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The value of gold is just as arbitrary as fiat currency.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

The United States is one of the largest businesses on the planet. It however, operates like they are entitled to spend money that they do not have, thanks to the Federal Reserve System (which despite its name, is NOT part of the government, but instead a private bank which prints out increasingly worthless dollars based on absolutely nothing, because Congress asks for it).

For fuck's sake, countries aren't businesses.

Also, the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, whose salaries are set by the federal government, are appointed by the President; almost all (100% after a statutory 6% dividend) of the Fed's annual profits go to the US Treasury; the Federal Reserve does not print money (that would be the duty of the Department of the Treasury); and the Federal Reserve is a hybrid public/private bank.
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Business experience is not equivalent to political experience.
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Well, at least Kaine's son wasn't given a cushy government position for which he was wholly unqualified simply because of nepotism.
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helIy posted...

fermented means rotten, basically.

No, fermenting, in the context of alcohol brewing, means "feeding sugar to yeast so it pees ethanol."

So, no, alcohol doesn't taste like garbage; it tastes like piss. Specifically, yeast piss.
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Lay implies motion towards a prone position.
Lie implies the state of being in a prone position.

For instance: I laid the book on the table, so now it is lying on the table.
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Mead posted...

Not just that but the trees that grow cork are dying out

One of the major threats to cork oaks (and the endangered species that dwell in cork oak landscapes) is actually people not using cork as much. With lower demand for cork, there's less financial incentive for people to maintain cork oak landscapes.

Harvesting cork from a cork oak, if done properly, doesn't harm the tree at all, and a typical cork oak can be harvested for cork 16 times in its 200-year lifespan.
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Zeus posted...

dainkinkaide posted...

Reminder: Most of the states that most need federal SNAP assistance are hard red states.

Based on what?

Based on which states would most need the federal reimbursement to actually pay for SNAP programs, which are predominantly red states.

The states with the largest percentage of their populations using SNAP programs tend to be red states. Since they have a larger percentage of their populations using these programs, the burden to pay for these programs falls on a smaller percentage of the populations of those states to pay for it through state revenues. With a smaller (or non-existent) federal reimbursement for SNAP assistance, these predominantly red states will find it more difficult or impossible to afford SNAP programs.
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CharlesBronson posted...

wendy's just announced they're replacing their employees with a kiosk what does he think about that?

Pretty sure kiosks can't cook the food.


...yet.
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Reminder: Most of the states that most need federal SNAP assistance are hard red states.
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The Japan-Only DS game was pretty great as well.
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Ozymandias in Watchmen.
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Lokarin posted...

How is it racist?

Every* June 20th, at precisely 11:47 pm, the statue would scream the n-word.


*Except in 1998, when it inexplicably shouted "peach cobbler".
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Which The Ventriloquist? Arnold Wesker, Peyton Riley, or Shauna Belzer?
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Mead posted...

Yeah lets remove all reminders of our history that we don't like or agree with, that can't possibly backfire in the future.

There's a difference between reminding people of terrible history, and putting that terrible history in a place of reverence, like a literal pedestal in a public square.

Put your horrible history where it belongs: In a museum or a history class.

Added bonus: In order to see their beloved "heroes", Confederate sympathizers will actually have to go to museums (increasing museum revenue) or school.
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I'm usually an agnostic apatheist, but sometimes I'm ignostic.
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He could just be deemed too inept to fulfill the duties of the Presidency and removed by Congress on recommendation by the Vice President and a majority of his Cabinet, pursuant to Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

Of course, Trump would probably then write a letter to Congress affirming that he's "the best at Presidenting" or whatever, and the VP and Cabinet would just send another letter reiterating "No, guys, he's really not."

This would probably go on continuously until 2020.
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Mizuiro is defined as rgb(175, 223, 228).
Celeste is defined as either rgb(178, 255, 255) or rgb(117, 170, 219), depending on whether you're talking about the shade of cyan used by Italian bicycle manufacturer Bianchi or the shade of azure used in heraldry.
Cyan is defined as rgb(0, 255, 255).
Azure is defined as rgb(0, 127, 255).
Aquamarine is defined as rgb(127, 255, 212), after the gemstone.
Turquoise is defined as rgb(64, 224, 208), after the gemstone.

The color displayed in the OP is rgb(119, 181, 254), which is known in English as "French sky blue", because it's the color called "bleu ciel" by the popular French color list, Pourpre.com.

So yeah, there's no single-word name for that color in English, but that's true of an American pantsload of colors.

