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Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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3 hours ago, Ted Lange said:
He’s totally triggered. It’d be hysterical if he wasn’t the POTUS.
Early on, I was in the "he's a reality TV show start, he knows exactly what he's doing and he's distracting Americans/the media" camp.
Now, it's clearly "he's a narcissistic toddler who fixates on one thing, and can't let it go", because there are far too many examples of this. He doesn't even care how much of a fucking idiot he looks like, because all he cares about is trying to prove he was right and the media was a bunch of dummies.
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28 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
That's a little scary, that polling data. We had a block walker for a candidate knock on our door last year during a local election. She said we were "super voters(?)" because our household had voted in every election, including the local ones. I guess they were focusing their efforts where they thought it would make a difference. Makes sense I suppose but it's a little creepy.
Those loyalty cards you use at grocery stores? Yeah, those stores track every single purchase you made going back years, which is why you seem to get coupons tailored just for you (to keep you coming back). And some of those stores sell that data. Facebook....there's a thread on here covering that.
They have profiles on just about every address, at least homes.
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23 minutes ago, SDG said:
Does WeWork allow you to use a corporate physical address? If so, there’s some value from a business card perspective, but as someone who works from home regularly im not driving to a place with no coworkers.
Yeah, I've thought about doing it in the past, but it's like I'm a 10 minute walk to a Central Market, a Starbucks, and a few other places, all of which I can get something to eat at and have interesting scenery.
Then again, I'm not spending 8 hours at any of those places. But still.
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It was either Marduk, Slayer of Tiamat.
Or the Dolphin vs Whale race war finally kicked off, like that little twerp predicted.
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I think that all of the 5 Rs in Texas, with maybe the exception being Flores, would stick around if they thought they had an easy victory next year.
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8 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:
What sort of super secret polling that nobody else can see or find out for themselves do politicians have?
In my, somewhat limited experience (campaign volunteer in the past, friends who work at such companies), it's some very expensive, very private polling, combined with some Big Data type of stuff - the more well-funded/larger offices/campaigns have an extremely good and very current idea of the demographics of their districts/states.
You know how you occasionally see those ads for "look up the records on your neighbor!" and you plug in your name or a friend's name, and it spits out some eerily-accurate information - fairly accurate ages, who they are related to, who they work for, etc., etc.? Those larger polling/data outfits have information that is much more comprehensive and accurate.
They can see trends that we and simple polling can't see, because they are matching their internal polling with all of that data they've purchased. Let's say you poll 250 people out of an area of 5,000 or more people. A simple poll might say there were 100 Republicans and 90 Democrat-leaning and 60 undecideds/other. You may say "it's only 250 people out of 5,000", but they have those numbers matched up tax records, area employers, social media, and every bit of purchasing history they can buy, so they can accurately extrapolate and they can see how many of those Rs and Ds are liable to flip and where the undecideds fall.
Or to put it another way: There's a reason why it only took 80,000 voters in three states to flip the election to Trump. The campaign/marketing/polling/propaganda outfits knew exactly where they needed to focus their efforts. Out of 130 million voters, they were targeting a few hundred thousand, and it paid off.
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41 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:
I don't know what's scarier Trump or the dozens and dozens of sycophants that enable this fool everyday. These are assumably serious people in the gov't who have thrown their dignity in the garbage for this man.
I guarantee this was done under orders, and the people who signed off on it are just thinking "holy shit, maybe this will get Trump to shut the fuck up"
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People like him, they HAVE to win, and in their minds, a win can be something like the other side getting tired and moving on. He cannot take the loss.
He's the kid at recess that was tagged "it" right off the bat, and then couldn't catch anybody else before the bell rang, and people mocked him, and so he continued trying to play in the hallways while everybody was ignoring him or telling him to fuck off. He couldn't accept losing.
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58 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
Even that is giving him too much credit. He's sees what's in front of him and defends himself. If it distracts from something else it's an unintended result.
This. He's a toddler that's been denied a toy or told he can't do something (or that he's wrong in this case). He will not let it go until he's worn out and thinks he's got his way.
Like I said, this is aggy all over again, with their stories about the LHN and leaving the B12.
