12877 pts ยท December 17, 2021
It's apparently from Clooney's "The Descendants"
This doesn't seem to be correct... Iran has killed 18 Americans in the current conflict, whereas ICE has killed only three US citizens this year as far as I can tell (Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Ruben Ray Martinez). They have killed a few more people who weren't citizens, but it still doesn't exceed the number of people who have died in the Iran war as far as I can tell. If I am wrong, please let me know...
Singapore is an authoritarian dystopia, so this is unsurprising. If anything, it's surprising that the band thought this would be fine, unless they're doing it as an act of civil disobedience, in which case they deserve support.
Maybe this is too Doylist, but regarding Boromir, or even LOTR in general, it's worth remembering that Tolkien was involved in combat in WW1. It's hard to imagine what that was like - probably to this day the worst conditions ever experienced by soldiers in war.
Seems like a bit of spray paint on the camera would be a lot easier, cheaper, and safer...
It can't be "Bambi" because the same actor was also in a 1938 movie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Carey's_Chickens_(film)...
It's not that photo ID is inherently bad, but it normally costs money to get a photo ID, and it is part of the US constitution that it is illegal to require anyone to pay money to vote.
Sources? Facts? You're not supposed to post those here; this is a thread for nihilism and baseless disgust!
The first picture is from "You and I are Polar Opposites" and the second is from "Wotakoi"
I am a county elections official. There are no "voting machines" in the vast majority of US states. There are vote tabulating machines, which are used to count paper ballots. These are not connected to the internet (and not capable of doing so), which means that someone would have to manually load software on all of the machines (600+ in my county) to change votes. If they did, it would be easily detected, because vote totals are checked against the paper ballots themselves.
Right... Plus, there is no evidence that Elon actually knows anything about how elections are run. Even if he did, though, it's not possible to rig an election like that. Maybe a local election in a small county - definitely not a presidential election.
Hon hon hon
Just imagine how long he would have lived if he had consumed 2 spoonfuls per day...
Not sure why you're getting downvoted as this is the correct answer... I guess BlindGardener wants the US to hand a billion dollars or so to the Russian government instead, since no one else has the capacity to launch to the ISS.
I'm sorry your contractors ripped you off, but that doesn't mean every contractor is the same. SpaceX charges millions of dollars less per seat than Boeing (who still hasn't successfully completed a crewed flight test) as well as the Russians, whose Soyuz capsule is the only other crew-rated spacecraft available.
Starlink applied for federal broadband subsidies, but last time I checked that had been blocked by a federal court. Do you have some source for the direct subsidies or federal grants? (Tax incentives don't count... that isn't "government funding.") . I'd also appreciate a source for the second part of your post... not that it would really surprise me, but I haven't seen this reported anywhere and it would seem to be big news if true.
It's a loan. They paid it back with interest. I'm not trying to argue that Elon hasn't done a lot of bad stuff, but this is literally a government success story. If you want to argue that Elon is a bad guy, there are way better arguments than "he took money from the government" (note that the initial claim was $38 billion).
I might be missing something about Tesla, but I'm not aware of them getting subsidized either. They did apparently get a government loan of $465 million in 2010, but it was fully repaid with interest in 2013.
The rebates/subsidies were going to the buyers of the cars, not Musk. Also they applied to a number of EV manufacturers, so it's not like Tesla was getting special treatment there. I'm not clear on how carbon credits are government subsidies in this context.
Musk is a bad person, but I hate this framing. It's always phrased as though he got government subsidies - he didn't (or at least SpaceX didn't). SpaceX got fixed-price contracts for launch services. If they go over budget, they eat the costs. Other ("old space") contractors work under a "cost plus" system, where they get whatever their costs are plus a certain amount, so they have zero incentive to save the government money. Also some of them have gotten direct government subsidies (e. g. ULA).
Raisins are a lot cheaper though. Plus, you can eat them when you get hungry.
[citation needed]
BBL?
