

Quote:

It began in May, when Mr. Fiato, a leader of the Italian branch of a European right-wing movement that calls itself identitarian, joined his allies in using an inflatable raft to momentarily delay a ship carrying Doctors Without Borders personnel that was chartered to rescue migrants at sea. The tactic appalled human rights organizations, which argued that the activists, mostly in their 20s, threatened the lives of desperate migrants making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea.

But it also attracted publicity, new members and, identitarians say, at least $100,000 in private donations. That money went to Defend Europe, a project that included as its centerpiece the chartering of a 130-foot ship previously used off the Horn of Africa.

...
“I certainly wish them the best,” said Richard B. Spencer, a white nationalist in the United States who is a leader of the so-called alt-right, a far-right movement. “This sounds like a wonderful mission.”

But they hit a snag in their plans a week or so later: Some crew members on the ship the Italian group chartered claim asylum during stop in Cyprus

Quote:

The Wednesday asylum claim in Cyprus's breakaway north by five Sri Lankans who were on the ship was a setback for the activists, members of the far-right Generation Identity movement, who hired the Djibouti-flagged C-Star to take them off the coast of Libya to try to disrupt the flow of migrants.

...
The ship has been making its way to Sicily to pick up the activists, who are waiting in the port city of Catania as part of an operation they call “Defend Europe.”

But when the ship docked in north Cyprus on the way to Italy, 20 Sri Lankan men hopped out, and five of them claimed asylum, according to the activists.

08-02-2017 , 07:44 PM

#82

goofyballer

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Publishing in the post-Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker age: how a story about R. Kelly leading a cult of young concubines almost didn't get published

Quote:

After Jim DeRogatis, the veteran Chicago rock critic, reported for months on a stunning story about R&B singer R. Kelly and the young women said to be under his psychological and sexual control, it came time to get it published.

Three separate media organizations were interested but got cold feet at the last minute, DeRogatis said. Each one, after investing months of work, backed away from the story that used named sources and documents to describe how women near Atlanta and Chicago were held as if in a cult, according to what parents and others had told police. (DeRogatis declined to name the news organizations because of his appreciation of the editors he worked with; they weren’t the ones who pulled the plug. They include a regional print publication, a world-famous multimedia behemoth and a radio-based digital outlet.)

Eventually, Buzzfeed published it

08-02-2017 , 08:01 PM

#83

Loki

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If Ayn Rand can do no wrong, then government handouts are perfectly fine, as she took them later in life

Just another in a long line of empathy-free nutters who don't realize the value of government help until they personally are affected.

May also be worth pointing out that a perfectly free market can only exist in a vacuum where every participant has omnipotence. Since it's impossible to implement in the real world, government has a need to exist.

08-02-2017 , 08:09 PM

#84

Loki

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Does this count for the poll?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...council-241264

Quote:

McMaster fires top intelligence official from National Security Council

Ezra Cohen-Watnick was one of the few remaining aides hired by Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

08-02-2017 , 10:07 PM

#85

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

The PizzaGate people(this is the lady who interrupted the Julius Caesar/Trump play) are, uh, really going somewhere. You might need to click through to the tweet to get a better look at the pictures, but you're definitely going to want to check out her subsequent tweets melting down about it.

08-02-2017 , 11:17 PM

#86

uDevil

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The slasher might have done her a favor. That tire looks like it needed to be replaced a while ago.

08-02-2017 , 11:29 PM

#87

Trolly McTrollson

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Creeps put multiple slashes in her tire. Because that's totally how the Comet Pizza Illuminati roll.

08-02-2017 , 11:37 PM

#88

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

The globalists have developed some sort of aging ray, and also seem to have taken her car for a joyride on the flat tire.

08-02-2017 , 11:40 PM

#89

zikzak

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I am really really really happy to learn that Laura Loomer is some broke-ass deadbeat who can't afford tires.

Last edited by zikzak; 08-02-2017 at 11:41 PM. Reason: but not surprised

08-03-2017 , 12:07 AM

#90

DrModern

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"Someone"

08-03-2017 , 12:32 AM

#91

suzzer99

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Reidentification attack reveals German judge's porn-browsing habits

Quote:

The data they were eventually given came, for free, from a data broker, which was willing to let them test their hypothetical AI advertising platform. And while it was nominally an anonymous set, it was soon easy to de-anonymise many users.

Dewes described some methods by which a canny broker can find an individual in the noise, just from a long list of URLs and timestamps. Some make things very easy: for instance, anyone who visits their own analytics page on Twitter ends up with a URL in their browsing record which contains their Twitter username, and is only visible to them. Find that URL, and you’ve linked the anonymous data to an actual person. A similar trick works for German social networking site Xing.

For other users, a more probabilistic approach can deanonymise them. For instance, a mere 10 URLs can be enough to uniquely identify someone – just think, for instance, of how few people there are at your company, with your bank, your hobby, your preferred newspaper and your mobile phone provider. By creating “fingerprints” from the data, it’s possible to compare it to other, more public, sources of what URLs people have visited, such as social media accounts, or public YouTube playlists.

