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are salamanders not young snakes?
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creepy crawlies
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Still can't find the keys to my laptop case
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Linus announced he's stepping down as CEO of Linus Media Group
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He doesn't want to be CEO
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I got a message from skrill or whatever bank
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\g/rizon
He wants to focus on doing videos, he doesn't want to focus on running a company
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happy again
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ComputerTech > *BANG* You shot down the duck in 3.389s, which makes you a total of 156 ducks on #computertech. \_X< *KWAK* [10 xp]
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irish666 > Luckily you missed, but what did you aim at ? There is no duck in the area... [missed: -1 xp] [wild fire: -1 xp] [GUN CONFISCATED: wild fire]
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\g: wait, what does the LTT company even do? besides some products
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Are they going to close crypto-associated people's accounts?
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i.e., financial cancellation if you get caught holding crypto
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irish666/rizon
Binance just won’t allow trading in gbp afterwards
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\g/rizon
Segue to the sponsor
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irish666/rizon
And will change any current gbp on their site will be changed to usd
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They are an information broker in the computing space - LTT
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irish666: USD or USDT?
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maybe they can't settle to GBP anymore - no GBP banking relationship
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there is a cozy relationship between banking and government
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I’m going to watch a jaw surgery video and fall asleep
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> via Faster Payments and card
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runs
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who is it?
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so it's sold to corsair?
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> Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development for Systems at Corsair
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they might still be the sole shareholders and directors of the company, but does that mean LTT has issued convertible debt to Corsair?
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or an option to acquire equity in the future?
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It doesn't have to be equity for Corsair to have financial interest in LTT
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even pure debt means if LTT can't pay it back, Corsair owns the company
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why would a ceo like him join the company with no shareholding? he's not sam altman though
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crazy [20:20:39] <%MatCat> Terren Tong
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they been roasting each other on social media and stuff for years
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I think his concern was that the company was becoming a 'family' company, if you know what i mean
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and instead of hiring HR, he hired the guy whom they could suddenly afford
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Internets/rizon
:: YouTube I'm Stepping Down.. :: (09:31) :: Views 219,208 :: Rating [+] 28,568 likes [+] 28,568 likes [-] 0 dislikes [-] 0 dislikes ::
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Terren ended his employment at Corsair almost 2 years ago
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yeah, i did not know that
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i was mistaken
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it seems like he found a really good place to land - LTT is good at marketing products
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MatCat/rizon
is going from corsair / dell to Linus Media Group a downgrade? lol
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crovax/rizon
not considering hes going to be ceo for his good friends company
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\g/rizon
He was a director at Dell, he's CEO at LMG
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apperently linus was offered 100 mil for his company and said no
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yeah just got to that part in this video
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The main issue is, what are they buying for 100 million?
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The channel needs his face to succeed
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MatCat/rizon
I wonder how much canada would of winged him on 60 mil of taxes
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\g/rizon
He'll still be the face of the channel login
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crovax/rizon
hes got a pic of miami right after that scene and my condos in it :p
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Yeah, that's why he didn't accept the 100 million
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\g/rizon
Just because he's no longer CEO doesn't mean he won't still be there... CEO is a job that does not require a lot of in-front-of-the-camera work
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yeah he announced hes gonna be chief vision officer
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\g/rizon
That's why he wanted to get rid of that role
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So he could spend *more* time in front of the camera
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he will still be a major part of the decision making
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and less time justifying why someone is getting paid 'x' and not progressing
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MatCat/rizon
he just doesn't want to do the dirty adminsitrative shit
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administrative work sucks donkey weeniers
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Maybe one of the disgruntled employees would come out with a piece about him being a bad boss
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Will he have creative control of who he shows in the videos?