I've been using a 1973 Wear-Ever Popcorn Pumper for my entire life
It's apparently from Clooney's "The Descendants"
This doesn't seem to be correct... Iran has killed 18 Americans in the current conflict, whereas ICE has killed only three US citizens this year as far as I can tell (Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Ruben Ray Martinez). They have killed a few more people who weren't citizens, but it still doesn't exceed the number of people who have died in the Iran war as far as I can tell. If I am wrong, please let me know...
Singapore is an authoritarian dystopia, so this is unsurprising. If anything, it's surprising that the band thought this would be fine, unless they're doing it as an act of civil disobedience, in which case they deserve support.
Maybe this is too Doylist, but regarding Boromir, or even LOTR in general, it's worth remembering that Tolkien was involved in combat in WW1. It's hard to imagine what that was like - probably to this day the worst conditions ever experienced by soldiers in war.
Seems like a bit of spray paint on the camera would be a lot easier, cheaper, and safer...
It can't be "Bambi" because the same actor was also in a 1938 movie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Carey's_Chickens_(film)...
It's not that photo ID is inherently bad, but it normally costs money to get a photo ID, and it is part of the US constitution that it is illegal to require anyone to pay money to vote.
Sources? Facts? You're not supposed to post those here; this is a thread for nihilism and baseless disgust!
The first picture is from "You and I are Polar Opposites" and the second is from "Wotakoi"
I am a county elections official. There are no "voting machines" in the vast majority of US states. There are vote tabulating machines, which are used to count paper ballots. These are not connected to the internet (and not capable of doing so), which means that someone would have to manually load software on all of the machines (600+ in my county) to change votes. If they did, it would be easily detected, because vote totals are checked against the paper ballots themselves.
Right... Plus, there is no evidence that Elon actually knows anything about how elections are run. Even if he did, though, it's not possible to rig an election like that. Maybe a local election in a small county - definitely not a presidential election.
Hon hon hon
Just imagine how long he would have lived if he had consumed 2 spoonfuls per day...
Not sure why you're getting downvoted as this is the correct answer... I guess BlindGardener wants the US to hand a billion dollars or so to the Russian government instead, since no one else has the capacity to launch to the ISS.
I'm sorry your contractors ripped you off, but that doesn't mean every contractor is the same. SpaceX charges millions of dollars less per seat than Boeing (who still hasn't successfully completed a crewed flight test) as well as the Russians, whose Soyuz capsule is the only other crew-rated spacecraft available.
Starlink applied for federal broadband subsidies, but last time I checked that had been blocked by a federal court. Do you have some source for the direct subsidies or federal grants? (Tax incentives don't count... that isn't "government funding.") .
I'd also appreciate a source for the second part of your post... not that it would really surprise me, but I haven't seen this reported anywhere and it would seem to be big news if true.
It's a loan. They paid it back with interest. I'm not trying to argue that Elon hasn't done a lot of bad stuff, but this is literally a government success story. If you want to argue that Elon is a bad guy, there are way better arguments than "he took money from the government" (note that the initial claim was $38 billion).
I might be missing something about Tesla, but I'm not aware of them getting subsidized either. They did apparently get a government loan of $465 million in 2010, but it was fully repaid with interest in 2013.
The rebates/subsidies were going to the buyers of the cars, not Musk. Also they applied to a number of EV manufacturers, so it's not like Tesla was getting special treatment there. I'm not clear on how carbon credits are government subsidies in this context.
Musk is a bad person, but I hate this framing. It's always phrased as though he got government subsidies - he didn't (or at least SpaceX didn't). SpaceX got fixed-price contracts for launch services. If they go over budget, they eat the costs. Other ("old space") contractors work under a "cost plus" system, where they get whatever their costs are plus a certain amount, so they have zero incentive to save the government money. Also some of them have gotten direct government subsidies (e. g. ULA).
Raisins are a lot cheaper though. Plus, you can eat them when you get hungry.
[citation needed]
BBL?
I've been using a 1973 Wear-Ever Popcorn Pumper for my entire life