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Post by CtraK on Nov 11, 2011 18:34:56 GMT -5
“The Mount Kimbie” 1 oz. Gin
Serve on rocks. Garnish with umbrella.
...I think they've run out of ideas.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 11, 2011 18:24:47 GMT -5
Everyone point and look judgementally at wykked wytch Hey! I can't help it if I'm not hostile to markets! SHO SUM HOSTILITEE TO UNREGULATED MARKET PROCESSES N FRIEDMANITE ECONOMICS U FASHISST LOL OK, it turns out that I am terrible at trolling. I've also run through the test again and come out with E -5.88, S -4.82. So I'm terrible at Marxism too. Perhaps if I take the test tomorrow, I'll see if I can pull off something the laws of political physics theoretically deem impossible - faster-than-Clegg policy shifting.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 11, 2011 11:39:32 GMT -5
I'm... kinda shocked that I have the authoritarian high score, actually. Its cos ur a fashisst lol Everyone point and look judgementally at wykked wytch
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Post by CtraK on Nov 11, 2011 11:35:59 GMT -5
Lick my buuuutt and suck on my balls! Well, thanks to Net neutrality...
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Post by CtraK on Nov 10, 2011 6:28:48 GMT -5
I would say it is a good thing. Who doesn't want to go into the darkness and explore what is there?As Arnold Edinburgh said: “Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.” Isn’t the saying supposed to be “Curiosity killed the cat, but Satisfaction brought him back?” Everyone cuts off that second part. This is apparently true. Also, the Wikipedia page for the phrase has the most fantastic image with the most wonderfully blunt captioning imaginable.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 9, 2011 19:04:25 GMT -5
There is something about One Piece that makes it hard for me to get into. I think it might be the art style or something...I don't know, it just doesn't do it for me. Also the fact that there are eleventy billion kazillion kablillion gazillion schmillion volumes/episodes. Nine episodes into Cowboy Bebop.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 9, 2011 17:52:22 GMT -5
Finished Either/Or. Onto Theory Of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith Its pretty good, but he hasnt said anything new yet "And so, having expounded a theory of moral sentiments, I can reveal a code of ethics that be of unimpeachable quality, and recite them thus: - Never stab your way out of trouble, for 'tis infinitely more efficient to shoot your way out instead; - If they can't pin nothin' on you, then bastards be trippin; - Half a dozen mashed puppy heads will make enough wall grout to hold a bathroom together..." The last chapter is a humdinger.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 8, 2011 18:31:20 GMT -5
"It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society." Hasn't this statement, since 2008, simply been a barometer of whether or not you pay attention to politics at all? OK, so at the time of writing, I'm the third most Stalinist guy on FSTDT.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 8, 2011 13:11:29 GMT -5
Don't forget that trying to refute points is counterproductive and just reinforces the false idea (link)The Backfire Effect was exactly what I meant to link to (on a blog called You Are Not So Smart), but I fucked up and linked to the same thing twice. So that plan kinda backfired.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 6, 2011 14:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by CtraK on Nov 5, 2011 15:44:08 GMT -5
OK, this one really shouldn't be too hard.
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Post by CtraK on Oct 30, 2011 10:12:32 GMT -5
Well, yes, it is a stupid cartoon, but think about how effective it would be. I mean, the whole objective of terrorism is to terrify your target into giving into your demands. Look at the aftermath of 9/11 - people in podunk towns all across the country were afraid they were next. If someone actually did attack a residential area, a small town, someplace where there would be (relative to other attacks) low casualties and damage, I think it would be the most effective attack in history. People would terrified because it wasn't just hypothetical anymore. It was real, anyone anywhere could be a target. It depends. I mean, probably, but only because the US as a society seems to have the kind of hysterical tendency that your post implied. It'd also differ considering the type of attack - a mass shooting in the US just wouldn't cut it like it did in Norway. So... it depends.
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Post by CtraK on Oct 29, 2011 13:24:09 GMT -5
What I find particularly interesting is that he thinks that terrorists would hijack a commercial airliner just to ram it into his one-story house. Talk about overkill... (and an over-inflated sense of self-importance) Well, yes. Furthermore, sod the Empire State in the background, too.
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Post by CtraK on Oct 29, 2011 7:09:53 GMT -5
And they probably pay those workers jack shit. My boyfriend's mom makes washers and dryers at a factory - and makes $10 an hour. They're very poor. Holy shit. Americans still build things? Mind = blown No, no need for the plural - she's the one American who still builds things. Hence some of the anger at the low wage.
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Post by CtraK on Oct 24, 2011 12:24:34 GMT -5
Although zaibatsu existed from the 19th century, the term was not in common use until after World War I. By definition, the "zaibatsu" were large family-controlled vertical monopolies consisting of a holding company on top, with a wholly owned banking subsidiary providing finance, and several industrial subsidiaries dominating specific sectors of a market, either solely, or through a number of sub-subsidiary companies.
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