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March LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition** March LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**
View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of March?
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
3 5.77%
John Kelly
5 9.62%
Kellyanne Conway
1 1.92%
Rex Tillerson
7 13.46%
Jared Kushner
13 25.00%
Ben Carson
11 21.15%
Gary Cohn
5 9.62%
Ryan Zinke
1 1.92%
Rod Rosenstein
4 7.69%
Write-in
2 3.85%

03-07-2018 , 12:02 AM
Yeah but vicodin with beer >>>>>>>>>>> ibuprofen with beer.
03-07-2018 , 12:10 AM
I have been told by several people that methamphetamine makes all your aches and pains go away. Maybe big pharma can make that be the basis for their next round of patented addiction and profit well intentioned pain relief research.
03-07-2018 , 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by zikzak
Not really sure what thread this belongs in. Guess we're about due for a dedicated midterms thread?

Could be voter fraud......
03-07-2018 , 12:43 AM
have we considered that a lot of that enthusiasm might just be twitter bots?
03-07-2018 , 01:15 AM
My moms was prescribed opioid pain medication for a while, said it really didn't do much and she can't figure why people get addicted to it. I think there's a ton of variance in how people react to these drugs.
03-07-2018 , 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Yeah but vicodin with beer >>>>>>>>>>> ibuprofen with beer.
after I hurt my back from BJJ i got vicodin. It + beer is amazing, can't lie.
03-07-2018 , 03:02 AM
For anyone who read the Dirty John series in the LAT...it was interesting to read once, but how is "con man worms his way into women's lives to leech off them" becoming such a recurring setting for really long articles? It's like the new Trump Voter In A Rural Diner or something.

New York Magazine: Worst Roommate Ever
The Atlantic: The Perfect Man Who Wasn't
03-07-2018 , 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Yeah but vicodin with beer >>>>>>>>>>> ibuprofen with beer.
opiates are a legit PED for golf
03-07-2018 , 08:21 AM
The Sacklers belong in jail. Major assist from the FDA.
03-07-2018 , 08:48 AM
If you guys want to catch AIDS, go read the hot takes in the last couple of pages of the "2018 Trading" thread in BFI.
03-07-2018 , 09:10 AM
i'm good
03-07-2018 , 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
For anyone who read the Dirty John series in the LAT...it was interesting to read once, but how is "con man worms his way into women's lives to leech off them" becoming such a recurring setting for really long articles? It's like the new Trump Voter In A Rural Diner or something.

New York Magazine: Worst Roommate Ever
The Atlantic: The Perfect Man Who Wasn't
I don't know. But on the chance they're both as riveting as Dirty John - I just bookmarked both of those to read later.
03-07-2018 , 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Jbrochu
If you guys want to catch AIDS, go read the hot takes in the last couple of pages of the "2018 Trading" thread in BFI.
"You've been cucked by the fake news media and haven't the faintest clue what you're talking about."

Y'all get one guess who the author is.
03-07-2018 , 11:33 AM
BTM getting put in his place is always entertaining.
03-07-2018 , 12:14 PM
Martin Shkreli had to forfeit the Wu Tang album lol
03-07-2018 , 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by zikzak
I have been told by several people that methamphetamine makes all your aches and pains go away. Maybe big pharma can make that be the basis for their next round of patented addiction and profit well intentioned pain relief research.

Adderall is basically legal meth so...
03-07-2018 , 01:13 PM
I don't know how people play poker on that ****. Someone at the table once gave me one so I could see what the fuss was about, a little later I played a pot with AA and felt like I was going to have a heart attack lol.
03-07-2018 , 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by zikzak
MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
The researchers found profit from ride-hail driving to be “very low”. On an hourly basis, the median profit was $3.37 per hour, with 74% of drivers earning less than the minimum wage in the state where they operate.

...

So what does the study tell us about the ride-hailing business model? “It tells us that it’s a ****ty place to work,” says Mark Tluszcz, co-founder and CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners who has described the gig economy model as the modern day sweatshop, and says his VC firm made a conscious decision not to invest in gig economy companies because the model is exploitative.
That is the case while uber bleeds billions a year too. They think driverless cars will be the savior to their business but they would be wrong.

There is not much evidence to support the idea that large number of people would pay the rates required for them to be profitable and to also pay employees. That is a fundamentally flawed model.

Even if they managed to have a relatively disaster free migration to driverless cars they are still going to have to raise their prices substantially which makes them less appealing to a large number of customers and causes their business to be less useful to those who will pay as cars will be more scarce and less convenient.

So far there is no tangible evidence ride sharing services have viable business models. Although I think uber wastes massive amounts of money that don’t relate to their core business. This far in though they have not come close to making their core business work and they seem to be spinning the roulette wheel where driverless cars save them. Even though the easiest part of having a driverless car ride service is the only part they have done.

I don’t use rideshare services a lot but if I looked at my last few trips and guesstimated a doubling in cost, I would have found alternative transportation almost every time.
03-07-2018 , 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by zikzak
I have been told by several people that methamphetamine makes all your aches and pains go away. Maybe big pharma can make that be the basis for their next round of patented addiction and profit well intentioned pain relief research.
Adderall is pretty much meth in pill form
03-07-2018 , 02:11 PM
Desoxyn is literally meth in pill form.
03-07-2018 , 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by markksman
That is the case while uber bleeds billions a year too. They think driverless cars will be the savior to their business but they would be wrong.

There is not much evidence to support the idea that large number of people would pay the rates required for them to be profitable and to also pay employees. That is a fundamentally flawed model.

Even if they managed to have a relatively disaster free migration to driverless cars they are still going to have to raise their prices substantially which makes them less appealing to a large number of customers and causes their business to be less useful to those who will pay as cars will be more scarce and less convenient.

So far there is no tangible evidence ride sharing services have viable business models. Although I think uber wastes massive amounts of money that don’t relate to their core business. This far in though they have not come close to making their core business work and they seem to be spinning the roulette wheel where driverless cars save them. Even though the easiest part of having a driverless car ride service is the only part they have done.

I don’t use rideshare services a lot but if I looked at my last few trips and guesstimated a doubling in cost, I would have found alternative transportation almost every time.
Some valid points, but note that Researcher Admits Study That Claimed Uber Drivers Earn $3.37 an Hour Was Not Correct
03-07-2018 , 02:42 PM
Ted Cruz's campaign put out a song making fun of Beto O'Rourke not actually being named "Beto".
"Liberal Robert wanted to fit in, so he changed his name to Beto and hid it with a grin," the song says.
Ted's legal name is Rafael.
03-07-2018 , 02:45 PM
Projection is all they know
03-07-2018 , 03:01 PM
Beto > Rob for Robert
03-07-2018 , 03:20 PM
In quiet tragedies of geo politics news, I wasted 10 euros the other day buying a new bedside clock.
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Kosovo-Serbia row makes Europe clocks go slow

Entsoe, the body representing electricity transmission operators across 25 European countries, said bedside clocks had slowed down by up to six minutes since mid-January.
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According to Entsoe, Serbia is legally obliged to meet Kosovo's demand to keep the European grid stable.

But because Kosovo and Serbia are in dispute over the issue - and many more related to Kosovo's unilateral secession from Serbia 10 years ago - Serbia did not step in.

This failure to act on time forced the frequency to "deviate" - and the drop affected the clocks. Other countries that lost reserves amounting to 113 GWh are seeking compensation.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43321113

      
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