Metal_Gear_Link posted...

first, it is conniving 2 words aqua and marine

That's not how compounds work in Germanic languages. If you slam two words together, you make one word.
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Just going to point out that Rob Halford performed live with Babymetal.
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Technically, yes. People in French Guiana are citizens of France. Therefore, if we take "transatlantic" to mean "spanning the Atlantic Ocean", Guianans have a nationality that is, in fact, transatlantic.
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I'd be interested to know if all the people whose real identities were fraudulently used to comment have the same ISP.
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How could this possibly be disrespectful of the dead? It's not like she booted an actual corpse out of the coffin before making her entrance.
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TES_Nut posted...

This is why tax funded single payer is the only logical option. The trouble is finding out what the role of the insurance companies would be in that environment.

Providing coverage for things that aren't covered by the tax-funded single payer coverage, e.g. dental, emergency care when traveling to another country, specialists, or prescription drugs and/or eyewear.

At least that's how it works here in Ontario.
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Kana posted...

Erik_P posted...

Kana posted...

>the Year of our Lord 2017
>watching stephen colbert
>mfw

You're just jealous you're Canadian and can't watch it.

We had the Colbert Report on the Comedy Network (pretty much the same as Comedy Central) here. I don't have cable nowadays so I have no idea if his new show is on anywhere.

It airs on Global in Canada. Most (if not all) Canadian cable/satellite providers include Global in their basic package.

Hell, many Canadian cable/satellite providers include CBS in their basic package.

So if you had cable, you would almost certainly be able to watch it.
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OhhhJa posted...

Funny how that .com article comes across entirely as an opinion piece

Yes, of course, that article from a weekly science journal with 20 different citations from peer-reviewed scientific papers is "an opinion piece".

The only reason you think it reads like an opinion piece is because the facts contradict your opinion.
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OhhhJa posted...

darkknight109 posted...

I mean, I guess, maybe... but then again, I think I trust the medical community more than a random guy on the internet, so I'll take their word over yours.

Sorry to disappoint you bro but I'm pretty sure the scientific community at large isn't unanimously siding with your "sex is a spectrum" view. Bill Nye, believe it or not, doesn't speak for the entire scientific community. Upsetting I know

http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943
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To those of you so hung up on the single pair of sex chromosomes in humans, I say that the platypus would blow your fucking mind.
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Zeus posted...

Zarkai posted...

Mario_VS_DK posted...

Yes. You're just setting your child up to be bullied or worse.

I keep hearing this? Do bullies really target names based on controversial mythological history? I thought being fat or dumb were the usual culprits

Well, his name would be shortened to Luci/Lucy. Can you see them mocking a boy named Lucy?

It could be shortened to "Luc" if you pronounce Lucifer correctly.
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No, it's the name of a bishop of Cagliari.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_of_Cagliari
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It doesn’t seem that anyone was hurt, but Ross claims in the video that he’s charged with third-degree felony grand theft and faces up to five years in prison. He wants his fans to chip in and help get him out of this trouble.

Dude created video evidence of his crime, posted that to his YouTube channel, and probably intends to use the "It's just a prank, bro" defense.

God, I hope his fans don't chip in money, because they'd be wasting the hell out of it.
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I'm pretty sure anyone who uses "traduce" in a sentence is a pretentious asshole, regardless of their views.
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FroMan posted...

Whats so special about the 5th of may?

La Batalla de Puebla. It was a significant unlikely Mexican victory over the occupying French forces. In Mexico, it's mostly just important in Puebla and Veracruz. In the United States, Mexican-Americans use the day to celebrate Mexican-American culture, and white people use it as an excuse to put on outlandish sombreros, eat tacos, and drink tequila.
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If small furry creatures with 4 legs and 2 eyes are adorable, even smaller furry creatures with 8 legs and 8 eyes must be orders of magnitude more adorable.
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Oh, so it's more a case of "Some of you haven't been using this the way we intended it to be used, so now nobody gets to use it."
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Looks like another preventative measure on Valve's part.

For instance, some idiot buys a bunch of games to their inventory, gets their idiot account hacked, and loses all those gifts to some dude in Russia or wherever.

Sure, there are people using the inventory gifts responsibly and safely, but because idiots exist, Valve has to change policies to try and keep those idiots from losing all their shit due to their own idiocy, then asking for refunds or whatever.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

I thought that was for the carrots and celery. What is the point of dipping say, a buffalo wing - already flavoured, in another flavour. It's stupid.

They serve ranch or blue cheese with hot wings to help alleviate the spiciness of the wings, because casein (found in mammal milk) helps remove the capsaicin from the lipoprotein receptors on your tongue. (Vegetable oil and alcohol will also help, but not as much as milk.)

