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Is there a way to do a block-quote that's not quoting someone?  The editor doesn't seem to have a button and neither Markdown nor bbtag syntax does anything.

3 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

And there it is.

Not that it's a great thing, but $40,000 is tiny in the world of congressional lobbying.

3 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

BAC is just a shortcut for law enforcement. You could have a tiny woman who can only handle 2 drinks pass the test and potentially kill someone vs some big guy who can drink 7-8 beers and be okay fail.

Despite the cited headline, a breathalyzer is only one possibility cited in the legislation.  Any method to detect "impairment" (to be finalized by the secretary of transportation) would fulfill the text:

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9 hours ago, MillionX said:

other twisted, sick cartoons that most probably forgot about by now

What's your spirit animal?

2 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

There's also that vaccines here in the USA were granted a special permit to combat the pandemic, but remember, they are not yet approved by the FDA. Past approved vaccines have taken years to receive seal of approval, so... we'll see if there's side effects in the long term 🤷‍♂️

 

https://www.fda.gov/media/142749/download

This from the same guy pushing Peruvian voodoo juice a few posts earlier.

15 hours ago, HD-Man said:

Hypothetically speaking, if they try to dick me around about my money, what are my options? 

You can file a complaint with the CPFB.  It's probably not going to do much for you personally, but if they're screwing everyone the government might step in.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-stop-automatic-payments-from-my-bank-account-en-2023/

3 hours ago, Chadouken said:

How many lives have seatbelts saved in airplanes?

Probably not going to kill you, but turbulence can turn severe out of nowhere and throw people into ceilings.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/united-airlines-flight-967-turbulence-caused-22-injuries/story?id=11219122

> "For those couple of seconds, I just saw people fly up like in front of me," said Brian Liu, a passenger interviewed at the Denver airport after United 967 landed. "Actually, the lady sitting beside me, she actually flew up to the roof and she hit the ceiling and she landed on my lap."

1 hour ago, misterBee said:

Unless you somehow forgot what e-mail address you used to create your account

So, uh, is there a way to see what e-mail address I used?

18 hours ago, KingTubb said:

Oreos are vegan already, homie

Funny enough, I used to work with a vegan who didn't eat Oreo cookies because they used bone char (charcoal made from animal bones) in processing them.

Doing a little reading about that right now, the internet's like "yeah, they might, but if you try to avoid anything that's every been touched by an animal product you may as well give up."

12 hours ago, scorp said:

The everlasting impact of Trump on the world

 

Dude's gonna be in so much trouble.

2 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Have you had the experience of telling people shit about Virginia and they think you are fucking with them often? It doesn't happen as often now that internet is so easily accessible but sometimes I'd blow peoples minds. People from outside the South have no idea how fucked up some of the readily accepted things here are.

Not from Virginia, but I remember driving through Alexandria for the first time and seeing Jefferson Davis Highway.  I'm like, "you're really naming a road after the leader of all the secessionists right outside the capital?"

On 6/17/2021 at 12:53 PM, Lantis said:

I just absolutely HATE the super Flash Kick charge motion (charge DB, DF, DB, UF + button), it can go EAD

That motion is about the only reason I'd use a square gate.  Super easy on one of those.

3 hours ago, OPTIMUS124 said:

 My rule is to never do laps around anything (to the best of my ability). That prevents me from bitching out. If you run 1.7 miles one way, you gotta get back.

2 hours ago, MillionX said:

Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes should always be a little blonde-haired white kid, usually with black pants and a red shirt, and Hobbes should always be a tiger

Bill Watterson famously fought to get back the rights to the characters Calvin and Hobbes and has refused to ever license them out.  And he stopped drawing the strip in 1995.

So you're unlikely to see any incarnation of them beyond what already exists.  Unless I guess his estate decides to cash in some day.

I can't find the quote, but I think Watterson once remarked on Charles Schulz not owning the rights to the Peanuts characters, "The papers could technically fire him and have some college kids draw the strip.  In fact, judging by the latest strips, maybe they already have."

Japanese movements are pretty good, but the old workhorse Seiko NH35 is now being made in Malaysia and people say it ain't what it used to be.  (Seiko fit and finish ain't what it used to be either.)  Of course, the $30 Japanese movement isn't going to have the engineering of a $200 Swiss movement.

I think the issue with Chinese movements is that they're all kind of beige-box type deals, so it's hard to know if any particular one is good or bad.

8 hours ago, TheInfernoman said:

Bruv does it matter? For an inclusive manga thats considered a major one, One Piece has it set of Trans characters and does it more organically than other series. 

Well, NOW they do.  Funny think about a series that's been going 20 years is you can see the evolution from

and

to

4 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

remember the Bernie girl?

 

 

5 hours ago, TheInfernoman said:

Aren't the pyramids built on the backs of mostly slaves?

Current thinking is probably not.

> In 1990, tombs belonging to the pyramid workers were discovered alongside the pyramids,

> with an additional burial site found nearby in 2009. Although not mummified, they had been

> buried in mudbrick tombs with beer and bread to support them in the afterlife. The tombs'

> proximity to the pyramids and the manner of burial supports the theory that they were paid

> laborers who took great pride in their work and were not slaves, as was previously thought.

2 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

I don't think most white people know what Juneteenth is, especially the older ones. I'd be surprised if she knew that it was that day, but who knows. 

In general you might be right, but especially last year there was a lot of talk about it.  A politician ought to know by now.

16 minutes ago, iStu X said:

Fucking YES at Metalocalypse getting the final it fucking deserves. I don’t care about Venture Brothers or ATHF. I never liked either shows

Metalocalypse gets a finale, I withhold judgement on how deserving it is.

You're showing bad taste with Venture Brothers, show is excelent.

ATHF was great for a couple seasons, but went on way too long.  Unless the movie is more like those early seasons it would be very skipable.

On 5/10/2021 at 12:19 PM, HD-Man said:

 I'll probably pump and dump Dogecoin, my just let my other coins like TEL (which jumped again as I'm typing this) and SHIB  sit since I got in those relatively low

For the record, unless you're running some spam bots or something, you probably do not have the reach to do any of the "pump" part.  And then you're just speculating like everyone else.

Wow, it's like the opposite of all of Yomi's players using Tanya.

7 hours ago, Makrow said:

At the end of the day, a white cop killed someone black and that's all the media is going to mention, and until more information comes out, that's the story they will stick to. 

Scare-quotes "the media" mentioned the knife-wielding aspect from the start.  The police showed edited body-cam footage the night it happened, and full footage from three body cams was released the next day.

It's a complicated and tragic situation for sure, but it's not exactly a cover-up.

1 hour ago, Gasarocky said:

Also I take it this is also a Vtuber thread now

It is not.  Feel free to go start a Vtuber thread if you like.

8 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

 I have my doubts that Biden is going to make any meaningful changes to the CGT, especially since those are his some of his people but we can only hope.

Biden has made his proposal, congress will act on it or not.  Watch and see who votes against it.