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What were those little baby formula/jizz jar-looking things outie Mark was drinking from? And what's up with his cough? Both reintegration related?
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Listen to this man; he's a doctor. -
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I'm only two episodes into this, but The Decameron is funny as fuck. It's set in Medieval Italy on an estate outside of Florence where people are vacationing to get away from the plague in the big city. Oh, it's got one of the Derry Girls chicks and the tall goofy chick from Sex Education.
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Either way, I'm going full ecowarrior.
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Why are you surprised? They're GERM-ans, after all.
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I'm about 99% sure the vast majority of the kids catching the measles are children of Mennonite adults, who likely also weren't immunized as children growing up in Mexico. I suppose they could ultimately have been when they ended up relocating from Chihuahua state to West Texas, but I would tend to think they'd have to be. Honestly, though, I don't have a firm handle on their immigration/residence status. Regardless, there will also undoubtedly be some unvaccinated non-Mennonite kids who will soon (or already are) become exposed and fall ill. It's all so pointless and stupid that this is even a topic of conversation one-quarter of the way through the 21st Century, but here we are wallowing in mud and manure like fucking Medieval peasants.
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First two episodes of Season 3 have dropped.
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This tracks. President Musk makes all the big decisions while First Lady Trump redecorates the White House.
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The I.R.S. is expected to lay off thousands, starting as soon as next week. The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to lay off thousands of employees as soon as next week, according to three people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration pushes to dramatically shrink the size of the federal work force. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources department, ordered agencies across the government this week to terminate probationary employees, who are relatively new to their positions and do not enjoy as much job protection. It was unclear on Friday exactly how many I.R.S. employees would be affected by the order. An I.R.S. spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment nor did a spokesman for the Treasury Department. A sudden drop in the number of employees at the I.R.S. could interfere with the agency’s work to process millions of Americans’ tax returns. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg News last week that the department, which oversees the I.R.S., would limit changes until after tax season ends in the spring. “So I don’t imagine anything’s going to go on at the I.R.S. until then or beyond,” he said. “We’re in the middle of the tax-filing season right now.” The I.R.S. has dramatically grown its work force in recent years, reaching roughly 100,000 employees, after the Biden administration pushed to revitalize the beleaguered agency. Republicans have long attacked the additional I.R.S. personnel as villains who harass middle-class taxpayers, with President Trump targeting the agency for an extended hiring freeze and pushing to repurpose some of its agents to help with immigration enforcement. Elon Musk’s team of young software engineers and cost-cutters have also taken an interest in the agency. A member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Gavin Kliger, arrived at the I.R.S. headquarters on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The etymology is a little muddled, but the name Henry is likely the best modern cognate for 'Amerigo' in English. But since the name has been feminized to America, Henrietta (or maybe Harriet) hits closer to the mark. So, really, we should pick one of those two and go with that instead. Personally, I'm more fond of the latter and would go with the United States of Harriet and, therefore, it's also her gulf now and the whiteness of that name couldn't be more obvious.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
It seems JV is doing a bang-up job at pissing off our closest allies while supporting Europe's far-right. Two quick updates from his appearance in Munich: -
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit nuclear security, loans office, sources say WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, including employees at the nuclear security administration and the loans office, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. Democratic lawmakers also said the layoffs include workers at national labs and hydroelectric plants, and Cold War legacy nuclear sites that pose safety risks. The DOE has about 14,000 federal employees and 95,000 contractors. The two sources said the layoffs come after three people representing billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency arrived at the agency. Some 325 workers have been let go from the department's National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the U.S. nuclear weapons fleet and works to secure radiological materials around the world, two of the sources said. "It's insane," the sources said, pointing out the losses at the NNSA occur at a time when nuclear power plants have been at risk in Russia's war on Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe. Another source said the NNSA is still working to secure radiological materials in the region. The DOE press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A copy of a letter seen by Reuters and sent to some DOE employees says: "DOE finds that your further employment would not be in the public interest. For this reason, you are being removed from your position with DOE and the federal civil service effective today." The department laid off workers' access to government-issued laptops and phones just after midnight Eastern Time (0500 GMT) on Friday, which left many with no way to receive the notifications and no knowledge they had been fired, one source said. Some 45 workers were let go from the Loan Programs Office, which has hundreds of billions of dollars in loan authority for clean energy, nuclear and clean vehicle projects, one source said. In addition, 18 of 148 people were let go at the Grid Deployment Office, which seeks to modernize the power grid, making it resilient to extreme weather and able to transmit power from clean energy and fossil fuel-fired power plants. In Washington state, at least a dozen workers at the Hanford nuclear site - a 1940s site for plutonium and uranium production for atomic bombs - now decommissioned but highly contaminated - were laid off, including safety engineers who clean up and monitor the site, according to Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray. "These reckless firings will slow down critical cleanup work and make workers less safe—trying to run Hanford with a skeleton crew is a recipe for disaster that could have irreversible impacts," she said. "These layoffs will hurt companies, workers and their families across Eastern Washington." Murray said there were layoffs at other DOE-run facilities in the Pacific Northwest, including the Bonneville Power Administration hydroelectric facility and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which carries out research on everything from nuclear energy to battery storage. Murray's office reported layoffs of over 600 electricians, scientists, cybersecurity experts at BPA.