Guarantee Cambridge Analytica is on this. Imagine a compliant FBI/Justice department willing to use this to go after political enemies. Game ovah.

08-03-2017 , 12:43 AM

#92

suzzer99

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https://medium.com/@IjeomaOluo/faceb...n-e60c34434181

Quote:

Now, regardless of what you think about my attempts to make light of my nervousness of being surrounded by white people in an establishment that not too long ago had to pay millions of dollars for racially discriminatory practices, in a small town in a red state, I think we can all agree that the response to my tweet was….a bit much.

First picked up on Twitter by notorious hatemonger @stillgray, and then sent to right-wing outrage machine Twitchy, this one tweet has become the focus of hundreds — literally hundreds of angry white people waiting for an excuse to tell a black woman that they hope she dies.

And it goes on to a nice blend of people calling her racist, mixed with actual racists saying horrible racist things.

08-03-2017 , 12:56 AM

#93

suzzer99

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The private equity bubble can't last too much longer.

08-03-2017 , 01:18 AM

#94

ScreaminAsian

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I'm pissed I didn't come up with the idea for an app that sends someone to your car to fill it with gas while it's parked so rich people never have to go to a gas station again

08-03-2017 , 01:27 AM

#95

suzzer99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I would pay a good premium for a service that comes to my house and fills my gas tank on a regular basis. I really hate going to gas stations.

Also I take a lot of supplements. Someone please make me a machine that I can fill with up to 10 different kinds of pills, then give me one of each in a batch every morning.

Also I think it would be really cool if someone would take a full virtual reality setup into the worst slums and places in the world. Capture life there - so people in cushy places like where most of us live would get a visceral sense of what it's really like to walk around in say a refugee camp in Lebanon full of Syrians who have fled ISIS. Or a Liberian slum.

Or this place. The photos and this story really had a deep impact on me. Imagine a fully immersive virtual reality experience.

Ahem - 07-24-2015.

You guys never listen to me. But I'm spitting gold over here. Some day, one by one on each issue, you're gonna have a weebay moment and go "wow, suzzer was right all along".

08-03-2017 , 02:35 AM

#96

ChrisV

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Quote:

Also I take a lot of supplements. Someone please make me a machine that I can fill with up to 10 different kinds of pills, then give me one of each in a batch every morning.

Pharmacies will package stuff up like that.

08-03-2017 , 02:41 AM

#97

suzzer99

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Taking my glucosamine to a pharmacy to be packaged up with other supplements feels like overkill.

Here's my other ideas (feel like I'm forgetting some):

1) Let me pay $10/month or whatever for a package that includes the WSJ, NYT, LAT, WaPo, etc. I don't want to register and have to worry about cancelling and annoying spam emails from all those sites. I'm to the point where I almost won't buy anything online unless it's Amazon because I don't want to deal with sign up, spam, risk of data breach, etc. Same goes many times over for signing up for anything with recurring payment. Smaller papers would actually pay to be included in the package. Sports package, investing, etc. can also work.

(I know - no one gets this idea here, to the point of open hostility. The baffling attitude seems to be that being given a choice of package or a la carte is somehow worse than just being offered a la carte.)

2) A tamaguchi-like app for weight loss. If you don't enter your calories you have to watch it slowly starve to death. If you eat too much it gets fat and miserable. If you exercise and eat right it gets healthy and loves you. Also you can share with others so you see their avatars and they see yours.

3) Hipster mini-golf. Buy a bunch of old rocket ships and 50s Jetson props. Call it Astro-Golf. Other themes are also ok. Scary clowns would be a good one. Have good beer and stupid hipster **** like chicken and waffle skewers (yes those are a thing). But also world-class old-school burgers (gf and I came up with this idea on a road trip - actually got in a fight over whether or not the burgers could have arugula in them. NO!). And it must have an old school Icee/Slushee/Koolee machine that servers alcoholic Slushees. Neighborhood is critical.

08-03-2017 , 03:00 AM

#98

ChrisV

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Hipster mini-golf sounds like a winning idea actually. I'd invest.

08-03-2017 , 03:16 AM

#99

AllCowsEatGrass

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The more one smells Julian Assange and Wikileaks, the stronger the stench of **** grows. **** birds, Randy. **** birds.

Quote:

Rod Wheeler, who was hired by the family of the aide, Seth Rich, to look into his death, said in the suit that the network fabricated quotations from him in an article about Mr. Rich on FoxNews.com. Mr. Wheeler states that the network was aware that he had not said the statements yet it published them “with reckless disregard for their truth.”

The network later retracted the article, saying it did not meet its standards.

In the suit, Mr. Wheeler, who is a Fox News contributor, asserts that he was a pawn in a broader plan by the White House, a Trump supporter named Ed Butowsky and Fox News to “shift the blame from Russia and help put to bed speculation that President Trump colluded with Russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/b...e-lawsuit.html