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This is a link post Loading a giant sleeping elephant
A well narrated full sequence: youtube.com/watch?v=2u8LiTYJxp0
"Dr. Will Fowlds and his veterinary team move an African elephant to a nearby wildlife reserve. Using a new technique for capturing animals, they suspend the elephant and load it with a crane fully anesthetized, allowing it to wake gradually and safely inside the transport container."

Some of you may find it useful
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This is a link post Mad as a box of frogs.

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This is a normal post I love off-the-wall musical instruments
And these are right up there!
Also, is that a monster milling machine in the background?
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This is a normal post I really enjoyed that
and we should all be grateful that he is interested in music and not weapons.
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This is a normal post Gerschwin!

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This is a normal post B3ta
Clicks hard
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This is a link post KFC Germany twitter team needs content moderator
and possibly a new twitter team

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This is a normal post Hahahahaha.

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This is a normal post I wonder if it's some sort of automated fuck up
List of important dates
On important date, treat yourself
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This is a normal post hmmm sceptical
suspect that those responsible will find out that
work makes you free
to find other work
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This is a normal post oof

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This is a normal post Worst haiku ever

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This is a normal post Teenage Mutant Nin
ja Turtles, Heroes In A
Half Shell, Turtle Pow'r
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Glass shards in the wind
Fascism soon to follow
Our heads hang in shame
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Fascism soon to follow Our heads hang in shame Tra la la la la
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This is a normal post Oh, I get it now!

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This is a normal post Zinger® Heil

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This is a normal post Do you want the special sauce?
I'll write SS on the side so you know which one that is.
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This is a normal post Would you like
Arbeit macht freis with that
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This is a link post I guess Dr Breen just isn’t a cat person
Part 2
Ed:Part 3

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This is a normal post Mary Freeman

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This is a normal post I do
Like these HL2 cat involved videos. keep up the good lurk.
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This is a normal post Part 3 is the best

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This is a normal post {:-D
A very high density cat.
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This is a normal post lolz

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This is a normal post Like it =D

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This is a normal post Excellent

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This is a link post world's dirtiest song NSFW

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Absolute muck
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Pure filth...
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This is a normal post NSFW if anyone is within earshot
March 5, 1935:

Proper, good ol' fashioned filth
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This is a normal post Haha that's awesome
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiNSSElgGr4
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This is a normal post Sparks!
Ron & Russell sure re-invented themselves after that.
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This is a normal post haha, elderly victims of violent crime!!!!

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This is a link post Dan McCafferty of Nazareth is dead
So have one of their best songs.
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This is a normal post Jesus of Nazareth came back after a few days so let's hope eh?

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This is a normal post Maybe he's on his flight tonight

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This is a normal post Hair of the Dog was one of the first albums I got into as a kid
Still stands up today. Totally unique songwriting and then of course, that voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uvpr_gm64
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This is a link post A round of applause
for breaking your tibia.

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This is a normal post That nose though

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This is a normal post what a spaccata

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This is a normal post Oh fucking hell please not the sounds of crepitus

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This is a normal post In that case, so glad I watched it with the sound off.
Did it sound like scrunched up plastic egg cartons?
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This is a normal post Yes
very loudly
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This is a normal post 'Cause I speak of the crepitus of love

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This is a normal post ha

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This is a normal post It's something off camera, I hope.

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This is a link post The Braindance Coincidence
Full Album

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This is a normal post Not listened to that in quite some time...
So much good stuff...that'll be soundtracking my commute to work in the morning...
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This is a normal post Fucking loved that comp back in the day.
See also that 'Grime' compilation that Rephlex put out.
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This is a normal post Sounds interesting
I thought I'd check out the Rephlex website to see if it's in the back-catalogue. Once you scroll past Warp, Ninja Tunes, XL Records et al they seem to be recommending a bunch of porn sites, then robbie williams and mel b. No back-catalogue in sight. If you've got the name I'd be interested in checking it out though.
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www.discogs.com/release/264005-Various-Grime

More dubstep than grime...
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This is a normal post Rewind the tra-a-a-a-a-a-a-ack
...is what I immediately think of when I see that picture.
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This is a normal post Cracking track...
I love this Cylob track, its spiritual successor...I remember the first time I heard it, at some electronica night, the random punter stood next to me and I both looked at each other and said WTF is this???
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This is a normal post Nice
I'll file this under songs where they express that they want to limit the audible frequency spectrum, while continuing to propogate across the full audible frequency spectrum.
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This is a normal post Been listening to late '90s/early '00s electronica the last couple of days...
this EP had a big impact on me when it came out...
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This is a link post New Kurzgesagt
"According to scientists, space is really big, and nobody lives there."

