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January LC Thread : Survivor White House Edition

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

Matthew Whitaker

9 24.32%

Kjrstyn Njielessen

7 18.92%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

4 10.81%

Steve Mnuchin

4 10.81%

Wilbur Ross

2 5.41%

Stephen Miller

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

3 8.11%

Roger Stone*

3 8.11%

Donald Trump Jr*

2 5.41%

Write-in

3 8.11%

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01-15-2019 , 02:54 PM

#676

All-In Flynn

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If I'm looking for what is, frankly, long-shot help with getting a Red Alert 2 mod to run on Windows 10, am I better off going to CTH or to VG? Neither seems to have a LC/minor issue thread and it's really not worth its own thread.

01-15-2019 , 02:56 PM

#677

goofyballer

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You can try the "random ****" thread in VG (basically a LC thread) (the Steam thread kinda is too but more for discussing games/sales).

01-15-2019 , 03:01 PM

#678

All-In Flynn

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Cheers.

01-15-2019 , 03:38 PM

#679

uDevil

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I read Dune too long ago to have a strong opinion on it. No, wait: the book was better than the movie.

Just started reading Arthur C. Clarke's Rendevous with Rama. He was a quite visionary but his reputation is perhaps artificially enhanced by people taking names for things out of his books.

01-15-2019 , 04:29 PM

#680

kerowo

lolcat

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

You can try the "random ****" thread in VG (basically a LC thread) (the Steam thread kinda is too but more for discussing games/sales).

Probably this, but feel free to start a new thread in CTH, we could use the traffic.

01-15-2019 , 04:31 PM

#681

kerowo

lolcat

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

Those writers are starting to be more than a generation old so language, and pacing issues and 50+ years of being stolen from is going to come into play.

01-15-2019 , 05:11 PM

#682

All-In Flynn

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Originally Posted by kerowo

Probably this, but feel free to start a new thread in CTH, we could use the traffic.

Will do, not exactly drowning in offers of help over there.

01-15-2019 , 05:14 PM

#683

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

You need to use the Konmari method of Marie Kondo. If a poster doesn't spark joy in you, he/she should be chucked out.

2p2 Forums would cease to exist if mods/admins used this logic.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Unpopular opinion: Dune is borderline unreadable.

There were too many random names and unfamiliar words popping up for me to keep track of everything.

I think there's such thing as having too much depth and complexity.

I didn't hate it but I didn't see what made it a sci-fi masterpiece.

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01-15-2019 , 05:46 PM

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goofyballer

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As a lead in for this Current Affairs piece on global warming and the WSJ's reporting on it, please enjoy this ikestoys post from 2015 (!!) which has aged like *chef's kiss*:

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Originally Posted by ikestoys

Look, you can keep blabbering on about future catastrophes while blaming global warming for every single disaster that ever happens, but the simple fact is that things have never been better because of robust transportation due to easy energy usage. Keeping energy cheap and easy for countries to pull themselves out of poverty is much more important than any reasonably predicted AGW event in the next century.

If You Can’t Deny It, Downplay It

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The most eminent U.S. conservative news source, the Journal’s reporters are among the best in the country, reflecting a common pattern among the business press, which is written for executives, investors, and managers who need reasonably accurate information in order to run the corporate economy. However, its op-ed page is essentially Fox News with AP English, and its long tradition of climate denial and more recently fatalism is the perfect window into what future generations are going to demand: a ****ing explanation for how people were able to accept several decades of knowingly utterly wrecking the future environment, years after the science was settled.

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Down the years the op-ed page would plumb real depths, as when a Cato fellow in 1997 inaugurated an enduring trend among science-illiterate right-wing trolls when he actively celebrated any future climate change. “Global warming…would probably benefit most Americans” since “Most Americans prefer a warmer climate to a colder one,” and anyway it might cost more of our GDP to abate emissions than the future cost to GDP from climate losses—at least when impacts are measured a certain way that of course is not how the main body of actual scientists measure them.

