I have to say, that article was really well written. I'd say it was... journalistic. She clarified (rightly) that the correlations the article made did not imply causation (that liberals are definitely less egalitarian) and made damned certain to include also a clarification that Conservatives may favor equal treatment over equal outcome. She was very careful not to show bias, and to even make the claim at the end that both sides might be right for different reasons. She even disclaimed that the article can't be taken to be evidence of which side is more right (which is so damned important). We are free to disagree with her reasons for the left favoring equal outcome, but a good journalistic article can't favor either side, and Miss Clark took great care not to do so. I personally applaud her for doing so.

The article is a breath of fresh air in today's world, unfortunately. It's about as neutral as it gets these days.

You can actually change your MAC address, so that may have happened here. Not sure how to go about it in Windows, but in Linux you simply open a terminal and enter:

sudo ip link set dev [interface] address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Wouldn't be able to speak on why these ones might have been changed, but I will say there are legitimate reasons to change a MAC address. You don't see it done often, but it doesn't set alarms off in my mind on its own. We'd need more evidence before I'd call it nefarious.

This isn't indicative of clown world. PETA has been saying asinine shit like this for decades. If it was literally anybody else it might be a sign of clown world as we use it, but PETA has been hurtling toward a place so far past clown world for so long they aren't even in the same universe anymore.

A lot of metals look the same as silver at a glance. If you have a known weight of silver, and a suspect weight of "silver," the best way to known if the suspect one is legit is to use this. In essence, a known weight of silver will always displace the same amount of fluid, which gives you a means of knowing whether your metal is fake or not without even cutting it.

Fuck, dude, you're overthinking this shit. I'm a Linux admin, and I can tell you straight up, no bullshit, even we don't think about Epoch time. We know it exists, and know what it is, but why would we bother? It's stupid, it's unnecessary, and nobody gives a shit. It's something we learn about, inevitably, as it has a storied history within Unix and Unix-like systems, but it's not necessary in modern iterations. So the only time we think about it is when somebody brings it up in some surely ridiculous scenario, as you have done.

Why would the Trump Team ever use it to signal anything? Epoch time is calculated down to the second. For everything to match up as you are implying, literally everything would have had to go right. Either somebody made these posts and the instant the submit button was hit it went through, or they would have had to have known exactly how many seconds it would have taken the server to process the request. It's just not possible to match Epoch timestamps the way you suggest. And that's ignoring the fact that, and I'm 100% comfortable saying this, 95% of the world doesn't even know what Epoch/Unix time is.

I don't know about "cheap," as I don't know about this weapon specifically, but the reason they're foreign is those are Taurus PT111 mags. Taurus is a Brazilian gun company, so it's not odd to see the mags for their guns made in Brazil just as it isn't strange that Glock mags are made in Austria, or H&K mags in Germany.

Now, Taurus does have a reputation for making cheap guns, but I've heard also that they are actually making huge strides in quality control. Can't speak on a personal level as to their quality as I've never owned or fired one, but they aren't exactly an unpopular manufacturer sales-wise. And I have heard that their 1911s are quite nice.

Sigh, confirmed. If you select all, copy and paste you can read through the redaction. How the fuck is our government this fucking incompetent? Why even fucking bother redacting it if you aren't going to do it properly?

Not going to say where I live, but I'm interested.

So if you live in a place along the Rocky Mountains which, despite having a population a few thousand more than seventy-five, somehow manages to have three fucking sculpture parks, send me a message.

Seriously, though, some of those sculptures are pretty cool.

If I used Twatter I'd answer Nicholas Fuentes's question. The answer is "no." Or, for a more complete answer, "not without making them look even more suspect." Think about how giddy these prosecutors would get if a person accused of election interference, or whatever, got legal aid in any form from the man, or close family of the man, who won that election?

It's frightening, but I don't think Trump or anyone linked to him can do anything here without making things worse.

