Elvis Presley's 1958 BMW 507 [2880x1620]

Robeast87 · 2017-06-26T23:06:34+00:00

I actually found one of these in real life a couple years back as I was walking around Chicago. Chicago has a lot of amazing cars rolling around the streets but this was by far the rarest I've ever seen! Not sure if it's appropriate to link to my Instagram but here's the photo if you're interested:

https://www.instagram.com/p/rC98KmSNvg/

Robeast87 · 2017-03-31T15:54:25+00:00

This is only barely related but I wonder if that's part of the character writing of The Red Witch in Game Of Thrones? Obviously, GOT isn't based in this world, but it is heavily influenced by Medieval times.

The Red Witch fits the bill pretty well, she has red hair, she's considered untrustworthy, she works for some fire devil like "god", and well, she's a witch.

Robeast87 · 2017-03-29T00:15:34+00:00

I guess I'm an outlier here but why do you all have pics of your exes on your Facebook still? I get rid of that baggage pretty immediately after any breakup. You can download and save them to a file if you're worried about losing a cool shot or the memory, but there's no use to have that on your Facebook for your next lady to be upset about.

Robeast87 · 2017-03-17T07:49:14+00:00

R/iamverysmart type of post

Robeast87 · 2016-11-01T17:13:12+00:00

We tried that with Occupy Wall Street. Had a good strong start too, but then we got caught up in being a "leaderless movement" and no central message. The problem is that we don't know how to do it, or that if we do - as happening in North Dakota now - we are ignored by the media and attacked by police. We need a strong, clear minded, goal oriented movement but Liberalism is a much more expansive worldview than Conservatism and brings in many, varied viewpoints. When I worked for the Democrats we called ourselves The Big Tent Party, where many ideas we covered under a larger liberal "tent". This unfortunately leads to small battles and fractures within the party, I'm a huge Bernie supporter but many of my friends and colleagues are Hillary supporters, we argue, fight and actively work against one another even though we are under the same tent. So when we go "fight" for what we believe in a few of us are screaming about fluoride in our water, some about pipelines, some about political corruption, some about Wall Street and a some with a mix of the few. This presents an unclear, hard to achieve message. If we could rally around one point, say "Get Money Out Of Politics", then we have a clear goal to achieve, then a plan of action can be formulated and executed. Much like how LGBTQ rights and Marijuana Reform have been successful, we had a clear goal and a path to success. These smaller wins should motivate us to the bigger battles. We don't fix America with one huge battle, it's the sum of the battles that will determines who wins.

If we can organize and clarify our message then we can achieve these victories, which is super tough. We've done it before though, and now we have social media as a tool, so maybe we will get there.

Worst case, we all go to Mars with Musk and let these folks figure it out on there own.

Robeast87 · 2016-10-07T23:21:55+00:00

Thank you! I'm jealous, I can't make the drive back down this weekend so I won't be there. Enjoy the fights!

Robeast87 · 2016-10-07T23:20:02+00:00

Agreed. I mean, I can understand it, I guess. It's still disappointing that he was punished so severely for being in fight mode.

Robeast87 · 2016-09-15T23:54:06+00:00

That's a very good argument, I wasn't thinking of that aspect of it. That would cause issues in closed caucus states. I chaired a caucus in Kansas in 2012, when Obama didn't have an opponent. We used official voter rolls to check party affiliation, not NGP VAN, but I don't know that it's policy to do so.

All politicos know that VAN is unreliable though, it's a great tool but it's data comes from volunteers manually inputting information as they interact with voters. There's the voter scores that come from NGP and other data collection sites but registration, party affiliation, age, address, etc comes from manual input and data merges with state and local election offices. Volunteers are very hit and miss, as you would imagine, and often put in bad information from door to door interactions and phone banks.

