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18:00
@twobugs the checks and balances were supposed to guard against that
the campaigns are getting more and more expensive, so law "makers" have to be telemarketing more and more
The best laid plans of mice and men...
gotta be on the ground. gotta be on the internet. gotta be on tv. gotta be on the paper. gotta be on the radio. gotta be on the ads. gotta be on the fliers. gotta be in your mail. gotta be on your walls. gotta be everywhere.
@badp paper? what's that?
@GodEmperorDune the sort of thing that works on @Sternold.
there are many voting Sternolds.
18:02
@GodEmperorDune aka broad sheets
I mean, how many of you live in a gerrymandered county that has basically 0% chance of swinging
that's just a cost cutting measure
so they don't have to care about your vote
I don't think people are really disagreeing, there are many fuct things in our selection process
@badp california has put things in place to undo the gerrymandering
I think the argument is more trying to enact positive change is better than doing nothing
The thing that people need to do more of is pay attention to local politics, since typically those issues will have more immediate impact on you and the posts serve as the starting points for the bulk of career politicians
18:04
@TimStone the bulk of their telemarketing careers?
@TimStone Yes exactly. They're a lot easier to engage and get involved with on a real level
And they directly impact everyday life
independent boards to recalculate the districts as well as top two runoff which (in theory) encourages politicians to appeal to the broadest group of the people in the district. unfortunately it handicaps third parties
DIRECT ELECTIONS!
gets pitchfork
@TimStone Maybe in the year 3000
@TimStone we directly elect everything except president now, iirc
and appointed positions, of course
18:06
@TimStone that doesn't fix the cost problems, it only makes them worse
I assume he meant President, which I doubt will change anytime soon
@GodEmperorDune we should direct elect supreme court judges
@Dragonrage lololololol
chief justice judge judy
Oh my goodness, this trial
THE PEOPLE NEED THEIR VOICES HEARD
18:07
in order to fix your elections and have simple majority or something, you have to first fix election funding
#letssitwith8justicesuntilnovember
@GodEmperorDune they need to be held accountable to the people :P
say, each party gets ten million dollars per election, deal with it (and watch the number of parties explode)
@Dragonrage How would you implement this?
@Dragonrage if judges were directly elected, they would start spending more time campaigning than doing their jobs
18:08
@GodEmperorDune They already do.
@Yuuki supreme court doesn't
And the idea of the supreme court is distinguished legal minds interpreting the constitution, not elected representatives
why the fuck are you electing judges btw? oh right because they are your actual law makers.
@GodEmperorDune have them direct elected, but have 20 year max positions and limited to one term
@Dragonrage no
that's dumb.
18:09
@Dragonrage What are you hoping to solve with this? I'm confused
@GodEmperorDune The thing is, national government isn't where the laws are being made anymore, it's local government.
lastweektonight:elected justices
also make it a requirement that they have some technical expertise
you can't ask people to invest dozens of years studying for a career that will only last 20 years if you're lucky
@Dragonrage i'd go for a single 16 year term instead, followed by guaranteed govt pension for life (to avoid the cushy industry job after they leave)
18:10
A 20 year tenure after a direct election wouldn't really change anything
you want to have judges. you want to have the best judges.
once you have the best judges, you want to keep them.
Donald trump for judge jury and executioner
We will build the biggest judge.
If you want them to be accountable, they should go up for re-election
But I don't think that's a remotely good idea
@twobugs technically judges are supposed to be nonaccountable to people so that they are impartial
18:11
@twobugs the judges are not supposed to be accountable to the people, they are supposed to do what the constitution says to do
Dark Souls 3 Pointiff for Supreme Court Justice.
or you end up like @MadMAxJr, a walking living breathing Trump meme
@GodEmperorDune inb4'd
to avoid the majority bullying the minority
@Dragonrage yeah i am lagging for sure :D
18:11
so I guess what I'm saying is
@Dragonrage I'm confused, aren't you asking for the direct opposite?
