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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%

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03-03-2018 , 02:37 PM

#151

Jbrochu

banned

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 16,054

They might have even seen a black guy park it there.

03-03-2018 , 02:56 PM

#152

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,630

Well, the default assumption should not be that cops are being reasonable imo. There's an added complication here though that the default assumption shouldn't be that DiB's or his "brother's" adventures actually happened at all.

03-03-2018 , 03:27 PM

#153

jalfrezi

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 12,360

I'm going with Dibs not having a brother.

03-03-2018 , 03:33 PM

#154

Huehuecoyotl

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 29,257

Quote:

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.

How can you be paying your drivers so little and yet be losing money hand over fist?

03-03-2018 , 03:42 PM

#155

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,422

The quote cites "median profit" which no doubt includes (for the average person) nebulous and hard to estimate costs like depreciation of their vehicle.

03-03-2018 , 04:06 PM

#156

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,630

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

How can you be paying your drivers so little and yet be losing money hand over fist?

They should have bought cheaper ping pong tables and chairs for their headquarters. Too many Aerons.

03-03-2018 , 09:02 PM

#157

uDevil

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,941

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneEyedPoker

If you want to take a shot at meditation then Insight Timer is a good app to start with. There are guided meditations on there from all types of people and for different things, usually they are short and easy to follow along with.

I downloaded the app, but I don't feel any better yet.

Spoiler:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I think it's good to go to classes, but only if there's somewhere relatively secular available. If you go to a full on Buddhist place you'll drown in esoterica.

There is a Coursera course on mindfulness I'll try. Instructor name is Chris Goto-Jones. Must be a sign.

03-03-2018 , 09:59 PM

#158

Trolly McTrollson

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 36,757

So I finally got a chance to see that baby hippo everyone's been talking about. Man, people in Ohio go absolutely nuts for baby hippos. If Hillary had promised Ohio more baby hippos, she'd be president right now.

03-04-2018 , 12:05 AM

#159

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Always cracks me up when one of my long-forgotten mults has a birthday.

Quote:

Hello blabbernuts,

We at Two Plus Two Poker Forums would like to wish you a happy birthday today!

03-04-2018 , 01:36 AM

#160

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

03-04-2018 , 01:14 PM

#161

Max Cut

Guest

Posts: n/a

RIP Roger Bannister, first sub-four-minute mile track runner.

03-04-2018 , 01:32 PM

#162

stinkubus

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,422

Wow I would've guessed he died years ago.

03-04-2018 , 01:49 PM

#163

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

https://www.theroot.com/florida-midd...whi-1823497416

More white nationalists caught spreading propaganda in middle schools

03-04-2018 , 02:15 PM

#164

Oroku$aki

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 7,063

Ya, Johnny Truant brought that up yesterday. She looks perfectly bright and cheerful, it's scary how difficult it can be to accurately judge someone's character from how they look and present themselves.

03-04-2018 , 03:34 PM

#165

uDevil

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,941

Quote:

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms.

This seems obvious.

Quote:

That has significant implications for society. What is the most effective strategy for exploiting the role luck plays in success?

Pluchino and co study this from the point of view of science research funding, an issue clearly close to their hearts.
...
The strategy that delivers the best returns, it turns out, is to divide the funding equally among all researchers.

If I dictated research funding this would be the law of the land. I would rule with an iron fist and any arrogant pricks that complained would know my wrath.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...s-just-chance/

03-04-2018 , 04:39 PM

#166

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I know this is my fault for trying to make sense of a Garrison cartoon, but having Google/Facebook/Twitter and Trump supporters who post on those sites both represented as vehicles on a freeway makes no sense. It's a category error.

Even weirder is that he drew a manure hauler then just labeled it "Manure hauling".

But like, that's not a metaphor? That's the sort of truck that would exist on a real highway. But you can't haul manure online. You need to label the truck of horse**** like "New York Times" or whatever.

03-04-2018 , 04:44 PM

#167

Money2Burn

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 12,628

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

And yet, this is still one of his more coherent cartoons, imo.

03-04-2018 , 04:47 PM

#168

Jiggymike

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 13,420

X-post from Presidency thread; let’s just say get your bets in now and Trump himself has to be on the board:

This sounds bad: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...friends-2018-3

Quote:

Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey did not mince his words about Trump's current mental state.

"I think the president is starting to wobble in his emotional stability and this is not going to end well," he told the Post. "Trump's judgment is fundamentally flawed, and the more pressure put on him and the more isolated he becomes, I think, his ability to do harm is going to increase."

03-04-2018 , 05:12 PM

#169

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,630

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jiggymike

X-post from Presidency thread; let’s just say get your bets in now and Trump himself has to be on the board:

This sounds bad: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...friends-2018-3

Freedom lovers really need to be careful of being enamored with the FBI, the CIA, retired generals and such. Many a dictatorship was enabled by moderate/liberal/middle class/bourgeois support for the military in some time of crisis.

03-04-2018 , 08:51 PM

#170

chezlaw

Limey Bastard

Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 46,882

Quote:

Italy is on course for a hung parliament after one of the most uncertain elections in recent memory, exit polls suggest.

Initial projections say ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition is set to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament.

It is expected to get between 225-265 seats, polls say - below the 316 needed for an absolute majority.

Exit polls put the anti-establishment Five Star Movement in second place.

It has made significant gains and could emerge as the largest single party, with about 30% of votes and 195-235 seats.

The country's ruling centre-left Democratic Party stands in third place with a projected 115-155 seats - its prospects battered by public anger over unemployment and immigration.

trump may have some competition for most ridiculous western leader. Extra bizarro points may go to SB as he would have to be leader while being barred from office

03-04-2018 , 08:52 PM

#171

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

if mueller doesn't precisely place his shot here we might be stuck with trump berlusconiing all over our politics for the next 20+ years

03-05-2018 , 05:40 AM

#172

pyatnitski

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 423

Seems like the League, who are right wing anti-immigrant populists and part of "Berlusconi's" coalition, got more votes than his own party (Forza Italy)- so if that coalition is able to form a government then it will be the League leader who gets to choose the prime minister, not Berlusconi. Though they probably can't form a government and that's only the result of a "gentlemen's agreement" between them, so who knows.

It looks like a coalition of the 'Populists', the 5 Star movement and the League, would have a majority in both houses, but it seems like that would be unlikely to work either. The 5 Star politicians who have been elected as Mayors etc. have been essentially Trumpian in their administrative skills so far, so bad luck Italy and bad luck world, I guess.

03-05-2018 , 06:50 AM

#173

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Salvini is basically Trumpian in his racism and bigotry.

So which decision was worse: America electing Trump, Brexit or Matteo Salvini becoming the next PM of Italy?

03-05-2018 , 08:00 AM

#174

pyatnitski

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 423

My quick ranking is electing Salvini would be the most reprehensible, Brexit the most self-defeatingly stupid and Trump the most dangerous in terms of potential consequences.

Whatever happens I think it'd be a little unfair to say of Italy that they chose Salvini - his party got ~18%, but him becoming PM is possible now.