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We can actually see here a bit of why “it’s fine” or “it’s unavoidable” are the dominant attitudes toward climate change at the Journal nowadays. Jenkins says that the climate is “a stalking horse for capitalism,” from the hardened socialists at the dozen government agencies producing the Climate Assessment. He’s right in a certain sense, though: It’s very difficult to acknowledge the full scope of the climate change problem without implicating capitalism, as Naomi Klein ably demonstrates in This Changes Everything. The fact that “free market” interactions are creating a gigantic destructive externality undermines the entire idea that laissez-faire capitalism is “efficient” and good for humanity. The Journal op-ed writers have to scoff at the implications of climate science, because if they accepted them they’d need to admit capitalism was failing to provide the promised “abundance” or was doing so at the cost of future generations. So, without refuting any of the scientific reports they mention, WSJ writers say things like: “Humans do adapt. Populations relocate over time,” without answering questions like “Which populations? What does this relocation look like? Is it going to be millions of poor migrants whose foods sources have disappeared?”

01-15-2019 , 06:34 PM

#685

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

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It's ok - all 165 million people in Bangladesh will just rent AirBnBs in other countries when there's is underwater. Good for business!

I hear Myanmar is very welcoming to Bangladeshis. I'm sure India has plenty of extra space.

01-15-2019 , 09:05 PM

#686

BOIDS

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few days ago i was trying to list all of the 100% indefensible positions held by the right of america and somehow left off climate change shenanigans

it was nevertheless a long ****in list

01-15-2019 , 09:51 PM

#687

dth123451

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Petition for an lol Ikes forum

01-15-2019 , 10:44 PM

#688

wheatrich

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01-15-2019 , 10:56 PM

#689

Trolly McTrollson

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Pouring out some sake for the retiring sumo boi Kise.

01-15-2019 , 10:58 PM

#690

ScreaminAsian

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omg wow

01-16-2019 , 04:02 PM

#691

All-In Flynn

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C'mon CNN, that's not "catfishing", it's Iago dialing. Do better.

01-16-2019 , 07:33 PM

#692

ChrisV

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The City of Mitcham, a leafy, wealthy suburb of Adelaide, just unveiled this wonderful new owl sculpture in a children's playground.

Spoiler:

01-16-2019 , 07:50 PM

#693

DrChesspain

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

The City of Mitcham, a leafy, wealthy suburb of Adelaide, just unveiled this wonderful new owl sculpture in a children's playground.

Spoiler:

It's already ribbed for her pleasure.

01-16-2019 , 08:27 PM

#694

wheatrich

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Imagine crying like a petulant child over a TV ad and also believing you're an alpha male.

01-16-2019 , 08:50 PM

#695

dth123451

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John Bogle died. A truly great man.

01-16-2019 , 11:48 PM

#696

ScreaminAsian

For President

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01-17-2019 , 12:21 AM

#697

ScreaminAsian

For President

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01-17-2019 , 12:24 AM

#698

Trolly McTrollson

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"Iago dialing" isn't bad, but it could have been better.

01-17-2019 , 12:41 AM

#699

ScreaminAsian

For President

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01-17-2019 , 01:43 AM

#700

ScreaminAsian

For President

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In a West Wing in Transition, Trump Tries to Stand Firm on the Shutdown

Unlike his predecessors, according to White House officials, Mr. Mulvaney is not interested in challenging what has revealed itself to be the one constant in the Trump White House: the special status reserved for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s family members and senior advisers, in the West Wing.

Mr. Mulvaney’s more hands-off approach to the family members has allowed Mr. Kushner to position himself among lawmakers on Capitol Hill as the person who can deliver to Mr. Trump what he wants. The dynamic, according to multiple White House officials, is similar to the opening days of the administration, when the staff to the new president was just beginning to meet with Washington officials and Mr. Kushner often told people that “everything runs through me.”

This time, however, Mr. Mulvaney is doing nothing to curb his influence. In fact, he is treating Mr. Kushner and Ms. Trump as assets, rather than rivals. And they are seeing a new ally. On Sunday night they hosted Mr. Mulvaney and his wife at their Kalorama mansion for a social dinner.

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