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The relationships LMG has with both the audience and various vendors around the world would easily put the company's valuation above $100m
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The relationship with the audience needs him to not sell out
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Even just considering the millions of dollars of free swag they get from these companies annually
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i like how he explains in detail everything about this situation in this video
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which they send in the hope he will feature it on his channel
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He fudged the part about why they could afford the terren tong
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\g/rizon
Every single PC and server LMG uses was built with gifted components or sent as a gift by various companies
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the Q&A would be really good
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with audience live questions
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Q&A will happen tomorrow login
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That's good - he knew he can't lose the audience's trust
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*he knows
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I can't imagine anyone would have any wavering trust in him
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Here's a little secret: He even built a system for someone very high up in North Korea
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ComputerTech > *BANG* You shot down the duck in 2.814s, which makes you a total of 157 ducks on #computertech. \_X< *KWAK* [10 xp]
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Especially considering we've known he's been thinking about retiring since he put out that video titled I'm thinking about retiring"
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rumored to be Kim Jong-un
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Null_Anonymous > *CLACK* Your gun is jammed, you must reload to unjam it... | Ammo: 0/6 | Chargers: 2/2
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Null_Anonymous > *Crr..CLICK* You unjam and reload your gun. | Ammo: 6/6 | Chargers: 1/2
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Null_Anonymous > Luckily you missed, but what did you aim at ? There is no duck in the area... [missed: -1 xp] [wild fire: -1 xp] [GUN CONFISCATED: wild fire]
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ComputerTech returns Null_Anonymous's gun to him.
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.yt i've been thinking about retiring
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He timed it well - with elon musk finding a new ceo for twitter
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Fuck I miss my duckhunt ignore on my client
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and the thing he has with spacex
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Null_Anonymous: he didn't say it out loud like that, but the hints are there
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I don't recall linus building anything for anyone in NK
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it's the pyramidal one
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He confirmed who the pyramid PC was for
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It was an exec at Corsair
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:: YouTube Our Craziest PC Yet – Pyramid PC Pt. 3 :: (25:30) :: Views 3,552,373 :: Rating [+] 151,460 likes [+] 151,460 likes [-] 0 dislikes [-] 0 dislikes ::
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oh lol, i guess my 'intelligence' was pointless - maybe it was indirect
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Doesn't it feel like what happened to freenode?
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There would be a bunch of people out of work, and I feel like he wouldn't be a dick like that.
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Why does the video call the corsair exec 'annoying'?
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Internets/rizon
:: YouTube I feel so disrespected right now. :: (02:46:39) :: Views 1,482,000 :: Rating [+] 32,242 likes [+] 32,242 likes [-] 0 dislikes [-] 0 dislikes ::
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So he needed HR essentially
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I recall him saying it was because the guy had very specific desires
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yeah, it might just be my pattern recogition of pyramid + specific desires + willing to pay extra for a pyramid = NK pyramid kim-jong un
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Brb. I gotta go do a thing while here at work. You know, work stuff.
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there is a building of the same shape in Pyongyang - similar pet project
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Pretty sure Canada respects UN embargos of North Korea, and the various allied countries that also have embargos.
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Unless they weren't going to be in North Korea anymore. Permanently.
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I mean, there is still stuff that goes into NK - there is still trade despite the embargo
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not much, how goes it
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My guess would be Canada -> Corsair -> China -> North Korea
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coding
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If Linus was different, he would give others more screen time and retire peacefully with 100m
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weechat me too
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try the tui stuff, ct
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it's still in use in server stuff
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i mean, weechat
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lol, screen+irssi?
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Your face is a terminal based client
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ComputerTech: why "crovax: :|"
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computertech: screen is a program to run several shells inside the same session
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it's equivalent to tmux (terminal multiplexer)
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tmux+weechat vs. screen+irssi
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how do you persist your connection then?
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that ban didn't show up through the technet relay
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byobu is tmux
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yeah, i think it can use screen as its backend too
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is that a real product?