I am so not a Trump meme.
please go to war against like Italy and lose it so we can install our shit on your constitution and then you can probably figure it out yourselves
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@GodEmperorDune I agree, but I thought @Dragonrage was saying they should be accountable. It looks like I might not have understood him
18:12
maybe /s
@twobugs no, i was joking about having directly elected judges. though i do think they need to have training in technical matters
parse error: missing /s
because half of the judges dont seem to have any clue about anything when it comes to technology
@Dragonrage Okay, I got confused because I thought we were talking about the supreme court and uh.... yeah :P
@Dragonrage Elections wouldn't solve that problem.
The Tea Party and Donald Trump have shown that people don't care about technical qualifications.
18:14
@Yuuki i was joking about the elections.
does it take congress approval to go to war?
@GodEmperorDune Yeah, but even senators weren't elected that way until the 17th Amendment / 1914
I think @badp is right that we should move away from just one Judge handling these problems, but I don't know what a reasonable solution would be
@Dragonrage term limit would help with that, yes
Yeah, you have to consider that your perspective of "everyone I know is a dev" is skewed
18:14
that would defeat the purpose of having judges
@TimStone true
@badp Yes but police actions or something
You can Kill without War
Somehow war on terror got around that.
@twobugs well then. Obama can both go to war with Italy and sign the resignation immediately after war. It will be the one minute war and it will be glorious.
And war on terror got to keep going because, "Well spiders still exist and that's terror."
18:15
@badp president can deploy troops for something like 60 days but needs approval for longer
oh wait that's not what you meant.
@MadMAxJr war on terror was authorized by congress
@badp Under the War Powers Act, the president has 90 days after introducing troops into hostilities to obtain congressional approval of that action.
it was a stupid authorization, but it was done
Then I retract the first part of my assertion. I stand firmly behind spiders cause terror.
18:15
@Dragonrage but the president wouldn't be moving any troops, just admit defeat immediately
@badp We're not France.
as the maximum overarmy dude, he can do that
probably
@badp Ah, so the President would be conceding repeatedly to throw off the matchmaking algorithm? That way we can smurf in some future wars
@twobugs yes.
maybe we can invade canada and let trudeau conquer us
18:16
We need to make a smurf country, practice some wars, then go back to the ladder.
I guess the only other option would be to make a proxy country
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Q: How to summon a invisible block

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the best proxy country.
This is getting close to the MGS plotline, by the way
Overnight, we give Guam a third of the army and half the carrier fleet.
18:17
Proxy countries fighting proxy wars with proxy soldiers using proxy NANOMACHINES.
SOMETHING SOMETHING CONTROL
Proxy soldiers and mini-metal gears that go moo.
@MadMAxJr how solid are these metal gears?
@twobugs lol
@Yuuki Did you ever listen to the Code Talker tapes, btw?
I've never played a MGS game so I'm delighted by this
18:18
Love those
@twobugs @badp is er0rr Snek
Chemical... Burger... MUSICAL STING
@twobugs :D
@GodEmperorDune *er0rr
18:19
Code Talker was such a great character
The tapes took him in such a cool direction
okay so
1. build wall
2. declare wall own country
3. war the wall
4. lose to the wall
5. accept wall terms
Native American old wise man but he's actually an accomplished parasitologist who loves Hamburgers
So, @drpizza challenged me: "Sean: Article idea: The quest to find a COBOL dev under the age of 25." Any <25 COBOL coders up for interview?
Like hunting for a unicorn
now that's an action plan
MGS5 seemed to have confused parasites for magic.
18:20
@TimStone dammit, only slightly too old
@TimStone all the COBOL is going to crumble after the last COBOL dev retires
We still have COBOL systems here
@MadMAxJr Eh, not totally. Most of it is at least quasi-plausible
And it shows the build up to nanomachines
@badp That just makes you a unicorn with a half-horn
You're still special to us
@TimStone but that's where the magic gland is
also I haven't written any cobol.
18:22
…And we're probably not trying to hunt you
Minor details
MGS5 also made me think twice about yogurt with 'active cultures' in it.
