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14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Meanwhile, Surly has probably had its fair share of penis reduction surgeries.

When it keeps getting sucked down the toilet drain when you flush what can you really do?

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4 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

When it keeps getting sucked down the toilet drain when you flush what can you really do?

Yeah, and it's DEEEEEEEEP too.

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Posted
7 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Peaceful protests don't work.  Boycotts don't work.  Elections don't work.

What the hell else is there?

Elections work. You just have to win them.

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Elections work. You just have to win them.

For decades the GOP has gerrymanderd every district they could. Then they made rules to prevent "cetain" people from voting. Then I am supposed to believe they didn't "rig" this election?

Cheaters never quit. My dad still claims a bogey after 3 in the water. It's in thier DNA.

Tldr: elections mean shit...
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1 hour ago, Fastbreak said:


For decades the GOP has gerrymanderd every district they could. Then they made rules to prevent "cetain" people from voting. Then I am supposed to believe they didn't "rig" this election?

Cheaters never quit. My dad still claims a bogey after 3 in the water. It's in thier DNA.

Tldr: elections mean shit...

Voter apathy is exactly what the GOP, Bannon, Trump, and Putin want from their opposition. 

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Posted
14 hours ago, Captainant said:

Matt Berger of Space City Weather fame is sounding the alarm on NOAA getting kneecapped

https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/national-weather-service-doge-trust-20167595.php

Despite Lutnick's assurances, a politicized NOAA could be a real problem, Berger told Chron this week.

"Certainly if you wanted to say the planet is no longer warming, one way to do that is just to stop measuring temperatures," he said. "I very much doubt that will happen, but they renamed the Gulf of Mexico, so who knows?"

Project 2025 also calls for the National Weather Service to be privatized, contending commercialization of the agency's proprietary technologies will increase competition. But in reality, Berger said, even weather companies in the private sector—including his—rely on NOAA's data to do their jobs. That includes weather apps on the typical smartphone and the dozen or so AI models in various stages of development.

"All of them require a coherent set of initial conditions, which is primarily government-collected data," Berger said. "If you take that away, those models are no good—garbage in, garbage out. You've gotta have a good set of initial conditions."

Privatize the hurricane center or NOAA, then fast-forward to a world where the private companies who collect expensive data will license it to sites like Space City Weather. Space City wouldn't even be able to discuss a hurricane's location or expected path without paying ElonWeather.com.

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2 hours ago, Fastbreak said:


For decades the GOP has gerrymanderd every district they could. Then they made rules to prevent "cetain" people from voting. Then I am supposed to believe they didn't "rig" this election?
 

Just to be clear. Everyone gerrymanders. It's a blight on our country.

https://www.vox.com/22961590/redistricting-gerrymandering-house-2022-midterms

>Democrats saved themselves by resorting to a tactic they’ve previously denounced as not only unfair but downright unethical — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calledgerrymandering “unjust and deeply dangerous” in 2019. But in the absence of national reforms banning the practice, refusing to gerrymander would have meant effective unilateral disarmament, ceding the GOP a significant advantage in the battle for control over the House.

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Also keep this in mind every time you see one of the "but it wasn't supposed to hurt the people that voted for him" things posted on FB or Twitter or letters to the editor 

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I really don't know if it's worse for him to just not understand and speak authoritatively on the topic or lie about it.

Both are incredibly embarrassing considering how often he's straight up wrong.

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Even if Trump and Elon cannot fire every federal employee or kill an agency, they fairly easily can start to kill programs within those agencies. Trump would prefer to also get rid of the employees supporting those programs, but he would accept a win of having those employees do absolutely nothing while receiving a paycheck.

And if Congress authorized and funded a program, Elon and the cabinet secretaries can create chaos by closing the programs and daring the courts to attempt to restart them. And that's only if Trump agrees to enforce a court's ruling.

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re: Elon's team not understanding business data.

In any other administration, someone embarrassing the President by making these ridiculous claims would be pushed aside tomorrow. Instead the Trump admin, especially that horrid press secretary, will repeat the lie as evidence.

I imagine that we do have fraud where a SS benefits recipient dies but either intentionally or unintentionally the info doesn't make it to the govt. In my only experience with someone dying, I believe SS was automatically notified by the funeral home of the death. I'm unaware of the actual process. I would have to guess that SS does eventually work to prosecute someone if fraud is involved.

My sister would have collected our parents' SS indefinitely if she could have. She would have feigned ignorance that she thought it was survivor benefits.

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15 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Peaceful protests don't work.  Boycotts don't work.  Elections don't work.

What the hell else is there?

you know. We all know. But enough people still have jobs and warm homes and aren't ready to go there yet. 

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2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

you know. We all know. But enough people still have jobs and warm homes and aren't ready to go there yet. 