You're not supposed to dip the hot wing in the ranch/blue cheese, you're supposed to have the ranch/blue cheese after a few bites of hot wing to essentially cleanse your tongue to enjoy the next few bites of hot wing. (If you need it.)
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Look, you bunch of pedants, if you're going to choose a hill to die on, maybe don't choose der Nazihügel. That one's got a bunch of Nazis throwing up Hitler salutes on it.

It's also arrant pedantry based on a faulty etymological argument. While the word "Nazi" may have originally been used as a derogatory term for members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, in the vulgar tongue of today, it has also been associated with those who hold views similar to the traditional Nazis, such as anti-semites, white nationalists, and literal Neo-Nazis.

People aren't calling them Nazis because they disagree with them. People are calling them Nazis because they're walking around waving Hitler salutes and saying non-whites should leave the country and/or die.
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Mead posted...

Cause metacritic and imdb have never shown themselves to be vulnerable to brigading

A lot of the reviews are probably just people who saw the cringiest clips on youtube

A lot of the reviews are probably just people who heard someone else talk about how bad they thought it was on 4chan or Reddit, then "reviewed" it without ever having watched it.

Also, the people who they heard talk about it probably hadn't watched it either.
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The only person who wins in any fight between two animal-themed superheroes: Kraven.
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Besides the obvious William Henry Harrison, I'm pretty sure Pierce had a pretty tough first 100 days.

But he had a pretty good excuse.
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Technically, Nintendo never used that design at all. CBS Electronics, however, did.
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A party cannot sue on behalf of another party unless that other party is a) a minor, b) mentally unfit, or c) stone fucking dead. As Ann Coulter is neither a), b), nor c), the College of Republicans can not sue for Ann Coulter's right to free speech being violated, and the College of Republicans has not had their right to free speech violated in any way by an unrelated third party's speaking engagement being cancelled. In short, they have no grounds to sue.

I hope none of those students are law students.
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The arson charge will stick. The hate crime determination, definitely not so much.

Maryland's hate crime statute specifically states that destruction of property will only be tried as a hate crime if the act is perpetrated "Because of another's race, color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or national origin, or because another is homeless."

http://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/criminal-law/title-10/subtitle-3/10-304/

The act wasn't committed because of another's race; it was committed because of another's political beliefs, which aren't protected under Maryland hate crime legislation.
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Also, Saints Row 2, 3, 4, and Gat Out of Hell are in GOG Connect, so if they're already in your Steam library, you can (probably*) add them to your GOG library.


*For whatever reason, even though I know I have Saints Row IV Game of the Century Edition on Steam, it's not adding via GOG Connect.
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Lady Stilt-Man.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

"Shitty opinions" are the entire point of free speech, you can't deprive somebody of their right to express their opinion because your or your culture's sensibilities don't mesh with them.

Oh, they've been perfectly free to express those shitty opinions, and it's not illegal for them to do so, so their right to free speech is not and has not been violated. What they're seeing now is an organized movement willing to fight back against the shitty opinions and abuse, perfectly displaying that there are consequences to one's actions.

"Free speech" merely protects your right to spout bullshit; it doesn't protect you from the consequences of expressing that bullshit. Granted, assault is still illegal, but if someone thinks another person's shitty opinion warrants a violent reminder that their opinion is shitty, then that other person will undoubtedly be met with violence, regardless of the fact that this assault would be illegal.

If one were to walk into a biker bar full of Hell's Angels and express one's shitty opinion that motorcycles are for pansies, all the mewling about "free speech" in the world wouldn't protect one from getting one's ass beat and/or shot. One is, of course, still free to and still retains the right to express that shitty opinion, regardless of the consequences.

"Free speech" isn't some arcane incantation that protects assholes from condemnation or retribution. Actions have consequences.
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Claude_Frollo posted...

Erik_P posted...

Setting a sign on fire is bad now? I thought it was freedom of speech.

They have every right to do it, and I'll never argue against that, the point is that they oppose the freedom of speech, which earns them the labels of regressive leftist, pseudo-progressive, etc.

They don't oppose free speech; they oppose the misguided use of "free speech" as an unassailable bulwark from behind which Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and assholes in general can hurl their shitty opinions and abuse at others.
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You probably left it behind the couch. That's where I'm always losing things.
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yourDaddie posted...

he has always used an AXE

why is there so much pro sword bias?

Actually, originally he only used a laser blaster. It wasn't until G2's 1995 Laser Optimus Prime that he got his first melee weapon: a "saber weapon", i.e. a sword.
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Blade Trinity was the best Blade movie.
Apart from the two Tim Burton Batman movies, Wes Craven's Swamp Thing is the best movie based on a DC Comics character.
Constantine was a good movie.
The two completed Dirk Gently books are better than the entirety of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Pattern Recognition is William Gibson's best book.
Autumn is the best season.
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