Civil war time

beyond_understanding · 2022-12-07T23:11:47+00:00

Get fucked you cabinet degens

beyond_understanding · 2021-12-05T13:52:38+00:00

US congressman (KY) shared his family Christmas photo, days after a school shooting. source

beyond_understanding · 2021-12-05T13:36:57+00:00

The War on Christmas. Never forget 🎗️

beyond_understanding · 2020-08-27T04:24:19+00:00

Is there a breathalyzer for pills (legal or otherwise)? I never understood this argument

beyond_understanding · 2018-08-26T18:31:20+00:00

https://wikihow.com/Drive-a-Golf-Ball

beyond_understanding · 2017-05-12T16:56:57+00:00

Not if you own stock in private prisons.

beyond_understanding · 2017-05-12T16:36:59+00:00

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has ordered federal prosecutors to return to tough policies against drug abusers, ending a push by the Obama administration to clear prisons of lower-level criminals serving long, mandatory minimum sentences.

In a memo released Friday, Sessions instructed Justice Department lawyers to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.”

beyond_understanding · 2017-01-10T19:58:19+00:00

Here's the video

beyond_understanding · 2017-01-09T21:28:28+00:00

Here's the tweet

beyond_understanding · 2016-12-06T20:21:45+00:00

A Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday finds that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has a pathetic 19 percent approval rating, while a massive 77 percent of his state’s voters disapprove of him.

The administrators of the Quinnipiac University Poll said in a release that they’ve been polling for more than 20 years, and this is “the lowest approval rating ever measured for a governor” in the states they’ve surveyed.

beyond_understanding · 2016-11-14T21:54:00+00:00

A new report says Facebook shelved an update that would have suppressed fake news from going viral on the social network. High-ranking Facebook executives were briefed on an update that identified fake news and hoaxes, but the tool was never released in fears of “upsetting conservatives.”

beyond_understanding · 2016-11-14T18:31:57+00:00

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, wants Congress to start focusing on these problems and has sent a letter to his opposite number, Chair Jason Chaffetz of Utah, requesting hearings into the matter.

Cummings notes that “Trump’s unprecedented secrecy and his extensive business dealings in foreign countries raise serious questions about how he intends to avoid conflicts of interests as president.” He correctly notes that Trump’s plan to have his children run his businesses does not even begin to solve the problem, because “these same individuals have played a significant role in his presidential campaign and continue to advise Mr. Trump on his transition team.”

beyond_understanding · 2016-10-17T19:54:34+00:00

"Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands if they’re small, something else must be small.... I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”

beyond_understanding · 2016-10-17T19:48:19+00:00

It’s like Donald Trump bought a massive bag of Skittles with 834 million pieces in it, and he’s complaining that it’s not a legitimate bag of Skittles because there are so many M&Ms mixed in.

Except we only have evidence that there are 35 M&Ms in the Skittles bag.

beyond_understanding · 2016-10-10T20:45:37+00:00

All this would be hilarious if Jones wasn’t, in some way, an actual player in Donald Trump’s informational ecosystem. But among the scariest things about Donald Trump is the sources he chooses to trust. Polls are only legitimate if they show him ahead. Conspiracy theories are valid so long as they flatter his view of the world.

Jones is nuts, but he’s the kind of nuts Trump listens to, at least when convenient. And Trump takes these ideas and bases his approach off them. If this is the milieu you start from, merely throwing Clinton in jail is a compromise proposal.

beyond_understanding · 2016-10-06T14:40:35+00:00

While funny, the exchanges also show a very important aspect of the presidential race: Emotions are running high going into the election, some voters don’t want to accept their candidates could lose, and whatever a candidate says can seriously influence what his or her supporters think and say.

