Leaderboard

Sleepy ferret is sleepy.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon english dub trailer

am challenging any trump supporter to identify the five difficult questions on the montreal dementia test. what should be frightening to the trump folks is the President has claimed the doctors were shocked by how well he did on the test. am knowing it is foolish to assume trump is telling the truth 'bout anything, but if the doctors were genuine surprised by how well trump performed on the cognitive test, that is a cause for concern rather than a reason to brag. HA! Good Fun!

Well, and now the video is no more.

To say nothing of the staggering ignorance of the region, it's history, it's people, culture, languages, and the extreme unlikelihood that they would all just "get along" once they were not being held together by force. Oh yeah, they did under sell it to us, but also to themselves because of how much they didn't know or didn't WANT to know.

the wmd conspiracy bit persists. not a conspiracy. were garden variety stoopid. am not sure how blix always gets listed as a source for the conspiracy theory folks 'cause we heard him speak at berkeley and he pushed back on the notion o' conspiracy. blix observed how even he believed saddam had wmds as late as december 2002, and he were hardly convinced otherwise in early spring o' 2003... recognized how saddam not having wmd and yet refusing to allow inspections when the alternative were imminent invasion were utter unreasonable. nevertheless, a few o' our resident tinfoil hat brigade cite blix as support for a wmd conspiracy when he represents opposite unless taken complete outta context. christiane amanpour gave blix multiple opportunities to throw bush under the bus. blix wouldn't do it. the un inspector were deliberate pushing back on notion the US and brits had some kinda ill intent in promoting the wmd narrative. from blix pov, because US military and intelligence already believed saddam had wmd, they looked at every bit o' evidence as solid proof o' such a danger when in fact the evidence were dubious at best. US wanted an excuse to invade and they genuine believed, in spite o' suspect evidence, that saddam had wmds. no conspiracy, but perhaps worse as it reveals how in spite o' obvious human and monetary costs o' an invasion and occupation o' iraq, there were little critical thinking and reflection from folks in the bush administration. curious though, blix singled out bush as almost the singular senior American defending the the wmd investigations. video o' the interview may exist. were from way back in 2004. edit: btw, the wmd not-conspiracy distracts from the more costly but less salacious genuine conspiracy o' iraq: the misleading projected costs of occupation. us military and intelligence knowing vast undersold the manpower and money requirements for occupation and rebuild o' iraq. bush administration knew the more conservative estimates on manpower and dollar costs, but they pretended as if iraq would magical transform post liberation and take 'pon themselves the herculean tasks o' security and rebuild. HA! Good Fun!

Whenever I see someone like John Oliver suggesting to go with media consensus to avoid conspiracy theories I'm reminded of two things. Firstly, Gulf War 2. Anyone who didn't believe the WMD fabrications of 2002-3 was an unpatriotic conspiracy theorist. Except, it turned out, it was the media which fell for an actual conspiracy. Good thing they learned their lesson, after all the media which was punished for their stupidity and cupidity... oh wait, it was just the BBC that didn't buy into it that got punished, wasn't it? Guess there's an obvious lesson to be learned there, it just isn't a palatable one if you don't like male cattle excreta. Then there's mass surveillance. 'Conspiracy theory' says the mainstream media. Then there's Snowden and most of the mainstream media decides that actually it's not a big deal because we all knew it was happening anyway. And meh, let's barely mention the blatant violation of the Vienna Convention involved in forcing down and searching Evo Morales' plane because Snowden might be there. Yeah, antivaxxers, covid or 5g conspiracy theorists are whacky as; though flat earthers are almost all just taking the mick out of po faced science absolutists. Trouble is that the mainstream media will happily parrot utter rubbish if it's in their best interests or, frankly, even if they're just lazy and don't want to be bothered critically examining what a source or press release tells them; and if they cannot do it via the news they'll do it via opinion pieces that can easily be forgotten about or disclaimed away. That's also why 'propaganda' media which pushes conspiracy theories works in the first place, it doesn't matter if they lie so long as they can prove that the 'trusted media' lies too. And that's all too easy. Ultimately that's where reports like Oliver's fall down if taken as having a proper/ deeper message than just trying to be funny. There's a reason conspiracy theories exist which isn't solely because those that believe them are credulous ignoramuses. It's because the mainstream news is far more concerned with being sensationalist, building narrative and a host of other things than just giving out facts. (Difficult to be too critical of Oliver personally there since like Jon Stewart before him he's primarily entertainment/ satire rather than out and out news, and also like Stewart he's typically better at informing than a lot of mainstream news despite that)

Lunch (crumbled meat is ground turkey) Snacks. To keep the sweet and snack cravings in control fruit is great. And a couple large tablespoons of vanilla ice cream, softened and mixed with lots o berries works well as a tiny treat. I may not be that impressed with "FOUR CAMERAS" in the phone but it does take better pics than the tablet at least.

