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AngryCommieKender

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AngryCommieKender ,

Wasn't Lex Luthor supposed to be Tony Stark levels of intelligence?

AngryCommieKender ,

I don't think of Bezos, Musk, or Gates as exceptionally intelligent. They are lucky and influential, sure. Intelligent? Musk is automatically out just because of his Twitter feed. The other two haven't shown themselves to be particularly intelligent, just ruthless and efficient when it comes to generating profit.

As far as the other side of that coin, I tend to agree. Most of the really intelligent people that have existed have been pretty grey morally speaking.

Hence why I went with fictional examples. At least with Lex Luthor, there's very little grey area in his moral stances.

AngryCommieKender ,

Whenever l have run into snooty Quebequois that insist that I speak French, I channel Peggy and say "Jay parlay fran-says tray bee-en. Jay-tude on lay-cole quart ons."

That does the trick and they will beg me to speak English.

AngryCommieKender ,

"Hey Cotton, meet Kahn, he's Japanese.

NO HE AIN'T! He's Laotian, ain't you Mr. Kahn."

Possibly the best interaction with Kahn in the show. Definitely Cotton's best lines.

AngryCommieKender ,

You can have a free "flamethrower" cigarette lighter. The company is bankrupt, and musk has a warehouse if the things he didn't sell.

AngryCommieKender ,

And another silly nonsense number we decided to call "E" keeps popping up all over the place in nature/ the universe, for no discernable reason.

AngryCommieKender ,

Nope, fuck you. I'm a rebel and refuse to follow your law-bait

AngryCommieKender ,

Apple consistently has better hardware if you're willing to nuke iOS, and slap on an actual version of Linux, or hell, even Windows runs better on Apple hardware in my experience.

It's just getting it on there that's more than a bit dodgy

AngryCommieKender ,

ICA

Deuling Banjos intensifies

I'm kidding, but I've never seen an ICA outside of the southeastern states

AngryCommieKender ,

If you have pretty much any lateral velocity, you'll end up in a highly elliptical orbit and miss the sun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvR1fRTW8g&pp=ygUYaG93IHRvIGZhbGwgaW50byB0aGUgc3Vu

AngryCommieKender ,

If you haven't run across it, UFO:AI is an open source "re-release" of X-COM Apocalypse

AngryCommieKender ,

Don't forget to bring some potatoes. Those things will grow without soil, I'm sure they'll grow in a swamp, and they upgrade soup to stew. :)

AngryCommieKender ,

Ehhh, that's kinda like Batman though. Peter Parker is eternally a teenager/young twenties, just like Bruce Wayne is always in his late twenties/ early thirties, except that one comic.

AngryCommieKender ,

Not all of us

AngryCommieKender , (edited )

If you don't mind living in the middle of nowhere, and you live in the US, save up for a mobile home. You can get a used one dirt cheap, (<$10,000 in most of the middle of the country,) and it will be perfectly functional. Look up land that is still covered by the homestead act, put the trailer on the closest available land. Fence off up to 500 acres, depending on jurisdiction, and improve the land for five years. Apply for a deed from the Federal Government. Enjoy your free land. Make sure you survey the land, not all of it is actually desirable.

Edit: bonus if the land is forested. Get a chainsaw sawmill and build "additions" to your mobile home until the mobile home is no longer needed, and you have a house. Also clear at least 300 feet from your house in case of forest fires.

AngryCommieKender ,

God damn Jon Stewart looks young in that movie. He had black hair!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoEEqWgGlY

AngryCommieKender ,

I'm sure that RDJ's own alcoholism may have played a role there as well. Don't want to trigger a relapse.

AngryCommieKender ,

I figured that's why he's canonically a news photographer. It's the only job he could hold because of his unreliability, and he can literally set up the shots himself. Also $60 per shot makes a lot more sense if it's the '70s.

AngryCommieKender ,

I can only guess they are commenting on the fact that it says won't rather than can't.

AngryCommieKender ,

Hang the land lords leeches.

AngryCommieKender ,

Try reading Wealth of Nations, and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, both written by the "Father of Capitalism," Adam Smith. Those are where the concept of rent-seeking comes from.

Once you are thoroughly enraged by the fact that we were never supposed to get this far into crony capitalism, then you'll be prepared to read Karl Marx and Trotsky.

AngryCommieKender ,

I wonder why so many people dismiss a better world as imaginary, when the thing that prevents such a world is, in fact, imaginary. We made up money. It is fake, imaginary, not fucking real. I can prove it too. You go into nature, and find me money. You can't. You can find currency, but not money. No animals have a damn mint. We made that shit up, and we can collectively decide that it doesn't matter.

