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Google "Rathergate."

TL; DR - they made fake National Guard memos about Bush's time there, but since journoscum are fucking stupid, they typed them up in MS Word and ran them through a copier a few times to make them look old. Some blogger immediately spotted the fake and showed that the kerning matched MS Word's defaults exactly and could not possibly have been produced by a typewriter. Dan Rather and the rest of the MSM stood by the story until it was beyond parody; CBS finally cut him lose to try and save face.

I've never forgotten since then that the press will go as far as fabricating evidence to try and tilt politics to the Democrats.
Dan Rather is now burning in hel.. Oh wait that fucker is still alive? When I was young it was basically him and Peter Jennings on TV evening news, NBC didn't count much. I liked Rather for awhile and thought his 'courage' ending was kinda cool, but I was young and later realized what bullshit he meant by it. Of all those leftist media types, Jennings was the least evil I think and died the earliest cause he was a hard smoker.

Jennings' 9/11 coverage and 2nd Iraq War was 'fair' to me. I remember Dan Rather, on live TV during the opening of the Iraq attack against Kuwait in the 1st Iraq war with scuds attacking an airforce base, I think in Saudi. That footage is long gone, but you saw this missile going up into the clouds and a flash. I went even then 'that's a Patriot intercepting a Scud'. Doofus stood there and went 'what was that, we have no idea at all, was that some kind of accident?'
 
There would have been a handful of typewriters that could have done kerning in existence, but you wouldn't find them in a random TANG office.
The one they could find that theoretically could do kerning and the raised ^th didn't match Microsoft Word's Times New Roman font. The press did everything they could to find a typewriter that could replicate MS Word and failed.
 
Here's a US university in which all but 1 of the masters graduates are Indians. Listening to the podcast this came from, the STEM OPT visa is something fabricated by the Obama administration and it and others can be immediately cut by trump. H1-B is a bit more difficult to completely end since it was an act of congress, but there's still things he did in the first term that he has not re-implemented.
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Brian Pasternak.

Archive of the podcast.


The meme makes sense now
Is recycling just a huge grift? I still do it cause its was how I was raised with. It seems like only glass and aluminum can be properly recycled. Plastic you definitely can't. Maybe cardboard? idk. there's a lot of products out there that have on their packaging that its made from post-consumer cardboard or whatever.
 
They 'say' we can probably stop a few NK missiles now, but I'd like to be able to stop 50-100. A full China/Russia style bombardment will never be plausible to even try to stop, but rogue states and future threats like Iran need to be dealt with.
We can already stop a hundred or so nukes.

We park a nuclear submarine off of their coast and target the aggressor countries for an EMP attack, take out their command / control with a nuke followed up by their nuclear missile silos.
 
We can already stop a hundred or so nukes.

We park a nuclear submarine off of their coast and target the aggressor countries for an EMP attack, take out their command / control with a nuke followed up by their nuclear missile silos.
Stopping launch by a first strike of some kind != a response after another one does a strike. Yeah we can attack and probably destroy 90% of China and 100% of NK's before they launch, but that's um.. 'inconvenient' and risky. Only Russia truly has a 2nd strike capability and probably lousy on them. I suspect the few SSBNs china/Russia and the one NK has are always known and trailed and have been a long time.

But if just one of those MIRV China/Russian subs get offs even 1 missile it'll be the worst disaster in human history. Incepting a first strike gives us the moral fortitude to launch back without heavy losses, that's what this is about.
 
Is recycling just a huge grift? I still do it cause its was how I was raised with. It seems like only glass and aluminum can be properly recycled. Plastic you definitely can't. Maybe cardboard? idk. there's a lot of products out there that have on their packaging that its made from post-consumer cardboard or whatever.
Yup. It's pretty much a grift. Y'know those Keurig cups, that are "recyclable"? They get "recycled" straight into the furnace. They're literally burned as fuel to drive turbines via steam, or if that's unavailable in the area, they're just chucked into the landfill with the rest of the trash. Cardboard recycling? Sure, if it's essentially untainted/brand new cardboard. Delivery box from last night's pizza delivery? Fuck right off.

I think the only thing they can actually profitably/efficiently recycle is aluminum, and probably glass too. Those are the only two things I've ever seen a "cash deposit refund for returning" or "get paid per can!" type arrangements for. They wouldn't be offering to pay you for them if they couldn't make money on it (of course, that "deposit" thing is different, but it's still meant to encourage returning glass bottles, so obviously there's some reason the industry wants them back).
 
