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@mdk Lol you're such a hypocrite, when pugbutter and others have used it you haven't said shit.

And hang on aren't you all about freedom of speech anyway?

@Dynamo Frokane

Well I don't remember seeing pugbutter (was that the whole 'in the IRC' bullshit that I just glossed over because we were specifically told to not do that?) but this is at least the third time I've brought it up in this thread.

I am all about freedom of speech. I'm not reporting anyone. I'm saying, let's not.

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@Dynamo Frokane

Gonna say the same thing to you I say to everyone -- let's not fuck around with N-words, yeah? Nothing personal, actually, let's just not though.

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Obama is plotting a second civil war? This Squawker thing is a font of new information.

https://squawker.org/politics/is-obama-plotting-a-second-world-war-ex-aide-says-yes-obama-still-thinks-hes-the-president/

Also I really need to get a sexy commissar uniform...

@Penny

That's a funny headline because technically he still IS "Mr. President," so like........

Also, if I could pick any rank, I would be a Commissar.

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Was gonna add this via edit, but don't wanna sneak it in under a thumbs-up so it gets a new post.

popcorn! popcorn for sale! Get your popcorn!

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My state just turned pharmacists and doctors into drug dealers. Now before I go to see a doctor I have to question their legitimacy, because a “doctor” that prescribes pot in any form is not a real doctor in my book and will never get a penny from me.

@Burning Kitty

1) they actually get all kinds of pennies from you, assuming you pay taxes, and

2) medicinal marijuana is totally indicated for a lot of patients. A lot of it, also, is forgivable bullshit (I don't care if pot actually cures terminal cancer patients -- for fuck's sake let them toke, what are we worried about). But

3) doctors and pharmacists are drug dealers for a totally different (and much bigger) reason. Norco, vicodin, hydros, tramadol, etc. are what you should really worry about, and far too many doctors are functioning like pez dispensers for that shit. And that's just painkillers, that's not touching the mood-altering stuff. Zeroing in on pot is missing the forest for the trees shrubbery. Be more worried about the forest.

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Holy shit mdk is still roaming these halls

@ReonenMiruel

Holy fuck Reo! How's it been!

The power to marry who we want, those liberal monsters!

@Penny

I actually identify as a liberal now. Stop calling me a monster please that's insensitive.

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Me either, and I have to find one, leave him and then become a lesbian.

@Penny

hang on, with the power of liberalism we can knock this out in an afternoon. First we marry. Then you leave. Then you come back and identify as a man, then I leave; then I come back and we both switch it up and identify as women, and then we're done.

I mean somewhere in there we have to murder some children but this is feminism dammit. You gotta crack some eggs.

...get it, eggs? Do you.... know what not enough people watch Bojack Horseman to justify the amount of Bojack Horseman references I make.

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Leave Husband
Kill Children
Practice Witchcraft
Destroy Capitalism
Become Lesbian

Well I guess my to do list just got a little longer.

@Penny

Mine too. I don't even HAVE a husband yet.

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leaked jpeg, Nunes about to release another memeo

get it, because it's a MEMEo instead of a MEMo, because they're similar words but different, do you get it,
do you get the joke about the memeo

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That is literally not what the article says, and the article does not have a political agenda I do not believe. It was a harmless bacteria that is common to the animal, and the humidity caused the bacteria that is usually in their respiratory tract to get into their bloodstream where it did not belong.

And while I did not get a degree in zoology, I wanted to and was going to if my university had such a degree, but it's been a fancy of mine since I was a wee lad and I can safely say that plenty of species have come back from the brink of a thousand animals and did not have any debilitating inbreeding, such as the American Bison. It only caused some small problems and was mostly a worry. But there are many well known animals on earth that have a population of 10-20,000 and inbreeding is not an immediate threat. 600,000 is quite a large number for a megafauna.

Edit: Though a quick search does show me that the Saiga are noted to not have a lot of genetic diversity due to a population bottleneck in the Pliestocene, which kinda leads me to believe that maybe it is a factor of both.

@POOHEAD189

This is probably a good time to admit that I didn't click your link -- figured it was a safe skip, because I remember that whole Saiga incident vividly. I'm speaking more generally about alarmism from the papers -- that's one of my "triggers" if you will. "Bad thing happened -- LET'S POSTULATE HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS RESPONSIBLE AND THEN PUBLISH AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT! Damn the scientists, we have readers to think about!"

It happens, and I blame the publicists for making me mistrust what could be real important info. More recent example would be the latest hurricane season -- climate science came right out and said "WE NEED MORE DATA, this probably has nothing to do with climate change." Less than 24 hours later, everyone wrote their articles anyway, and there "wasn't a political agenda" it was "science."