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I kinda like this idea, they mocked his life in his death.
I wish all stupid people suffer this fate, it might make people not be such fuck ups, or just make funerals a lot funnier and easier to endure.
I wish all stupid people suffer this fate, it might make people not be such fuck ups, or just make funerals a lot funnier and easier to endure.
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>gamer
>exclusively played sports games
even as a neckbeard neet he was still a failure though he does have a bag of doritos next to him, so there's that
>exclusively played sports games
even as a neckbeard neet he was still a failure though he does have a bag of doritos next to him, so there's that
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This was literally a My Name Is Earl episode.
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Ace of Spades
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I've got nothing but mad props for this states judicial branch
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/1...umb-hard-enough-to-break-it-during-fight.html
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/1...umb-hard-enough-to-break-it-during-fight.html
Somehow she is still listed as a judge which just makes Kansas even cooler
Corbin Dallas Multipass
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Holy shit, I finally know what I want my funeral to be. The real trick will be actually dying while playing a video game, so as to make it more authentic. Unfortunately being hunched over a laptop isn't nearly as cool as being laid back with a controller in your lap, so I guess I'll have to start playing more console games when I think I'm getting close to death.
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I heard about something like this being big in Puerto Rico a few years back. Basically for your funeral they prop you up in your chair with a blunt and some shit and everybody has a party around you.
Sounds comfy af.
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They embalm these dudes, though. GG Allin was just sitting around covered in shit and rotting.
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Fucking anti-vaxer scum.
Get your kids vaccinated. Stop spreading deadly and preventable diseases all over the place.
http://abc13.com/health/baby-dies-from-meningitis-possibly-from-unvaccinated-person/3751746/
Get your kids vaccinated. Stop spreading deadly and preventable diseases all over the place.
http://abc13.com/health/baby-dies-from-meningitis-possibly-from-unvaccinated-person/3751746/
PS1gamenwatch
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https://www.economist.com/finance-a...north-korea-the-next-vietnam-dont-count-on-it
Is North Korea the next Vietnam? Don’t count on it
Market reforms invite comparisons, but North Korea’s path is more fraught
AS AMERICA presses North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons, it has pointed to Vietnam as an example of the prosperity that awaits the isolated state. “It can be your miracle in North Korea as well,” Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said on July 8th, on a visit to Hanoi. It is not the first time Vietnam has been held up as a model for North Korea. Over the years, officials from the two countries have discussed lessons from Vietnam’s reforms. North Korea sees Vietnam as less threatening than China and more of a peer, making it a more welcome mentor. But North Korea’s economic path is likely to be more fraught.
Yes, there are similarities. Like North Korea’s economy today, Vietnam’s used to be largely collectivised. The Vietnamese Communist party’s ability to retain power at the same time as freeing markets must appeal to Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, who has vowed to improve his country’s economy. In 1985, on the eve of Vietnam’s doi moi liberalising reforms, its GDP per person was a mere 1% of America’s. In 2015 North Korea was in an identical position relative to America, according to UN figures (rough estimates, since North Korea publishes few statistics).
Diplomatically, the comparison also makes sense. Vietnam shows that a country can go quite quickly from being a sworn enemy of America to a close trading partner. Vietnam’s normalisation of relations came in 1995, just two decades after the two countries ended their war. America is now the biggest destination for Vietnamese exports. The shift could be faster for North Korea: its propagandists may have described America as its arch-enemy until recently, but it has been more than six decades since they fought.
Doi moi, meet juche
Nevertheless North Korea is different from Vietnam in three ways that could hurt. In Vietnam’s south, its economic heartland, collectivisation of farms and factories lasted just ten years before private ownership was restored. People who had previously run businesses were able to get quickly back in the game. After 65 years of juche, the national ideology of self-reliance, North Koreans are starting from scratch. The growth of informal food and goods markets in recent years shows some entrepreneurship, but the learning curve for big firms will be much steeper.
The structure of North Korea’s economy also complicates matters. More than 70% of the workforce in both Vietnam in the mid-1980s and China in the late 1970s (when its economic reforms started) was in agriculture. Simple changes to incentives—letting farmers profit from the sale of their own crops, for example—led to a surge of agricultural productivity. And the exodus of workers from farms generated a pool of cheap labour for factories, fuelling the rise of export industries.
By contrast, more than 60% of North Korea’s population already lives in cities. For big productivity gains, the government will need to overhaul moribund industries. In that respect North Korea resembles eastern Europe after the Soviet Union’s demise, says Marcus Noland of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank in Washington. “There will be losers,” he says. Unemployment might soar. Privatisation could increase already-rampant corruption even further. Sitting between China, South Korea and Japan, North Korea should find it easy to attract capital to create jobs. But its record for foreign investors is poor: it seized South Korean assets at their showpiece joint industrial park in 2016 when relations deteriorated.
Another weakness for North Korea is demography. When Vietnam and China embarked on reforms they were both young countries, with median ages of about 20. They had many workers and few elderly dependent on them. In North Korea, the median age is already 34, making it even older than Vietnam today. As China ages, officials worry that it will get old before it gets rich. In North Korea the risk is that it will get old while it is still impoverished. All the more reason for Mr Kim to get cracking on economic reform. He may have little hope of building the next Vietnam. But better that he look to the outside world than keep North Korea entombed.
Is North Korea the next Vietnam? Don’t count on it
Market reforms invite comparisons, but North Korea’s path is more fraught
AS AMERICA presses North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons, it has pointed to Vietnam as an example of the prosperity that awaits the isolated state. “It can be your miracle in North Korea as well,” Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said on July 8th, on a visit to Hanoi. It is not the first time Vietnam has been held up as a model for North Korea. Over the years, officials from the two countries have discussed lessons from Vietnam’s reforms. North Korea sees Vietnam as less threatening than China and more of a peer, making it a more welcome mentor. But North Korea’s economic path is likely to be more fraught.
