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While Trump scandals mount, @jasoninthehouse decides to investigate... PBS's Sid the Science kid… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/831511257354231808
Feb 3 at 2:58, by badp
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@Yuuki too bad I can't play videos at work
 
@TimStone god fucking dammit
I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE THE PARTY OF BENGHAZI
 
> Like President Trump, Sid is orange. Unlike Trump, he is highly inquisitive
Heh
 
I hate everyone
 
4:05 PM
Good. You've taken your first step towards the dark side.
 
But hey I'm glad we have confirmation that the party of 7 Benghazi investigations doesn't actually give a shit
 
hmmm 9 ifs to check 3 values from two inputs, great stuff
I am pro
so very pro
 
It's cute that @Unionhawk doesn't think political parties are partisan.
 
I mean, I know they're partisan, I just wish they could at least attempt to hide it.
 
Yeah they could at least pretend to give a shit
 
4:10 PM
Start an investigation hearing on Flynn and just drag your feet, let it go nowhere.
This is embarrassing.
When Putin allegedly had opposition leaders assassinated, at least he talked about it on the state news and said he was personally managing the investigations.
Everyone knew those investigations weren't going anywhere, especially if Putin was actually personally managing them, but it at least he pretended to care.
And he pretended to have the government do its job.
I mean, come on.
If you're going to have a corrupt government and/or one-party rule, can you at least not be so blatant about it?
 
You guys are seriously arguing that you would be happy if the government pretended to do something? Like my Liberal government and it's wasted millions on electoral reform?
 
I wouldn't be happy, I just would be less embarrassed at the incompetence.
 
Okay, so anyone know what the duplicate policy is on StackOverflow? There are two questions asked a day apart, same problem, but the one asked a day later has a solution
 
iunno, probably dupe to the one with the answer
 
However, the earlier one is much better written, and even has a screenshot of the solution
 
4:14 PM
Probably merge then idk
 
Oh, and it doesn't actually matter because I don't have close votes on SO
Well, for anyone who does it's this one and this one
 
It's like losing a fistfight with a five-year old compared to losing a fistfight with a twenty-year old.
 
@JasonBerkan And to be fair, I would be happy if Donald pretended to do a lot of the things he said he would do and never got them done. Because that means they never got done
 
Both cases are bad, but one is demonstrably worse than the other.
 
@Sterno Up next: do the optional quest! Although it might not show up right away.
@JasonBerkan That burns me so much, because it became clear pretty quickly they weren't going to change anything.
 
4:18 PM
@Wipqozn The interesting thing is how short-term that thinking is. If you campaigned on election reform, got into office, and then decide to not deliver, do you really think you're going to be re-elected?
 
@Wipqozn That's my point. I would rather they would have been up front and honest.
 
@Yuuki The beauty of a FPTP system is that yes, you probably will
 
"Well, since reform means we would never get a majority again, we're not going to do that."
 
Changing FPTP is hard because the only ones with the power to change it are the ones benefiting from it
 
@Wipqozn Depends on how many one-issue wonks you have.
 
4:19 PM
aka the government is corrupt
 
playboy 180'd
 
YOUR FACE IS CORRUPT
 
including nudes in the magazine again
#nakedisnormal or something
 
Yea they probably lost a lot of sales
 
Dammit, now "I only buy Playboy for the articles" is a terrible excuse again.
 
4:20 PM
@Unionhawk A massive amount
 
and will probably never recover because the internet exists
 
@Yuuki It takes quite a disruption in the Canadian political landscape to remove the Liberals from power.
 
@JasonBerkan I thought they didn't have the PM's office for the last 8 years or something?
And from what little I know about parliamentary systems, the PM is determined by the majority party?
 
Bit more than mildly
 
4:22 PM
Like not at my work but maybe you have super strict/nosy coworkers/bosses
 
Meh I'm in a corner
 
@Yuuki Yes, Harper was a disruption. But it was a massive fight for him to get power, including multiple minority governments and elections every couple of years.
 
Man, why am I not in Canada? (because it's really fucking hard to immigrate to Canada)
 
@badp It's closing in on $3 million now.
 
@JasonBerkan Playing devil's advocate here, but they did put out that online survey that asked Canadians if they actually wanted electoral reform, and the majority apparently said no, so they said "If Canadians really don't want reform, then we're not going to bother giving it to them."
 
4:23 PM
Wow
 
@Unionhawk No, you just need to be a Syrian refugee
 
@RedRiderX It is a pretty fantastic bundle.
@MBraedley Playing devil's devil's advocate, online surveys suck.
 