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badpHello Sir Stroke Madam, When I Buy Unicorn Animation Pack For Ninety Nine (99) Unicoins I Expect Joyful Colorful Animations of Unicorns When I Vote Post. When I Vote Bad Post Down I Get Horse With Fake Cheap Plastic Imitate Of Horn Instead. Horse Throws Fake Cheap Plastic Imitate of Horn At Scor...

Though Skullface could have done some advertising. Such a lust for flavor! Whoooooooooo?
View Discreet Advise.
That might be the dumbest thing I've read today
18:26
Metal Gear 6: Unicorns of the Patriots.
Maybe
You never cease to amaze @badp
I'm not sure I understand Pocket Card Jockey.
cool, my WoW account just got upgraded to Warlords of Draenor for free
and so did my wife's
@MadMAxJr NO. Let's not ever talk about MGS6
I assume they're adding that to the standard edition already, I figured they wouldn't do it until release of Legion tho
18:29
@twobugs You're right, they'll probably reboot Solid next with a new cast.
Konami is making it without Kojima, so anything is possible
Zombocom. Anything is possible.
Qualification/Experience
> - Secret government clearance
Umm... does this mean that my government clearance needs to be secret? Or that I have clearance from a secret government?
Man the DNC really screwed up handling Sanders. It sounds like they're having to seriously consider an uprising
18:32
@Yuuki if you have to ask, you don't have it
@Yuuki When they ask for your clearance, just tell them you'd have to kill them
They'll nod knowingly
@twobugs The hilarious thing is that they literally just needed to not doing anything out of the ordinary.
@Yuuki both
@twobugs nah a buddy of mine had top secret clearance. he said those guys don't mess around with that kind of thing
If a position requires clearance, they need to state whether you must already have it or if you are capable of passing the clearance test.
18:33
@Yuuki Probably that you have a government clearance of "secret" level
"Oh, this guy is getting a lot of votes but probably won't win the nomination? Let's just give him some proportional representation in committees and stuff or whatnot."
@GodEmperorDune Yeah I kind of figured! I was being slightly less than serious
@Yuuki The DNC chair is pretty much as useless as the RNC's, TBH
@twobugs i figured. just for the
I like that Trump is trying to get Bernie to run as an independent. Shows he is actually afraid of Clinton.
18:34
@twobugs unacceptable. I will accept nothing less than full seriousness from you :P
Please accept this pear as an apology
@twobugs bernie already said he'll do whatever it takes to stop trump
@GodEmperorDune He's willing to become a Terminator and travel back in time?
@twobugs i mean, whether or not he is afraid, splitting up the democratic vote is a good way to secure an election
@twobugs oh no, hacking too much time!
18:36
would you rather be 55% sure or 80% sure
@Dragonrage I'm not denying it's a good strategy, but this is someone who has been claiming his opponents have literally nothing for months.
The fact that he's doing this is a serious recognition of the danger they pose
He won't do it, he understands how disastrous it would be
He's no Ron Paul
@Unionhawk or ralph nader, or ross perot
Ron Paul 2020
How old will the man be in 2020, like 80?
checks
85
18:39
@Unionhawk I know I'm late here, but I caught this as I was skimming; potatoes is probably a bad thing to put against apples to indicate that the two things are different. The French word for potato (pomme de terre) translates literally to "ground apple".
He'll be a Lich at that point.
I'm still hoping for a Vermin Supreme presidency. He promised every American a pony
Probably not the kind of pony you wanted.
how about apples and trump
"you can't add apples and trump together"
@TrentHawkins how about apples and rocks?
18:40
we have the best apples
@Unionhawk they are all pears
Trump Apples is still a company that exists, it's a great company
@TrentHawkins I'm pretty sure that the pomme in pomme de terre just means fruit, not specifically apple.
@Ronan I'm pretty sure it's "apple"
fine, it's like comparing apples to @badp
18:42
@murgatroid99 In old french pomme just means fruit, it later came to specifically mean apple.
literally meaningless
> pomme f ‎(plural pommes)

apple (fruit)
Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size.
