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But Seriously...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. Crown Royal

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    The problem is that it affects the entire world. The only silver lining with being old is that I won't have to live through the worst of it. I hope.
     
  3. Juice

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    One of the things I distinctly remember about Shanghai is how bad the pollution is. You can actually taste it when you go outside.
     
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    That’s their own specially cooked chemtrails. They prevent you from becoming pregnant with a daughter.
     
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    You had time to notice that while marveling at the gumption of a developing nation?
     
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    What always gets me is people shitting on California for some "zany" regulation, and then 20 years later being like "oh noes, we're experiencing the same thing California experienced 20 years ago and explicitly designed that regulation to fix." Yeah, having your major cities look like Blade Runner isn't fun, it's a lesson California learned back when they were inspiring the original Blade Runner.
     
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    The people of Los Angeles circa 1985 were shocked to realize something once the pollution started to relinquish: “Oh wow, there are beautiful MOUNTAINS around this city!” Monstrous, foreboding land formations that were made impossible to see by a disgusting smog stew.

    i mean, the skyline photos of that city in 1983 are unbelievable. It looks like the opening to a Canon Films feature.
     
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    Ironically not only were there mountains, the mountains were the reason for the stew. The place is a damn topographic fishbowl.

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    Not that anyone asked, but yes I have climbed those. Literal sea level to 9k in the same city.
     
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    Was it to get away from the homeless for a day?
     
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    As much as I like shitting on California for bad policies, at least they had the foresight to build fail-safes into their legal system to easy roll-back changes and recoup investment when they realized that a lot of the current green tech wasn’t ready to replace fossil fuels. That’s a lesson Europe, specifically Germany, is going to learn the hard way.
     
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    Who needs mountains when you have Joanna Cassidy’s raincoat titties?
     
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    They are now referred to as the “unhoused”, you privileged fascist.

    Now excuse me while I go google Joanna Cassidy’s titties.
     
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    meanwhile, in Jackson Mississippi...

     
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    Looks like Nord Stream is now shut down for good. Maybe the Europeans will have some balls and start seizing Russian tankers.
     
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    Germany fucked up relying on Russia for their energy. Why France's entire nuclear industry just blue-screened for no fucking reason though, I have no idea. Really not a great time for the hon-hon-hon folk not to have their one unequivocal win operational.
     
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    Given how things went in Germany, I’m willing to bet that the corruption of the European political class is far more pervasive than anyone realizes. Macron seems like such a weasel.
     
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    For those not up on their Canadian news, sadly today there was a mass stabbing event in Saskatchewan. Thus far it's confirmed that 10 people have died, with more injured. The killers are still on the run unfortunately. One of them was on the CA version of "Most Wanted."

    Eyewitness reports have been tough to read. Especially if you have children.
     
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    It's not like the US has a monopoly on fucked-in-the-head... don't forget, we had a dude decapitate someone on a Greyhound once.
     
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    Thanks Obama
     
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    Somehow "decapitated on a Greyhound bus" undersells it. Motherfucker ate his eyes.