(only half joking)
@Yuuki Agreed
 
@MBraedley 1% of refugees worldwide get recommended for resettlement anywhere
 
@Yuuki There were a number of other problems with it as well, which is why I personally don't trust the results.
 
4:25 PM
I hear about this thing called the european union
 
@RedRiderX I also decided to donate $45 instead of $30.
 
you can move from a place to another place really easy.
and people who can't move from a place to another place really easy feel kinda sad that they're left out.
 
Do Canadians have some kind of personal identification number?
 
@MBraedley Yeah, I know. And as much as I want electoral reform, I would have been opposed to anything that was not put to a referendum. You can't make changes like that without ensuring everyone is on board.
 
@Unionhawk I'm aware of the bleak numbers
 
4:25 PM
@badp You think NA will ever do that?
 
@Yuuki Yup.
 
hahahahahahhahahahahaha
 
@MBraedley You mean that "My Democracy" survey?
 
I remember needing that as a field when I tried to fill out some job apps to positions in Canada.
 
4:25 PM
I mean, it's easy to travel to Canada
 
@RedRiderX Yep
 
@Unionhawk unlikely, with the way things are going you're probably to be bound to the work your parents are doing in the company they're working for forever
 
@MBraedley That was one of the most slanted, most leading surveys I've ever seen.
 
> Republicans justified the move as a way to save money and shrink the size and scope of government: “We don’t need fluff,”
 
It was horrible.
 
4:27 PM
@Yuuki SIN: Social Insurance Number. Pretty analogous to a SSN
 
@KevinvanderVelden I mean to be fair, there are only 4 credible instances of voter fraud in 2016
 
@Unionhawk yuup, still
 
@Unionhawk Pretty sure that once this thing is gone it will increase.
 
@Unionhawk EACH FOR ELEVENTY BAJILLION VOTES
 
If preventing something is fluff then maybe not say it's a big issue?
 
4:28 PM
TRUMP ACTUALLY GOT 205% OF THE TOTAL POPULAR VOTE, PERIOD.
 
@RedRiderX I never took it based on Michael Geist's recommendation not to.
 
@Arperum Probably not, not margin-of-victory increase, anyway
 
I wonder if we should just abolish all government for a decade, turn the US into a hellscape, and then see how people feel about "small, limited government".
 
NO ONE WILL DISPUTE THIS ALTERNATIVE FACT.
 
@MBraedley I took it because I heard someone diss it and had to see for myself.
 
4:28 PM
@Yuuki I've got place for some of the cool people
 
I find myself less and less understanding of economic libertarianism. If any part of me is still libertarian, it's almost entirely social libertarianism.
 
It had incredible leading questions and you could tell they were trying to get a certain result out of it.
 
as @KevinvanderVelden's folks like to see, I trust that you have been sufficiently incompete-informed on the matter.
 
@Yuuki BUT TAXATION IS THEFT
GUYS
WHY ARE THEY STEALING MY MONEY
 
you have too much
 
4:29 PM
This is demonstrably untrue
My net worth is approximately...
 
you should try not having so much money
 
-$153,000
 
then you will get money
 
well
 
IN A PROPER COUNTRY AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
 
4:30 PM
-$135,000
really
 
that's no palyndrome.
 
I mean, it's kinda interesting how the same people who say that socialism/communism doesn't work because of human nature and how people are innately greedy and self-interested somehow believe that laissez-faire capitalism and associated economic libertarianism just magically works.
 
@badp My loan total was 156,561 which is also not a palindrome
 
reminder that an English degree in Germany can be had for $0
plus relocation costs plus living costs plus renting costs.
please ask your doctor if SOCIALIZED EDUCATION is right for you.
oh good I finally caught the @Chippies flu
 
I'm looking to murder at least one and a half of my loan accounts soon
 
4:32 PM
oh no whatever shall I do
wait
 
@badp everyone else got over it by now, it's about time
 
it's flu
 
Fuck everyone on the internet who says "no let it go full term you'll build credit that way"
 
I will just wait it out
 
4:35 PM
@Unionhawk Actually, you could marry a Canadian. Worked for my mom.
 
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A friend of somebody i care about very much just overdosed and died on stuff my friend sold to her
I hope she doesn't do anything like... rash
on stuff*
 
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@JasonBerkan Yeah, but even marriage isn't guaranteed entry right away
 
user15026
(has been researching the crap out of this stuff because reasons)
 
Have things changed since the 70s? (Of course, they have...)
 