The fruit part of several vegetables.
The head.
ground head
Perfect
But saying that potatoes are like apples because pomme de terre has pomme in it doesn't make sense.
so in France you have apple fries instead of French Fries?
18:43
@TrentHawkins potato in armenian is "ground apple" too
that actually works
@Ronan The dutch word literally translates to "earth apple".
Politician claims porn tabs a malware experiment, then finds God http://reg.cx/2m5t
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The German word for potato is Kartoffel which is fun to say.
Hmm kartoffeln
18:44
I'm not going to lie, I didn't imagine that the deflection would be that when the original story broke
@TimStone yeah, he needs to blame it on the social media intern
@Arperum But that could have come from the french "pomme de terre" after "pomme" changed meaning.
@Ronan Possibly. I'm not a linguistic. I'll defere to my girlfriend for linguistic debates :p
@Arperum I'm basing it on QI and Wiktionary, so...
@badp What do you think about the existence of canned pizza dough?
18:46
@GraceNote dis gon be gud
@Ronan She still has to start her linguistic studies, but has a massive interest in the thing :p
@GraceNote pizza dough takes a while to make
It doesnt have particular storage requirements
so I am not opposed and this actually happens in practice most likely
I'm talking about the raw product btw
It confused me when I saw it. I ran across a recipe for "Deluxe Supreme Mac & Cheese Pizza" that called for "1 can of refridgerated pizza dough" and I was kinda stopped at the idea of "a can of pizza dough"
18:50
I don't think you could get a cooked pizza crust in a can
Yeah, it's raw product. Refridgerated, but raw.
Good pizza dough probably takes a day to make
It's one of those the longer the better things
@Unionhawk depends how big the can is
Did not actually know that.
I mean
If you're making pizza just for yourself it probably takes a couple hours
but you don't have that luxury when running a pizzeria
18:52
That y'wouldn't
so the dough is made with a lot of advance
@GodEmperorDune pizza crust sold in giant tuna cans? Sounds like a plan!
My uncles run a restaurant and one of them is the pizzaiolo
@badp pizzalolol?
that said we don't … really speak about work
18:53
I didn't remember about your uncle but I do know you know your stuff about this by experience.
That's why I asked.
Well it's still just hearsay
It's only slightly less far removed
Relativistic experience is still experience!
I've seen a few noodle pulling videos and they don't look entirely unlike making a pizza
Pizza is good. I like pizza.
you do end up with a circle with an oven as opposed to thin things in a pot
18:56
or would it be more correct to say pizza are good? cc @AshleyNunn
@badp how many noodle pulling videos have you seen?
@Dragonrage "puh puh puh, pizza" is the correct usage.
@GodEmperorDune ive seen several. You dont watch cooking shows?
7 DAYS UNTIL OVERWATCH
I bet Trump plays Bastion.
18:58
@Dragonrage no, i don't watch noodle pulling videos
@Sterno it's still not out?
@Sterno nah, he wants to Mei-ke A-Mei-Rica great again. and she builds walls
plus she's proof that climate change was a hoax created by the chinese
People need to stop putting the dash in "Mei-ke". That just makes it looke like "May-key"
@TimStone just googled the names of the videos in the pictures... actual videos. 10/10 best malware.
@Sterno its the new york accent
19:06
@TimStone It would be so refreshing to just see a politician say, "Oh, yeah. I was looking at porn. What, you don't?"
Yeah BUT JESUS
@GodEmperorDune 2
The true American Dream is being able to sell any lie as completely and effectively as the notion of American morality
one was a demonstration, the other practical
Now I want noodles
19:07
@badp so are you good at pulling noodles now?
no
how much practice did you need?
but
I pull noodles
I pull the best noodles
all 0 of them
This is mathematically true
I have never pulled a noodle that wasn't the best
A verifiable truth
@badp Those two statements aren't the same.
