Namutree Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 Basically, in the US Israel has a very strong lobby due to a few factors, one of them being evangelical religious zealots being commanded to support Israel in the christian bible. Evangelicals are a huge voting base for the republican party, so republicans cater to Israel. At the same time, the democratic party has a lot of wealthy Zionist donors, so Israel gets catered to by the Democrats as well. This creates the illusion that Jews control more than they really do. What is a product of happenstance is taken as conspiracy. Ah, I see. Israel is at the heart of the Abrahamic religions, so they some wiggle room on religious grounds. Still, for all that, Israel is hardly a major world power... Anyway, it sounds like you have a dysfunctional family. Must make family dinners awkward... Not so much. The oldest brother has gotten the mental help he needed and is now totally functional and is completely healthy now. I don't hold any grudge against him, he was literally insane; it's not like it was his fault. The universe just screwed him and me by proxy. And "Bob" may be a nazi, but we don't have to agree to get along. Family dinners are actually quite harmonious. "Good thing I don't heal my characters or they'd be really hurt." Is not something I should ever be thinking. I use blue text when I'm being sarcastic.
Heijoushin Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 Not so much. The oldest brother has gotten the mental help he needed and is now totally functional and is completely healthy now. I don't hold any grudge against him, he was literally insane; it's not like it was his fault. The universe just screwed him and me by proxy. And "Bob" may be a nazi, but we don't have to agree to get along. Family dinners are actually quite harmonious. That's a surprisingly Zen attitude you have there So your bro reckons that all these nazis are going to float to the top, huh? Still, could they really do anything without the support of the people? It seems to me that the American people are very vocal whenever they perceive an injustice to have been carried out, and nazi is still a synonym for evil in most circles. (They should change their name, and get a new PR agent.)
Namutree Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 That's a surprisingly Zen attitude you have there When you spend your teen years trying to not get murdered you go zen or you go nuts. Only the lack of kill xp in rpgs brings out the inner madness buried deep in my soul. So your bro reckons that all these nazis are going to float to the top, huh? Still, could they really do anything without the support of the people? Yes. Though according to him they're not full fascist quite yet. They're still developing. They might moderate as they get older, or get to his level. Time will tell. The deciding factors might turn out to be: A) Whether or not social justice warriors go away. If SJW's go away the borderline nazis will likely moderate their views; if not we're in trouble. SJWs are so obnoxious they might doom the planet to nazi control. I'm gonna be pretty steamed if they do. B) Whether we engage in more stupid middle eastern wars. I suspect there is a connection between the endless middle eastern wars and the growth of alt-lite ideology in the military. "Good thing I don't heal my characters or they'd be really hurt." Is not something I should ever be thinking. I use blue text when I'm being sarcastic.
Gfted1 Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 "Bob" was rising in the ranks faster than normal. There are certain limits he couldn't reach until he had spent more time in the military, I don't know why, but that is the situation. I'm sure the other branches have similar rules, but in the Navy there are Time In Rate requirements that must be met prior to advancing to the next higher rank. These of course can be waived for superior performance.
Guard Dog Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 "Bob" was rising in the ranks faster than normal. There are certain limits he couldn't reach until he had spent more time in the military, I don't know why, but that is the situation. I'm sure the other branches have similar rules, but in the Navy there are Time In Rate requirements that must be met prior to advancing to the next higher rank. These of course can be waived for superior performance. In the marines it's called time in grade. It's the same thing. When I was in to go from Lance Corporal to Corporal you needed at least 9 months in grade and then your composite score (made up of your proficiency and conduct ratings, rifle range score and PFT score) had to exceed the established cutting score. That was the hardest rank to make because there can be as many E1-E3 as there are but there are only so many billets for E-4 and above. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gfted1 Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 The E3 --> E4 hurlde took the longest for me. A couple years actually. But then I made E5 in fairly easily.