4:38 PM
@GnomeSlice damn dude that sucks. Sorry to hear that.
 
@JasonBerkan I did that, still had to go through 2 years of immigration process
 
@Ash Worked for @Chippies
damnit inb4
@Wipqozn Thank you. I hope she gets through it
 
@GnomeSlice as @Ash and I said, it's still not guaranteed
 
I've been worried about her trying to kill herself before, this doesn't help
 
I should ask Mom more about it. She would've been in Canada on a student visa, but their marriage ceremony was in the US. Hmm.
 
4:39 PM
@JasonBerkan they changed the whole marriage thing 10-15 years ago, I believe
it used to be that you get married and you're in
 
I wonder if the legal marriage documents were from SK or Missouri.
 
now marriage only allows spouse sponsorship, which is probably the easiest way of immigration, but still not guaranteed and takes time
 
user15026
I have family friends who married and had a kid together and he still had to go back to the US for a while because of how the process goes
 
I didn't have a work visa (therefore wasn't allowed to work in Canada) for almost 2 years after we got married
 
I did find out a couple of years ago that I could apply for US citizenship.
@Chippies Yeah, I know Mom couldn't work for the longest time - probably until she became a Canadian citizen.
 
4:42 PM
@JasonBerkan permanent resident, probably. Takes like 5 years of being a permanent resident to become a citizen
they recently started giving out work visas to people who have applied to become permanent residents
still takes a long time, but it's better than not being able to work at all for 2-3 years
 
@TimStone 3 cheers for democracy! Man it's going to be a long four years.
 
user15026
Yeah, it's nice that they changed it a little
 
I don't recall her working until after she received citizenship, but she was also a mother with young children.
 
Sorry eight years. Long eight years.
Wait 12 years. trump will probably try to change the laws.
or just run anyways
 
@JasonBerkan she probably didn't work by choice, unless things were really that much different back then
perhaps permanent resident status didn't exist then? Idk
 
4:45 PM
@Chippies That feels really cyclical. People talk about immigrants stealing jobs so they prevent some immigrants from working. Then people talk about immigrants being lazy and taking advantage of social services without working.
 
@Yuuki I don't even know how any of that works, because you can't work OR take advantage of social services until you are a permanent resident or have a work visa
 
@Uni :thinkingface:
 
Correct me if I'm wrong @Chippies, but I don't believe Canada gives social services to immigrants, either.
 
@Yuuki Spoilers: People are just racist
 
user15026
My mom worked before she got her citizenship but she came here as a child so I don't know if it is different
 
4:45 PM
if you only have a work visa, you can work, but can't get social services
 
People just use immigrants as the scapegoat for all their problems
 
@JasonBerkan depends on what you mean by "immigrants". Someone with a permanent resident status or citizenship can be an immigrant, but get all the benefits
 
Doesn't matter if there's any truth to it or not
 
a permanent resident can do anything a native citizen can, except they can't vote or run for government
 
@Chippies As shorthand for someone just arriving in the country.
 
4:47 PM
but until you have the permanent resident status, you can't do anything
 
except work or study with the respective visas
@JasonBerkan well, that is exactly what I said in the message you were replying to originally :P
without the permanent resident status, you can't take advantage of social services
 
Now with timecode.
 
@Chippies Wasn't a reply. You responded while I was typing! (inb4!)
 
@JasonBerkan ah, I hovered mouse over that message and it highlighted my previous message, so I thought it was a reply, but I guess it only did that because it was highlighting messages by me :P
 
4:49 PM
> "I have a feeling that in a few years, people will be doing what they always do when the economy tanks: they will be blaming immigrants and poor people."
 
I don't even understand how most immigrants manage to become residents, considering they have to have someone financially support them for 2+ years before they can work
 
> But Mark was wrong... [...] this time, they blamed teachers.
 
Even worse is that it can take much longer for professionals to be allowed to work in their profession. So you end up with immigrant engineers working as cab drivers.
 
@JasonBerkan it's possible to get a job offer before you move, but your job has to be in extremely high demand and low supply for that to happen
 
*strikes Canada from plan B list*
okay, what does that leave...
 
4:51 PM
it's expensive and time consuming for companies to hire immigrants without an open work visa
 
New Zealand? um.
 
I'm just going to hum Bonetrousle to myself every time I see Trump on TV and media now.
 
@badp well, as an Italian, you can go pretty much anywhere in the EU
 
My personal favourite is doctors out here in the prairies. If you immigrate as a medical doctor and want a license to practice, you must (are forced to) work for a few years in a rural hospital. I swear 90% of rural doctors are from South Africa.
 
