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Civ 2 is what I cut my teeth on. I know people found it annoying but I liked having 50 to hundreds of cities near the end. It made it feel much more like an actual civilization rather than the few cities they cut it down to (for some good reasons).

04-13-2017 , 11:24 AM

#25954

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by yeSpiff

suborbital dissent

is trump a flat earther? that should be @shaq imo

04-13-2017 , 11:29 AM

#25955

cuserounder

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"President Donald Trump, consumed by the idea that a world leader would use chemical weapons on his own people..."

Not the most comforting lede. The article kind of explains the background on the Spicer debacle.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/politi...ons/index.html

04-13-2017 , 11:36 AM

#25956

Our House

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Bill O down to 4 days a week now.

04-13-2017 , 11:40 AM

#25957

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Bill O down to 4 days a week now.

LOL he gets a permanent three day weekend out of it? Priceless. Oh, the horror!

04-13-2017 , 11:47 AM

#25958

yeSpiff

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

is trump a flat earther? that should be @shaq imo

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In short, Trump may need a hefty dose of the Overview Effect, which is a shift in perspective reported by astronauts that leads to a greater awareness of the fragile beauty of Earth and its inhabitants. It's a last-ditch effort, but if anything can wake our President up to this reality, it just might be an airborne tweet. - Autonomous Space Agency Network

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...?utm=mbtwitter

04-13-2017 , 12:13 PM

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Dunno if this is a conspiracy theory, but seeing how the gassing/missile response accomplished just about nothing except the perception of a trump pivot on Russia, I think it's possible this is just theater created by putin.

You've got trump looking tough on assad and getting a ratings bump, his SoS (friend of putin!!!) talking "tough" to lavrov without a press pool around, while the congressional investigation is off the front page. It feels like now trump and putin cabinets and ambassadors can pretend to be quarreling for awhile and then magically sign some syria peace for publicity.

I've seen it all on wwe in the nineties. You get fooled once, you can't get fooled again.

04-13-2017 , 12:33 PM

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Oroku$aki

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"US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan" on CNN rn.

04-13-2017 , 12:46 PM

#25961

otatop

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

is trump a flat earther? that should be @shaq imo

It's a reference to this quote:

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“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a *****.”

― Edgar D. Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the Moon

04-13-2017 , 12:48 PM

#25962

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It's the first use of this bomb in combat; it's being called the "mother of all bombs."

04-13-2017 , 12:49 PM

#25963

lycosid

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Originally Posted by Namath12

When I was in college I worked in two different Tuscaloosa country clubs, and both were ****ing filthy. It was unbelievable how little they seemed to care about running a kitchen properly. It was like night v day worse than any chain restaurant kitchen. They just didn't seem to give a ****. I also tended bar at a third CC in a different city, same deal, I guess they think since they are private they aren't held to the same standards as the plebs' eateries (and they're probably right, at least in AL).

ETA we always used to joke about how, if any of our members ever wandered into the kitchen by accident, we wouldn't have any members

I do like the idea of country clubs existing solely to rip off dumb, status-obsessed old money folks.

04-13-2017 , 12:52 PM

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For those who can't afford to go to space, traveling and seeing how other countries do things can provide some very clarifying perspective on the United States and our social and political problems in particular.

04-13-2017 , 12:52 PM

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I'm guessing something big was about to be leaked to warrant this...

04-13-2017 , 12:53 PM

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rtd353

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He must have seen how much the last bomb increased his approval ratings

04-13-2017 , 12:54 PM

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It's the first use of this bomb in combat; it's being called the "mother of all bombs."

I may have misheard, but I think a talking head just described it as a "21,000 lbs. bomb."

04-13-2017 , 12:55 PM

#25968

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He must have seen how much the last bomb increased his approval ratings

He's even more presidential now! SO presidential.

04-13-2017 , 12:57 PM

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I may have misheard, but I think a talking head just described it as a "21,000 lbs. bomb."

Yeah, I thought they said 25,000 lbs... But what difference do 4,000 pounds of explosive ordinance make between enemies?

04-13-2017 , 12:58 PM

#25970

einbert

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No need to worry, somebody showed 45* this video so now he understands the history of Japan:

04-13-2017 , 01:00 PM

#25971

cuserounder

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Barbara Starr says 21,000 pounds, so I guess the other guy was wrong.

04-13-2017 , 01:01 PM

#25972

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Starr: Trump is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan.

04-13-2017 , 01:02 PM

#25973

microbet

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MOAB = Massive Ordinance Air Blast Bomb = Mother of all bombs

But, it was surely precision guided and didn't kill any babies.

04-13-2017 , 01:05 PM

#25974

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Originally Posted by microbet

MOAB = Massive Ordinance Air Blast Bomb = Mother of all bombs

But, it was surely precision guided and didn't kill any babies.

Dumped out of the back of a cargo plane by parachute so not precision guided.

04-13-2017 , 01:05 PM

#25975

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cuserounder

Barbara Starr says 21,000 pounds, so I guess the other guy was wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43...ance_Air_Blast

It weighs 22,600 lbs/10,300 kgs and has the explosive equivalent of 11 tons of TNT.

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