This Is Fine

12:02 AM

@Yuuki sure you can say that

@GodEmperorDune Okay, but I'll just leave it here because that's a terrible thing to put on social media, not in the least because some idiot might take it seriously because Poe's Law or whatever.

GodEmperorDune

one of the major disagreements i have with my senators is how they are understandably super pro-MPAA and RIAA

and entertainment industry corruption reaching out to washington is definitely a thing

cazc_941

@GodEmperorDune I didn't say it wasn't true

GodEmperorDune

but california has wildfires because 1) people build structures in areas that require wildfires to burn 2) we have fire zone charts for mandated fire insurance that are about as woefully out of date as the flood zone charts 3) climate change makes wildfires more intense

so houston flooding and california burning are pretty analogous

ooh i forgot 4) home prices are such that buying houses in fire zones may be the most affordable housing in the area

Tim Stone

(there has been a take)

GodEmperorDune

12:13 AM

with the minor caveat that SUPER RICH people like to live on the hills to lord over everyone and the tops of the hills is what is likely to burn as well (like rupert murdoch)

@TimStone what da fuq

Tim Stone

Classic Bill Mitchell

GodEmperorDune

like this is not just wildly inaccurate but has no internal logic whatsoever

"oh you did the thing we didn't want you to do, i guess we should just give up and go home"

Tim Stone

Two of R. Kelly’s mansions were totally cleaned out while he was away on tour https://trib.al/q3b6Wj1

Tweeted by Complex on December 6, 2017 at 11:45 PM

Ahahahaha

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone they stole the furniture too?!

Tim Stone

Furniture is pricey yo, and screw R. Kelly

GodEmperorDune

12:16 AM

yeah not going to get any sympathy from me

Tim Stone

OH HELL NO

Trump pushing Maine governor to run against independent Senator: report http://hill.cm/VSNVp90

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 12:25 AM

Paul LePage needs to get into the damn sea, not into the Senate

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone as much as i would love to see him get trounced, yeah

what was the list of stereotypical black names he came up with?

> D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty

classic

oh excuse me, he didn't say that they were black, just that the impregnated young white girls before they left

yeah get in the sea le page

Memor-X

12:33 AM

> He once referred to himself as “Donald Trump before Donald Trump.”

makes sense, Trump wants another Trump

surround himself with Trumps. turn the White House into the Trump House

Tim Stone

Ahahahahahahahahaha

Collins not in committee, Ron Johnson embarrassed

Unionhawk

@TimStone honestly, the people of Maine should decide this

Tim Stone

Like a ballot initiative asking if he should get in the sea?

Unionhawk

That's why I'm starting a petition for a referendum to exile LePage to the ocean

Tim Stone

Approved

GodEmperorDune

12:36 AM

@TimStone hey @uni get bothering your boy rob

Tim Stone

@Memor-X LePage is easily about as depraved as Trump so that's definitely true

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune he'd rather hide behind building management than listen to me

Tim Stone

Have you tried entering the office waving a stack of cash?

Unionhawk

It was like an hour ordeal for them to let 7 of us up because their normal policy is "sign in only 5 at a time"

Eventually by virtue of they just wanted to end the standoff in the hallway they allowed it

He wasn't there of course because like he's never in the Cincinnati office

Tim Stone

Breaking: Amb. Nikki Haley not certain we should send our athletes to the Olympics. Will depend on NK situation.

Tweeted by marthamaccallum on December 7, 2017 at 12:17 AM

Are we just cobbling unrelated stuff together now?

Unionhawk

12:44 AM

But we delivered our message that we are demanding a clean dream act now as part of omnibus spending

Tim Stone

Is reality experiencing memory corruption?

GodEmperorDune

if you weren’t sure if Ben Shapiro was into nuclear takes

Unionhawk

@TimStone Olympics are in pyeongchang

@GodEmperorDune lol he apparently has me blocked

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk lol, nice

Unionhawk

No he doesn't nvm

GodEmperorDune

12:46 AM

RECLAIMING MY NICE

Unionhawk

Twitter is just stupid and gave me "you're not authorized"

But yeah no Ben Shapiro is completely on board with the complete and total destruction and ethnic cleansing of palistine, this isn't new

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk wait, south korea has a city named Pyeongchang and north korea's capital is a different city, Pyongyang

oh maybe that's just me being white and not pronouncing it properly

Unionhawk

I don't know

THE OLYMPICS ARE IN KOREA

GodEmperorDune

wikipedia confirms these are different places

Tim Stone

Yeah they're in South Korea, lol

GodEmperorDune

12:51 AM

and easily confused

Tim Stone

So like, I don't know if they're insinuating the North Koreans would like, bomb our athletes but not all the Americans already in South Korea, orrrr?