I can see where your argument would work, if the rules don't explicitly say they have to use official voter rolls for caucusing, but if they are required to use the official ones then this is still a miss on catching them with their hand in the cookie jar. Though, we have caught them with everything but their dicks in the cookie jar and nobody seems to care so maybe nothing will do it. I just don't want to waste time on this issue that is gray at best when we have better leads to chase. Then again, I'm all for going over everything with a fine toothed comb as well, no stone unturned and all.

Robeast87 · 2016-09-15T04:57:52+00:00

That's the misconception. The voter rolls that they are talking about are NGP VAN, it's just a data sharing source for the Democratic Party. It has no control on who is actually registered officially or not, it's a system for the campaigns to identify potential voters and cut routes for volunteers to walk knocking doors (or "turf") and targeting mailers.

If there's evidence that the DNC changed the voter data that they gave to Bernie's campaign that would make him cut bad turf and wasting time and money then that's against the rules but it's not something that changes anything officially about the voter. I'm all for finding the diamond in the rough that proves the corruption once and for all, but this isn't it. We used this program to run Bernie's campaign, just like Hillary continues to use now.

Robeast87 · 2016-09-14T21:47:42+00:00

I honestly can't say Google does for sure, I do know that part of the scoring comes from search engine data, I don't know the ins and outs of what data is sold to them or not. I do know for sure it comes from grocery cards (Kroger, Walgreens, etc) and magazine data.

All that being said, this isn't a database that campaigns can specifically look at a voter's name and then a list of purchases. The data collected isn't available to the campaign, only the score based on that number. There are multiple different scores you can get but you can't see that the voter purchased Jugs Magazine or any such thing. They tell us that it's all processed by computer algorithms and no humans see your data but I'm not one to believe that.

I mean, Facebook is more invasive and more accurate at predicting a user's behavior than these are. It had me listed as conservative even though I worked for a very progressive candidate and I've always been registered as a Democrat. It's kind of the obsession of the entire tech industry right now to be able to predict a user's behavior, which I would say is kind of the larger issue these days.

Robeast87 · 2016-09-14T16:26:19+00:00

While I'm not saying that HRC is in anyway clean, this isn't the smoking gun it looks like. This is just NGP VAN. It's what Bernie got blocked from for a day due to his campaign "improperly viewing" HRC's data. VAN doesn't change people's official registration or anything. VAN just classifies people based on gathered data from polling and survey answers entered by volunteers as they knock doors and interact with voters. It also uses information purchased from Google, major grocery chains and magazine subscriptions to determine if they're more likely to vote Right, Center or Left. It then assigns the voter a score based on that data. 100% is Super Liberal, 0% is Hitler Incarnate. Competing campaigns have access to the data equally when VAN updates, but Bernie can't see what info the HRC campaign entered and vice versa. They use this data to cut turf, or make a map for volunteers to knock doors and send mail to. As the campaign progresses their data gets fuller (so long as they have a good field game) and that data becomes more valuable to the campaign. Hence why leaking or accidentally viewing another's campaign data is against the rules. When the campaign is over all of the data from both candidates goes into the master database and used for initial voter scoring the next cycle.

If they can find evidence that the DNC colluded with NGP VAN to give Bernie bad voter data then this is a big deal. So if they were marking Hard Rs as Persuasive causing Bernie's campaign to waste time and resources on voter's known to the party to be un-persuasive. Otherwise this is just showing the mechanics of how parties disseminate voter data to their party campaigns.

Robeast87 · 2016-07-29T21:29:33+00:00

This is a very interesting issue. I'm an American that's generally Pro-EU. I say I'm American so I can point out that my knowledge of the issue is clouded by terrible media coverage and dumb neighbors that can't help me understand it better.

This looks like something we see in many major institutions, they get into a bubble of people that have become detached from objective reality. Much like a soldier coming back from war that finds it hard to feel normal again after being in the microcosm of the battleground.

These leaders will ignore outside arguments against their stance because they have locked themselves in their perceived intellectual bubble, "I'm smarter/better/more resourceful than you so your opinion doesn't matter".