Grow up and stop believing in the money fairy

AngryCommieKender ,

The reason we don't have federally funded municipal housing in the US is that the Clinton Administration capped the number of units the federal government is allowed to fund

AngryCommieKender ,

Just an FYI. Wikipedia is actually privately funded at this point. They don't need donations anymore. From what I have seen of their financial statements, the donations are essentially building a slush fund for them, at this point, and have been for the last few years.

AngryCommieKender ,

Or as Adam Smith would call you, a rent-seeker.

AngryCommieKender ,

Knowing more of the theory is good so that you have the arguments you need to convince the centerists in your life

AngryCommieKender ,

I'm guessing somewhere in Scandinavia, leaning towards Finnish?

AngryCommieKender , (edited )

That was as intentional and obvious as the agent provocateurs that were used to break up and arrest the occupy wall street protests.

They've stopped shooting us because MLK Jr became a martyr. Now they just arrest us and make us disappear.

AngryCommieKender ,

They may think they believe it, but the lockdowns of 2020 showed otherwise. Unless you're one of the "lucky" nonneurotypical people with a disorder that makes it possible to just lay around and do nothing, people go stir crazy. Feeling productive may as well be on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. That's one of the reasons the great resignation happened. Way too many of us are working bullshit jobs, and we got to face that reality head on, and didn't like it one bit.

AngryCommieKender ,

Look at Mr moneybags over here putting bacon and onions in his pasta and cheese

AngryCommieKender ,

backpfeifengesicht: a face in need of a fist. German words are so awesome.

AngryCommieKender ,

Gotcha. Just.going by Google translate

AngryCommieKender ,

"Electric leaf blowers are already far quieter than their gas-powered peers, but they still aren’t the kind of thing you’d like to hear first-thing on a Saturday morning. Looking to improve on the situation, a group of students from Johns Hopkins University have successfully designed a 3D printed add-on that manages to significantly reduce the noise generated by a modern electric leaf blower without compromising the amount of air it’s able to move."

First two sentences of the article.

AngryCommieKender ,

I was literally just on that thread. Blue trash cans all over the place

AngryCommieKender ,

Yep. At least in the app I use.

AngryCommieKender ,

The Mars Climate Orbiter is what happens IRL when space even touches the imperial system.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-climate-orbiter/

AngryCommieKender ,

Can confirm. Goonswarm still needs Mumble because we have thousands of players that need to listen to the weekly fireside.

AngryCommieKender ,

The absolute largest group of players in any game stuck with Mumble. That would be The Goonswarm Federation in EvE Online. We have just over 25,000 people, and well over 100,000 characters in the Alliance. In fact, AFAIK, all of the major alliances have to use Mumble because it allows more than 100 people in a room

AngryCommieKender ,

I absolutely love that he played himself in Avenue Q before he died

AngryCommieKender ,

Corporations ≠ people. I don't care what SCOTUS has to say on the matter. They have proven themselves to be illegitimate

AngryCommieKender ,

I got supremely lucky one day when they knocked on my door. I happened to be in the middle of carving up a full beef tenderloin flank into filets and tips, and was expecting company, so I didn't bother cleaning up, putting on a shirt, or even putting the butchers knife down.

So what they got to see was a 6'3" blonde haired, blue eyed, viking looking fucker open the door in shorts with blood covering my arms and the hand I was holding the knife in, (I took the time to wipe off one hand with wipes, dont want blood everywhere), who promptly yelled over his shoulder, "Hey guys you can let the goat go! I just found us a couple of virgins!"

They scarpered quickly.

AngryCommieKender ,

I cannot prove this as it is a theory someone else proposed, but I sincerely believe that his obsession with the letter X is due to the fact that many native African tribes signed away all their rights and privileges with an X mark, since they were illiterate.

AngryCommieKender ,

In Delaware they do have the right to vote in certain municipalities.

AngryCommieKender ,

Then why does Delaware keep giving them the right to vote?

AngryCommieKender ,

I did as well. My housemate that was with me asked if Tesla was doing some sort of promotion where people could just drive the things around. She didn't believe anyone would willingly buy something that looks like it was made for a '70s sci Fi C-movie.

You're correct that videos and pics don't manage to capture the true hideousness of that thing. Can't wait for the lawsuits when someone inevitably runs into a pedestrian with that front wedge. It's also weirdly smaller than I expected it to be. The one I saw parked next to a crossover car/SUV and was barely bigger than that thing.

AngryCommieKender ,

What is the name of the show for all of us non Brits (?)?

Edit: NM it's called After Midnight, and apparently it's on CBS.

AngryCommieKender ,

We were hotter than Venus was at the time, before the Cyanobacteria Oxygenation Extinction event a few billion years ago

Technically Venus would be way easier than Mars to terraform. Throw oceans worth of ice asteroids at the planet and seed it with cyanobacteria, and wait. They'll eat up all that tasty methane.

AngryCommieKender ,

November of 1996. I joined in December of 96

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