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butters ComputerTechs biscuit
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ComputerTech > *BANG* You shot down the duck in 5.259s, which makes you a total of 158 ducks on #computertech. \_X< *KWAK* [10 xp]
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I wonder what it would be like to swim in a pool of butter
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I dunno what I think about a pool of custard
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hrm, my script should auto nuked him
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Sends LOVE All around..surrounding Peorth :o)
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whiostles
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[Quote] * ~MAGIC empties all on ComputerTech
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[Quote] #414 added by Peorth 2 weeks 6 days 3 hours 19 minutes 53 seconds ago.
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opens a jar saying "man juices"
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hands to MatCat
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hands CoolKevin the jar of man juices from ComputerTech
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not sure what I am supposed to do with man juices
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MatCat/rizon
those are all rather interesting options
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[Zack] I have a small penis and I'm a little bitch.
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CoolKevin: I think you just found the perfect person to give the man juices to
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what are man juices?
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re:stop resisting your arrest - the way they elicit your initial resistance is by kicking or otherwise harming you during the arrest
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it is a natural body reaction to resist that
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they won't be reprimanded for the initial kicking - because that's the equivalent of a cali 0 km/h stop at a stop sign
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they dont kick you if you just put your hands behind your back
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hands behind your head you mean? if it's lower body, they may suspect gun
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if they are hands on cuffing you its behind your back
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behind the head is if your at a distance
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Spiderman you're my favorite super hero!
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i mean as they are approaching you
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doesn't like where this is going
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Zack: what about the spider?
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if you got cops approaching you telling you to put your hands behind your head you probably alrteady did something pretty fucked
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generally arrests dont start thatr way
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it may be getting pulled over for driving like ass, then they do a DUI test, then they say ok turn around, hands behind your back
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yeah, it is not well-known enough that they are very well-versed in criminal law - they study it, often more knowledgable in the part they need to know than even the prosecutor
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I hope my driving skills are up-to-notch
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only time I have ever been pulled over was for speeding
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if going to a protest for example, legal observers and knowing the rules is important
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gone to a protest?
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perhaps the gov is bringing in a policy that you don't agree with and that affects you financially
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yes, that is a very good way to defuse things
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I also send lots of emails to various elected officials
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i guess that's why hong kongers were dismayed when what was perceived as a 'hack/cheat' was removed from their voting system
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you're a very good civic citizen, MatCat
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they should teach these kinds of things in civics in school
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if they don't already do so
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even the calling and writing to elected officials?
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there is also that not everybody is allowed to stand up for election
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or that there is significant pressure not to take certain positions, no matter which candidate it is
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i.e., suppression of the list of choices a voter could be presented with
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and even post-election, taking difficult decisions that undo something someone in the past has and continues to benefit from
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Peorth > You already own this type of ammunition. The bonus will expire in 1 hour 18 minutes and 41 seconds.
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Peorth > *BOOM* The duck survived ! Try again. \_O< [life -3] * GOLDEN DUCK DETECTED *
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Peorth > You just added an extra bullet in your gun in exchange for 7 xp points.
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Peorth > *BOOM* You shot down the golden duck in 3.601s, which makes you a total of 361 ducks (including 154 golden ducks) on #computertech. \_X< *KWAK* [61 xp] [four-leaf clover] [expl. ammo]
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Peorth > You just added an extra bullet in your gun in exchange for 7 xp points.
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there was no gap between the shop and the last bang
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plus, it would have been a waste with your explosive ammo
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Zack: spiderman is cool, but spiders aren't
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so I checked to see if I had explosive ammo
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oh, so that's why it was so fast
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CoolKevin: regarding man juices, have you heard of the reddit 'box'?
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*the internet
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man, the larger the population to sample from, the weirder stuff gets
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but per-1000 people, perhaps you are right MatCat
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in the age of the internet, information intake management is something that should be taught
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ComputerTech > *CLICK* EMPTY MAGAZINE | Ammo: 0/4 | Chargers: 3/3
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ComputerTech > *CLACK CLACK* You reload. | Ammo: 4/4 | Chargers: 2/3
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*BANG* xO' fr33fall just get shot by accident by ComputerTech. [missed: -1 xp] [accident: -6 xp] [GUN CONFISCATED: hunting accident]