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Nivek

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  1. You can say jerking-off here.
  2. Trump painted himself into a corner. And us with him. Only he has the corruption/grift to avoid all of the pain he has created for everyone else.
  3. I am not sure I would call the guy a grifter. But he definitely has political leanings similar to someone like Critical Drinker, and he has had some good material including the guy who wrote a trilogy for Kenobi. He has a point that Lucas did shy away from overt expressions of brutality and a veneer of civility, but he may have fallen into a bit of tautology on claiming Vader wouldn't tolerate certain things, but this isn't Vader's Empire, it is Palp's.
  4. So Scorsese and Mangold care, but not enough to prop this up for a fraction of what they have?
  5. Just wanted to echo what a great cast and vision does for a program. Luthen’s switch from salesman and his fake singular laugh to his more menacing tone is really fun to watch, and his remark to Mon about her naivety was well written and delivered. His character really isn’t seeing himself surviving this, consistent with his speech from last season, and you can see how he is setting up Mon for her eventual role.
  6. GI Joe's generally didn't hide their faces (outside a few with special reasons) but the bad guys certainly did.
  7. Sounds like a typical republican welfare recipient who decries socialism but exists and survives only due to checks from the state.
  8. Yeah, 4 more years of Trump. We, as a society, are not ready to vote for woman to take on that role and represent us to the world. Give us about 30+ more years.
  9. I kind of recoil at the terminology of both sides, as it sometimes feeds into giving unequal legitimacy to bad actors. The other part worth mentioning is that some poor communicators can be correct but unwilling or unable to express it or the audience may lack the fundamental background knowledge to understand the nuanced position. In those forums, then the argument, and jury of peers may not be the best at discerning the most supported evidence, especially when the charm/charisma/beauty or other non-evidence based factors are influencing the outcome. Heck, even here or in real life discussions with others, it can be challenging. But the root issue may be that unlike the pawn stars who have a buddy who is an expert, the host or politician are playing that role.
  10. One thing I picked up during my education was that while obtaining an undergraduate degree, memorization was an important component to build the foundation upon, so one could get caught up with the generally accepted knowledge at the time. However, there were tidbits of information spread in there that helped a person see the limitations. As one progresses in graduate school, some of those foundational facts lose what was previously considered ironclad status and are replaced by "this is the best information we currently have" and this goes for a lot of things. For example, if you looked at a diamond under cathode ray lumination, you would see amorphous zones indicating this crystal developed in a plasma like environment and many of those zones were truncated picking up inclusions of other materials (e.g. garnet) before it solidified and was brought to the surface. Yet, if you read the literature, there are some who base the dating of rocks/diamonds on the radiometric decay of the garnet inclusions. When it is often observed that the dating of the inclusions will be wildly different amongst and individual diamond discovered (with multiple inclusions). But both are correct in their assessment. This is a weak form of evidence but sometimes is all that is available. Critics may argues, just shitcan it, because it is so wholly unreliable it shouldn't be included at all. Other's not aware of diamond dating issues, may defer to the data without fully appreciating the challenge and debate amongst the mineralogists, because their background expertise is in a different speciality (structural geology). Outside of STEM, this stuff is present as well. When calculating the value of an organization, there is a formula for where the weighted average cost of capital (percentage) is then subtracted by the growth rate of the firm. The problem is that this is in the denominator. But this equation is not provided with a boundary condition beyond WACC cannot equal growth rate. However, if you play with the math a little it is easy to see how this become silly as it can exponentially increase the value of the firm as WACC approaches growth rate.
  11. I thought Dexter St. Jock was Jamaican?
  12. There is also a challenge with the identification of ASD by gender. Girls for example tend to be identified several years later on average than boys, in part due to masking, but also due to how it manifests differently.
  13. Look, it is human nature to look for shortcuts to save mental calories. Some post-docs I knew basically lived their subject matter, read it all, then read it again, but in their down time watched stupid shit like survivor because their primary passions were taxing. I do not socialize with physicians, but I imagine some choose to go that route, while others just give you a z-pack and a b12/steroid shot and send you on your way.
  14. Seems like she is buying drugs to me. Civil Asset forfeit, is that a thing out there?
  15. Just bribe the new administration. It is what I would do if I ran afoul of a formerly legitimate government.
  16. Born to Ride Donald J. Trump? Huh. Also where is the suit? I was told everyone needed a suit. Oh wait....
  17. Then the second amendment only covers muskets….. Can we deport Tesla?
  18. Delete? shit, buy a burner phone and load it with 1000 dick pics. Just the nastiest most infected dicks and/or billowy assholes. Leave it unlocked and let them have at it.
  19. well, when you put it that way.........
  20. I'm not so certain I agree with your terminology. Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and other tactics also could be lumped in with that power-grab and violation of the naive spirit of our constitution/declaration.
  21. They know there is no god.
  22. And the Klan, Manson Family, and American Nazi's. That doesn't mean it is a conspiracy.
  23. I don't think it was a grand conspiracy. But I do think a series of actions allowed for other exploitations to occur which in turn snowballed into Russia/Trump.
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