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September LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

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

Stephen Miller

11 24.44%

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 6.67%

H.R. McMaster

0 0%

John Kelly

4 8.89%

Jared Kushner

3 6.67%

Rex Tillerson

16 35.56%

Kellyanne Conway

1 2.22%

James Mattis

3 6.67%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

2 4.44%

Nikki Haley

2 4.44%

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09-05-2017 , 05:40 AM

#201

6ix

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 4,783

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

I was just reading an article that said that before WW2 world maps from the US tended to put the US in the center. During and immediately after WW2 when the US was working to build multinational relationships with Europe, particularly the general identity and recognition of the North Atlantic region, maps tended to either center on the middle of the Atlantic or divide the world more West and East with Alaska on one end and the "eastern" most point of Russia on the other.

Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

This made me realize that while I've had this map of the world from 1861 on my wall for years, I've never even thought about the orientation of it. Crazy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

And that is not symmetric north-south either which ever further exaggerates the stuff from that West Wing clip. Africa is like 13 times bigger than Greenland and like 20% bigger than all of North America.

https://xkcd.com/977/

09-05-2017 , 11:31 AM

#202

micro dong

grinder

Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 588

Hollywood are so tilted by Trump winning the election that they're pumping tens of millions into a movie about John Hesp getting 4th in the wsop so they can use his line in all the promotion:

"I am to poker what Donald Trump is to politics - an amateur,"

Chortle.

09-05-2017 , 12:18 PM

#203

Hamish McBagpipe

veteran

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,502

Category 5 inbound.

I don't think they did that Day of Prayer right.

09-05-2017 , 12:51 PM

#204

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish McBagpipe

Category 5 inbound.

I don't think they did that Day of Prayer right.

Also, another storm just developed behind it.

09-05-2017 , 01:54 PM

#205

Huehuecoyotl

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Hookworm, usually associated with extreme poverty, is back

Quote:

More than one in three people sampled in a low-income area of Alabama tested positive for traces of hookworm, a gastrointestinal parasite that was thought to have been eradicated from the US decades ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...P=share_btn_tw

09-05-2017 , 02:20 PM

#206

DVaut1

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Right-wing cultural references are uniformly terrible, take #24259:

Only thing missing here is a misapplied reference to Harry Potter, the only book with cultural cachet that can be referenced. Something like we call General Kelly Snape, because he tried to slip potions into Dumbledore's drinks to make like him too.

09-05-2017 , 02:42 PM

#207

Trolly McTrollson

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White House use to be cool before Gen. Kelly came along and gentrified the place with hipster artisnal donut shoppes and avocado toast cafes.

09-05-2017 , 03:09 PM

#208

DVaut1

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Time to check in on how things are going over at Verrit:

800 million well spent.

09-05-2017 , 03:17 PM

#209

Jules22

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 4,156

800 million?!?! LOOOOOL

09-05-2017 , 03:17 PM

#210

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Lol. Great job. Although with their authentication codes they are only going to be able to verify 10,000,000 facts. Not very future proof for a site that I assume will be around forever.

09-05-2017 , 03:27 PM

#211

DVaut1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jules22

800 million?!?! LOOOOOL

I think that number was floating around twitter and quoted earlier ITT but isn't actually how much money went into verrit fwiw

09-05-2017 , 03:29 PM

#212

Trolly McTrollson

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09-05-2017 , 03:38 PM

#213

well named

poorly undertitled

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 78,077

10 million ought to be enough for anyone

09-05-2017 , 03:44 PM

#214

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

wtf is going on with verrit? Are they hacked?

09-05-2017 , 03:55 PM

#215

bobman0330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DVaut1

I think that number was floating around twitter and quoted earlier ITT but isn't actually how much money went into verrit fwiw

I do some work in the fund space, and $800 million seems like an impossibly high number just to facilitate a bunch of mocking memes.

09-05-2017 , 05:46 PM

#216

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

I did the leg work and I believe the $800 million number started from a joke tweet by cd_hooks on Twitter. It's still at least 1 dollar. Which is too many dollars.

09-05-2017 , 05:47 PM

#217

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

Also everyone inexplicable bought Daou's line that verrit got DDOSed, but uh, consider the alternative, that Daou is a ****ing moron and didn't buy enough capacity for a retweet by Clinton.

09-05-2017 , 06:15 PM

#218

Money2Burn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

Also everyone inexplicable bought Daou's line that verrit got DDOSed, but uh, consider the alternative, that Daou is a ****ing moron and didn't buy enough capacity for a retweet by Clinton.

People bought that? It was clearly a thou dost protest too much situation when, rather than just riding with the press release, they made a bunch of social media posts linking to articals explaining that they did get attacked.

09-05-2017 , 09:24 PM

#219

Ineedaride2

Politics Court Jester

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 25,080

Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

Also everyone inexplicable bought Daou's line that verrit got DDOSed, but uh, consider the alternative, that Daou is a ****ing moron and didn't buy enough capacity for a retweet by Clinton.

I can't believe any site with this kind of advertising (I guess?) would forget to host on servers that can respond to demand increases.

Hope it wasn't hosted on somebody's gaming computer.

09-05-2017 , 10:23 PM

#220

miajag

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I'm still trying to figure out what Verrit is and how it works. Is it just a quote/link aggregator for VERIFIED TRUE FACTS?

09-05-2017 , 11:24 PM

#221

pvn

Guest

Posts: n/a

Major shoutout for nate silver in the first 2 minutes of American Horror Story tonight

09-06-2017 , 12:27 AM

#222

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Now more than ever - http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/06/*******-test.html (replace ******* with a**hole w/o the stars)

Quote:

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012

A**hole Test

I think a reasonable test of whether someone is an ******* without any hope of improvement is if you sit them down and explain that:

1) People without the legal right to live and work in this country often bring their kids here with them.

2) Those kids are often quite young when they arrive. You know, babies.

3) Such kids also are undocumented.

4) In many cases they grow up not or barely speaking the language of their home countries, depending on their age and particular circumstances.

5) Given whole lack of documentation thing, most of these kids have never been to the country that their parents came from and don't know any of the family, if any, that are still there.

6) Upon becoming adults, their work and educational opportunities are complicated and limited.

If the person's response is, "they're illegal, deport them," then you know you've found an *******.

09-06-2017 , 01:12 AM

#223

batair

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Ive used it a few times. When you add in our drug addictions and backing of messed up leaders which are a big part of the root cause of illegal immigration. Ugg...there are some cold mofos out there.

09-06-2017 , 04:19 PM

#224

goofyballer

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A fascinating mini-story about Fremont, CA's war against route-recommending apps

Problem: Waze and the like send savage commuters into the pristine city streets of Fremont to get around traffic jams!

Quote:

The traffic being diverted off clogged highways during the morning and evening commutes became so insufferable in Fremont that city leaders decided about a year ago to try to outwit the apps. The city of about 230,000 people started to ban turns at several key intersections at certain times along the shortcuts being touted by Waze and other mapping services.

Before police began handing out tickets, Fremont even set up electronic signs blinking this admonishment: “Don’t Trust Your Apps.”

The perfect plan! No potential unforeseen consequences here!

Quote:

The countermeasures turned the shortcuts into slower routes, no longer recommended as bypasses around traffic. But the apps have since found other shortcuts, including some that direct drivers down even smaller side streets that weren’t designed to accommodate so many cars. That’s frustrating some residents.

Whoops

09-06-2017 , 04:35 PM

#225

DudeImBetter

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If you're a black employee and you work hourly with clients, is it legal if your employer learns your client is racist and you lose said client for this reason alone, thereby reducing your income?

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