Check your inbox.

It was mostly West Germany that sold them precursors and equipment. Which the US knew about, of course, so the practical difference isn't great. The US mostly supplied intelligence and ran interference for the CW program and its use, especially at Halabja. Yes they were. Rumsfeld 100% didn't know where the CW was, it wasn't around Tikrit and Baghdad because it didn't exist. Saddam didn't try and obtain yellowcake from Niger, and they were told he didn't and they ignored it then burned Valerie Plame in retaliation. The 9/11 hijackers did not get support from Iraq. The 45 minute WMD over London claim was inserted from a masters thesis by Alistair Campbell over objections from British intelligence about it being at very best complete speculation. The Iraqis were not authorised to use the WMD they didn't have. Doesn't matter if they really really really believed it was true. They weren't merely innocent mistaken bumpkins blundering into mass slaughter for the best of intentions, they went out of their way to suppress any and all evidence- including using blatantly illegal means to do so- that didn't support their position Ironically, you use pretty much the exact argument many use for defending 5g/ covid/ antivaxxer. They all really really believe the stuff they spout is true too. So what. It isn't true, there is and was plenty of evidence that it isn't and being a moron and conclusion shopping to fit your beliefs does not mean you're incapable of lying. If they'd said they believed that Saddam still had WMDs they wouldn't have been lying. But no, they said he definitely had them when he didn't, systematically removed all nuance and equivocation and told blatant untruths.

no oregon State body has asked for help: legislature; governor; and courts. all silent. the protesters being arrested is suspected and actual vandals but attempting to paint them as insurrectionists is a complete vocabulary fail not requiring a Con Law expert to explain. doj lacks authority to arrest these folks off fed property while they ain't active committing offenses. there is a third category where use o' fed cops w/o state approval is allowable, but we hesitate to mention 'cause is gonna cause confusion and be used by many to legitimize what is clear illegal. post brown v. board, the fed granted unto itself the authority to use troops/fed police to protect Constitutional rights o' the people o' the US from the diminution and dilution o' state institutions. now keep in mind Gromnir is likely the only non overt racist sob you will ever meet who has public criticized brown v. board. (is just one reason we were never gonna be making it as a fed judge-- immediate dq if you criticize brown.) the Justices did the right and moral thing with brown, but the law, the specific decision, were flawed. use scaliaesque textualist reasoning to overturn plessy woulda' been possible, but not only would such a decision have failed to address the actual immediate problem, textualism weren't a thing in the 50's. am not gonna get into all the legal flaws with brown, but part o' the problem with the decision which were immediate apparent were the Court's lack o' an enforcement capacity. the thing is, Congress and the President didn't have much authority neither. sure, Congress could withhold money from states who didn't enforce brown, but such wouldn't be much benefit to students current suffering from segregation practices. as difficult as it may be to believe, the POTUS didn't have more authority than Congress to enforce brown. Congress rewrote laws to give the President authority to use troops to protect Constitutional rights, which is kinda suspect and should make one pause at potential abuses. nevertheless, the fed folks so recent dismissed as rabid dogs were doing the right thing as they saw it. the fed were trying to protect those who could not protect themselves from the real rabid dogs-- The People. *sigh* fast forward to 2020 and doj is using brown reasoning to arrest protesters in portland? ... recall Constitution is not the Declaration, so if folks tell us 'bout protecting life and liberty and property (translation: pursuit of happiness) as legit rights needing and deserving fed protection we will callous and condescending mock 'em. Constitutional rights is not particular numerous and is not o' kinda and quality being protected by the dhs stormtroopers in portland. in fact, the militarized dhs troops is arguable violating rights o' speech, assembly, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, due process, and right to counsel... stuff off the top o' our noggin. gotta serious indulge in legal contortionism to use Constitution protection to validate faceless dhs paramilitary troop presence in portland as they arrest protesters and detain 'em w/o benefit o' counsel, nevertheless, in 2020 with bill barr's doj, such a heretofore ridiculous implausibility is what we are facing. how is it possible for so many to not be horrified?

Well to explain that, this was lunch: While tasty that wasn't very, say, satisfying. Dinner wasn't much different either (well less tomatoes and more picked peppers with sauerkraut and some bread with ham). Plus an awful lot of stress at work right now. Yeah...

