I'm sure he has been smoking weed ever since he created the universe. I call it The Big Bong Theory.
That could be a new Netflix show.
Cheech and Chong, along with the Trailer Park Boys, would play a comical version of Greek Gods, meddling with mortals and having a good time.
and also why the US military pays the NFL so much money every year for those very strange "salute to service" games which look an awful lot like Nuremberg rallies to those of us who live outside the US.
Right.
Remember when NFL games were just that. A quick SSB at the beginning and then "get ready for some football". Since 9/11 its turned into this masturbation of faux patriotism that the vast majority of fans could give two fucks about. They just want to see the game.
And the next time you hire someone to install a new roof on your house, or put in a new driveway, you're going with the more expensive contractor who doesn't hire illegals, right?
No, I bet you would rather save a few hundred bucks like everybody else.
That right there is why there is ~30 million of them here.
You like the "free market", right?
Right, this is as much a generational shift as anything else.
Since the Xers are the smallest generation, they will be the ones that the Boomers give the shaft to when it comes to SS, etc.
The Millennials and Ys will see this and really see how fucked they are.
Once upon a time, most of the value of the American economy was from actual goods and services, and not so intrinsically tied to the stock market. Since about the late 1970s, the American economy has been tied to the stock market, which has engendered dangerous short term thinking.
This, combined with the hollowing out of organized labor and the ever widening wealth disparity in the US has led to inevitable situation.
What would anyone expect? A heart warming embrace of a system geared to enrich and empower those who are already rich and powerful?
A big part of this is that people are now living inside those forests.
A few months ago there was a large range/forest fire in a western state that I grew up in. When I was a kid, and up until about 20 years ago, most of the area where the fire took place was very remote and uninhabited. In the last few years lots of private land in this area was sold in 5 acre lots, and at first people were just taking their campers and atvs out there on the weekend. Then they started building "cabins"...
I drove through that area after not seeing it for a few years and was amazed at the number of "cabins" I could see from the highway, tucked into the hillsides. And I knew those were just the ones I could see.
The recent fire destroyed many structures/homes/cabins/trailers in that area. Even just 30 years ago almost none of that area was built in or inhabited, so a fire in the same place in say, 1985, wouldn't have been a real big deal. They would have put it out, and nature would take its course. But now, with people living everywhere, there is a much different set of priorities.
I always get a kick out of conservatives(are there any left...? They've all morphed into authoritarians) who quote Rush, and try to imply Neil Pearts love affair with Ayn Rand in the mid 70s supports their neo-fascist world view. Hilarious, and utterly fucked.
Any true Rush fan who has read Neils interviews down through the years(and the lyrics since early 80s) knows his thinking has changed in that area. How about the lyrics from the Power Windows-Hold Your Fire albums, or Test for Echo or Clockwork Angels. Your worn out copy of Atlas Shrugged is about as relevant and inspirational as a pair of over worn and unwashed socks.
Who are these people who get packages delivered to their homes when there isn't something there to retrieve them?
Why do these people trust that a package will sit on their doorstep for hours and no one will take it?
What time period do they think we live in?
I don't get the naivete.
Almost every week I hear something through the grapevine that someone in my neighborhood had a package stolen off their porch. It's a good thing I'm not on FB or it would be hard for me not to ask the hard questions of those who have things delivered to their homes when they aren't there.
I've been around a while, voted in several elections and have been an avid consumer of news, current events and history since I was in grammar school.
If there is one thing I've noticed down through the years, it is that Conservatives(and especially alt-right/tea party types) really don't like fact checking.
They will use any number of rhetorical ploys, misdirection, hyperbole, etc to "blur" and obfuscate the facts.
In my experience I have noticed that as soon as the word "fact" gets brought up in a conversation, whether on or offline, conservatives start to squirm and almost universally have an instant gut reaction of disdain. They equate "facts" as something that those liberal elite scientist/academia types use to rationally take apart their ill conceived FB memes. This is strange to me, because I would assume that someone with a very passionate opinion about something would want things fact checked and corroborated.
Now this behavior is not universal with conservatives, as I know a guy who is a conservative, is very bright, and we are actually friends, though we disagree on politics. When we are around each other we calmly discuss our differences regarding politics, but it never gets heated or personal. He is all about facts and following an empirical method, etc;
Another Example:
I have a co-worker who has a degree in meteorology, and worked at a climate center at a major university. He is also a conservative Republican that would agree with most statements and opinions put out by Republicans, especially on social issues. One day at work we were discussing the weather as we always do, how it is warmer now than it was 10 or 20 years ago(the discussion was purely anecdotal, we weren't pulling up NOAA data). Someone then asked "what do you think about climate change? Is it real? Is it caused by people?" His answer didn't surprise me, because I know how smart this guy is. He said "climate change is completely backed up by the facts and the scientific evidence, and yes, it is very likely that the carbon put into the atmosphere is the cause". Then he went on to couch all that he had said in apolitical back-peddling sort of self-editing, so as not to offend those in earshot who are of the anti-fact mindset(which I found very humorous!)