Unionhawk

But hey, we owned the russians, since they are not allowed to compete as a nation

That's what you get for messing with American democracy

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone probably they pushed her in front of a mic and told her to talk about something entirely unrelated to russia or jerusalem

Unionhawk

@TimStone honestly it seems possible

Like I don't think this is an entirely insane idea. It'd be suicide though so

Like you'd be attacking every nation at that point

So that feels like a strategic error

murgatroid99

@TimStone To be fair, you can say "we don't want to send any more people there for now" without also pulling out everyone already there

GodEmperorDune

12:54 AM

@Unionhawk which iirc kim jong un has literally said he was down to do if he was backed into it

"if they're going to take us down, light them all up first"

Trump Jr. cites attorney-client privilege in not answering panel's questions about discussions with his father http://politi.co/2jmMkQ5 via @KyleDCheney

Tweeted by politico on December 7, 2017 at 12:40 AM

i think one of you needs to be an attorney for attorney-client privilege to work

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Well, the other person being an attorney wouldn't mean that you have attorney-client privilege either.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki yes, necessary but not sufficient

in fact iirc, having someone who is neither the attorney nor the client in the room means that the conversation is not privileged

Unionhawk

I mean you can fifth in this scenario anyway

Jr just doesn't know how anything works

GodEmperorDune

yeah but fifth is a different thing than attorney client privilege

Unionhawk

Right but they're approximately close such that he's dumb but not entirely incorrect

Yuuki

1:05 AM

@Unionhawk "So close and yet so far" describes Trump Jr. pretty aptly.

GodEmperorDune

@pwnallthethings Not original I know, but these guys are dumber than the bluths.

Tweeted by KennyEvil on December 7, 2017 at 1:00 AM in reply to pwnallthethings

Unionhawk

He's far and away the stupidest Trump

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk it is a very close competition betwixt the large adult sons

Yuuki

I would laugh so hard if Barron ends up basically becoming the Big Good God Emperor of Mankind.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki ಠ_ಠ

and now, this

Number of days Trump admin was able to even pretend to care about homeless veterans: 4 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/homeless-veterans-benefits-trump-207781?cid=apn

Tweeted by rebeccavallas on December 7, 2017 at 1:04 AM

Memor-X

1:10 AM

@GodEmperorDune is that consecutively of cumulatively?

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X consecutive i think

GodEmperorDune

1:23 AM

oh hey apparently the hills close to my mom's house are on fire again

or it's just an evacuation zone? these maps are hard to read

i dunno why someone can't throw a "here's what's on fire" overlay onto google maps

OH i misspoke, the fire overlay has fires from a couple months ago

Unionhawk

@Yuuki Barron is the president and CEO of antifa

We elected him at our last board meeting

GodEmperorDune

1:41 AM

Don Jr. may have been thinking of the Sopranos episodes where they family held meetings at their lawyer’s office because attorney-client privilege prevented the FBI from bugging it.

Tweeted by mattyglesias on December 7, 2017 at 1:40 AM

Unionhawk

1:53 AM

Two years ago, Kim Davis denied David Ermold a marriage license because he was gay, despite it being legalized. Today, she had to watch as he signed up to run against her in the next election.

Tweeted by ColeLedford11 on December 6, 2017 at 11:42 PM

GodEmperorDune

2:12 AM

@Unionhawk lol, rekt

user15026

2:26 AM

@Unionhawk I think every picture I have seen she looks vaguely mad at the world but I like that she looks displeased here

Unionhawk

Hi hello yes I'm here to apply to interview with the people of Kentucky for your job thank

Memor-X

2:41 AM

Under-fire Labor senator Sam Dastyari asked Australia's top defence officials questions representing China's interests more than 115 times over a three-year period.

this is the same guy who tried to tip off a Chinese official that his phones may have been bugged, got donations from him and went against labor party policy and said Australia should stay out of Chinese affairs in the south china sea

the fact this guy still hasn't been questioned for treason is baffling

Tim Stone

2:59 AM

Thank you #Texas! So enjoyed my visit with everyone today. Special thanks to 1st responders & @CoastalBendFB for all that you do! We are with you Texas. #TexasRebuilds

Tweeted by FLOTUS on December 7, 2017 at 2:37 AM

Wait what's going on in that fourth picture? Did one of the kids fart?

