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  1. Re:Well.. So? on Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits (techtarget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Republicans win by getting a smaller gubbermint. They win again by dragging the gubbermint through the mud thus tainting it for the future as a place to do good work. And they'll win again after they've fucked up the gubbermint operations by campaigning under the slogan that the gubbermint doesn't work well, so elect them to fix it.

  2. Re: You mean the Democrat Shutdown on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump was a Democrat because he doesn't really have a political philosophy. When the opportunity arose to hijack the Republican Party, he took it. The Republican Party is bunch of marks, they'll go down the rat hole with him and not even realize it.

  3. Budgets require 60 senators, not 2/3 of the Senate.

  4. Re:This might call for some Fox News counterhackin on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    C'mon, his entire twitter feed is a tantrum feed.

  5. Re:This might call for some Fox News counterhackin on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And they'll be plenty of opportunity to tie up the Great White Wall in court. The property owners, many are libretards, are willing to go to court to prevent the gummint from taking their land. And once some piece of the Great White Wall is built, thus allowing the Evangelicals to show the love of Jesus Christ to those heathen S. Americans, the next administration can take it back down as a stupid idea.

    I read an interview with a Mexican awhile back. He didn't mind the wall reasoning that the U.S. would hire him and his buddies to help build it and then hire him and his buddies to tear it down.

    If a Great White Emergency actually winds up paying for the Great White Wall, get ready for Governing by National Great White Emergency.

  6. Re:I've seen this narrative... on Ocean Warming is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Don't believe in climate fear if you so choose. However, the fish are voting with their fins and moving out of the tropics and temperate zones...enough that fishermen must spend more just to chase them.

    However, you don't have to believe the fish either. You don't have to believe dumping greenhouse gases and in particular CO2 into the atmosphere is causing it. However, the CO2 is making the oceans more acidic. That will kill the base of the food chain. You have heard of the food chain, yes?

    You don't have to believe any of that. Just go out and get yerself a real degree in climate science first instead to claiming you can deny what the people who get paid to do the science tell you. We have a president who is just as stupid so you are in good company.

  7. reanjr goes to house to ask directions, he's lost:

    reanjr: Can you give me directions to blop.

    gun owner: Oh yeah, take that...BLAM...and that....BLAM....

    reanjr: (in dying breath) but all I wanted was directions....THUNK.

    gun owner: That'll learn ya to ask directions in America!!

  8. Re:Is There Any Chance Of Sentient Beings? on Astronomers Discover 13 New Fast Radio Bursts From Deep Space (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    As much as the Space Guppies here on Earth want it to be aliens (preferably not the brain eating kind), the BBC interviewed a scientist involved and she said that, no, it probably wasn't aliens. The reason: They've detected so many (I think her figure was over 70) and they come from all over the sky that the idea aliens in different galaxies colluded to produce similar signals was too much to believe.

    Space is really, really big...so big you wouldn't believe it. The idea of aliens colluded over the time it takes signals to traverse space is too much to ask. Of course the Space Guppies answer is "they might be using physics we don't understand yet." Uh, sure thing, get back to us when you have a theory.

    Someone cue Fox News, they go for this sort of stupid "It wuz the aliens wut dun it".

  9. Re:Can every US citizen say... on Natural Gas is Now Getting in the Way; US Carbon Emissions Increase by 3.4% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump "has got the economy growing faster than inflation and our population for the first time in at least a decade"?

    Really, so those eye-popping deficits over the last 8 years had nothing to do with it? Gee, add a bunch of extra money to the economy, and cut interest rates to near zero for years, and the economy takes off. Who'd have thunk it? Not you.

  10. Re:Why do Democrats hate America? on Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really? I cannot see Clinton whining about and generally causing NATO headaches. And she was unlikely to be Putin's cockholster. I doubt she'd be stupid enough to start a trade war with China. And she wouldn't have been snookered by that whore Erdogan on Syria and sell out our allies, the Kurds, and then backtrack on the decision, and the lie about how he wasn't backtracking. She wouldn't have been stupid enough to think some idiot Great White Wall would solve immigration and drug trafficking, all in one shot...it's one amazing wall. She also wouldn't have declared war on the environment and science in general.

    Yep, you got yourself one fucking genius there, just ask him. By the way, he just informed us that no one knows as much about drones as he does. Lookup Dunning-Kruger effect sometime.

  11. Re:Slow News Day Huh? on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But it won't save any money. It will lose the federal government money when it needs to start up everything again. There is also the tax on the rest of the economy due to not being able to access the government services they need, such as the courts. And that doesn't count the gov. employees not getting paid but having to work regardless, and the gov. employees simply not getting paid. If they are living paycheck to paycheck, they are SOL. Then there are the government contractors. Ever since Reagan, the Fed. Gov. was forced to contract out for some of its functions to the private sector. Those contractors are not getting paid. So their businesses get a hidden tax due to the disruption.

    The last gov. shutdown cost the federal government $20 Billion. All become some dolt from Texas (Ted Cruz) got up one morning and decided to be even stupider than normal for him.