19:11
@Ronan for all X, P(X) <=> for all X, -(-P(X))
though I guess you could argue the latter was -(for all X, -P(X))
@badp You've never pulled a noodle that wasn't the worst.
@Sterno I blame @Wipqozn
Valid
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@badp I don't think that first one is what you said.
19:14
how much easier is it to play rocket league with a controller?
@Sterno GET HYPED
@badp I blame the noodles
Not just a Tetris movie, but a trilogy
@Wipqozn I just did the first hell mission on Doom. Found everything but ONE secret. And the end area locks you in, so you can't backtrack on the map. It was the worst.
@Sterno I'm glad to hear of your misery
@Sterno Did you get that secret sense upgrade?
@Wipqozn Yeah, it's worthless
19:19
You jerks are making me want to buy Doom
But it's a step to unlock the more useful one after it which shows the items on your map
I have too many other games
7 days
also
@Unionhawk @twobugs just played Hearthstone and WOW instead anyway, because he hates fun
Still 7 days
19:20
MINESWEEPER: THE MOVIE
I'm going to the MLG for Hearthstone and you're going to be quite the fool
Also I played Overwatch with him like once
In fact exactly once
I don't even know what "the MLG" is
The Major League Gaming
Something something because you're the old
19:21
Gaming isn't a noun. Why are you using it like one? WHAT'S HAPPENING?
@Sterno K. I was waiting to buy it until I complete the game, since I was worried it was just going to ruin the fun of finding secrets.
@Sterno urmom is a noun
cc @Wipqozn
@GodEmperorDune urmom is urmom
@Wipqozn It won't. But you also will spend forever and a half finding secrets without it
@twobugs but what about your camco gampai ties
19:22
unless you just cheat and internet them
@Sterno someone is having a bad case of the gamings
My gamings are the best gamings
I've got some really great people who are going to do the gamings with me. And we're going to make @Wipqozn pay for it
@Chippies Mine didn't.
@Sterno Yeah, that's why I'm planning to buy i at the end, for when/if I go trying to finish all the secrets
@Wipqozn 100% each map before moving on or GTFO
19:24
@ChromeSlice it doesn't if you disable the updates, but you can't do that in Win10 anyway
(or, really, because I know I'd never go back)
@Sterno I suspect this may be what happens to me. I may just do a Nightmare playthrough with that upgrade.
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Q: Why does my Xbox One Controller stop responding while playing games on Windows 10?

PhaezeSo I started playing Final Fantasy XIII - 2 via Steam the other day using my Xbox One controller and I noticed that whenever the game showed a prompt (i.e save game, play tutorial, anything in the blue dialog box) my controller would become entirely unresponsive. The problem was temporarily solv...

@ardaozkal wat
19:29
lol r/btc
these are Real People That Exist too
see (6) to understand what I meant.
> I had my funds in "paper" wallets in pdf files stored in a WinRar password protected file
> So I got a clip of a guy shouting Allahu Akbar and then a bomb exploding from youtube and made it my ringtone.
yeah
not sure how that could ever go wrong
@Wipqozn Oh. Apparently the hell level bugs out and sometimes blocks you from doing the 2nd rune. Which is why I couldn't. Lovely :(
19:42
@ardaozkal Where does it say it was cracked software?
He got cracked VMWare off Piratebay
@SaintWacko see my message below that
Which I assume was hosting a windows instance.
@ardaozkal Oh, derp
I read through the post and somehow skipped that entry
19:53
This laptop takes like 30 years to boot up
And shut down apparently
30 years is a long boot cycle
You've been asleep the whole time. It's now 2153.
It's a full disk encrypt on a slow HDD. It's not fun.
@Ronan show him his reflection in the mirror
hopefully the chemical wars didn't do too much damage
Haha, a Virginia Senate candidate made a facebook post where they left porn tabs visible. Oops.
19:58
1 hour ago, by Tim Stone
Politician claims porn tabs a malware experiment, then finds God http://reg.cx/2m5t
Isn't that Glen Beck's "news source"? :|

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