Yes, there are similarities. Like North Korea’s economy today, Vietnam’s used to be largely collectivised. The Vietnamese Communist party’s ability to retain power at the same time as freeing markets must appeal to Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator, who has vowed to improve his country’s economy. In 1985, on the eve of Vietnam’s doi moi liberalising reforms, its GDP per person was a mere 1% of America’s. In 2015 North Korea was in an identical position relative to America, according to UN figures (rough estimates, since North Korea publishes few statistics).
Diplomatically, the comparison also makes sense. Vietnam shows that a country can go quite quickly from being a sworn enemy of America to a close trading partner. Vietnam’s normalisation of relations came in 1995, just two decades after the two countries ended their war. America is now the biggest destination for Vietnamese exports. The shift could be faster for North Korea: its propagandists may have described America as its arch-enemy until recently, but it has been more than six decades since they fought.
Doi moi, meet juche
Nevertheless North Korea is different from Vietnam in three ways that could hurt. In Vietnam’s south, its economic heartland, collectivisation of farms and factories lasted just ten years before private ownership was restored. People who had previously run businesses were able to get quickly back in the game. After 65 years of juche, the national ideology of self-reliance, North Koreans are starting from scratch. The growth of informal food and goods markets in recent years shows some entrepreneurship, but the learning curve for big firms will be much steeper.
The structure of North Korea’s economy also complicates matters. More than 70% of the workforce in both Vietnam in the mid-1980s and China in the late 1970s (when its economic reforms started) was in agriculture. Simple changes to incentives—letting farmers profit from the sale of their own crops, for example—led to a surge of agricultural productivity. And the exodus of workers from farms generated a pool of cheap labour for factories, fuelling the rise of export industries.
By contrast, more than 60% of North Korea’s population already lives in cities. For big productivity gains, the government will need to overhaul moribund industries. In that respect North Korea resembles eastern Europe after the Soviet Union’s demise, says Marcus Noland of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank in Washington. “There will be losers,” he says. Unemployment might soar. Privatisation could increase already-rampant corruption even further. Sitting between China, South Korea and Japan, North Korea should find it easy to attract capital to create jobs. But its record for foreign investors is poor: it seized South Korean assets at their showpiece joint industrial park in 2016 when relations deteriorated.
Another weakness for North Korea is demography. When Vietnam and China embarked on reforms they were both young countries, with median ages of about 20. They had many workers and few elderly dependent on them. In North Korea, the median age is already 34, making it even older than Vietnam today. As China ages, officials worry that it will get old before it gets rich. In North Korea the risk is that it will get old while it is still impoverished. All the more reason for Mr Kim to get cracking on economic reform. He may have little hope of building the next Vietnam. But better that he look to the outside world than keep North Korea entombed.
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Fuck Vietnam. They all deserved to starve in a famine instead of Slick Willie normalizing relations, overshadowed by his oh-so-successful North Korean nuclear deal.
Diệm did nothing wrong.
Diệm did nothing wrong.
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https://people.com/movies/henry-cav...tant-flirt-over-fears-of-being-called-rapist/
Ey Cavill can talk to me any day
Ey Cavill can talk to me any day
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I felt raped having paid to see Dawn of Justice.
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https://www.telesurtv.net/english/n...rst-Time-Since-Soviet-Bloc-20180711-0034.html
>The Czech Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia has signed a power-sharing agreement with Prime Minister Andrej Babis, meaning the party will hold a say in national political affairs for the first time since the fall of the Soviet bloc.
>The agreement means that the Communist Party must support Babis in a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, a vote which is mandatory and which all governments must face to remain in power.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/12/czech-communists-return-to-government-as-power-brokers
>Czech communists have savoured their first taste of power in nearly 30 years after their backing in a parliamentary confidence vote paved the way for a government headed by Andrej Babiš, a scandal-tainted billionaire tycoon, amid vehement protests against their return to the political mainstream.
>The 15 MPs of the Communist party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) provided the votes needed to allow a pact formed between Babiš’ Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO) movement and the Social Democrats (ČSSD) to survive its first test, ending nearly nine months of political stalemate that saw the Czech Republic governed by temporary administrations.
>The show of support came after the communists signed a deal with ANO agreeing to “tolerate” the new government – overriding ideological misgivings about Babiš’ wealthy status in exchange for having some policy pledges adopted and being given influential roles in public utilities.
>The Czech Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia has signed a power-sharing agreement with Prime Minister Andrej Babis, meaning the party will hold a say in national political affairs for the first time since the fall of the Soviet bloc.
>The agreement means that the Communist Party must support Babis in a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, a vote which is mandatory and which all governments must face to remain in power.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/12/czech-communists-return-to-government-as-power-brokers
>Czech communists have savoured their first taste of power in nearly 30 years after their backing in a parliamentary confidence vote paved the way for a government headed by Andrej Babiš, a scandal-tainted billionaire tycoon, amid vehement protests against their return to the political mainstream.
>The 15 MPs of the Communist party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) provided the votes needed to allow a pact formed between Babiš’ Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO) movement and the Social Democrats (ČSSD) to survive its first test, ending nearly nine months of political stalemate that saw the Czech Republic governed by temporary administrations.
>The show of support came after the communists signed a deal with ANO agreeing to “tolerate” the new government – overriding ideological misgivings about Babiš’ wealthy status in exchange for having some policy pledges adopted and being given influential roles in public utilities.
PS1gamenwatch
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Is he really serious or is this for attention?
Only a matter of time