@Chippies I'm counting the EU27 as plan A.
 
4:53 PM
@JasonBerkan around here, most doctors I've seen are either from South Africa or India
 
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In other news, TACOS
 
Tacos.
Dear god.
 
@Unionhawk Unfortunately, I am too far south to get snowstorms.
 
Mmm. We are also having tacos tonight.
 
5:15 PM
@Yuuki .....?
/remove yuuki
Preemptive strike
 
@MadMAxJr There's more.
 
Woo, my massive GeoTIFF is almost done exporting!
 
@badp No!
 
@Unionhawk Man, you don't remember tacos in snowstorms?
 
5:18 PM
Oct 26 '16 at 20:10, by Wipqozn
Tacos in a snowstorm oh man
Sure, I think the original post was burritos, but I think we eventually got to tacos.
 
Ouch. Lost his Disney deal and his Youtube Red show.
Pretty sure his career peak is over.
 
Disney does not play around.
 
@badp no one likes pdp
 
Surprised they didn't bury him in the vault next to Song of the South over that.
HA HA HA, NOPE, NOTHING HERE, LOOK AWAY. DISNEY IS GOOD WHOLESOME FAMILY FUN.
 
@GodEmperorDune he's no jantran
 
5:22 PM
This whole thing is basically "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" writ large.
 
This is an important lesson. If you want to be marketable and profitable, don't be mean and don't talk politics.
 
@MadMAxJr I mean, go ahead and talk politics but don't do stupid s--t like pay people to hold up anti-Semitic signs.
 
@MadMAxJr Don't be meab.
 
Although with a few more offenders we could make some kind of youtube pitfighting arena where disgraced stars fight to the death to get a new show.
 
@Yuuki "i didn't think they would hold it up"
 
5:24 PM
If you want to illustrate how ridiculous Fiverr is, there are other options.
 
@Yuuki like holding up a sign that says "fiverr is teh lamezors"
 
yay progress!
 
Like paying them to hold up signs saying "< this idiot will do anything for five dollars".
 
completely inefficient progress but progress none the less
 
> From the outside looking in, it seems like there is an inevitable progression with gaming YT personalities and edgy humor.
It seems like this kind of humor begins with ironic tone, or just edginess for its own sake. It gets a lot of hits so the jokes get trotted out more and more often. Some in the audience start to quietly leave either due to the content of the jokes or the increasing laziness with which these jokes are deployed. The audience slowly gets replaced by people who unironically enjoy this kind of thing. This new demographic becomes larger and more vocal, driving away more and
In any case, realize that when you do a deal with Disney, edgy humor is not where you should go.
 
5:26 PM
> The audience slowly gets replaced by people who unironically enjoy this kind of thing.
ಠ_ಠ
@Yuuki disney probably would've been fine had he not gone full anti-semitic for like the 3rd time
maybe trump will hire him for the White House
and tweet about how unfair disney is treating him
 
I mean Disney is pretty edgy often times
 
Man at this rate Markiplier is going to be revealed as a serial killer or something.
 
@badp yeah they included a lot of people of color in their latest movie. Much darker and edgier.
 
It's pretty hilarious how Jim Sterling, the one guy who almost literally dresses like a Nazi, hasn't been doing this sort of thing.
 
I guess that's because he is pretty much not a nazi
 
5:31 PM
@Yuuki Well, the Nazis didn't really like people of ambiguous sexual preference.
 
@JasonBerkan but milo sure loves them
 
though you can totally be a nazi and belong to one of the groups you hate
this sort of stuff never had to make SENSE
 
@Fluttershy I don't know, but I don't plan to use it because everything I've read said it makes the game ez mode
Like magic in DS3
@Wipqozn Wait, what?
I did every quest and subquest in region 1
Unless new ones show up in 1 after you go to 2
 
@badp niiice
@Yuuki paying people to hold a sign wishing death to a specific ethnic group is not "edgy humor"
 
Man, I'd like that humble bundle if I didn't already own nearly all of it.
 
@MadMAxJr $ goes to ACLU.
or doctors without borders.
or the other charity.
 
@badp fiverr
 
tempting
 
wait so that's 5 ebooks 1 audiobook and 1 demo?
 
@Avery The problem is that indulging in edgy humor tends to devolve to that sort of thing.
 
5:39 PM
can someone update me on the thing total
 
kinda
walkaway isn't released yet, so even that is nice
 
1.1 audiobooks
 
After which it no longer becomes humor and results in you getting fired by Disney.
 