Keep in mind this is just an example, but one that shows that not all conservatives are anti-fact, or anti-empirical-method or anti-corroboration.
Just most of them.
I mean, with all these goddamn meetings happening in goddamn Trump Tower, am I the only one thinking that it's like a goddamn prolog to a bad cyberpunk-dystopia novel?
More like Operation Mindcrime from the 1988 Queensryche album. Except in this version, Doctor X is the guy putting Trump into office.
You are correct sir.
I have friends and relatives that are still traumatized by what has happened, and they can't believe that Trump is the PE.
That is, someone with blatant autocratic, racist, xenophobic and nationalist overtones is the PE.
That is, someone who has supporters that are out-and-proud white nationalists, racists and xenophones.
People are scared, and rightly so.
But now especially is not the time to "go down into the bunker" and hide from scary tRump.
I really fail to understand why people continue to support an energy and technology that we have been using since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It is time to grow up and move on to less polluting energy sources.
With that being said, there is nothing wrong with using oil and petrochemicals for things like plastics, medicines, industry, chemistry, etc;
If we could move away from using coal for electricity and oil for transportation it would greatly reduce our polluted air problem.
When people stopped chasing after the American Dream to have it all and learn to live a modest lifestyle.
Which is interesting, because "a modest lifestyle" was the norm until the mid 1950s.
I grew up with my grandmother and heard plenty about what life was like in the first half of the 20th century, which is to say, much, much different that what we have now.
This over the top consumerist planet killing lifestyle we have enjoyed since then is quite an anomaly, and won't last.
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109% of Lee Harvey Oswalds killed JFK.
What about the other 109%?
Rule 34? What, do you also dress yourself in a latex pony costume and offer anyone a "ride" ?
Whats wrong with latex pony costumes?
You would rather use faux leather or perhaps corduroy?
'Oh great, now the vermin are breeding
I agree with your sentiment, but your sentence structure is annoying as fuck to read.
I'm sure he has been smoking weed ever since he created the universe. I call it The Big Bong Theory.
That could be a new Netflix show.
Cheech and Chong, along with the Trailer Park Boys, would play a comical version of Greek Gods, meddling with mortals and having a good time.
and also why the US military pays the NFL so much money every year for those very strange "salute to service" games which look an awful lot like Nuremberg rallies to those of us who live outside the US.
Right.
Remember when NFL games were just that. A quick SSB at the beginning and then "get ready for some football". Since 9/11 its turned into this masturbation of faux patriotism that the vast majority of fans could give two fucks about. They just want to see the game.
Well smarty pants, who won?
The military-industrial complex or the scientific-technological elite?
And the next time you hire someone to install a new roof on your house, or put in a new driveway, you're going with the more expensive contractor who doesn't hire illegals, right?
No, I bet you would rather save a few hundred bucks like everybody else.
That right there is why there is ~30 million of them here.
You like the "free market", right?
Hypocrite...
A millennial wouldn't know what a BBS is...
Right, this is as much a generational shift as anything else.
Since the Xers are the smallest generation, they will be the ones that the Boomers give the shaft to when it comes to SS, etc.
The Millennials and Ys will see this and really see how fucked they are.
Once upon a time, most of the value of the American economy was from actual goods and services, and not so intrinsically tied to the stock market. Since about the late 1970s, the American economy has been tied to the stock market, which has engendered dangerous short term thinking.
This, combined with the hollowing out of organized labor and the ever widening wealth disparity in the US has led to inevitable situation.
What would anyone expect? A heart warming embrace of a system geared to enrich and empower those who are already rich and powerful?
I think the real issue here is the russian flag stuffed up his ass
thats no flag...
A big part of this is that people are now living inside those forests. A few months ago there was a large range/forest fire in a western state that I grew up in. When I was a kid, and up until about 20 years ago, most of the area where the fire took place was very remote and uninhabited. In the last few years lots of private land in this area was sold in 5 acre lots, and at first people were just taking their campers and atvs out there on the weekend. Then they started building "cabins"...
I drove through that area after not seeing it for a few years and was amazed at the number of "cabins" I could see from the highway, tucked into the hillsides. And I knew those were just the ones I could see.
The recent fire destroyed many structures/homes/cabins/trailers in that area. Even just 30 years ago almost none of that area was built in or inhabited, so a fire in the same place in say, 1985, wouldn't have been a real big deal. They would have put it out, and nature would take its course. But now, with people living everywhere, there is a much different set of priorities.
I always get a kick out of conservatives(are there any left...? They've all morphed into authoritarians) who quote Rush, and try to imply Neil Pearts love affair with Ayn Rand in the mid 70s supports their neo-fascist world view. Hilarious, and utterly fucked.