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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:
I suppose it could be argued that the American people could go all Afghan or Viet Cong and hide out in the mountains and caves, and basically drag an extended war into a draw. I'm skeptical. It sure wouldn't be a "victory" -- this isn't 1776 or even 1861. The US military can and will effectively squash any uprising if ordered to do so.
Depends on how big the uprising is. We couldn't pacify Iraq, a country smaller than the State of Texas and with 5 million less people.
Our military is not as big as people think it is, for a country with 330 million people, and our geographical spread is insane.
The actual "boots on the ground" component is fairly small - the vast majority are the supporting folks. We have far more people in civilian law enforcement across the country than we do in the "boots on the ground" components of the Army and Marines.
Plus, if shit gets serious enough that the military is being called out, I'm not talking about the National Guard acting in a riot-control capacity in a state or two to deal with a few cities, but the Actual United States of Amerka Military, then that means we are going to see a huge breakdown in many areas of things like electricity, gas, water, etc. as people stop going into their jobs.
At that point, you've got families of soldiers/Marines being affected by this, and those soldiers/Marines are going to bail and go take care of their families.
And even if those soldiers/Marines could get their families onto the nearest base, the government doesn't have the means to indefinitely keep those bases supplied with the necessities.
But it will not reach that point - none of these movements will ever reach that stage (they wouldn't be allowed to), because they'll be dealt with at the local level with civilian law enforcement (whether that be the local Barney Fife, or the FBI).
Plus, most people are far too comfortable with how things are - they've got their cable TV, their big-screen TVs, their internet and smartphones.
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The Deep was trying to save a whale, something went wrong, and the observatory killed the whale.
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1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:
but I like to think that I am doing the right thing by putting a plastic bottle in my blue recycle bin instead of the regular trash. It's disheartening to think the end result of that is my plastic bottle gets shipped across the ocean for some other country to merely throw it into the ocean (or even into a landfill for that matter).
Yeah, that's the thing - say that plastic bottle is recycled, but it's done in Asia - how much in fossil fuels, etc. were used to get that plastic bottle to where it's recycled? There doesn't seem to be a good middle-ground if it's having to be transported all the way to Asia (or Africa).
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Trump is not worried about the whistleblower - he's probably very confident that Mnuchin has that stuff shut down.
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7 minutes ago, GW Hayduke said:
Some people are speculating that the manufactured sharpie controversy is to distract from the whistle blower at the IRS.
Nope, this is exactly who Trump is - he can never be wrong. We will be hearing about Alabama for the next few days, because people mocked him over it.
It's like Jay and Silent Bob going after everybody on the internet who insulted them.
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How many degrees higher do we have to go, before it starts driving away the Californians and New Englanders?
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
FInally: The only magic I see in it is that WeWork has somehow convinced millennial types that paying 50+ psf for space in a glorified cube farm is a great and desirable thing, because collaboration or some shit. It would seem that competition would decimate this idea in fairly short order. Not to mention people just waking the fuck up.
They figured out that those millennial types would rather hang around each other and get their free fruit juices and candy bars, than save their money and work at a table in a public library, Starbucks, Central Market, various little coffee shops, etc. Probably because the millennial types don't want to encounter a homeless person, dirty tables, or dirty glances from the waiters.
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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
I always ignored or dismissed any talk of using the 25th amendment to remove Trump, as either an over-reaction or pure partisanship. This hurricane and alabama obsession of his has changed my mind. I believe he is incapable of handling any issue and should be removed by Pence and the cabinet. Of course, Trump could argue that the Cabinet is invalid as many of the secretaries haven't been confirmed by the Senate. 4D chess....
The Alabama/hurricane thing is just the perfect example of Trump being the first aggy President.
The whole thing is reminiscent of what aggy tries to claim went down with the LHN stuff and why they left the B12. Even when shown evidence proving otherwise, they continue to scream and shout loudly to the contrary, in public, in hopes of controlling the narrative.
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Governor Greg Abbott has issued eight executive orders in response to the mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa.
Gov. Abbott says in a press release that the orders have been issued to help prevent further mass shootings by enhancing reporting requirements and making sure that law enforcement and the public have what they need to provide and respond to Suspicious Activity Reports.
Order No. 1 Within thirty days of this order, the Texas Department of Public Safety shall develop standardized intake questions that can be used by all Texas law-enforcement agencies to better identify whether a person calling the agency has information that should be reported to the Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting Network.