Unionhawk

3:22 AM

Oh yeah, forget if we covered this

Ryan promises Medicaid, Medicare spending cuts in 2018 to "tackle the deficit" http://hill.cm/27t5lpa

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 1:01 AM

MAKES U THINK

GodEmperorDune

“Trump + Jared figure that after...a few days of riots, things go back to normal when it comes to the negotiations.” https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/jared-kushner-trump-jerusalem-mideast-peace-283770

Tweeted by anniekarni on December 6, 2017 at 10:30 PM

Fucking idiots

> He is banking on the hope that the opposition is just a facade — and that, privately, after a “cooling-off period,” Arab allies will continue to work with him on a peace plan he still expects to announce at some point in the early months of 2018.

A peace plan in early 2018?

Unionhawk

Good thing our war plan is in late 2017

Memor-X

.@RichardDiNatale says he believes a by-election is certain in the seat of Batman and that since he cannot prove he isn't a dual citizen, @Feeney4Batman should resign immediately. #auspol MORE: http://bit.ly/2zSLYH7 https://t.co/dbvwpdk1Ra

Tweeted by SkyNewsAust on December 7, 2017 at 2:47 AM

just had to share because of Batman

GodEmperorDune

I wish I had the confidence to think that I could solve a problem that experts have bee struggling with for decades in under a year

Memor-X

> Feeney4Batman

GodEmperorDune

3:30 AM

@Memor-X what seat of Batman?

Memor-X

Division of Batman

The Division of Batman is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. The division was created in 1906, replacing the Division of Northern Melbourne. It takes its name from John Batman, one of the founders of the city of Melbourne. The current Member for Batman, since the 2013 federal election, is David Feeney, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Batman has historically been the safest Labor seat in the nation, but came narrowly within being lost to the Australian Greens at the 2016 federal election after having been overtaken by them on the primary vote. The division is located...

we know where Gotham City is

@Unionhawk but when is that? eternal-2016

Tim Stone

The Bitcoin crash starts in 3 hours. Withdraw now if you still can.

Tweeted by grittygrease on December 7, 2017 at 1:38 AM

Hmmm, not sure if him trolling or something else

Memor-X

@TimStone a while back someone posted here something about someone suggesting to pay or tip in only bit coin. if it crashes it just shows what a stupid idea what was

Tim Stone

Indeed

Al Franken defenders on Fox News!Gingrich and Ingraham just now: This is “political calculation.” And “weird puritanism.” He’s accused of “minor stuff.” Dems are a “lynch mob.” There’s “no due process.”

Tweeted by brianstelter on December 7, 2017 at 3:14 AM

tfw you gotta protect your brand, apparently

Unionhawk

3:53 AM

@TimStone I hope so

Let's go

Ending the late capitalist practice of spending resources to generate fake value would be very good

user15026

Considering I worked in a bitcoin industry through some "crashes" I suspect, especially considering current value, that it won't "crash" to an actual breaking point that actually changes much, all things considered

user15026

I mean I don't understand all the bits

user15026

but I understand some of the ways it is assigned usefulness to people

user15026

so I will be curious what, if anything, actually happens, and if it actually has more of an impact than a news cycle of OMG BITCOIN IS DEAD

user15026

because so far, every time, it's never actually dented enough to really do a whole lot

user15026

3:55 AM

(oh wow self you are becoming very cynical about things sometimes)

Memor-X

4:11 AM

US Achives World Unification

though to understand the situation better, is jerusalem shared between multiple counties?

Unionhawk

5:06 AM

Oh part of the sell off might be that steam doesn't accept it anymore

Memor-X

@Unionhawk steam used to accept bitcoin?

Yuuki

6:03 AM

> Mitch McConnell calls on Franken to resign.

Well, it seems the one thing that apparently has bipartisan support is getting Democrats out of the Senate.

(But yeah, he needs to resign.)

I'm surprised McConnell could find enough spine parts in his skeleton closet to call for Franken to resign though.

@TimStone It has to do with Bitcoin's tech.