Amentep Posted April 3, 2017 Posted April 3, 2017 Would it sound crazy if I said that C is the strangest to me? I mean, there have always been racists and traditionalists but... where does this "Jewish people run the world from the shadows" stuff come from? *shakes head* Maybe being stationed overseas fighting foreigners makes you think of other races as "the enemy"? Basically, in the US Israel has a very strong lobby due to a few factors, one of them being evangelical religious zealots being commanded to support Israel in the christian bible. Evangelicals are a huge voting base for the republican party, so republicans cater to Israel. At the same time, the democratic party has a lot of wealthy Zionist donors, so Israel gets catered to by the Democrats as well. This creates the illusion that Jews control more than they really do. What is a product of happenstance is taken as conspiracy. If you want to understand the source of this aspect of conspiracy theory, you may want to read about the Russian text, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903). As I understand it, that book purports to represent plans by Zionist groups to take over banking institutions so they can control governments and newspapers with the end aim of creating a one-world Jewish state. It was mostly derived from re-writing Joly's satire Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, adding in Herl's The Jewish State and parts of Goedsche's Biarritz and is therefore not a real document but a fiction. And while it has been debunked periodically, part of the conspiracy alludes to collusion between banks (run by Jews according to the Protocols) and newspapers (either run by Jews or beholden to banks) and thus for full on believers any debunking is naturally repudiated because the source is considered suspect. While its use in the west had waned since WWII (but is still referenced in the Middle East), it has gained additional spread through the Internet leading to its rise in conspiracy theory again. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Calax Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 Huh... The hotel that we have a location in is host of a few times of the WHL. Guess they're having a game up here in PDX. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Deadly_Nightshade Posted April 5, 2017 Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) I recently got my semi-ancient 1156 box back from my parents, I had let them have it when they needed a new computer and since they've both got their own laptops now I just got it back, and have been upgrading it to see how much performance I can get out of the old box. So far I've done the following: Replaced the i3-530 with an i5-760 Added a 212 Evo cooler Overclocked the CPU to 3.85Ghz with Turbo-boost allowing it to jump to 4.2Ghz on a single core (I could go higher but that seems around the sweet spot for the chip and I don't want to push the system too hard). Added a slightly overclocked 1060 6Gb Added 8Gb of RAM for a total of 12Gb Not counting the 1060 the entire cost has been around $100 USD, about $335 with the GPU, and I'm impressed at how well it's holding up. I think the only thing I really need to add now is an SSD boot disk and maybe replace the PSU. At some point I'll also build an entirely new system to compliment my laptop, I'm using a 6700HQ paired with a 1060 that has been repasted with Liquid Metal, but this isn't a bad back-up system and I'm having fun playing around with it. Edited April 5, 2017 by Deadly_Nightshade 1 "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot
Guard Dog Posted April 6, 2017 Posted April 6, 2017 I'm working from home tomorrow. So tonight is a good night for a drink. For a few drinks actually. A good night to sit on the porch, listen to the owls, coyotes, whiporills and crickets. Better than any music on my iPad. 3 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Azdeus Posted April 6, 2017 Posted April 6, 2017 I'm working from home tomorrow. So tonight is a good night for a drink. For a few drinks actually. A good night to sit on the porch, listen to the owls, coyotes, whiporills and crickets. Better than any music on my iPad. *Le jealous* Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Gorgon Posted April 7, 2017 Posted April 7, 2017 Quote for the day If it ain't touch in the soul it ain't meant for you to rock it. ~ DJ Premier. 1 Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
Agiel Posted April 8, 2017 Posted April 8, 2017 (edited) Staying at my parents' place for the weekend to help them move. Walked in on my mom watching Fifty Shades of Grey, which shouldn't really surprise me (in my childhood days, one positive point in their criteria over whether a movie was one they should rent was if it had Arnold Schwarzenegger, which led to them renting Jingle All the Way and Junior). I did my best to persuade her that it wasn't worth her time for the sake of preserving some measure of taste, unfortunately to no avail. Edited April 8, 2017 by Agiel 1 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Azdeus Posted April 8, 2017 Posted April 8, 2017 Staying at my parents' place for the weekend to help them move. Walked in on my mom watching Fifty Shades of Grey, which shouldn't really surprise me (in my childhood days, one positive point in their criteria over whether a movie was one they should rent was if it had Arnold Schwarzenegger, which led to them renting Jingle All the Way and Junior). I did my best to persuade her that it wasn't worth her time for the sake of preserving some measure of taste, unfortunately to no avail. I've tried to do the same with my mother, it's like a stone wall. Psyching myself up for a party tonight, just the boyz. We've not had a proper party in ages so I'm really exited, my one worry is that I'm not going to get the inflatable mattress I'm going to borrow to work, but the weather is supposed to be real nice tonight so I can take a nice long (~10km) walk home if that happens. Bit sad that some of the oldtimers won't be making it, really looked forward to hanging out with my engineer(And more importantly, RPG designer) and scientist friends. 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Labadal Posted April 8, 2017 Posted April 8, 2017 Been taking it easy today. Yesterday qwas spent making sure people I know in Stockholm were safe. Thankfully, they were. 3