Well, I called my former boss that's on 75% sick leave and asked for help, he made a phone call, and a couple of hours later when I called down to the boss he said they had put the vehicle back in traffic. It does show that now. I'm still really annoyed, because it hadn't been taxed for 13 months, so they've saved about 4000$ in tax money. There is a foundation in Sweden that you pay a penalty fee to if you forget to insure your vehicle while it's road registered, and when someone smashes into another entity funds get taken from that foundation to pay for repairs/replacements, injury compensations and other such costs that normally would be handled by insurance. That fee is around 30$ per day for a truck, so in my opinion they should've had to pay 30*400, or 12000$ to that foundation aswell. No wonder they can undercut honest Swedish drivers. I really miss my old boss, he'd have them hung by their scrotums for this.

Yes, guns in M1 had lots of recoil and controlling Tommygun took some serious aim correction. This looks like a standard covershooter, however health doesn't seem to regenerate? That's something at least. Expected - M1 didn't play well on consoles from what I hear. Too bad I liked it's gameplay on PC more then M2. Something I am positively surprised by is language. Mafia1 has a PG writing and was clearly not authentic, which I felt gave it a more charm and allowed to get away with a lot silly things. M2 went for more authentic Scorsese feel, and IMO only underlined how poor it's story and characters were compared to films that inspired it.

keep in mind, he ain't the first.

It's pretty I'll give 'em that. It's been a while since I played through the original mafia now, but I don't remember exploding barrels being a staple. I don't remember Tommy being quite as skilled in gun-fu either, I remember him being alot slower. Edit; Went and looked for some Mafia 1 gunplay, and what actually struck me much more was the difference in recoil on the weapons. Mafia 1 actually moved your screen when shooting more forcefully, and the new tommygun doesn't seem to recoil at all. Edit 2; Forgot to add the old gameplay vid. Same mission.

All that and they choose a song from GTAV, bah. Rockstar would pull a lot of money if they ever remastered SA.

Marlins vs Braves in a exhibition game last night. Nice to hear a live game again

Shaquille O'Neal stops to help a stranded driver on Florida highway after crash

You did better than me then. It took me that long to make Corporal. My MOS was small. For almost a year and a half of the time I was eligible there was no cutting score for Lance Corporal to Corporal. When it finally came it was so low a crap ton of guys made it. I was one of the most senior lance corporals around, 3 years in grade, and here were all these guys with 18 months in the suck getting promoted with me. I was annoyed! A little anyway. Not too much because I'd already decided to walk away when my EAS came up. But on the Pros and Cons, like you said, subjective. My first unit in the fleet were hardasses about it. But the second was the exact opposite. Top Aeslin said if you show up on time, look presentable, do your job and don't bitch that will get you 4.5. Do all that an run a first class PFT will get you 4.6. Do that and shoot expert will get you 4.7. To get that extra .1 I learned a lesson early on: volunteer for the s--t detail you probably would have been put on anyway. You're doing it no matter what. Might was well get some goodwill from it.

Except Iraq had WMD. That isn't a conspiracy. They admitted is. The issue is said WMD somehow 'vanished'. Where did they go in-between Iraq admitting to having them and when they 'vanished' is the question. Iraq eventually claimed to have destroyed them yet could provide no proof they did so even though that was a requirement. on top of that, people ignore the fact that there wer emutlipel reasons (excuses) for the Iraq war. WMDs was *just* one of them. Saddam being gone is a good thing. Now, the US **** the bed in post war Iraq, though. That was pathetic. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/photo-appears-show-black-lives-matter-supporters-holding-kneeling-neck-white-baby/ FAKE NEWS? I hope so. But, it does fit with grom's usual goody two shoes BLMers. This is what BLMers do as matter of course so even if it isn't fake it wouldn't be surprising if it is real. Afterall, BLM has mass murdered 100s of black folk so nothing with harming a white baby since whites aren't human anyways. And, LMAO at the white BLM mother who allows this to happen and giggle. It has to be FAKE NEWS. Just gotta be.

Ok, this is an aside but I find the Indo Greek culture fascinating. Particularly the fact that you have Buddha statues and reliefs with Hercules protecting him and this is some of the earliest representations of the religion. History is awesome once you peel back the politics.

Yes, well. You will excuse my cynicism if I don't take your interest at face value, and respectfully decline your request to do your research for you -- especially when you have not provided a similar comparative analysis for the countries whose supposed diversity you are using as a basis for your hypothesis. If you're genuinely interested, read up on the different cultures and empires that have risen and fallen in Greater India since antiquity, from the Vedic period to the Mughal empire. The Kushan empire that replaced Alexander's Indo-Greek successor kingdoms, and the fall of the Guptas to the Huns. The birth of Buddhism and the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate. The migratory movements from all over Asia into India of people fleeing the Mongols. The influence of the "Silk Road" phenomenon as the original cultural melting pot. India really is a fascinating place with a long, rich history next to which even Europe's own pales in comparison. But yeah, cute.

