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ya i never understood lobster... it's this tasteless meat that you have to smother butter on it for it to be edible and it's like $40 a pound... WHY 

crab is good tho 

My credit card's give me 1-4% cash back depending on category of purchase. It seems I average out to spending like $2000 a month on the credit card so that's like, probably $500 a year in cash back. I guess it's not a big deal but I'd rather have the $500 than the blood sucking retailing assholes. 

3 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

Has tap taken off in the US yet? Or is the US still implementing chip-and-pin?

 

 

I drove through Montana and a few places had tap but it was tap and signature.  And it wasn't instant like it is here, you had to select the account (savings, checking, or credit) and click ok for the total amount to be charged, etc. It's like they sat down and thought "how can we get rid of all the conveniences of tap?" 

That may have just been because it was Montana though. idk how it works in the other states. 

wtf is wrong with people 

38 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Chicago's letting him build this thing, connecting O'Hare to downtown, (the Blue Line does this already, but improving already existing public transport is just an absurd idea apparently) and I'm terrified it's going to be a massive boondoggle

 

https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/7/10/17549684/elon-musk-boring-company-ohare-express

I will eat a fucking crow if that thing is operational in 24 months. Hell, if it’s even CLOSE to operational within five years and isn’t a massive fucking disaster by that time, I’ll eat a crow. 

44 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

Bill Gates is another egomaniac imo.

Yep. But don’t expect the bootlickers here to agree with you.

1 hour ago, Boyle5150 said:

the problem with this analogy is that the "spaghetti" doesn't equal race/age/gender, but rather spaghetti is the equivalent of an ideology.  It's the "type" food that is being prepared, not the color/age/gender of the person that is preparing it.  Any race/age/gender can cook spaghetti, but only a racist will object to spaghetti cooked from a race/age/gender that they think shouldn't be able to cook the spaghetti anymore, or that because they cooked more spaghetti than others, that they somehow don't deserve to cook spaghetti anymore.  

 

Your logic is flawed in many ways. 

Lol you didn’t understand my point at all.

My point is this: You think I don’t want a white SCOTUS because I’m racist against whites (lol). You’re wrong. That’s not the reason I’m against another old white dude being SCOTUS. 

The reason I don’t want a white SCOTUS because I think society is better off when the people in power come from diverse backgrounds. Which you already agreed is ok to think sooooo....

edit: or did you agree on that? I'm not sure. You were being pretty evasive. Either way, lol @ the notion that I'm racist against white people. 

18 minutes ago, Boyle5150 said:

All things being equal, sure.  I never said otherwise.  However, if you follow from where this started about "old straight white male" there in lies the problem.  Dismissal of a person based on age, race and gender is the problem.  

If you cook your wife spaghetti for 8 days in a row and on the nineth day she says “I hope we don’t have spaghetti again” you would be completely unreasonable to conclude that she doesn’t like spaghetti. SCOTUS is, and always has been, dominated by white men. That’s a pretty obvious problem, IMO. That doesn’t make me racist to point that out, nor does it make me racist to hope it changes.

6 minutes ago, Boyle5150 said:

thinking otherwise is peak black liberalism??  Are you fucking drunk?

  

oh you edited your post,

but that edit doesn't work. 

nobody is saying that the supreme court should be dominated by black people... but here you are totally ok with a supreme court dominated by white people. and not just white people but white men specifically as a majority. 

1 minute ago, Boyle5150 said:

 are you drunk?

i don't even understand what your disagreement is right now?

Are you saying that the majority of people in power in the USA were not white men historically? Or that the majority of people in power currently are not white men? Or that it's not a problem that the majority of people in power are white men?  Or you think that none of that is a problem? 

Just now, Boyle5150 said:

of course it is, but our goal is to not. 

  

this is like peak white liberalism lol 

3 minutes ago, Boyle5150 said:

 Jesus fucking christ, this is some ignorant thinking.

 

Skin color and sex have nothing to do with it.  Fuck!  When did the left become so racist and sexist?  

Saying that it's a problem that the majority of the people in power historically have been, and continue to be, white men, is like the opposite of racism. Lol. 

14 minutes ago, Boyle5150 said:

because being old and white has nothing to do with ideology.   You can make the case that there are more older white men who voted for trump but that is not because they are old and white.  To say otherwise is ignorant. 

On an individual basis, literally no identity has anything to do with ideology. Whether we're talking about gender, race, religion, or nationality, I'm sure you could find any and every ideology represented. So this is a poor argument. Nobody is, say, liberal because they are Catholic (after all, I'm sure you can find communist Catholics), nor is anyone communist because they are Hindu (since I'm sure you can find liberal Hindus). We can still find patterns. When a certain identity is over-represented historically,  that make a huge difference on the way society develops. "To say otherwise is ignorant."

1 hour ago, Boyle5150 said:

 being white, a man and straight doesn't preclude you to any specific set of beliefs.  The only thing that does, in that list, is "christian" beliefs.  

You take old white men off the voter rolls for the the last election, and the results are probably different. You take old white men out of the SCOTUS and their decisions are likely different. Any seat of power in western society has been held by "old white men" for the majority of the past 300 or so odd years. I don't really see why it's so outrageous to acknowledge either of those two facts. 

On 6/29/2018 at 1:57 PM, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

That's pretty standard, though most physicians will order a complete metabolic panel instead of just the glucose, long with a CBC and probably a hepatic panel. 

 

None of those are anything crazy or expensive. 

I don't think a yearly physical is that important or necessary for a man in his 20's - 30's with no pre-existing health conditions. I had a shitload of doctors appointments due to recovering from injuries from a traffic collision about 5 years ago and when I was pretty much recovered I asked my doctor about yearly exams (because I hadn't been going to a doctor regularly before then) and she said they weren't really necessary until I get in my 40's or 50's. 
 

This article says basically the same thing my doctor said (except more in depth). The only thing that is really necessary (according to the article) on a man <40 years old is a blood pressure test which can be done at most pharmacies for free (I have a home blood pressure tester my mom gave me for some reason). 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/is-an-annual-physical-necessary-the-doctor-is-out-on-that-one-1.2017959

lmao 

2 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

You know, there's really no reason to share that many tweets from him. Share the ones that seem important; America doesn't actually read his Twitter account regularly.

Imagine if they did tho 

I wonder what the Israeli’s long term plan is? You’d think they would’ve learned from South Africa. What they’re doing is not sustainable. 

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

The lady at my work just bought a car that has no A/C and she lives in Escondido.

I didn’t even know there were cars that came without AC anymore.

Inb4assassination

9 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

The unfortunate reality is that Trudeau is also likely to lose the next federal election, and the federal Conservatives are going to swing the country hard to the right, including scrapping the carbon tax. Dark times ahead for Canada. 

No. Fucking. Way.

1 minute ago, mclumber1 said:

538.com would need to change get their name though.

 

Plus we just got a new flag yesterday.  If PR becomes a state, my flag will be worthless.

Maybe it would be a collectable? 

What’s the IA stand for tho 

God bless America 

lmao