Guard Dog Posted April 8, 2017 Posted April 8, 2017 Going to a "Welcome Home" party tonight. The son of one of our VFW members got home from serving overseas yesterday. We're throwing him a party at the VFW, BBQ with all the trimmings and the beer and whiskey will flow. He's been at Camp Schawb on Okinawa for the last 14 months with deployments to Afghanistan and all the usually WestPac stops like South Korea, Ie Shima, and elsewhere. I'd like to talk to him about Okinawa if I get the chance. I'd be curious to hear how much it's changed. I was there in 91-92 so I'd imagine quite a bit. 4 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Calax Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 Being told Grandpa has an anurysm in his lung and basically not to expect him to survive more than six months He's 91 and doesn't even remember I'm his grandkid half the time. Seeing him in two tuesdays. Mom thinks grandma would follow pretty quickly after. Still haven't heard anything about other job. Also Family Friend (who died on the 27th?) has a bitch of a daughter. Like I said, my mom had come up to see her friend, and before my mom could arrive (like the day before) Lynn died. Mom came up and stayed in Lynn's house with her sisters, and the daughter for one night. The sisters left and the daughter basically kicked my mom out of the house (even though my mom had plans to stay until saturday). This was on a tuesday. This is also the woman who I visited with over thanksgiving, joked (good naturedly) about her husband being "Just the PRETTIEST of princesses" with my brother and him, and he apparently didn't like it. But instead of saying "Hey, I don't appriciate that" or anything, waited f\a good month before I reached out to her again to proceed to call me a "terrible human being" for joking like that and acting morally superior. So now I was persona non grata aroud the house, and not even allowed in to help my mom out. And everything that woman put out about her mom post death seemed almost "woe is me" with her "memorial" including "I didn't always see Eye to eye with my mom" as if they were estranged (they weren't). And now I saw a begrudging "Well, now I have three cats!" twitter post about taking in her mom's old ones. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Bartimaeus Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 I don't understand: why are you reading (or able to read) her posts to begin with? Quote Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved - indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
Calax Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 I don't understand: why are you reading (or able to read) her posts to begin with? I rarely ever check twitter (Like literally only saw it when I was looking at something else from reddit) and I kept her on social media out of respect for her mother, until her mother died. Victor of the 5 year fan fic competition! Kevin Butler will awesome your face off.
Azdeus Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 Just came home, had a great party yesterday with the boyoz, I had loaded up with plenty of drink wich turned out to be unnecessary, the host had done that for us. Got amazingly drunk and had an awesome night! Lots of chat back and forth, good food and loads of alcohol. I'm still a bit tipsy and it's been many hours since I drank my last beer. Being told Grandpa has an anurysm in his lung and basically not to expect him to survive more than six months He's 91 and doesn't even remember I'm his grandkid half the time. Seeing him in two tuesdays. Mom thinks grandma would follow pretty quickly after. Still haven't heard anything about other job. Also Family Friend (who died on the 27th?) has a bitch of a daughter. Like I said, my mom had come up to see her friend, and before my mom could arrive (like the day before) Lynn died. Mom came up and stayed in Lynn's house with her sisters, and the daughter for one night. The sisters left and the daughter basically kicked my mom out of the house (even though my mom had plans to stay until saturday). This was on a tuesday. This is also the woman who I visited with over thanksgiving, joked (good naturedly) about her husband being "Just the PRETTIEST of princesses" with my brother and him, and he apparently didn't like it. But instead of saying "Hey, I don't appriciate that" or anything, waited f\a good month before I reached out to her again to proceed to call me a "terrible human being" for joking like that and acting morally superior. So now I was persona non grata aroud the house, and not even allowed in to help my mom out. And everything that woman put out about her mom post death seemed almost "woe is me" with her "memorial" including "I didn't always see Eye to eye with my mom" as if they were estranged (they weren't). And now I saw a begrudging "Well, now I have three cats!" twitter post about taking in her mom's old ones. She definetly sounds like a bitch, hope things turn around for you soon Cal. 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
kirottu Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 Today I discover my left nipple aches when touched. All I could think was: This is the way I'm going to die. I have nipple cancer. This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Malcador Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 I don't understand: why are you reading (or able to read) her posts to begin with? Rage is a drug. Is why I still look up news about my scumbag relatives (and read Reddit) Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Blarghagh Posted April 10, 2017 Posted April 10, 2017 My anxiety disorder reared its head in a bad way and now I'm on sedatives temporarily. I don't think my body has ever been this relaxed. 3
BruceVC Posted April 10, 2017 Posted April 10, 2017 My anxiety disorder reared its head in a bad way and now I'm on sedatives temporarily. I don't think my body has ever been this relaxed. <3 Nice, so you feel goooooooooooooood 1 "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Gfted1 Posted April 10, 2017 Posted April 10, 2017 Today I discover my left nipple aches when touched. All I could think was: This is the way I'm going to die. I have nipple cancer. Be strong my friend. Perhaps it is just chafed from a recent jog?
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