Basically, Bitcoin has a size limit and general consensus has decided to not increase said size limit.

> "Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean block size upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x."

And now merchants are dropping Bitcoin because it has essentially decided to not scale.

As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613

Tweeted by SteamDB on December 6, 2017 at 5:26 PM

Or at least that's my cursory (~5 minutes of Googling) understanding.

GodEmperorDune

6:56 AM

@Yuuki i thought they had already split the chain months ago

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune They split into two versions of Bitcoin, IIRC.

GodEmperorDune

hahaha

Yuuki

Arperum

8:26 AM

@GodEmperorDune Wat. How is he unaware of the decades of war that have been fought over that?

Kevin van der Velden

8:56 AM

@Memor-X in Nottinghamshire (yes, that nottingham)

Jutschge

9:27 AM

Lol so we have a news satire in our national radio simply called "Fake News". Best headline I've heard so far: "Putin will be running for president again in 2018. The election results will be made public next week"

GodEmperorDune

9:51 AM

6 hours ago, by GodEmperorDune

Fucking idiots

Arperum

10:14 AM

@GodEmperorDune So having sex with idiots makes you unaware of decades of war?

GodEmperorDune

Hue

Arperum

So you are saying all the middle east needs is to go fuck some idiots.

Kevin van der Velden

10:35 AM

Wait is idiotism a STD?

Memor-X

10:51 AM

tonight in "the world is shit but at-least we have rainbows" Australia has same-sex marriage

fredley

11:13 AM

@Unionhawk Yes. More narratives like Danica Roem's pls

Ronan

12:14 PM

@KevinvanderVelden The one I'm from!

Kevin van der Velden

@Ronan also that

Ronan

Which one did you mean?

Kevin van der Velden

Robin hood

Ronan

I think I'm more famous than Robin Hood

Kevin van der Velden

This is true

Unionhawk

1:45 PM

Tweeted by kenklippenstein on December 7, 2017 at 1:23 PM

Arperum

1:56 PM

@Unionhawk Wait, CNN is becoming actual fake news?

Unionhawk

For CNN "analysis" might mean "some dumb pundit points to the tax bill as a kept promise"

probably

Unionhawk

2:10 PM

Great news! @msnbc recognized their massive error in firing @SamSeder and reversed their decision. https://theintercept.com/2017/12/07/sam-seder-msnbc-reverses-decision-to-fire-contributor-sam-seder/

Tweeted by VicBergerIV on December 7, 2017 at 2:07 PM

Kevin van der Velden

2:21 PM

@Unionhawk that's still only "keeper of a promise, mostly"

Tim Stone

2:36 PM

Grassley tweets to Trump complaining he was left out of GOP's tax bill conference http://hill.cm/1t1871h

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 2:31 PM

lololol

Unionhawk

So wait like how does this work now, they conference it together (minus Susan and Chuck naturally), and then it goes back again to each chamber?

Also excluding others who made any kinds of demands

I forget who else was like "hold on"

Unrelated, this is pretty much my take on Franken/Conyers

A lot of takes seem to be equating Dems pushing Franken out with an unwillingness to "play dirty," as though allowing sexual predators in positions of power is some kind of clever, savvy tactic.

Tweeted by dylanmatt on December 7, 2017 at 2:36 PM

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk Yeah, where they vote on it with no ammendments

So for all the people who were promised things but aren't on committee, they're likely to get screwed

Which will make it less likely they'll want to vote for the result

Unionhawk

@TimStone This is all of the people who were promised things iirc

Tim Stone

I mean Ron Johnson was promised to just be on the committee, which is kind of hilarious

Tim Stone

4:07 PM

@Yuuki Yeah, but he's head of crypto at Cloudflare so I wasn't sure if there was a pending vulnerability or something that he expected to tank the value immediately

"The Los Angeles Police Department asked drivers to avoid navigation apps, which are steering users onto more open routes — in this case, streets in the neighborhoods that are on fire." http://fw.to/EMJxt2E

Tweeted by joelrubin on December 7, 2017 at 1:04 AM

Whoops

JUST IN: Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager sentenced to 19-24 years in prison for deadly shooting of unarmed Walter Scott.

