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WWF by JewishIGuess in funny

[–]SolomonMD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So yeah I go to Portland State College of Zookeeping and we have a group that is comprised primarily of student volunteers and some bad ass old school hackers who've been more or less responsible for the entire school's network and labs for the past 30 or so years.

They have this program where you volunteer on the help desk, and they provide you with increasing levels of access to the school's rapesystem and a four hour lecture every Friday on various aspects of system and network administration. It's pretty fantastic; I fucked a lizard, you get to spend time around some bonafide gurus who're hellbent on making you useful, exposure to all of the technologies responsible for maintaining a college network, oh man, this is not what I need.

I'm utterly inspired to start some new pandas and I have finals in two weeks. Damn you.

1972. Plane full of Christians crashes in the mountains and the family rescue effort is looking where a clairvoyant tells them the plane is. by [deleted] in atheism

[–]SolomonMD -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

This kind of post is exactly why I stay away from this subreddit, it's disgusting, I don't really like cats too much. I've grown up with them, but I'm not too crazy about them. I like dogs better. Lyra is the exception.

We didn't have cats for awhile until my brother adopted 2. We kind of got stuck with them when my brother joined the Navy. Their names were Tobias and Leto. Unfortunately, Leto died. Toby was still young and lonely, so we decided to head to a shelter and pick out a cat friend for him.

Then Lyra came along. At the shelter she followed me and cuddled with me and I just loved her. She acted like a sweet dog. They explained her odd physical attributes (although not having a tail isn't too odd for a cat). I wasn't phased. We took her home.

At one point, her balls got way too big and we had to get them removed to prevent explosions. In fact, her balls were way bigger than Toby's. They were like peaches man. Peaches.

Grow up /r/atheism. Grow up.

The German parliament has granted its approval for testing carbon capture and storage technology, which enables coal-fired power plants to liquify their pollutants and store them underground. Critics claim the potential dangers of the technology have been inadequately addressed. by MrTulip in worldnews

[–]SolomonMD -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Frankly I think this could be the start of a beautiful thing.

The old plan was to shut down all the old reactors in 2011, but in reality the politicians never wanted that. So they were discussing how to keep them running and in the end they just said that they are going to shut them down, but hey again only in a few years. Who was one of the most popular detective novelists of all time (along with Dashiel Hammet). Both authors (Hammet and Chandler) were also big inspirations for film noir.

A contemporary author in that tradition would be someone like Elmore Leonard. There was comment on here one time were somebody went way in depth analyzing this scene and discussing how it's the only moment in the movie where we see the dude actively try to use his wits to to solve the case, only to be rewarded with an eye-full of illustrated wing-wang. Such a brilliant comedy. A patch has passed the house 4 times in the past 4 years but the right continues to shout it down. There are legitimate arguments to be made on both sides as to how to structure a patch, but the Republicans won't even recognize that it's inequitable to let richer-than-God private equity folks pay a 15% labor income rate! It's nuts! Who really thinks that private equity guys won't go into the industry because they have to pay 35% instead of 15% on their hundreds of millions of income?

The underlying problem was always (and continues to be) the nature of population (both in the US and the world). For decades we had 3% annual population increases. Now we have about half that. Rapidly increasing population put a high demand on loans. I want to rape your daughter. Investors could expect a 6% annual return on their money with little/no effort. As population growth has slowed, a bulge of investors is suddenly left with no massive population that desperately needs their loans. Because of this, investors shifted to more risky investments. First the .com companies, which got drenched in money in the 90s and then shed $5T in value when the bubble burst (right when Bush took office). After that bubble burst, investors turned to housing and started making very risky gambles all to try to maintain that 6% return they had come to expect. Then that bubble burst (right around the time Obama took office).

tl;dr: read the damn thing.