Any true Rush fan who has read Neils interviews down through the years(and the lyrics since early 80s) knows his thinking has changed in that area. How about the lyrics from the Power Windows-Hold Your Fire albums, or Test for Echo or Clockwork Angels. Your worn out copy of Atlas Shrugged is about as relevant and inspirational as a pair of over worn and unwashed socks.
Accuse your opponents of doing the bad things you are actually doing.
This is straight out of the Trump playbook, but you already knew that.
"War Dance!!!"
Slashdot can't go more than a few days without the usual article about how backwards the U.S. is and how far advanced China's "green" energy is.
Does this mean that green energy is the cause of all this air pollution?
The two main culprits are Coal burning and auto and truck exhaust.
But you knew that...
I get it though, you were trying to be "cute" with a ridiculous and inflammatory statement about "green" energy.
If Coal burning is "green", then it is the cause of all this air pollution.
Who are these people who get packages delivered to their homes when there isn't something there to retrieve them?
Why do these people trust that a package will sit on their doorstep for hours and no one will take it?
What time period do they think we live in?
I don't get the naivete.
Almost every week I hear something through the grapevine that someone in my neighborhood had a package stolen off their porch. It's a good thing I'm not on FB or it would be hard for me not to ask the hard questions of those who have things delivered to their homes when they aren't there.
I've been around a while, voted in several elections and have been an avid consumer of news, current events and history since I was in grammar school.
If there is one thing I've noticed down through the years, it is that Conservatives(and especially alt-right/tea party types) really don't like fact checking.
They will use any number of rhetorical ploys, misdirection, hyperbole, etc to "blur" and obfuscate the facts.
In my experience I have noticed that as soon as the word "fact" gets brought up in a conversation, whether on or offline, conservatives start to squirm and almost universally have an instant gut reaction of disdain. They equate "facts" as something that those liberal elite scientist/academia types use to rationally take apart their ill conceived FB memes. This is strange to me, because I would assume that someone with a very passionate opinion about something would want things fact checked and corroborated.
Now this behavior is not universal with conservatives, as I know a guy who is a conservative, is very bright, and we are actually friends, though we disagree on politics. When we are around each other we calmly discuss our differences regarding politics, but it never gets heated or personal. He is all about facts and following an empirical method, etc;
Another Example:
I have a co-worker who has a degree in meteorology, and worked at a climate center at a major university. He is also a conservative Republican that would agree with most statements and opinions put out by Republicans, especially on social issues. One day at work we were discussing the weather as we always do, how it is warmer now than it was 10 or 20 years ago(the discussion was purely anecdotal, we weren't pulling up NOAA data). Someone then asked "what do you think about climate change? Is it real? Is it caused by people?" His answer didn't surprise me, because I know how smart this guy is. He said "climate change is completely backed up by the facts and the scientific evidence, and yes, it is very likely that the carbon put into the atmosphere is the cause". Then he went on to couch all that he had said in apolitical back-peddling sort of self-editing, so as not to offend those in earshot who are of the anti-fact mindset(which I found very humorous!)
Keep in mind this is just an example, but one that shows that not all conservatives are anti-fact, or anti-empirical-method or anti-corroboration.
Just most of them.
"thinly veiled"!?!
Ya Think?!?
I mean, with all these goddamn meetings happening in goddamn Trump Tower, am I the only one thinking that it's like a goddamn prolog to a bad cyberpunk-dystopia novel?
More like Operation Mindcrime from the 1988 Queensryche album. Except in this version, Doctor X is the guy putting Trump into office.
Nice try hyperbole boy.
Did user mmell said anything about violence?
You are correct sir.
I have friends and relatives that are still traumatized by what has happened, and they can't believe that Trump is the PE.
That is, someone with blatant autocratic, racist, xenophobic and nationalist overtones is the PE.
That is, someone who has supporters that are out-and-proud white nationalists, racists and xenophones.
People are scared, and rightly so.
But now especially is not the time to "go down into the bunker" and hide from scary tRump.
Apparently you fail the grasp the facts that our reliance on carbon based energy like coal and oil is causing us many different environmental problems.
Forget about climate change and just focus on air pollution:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-a...
I really fail to understand why people continue to support an energy and technology that we have been using since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It is time to grow up and move on to less polluting energy sources.
With that being said, there is nothing wrong with using oil and petrochemicals for things like plastics, medicines, industry, chemistry, etc;
If we could move away from using coal for electricity and oil for transportation it would greatly reduce our polluted air problem.
When people stopped chasing after the American Dream to have it all and learn to live a modest lifestyle.
Which is interesting, because "a modest lifestyle" was the norm until the mid 1950s.
I grew up with my grandmother and heard plenty about what life was like in the first half of the 20th century, which is to say, much, much different that what we have now.
This over the top consumerist planet killing lifestyle we have enjoyed since then is quite an anomaly, and won't last.