GeneticBlueprint

4 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

There was a truck in front of me with a US Army sticker, a Trump as Calvin peeing on the word "liberals" sticker, a Let's go Brandon sticker and a sticker that said, "Does this ass make my truck look big?" with a picture of Joe Biden on it.

 

Can you guess the manufacturer?

Bonus points for the color.

Dodge Ram 2500 white

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

 

I don't even know if that would cost him support from his base at this point.

His cultists will never leave him, but this is the one thing I believe would make the rest of the republicans turn on him. 

9 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

The plan, not the debt.*

lmao yeah. I worded that poorly. 

It will undoubtedly face legal challenges that will tie it up beyond election time. So if the Biden ticket doesn’t win you can count on the next administration to just cancel it. 

Biden to Announce Student Loan Debt Relief Plans for Millions - The New York Times

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Officials said that 10 million borrowers could see debt relief of at least $5,000. The plan, set to be announced in Wisconsin, could help rally support among young voters.

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The plan targets five groups of people with student loans for different levels of relief.

• People whose loans have grown beyond the amount they originally borrowed because of interest would have up to $20,000 of that interest wiped away, leaving them to repay only the amount they originally borrowed. People making less than $120,000 a year, or couples making less than $240,000, would qualify for having all of their interest forgiven. Officials said that 23 million people would most likely have all of their interest-related balances waived from that provision.

   

• About two million borrowers who already qualify to have their student loans waived under existing programs have not applied for relief. Under the new rules, the Education Department would be authorized to cancel the debt for those people without their having to apply.

   

• People who took out federal student loans for undergraduate degrees and began repaying them more than 20 years ago would automatically have the debt canceled under the new plan. Graduate students who borrowed money and began repaying 25 years ago would have their debt canceled. Officials said that about 2.5 million people would qualify under that rule.

   

• People who borrowed money to attend colleges that have since lost their certification or their eligibility to participate in the federal student aid program would have their debt canceled. Officials did not say how many people that would affect.

   

• People who are especially burdened with other expenses — such as high medical debt or child care — could apply to have their student loans forgiven. Officials did not estimate how many people might qualify for what they called the “hardship” programs.

Yeah maybe it’s part of his wrestling act or whatever

Tbf, Chipotle sucks and the employees don’t know the god damned menu. Every time I’ve gone they want to charge me for guac when I point to the menu where it says guac included with whatever item. Then they still want to charge for it.

Of course that doesn’t justify shooting somebody. 

I worked at a video game store at the end of high school and beginning of college. My favorite thing to do on my longer shifts was walk to Safeway and go to their magazine section looking for any game mag and order sweet and sour chicken from the deli; then I’d just read the mag while I ate and put it back when I finished. Magazine subs seemed so expensive back then to me. Maybe they haven’t changed in price at all but I just subbed to Game Informer for $20. I’ve subbed here and there over the years. But that seemed like a really good price. 

Reuters: Tesla is abandoning their Everyman car in favor of Robotaxis.

Musk: That is a lie. Please come to our Robotaxi event this summer.

Truly one of the dumbest people alive. 

1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

Currently 34,000 feet in the air somewhere above Saskatchewan or Manitoba, but somehow still getting decent cell reception.

 

Our takeoff was aborted (at full reverse thrust) and we had to go back to the gate. Pilot said that "the auto thrust system was showing irregular readings," but that we didn't need it to fly, so he had to fill out paperwork and we took off again, this time with manual thrust control.

 

I had to frantically look up the model of the plane (because auto thrust failure is what has downed a few 737 Max planes), but it's a 737-800. So...just have to rely on the pilot knowing the right speeds!

Sounds like the pilot is attentive and knows what he is doing tough. 

46 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

@GeneticBlueprint @Commissar SFLUFAN The April surprise is that

 

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Time 1 will be included in the Time package as Time 1 2.0!

 

 

 

 

Nice. I’m in the middle of a Bolivian jungle right now and can’t even see the video. So thank you for the explanation. 

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Apparently it used to basically be guaranteed that your windshield would be caked in splattes bugs after a highway drive. 

In rural areas, yeah. 

Coeur d’Alene is the gathering place for all the bunker Nazis when they want to coordinate things between their compounds. I got married to a non-white person around the same time I learned that and have never driven through there since. 

9 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

There's now some discussion as to whether "bumpers" around the bridge struts could've mitigated this disaster, but that seems highly unlikely considering the potential momentum that this ship had at the time of impact.

 

Using the momentum equation: p (momentum) = mass x velocit):

 

mass = 95,128 (metric?) tons = 95,128,000 kg

velocity = 8 knots = 14.82 km/h = 4.12 m/s

momentum = 95,128,000 x 4.12 = 391,927,360 kg m/s = 263,363,034 lbs f/s

Well, how strong are the bumpers?

Holy shit I am laughing so hard at all of this

53 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

First off, if I’m not mistaken: Psalms is Old Testament so it has NOTHING to do with Jesus, so whoever sent him that had to be trolling. Also, the next verse is kind of priceless:

 

 

Absolutely amazing.

Christians (in general) treat the Old Testament as God's pre-Christ dealings with his chosen people. Thus, everything in that book portends Jesus Christ.

Now let's find out if he even has $175 million

54 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

I don't see how someone can campaign successfully and have all these hearings/trials/etc at the same time. There's only so much time in a day/mental capacity for a person.

Well when you have no mental capacity to begin with these things don't really affect you

Put the engineers back in charge please

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Major issue (unless something has changed) is that they are basically anti-news (political).

How do you mean? I’m on Threads and lots of personalities I followed on Twitter are there. 

3 minutes ago, ort said:

My main concern is that the our elected officials have proven time and time again that they have absolutely no fucking clue about any of this stuff.

You are 100% correct here. But--and I don't know enough about this particular case to opine in any which way--the DOJ isn't made up of elected officials. Elected officials can encourage or discourage internal policy, but the smart people that have to implement it need to know what they're doing. Until the current administration, the federal government has been very lackadaisical towards anti-trust and monopoly this century. So they must feel strongly about this one.

Donald Trump tries his hand with meme-stocks

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Investors in his SPAC may get burned, but they don’t seem to mind

He'll fund his legal troubles with this too

This would have some semblance of making sense if anybody in the GOP side were acting in good faith.

Would still be stupid though. 

He's supportive of it because somebody mentioned it to him off-hand 15 minutes ago. He won't remember this conversation 15 minutes from now.