Order No. 2 Within thirty days of this order, the Department of Public Safety shall develop clear guidance, based on the appropriate legal standard, for when and how Texas law-enforcement agencies should submit Suspicious Activity Reports.
Order No. 3 Within sixty days of this order, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall make training available to educate all law-enforcement officers regarding the standards that will be developed pursuant to Order No. 1 and Order No. 2.
Order No. 4 The Department of Public Safety shall create and conduct an initiative to raise public awareness and understanding of how Suspicious Activity Reports are used by law-enforcement agencies to identify potential mass shooters or terroristic threats, so that the general public and friends, family members, coworkers, neighbors, and classmates will be more likely to report information about potential gunmen.
Order No. 5 The Department of Public Safety shall work with the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on ways to better inform schools, students, staff, and families about the importance of Suspicious Activity Reports and how to initiate that process.
Order No. 6 The Department of Public Safety shall work with local law enforcement, mental-health professionals, school districts, and others to create multidisciplinary threat assessment teams for each of its regions, and when appropriate shall coordinate with federal partners.
Order No. 7 The Department of Public Safety, as well as the Office of the Governor, shall use all available resources to increase staff at all fusion centers in Texas for the purpose of better collecting and responding to Suspicious Activity Reports, and better monitoring and analyzing social media and other online forums, for potential threats.
Order No. 8 Beginning January 1, 2020, all future grant awards from the Office of the Governor to counties shall require a commitment that the county will report at least 90 percent of convictions within seven business days to the Criminal Justice Information System at the Department of Public Safety. By January 1, 2021, such reporting must take place within five business days.
Gov. Abbott says the action taken today is a starting point to keep Texas communities safe. He says he will be releasing a report of findings and recommendations from the Texas Safety Commission meetings next week to further advance solutions and jumpstart legislative action.
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It's a start, and it's going to rustle some jimmies.
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Don't run your AC people!
http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/ercot-urging-people-to-reduce-electricity-use-95-96
QuoteERCOT is urging both people to reduce electricity use on September 5 and September 6 due to high heat and record breaking demand. It urges reduction especially during the hours of 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Some areas of Texas are expected to see the highest temperatures so far this summer and temperatures are expected to exceed 100 degrees in all major Texas metropolitan areas through September 7.
ERCOT says it set a new September peak demand record on September 3. It beat a previous September record set in 2016.
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20 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I'm not in real estate, but I'm pretty familiar with the economics of coworking spaces and I have never understood how WeWork or any company that operates as a coworking facility in Class A office space that it does not own free and clear can ever turn a profit by conventional metrics.
Step 1: Get somebody to pump money into your co-working spaces venture
Step 2: Buy some desirable buildings in various cities, set them up for co-working spaces
Step 3: Do the co-working spaces business for 5-10 years
Step 4: Announce you're closing the company, sell all of those desirable buildings that, in theory, went up in nicely in value over the 5-10 years you were collecting rent from co-working.
Is that how it works?
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46 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:
For the love of everything sacred, just stop.
Telling a narcissistic emotionally-unstable 12 year-old to get off of twitter is pointless.
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23 minutes ago, Fozzz said:
Debra Messing is worse than Trump.
She'd make a better President though.
Of course, that bar is incredibly low at this point. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was at least willing to listen to experts.
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On 9/4/2019 at 8:14 AM, Armybrat said:
We walked right through there after landing 527 years ago. Unbelievable!
Hurricane maps were awful back then.
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11 hours ago, Lobo said:
"Haven't tried before"??? Flannigan, Houston, and Ellis are the best council members up there. But if after 175 years, we are gonna try "real solutions that we haven't tired here before"...that could be a problem.
Depends. Declaring ourselves The People's Republic of Travis County, seceding from Texas, putting up a wall around Travis County, and well, yes, it's going to be expensive, but maybe we should just let things play out and see where they take us.
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Posted · Edited by atomheartbevo
He really is the aggy President. It's uncanny how much of an aggy he is. They will fixate on single lines from sports articles out of old newspapers to justify slapping another year on the wall of their Super Krogers. He will fixate on a single tweet by the Alabama National Guard, who later basically said "ignore that first tweet" to justify it, and just like aggy slapping a year on the side of Krogers, he takes a fucking Sharpie to a map.