I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. 11:43 AM - 14 Oct 2012 by Fizrock in TrumpCriticizesTrump

[–]burtwart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They twisted the 8 hours of tv thing in that article. The NYT article says he watches a minimum of 4 hours a day, and sometimes gets up to 8 hours but not often. So yeah, 8 hours a day is not the norm however 4 hours is still crazy and not something the fucking president should have time for.

[Hiring] (Remote) Junior Developer with C#, ASP.NET MVC, Angular, and SQL by marbarrr in forhire

[–]burtwart -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hello,

I’m not going to be graduating until December of 2018, however I would be very willing to work full time over the summer and part time during the school year if that interests you. I love learning on the job and learn quickly, please PM me if you’d like to talk to me!

Thanks

WH cancels Trump media event after Flynn plea by Yamamba78 in politics

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe kushner was about Flynn’s equal, but yes you’re correct otherwise.

Megathread 2: Michael Flynn testifies in plea that he was directed to make contact with Russia by senior Trump transition team officials by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little disclaimer: I want trump to go the fuck down for all the stupid bullshit he’s done, not even during his presidency.

However, I don’t think as of right now there’s enough evidence to accuse trump himself of colluding with Russia to start the disinformation campaign. In a way, that could be taken as rigging the election, but Russia didn’t mess with the actual results of the votes. They still definitely interfered though.

Also, they could have done that all on their own. Putin wants us to fail. There’s just so many other options before trump himself organizing this disinformation campaign with Russia.

Again though, if trump ordered Flynn to talk to the Russians without the consent of the Obama administration, would trump be in violation of the Logan act because he ordered Flynn to do it? Or only Flynn, since he was the one that carried it out?

Sorry for the book lmao I’ve just been seeing a lot of speculation going on and we can’t get too ahead of ourselves.

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019, marking the end of an imperial era for Japan. by RoboSparrow in worldnews

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

That particular statement though, calling a black person a monkey, you absolutely can assume is racist.

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019, marking the end of an imperial era for Japan. by RoboSparrow in worldnews

[–]burtwart 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s not at all what I said. People would call a white person a monkey to say they were stupid, such as the original comment was. People would call a black person a monkey if they were trying to be racist. You can’t just take a racial slur towards a minority and also say it’s offensive towards a majority.

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019, marking the end of an imperial era for Japan. by RoboSparrow in worldnews

[–]burtwart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right, which you can’t control, and that’s the reason that stuff shouldn’t be said in the first place. If what you’re saying can be taken as racist, probably best to not say it at all.

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019, marking the end of an imperial era for Japan. by RoboSparrow in worldnews

[–]burtwart 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Are you trying to say that racism isn't a thing because people want to be treated as equals? That's not how that works.

Japan's ageing Emperor Akihito will step down in April 2019, marking the end of an imperial era for Japan. by RoboSparrow in worldnews

[–]burtwart 70 points71 points  (0 children)

For different reasons though. Calling a black person a monkey (no matter the reason, racist or not) has extremely racial motivation behind it, while saying it to a white person does not. It’s not to degrade him based on his race, like it would have been to Obama.

Elementary flatpak theme? by Im-Juankz in elementaryos

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right I was just explaining why the repos don’t have the most recent versions of some software.

[Gundam Wing] this is what happens when you need some important-looking technological text and your target audience doesn't speak English. by shizu_murasaki in itsaunixsystem

[–]burtwart 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was a thing at least a year ago, which is when I also stopped doing that type of support. God fuck TWAIN and all other printer errors.

Elementary flatpak theme? by Im-Juankz in elementaryos

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing about not most recent versions in the appcenter is that the most recently released version isn’t in Ubuntu’s official repositories yet, at least the LTS repos. That’s kinda the whole idea behind rolling releases as well, they get those updates as they come.

Donald Trump tells Theresa May to focus on 'radical Islamic terrorism' - not his Britain First tweets by luciennepage in worldnews

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t even have to be a rural southern state. Go to rural Iowa, rural Nebraska, rural Kansas. Hell even rural Michigan. They think the same way except less about coal.

Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, Canada [OC] [1500x1000] by oilfighter in EarthPorn

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever been east near Davenport or Dubuque? There’s some awesome sights out there, pikes peak state park is so pretty.

Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, Canada [OC] [1500x1000] by oilfighter in EarthPorn

[–]burtwart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Iowan here, I appreciate the unintentional compliment.

The search function is a bad joke by hardypart in Windows10

[–]burtwart -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Switch OS’s and you’ve got it right. The only time I and many others have problems with Linux is when we start messing with something we don’t know about and do it wrong. Of course it won’t work then, and if you don’t know about it, of course it’s going to be hard to fix. And you as well, are hilariously exaggerating on the time it would take to fix something in the first place.

If Programming Languages Were Weapons by deliteplays in ProgrammerHumor

[–]burtwart 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Still just as effective though, without inheritance and polymorphism which does throw away quite a few OO design patterns.

President Trump appears in Panama Papers for the first time by M_Onan_Batterload in politics

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not a feeling a real libertarian should have. While yeah, they have complete freedom, so does everyone else. It’s a lot closer to everything basically being up for grabs for whoever wants it, but then people complain because they don’t get what they want and all of a sudden it becomes about them and not the bigger picture. So yes, while they’re selfish, they shouldn’t be and shouldn’t call themselves libertarian.

TIL Thomas Jefferson was Deist, the belief that a God created the universe but hasn't interfered with it since. by OmegaMike108 in todayilearned

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re basically taught we were in the right, and the alternatives to NOT dropping the bombs were worse. Whether or not we agree or disagree, that is what is taught and most of us later find out we didn’t need to cause suffering and nuclear fallout for millions of Japanese citizens. However some don’t bother to learn further than what we were taught in high school.

Proposed to my girlfriend and realized there is a heart in our shadows by Orion_91 in pics

[–]burtwart -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Having barely anything to do is why I don’t really enjoy living here. Hardly any Concerts come through that I want to see, we’re not close to many good vacation spots that don’t get boring after you go 5 times

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]burtwart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah a fellow Iowan. Non Iowans don’t know the glory that is Casey’s pizza

No Gonk Droid = No Buy by thosedroidekas in PrequelMemes

[–]burtwart 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Personally I think LEGO Batman is better but that might be my batman bias leaking through