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This is a normal post Pretty good overview.
Regarding shooting it into the sun, there are a couple of cheaper ways to do it:
1: It takes less delta-v to reach solar escape velocity than to launch directly into the sun, but you could send a rocket to the outskirts of the solar system for slightly less cost, at the apoapsis the velocity would be incredibly low, at which point you can spend a tiny amount of delta-v to lower your periapsis beneath the surface of the sun.
2: Alternatively, a solar sail, counter-intuitively, can lower your apoapsis more efficiently than it can raise it, and would only need solar power to get you into an orbit lower than Mercury's. It might not get you all the way to the sun before it fails, though.

Regarding burying it in subduction zones or geologically inactive areas, well that's fine, but it seems to me as if we are squandering a free energy source by doing that. If you have a lump of matter that's going to be hot for thousands of years, it seems to me like we could use that. If not on Earth, then definitely in space. It should be a good energy source for interstellar probes, for example.
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This is a normal post The trouble with RTGs in space is that they need huge radiators. Much less so where there’s an atmosphere.
Throwing nuclear “waste” away is indeed silly though. Stupid non-proliferation treaties.
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This is a normal post The temperature differential is what makes the thermocouples generate electricity...
Look at the Voyagers, they have no large radiators, just the standard RTG fins. The RTG is an internal part of the Cassini probe, which has no large radiator (unless the rear side of the solar panel counts..?). Are you thinking of fission reactors?
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This is a normal post There’s no temperature difference unless you can keep one side cooler than the other
You need a radiator for that in space. If you don’t remove heat from the cold side one way or another you eventually lose the temperature differential by simple conduction. Beta decay batteries don’t work like that but I don’t think they were used at that point.

If you look at the Cassini example you’ll see the fins going around the outside. That’s the radiator.

Ed: I should have been clearer: you need huge radiators if you want to generate more than a hundred watts or so. RTGs are great for longevity away from the sun but they’re not a practical source of large amounts of power.
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This is a normal post Could you point to the radiator fins on Cassini?
www.rocketstem.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/97pc1110.jpg

The only ones I see are the standard RTG fins in cutaway diagrams. Cassini also has a number of other isotopic heaters to keep the electrics warm, rather than worrying about overheating or not being able to shed enough heat with radiators.

"The spacecraft also carried 82 strategically placed radioisotope heater units (RHUs), which provided focused warmth in the form of one watt of thermal power each using a pencil eraser-sized pellet of plutonium dioxide. The Huygens probe used 35 similar RHUs to keep it warm on its descent to the frigid surface of the frigid Titan."
solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/radioisotope-thermoelectric-generator/

My searches for "large radioisotope thermal generator radiators" is returning nothing relevant to your assertion.

I'm not calling you out, just confused.
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This is a normal post The black bits that you already know about. I wasn’t referring to the probe as a whole.
commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassini%27s_RTG.jpg

If you wanted to get more than a hundred watts out of it (which you would definitely need for anything interstellar) you’d need much bigger fins to make the temperature different larger; Seebeck generators are laughably inefficient to start with, which is probably why NASA started to look at Sterling engines instead.

Probably just a case of crossed wires here.
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This is a normal post Ah okay.
I'm not sure you'd need that much more wattage for interstellar probes... I'm assuming either chucked potatoes or laser sails, with no exotic propulsion systems or even ion drives, just some mostly passive sensors and a laser or radio transmitter to send data back home (or to the nearest network node). That would just need enough battery storage to use sparingly, punctuating long recharge times.

The waste will be hot for thousands of years, so there's no need to rush. We could make shitloads of such probes.
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This is a normal post Depends what you mean by interstellar.
Lasers as you will know are neither perfectly collimated nor immune to being scattered by space dust. The last time I read about the subject they were talking about needing megawatts.

It’s all (literally) academic really.
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This is a normal post A proposed comms laser for Breakthrough Starshot is a mere 100W:
phys.org/news/2020-05-interstellar-probes-starshot.html

It would need at least one 30m receiver at this end, or possibly smaller assuming a relay network of probes. The denser the relay network, the less powerful and accurate each laser needs to be.

There's talk of drawing power from the interstellar medium, which sounds far fetched compared to nuclear waste. ;)
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This is a normal post Pointing at Earth will be tricky to say the least!
I notice it also assumes improvements in detectors, which reminds me of something Carl Sagan once said about radio telescopes. Apparently if you summed up all the energy picked up by all the world’s radio telescopes it would amount to about the same as a single falling snowflake.

Let’s just build a few self-sustaining habitats, strap a few fusion rockets to them and fling 'em into the void eh?
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I must be going mad. I'm sure I watched a video about exactly this about a month ago.
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This is a normal post the should hang a net from the moon and throw shit in it every time it comes around
when it get full enough, winch it in
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This is a normal post Nuclear waste should stay on earth
It's going to be humanity's longest lasting legacy and you can never have enough for killing dissidents
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This is a normal post in comparison to cosmic proportions of the Earth, Sun, Milky Way, etc.
whichever amounts of radioactive energy or nuclear emissions man and woman have produced on Earth so far has 0 impact or consequence in the universe.

any material ejected beyond Earth's sphere of gravitational influence, i.e. towards the sun or or into Jupiter would basically become insignificant/non-existent to anything around it, like space.

uncalculable amounts of (radioactive) energy exist in and are exeted by unfathomable amounts of sources.

human's and huwoman's existence and doings on planet Earth practically have absolutely no impact or meaning in the universe
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This is a normal post On a geological timescale the Anthropocene might be as significant as Liz Truss's time in office
but nuclear waste might help a yet to evolve equivalent species in the far future to piece together what humans were up to
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This is a normal post Altruistic littering?

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This is a normal post It's what the Pak did when they colonised the Earth
and realised that Tree of Life couldn't grow here.
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This is a normal post I’ve almost finished the Foundation series.
My god, what a load of shite.
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This is a normal post Yeah there are a few too many of them.

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This is a normal post About five too many.
Honestly I enjoyed reading the entire John Carter series more.
Asimov is woefully overrated. There, I said it.
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This is a normal post Hey now he's great as long as you like
robots
men
sexual assault
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This is a normal post I’ve only read the Foundation books so far.
So no robots until the last book, the ones that are there are indistinguishable from humans (who apparently have psychic and telekinetic powers because reasons) and all the main characters are arrogant Marty Stus. I think they’re at most half a dozen female characters ranging from battle axe through demure hausfrau to pliant sex object. Painful to read frankly.

Maybe the robot books are better, but that would hardly be an achievement. The TV show bears little resemblance to the first book but apart from Reece Shearsmith and that atrocious accent of his it’s a bloody good thing.
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This is a normal post I assume the TV show is a narrowcasting thing? I'm sure I'd have noticed it on proper television.
His robot short stories are pretty good (as long as you accept that he just doesn't understand women).

I'd avoid his guide to bottom pinching, etc.
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This is a normal post Apple TV
The title sequence is a sight to behold in 4K
youtu.be/VbP3VHRbl5E

I suggest you pirate the first couple of episodes if Apple don’t do a free trial. What they’ve done with the Emperor is quite interesting, as is the original robot character.
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This is a normal post Turtle power!

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This is a normal post You know we've left stuff on the moon, right?
Just to reiterate Woodkovsky's remarks, combine all the radioactive material ever produced by humans and compare its radioactivity to a single solar flare or CME event. The sun laughs in the face of our radioactive prowess. The ionising radiation coming from the galaxy in general laughs squarely in the face of the sun. The ionising radiation from the universe laughs in the face of the galaxy.
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This is a normal post Yes humanity is insignificant and irrelevant, we get it

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This is a normal post I think you misconstrued my comment
I'm not concerned about contaminating space. I was pointing out that radioactive waste within the lifespan of earth could be one of the signs that humans once lived here

That, and the bones of the royals
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This is a normal post I understood that,
which is why I said that we have left stuff on the moon. Hard evidence that will last a long time.
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This is a normal post ^___^ Amusing...

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This is a link post Thoroughly deserved.
For sucking his cock, I'm guessing.
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This is a normal post Wasn't this reported several weeks ago?

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This is a normal post No idea.
Maybe it was expected.
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This is a normal post Nowhere near as surprising as finding out that AOL is still a thing.

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This is a normal post Well,
if you were following my Bebo account you would have known.
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This is a normal post A thing other than free coasters

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This is a normal post I wonder whether even one of those ever made it into a CD drive

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This is a normal post She's 65 which seems like a reasonable mandatory retirement age if labour are thinking of cutting down the numbers a bit

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This is a normal post tbf, she is a bit of a GILF

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This is a normal post Looking forward to that bright future when the country is run by physically attractive thickos

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This is a link post Just a quiet day’s fishing.


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This is a normal post taken too soon xx

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This is a normal post Matron!

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This is a normal post Definitely on my list of people I would have expected to have been dead a long time already.

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This is a normal post ding dong

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This is a normal post Leslie was a witch?

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This is a normal post I was thinking of his line in "Carry on nurse"

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This is a normal post Oh yeah, I remember it now

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This is a normal post Left hand well and truly down a bit

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This is a normal post Great, now I've got that hornpipe stuck in my head. Thanks.

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This is a normal post Indeed
That is all
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This is a normal post Well, goodbye indeed.
nice fella
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This is a link post New Viagra Boys vid
and lo it was a banger, yea and they did bounce around

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This is a link post Absolute mentalist shoots homeless person twice in the stomach after he complains about her playing music too loudly.
Then laments about how hard it's been for her dealing with all the notoriety. Poor lamb.
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This is a normal post You can't get much more Nashville than shooting a man for the hell of it

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This is a normal post "But I shot a man in Nashville, just to watch him die"

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This is a normal post Quackenbush!!!
That is all.
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This is a normal post Derp!!!
That is all.
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This is a normal post Let me try to recreate my reactions to this story in textual form:
WTF
Quackenbush?
Why change that name?
Ridiculed online? Good.
Spat on? Good.
Death threats? Understandable.
"This will follow me for the rest of my life." YOU TRIED TO KILL A HOMELESS MAN.
It sounds like it would be a good thing for her 4 kids if she spent the next 25 years in prison.
She hopes to become a lawyer one day? Right.
PORSCHE SUV??? How does an 'aspiring Nashville singer' drive a fucking Porsche?
""It inspired me to help people who have been in my shoes." Fellow attempted murderers of homeless people? Fuck you.
RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT??????????
"She was initially indicted on charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon." Well obviously. Reckless endangerment??
Fuck American law. Fuck rich people.
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This is a normal post You should probably pop a couple of diazepams before the midterm results come in.

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This is a normal post They're probably going to be litigated for months either way.

(, Tue 8 Nov 2022, 15:38, Reply)
This is a normal post The way things are going the count will take months.
How is it that our polls close at 10pm and most results are out by 3am but they still aren’t finished two bloody days later? Yes they have five times the population but that just means they can have five times as many people counting.
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This is a normal post Understandable reaction
She was probably just practicing for the class/race war they've been gagging to start.
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This is a normal post A Porsche Cayenne has basically zero residual value after 100000 miles
You can find them on Auto Trader for less than £10k
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This is a link post Tunga tunga version
Anyone got any links to similar artists I might not know of?

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUQBfecBnw
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This is a link post Tripod spiderfish, bony eared assfish
and other creatures uncovered during investigations of two new marine parks located 2,500 km off Australia's western coast


(, Tue 8 Nov 2022, 10:50, Reply)
This is a normal post Like /board had a fish compo

(, Tue 8 Nov 2022, 15:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Boney eared arsefish
Not too spicy, not too clean. Just the sort of insult you could call a sibling with your mother in earshot.
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