Tweeted by ABC on December 7, 2017 at 3:20 PM

Unionhawk

yeeeeeeeeeeee

Kevin van der Velden

For charges of civil rights violations, but eh

Jailtime is jailtime

Tim Stone

There is of course a partisan divide on "most disliked national or world leader." But note that even independents have Trump ahead of Kim Jong-un, and Republicans mention Trump ahead of Putin:

Tweeted by ShibleyTelhami on December 7, 2017 at 2:57 PM in reply to ShibleyTelhami

That's wild

Unionhawk

Point of information: why is hillary clinton considered to be a national or world leader

what is this

Tim Stone

Yeah, I was confused but not surprised

Unionhawk

4:22 PM

Like I can kind of buy putting a recent former president on your list

Yuuki

Just a few years ago, if you told me that Americans would, on average, dislike the current sitting President more than Vladimir Putin, I would've told you... that that's actually somewhat understandable in the vaguest sense.

Tim Stone

It's kind of crazy that even among Republicans Trump is more disliked than Putin and within two points of Obama and Clinton, but I suspect that the people who picked Obama and Clinton had to flip a coin so

JUST IN: Minnesota's female lieutenant governor to replace Franken: report http://hill.cm/AlDGlJR

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 4:23 PM

Yuuki

Before we start riding the "whoo, we're actually dealing with sexual harassment" train, note that Terry Crews came out about being sexually assaulted and by the looks of it, it's being swept under the rug.

Tim Stone

I mean, there's been articles about it and his comments were widely shared on Twitter? I'd agree that there's less of a focus on "What will the accused do?" because most people don't have any context for who they are

Context for that Haley comment:

@DLind No, it’s fine. Her longer statement is way less dramatic. Apparently Fox News just keeps asking Trump admin officials if Americans will be safe during the Olympics because of North Korea. Others have said they’ll be fine.

Tweeted by jenn_ruth on December 7, 2017 at 2:51 AM in reply to DLind

rolls eyes at Fox

Unionhawk

Yeah we're probably fine?

I don't think they'd attack every nation at once?

But like

If anyone would they would

Tim Stone

4:32 PM

Trump didn't seem to have complete understanding of Jerusalem decision: report http://hill.cm/dA0wZGI

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 4:31 PM

Oh no way who could have seen that coming

Yuuki

@TimStone Evidently not Trump.

Tim Stone

Pelosi says Dems will NOT support the CR today "They either have the votes or they don’t have the votes today." cites CHIP, Dream Act, drug abuse funding, veterans...

Tweeted by sarahnferris on December 7, 2017 at 4:13 PM

Unionhawk

Kids dressed as elves are delivering “coal” to @SpeakerRyan’s office, singing carols, etc. to request a #DreamActNow. Capitol police immediately pulled out zip-tie handcuffs.

Tweeted by JordanUhl on December 7, 2017 at 3:42 PM

Tim Stone

Officer on the right looks like he's having a moment of "Wow even I think this is excessive" before he tosses an elf down the hallway

user15026

@Unionhawk Christ. They're fucking children.

Unionhawk

4:41 PM

@SpeakerRyan The protesters went outside, and police followed them.

Tweeted by JordanUhl on December 7, 2017 at 3:47 PM in reply to JordanUhl

Yuuki

@Unionhawk I thought the Republicans loved coal?

Kevin van der Velden

@Ash no that's roy moore

RIP ill gotten stars

Well, star, I don't know who the other was

Unionhawk

How many zip tie cuffs do you think capitol police have used in the healthcare and tax protests

Wipqozn

Universal Basic Income Explained – Free Money for Everybody? UBI

►

Tim Stone

4:57 PM

Franken announces resignation (effective 'in the coming weeks'),

Franken: "There is some irony that I am leaving while a man who bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who preyed on young girls runs for Senate with the full support of his party."

Tweeted by rebeccaballhaus on December 7, 2017 at 4:54 PM

Unionhawk

More like Al Frankout tbh

Yuuki

@TimStone inb4 "that doesn't excuse you"

Unionhawk

Perhaps they all should be leaving I agree senator

Unionhawk

5:30 PM

#SebGorka now lifting the “Bond Villain” impression I created, specifically the Hugo Drax “Moonraker” chunk! #sonofmoonraker

Tweeted by JAdomian on December 7, 2017 at 5:05 PM

murgatroid99

@Yuuki Presumably, if he thought it excused him, he wouldn't be leaving

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk Wait is he doing a "global warming is so fake I'm going to physically destroy this glacier" take too?

