15 hours ago, Ramlaen said:

I think it is safe to say that Tucker got a reaction out of the Science Guy.

 

Bill Nye the Bachelor of Engineering Guy

14 hours ago, Collimatrix said:

Some mad bastards actually found a way to perform a controlled experiment to investigate Clinton's lack of charisma.

When you try to prove it's society's fault that she lost but it turns out that it was her fault she lost

2 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

 

politicians and diplomats have connections to the Russian ambassador

businessmen have business connections with Russian businesses

fucking wow

18 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

The Iran - Iraq war probably deserves more study than it gets.

The Iran-Iraq was like the 30 Years' War in the Middle East.

Nearly everyone else benefited from the war.

19 hours ago, Legiondude said:

Wait....so what the hell is it for?

Official administrative business I would assume. Political business usually refers to trying to pass bills which involves contacting other politicians, different governmental and non-governmental organizations, lobbyists, etc.

Can't wait until more fake news networks lose their press passes. In America, you fight them with the dollar.

13 minutes ago, Toxn said:

Yet direct democracy (really proportional representation) plus a parliamentary system is very stable.

Only when the upper house (regional representation) is as powerful as the lower house (proportional representation) to protect regional interests.

The lower house almost always tries curbs the power of the upper house.

27 minutes ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

How does the EC ensure that politicians pay attention to low population density areas?  They pay attention to a handful of swing states, most of which are fairly heavily populated.  Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are not low population states. 

Because their policies would have to align with more swing states; all of which have radically different population compositions. Otherwise, you only campaign in cities and alienate a lot of the states which do not get much of a voice due to low population.

In Canada, Western Canada has been traditionally alienated because they have quite a few less people than Ontario/Quebec, meaning that policies made are usually not benefitting Western Canada and sometimes detrimental like the National Energy Program which almost turned Calgary into modern day Detroit in the 80s by redistributing Albertan oil wealth eastward.

Something like the EC is good because it almost always ensures that a candidate must tailor their policy and campaign to a broad range of states rather than the few states that have a lot of people. Direct democracy usually leads to alienation and secession movements.

1 hour ago, Conner Webb said:

Are you serious? What the hell?!? I'll call them and talk about this, thanks for telling me.

Yes, according to LexiComp,the main drug database in the US, there is an interaction between the two drugs so that one is substituted or Abilify would have its dosage cut. You should definitely call your pharmacist first to confirm and get a substitute for one of those drugs if you can because having both would increase the adverse effects of Abilify.

1 hour ago, Conner Webb said:

I've been put on Abilify and Trileptal. I'm also on Zoloft but i've been on that for a year now. Apparently I'm now Manic and Bi-Polar, I don't really see being Bi-Polar but ehh it would be ignorant of me to deny it. SO those along with Insomnia, Autism, Aspergers, and now this, could that lead too me just not sleeping at all? I haven't sleep but maybe 7hrs this whole week and now it's getting worse, I almost went too the hospital yesterday.

According to LexiComp, Abilify and Zoloft have a drug interaction which worsens the side effects of Abilify by increasing the serum concentration. Honestly surprised your pharmacist didn't catch it.

14 hours ago, Conner Webb said:

An update, I've stayed awake for more or less 5 days with only 3hrs of sleep in between. I was put on new medications which aren't doing shit and I am beginning to go insane.

Are you given anti-depressants? They don't start working until your body adapts to them, which usually takes 2-3 weeks. Usually, you would be given benzodiazepenes along with them as a stopgap.

In your case, you should have gotten zopiclone for your sleep which should start working right away.

The irony when they are projecting onto Trump what Hillary would have likely done

33 minutes ago, Donward said:

And thus ended the brief fucks we were supposed to give about Milo Yackoffinasock (or however you spell his last name).

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-cpac-milo-yiannopoulos-tape-235204

Milo Yiannopoulos disinvited from CPAC amid tape controversy

Milo Yiannopoulos lost his keynote speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference after tapes surfaced of the right wing provocateur and senior Breitbart editor advocating for sexual relationships between “younger boys and older men.”

Advocating for traditions of his Greek heritage I see

7 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

So the Day Without Immigrants protest apparently backfired horribly and a bunch of people got fired.

Who could have seen this coming? I ask entirely seriously and without hint of sarcasm.

Going on strike when people can't find jobs due to the labour supply being much greater than the labour demand is useless as someone else will be happy to take your job. The greater irony is that those same illegal immigrants are causing the greater labour supply, making strikes nearly impossible to successfully pull off.

56 minutes ago, LostCosmonaut said:

Scientists have synthesized pentazole; http://acsh.org/news/2017/02/14/pentazole-first-synthesis-one-unhappy-molecule-10854

This diagram should give you some idea of its properties;

 

That entire article about gases being trapped in those molecules trigger me.

Is she trying to be the female Walter Mondale?

2 hours ago, LostCosmonaut said:

The might open the second largest rare earth mine on Earth in Greenland; http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2017/02/10/greenland-needs-money-is-a-uranium-mine-the-answer/

That article reminds me of why I hate environmentalists; these are the same people who talk about privilege without knowing how privileged they are to not have to worry about being in poverty. They would rather sentence the locals to poverty rather than development (which has strict environmental regulations today for nearly everywhere) which would provide the locals with a lot of wealth, some of which can be used to maintain and possibly improve the environment. The wealth can be also used to diversify its economy and make the locals less affected by the same climate change they're so worried about.

53 minutes ago, Ramlaen said:

No a single thought about where the money is going to come from, just that it has to be done.

 

The full thing with the hair salon lady is even dumber.

Bernie Sanders says he hates the big corporations but dumb regulations like that hurt the small businesses, driving them out of business while the large corporations that can absorb the additional costs would have a major competitive advantage.

You see the same things in Canada with mobile carriers. Smaller companies can't compete due to the extreme regulations, leaving a cartel of mobile carriers that fix the price together.

With what he has done, I think that Bernie is actually working for the large corporations against the smaller corporations by making the smaller ones impossible to compete; especially with all the houses he got from (((donations)))

11 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

He was the Chosen One, obviously. The Internet told me so.

How the fuck would he beat Trump when fucking Cruz is slaughtering him a debate?

Watching the Cruz vs Sanders debate.

Salon owner: I would really like to expand my business and hire more people but I can't because I can't afford healthcare for my workers and I.

Bernie: You should provide insurance for you and your workers

Salon owner: With the rising costs of Obamacare, I can't afford it

Bernie: You should provide insurance for your workers.

Salon owner: How do I do that with an already thin profit margin?

Bernie: BUY INSURANCE FOR YOUR WORKERS

Fucking Bernie does he even fucking think before he speaks?

Good luck getting 2/3 of senate votes in a Republican controlled senate, especially with mostly Democrat states up for grabs next midterm lmao

That CNN guy clearly hasn't.

These guys are thinking that a man who has been doing stunts with the media all his life is hopelessly incompetent against the media. That Dunning-Kruger effect though.

6 hours ago, ApplesauceBandit said:

Shaun King gets BTFO again

Looks like White Supremacy is at it again!

truly blessed by god

3 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

 

That projection

When you become fascists to fight fascism.