@badp I think you found a bug in chat
 
Okay, apparently the reason why I dislike and have avoided Jim Sterling videos is because I watched some of his early videos in which he was a bit of shithead.
 
5:40 PM
@Avery did I
 
That hasn't really changed.
 
According to some people, he's gotten a lot better.
 
He has strong opinions, strongly worded.
 
by editing that old message, you got your image to gain transparency but kept its place
 
@Avery ah yeah, that's old news.
the old variant of FAKE NEWS.
 
5:41 PM
I actually like Jim Sterling, though I vehemently disagree with him regarding the "state of the gaming industry". And he rants about that enough that I had to stop watching.
 
also all of doctorow's books are free, so meh
@badp ALTARNATE FACX
 
I like most things Jim publishes
 
I can't respect anyone who dresses like this
 
@JasonBerkan I wouldn't say I dislike him but there's something about him that annoys me constantly
 
@Sterno That's a big part of why I've been avoiding his content.
 
5:42 PM
Unless you're Cyclops
 
why does he dress like that?
is it part of the joke?
 
it's how he dresses for the jimquisition videos.
which are usually the only ones where you can see his face
 
I also may or may not be trying to send as many messages a possible to get him off the screen
@badp can you really call that a reason though?
 
@BlueBarren You're bad at doing so.
 
The best way to clear images off your screen is to use images, not text.
 
5:45 PM
how does dressing like that contribute to his show
 
@BlueBarren creating an image.
 
It's pretty much the show's brand.
 
Preferably cat pictures.
 
@Arperum I don't want to end up spamming... something something see yourself become the villain
 
the cat looks up to Jim Sterling.
He wants more of it.
 
5:46 PM
@badp well the jim sterling picture is above the cat in the chat queue
 
 
and the cat is looking upwards
 
> "Dr. Meow here, how are you feline?"
 
This room smells like farts. But I'm the only one here.
 
@BlueBarren THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR SUCCESSFULLY SPOTTING THE JOKE. WELL DONE.
 
5:46 PM
I'm pretty sure I'm not guilty but I have no other explanation.
 
@badp what's my prize?
 
@BlueBarren a picture of Jim Sterling.
 
@badp worst
prize
ever
 
play a stupid game, win a stupid prize.
 
I dunno, you could be getting @Wipqozn in the mail.
 
5:48 PM
room topic changed to The Bridge: General Arqade chat, wherein we play the worst games on the internet. Period. [jin-fanclub] [lazers] [murder] [-politics] [success] [wrong]
 
@Yuuki now that is the worst
 
 
@Sterno Yeah. Sloth is incredibly broken. It cuts enemy attack speed by something like 80%.
 
 
@Yuuki Joke's on you I already had tacos
@Yuuki THE JOKE IS ON YOU
 
5:49 PM
those aren't tacos?
 
@Yuuki although important question: what the fuck are those and why am I not currently eating them
 
@Yuuki This is a cruel thing to do to a man drinking a liquid meal replacement lunch.
 
@Fluttershy :(
 
Eugh
 
@Fluttershy ... Soylent?
 
5:51 PM
@Yuuki pretty close
 
@Fluttershy would you rather see a picture of Jim Sterling except his back thing is in-fiction rescued from a garbage bin and it has actual garbage stuck to it, including a diaper
(it's funny -- the description is much more crass than the actual picture)
(so that's why I'm not posting it! you're welcome)
 
Order in at Jimmy Johns. Someone will walk my order here before I ordered it.
 
@Yuuki Yep.
@badp I... Sure?
 
@Fluttershy ... but why?
(Joking, don't have to answer)
 
@Yuuki Because I like it, and it keeps me from eating fast food for the billionth time.
TOO LATE I WAS ALREADY TYPING
 
5:55 PM
@Yuuki ryan_reynolds.gif
 
@Fluttershy Fair enough. I usually bring food from home these days.
 
@Fluttershy just watch the jimquisition before latest, I think
 
@Yuuki I should start doing that
 
Although I am super tempted to go to Jack-in-the-Box right now and get the special "comes with a triple-bypass" burger they're offering right now.
 
But actually if it comes with that that's a pretty good deal
I imagine triple bypass is expensive
 
5:59 PM
@Yuuki Have I told you lately how much I hate you?
Because man, these foods. So delicious looking.
Well the last one just looks okay
 
@Fluttershy This one also happens to have a Gamestop "circle of life" discussion attached to it, in which, yes, Gamestop is scum, news at 11.
 

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