There isn't actually any reputable evidence that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. In fact, it would have been impossible given the viol class of instrument wouldn't exist for a thousand years after Nero's time, and the fiddle wouldn't be invented in its specific earliest form for fourteen hundred years. Nero was an exceptional string musician, that much is pretty accepted, but he probably played the cithara (or kithara in its original Greek), an ancient form of the lyre an instrument similar to the lyre.

He just didn't play it while Rome burned.

Because while there isn't any reputable evidence Nero did anything musical while Rome burned, there are primary sources which indicate that once he received news of the fire while at his villa in Antium he made the 35 mile journey back to Rome with great haste to direct relief efforts. That is well recorded. There is one statement that Nero sang while Rome burned, made by Tacitus, but he spelled out very clearly in that account that there were no actual eyewitness reports of this. So it was just a rumor against primary sources placing Nero in charge of relief efforts.

With that said, Nero was a terrible emperor. To make my point on the sort of Emperor he was the evidence regarding the fire would amount to a few sheets of paper, but you would have a pretty hefty stack if you gathered evidence of his cruelty, which at times probably amounted to outright sadism. That's possibly what allowed the myth of his musicianship during the fire to spread and gain popularity. It was just modernized once the fiddle was invented.

Edit - Correction to the struck through portion above, because something didn't feel right about it the moment I posted it, and I don't want to give a misconception in a post about a misconception. The lyre and cithara actually coexisted, and the difference is in size and other details.

DIG HIM UP chants

If you want to read about something surreal, read up on the Cadaver Synod. It's a truly mindfucking moment in the history of the Church. I'm not going to give anything away, but I will say it forced a subsequent Pope to issue a Papal Bull forbidding conducting trials on corpses.

There's an employee at one of the hobby shops I go to who has Down syndrome. She's the absolute sweetest thing in the world. Once she gets to know someone who is in regularly she always (even with "social distancing" fuckery) gives them a huge hug. And I've never once seen her frown. She's always happy.

And tell me, if that woman at that hobby shop is constantly happy, and derives nothing but joy from the world, and meanwhile we are sitting here complaining and mourning the election, (not saying we shouldn't) who is truly the retard? Seems she's living a far better life than many, if not most, of us right now.

Twatter embodies the worst aspects of social media. No question about it, not even a close race. It doesn't matter if they're a platform, a publisher, or whatever. They need to lose every fucking user they have.

For a little background, I work in IT. I game almost exclusively on PC (I bought a PS4 to play Death Stranding owing to my extreme, as much as a straight guy can have, adoration of Mads Mikkelsen, but look how that worked out. I'll tell you how, I now own Death Stranding on PS4 and PC, but hey, I got to play Bloodborne too, so there's that, at least). I build my PCs, and am up to date on new technologies. But I don't have a single social media account, unless you count this and my now unused Reddit account that I used for thedonald back in those days. I believe with every fiber of my being that social media is a net negative for humanity. In fact, I believe the negatives outweigh the positives to such an extent that it is almost immoral to allow minors access to those cesspools of human interaction. In fact, despite being abreast of technology and working in IT, I'm something of a luddite (computers are unavoidable these days, everything else can go fuck itself). I loathe smart anything. I didn't break down and buy a smartphone until 2014, and I run Lineage OS so my Android phone isn't linked to Google. I don't have any other "smart" device in my home, as I don't even own a TV, and if you held a gun to my head and told me to buy a smart thermostat or smart fridge, or whatever, I'd tell you to pull the fucking trigger. Technology has advanced to the point it has become a destructive force with regard to the manner we as humans define ourselves.

All of that is a long-winded way of saying I know tech, but I'm not exactly in love with it. What social media has done to us is depersonalize human interaction. It's a series of pictures with a few words all around. Showing something and talking about what you're showing. Shit, the days of IRC were better. At least IRC chats were real conversation, not a pic and some bullshit regarding said pic. It wouldn't even be a hundredth so bad without "likes," "retweets," or whatever the fuck. Those things take it from posting to an audience to digital masturbation. You post something to gratify yourself when everyone responds to it.

