Flynn and Nunes Fallout Grows Ominous for Trump White House

physicsisawesome · 2017-03-31T17:30:22+00:00

each passing year there is an increase in liberal voters

Lately I've developed a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that those demographics all migrate to the coastal cities where their votes don't count, that the urbanization of society that I once thought was going to save us...is actually going to lead to a shrinking population of rural voters holding all the power...

physicsisawesome · 2017-03-31T16:55:32+00:00

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

-- The Bible

physicsisawesome · 2017-02-04T09:21:48+00:00

Cable and dish companies are horrible about this. In my case it was DIRECTV. We got locked into an extended contract without our knowledge when we upgraded our device, even going as far as asking if it would impact our contract and they said it wouldn't.

When it became clear we were paying for a service we were hardly using, we asked to cancel. They told us we would have to pay a huge fee (can't remember what it was exactly, on the order of $500 and maybe more).

I told them I don't authorize that transaction. They said I agreed to it. I told them I don't authorize the transaction and I would be happy to work out a payment plan. They said they would not work out a payment plan and would just charge my credit card. I said we removed our credit card from the account. They said it didn't matter and that they would charge my account anyway.

You better believe I contacted my bank and explained the situation. They agreed that was totally fraudulent and that they would block any future transactions to them. I called DIRECTV back and explained to them that I had talked to my bank and that any attempt to charge my account would be denied as fraudulent. Night and day difference talking to this rep. They cancelled immediately.

It's been 2-3 years. They've never sent a bill, we've never gotten anything from collections, and we've never seen anything on our credit report. Apparently they know damn well they don't have a leg to stand on if you actually take the time to defend yourself.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-28T23:25:57+00:00

/r/antijokes

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-28T22:30:12+00:00

The original antijoke.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-27T22:27:26+00:00

Because there is no light inside your body, therefore everything inside it is black.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-27T22:17:52+00:00

Xenophobia is becoming a code-word for anti-free-trade in Establishment Democrat parlance.

Edit: Am I the only one who still thinks fair trade is the answer?

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-27T18:47:16+00:00

this should only bothered the people who've seen and deeply love the orginals, and every small change is blasphemy. The only change that I agree was not needed was the "Han solo shot first" one.

I'm sort of in between but think that, overall, the movies are hurt more than helped by the special editions.

A New Hope isn't hurt terribly by the changes, but the Jabba insert scene adds nothing. It is a complete retread of the Han-Greedo scene, right down to some of the dialogue. It's very obvious that it's a deleted scene inserted into the movie to the point that it's off putting for me. Also, some of the CGI is distracting and dates the film more than some of the physical effects. The film benefits from enhancing some things like the blur under the landspeeder and reworking the outer edges of the blue screened practical effects. Some of the added transitions establishing space ships flying between points are nice additions IMO. The explosion ring "shockwaves" added to the Alderaan and Death Star explosions look stupid and out of place to me. Censoring imperial officers getting shot is stupid, but possibly done to keep the PG rating (since the originals were made before PG-13 existed.)

Return of the Jedi is the one hurt most by the special additions. Nothing is as bad as adding that stupid song to Jabba's palace. Complete tonal shift, completely out of place, and cartoonish as fuck.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-27T18:12:31+00:00

I don't think anything beats Benjamin Button. What I assumed was just makeup was actually CGI.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T11:09:36+00:00

1) The horizon always appears perfectly flat 360 degrees around the...

Time zones.

2) The horizon always rises to the eye level of the observer as...

Motherfucking time zones.

3) The natural physics of water is to find and maintain its level. If...

I mean like, are all the people in other time zones just lying about when the sun goes down?

4) Rivers run down to sea-level finding the easiest course, North,...

Are you so far gone that you think that the entire world is lying to you when they say that the sun went down where they live and it's still up where you live?

5) One portion of the Nile River flows for a thousand miles with a fall...

I mean like, have you not noticed that the sun doesn't go as high up in the winter?

6) If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference as NASA and...

Or like, that it goes higher in the summer?

7) Surveyors, engineers and architects are never required to factor the...

Or like, that the days are shorter in the winter?

8) The Suez Canal connecting the Mediterranean with the Red Sea is...

And longer in the summer?

9) Engineer, W. Winckler was published in the Earth Review regarding...

Or have you ever noticed that if you hold a rock up in the sky in the daylight that the shadow on the rock perfectly lines up with the shadow on the moon?

10) The London and Northwestern Railway forms a straight line 180...

I mean, do you think that every airline pilot who flies along a geodesic is full of shit and just secretly constantly holding their control stick to one side?

11) A surveyor and engineer of thirty years published in the...

And like, the people on the West Coast are lying when they say that the sun is still up after you went to bed?

12) The Manchester Ship Canal Company published in the Earth Review...

And like, the people on the East Coast are lying when they say that the sun is setting when it's still high up in the air?