I think the only thing they can actually profitably/efficiently recycle is aluminum, and probably glass too. Those are the only two things I've ever seen a "cash deposit refund for returning" or "get paid per can!" type arrangements for.
California, and Oregon on the west coast and a few other states across the country, have state wide beverage container deposits. You pay money at purchase and it gets refunded if you return them. As you said the only thing with any intrinsic value is aluminum but the deposits are made to at least make sure plastic and everything else gets recycled sent to the dump properly. And also to give the homeless a source of income so they can dump your recycling all over the street for a couple cans you don't feel like returning.

Beverage bottles, glass, used to have a deposit not because they were recycled but because they were reused. I think there's maybe some small breweries who do similar these days but I'm not aware of any on a large scale in the US.
 
Israel is preparing for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
An Israel attack is extremely likely, if not certain at this point. Its just a matter of time.

Iran not only has weak military defenses, but is also experiencing a historic drought due to weather and exacerbated by government mismanagement. Compounding the problem is the energy crisis which has caused significant blackouts throughout the nation and its expected to get worse because their infrastructure is shit and hasn't been updated. Iranian zoomers have been growing increasingly pissed off with their government too beyond just Hijab saying their parents and grandparents wanted the revolution but not them as its severally limited their opportunities. The economy is hobbling along with widespread dissatisfaction and Irans Abbas port explosion means trade is now bottlenecked until it can be fixed.

Ayatollah Khamenei is nearing 90 years old with no plan for succession. Supposedly its going to go be decided by the 'Assembly of Experts' whos own chairman is 92!
Even with Israel out of the picture, the country is reaching an inflection point which will almost certainly devolve into a power struggle with current conditions.

Iran has lost all its proxies, Gaza is starving, Hezbollah has been knee-capped and Syria won't help out of fear of alienating Trump. Its do or die time.
 
Iran has lost all its proxies, Gaza is starving, Hezbollah has been knee-capped and Syria won't help out of fear of alienating Trump. Its do or die time.
If Israel takes out Iran's nukes fully with a strike, I'll be laughing that the morons that put anti-semitism so beyond all logic and fact, just pure hated, that yes, Israel vs islamics is like the most iconic comic book good vs evil.

They'll do it too, they'll put Jew hatred above their own lives and support Iran and whine.
 
I think the only thing they can actually profitably/efficiently recycle is aluminum, and probably glass too. Those are the only two things I've ever seen a "cash deposit refund for returning" or "get paid per can!" type arrangements for. They wouldn't be offering to pay you for them if they couldn't make money on it (of course, that "deposit" thing is different, but it's still meant to encourage returning glass bottles, so obviously there's some reason the industry wants them back).
The industry doesn't want them back anymore, its just a tax now. Any cans/bottles not returned the state keeps the deposit.
I really don't even think its a bad thing though. Old timers tell me before the deposit there where bottles and cans littered all over. Walking around in the woods you still see old ones from the 1980s sometimes. Now hobos wonder around collecting them all.
 
The industry doesn't want them back anymore, its just a tax now. Any cans/bottles not returned the state keeps the deposit.
I really don't even think its a bad thing though. Old timers tell me before the deposit there where bottles and cans littered all over. Walking around in the woods you still see old ones from the 1980s sometimes. Now hobos wonder around collecting them all.
Hobo trash collectors can be pretty helpful. I remember throwing out a broken office chair late at night and I left to get something to drink from the store and as I was walking home hobo rode his bike past me with my chair strapped on the back. Dude saved me like $30 in furniture disposal fees.
 
If recycling was truly important, we wouldn't have to pay extra for a special can to put certain items into, they would just give us one alongside our regular trash can that gets emptied every week.
Also how picky recycle centers are about things? Containers have to be washed out, cardboard can't have any grease on it, etc. If it was so important they'd deal with it themselves.

Any time I feel a little bit guilty for not being more of a eco-warrior, I watch some livestreams of cruise ships and think about how much fuel and pollution those things are allowed to generate, just so people can go on vacation.
 
Maybe cardboard? idk. there's a lot of products out there that have on their packaging that its made from post-consumer cardboard or whatever.
Cardboard can be recycled, but you can't have just recycled cardboard. You need virgin pulp for it to actually stick together into a cohesive mass otherwise it just crumbles
 
If recycling was truly important, we wouldn't have to pay extra for a special can to put certain items into, they would just give us one alongside our regular trash can that gets emptied every week.
You pay for the can?
Here in California the recycling can is free and it’s a fee for the trash and yard waste cans.

I’ll still say nothing beats when I lived in Japan. All you do on trash day is put the bag of trash out front and someone comes and picks it up. No cans, no fees. There are two days for regular trash, two days for recycling, and one day for cardboard. At least that was the set up in my shitty little Shinjuku apartment
 
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just got called out TO HIS FACE about his racist treatment of white residents

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"Here's an example of blatant racism you've done"
"Erm I don't think that's actually racist next question"
How exactly do these people keep getting into positions of power?
 
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