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July LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

2 3.92%

John Kelly

18 35.29%

Jared Kushner

1 1.96%

Wilbur Ross

4 7.84%

Ben Carson

0 0%

Rudy Giuliani

1 1.96%

Scott Pruitt

15 29.41%

Kellyanne Conway

2 3.92%

Rod Rosenstein

3 5.88%

Write-in

5 9.80%

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07-03-2018 , 07:14 PM

#151

uDevil

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,941

Now that I think about it, the Fermi Paradox can be resolved if we consider the possibility that everybody's just too busy down in the lithium mines to talk to us.

07-03-2018 , 09:38 PM

#152

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status...11520287838208

07-03-2018 , 09:49 PM

#153

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

https://twitter.com/foxesinfiction/s...48954277548034

07-03-2018 , 11:08 PM

#154

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I have enjoyed this song which has been played a bunch by the same Eddie Money station. It's amazing how much this song changes just with the tone. Who knew Simon & Garfunkel were so dark? Cracks me up thinking about angsty 14-year-olds thinking this is a new bad ass metal power ballad. Dude has a great voice too.

DERP

07-03-2018 , 11:11 PM

#155

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

I'm not talking about what happened last year, I'm talking about Ike, which made landfall directly in Galveston with a 15 foot storm surge, wiping half the island off the map. Everything there now has been substantially or completely rebuilt in the past 10 years.

This is the downtown I'm talking about. It's obviously been there a while. There are some old houses around there on stilts too. They were on the far inland side so the big buildings might have protected them from the worst of it.

07-03-2018 , 11:20 PM

#156

simplicitus

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Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,840

You know what's a bad idea? To keep building in places that flood.

07-03-2018 , 11:27 PM

#157

zikzak

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Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 22,199

You live in southern California. Don't throw stones about ecologically unsustainable urban development.

07-03-2018 , 11:32 PM

#158

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,482

https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/1...ng-sea-levels/

OC beach areas may be next.

The land up here pretty much all goes up hill right past the sand.

07-04-2018 , 12:04 AM

#159

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Not in Venice.

07-04-2018 , 01:18 AM

#160

simplicitus

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Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,840

Galen Hall, aka CalBears, is at FT in the WSOP 888k. https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsop...-crazy-eights/ He's posted in Politics a few times and is a Cal guy, so I root for him. Noticed his pics on a poker news. Props to the guy for bringing some class to FTs.

07-04-2018 , 02:01 AM

#161

6ix

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 4,783

Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

Now that I think about it, the Fermi Paradox can be resolved if we consider the possibility that everybody's just too busy down in the lithium mines to talk to us.

Nah they're laid off but Trumperixico-1s4s88 is gonna bring back clean lithium jobs bigly.

07-04-2018 , 02:13 AM

#162

Trolly McTrollson

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Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 36,721

Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

Damn, dude is stylish af.

07-04-2018 , 02:18 AM

#163

Trolly McTrollson

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Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 36,721

In other news, NAACP is bringing the heat. Keep these Confederate dickclowns on the defensive, that's what I say.

Quote:

The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP wants the carvings of Confederate leaders gone from the side of Stone Mountain.

Atlanta NAACP plans large July 4 protest at Stone Mountain

07-04-2018 , 03:45 AM

#164

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Damn, dude is stylish af.

I met him once in SF a decade ago, think we were exchanging cash for online monies or something. Nice guy. Was not wearing a suit at the time.

07-04-2018 , 04:02 AM

#165

goofyballer

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Speaking of super random poker things, I stumbled upon this Vox article about the Fermi paradox and got to the end and...

Quote:

Liv Boeree is a science communicator and TV host specializing in astrophysics, rationality, and poker.

Yes, that Liv Boeree.

07-04-2018 , 04:31 AM

#166

OmgGlutten!

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 5,273

The Thai cave story is just brutal. Really hoping they get them out of there and it does not take 4 months to wait for the rainy season to end. How can they mentally survive on a 15 foot strip of sand for 4 months and what if the flooding is worse than expected?