I think the pain starts this summer. Summer trips cancelled due to higher prices. Savings start to dry up and rents get missed. The trickle up begins.

Northern Virginia will be interesting to watch. Direct or indirect, the economy is tied to the Federal Government.

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35 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

re: Elon's team not understanding business data.

It's not just that they don't understand business data.

It's the complete and utter misunderstanding of data in general. Anyone whose worked with DOB data before can tell you the issues with it, he proves that he or his people are ill informed at best or telling lies at worst 

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23 minutes ago, NoName said:

It's not just that they don't understand business data.

It's the complete and utter misunderstanding of data in general. Anyone whose worked with DOB data before can tell you the issues with it, he proves that he or his people are ill informed at best or telling lies at worst 

In fairness, they didn't get COBOL in their java course work 

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Posted (edited)
7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

In fairness, they didn't get COBOL in their java course work 

In all fairness, I didn’t get any Java in my COBOL coursework  

Excited Old Man GIF

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5 hours ago, Fastbreak said:


For decades the GOP has gerrymanderd every district they could. Then they made rules to prevent "cetain" people from voting. Then I am supposed to believe they didn't "rig" this election?

Cheaters never quit. My dad still claims a bogey after 3 in the water. It's in thier DNA.

Tldr: elections mean shit...

There are enough people eligible to vote in Harris county to turn every statewide election blue. They choose not to vote. You ever wonder why?

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Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, NoName said:

Just to be clear. Everyone gerrymanders. It's a blight on our country.

 

"everyone gerrymanders" is misleading when you consider what's happened to Congress and many state legislatures since about 2010 when Republicans began doing EXTREME gerrymanders in swing states, and which has allowed them to stay in control or at worst competitive in the House and in swing state Legislatures. The Supreme Court, which they control, has allowed extreme gerrymandering. 

For example the split in congressional delegation in CA is 43 to 9 because CA passed law requiring fair congressional districts by a non-partisan board. If CA Democrats were able to legally gerrymander they could leave R's with just 1 or 2 seats, at most, in the entire state - if they drew lines as fucking crazy and politically extreme as Texas R's. 

 

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3 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

I think the pain starts this summer. Summer trips cancelled due to higher prices. Savings start to dry up and rents get missed. The trickle up begins.

Northern Virginia will be interesting to watch. Direct or indirect, the economy is tied to the Federal Government.

the horror stories, wildfires, and fiascos coming out of the national parks/forests this summer are gonna be something. 

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Posted
49 minutes ago, Chopper said:

A couple inches of snow in Montreal - THE BEAST!

 

I figured a EV would run all 4 wheels all the time.  Does that thing have an open differential?  And does it have some kinda nanny granny setting that won't let you rock it?

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27 minutes ago, Parliament said:

I figured a EV would run all 4 wheels all the time.  Does that thing have an open differential?  And does it have some kinda nanny granny setting that won't let you rock it?

From reading the thread it appears there's a technical answer that would improve the traction, and that's for the driver to put it into 'snow mode' via the led screen control. Also, some car models that cost less than the swastikar automatically detect snow and switch modes (volvo). 

I think the short answer though is the swastikar just sucks.

 

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Posted (edited)
18 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It's real. I haven't had an account in almost two years, but I googled the phrase with Musk's name and it came up.

Good idea. (just tried it) On Duckduckgo, the first thing that came up was a pravda article where they're very excited about muSSk's statement.

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4 hours ago, Chopper said:

"everyone gerrymanders" is misleading when you consider what's happened to Congress and many state legislatures since about 2010 when Republicans began doing EXTREME gerrymanders in swing states, and which has allowed them to stay in control or at worst competitive in the House and in swing state Legislatures. The Supreme Court, which they control, has allowed extreme gerrymandering. 

For example the split in congressional delegation in CA is 43 to 9 because CA passed law requiring fair congressional districts by a non-partisan board. If CA Democrats were able to legally gerrymander they could leave R's with just 1 or 2 seats, at most, in the entire state - if they drew lines as fucking crazy and politically extreme as Texas R's. 

 

So does everyone gerrymander then, or not?

It is a blight on our country. Should be drawn in exactly that way - non partisan.

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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

It's real. I haven't had an account in almost two years, but I googled the phrase with Musk's name and it came up.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891597935231590477
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lolfuckingL. droopy dog lavrov and putin are gonna run a train on the US and Ukraine. Hate those fuckheads all you want, but they are gonna lap up a handful of raging self centered narcissists in a negotiation of any kind. The fucking groundwork is already there and laid bare. 

Poor fucking Ukraine 

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On 2/16/2025 at 5:28 PM, B00M said:

Yeah this might be the single most unrelatable thing about this psycho, which says a lot. He’ll give his stalkers kids but he won’t actually fuck them. Are you kidding me 

Yeah, it's the complete opposite of the very relatable Bobby Petrino meme.

 

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