And that brings us to Twitter's greatest sin, the reason it is the worst of the worst. A character limit. I noticed when reading posts on Twitter that anything long-winded (multiples Twats) gets progressively fewer likes/retwats. People stop paying attention after the first post, and those who hang in there almost never do until the end. Twatter is a platform, or publisher, whatever, which not only depersonalizes interaction, as all social media does, but begs its users to focus on the inane, or shoot off simple insults or thoughts without room to provide context or meaning. It's the equivalent of holding a debate where each party has a hard limit of fifteen seconds to make an argument or counterargument. It is doable, but how much do you really get out of it? Nobody learns anything, nobody gets enough information to be swayed. Everyone is just divided into groups nodding at the simple points the ones they follow are making while jerking off the people around them. Social media is masturbatory by nature, as I said above, but only Twatter has elevated it to a digital circlejerk. And the retwat system serves to expand a user's digital following, and thus add members to the circlejerks.

This kinda got away from me, but it's a topic that pisses me off to no end. God, I fucking hate social media. Get the fuck off of Facecuck, Twatter, Instadamn, Crapchat, and go outside. Talk to people face to face. Smile at someone, and shake hands. Have real conversations where hundreds of "likes," "retwats," or whatever the fuck else there is, aren't at stake.

Hey, if Trump's speech on the 6th rose to the level of incitement, as is claimed, does that mean I can use that statement from Pedo Joe as an excuse to walk outside, start blasting with my shotgun, and get him into hot water? Or does that only apply when a conservative says things?

FBI: I'm not going to start blasting with my shotgun, or any other gun I have. Have you looked at how fucking hard it is to replace ammo these days?

It's going to happen. Did anyone believe the Federal Reserve could just press the magic button, print money nonstop for most of last year and we won't see inflation? It surely won't go the way it did for the Weimar Republic, though, because this continues to sum up their reaction.

Meh, I'm very, extremely, cautiously hoping it won't be as bad as I feared at first. I remember when Obama took over and undid everything Bush did, which on the EO side of things was pretty slim, but Obama did conduct a sweeping judicial purge to place his own judges. Things didn't turn out great, by any stretch of the imagination, but the country didn't fall.

We don't have to be alright with this, but I do think we need to take a few days, weeks, or maybe months, (unless Pedo-Joe works faster than I expect him to) and take a deep breath. We can't just react to this before the breaking point. It's going to take a lot of pissed off people being pissed off together before we can do something about this, so let the current carry you for a little bit, and have fun. Read a book, watch some movies, or play a video game. I'm not alright with the blatant fraud in the slightest, but at this point all I can do is see how it plays out and make my decisions from there. To that end, I started playing Nioh 2 again yesterday. I'll set it aside if my buddies decide we're playing Minecraft instead, but for the being there's nothing I can do (more or less on my own) to change anything, so all I can do is accept that this is the world we have to live in for the time being.

The absolute worst thing we can do, in my mind, is let this destroy us. I'm not a religious man, so I believe we have this one shot at life to make of it whatever we will. Even if you are religious, and you believe there is something better after this, you still just have one shot at life before moving on to something greater, or returning in another form if reincarnation is your thing. For my part, I'll be damned if I'm going to let myself sink to the bottom because of this shit. Maybe the biggest "fuck you" we can give the leftists is to find happiness in dark days while we wait for people to get fed up.

I don't know, but I'm going to find things which make me smile, and do those things. Because I'm not going to give the fucking commie bastards the satisfaction of ruining my life. One shot, and that's my belief. I don't have much, but I'm going to find my solace in the things and the people I do have. And if the time comes that we have to set those things aside and stand up, I swear I'll be there with you all.

Come on, that's a Renaissance Festival. Also known as one of the most awesome times you'll ever have. Though that woman next to the fucking furry has no damned business wearing that outfit.