They are in a land locked region and apparently most of them can't swim. It is a very difficult swim out with no visibility in fast moving muddy water that takes hours to be made by pros. But what I am wondering is how frequently they can take breaks and stretch the dive out? Also, the kids are so tiny, can't they just have four experienced divers basically drag them out?

07-04-2018 , 06:15 AM

#167

simplicitus

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Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,840

"Day 3 of Event #62: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed has come to an end after the ten scheduled levels were played with Galen Hall leading the returning three players on Thursday, June, 5.

Hall bagged up 30,100,000 with Niels Herregodts (24,750,000) and Eduards Kudrjavcevs (16,400,000) his challengers for the $888,888 first-place prize."

GL. Min payout for top 3 is $355k.

07-04-2018 , 06:39 AM

#168

chezlaw

Limey Bastard

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 46,845

Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Speaking of super random poker things, I stumbled upon this Vox article about the Fermi paradox and got to the end and...

Yes, that Liv Boeree.

as Prisoners Dilemma has come up recently

07-04-2018 , 08:13 AM

#169

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Happy 4th to the yanks. Here's an article from vox about why the american revolution was a GOB style "huge mistake".

I've made a huge mistake...

Quote:

Abolition would have come faster without independence

From the vantage point of most of the country, who cares if white men had to suffer through what everyone else did for a while longer, especially if them doing so meant slaves gained decades of free life?

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Independence was bad for Native Americans

"The British government remained willing to conceive of Native Americans as subjects of the crown, similar to colonists," Ethan Schmidt writes in Native Americans in the American Revolution. "American colonists … refused to see Indians as fellow subjects. Instead, they viewed them as obstacles in the way of their dreams of land ownership and trading wealth." This view is reflected in the Declaration of Independence, which attacks King George III for backing "merciless Indian Savages."

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America would have a better system of government if we'd stuck with Britain

we would've, in all likelihood, become a parliamentary democracy rather than a presidential one.

And parliamentary democracies are a lot, lot better than presidential ones. They're significantly less likely to collapse into dictatorship because they don't lead to irresolvable conflicts between, say, the president and the legislature. They lead to much less gridlock.

07-04-2018 , 09:21 AM

#170

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

Underwater with no visibility is a really panicky situation. Add never swimming or diving in your life and it's ripe for disaster. If a kid panics in the middle and tries to swim up into a cavity - where there's no air - it could be disastrous for everyone.

Really weird problem. Maybe they can bore in from some direction.

07-04-2018 , 09:28 AM

#171

Trolly McTrollson

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The cartoonist who was fired for mocking Trump gives us a history of his career with the newspaper. Just a sad look at the cult of personality that empowers Trump.

https://thenib.com/i-was-fired-for-criticizing-trump

07-04-2018 , 09:53 AM

#172

microbet

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Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,482

I listened to one of the cave divers involved and they are having people escort the kids on the swim if they do it like that. They would all be wearing scuba gear.

07-04-2018 , 10:30 AM

#173

Praetor1an

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 251

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

Happy 4th to the yanks. Here's an article from vox about why the american revolution was a GOB style "huge mistake".

I've made a huge mistake...

On the bright side, the Brits ended up with someone to bail them out of two world wars.

07-04-2018 , 10:32 AM

#174

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by Praetor1an

On the bright side, the Brits ended up with someone to bail them out of two world wars.

What did the DoI have to do with the Russians?

Edit : If you're talking about the americans coming along to mop up and take the glory 3 years late after all the hard work had already been done then the article assumes america would have gotten independence in plenty of time for that.

Last edited by tomdemaine; 07-04-2018 at 10:42 AM.

07-04-2018 , 10:40 AM

#175

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,482

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

What did the DoI have to do with the Russians?

The Russians did do the terrible work of sacrificing 20 million people to kill 2 million Germans, but I wouldn't call aligning with Hitler and then getting betrayed exactly a bailout. They would have liked nothing more than for Germany to have attacked England instead of them.

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