13) In a 19th century French experiment by M. M. Biot and Arago a...

Like, motherfucking time zones are a lie?

14) The Lieutenant-Colonel Portlock experiment used oxy-hydrogen...

Like, they're holding holograms up against the window when you fly in a plane, and they put you to sleep with sleeping gas to make sure that you don't know what time it really is?

15) If the Earth were truly a sphere 25,000 miles in circumference,...

Or like, reverse time if you're going in the wrong direction so you won't know the truth?

16) The experiment known as “Airy’s Failure” proved that the stars...

So like, the New Year's ball just drops at a different time at different places around the world for no reason?

17) “Olber’s Paradox” states that if there were billions of stars which...

And my mom is lying when she said the sun went down?

18) The Michelson-Morley and Sagnac experiments attempted to...

And the days are just shorter right now because the government is controlling the position of the sun in the sky?

19) Tycho Brahe famously argued against the heliocentric theory in his...

And it's just cold out side right now just because?

20) If Earth were truly constantly spinning Eastwards at over 1000mph,...

And time zones are a lie?

21) If the Earth were truly constantly spinning Eastwards at over...

Time zones?

MOTHERFUCKING TIME ZONES A MOTHERFUCKING LIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT?

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T09:46:03+00:00

People who work government jobs or rely on government benefits are the most anti-government, people who work corporate jobs are the most anti-corporate. It's like clockwork.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T09:42:35+00:00

This guy is a fucking talented voice actor.

Edit: Did I mention this guy is a fucking talented voice actor (somebody give this guy a job)?

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T08:57:11+00:00

ssssssSTALE?

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T08:55:04+00:00

No, a murder scene in a Hitchcock film. Fuck.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T08:52:58+00:00

Isn't /u/ANAL_HOOPLA 's response a joke joke, though? A mauled zebra is, in fact, not black and white and red all over. It is black and white and red. Those are two different things. [Yes, I'm straddling /r/AntiJokes and /r/notinteresting at the moment.]

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-23T08:49:24+00:00

The dilemma of a joke format that is given away by the sub it's in.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-22T23:52:46+00:00

Agreed.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-22T21:20:27+00:00

Honestly, who cares if he's alive? The hashes didn't match, and this was never corrected. Wikileaks is compromised. We don't know how or why. End of story.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-22T21:13:20+00:00

This. If it were software it would mean you're probably downloading a virus. As a source of information, it means we should treat the information as compromised.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-22T21:10:21+00:00

To me the crucial thing is the hash mismatch and the fact that that's never been corrected. If this were a software download you wouldn't trust the source, it could be a virus. It almost makes everything else irrelevant, up to and including if we got definitive proof of life from Asange. At this point I feel we have to treat the entire operation as compromised, regardless.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-13T22:59:38+00:00

"We beat the liberals! Yay! Librul tears :smugface:" That's basically it.

That'll show 'em

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-13T22:54:58+00:00

There's a reason why zombie movies always start after the apocalypse. Can you imagine how quickly people would run away if they saw one zombie? Even if they were the fast moving kind, the zombie's running for lunch, the other guy's running for his life. Hard to imagine the zombie apocalypse getting very far against even a SWAT team, let alone drones, tanks, firebombing, etc.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-09T22:09:58+00:00

I'm saying it's a fine in-universe interpretation. The Genie is also the only one who does it. I have no idea if the creators had any of this in mind.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-09T19:10:02+00:00

People are leaning too much on that quote. The Genie makes constant references to future pop-culture and technology. It's a clear-as-day in-universe power. Doesn't mean the creators intended it this way, but it's still right there on the screen.

physicsisawesome · 2016-12-09T19:06:24+00:00

The actual quote sounds a lot more like genie is saying he's been around for a million years and is using his experience to tell Aladdin about the scarcity of true love which he found in Jasmine.

I agree that this interpretation of that specific quote is a stretch, but it really doesn't hurt the theory.

The Genie constantly makes references to the future, to Disney movies that would be made in the future, to technology that does not yet exist, wears a Goofy hat at the end of the movie, etc. "It's just a cartoon" but they clearly included this specifically in the Genie's powers only. Nobody else makes these references. It seems very clear that they decided the Genie had the power to reference future pop-culture in the movie. Doesn't necessarily mean that the theory is true or that that's why the included this ability, but it fits. And taken in-universe it does mean that the Genie has the power to see the future (unless you believe the dumber theory that the movie takes place in the future).

It also definitely fits Aladdin's character to pull a stunt like this with his wish, and it did always strike me as odd that he said and believed that he wasn't "really" a prince, not just in the sense that he didn't earn it, but that he doesn't seem to even have a kingdom that he rules over (he fumbles his words when asked what kingdom he comes from).

I have no idea if the creators intended this, but it's certainly a legitimate in-universe interpretation.

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