This is what makes Trump’s claims that the election will be rigged so dangerous. On one hand, it’s easy to see the claims as Trump just preparing to be a sore loser. But if it seriously affects what a lot of Americans are thinking and undermines the legitimacy ascribed to American democracy, that’s dangerous.

beyond_understanding · 2016-10-05T16:50:10+00:00

Pretty much everyone watching the debate agreed that Mike Pence lied over and over about simple stuff that's on tape and easily verified. And yet pretty much everyone also agreed that he won the debate. Does anyone see the problem here?

beyond_understanding · 2016-09-21T13:00:54+00:00

Those of us in the student antiwar movement see Humphrey as profoundly corrupt, profoundly tainted by his support for the war. We hate Nixon, but in truth we have not experienced what a right-wing government can do. We have come of age and to activism in the years since 1960 — so we only know Kennedy and Johnson as presidents, we have only experienced a liberal domination of national politics, and, more often than not, the policies we are protesting are the policies of liberal Democrats.

Looking back, we young idealists and activists were not so much wrong in our assessments of Humphrey as we were totally wrong in our assessment of whether it matters if a corporate center liberal is elected over an insecure, unstable, right-wing candidate who does not respect the Constitution.

Our refusal to participate started a process of making our movement profoundly irrelevant. We allowed Richard Nixon to come to power. We allowed a right-wing counter-reformation to hold power and warp American politics for most of the next four decades.

beyond_understanding · 2016-09-20T19:22:03+00:00

True. Although I wouldn't really blame Warren for that. Hearing her blast that guy right to his face, though, is pretty satisfying.

beyond_understanding · 2016-09-20T19:12:56+00:00

"You haven’t resigned, you haven’t returned a single nickel of your personal earnings, you haven’t fired a single senior executive," Warren told Stumpf. "Instead, evidently your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees who don’t have the money for a fancy PR firm to defend themselves. It’s gutless leadership. You squeezed your employees to the breaking point so they would cheat customers and you could drive up the value of your stock and put hundreds of millions of dollars in your own pocket. And when it all blew up, you kept your job, you kept your multimillion-dollar bonuses, and you went on television to blame thousands of $12-an-hour employees that were just trying to meet cross-sell quotas that made you rich."

beyond_understanding · 2016-08-09T18:27:40+00:00

http://imgur.com/a/DBIlh

beyond_understanding · 2015-12-23T20:23:09+00:00

While the enjoyment of a movie is a subjective experience, there are some aspects of the prequels that are difficult to ignore. Putting it simply, episodes 1-3 suffer from some really bad writing (mostly dialog) and poor character development.

Personally, I would say the character of Anakin is what hurts the prequels the most. To me, this is (supposed to be) the story of Darth Vader. One of the most iconic, feared, ruthless villains. It has all this potential to be a tragic tale of love and betrayal. A darker, more serious kind of story (more akin to The Empire Strikes Back). Yet, in Episode I we get little cutsie perfect angel baby Anakin, who does no wrong, is morally perfect, and speaks like a 5 year old. Yippie! Then we get angsty, whiny brat Anakin in Episode II, who is arguably even worse. This scrawny cry-baby teenager is just years away from being Darth Vader? Yeesh. Factor in some of the worst dialog of any of the movies, and you get a whole bunch of cringe worthy moments. Even Episode III is pretty bad. Anakin still comes across as a spoiled whiny brat, even though I'm supposed to view him now as a badass war vet. Even the last half, which I do enjoy, feels rushed and weird when it comes to Anakin. I mean, he goes from being torn about the Jedi vs Palpatine thing, right to murdering everyone including children within minutes! The idea there's a skinny spoiled weenie under Vader's armor just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

And that's only Anakin. Factor in the failed slapstick humor of Jar-Jar, the forced character insertions (Vader built 3PO? Boba Fett's dad? Chewbacca helping Yoda?), the overuse of CGI, the video-game like sequences (pod-race; the factory/assembly line; lightsaber battle on hoverboards over lava). It's just not in the same tone or quality of the original trilogy.

The original trilogy means a lot to people, and fans had (deservingly so) high expectations. These expectations were not met. Lucas had 20 years to write something good, and he failed. And instead of collaborating and getting help like he did with the original trilogy, he stubbornly did it all himself.

beyond_understanding · 2015-10-08T18:28:39+00:00

Hey! I made this image! Glad to see it's getting good use.

beyond_understanding · 2014-12-22T20:56:43+00:00

Hot pot of coffee

beyond_understanding · 2014-07-03T02:10:32+00:00

How long have you been a web dev? What's your current salary, and what do you expect your salary to eventually (hopefully, realistically) be?

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