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After watching the most recent Severance episode last night, I checked out The Gorge (also on Apple). It starts out promising with an interesting setup, setting, and premise. Once you hit about the middle, it starts to drag, gets really predictable, and ends as an irredeemably dumb mess. Basically, someone in Hollywood had one interesting idea and fed it into an AI machine, which shit out a cliched action movie full of tired tropes.
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@Schulz2.0 I was just coming to post about that. Russian Drone Damages Radiation Shield at Chernobyl, Ukraine Says President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike. Russia’s military used a drone with a high-explosive warhead to hit the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, damaging the protective shelter that prevents radiation leaks, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday. In a post on social media, Mr. Zelensky called the damage “significant” but said that there were no signs of increased radiation at the plant, the site of the worst nuclear accident in history. Denys Shmyhal, the Ukrainian prime minister, said Friday morning that emergency crews had extinguished a fire at the site. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had attacked the plant. The structure that was damaged was designed to seal in vast quantities of radioactive isotopes from the fire and meltdown in 1986 at Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4, and was intended to last generations. The strike comes as pressure grows on Ukraine and Russia to sit down at the bargaining table three years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion. It also comes as world leaders are gathered in Munich for an annual security conference where the war in Ukraine — and recent statements by President Trump and his team indicating that they want to pursue a quick peace deal — will probably dominate conversations. Many attending the Munich conference will remember the radioactive clouds that spread over parts of Europe after the accident at Chernobyl, which happened when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. The accident was initially covered up by the Soviet authorities. “Now the atmosphere is such that everyone is very angry about this news here in Munich,” Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential office in Ukraine, posted on social media. “Not ‘concerned,’ as is often the case, but really angry.” Mr. Yermak noted that the whole world had helped the Kremlin rebuild after Chernobyl. “Then the whole world invested in the shelter, and today these Russian idiots have launched a drone at it,” he added. The Kremlin denied that Russia’s military had struck the plant. Its spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said, “The Russian military does not do this.” “Most likely, we are talking about provocation and fraud,” he added. The structure at Chernobyl that was hit on Friday is a huge arching shelter covering what remains of the crippled reactor. The meltdown spewed radiation into the atmosphere and contaminated an 18-mile zone around the plant that residents were forced to leave. The protective structure, which resembles an aircraft hangar, was completed in 2016. It covers another structure known as the sarcophagus that was built immediately after the disaster. The exploding drone breached the outer shield but did not damage the older, interior containment structure, Leontiy Derkach, a radiological engineer at the site, said in a telephone interview. The explosion sprayed shrapnel into the space between the two structures, damaging both, he said, but did not spread radioactive materials. Emergency crews responded at about 3 a.m., he said, as the fire still burned. The first people to approach the site were workers with radiation meters, to ascertain if radiation was leaking, he said. “We are not kamikazes to immediately go into the danger zone,” he said. Air samples determined no radiation was leaking, Mr. Derkach said. Ukrainian military chemists and radiation specialists are still working at the site to gain a fuller picture of the damage. By around noon, he said, crews had not yet entered the outer containment structure for a closer view. The drone, he said, had hit about 60 yards from where protective plates covered highly radioactive debris from the 1986 accident. Had it hit at that location, he said, the exploding drone could have spread radiation at least inside the outer containment structure. Emergency crews, Mr. Derkach said, were assessing how to repair the hole. “The Russians caused us great damage,” he said. “The whole world built this shelter and the Russians destroyed it in one second.” Greenpeace, the conservation group, issued a statement on the strike on the Chernobyl plant, saying it was “a further escalation of the threat to Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and must be condemned and punished.” Chernobyl was among the first locations targeted in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, as the Russian army captured and occupied the decommissioned plant and used the site as a base for attacks on Kyiv, to the south. Radiation levels rose for several days, most likely from columns of heavy weaponry stirring dust. During the monthlong occupation of the site, Russian soldiers dug trenches in irradiated soil, and electrical power to a cooling pool for nuclear waste was briefly cut, raising alarms. The International Atomic Energy Agency said that its staff members at the site of the former nuclear plant had heard the explosion overnight. The strike on Chernobyl, about two hours north of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the recent increase in military activity around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-occupied zone “underline persistent nuclear safety risks,” said Rafael Grossi, the agency’s director general.
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One interesting thing I noticed at the funeral was the dot matrix banner had the numbered quarters that Irving had worked printed out. I paused and did some quick math, showing that Irving had worked for three years and that it was quarter 800-something, meaning they’ve been doing this ongoing mysterious and important work for 200+ years, and they've been measuring it in sequential quarters.
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My gawd. I'd forgotten all about that one.
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But it was assigned Gulf of Mexico at birth.
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