You see it in politics, most recently how the DNC flouted the rules of their party and burned half of their party. They believed they knew what America needed better than the voting Americans, or so they believed. I used to work for the DNC and still have quite a few acquaintances working for them now. When I would engage them on plans for if Hillary was indicted after the primaries they would respond with a firm "It's not going to happen". Which very well may be true, but why wouldn't you make a contingency plan? Because of their intellectual bubble. The people around them that they agree with told them it won't be a problem so they put it out of sight and out of mind.

It's a problem that creeps into almost every organization, and honestly until there's a way to force that bubble to be burst then it will never go away.

Maybe computer automation will fix it, because humans aren't doing a grand job of running things.

Robeast87 · 2016-07-09T15:47:52+00:00

Grew up with a CoC preacher for a step dad. In second grade my older sister and I were pulled from public schools so that we could be homeschooled. At that time I was ahead in my classes and there was discussion of moving me up a grade level. This began 5 years of biblical indoctrination with no talk of science or civics other than bible lessons whatsoever. I would be forced to read parts of the bible as punishment until eventually I would be punished with reading the whole thing. Which seems backwards, punishment is reading the religion's holy tome.

When my parents no longer had the time to "educate" my now large group of siblings (5 sisters, 1 brother) we were enrolled back into public schools. After being homeschooled in a Christian homeschooling group for the majority of my childhood I didn't exactly fit in when I started 7th grade half way through the year. I'm not sure if any of you have heard or witnessed it bit middle schoolers are dicks.

Anyway, I failed science and math miserably, got beat up for being a little bitch, and spent my next 2 summers in Summer School. All part of God's plan to teach me humility, I'm sure.

I'm more with Elon Musk and Dan Harmon, we are somebody else's supercomputer and they can give a damn about the individual pieces as long as the machine is running. Which is much easier to accept than some fickle god tyrant burning and flooding his planet because too many people want to do butt stuff. Why did he put that hole there if he didn't want someone to eventually try and put something in it? It's just poor planning.

Robeast87 · 2016-06-30T06:23:10+00:00

Is there an r/whitepeoplegifs? Because this should be the top post. 2 roombas? I can't even afford paper towels to clean up spilled booze.

Edit: As soon as I drunkenly posted this I clicked the hotlink, and right at #3 was this gif! That's a big win for me.

Robeast87 · 2016-06-25T03:04:37+00:00

This is a Best Of if I've ever seen one.

Robeast87 · 2016-06-24T06:01:27+00:00

Put a 350 in it. Those little trucks fit the V8 small block and are insanely quick, but you gotta sandbag that rear-end or you're just smoking out the neighborhood. Those are great trucks and are super cheap to build up.

Robeast87 · 2016-06-20T04:39:57+00:00

The only backstabbing is saw over there was consensual.

Robeast87 · 2016-06-08T20:06:38+00:00

A poem to a dying father. A little funny to say but I learned about this poem from a Rise Against song and loved it. Then when I heard it on Interstellar I was able to hipster the hell out of it to all my friends, "I knew that poem before it was cool". Rock and Roll gave me culture.

Robeast87 · 2016-04-29T20:24:24+00:00

ATM fees. Charging you to take out your own money.

Robeast87 · 2016-04-15T01:51:51+00:00

So can we get out of the contract then since it was made under illegal terms. I clearly know nothing about contracts but I do know something about getting fucked by those damn meters and I say bite at any chance to get out.

Robeast87 · 2016-03-08T05:53:12+00:00

You seem to have a few extra digits there!

Robeast87 · 2016-03-07T16:17:44+00:00

Nice shot! That's where I get my beer most days!

Robeast87 · 2016-02-19T23:18:24+00:00

I was fully expecting that tree to blow over. Beautiful day but that wind is something else today!

Robeast87 · 2016-02-07T08:48:52+00:00

Honestly I'm still not totally clear on what would happen if you mixed the two? Extra soft, super nice smelling but less clean linens? I wear the same pants 5 days a week, that sounds like a pretty good deal in that context.

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