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  • As much disdain as I have for the UK government with their police state and whatnot, their political system is much more entertaining to watch in action with all the shit talking and booing in the court rooms. Also, I wish we had titles like the "Shadow Lord Chancellor."
  • Dazzle369 said:

    Tier 34 = image

    I have a shirt like that, and that is only authorized for wear in certain social circles at certain non-public events.
    1. Wear at cons
    2. Wear in public
    3. Wear around house
    4. Wear to gym
  • Is there a tier for future antique shirts? I know it sounds weird, but I have an Obama shirt from the '08 campaign. Fifty years from now, that's going to be really cool.
  • What makes you so confident that we'll still wear shirts in fifty years?
  • I'm still not gonna wear it in fifty years, but it's gonna be an artifact. Like my DNC '68 pass or something.
  • What makes you so confident that we'll still wear shirts in fifty years?

    Because Lycra body suits are dumb no matter what science fiction writers want you to think.
  • Unisex blouses will be all the rage in 50 years.
  • Just a sea of good comfortable cardigans.
  • According to some sources, The Bones of JR Jones, my favorite contemporary blues artist, is playing The Acoustic Kitchen in Needham. These sources are BandsInTown, as well as a Facebook page, but JR's site doesn't list it, and I can't verify that there is a venue in Needham called the Acoustic Kitchen. I am very confused.
  • I'm seeing all the stop CISA tweets and realizing Canada pretty much already passed the same thing with C51 :( The sharing between govt agencies and such.
  • My Japanese students and I learned how to count toilets in Japanese today! It turned out that nobody counts them very often and they weren't sure what counter to use for them.

    Unrelated, but there's also a hydrogen fueling station nearby. I didn't even know there were cars with hydrogen fuel cells yet, but it's right next to a corporate Toyota building, so it kind of makes sense.
  • Ruffas said:

    Unrelated, but there's also a hydrogen fueling station nearby. I didn't even know there were cars with hydrogen fuel cells yet, but it's right next to a corporate Toyota building, so it kind of makes sense.

    Yeah man, Toyota Mirai came out this year, I think. Honda just announced a new one too.

  • Churba said:

    Yeah man, Toyota Mirai came out this year, I think. Honda just announced a new one too.

    That makes sense, then. It's not actually a proper station yet, just a big ol' truck that you fuel out of.
  • Churba said:

    Yeah man, Toyota Mirai came out this year, I think.

    A truly futuristic car.
  • chaosof99 said:

    Churba said:

    Yeah man, Toyota Mirai came out this year, I think.

    A truly futuristic car.
    So, underpowered and uglier than a hatful of arseholes, then.
  • Churba said:

    chaosof99 said:

    Churba said:

    Yeah man, Toyota Mirai came out this year, I think.

    A truly futuristic car.
    So, underpowered and uglier than a hatful of arseholes, then.
    He is make pun. Mirai means future in Japanese.
  • Japanese love their puns. Comedy gold.
  • Ruffas said:

    Churba said:

    chaosof99 said:

    Churba said:

    Yeah man, Toyota Mirai came out this year, I think.

    A truly futuristic car.
    So, underpowered and uglier than a hatful of arseholes, then.
    He is make pun. Mirai means future in Japanese.
    Well, fuck.

    Standing by previous statement regardless because it is.

  • edited October 2015

    Japanese love their puns. Comedy gold.

    That they do. There's a shipping company here called Seino because when Japanese people lift heavy things, they say, "Seiii no"; kind of like a "Ready, lift" sort of thing.
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  • What if AIDS was designed by Hitler to carry out the Final Solution after he died, and when the US scooped up Nazi scientists in Operation Paperclip they got a hold of it. J Edgar Hoover got word of this, and bribed one of the Nazi scientists to give him the formula or whatever, and unleashed on the public with the twofold goals of reducing the African American population that had rioted so much in the 60s and reducing the gay population because he was a known homophobe of the highest degree?
  • I mean its not much crazier than the simpler "The CIA did it" conspiracy.
  • That's a pretty fun conspiracy, albeit hampered by the fact that being able to "design" a virus like HIV would likely be a stretch even with today's biotech capabilities.
  • Yeah I think it would work a lot better more in a "hey look at this virus we found, we could use it for our evil plan" kind of situation.
  • I don't think AIDS was really necessary after assassinating most of the prominent black leaders and destroying the credibility, stability, structure of the organizations they had built through CIA-imported drugs.
  • I mean its not much crazier than the simpler "The CIA did it" conspiracy.

    I actually think it's more likely than "the CIA did it", because the CIA has no pre-existing history of oppressing black people or gay men. The Nazis, on the other hand, were Nazis and had a long history of killing black people and gay men -- tho lesbians were spared from the camps, just like how they are significantly safer from HIV. Hoover also had a long history of racism and homophobia. He repeatedly purged the FBI of any gay operatives, making the inner workings of the organization kind of like a Soviet police state, but you have to call the guy you want taken to the gulag a faggot instead of a capitalist. Hoover also didn't really have a problem with killing black people. There isn't recorded evidence that he ordered any assassinations or anything, but he didn't really consider the Klan a problem, and didn't investigate things like lynchings until Johnson directly ordered him to. The theory as I presented it falls victim to Occam's razor, but that's because my goal right now is to engineer a conspiracy that is hilariously outlandish while remaining believable enough to potentially generate a Snopes page, and a simple "the FBI did it" theory wouldn't be funny enough for me.

    That's a pretty fun conspiracy, albeit hampered by the fact that being able to "design" a virus like HIV would likely be a stretch even with today's biotech capabilities.

    You're only saying that because you read that propaganda they disguise as "peer reviewed studies" :P

    This is the one part of the theory I need to do more research on. I'll definitely need to do some embellishing to make it believable, but I won't do anything more destructive than The History Channel.
  • Hot dam I am a fool. I saw a book on my timeline about a manga artist, his life and the crap that comes with trying to be a manga author. Forgot to fav it so I could check on amazon later, now lost to the sea of time. Balls.
  • Not, Yatsuhiro Tatsumi, A Drifting Life?
  • AmpAmp
    edited October 2015
    Might have been, it had an orange cover with a person at a desk. Can't remember much else.
    Post edited by Amp on
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