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Post Your Pikcha

TFW you shave for the first time at 22 hoping to get one of them manly (n-n-n-no homo) Cossack beards and realise what a nasty mistake you've made

@Andreyich

Damn, I know most people without facial hair look younger. But you really don't look 22.

The Hybrid-Humans

@CyanideSweetie Do a flashback. :P

I guess it depends how much freedom @beyond visions wants us to have. If we're allowed to create lackeys/soldiers to avoid/and or kill. Or to create rooms, or places inside this underground area. Letting us find our own way to actively escape. Or I dunno, find something in particular in this hybrid lab. More freedom would make it easier to make up shit to post about. But it could go off the rails and I assume the reason they put us all in a box in the first place was so'd we'd all end up in the same place. So I think maybe they themselves, might need to make a single post that sort of deals with all of us individually to make us all in the same spot.

If the alternative doesn't seem viable.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Eh, alarmism in Global Warming is justified IMHO. Scientists come up with a number of potential trajectories suggested by the data, and it shows that the alarmist answers we hear are a meaningful possibility. The end of the world scenarios are not certain, but the idea that we should do nothing when there is a meaningful possibility of severe desertification/rising seas/whatever is irresponsible.

As I've seen it the argument breaks down to scientific preparedness vs purity of the market, and since I believe that the whole Purity of the free market thing is essentially a theological argument, I have no problem sullying it to hedge our bets. Shit, even if global warming turns out to be very small potatoes, we'll get technological advancement out of the deal.

@Vilageidiotx

I dunno, when everyone's favorite engineer plays environmental expert, Bill Nye, awful show on nexflix guy. Says we should be jailing the opposition, I think the hysteria that has almost no agreeable evidence. It's a bit much.

I don't think anyone -worth talking about- is actually debating, the earth is very, very gradually changing in temperature. It's soon going down half a degree for 50 plus years, no matter how many Prius's will be bought the following year. Or arguing that pollution is bad. But how much does this "climate change" caused mostly by humans? (If cow farts cause more damage than most things?) And how dangerous really is it? And should the people running the post office...actually be in charge of something so 'serious'? (the reason people stopped using the other so much of the global warming predictions were completely wrong and were proven to be 'small potatoes') So they switched labels...

I also think if it's a waste of time, all the money we wasted on this technology to provide less effective means of energy, would have been a pretty shit deal all around.

washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/26/…

When so many times, this "new green tech" is not being paid for by companies wanting to take a risk, but gets subsidized (by force.) and is shit coming from people like this, getting millions of taxpayer money for nothing...

IMHO I found a lot of that rather enduring. That you have to be a rich person who attacks people to become President is too bad, but it does seem to be the case.

@Vilageidiotx

Bernie was just a coward during his election, he "endured" nothing. (less you meant endearing) But I think the days, of bernie sanders "nice guy whose looking out for you" has been over for quite some time now.

Also Trump proved you don't need more money to win the presidency. (and that politics really is an american idol contest. Personality wins -at least- three entire presidencies in a row.)

Edit: I curse too much. Sorry. xP

What Are You Listening To?

@Mistiel Well a lot of people have a love or hate thing for it. But no, you won't hear me call it bad. I was mostly being sarcastic. I listen to it plenty. But like most electronica I listen to, a lot of it isn't exactly worth defending either. ;3

Nightcore is never an original song. :P It's always a remix. It may be different than the original, but it usually is a remix of a remix, if that.

I just find that nightcore does help certain songs by increasing their tempo. Though some nightcore actually doesn't pick songs up enough to make a notable difference. (that or they pitch the voice too high.) And usually you will have a bias the thing you listened to first. :3

What Are You Listening To?

@Mistiel Oh no, you enjoy nightcore? May the music gods help you. And me. I'm also sad that this guy didn't make another album.

Men vs. Women Race to 1000

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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Actually it does. For a start books are frequently banned from being taught at universities.

@Andreyich

It is under attack. I think we can universities mostly suck, but though they try. It still doesn't take away from the overall ability to speak freely.

You don't try to change yourself on purpose but nevertheless over-exposure will make you have an aversion to certain things.

@Andreyich

I wouldn't consider what I went through to be over-exposure or a bad thing. But yes, you can get bad impressions from just about anything depending what you've experienced in life. But all that does if give you a surface level to go off on, unless you actually try to submerge yourself in other cultures. If you never even try, you'll never know. So to speak.

Well with context you don't seem creepy.

@Andreyich

I'm glad. Certainly try my best to not do that. :P

What Are You Listening To?

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I don't wish to get in a full blown political debate, again. I just ended all the other ones...but I'll reply to what you sent to me.

We know what was and was not read based upon his interviews. He never knows what he's talking about, and he's often confused. He's been stated to be factually wrong/lying 3/4ths of the time, compared to Hillary Clinton's 1/4th of the time, and while you might think Hillary's is bad, that's actually normal for a politician.

@POOHEAD189

Normalizing lying is something I'll never do in any circumstance. Also Hillary is not only a liar, but more likely a compulsive one...(first video is part of it.) So it's a little scary to even think she lies “1/4” of the time...If that's from like polifact or something...(that site is horrible bias and often wrong.) But if those are just random numbers. I think one thing you can't say about Hillary, is anything regarding her ever telling the truth.

Like I said, I'm independent. I try to look at both conservative and liberal views. Seth Myers is obviously a liberal, however the video itself used its source verbatim. Can't really argue with that.

@POOHEAD189

Well that itself doesn't mean it can't be wrong. But like I said, if that's something that happened. I agree that isn't something I approve of.

Obama took away Coal jobs, because it's environmentally harmful. Yet he also official (according to the treasury) brought us out of our economic recession and gave us millions of jobs in other areas.

@POOHEAD189

Okay, let me just quickly debunk that. (Because he did not do that.)

washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/30/…

askheritage.org/what-is-obamas-fake-j…

newsmax.com/Finance/DavidStockman/oba…

thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/truth-ob…

macrotrends.net/2524/black-unemployme…

John Oliver never said it was cheaper. Just cleaner and more effective.

@POOHEAD189

The major problem is most 3rd world countries and poorer communities rely on cheap energy...trying to force people to use energy sources that aren't effective as the current sources. You tell me which green energy light bulb doesn't suck ass, and I'll worship the ground you walk on. And like I already said, green energy will always need the other one to back it up.

newsweek.com/whats-true-cost-wind-pow…

and you should never listen to someone who is biased. It's why I am an independent.

@POOHEAD189

Everyone has a bias, so that in of itself is impossible. You should listen to as many people as possible. And what you just said is contradicted by Seth Myers being liberal and you listening to him. :P

I'm sorry but I haven't seen convincing cases for green energy.

As far as Coal jobs go, my point is this: New energy such as Solar and Wind, while they aren't perfect, are in fact, the future. Coal hurts the environment. It is literally helping lead to the deaths of our kids and grand kids, to the earth shutting down as a planet, and perhaps the end of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of future jobs so we can have some jobs now. People who are for coal just want things 'now now now' and fuck the consequences.

@POOHEAD189

That argument is a “think of the children” fallacy. People trying to force green energy on people who can't afford it, actually is doing what you fear “will” happen.

I think you and most people into the climate change sphere are being alarmists. And unnecessarily so. They never want to actually give us an answer how we can “solve” this problem, it's another problem that “has no solution or clear ending point.” which sure is politically convenient...

futureoflife.org/2016/08/05/developin…