Alright, I hadn't seen this much info when I laughed at it before. I had seen it said that "he grabbed an energy bar, but it was reported he grabbed a crowbar" and wondered how something like that got fucked up. If this information was communicated to CNN via phone, or voice in general, I can actually see how this could innocuously happen.

Somebody says, "he grabbed a ProBar before leaving," but it was heard as "he grabbed crowbar before leaving." Maybe this is an innocent mistake. Or maybe not, given it is CNN, but I'm willing to accept it could just be a miscommunication.

Seriously, though, if you don't have one already, buy a shotgun. And an AR-15. But do buy a shotgun.

Shotguns are useful. They excel in the vast majority of home defense situations due to their lack of penetrative power (unless you go slug, in which case penetrative capacity is somewhat of a concern). When loaded with buckshot, a shotgun becomes the "point and shoot" weapon. You don't need to be able to precisely aim, or really even aim at all, to hit an intruder. As long as the barrel is pointed in the target's general direction one or multiple pellets will hit. And that's usually enough to end a threat.

Besides the above, and on a more lighthearted note, shotguns are just fun to shoot. They're far more visceral than most other guns. AR-15s don't have any noteworthy recoil, and handguns are a quick snap. Shotguns have an actual kick to them. You don't feel it in your wrist, like with handguns, or your shoulder, as you do with an AR, you feel it in a significant portion of your body. Of all the sorts of guns, a shotgun is the one that, to me, feels most like what we consider a weapon.

Also, shotguns are cheap. A good one costs fewer hundreds of dollars than you have fingers on one hand. You can dump the extra money you thought you were going to spend (because I thought shotguns were expensive when I bought mine) on accessories. Magazine extensions, pistol grips, side-saddles. All that stuff.

But buy a shotgun. They're a lot of fun, and a good thing to have around in general.

To piggyback off what u/MAGAtitle said, this is a low-effort Photoshop (but high effort meme!) of The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3, in my opinion the best of the MGS games. There's a picture about midway down that page that shows her scar, from (as previously stated) a c section. She is also the visionary responsible for the events of every other MGS game, as 3 comes first chronologically. Her actions didn't really cause any of the shit that followed, but rather her profound impact on a few people.

Also, if you've never played the Metal Gear Solid games, I highly recommend them. There isn't another video game series which reflects on the nature of war and the nature of soldiers even a tenth so poignantly. There's a lot of insane shit too, for which writer Hideo Kojima has earned something of a reputation, and the cutscenes sometimes last quite awhile (Metal Gear Solid 4 holds the world record for the longest single cutscene at 27 minutes and the longest sequence of cutscenes uninterrupted by gameplay at 71 minutes). But MGS isn't so much a game as a story, and one with powerful and important messages, so those things are forgivable.

Does it matter? Lefties have as much a right to free speech and platforms for such as anybody else. We should seek to defend free expression for our opponents with the same ardency we do for ourselves.

Are all the NG still inside the building? If so, I'd say it's very possible there could be a medical emergency at 3 AM.

360 billion

Kek.

Of all the theories running wild here, this is probably the most intriguing. Why are Marshals there when there's literally a fucking army inside and outside the Capitol? The gender match makes it even more compelling.

Probably nothing, like you said, but at least there's more logic (in my opinion) to it than everything else I've seen here.

Depends on what you're looking for. If you want something easy to read, anything by Brandon Sanderson is good. He puts out books faster than any other fantasy author I can think of, and is particularly good at designing interesting magical systems. His Mistborn series is a good place to start, but be aware it moves in the fourth book from strict fantasy to an odd (but still great) sort of "Wild West Fantasy" to include guns. The Stormlight Archive is also phenomenal.

If you really want to read some hardcore shit, though, I'd recommend Malazan Book of the Fallen. We're talking a story that spans thousands of years with a vast number characters. But for those with the tenacity to push on, the series amounts to, in my opinion, one of the greatest stories ever told in fantasy.