  12. Re:Imagine us listening to “Doctors”! on Screen Time Not Intrinsically Bad For Children, Say Doctors (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hallux-F-Sinister: Oh shit, there's a lump that shouldn't be there...uh-oh, it's bleeding.

    Friend of Hallux-F-Sinister: You need to see a doctor.

    Hallux-F-Sinister: No, they are all lying sacks of shit.

    Friends of Hallux-F-Sinister: (Through bag over his head, tie hands) We're going to see a doctor.

    Hallux-F-Sinister: Mmmmphhhh....

    Doctor: Yep, what ya got there is a bog standard penis cancer. We can cure it but if you let it go, it will kill you.

    Hallux-F-Sinister: You lying sack of shit, I'm not believing no doctor.

    (year later)

    Friends of Hallux-F-Sinister: Too bad he never went to see a doctor, he does look peaceful in that casket though.

  13. Re:I really don’t get it on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    It's fairly simple, the truck drivers hear and see the push for enviro-friendly technologies. Electric vehicles are one of these. They figure that the environmentalists will eventually come for their trucks. So they are doing their bit to dissuade people from buying electric vehicles. Hence the car and truck companies will think twice about the push into electric vehicles, and Goddess-forbid, electric trucks.

    If you are a guy and worried about people thinking you have a small dick, then you buy a big gas-guzzling truck that makes a lot of He-Boy noise. Other enfeebled males now look at you as though you have a big dick and feel they too must have one of these noise-generating male empowerment machines.

  14. Re:I think we are making the wrong assumptions her on White House Advisor Kudlow Says Apple Technology May Have Been 'Picked Off' by China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    From Larry Kudlow we can fairly assume the statement is false. He's on par with economics in the same way a brick is on par with the Sargasso Sea (to rework a Douglas Adams' metaphor).

  15. Re:What technology, exactly? on White House Advisor Kudlow Says Apple Technology May Have Been 'Picked Off' by China (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    C'mon, this is Larry Kudlow. His previous position was talking head on some network. It isn't like he's qualified for anything. Blinky lights confuse him.

  16. Re:Except the far-right ADF you say? on Hundreds of German Lawmakers Targeted in Mass Cyber Attack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really chess, Putin is an opportunist with a flamethrower. He's capable of causing some conflict, but he's not competent enough to run a country as their economy and social deterioration shows. He's more or less just a thug. The sooner the West treats him like that, the better off will be the West.

  17. Re:Testicular fortitude? on Texas Has Enough Sun and Wind To Quit Coal, Rice Researchers Say (houstonchronicle.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Texas? Of course not, they are so scared of everything they think they need guns everywhere. A bunch of he-boys with no guts.

  18. Re:Nicole Foss on renewables on Texas Has Enough Sun and Wind To Quit Coal, Rice Researchers Say (houstonchronicle.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trump, is that you?

  19. Re:Misleading title on Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' To Boost Crop Growth By 40 Percent (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    NPR reported it correctly.

  20. Re:I'm sure /. will find a way to poo all over thi on Microsoft is Privately Testing 'Bali,' a Way To Give Users Control of Data Collected About Them (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And I am going to trust MS? Why?

  21. Re:China Continues to Surpass the US on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Xi Jinping is NOT an evil Winnie the Pooh....an evil Mary Poppins, sure, but not Winnie the Pooh. "A little bit of sugar helps the re-education go down, re-education go down...." Now salute your leader and say three State Sanctioned Hail Marys.

  22. Re:Chinese Advantage: No Affirmative Action on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it is terrible the way you are describing congressional science funding committees. They are the most rootin-tootin gun-fearing defenders of America east, north, west, and south of the Pecos. They are the Yosemite Sams of the Modern Age.

  23. Re: Did they really? on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard the Finns sweep their forests, that's why they never have forest fires.

  24. Re:Interesting for two reasons on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Jinping: Flunky, we will invade and occupy uninhabited space rocks for the glory of me....errrr...the Chinese Communist Party.

    Flunky: Sure thing, Boss-Guy, shall I ready our invasion fleet?

    Ping: No, we'll need them for Taiwan, I hear there are free Chinese there and we cannot be having any of that. there's my ego to consider.

    Flunky: Boss-Guy? Beijing University suspects there may be free Chinese on space rocks.

    Ping: Holy Cow! Taiwan is replicating, I knew it. Get our military on Super Secret High Alert, we must prepare to be boarded.

    Flunky: Oh....Beijing University says they are not building any Western do-dads.

    Ping: Okay Flunky, cancel the Taiwan thing for now, but threaten them a bit, I feel a bit irritated this morning.

  25. Re:Correction... apk on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Freedom from satellite surveillance", huh? I give up, what possibly could they want free of satellite surveillance that requires the far side of the moon? A Chinese effort in New and Improved Moon Rocks, the last fad to hit the U.S. market. The alleged administration is already preparing to raise tariffs on any moon rocks from China. The illegitimate government of China is going to point to the landing on the far side of the moon as proof they can land on the far side of Taiwan and steal it like they did to Tibet.