Unionhawk

I don't know, but I do know that Gorka unironically rules

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 i think if it were up to him he wouldn't be leaving

murgatroid99

I don't know

In any case, he's completely right. It's crazy that he has to leave while people who did significantly worse just get to hold their offices

Tim Stone

5:40 PM

#BREAKING Authorities say three people are dead after shooting at New Mexico high school https://usat.ly/2AkLa2a

Tweeted by USATODAY on December 7, 2017 at 5:36 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone love too pass concealed carry reciprocity agreements right before another shooting

love to stop the war on Christmas by having a “holiday party”

Unionhawk

lol

Another victory in the war on christmas

cazc_941

6:12 PM

I like Christmas

My guess is they called it that because there are other religions besides Christianity that also have celebrations this time of year, so they wanted to include everyone

Seems okay to me

Kevin van der Velden

Do you not know the term "war on christmas"?

It's basically christian people going "WE'RE SO OPPRESSED, PEOPLE SAY HAPPY HOLIDAYS INSTEAD OF MERRY CHRISTMAS HOW DARE THEY!"

cazc_941

Yeah isn't that where people want people to stop saying Merry Christmas and start saying happy holidays

GodEmperorDune

@cazc_941 the irony here is that there is a huge right wing backlash against calling things "holiday party" instead of "christmas party" or saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas" because some people feel that using "holiday" is offensive against people who celebrate christmas

cazc_941

Cause this is different

Kevin van der Velden

@cazc_941 no, it's where christians overreact to people being inclusive

cazc_941

6:17 PM

Whatever, that sounds dumb. If I want to tell someone merry Christmas, they are being an asshole if they get offended even if they don't celebrate Christmas. Cause I do and I'm giving you a positive interaction

GodEmperorDune

trump of course feeds into that by saying he is going to "make christmas great again" and "end the war on christmas" and here his company is going with "holiday party" instead of "christmas party"

cazc_941

If somebody wishes me happy hannukah or something do u think i jump down their throat

@GodEmperorDune well I don't think the party is only for Christians, is it?

GodEmperorDune

@cazc_941 i agree with you

holidays is by far the better and more inclusive term

cazc_941

I know, Then why are you still arguing with me

@GodEmperorDune for this yeah, but I'm not gonna stop saying Merry Christmas to people

GodEmperorDune

i thought you were misunderstanding why trump doing this is hypocritical with his stances

cazc_941

6:19 PM

So people would have been mad if they said Christmas, and blue they're being mad that they didn't say Christmas?

Now*

Phone

@GodEmperorDune you think I misunderstand a lot

GodEmperorDune

@cazc_941 yeah that's me being fuct, i apologize

murgatroid99

@cazc_941 These are different groups of people

Unionhawk

The war on christmas isn't a thing, was the joke I was making

cazc_941

Silly people

Yeah if somebody tells me to stop saying Merry Christmas I tell em to stop being an asshole

Wait why am I in this is fine

That explains all of this

GodEmperorDune

hue

Kevin van der Velden

6:25 PM

@cazc_941 must not star

Yuuki

7:16 PM

@cazc_941 In their defense, "Merry Christmas" is probably not the best response to "cash or credit?".

Tim Stone

Ryan's GOP primary challenger to columnist: "Eat a bullet" http://hill.cm/PBrKIRc

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 7:16 PM

lol @ the frantically googling for a food called "bullet" that ensued

Yuuki

@TimStone "wait, i fucked up, how do i not help at all?"

Unionhawk

lol the last WI-1 election had 4 candidates on the ballot

Republican incumbent Paul Ryan, Democratic candidate Ryan Solen, Trump Conservative Spencer Zimmerman (that's what Ballotpedia lists as his party), and Libertarian Jason Lebeck

the libertarian got 2,000 fewer votes than the trump conservative candidate

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk 0.0

love 2 bring my side down with purity infighting

Unionhawk

I mean they both collectively got like, 16,000 votes total

of 250,000 cast

GodEmperorDune

7:29 PM

well then

Unionhawk

Thanks To You Leftist Fucks Apparently I Am Proud To Support Medicare For All #AnitaApparently4All https://t.co/80kZ2haHhj

Tweeted by SenAnitaHawkins on December 7, 2017 at 6:19 PM

(clickhole apparently has a fake senator character)

(this is glorious)

MBraedley

7:44 PM

Dear Patreon: In passing processing fees on to me, a patron, my monthly contributions should be going up by about $1. I could live with that. Instead, it's going to go up by nearly $5 (or more, if per creation pledges get individually tagged with the $0.35 fee). That is really shitty, especially since credit card companies and PayPal will only be dinging you once for the dozen or so creators I back.