Are you level 4? That helps a lot. If you've done all the other side quests and cleared some of the other side areas of the engwithan digsite, you'll be level 4 for your non-hirelings. Honestly though, if you were able to clear Gorecci St and the Drake fight above the digsite, the brine imp and ooze are much easier fights IMO.

zerohedge is popular 'mongst the eastern europeans who post prolific. no doubt is a fave site oft recommended by dipssh!t uncle quarterly. which reminds us... is not a criticism o' eastern europeans btw. many o' those nations got a history o' victimization at the hands o' state run media and they got a healthy distrust o' any official seeming news source. is nevertheless curious how distrust o' media somehow results in many folks glomping onto fringe theories and outlier sources. one would think such cynicism would make a person more suspicious o' unsubstantiated rando "news" stories. am not gonna again post bs receptivity articles, but is a fascinating bit o' contradiction that the self-described hardcore cynics is so often the folks wallowing in conspiracy theory. HA! Good Fun!

I'm sure the ending of this game will surprise nobody, it's a by the numbers revenge story, but I'll spoiler tag this just in case.

I'm sure there are some places that might illegally "rig" their machines but generally speaking it's the same as any gambling - the odds are just very very poor/stacked against you. You'll maybe win just enough to make you keep chasing and (if you're not an unreasonable addict), you're likely to walk off a little poorer but not extremely much so. I'm not sure coin slots are even around now, they've probably gone all digital making you use prepaid insert cards and $1-$10 pulls I'd imagine. Maybe they have dim backrooms with a few dusty coin slots for nostalgia. Back then nickel slots were just for having the fun of playing them longer without losing much money. You didn't play them expecting to win anything even if you won, so to speak. Quarters could still get expensive pretty fast.

For those who like their nostalgia.. WCNews - First Cut of Enhanced WC3 Clips released

Agreed on India, but China and Russia may have a lot of minorities but they both have a large 80%+ majority Han/ 'Russian' ethnicity which is proportionately larger than the 'white' 'ethnicity' in the US is. I think this is the point where I typically wave my arms animatedly while saying there's little objective difference between a lot of ethnicities anyway and most are used as political conveniences for whatever progressive/ regressive agenda is being driven at the time.

A little adult humour...

What kind of rig do you play that best game in the world, on? I wonder if the sprites would be too speedy on my main rig, now. One day I'll install DK1 and perhaps finally I will no longer be able to hand grab lvl10 imps effectively.

It feels like I'm really close to the end of the game. This was another mission that has a disguise in it and I didn't use it.

I'm on the third and final chapter now. It starts off with the all hope is seemingly lost portion of the story.

Tumblr: < long speculative discussion of pets in The Outer Worlds, pet-based commerce & culture, pets that NPCs and personal characters might have, and in particular pet sprats, sprat breeding and showing > Brain: You know, there once was a magazine called "Rat Fancy"... Me: NO. I AM NOT MOCKING UP A COVER OF A -- < several hours later > Me: GODSDAMMIT

At first I thought it said Gene Hackman was turned invisible.

Scientists Gene-Hack Human Cells to Turn Invisible.

@ShadySands ZH has been a site for quite a while. Personally, I've been using it for 8ys? (and google says they've been around since Jan 2009) Originally I've looked at their markets section only. They tend to bit a bit too doom&gloom, but sometimes you get some analysis that challanges your own and broader market view. It's good to be challanged, and sometimes they were spot on. Recently, for around a 1.5y I've started to look at their political pages as well. They are very, pro free speech, which has some drawbacks as you sometimes need to get through some op-ed, and then you realize who wrote it and on which side that person sits. The comments were unmoderated (unless something would be downright criminal), but a recent spat with google ads made them add some word filters. I would not read comments there though if I were you. Godawful mess. They've gained credibilty as time and again, what seemed to be unpopular in other media, appeared to be true or close enough to truth. Unfortunately moderate and rational based media are a dying breed in US, so for some challanging views, one starts to look in other places for alternatives to deduce a broader picture. NYT became an unreadable trash over last 15ys. (the last purge was a last nail in the coffin of that once reputable news source) As I said in some other thread my sources are now these: WSJ Bloomberg Reuters ZeroHedge MarketWatch Plus Fox youtube and YahooNews for political headlines. ZH is closer to the Federalist, but with less Trump and republicans, and with more free speech with all its flaws

Me hungry. Me HANGRY. Hulk smash! No, really. I feel like I'm digesting myself. Like Pizza the Hut in Spaceballs.

I'm just gonna post this here with zero context: