February 2012
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I am totally out of groceries
And I’m pretty much too hungry to function. But I’m hesitant to go buy anything because grocery shopping while ravenous tends to lead to dubious grocery purchases. Argh I am not a functional human being.
“Question for the Paul supporters. We all know he won’t get the nomination, but...”
– thegayrepublican, via JasenComstock: Last nights debate.
Oh my goodness I just blacked out a little from excitement because this would be exactly the type of total financial collapse that’s this tumblr’s bread and butter.
Is it bad that I actually think this would be sort of amazing,...
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sleeplessinsouthie replied to your photo: Seeing i-thaphithin’s (eminently reasonable)…
It also looks larger than the average bill (i.e. too cumbersome for dealing drugs)
That’s because this was back in the days of Real Freedom when drugs weren’t illegal and everything was just like the Constitution intended. Ron Paul 2012.
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holy eff I'm glad I left the coffee shop around 9...
A guy who’s always at the coffee shop got stabbed later that evening. He’s 71 and apparently not in very good shape. So that’s effing horrible. Hope he’s all right. Fairly certain I’m going to find a new place to go at night.
Also CBC just filmed a whole segment just outside the window from where I’m sitting so I’m definitely going to be on the news...
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Last of new homes now in Attawapiskat, government... →
Trucks bearing the last of 22 long-awaited new homes rolled into the Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario on Thursday morning, according to a statement from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Nothern Development.
The government said the homes will be ready for families to move into once the community completes the necessary foundation work and installation of the modular homes on...
jayoublie asked: If you could live and work anywhere in the world outside Canada, where would you choose to live?
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who wants questions?
Having a hard time getting back into economics research mode after the road trip - even though I’m currently consuming around the LD50 of caffeine for my body weight. Figure some Internet procrastination would enable this. Let me know if there’s any topic area you would or wouldn’t like.
As always, also taking questions - although probably more of the...
Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House:... →
shihtzuman:
While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
What a meaningful statistic this would be! If the US economy consisted solely of the expected short-term returns to capital enjoyed by the 500 largest publicly-traded companies in...
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faucet replied to your photoset: Hey so here’s what happened on my day in San…
Everyone thinks we had sex!!
Yeah everyone thinks I have sex with everyone. What’s up with that?
Dashboard friends, faucet and I just went to bars and drank heavily. There was absolutely no sex. He met a tiny and friendly ginger with amazing hair and I was hoping they’d hook up but that didn’t...
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novenator replied to your link: Venezuelan bonds surge as Chavez heads into surgery
Publications owned and operated by the corporate right will continue to attack Chavez because his policies are successfully helping Venezuela and curbing corporate power.
Well, I’m not going to argue for a moment that the Globe and Mail is not owned and operated by the corporate right!
However -...
Venezuelan bonds surge as Chavez heads into... →
Mr. Chavez, who has been running Venezuela into the ground for the past 13 years, still insists he will contest the next presidential election in October, which will feature a credible opposition candidate running on a platform borrowed from Brazil’s successful, market-boosting socialists.
The bond market’s early bet is that Mr. Chavez’s political prognosis is poor. Even if he prevails in the...
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abbyjean replied to your post: abbyjean replied to your photoset: Hey so here’s…
yeah except the ones that are about oppressing identifiable minorities (gays, racial minorities, immigrants) - there’s a lot of those. i don’t think it indicates engagement, just easier $$ manipulation of the process.
Oh. Hmph. This canvasser was only talking about very leftist-populist ones, which I guess...
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abbyjean replied to your photoset: Hey so here’s what happened on my day in San…
ballot initiatives are THE WORST. glad you’re having fun!
Yeah I couldn’t help but roll my eyes a little about how every single one had money earmarked for kindergarten education and adorable puppies and so on. Even the ones that sounded eminently sensible (e.g. creating a new higher tax bracket) had so...
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back in Vancouver
The return trip was basically uninterrupted driving, so that was a little interminable. And then I had to help arkingarts address some roommate issues which took an hour or so. Now I’m on transit home.
Had a great time and it was awesome to meet faucet and all. Will post pictures when I get home as right now my phone battery is about to die.
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sleeplessinsouthie replied to your post: road trip update!
I’m coming to San Francisco on friday for a week. If you’re still there we should get drinks or something.
That would be awesome!
However if I am leaving with arkingarts (who made me clean all my stuff out of his car this morning, and then drove away, and I don’t really have a good way to contact him, so no idea what’s...
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road trip update!
Still on this epic road trip! In San Francisco right now, just checking my mail and giving faucet a couple more hours to sleep. Here’s what’s been happening:
After arkingarts vetoed Portland and most other urban stops (once we were already underway), we’ve mostly been driving on relatively remote back roads, and almost only stopping if he sees a bird he wants to take a picture...
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road trip mode
This tumblr is going into road trip mode. Not sure how often I’ll be able to update, nor really what our route is going to be like, nor when we’ll be back. So that is somewhere between exciting and terrifying! Anyway, if you happen to be anywhere between Vancouver and San Francisco and want to meet up then askbox me and we’ll work something out.
Until then, updates will be...
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i-thaphithin replied to your photo: Did I mention that this starts tomorrow? Because…
Is there going to be a stop in Sonoma/Napa?
Probably, yeah. Our trip is minimally planned, because AA prefers it that way and I am trying to be relaxed too. Trying really, really hard. Deep breaths. It’s okay that we haven’t booked hotels. I usually plan any trip I go on like an Apollo...
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arkingarts replied to your post: HOW HAVE YOU NOT WATCHED DOCTOR WHO?! YOU ARE THISCLOSE TO GETTING YOUR TUMBLR LICENSE REVOKED. CORRECT THIS. NOW.
Wait you haven’t seen any doctor who? I’m revoking your trip rights. :/ gtfo my car, I don’t know you sir!
Argh noooo tumblr look what you’ve done.
Pack some Doctor Who and we can watch it in the evenings on the trip? I didn’t know you...
i-thaphithin asked: HOW HAVE YOU NOT WATCHED DOCTOR WHO?! YOU ARE THISCLOSE TO GETTING YOUR TUMBLR LICENSE REVOKED. CORRECT THIS. NOW.
aswalsh asked: So I've read enough to know that you're an aficionado of Fringe and Star Trek. But how far down the sci-fi rabbit hole do you go? As a partisan of Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Spider-Man, I think the public might like to know the extent of your geekery.
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Obama Should Decline to Nominate the Next World... →
As soon as the World Bank confirmed Wednesday that Robert Zoellick will step down as president this summer, the tussle over who should succeed him began.
The Obama administration, abiding by a decades-long custom, says it expects to name the replacement. That custom has outlived any semblance of propriety. The White House should think again.
For seven decades it was accepted that a...
chrishasaflavor asked: Describe your perfect romantic date. Also, I want a sweet question.
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toasterhaus replied to your post: What are the odds that TransCanada succeeds in securing permits for a pipeline to the Pacific instead of the proposed Keystone XL?
How can the government forbid scientists from talking to the media?
Environment Canada is an agency of the federal government. It deals with pollution regulation, renewable resource regulation, watercourses, weather forecasting, and...
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lawschooled replied to your post: What are the odds that TransCanada succeeds in securing permits for a pipeline to the Pacific instead of the proposed Keystone XL?
A DoJ lawyer at a panel I attended today basically told the room that he is against the Enbridge pipeline (without actually saying it. He said “I have some personal views on it that I have to keep to myself because of where I work”)....
huskerred asked: What are the odds that TransCanada succeeds in securing permits for a pipeline to the Pacific instead of the proposed Keystone XL?
dgdgnl asked: Do you have a good salsa recipe? I need a good salsa recipe.
who wants questions?
I’m a little too caffeinated and jittery for optimal completion of this progress report. Please specify if you want a question that is salacious, political, or nostalgic in nature. I’m no good with boundaries.
Also actively taking questions but really that is always the case.
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aatombomb replied to your post: okay so maybe my civic pride for Vancouver is a little sickening
I would ❤ that. It’s only a 23-hour flight from here, right? ;P
It took me 23 hours to get there, but that’s because I took the Greyhound down from Vancouver to Seattle, transit to the SeaTac airport, stayed at the airport for six hours because my flight left pretty early, flew through...
okay so maybe my civic pride for Vancouver is a...
But yeah if any of you are in town I will go into full-on tourguide mode. Just a warning.
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crookedindifference asked: any suggestions on what to do out here? im in whistler today but come back to vancouver tomorrow night.
jasencomstock asked: how much money would i make at GS working in equities, asset management, or currency commodities? what are these career path's stereotypes?
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jayoublie replied to your link: Goldman Sachs has a placement test that helps you figure out which positions to apply for
It wants me to do investment banking. My mom says you need to be white or straight to succeed in finance, though :-( Fuck knows how I’m gonna use my degree.
Really? The majority of the people I know who have succeeded in finance have been neither white nor straight, and none...
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Goldman Sachs has a placement test that helps you... →
Because I know some of you are economics majors, and consider Goldman Sachs to be your sworn enemy, but also would like to be paid money for your economics skills afterwards. Apparently it’s an absolutely fascinating place to work. And if you get hired but you feel super unethical about it, then just donate basically everything you make to charity and live in a three-bedroom apartment in...
so here's an attempt at a more coherent way of...
It seems like some lonely bitter shut-in on the Internet referred to feminists as Nazis. Obviously this deserves all the scorn and derision in the world, because comparing a social movement whose members you disagree with to genocidal tyrants is absolutely ridiculous.
However. Whipping up a Nazi-themed flag and expressing pride in being compared to the Nazis? It’s an appropriation of mass...
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hey so about that Nazi swastika-inspired flag...
Haw haw haw look at me Internet I’m just like the Nazis but actually I’m a Good Internet Progressive what a big joke.
No. Fuck you. Stop trivializing genocide to mock some loser on the Internet. This is totally unacceptable. I can’t imagine how anyone thinks this is acceptable.
arkingarts got an autograph from Shangela
(Best known to most of you for having a pocket full o’ Hawthornes.) She was so friendly and gracious! And such stage presence. Well worth the four hours we spent playing bingo and watching lesser performers.
drag queen compared Chris Brown to Ike Turner and...
No one else did. This is a strong sign I’m the oldest person here.
oh hey the ex and I agree this is crushingly...
Something to bond over!
At least drinks aren’t too pricey.
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“For starters, Harvard recruits athletes who are disproportionately white...”
– So this is pretty dismal.
Incidentally, wondering why Harvard has “geographical diversity” quotas (which seem pretty suspect at first glance)? They’re a holdover from a compromise in the 1920s to limit the number of Jewish students at top American universities, because the elderly...
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“We are continually faced with new terms. In the euro area, there are plenty who...”
– Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, after the eurozone put off making a decision on whether to hand over €130 billion to the Greek government at least until Monday and possibly until April. Basically, the rest of the EU is afraid that Greece is going to take all the money in exchange for...
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