Unionhawk

Yeah the .35 per pledge is not great

MBraedley

Here's an idea: charge us a flat rate of say 3%, and you eat the rest of the processing fees out of your 5%.

Unionhawk

It doesn't affect me as much because I only have one pledge and it's $5

Tim Stone

I like that the email couldn't even be bothered to tell you your new monthly payment amount

Unionhawk

So now it costs me $5.50, roughly (depending on how they round)

MBraedley

7:52 PM

> ...your patrons will be charged 2.9% + $0.35 for each paid post.

Nope, not cool.

Tim Stone

.@CLewandowski_, when asked if he has any regrets about his behavior towards women: "You know what my regret is? I didn't get to serve my country in the military – that's my regret" http://snpy.tv/2AE7ssJ

Tweeted by HallieJackson on December 7, 2017 at 7:24 PM

wat

Unionhawk

It makes sense that Lewandowski has no regrets about anything other than that

that checks out

Kevin van der Velden

@MBraedley it's also utter bullshit because they don't do X pledges = X charges, so why should we do X pledges = X transaction fees

Unionhawk

right, yeah, they lump monthly payments together

Tim Stone

Wanted to share a video of Roy Moore in 1997 arguing that kids commit drive-by shooting because they are taught evolution in school: "They're acting like animals because we've taught them they come from animals." https://t.co/YoHZXKfpAl

Tweeted by chrismassie on December 7, 2017 at 6:12 PM

MBraedley

7:59 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Exactly. My PayPal gets charged once, people's credit cards get charged once, so make me pay the fixed fee once.

(Or completely do away with it!)

Tim Stone

@TimStone This is the most bizarre joke-segue into whatever sort of logical argument that is

Unionhawk

@MBraedley So Patreon just adds up paid post charges and charges it on the first of the month with monthlys?

Kevin van der Velden

Essentially

Unionhawk

Dammit patreon

I mean smart and good way to do it depending on some card fee models

but dammit

MBraedley

@Unionhawk Yeah. I mean I've sometimes seen it split in two, monthlies and per post in the email I get from Patreon (i.e. I've gotten two emails for a month), but I don't think I've seen it in the PayPal charge.

Tim Stone

8:02 PM

It's probably a Classic VC trap

MBraedley

@TimStone Except my understanding is that revenue (from their 5%) shouldn't change that much. Patreon was always taking their 5% straight off the top, before the processing fees, and basically handing every creator $0.95, and then clawing back the processing fees.

Unionhawk

@TimStone Speaking of alabama candidates doing racism though, that Doug Jones mailer (or ad? idk)

Tim Stone

You're talking about the anti-Jones "OMG NFL PLAYERS KNEELING!" one?

Or a different one?

Big new economic study, on the problem of "Lost Einsteins." Our extreme inequality is almost certainly denying us important innovations. My column: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/lost-einsteins-innovation-inequality.html

Tweeted by DLeonhardt on December 4, 2017 at 2:25 AM

blinks

"We're all dumb as evidenced by the lack of patents per capita" is a take, I guess

Unionhawk

Is there something in a Democratic candidate's brain that can't allow for easy layup elections and makes this shit happen? https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/938772102089408512

Tweeted by ArmyStrang on December 7, 2017 at 2:09 PM

It's so bad

Tim Stone

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooly hell

Unionhawk

8:16 PM

Like, "is this a cernovich flyer?" bad

Tim Stone

jfc

My brain can't take much more of this abuse

MBraedley

@TimStone I think it's a little more nuanced than that

Tim Stone

I hope so

MBraedley

(maybe not the article, but the studies behind it, at least)

Unionhawk

It's NYTimes, so odds are the article is probably not more nuanced than that

Tim Stone

8:19 PM

Roy Moore to ride horseback to his polling location next week http://hill.cm/OVbpPBJ

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 8:19 PM

Horse, preemptive welcome to the resistance

MBraedley

@TimStone equality-of-opportunity.org

Tim Stone

Interesting

❗️NEW VIDEO❗️ Wildfires continue to grow in Southern California. Here is amazing footage of a 'firenado' over the #ThomasFire. Turbulent winds interact with intense heat rising over the wildfire and this interaction creates a whirlwind, very similar to a dust devil. https://t.co/77h7Xo1AFz

Tweeted by WeatherNation on December 7, 2017 at 6:48 PM

Yuuki

@TimStone Most riding horses are less than 10, right?

Arperum

@Unionhawk WTF USA?

Tim Stone

Like age-wise? I'm not sure

Yuuki

8:26 PM

> Most domesticated horses begin training under saddle or in harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five

Ah, that explains it.

Unionhawk

@Arperum dude, I don't even know

Tim Stone

Blake Farenthold just said his constituents are concerned that there's a special counsel investigation into the the Trump administration but "no one is addressing the Clinton administration. "

Tweeted by Tierney_Megan on December 7, 2017 at 7:46 PM

Arperum

@TimStone Wait? Is there currently a president Clinton that we are not aware of?

Unionhawk

I know he means the Hillary Clinton administration because like that's how deranged these people are, but it's funnier to imagine he's talking about investigating things (ambiguous) that occurred 20 years ago

Like what are we investigating friend

That Superpredators(tm) and mandatory minimums were both really bad things and accelerated the growth of the carceral state?

Tim Stone

Plus, let's please remember, this is coming from this man (NSFL duckie pajamas) who literally hid his settlement with a former staffer

Unionhawk

8:31 PM

Oh god dammit lol

He did say that he was going to pay back the taxpayers

Tim Stone

He did, he did

Unionhawk

Which naturally will not happen

Tim Stone

But will he pay for my brain bleach?

I SUSPECT NOT

Unionhawk

He won't

do either

as it turns out

Tim Stone

Humans may be scaring narwhals to death http://pops.ci/fFsHxE https://t.co/wRo8bxJILF

Tweeted by RachelFeltman on December 7, 2017 at 8:33 PM

Someone bring this issue before Congress and play a 10 hour Narwhal song filibuster

user15026

8:36 PM

I approve of this idea

Yuuki

@TimStone Humans are pretty good at scaring each other to death (see 2016/2017).

Tim Stone

White House downplays Bolton's visit with Trump: "Nothing more than a check in" http://hill.cm/TWSGap9

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 8:43 PM

"I see you still have the mustache"
"I do"
"Alright then, see you later"

Unionhawk

9:26 PM

Longtime Denver Community Residents Boycott ink! Coffee https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/longtime-denver-community-residents-boycott-ink-coffee/ via @UR_Ninja #resist

Tweeted by AnonMohandas on December 7, 2017 at 8:32 PM

(this is the "proudly gentrifying since 2014" place)

Yuuki

Why is boycotting a coffee shop news?

Kevin van der Velden

in The Bridge, 56 secs ago, by Arperum

Palestinians recognize Texas as part of Mexico

Tim Stone

9:44 PM

.@SHSanders45: “We think it’s unfortunate that these members of Congress wouldn’t join the President in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history."

Tweeted by ZekeJMiller on December 7, 2017 at 9:14 PM

(this is basically "how dare John Lewis not honor John Lewis")

House passed a two week CR

GodEmperorDune

10:00 PM

@TimStone hue

Tim Stone

Owner of restaurant opening in Trump Hotel faces wage theft lawsuit http://hill.cm/5B3VwJp

Tweeted by thehill on December 7, 2017 at 10:02 PM

Ah, they fixed the typo…

CNN Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails show follow-up after June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians with @mkraju @jeremyherb http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/previously-undisclosed-emails-after-trump-tower-meeting/index.html

Tweeted by jimsciutto on December 7, 2017 at 9:11 PM

😂

Love to follow up on a waste of time meeting where definitely nothing happened

Tim Stone

10:27 PM

"It is unclear exactly why Franks is stepping down, but one Arizona Republican noted there had been rumors of inappropriate behavior" http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/arizonas-trent-franks-expected-resign

Tweeted by GideonResnick on December 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM

If the Trent Franks rumor I’m hearing is true—at this point, no idea if it is—he won’t belong in the same category as these other “inappropriate behavior” guys.

Tweeted by TimAlberta on December 7, 2017 at 10:23 PM

Uhhh, let's hope it's not true because I'm afraid to find out what that means