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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

A USOPC boycott would be very difficult to pull off.

Let's look back at the boycotts of the 1980's.

If an NOC decides to boycott the games, the IOC's response is that they will permit that nation's qualified athletes to compete regardless of the NOC's wishes on the matter. They do this to make it clear that the IOC is not subordinate to the NOCs. But because their NOC is not participating, they compete under the Olympic flag and anthem. Any sanctions the NOCs decide to levy against those athletes is their problem after the fact, and not the IOC's concern.

For a country with as many athletes as the US, you WOULD have people crossing the picket line to compete anyway.

A more practical gesture would be for the USOPC to deliberately CHOOSE to participate under the Olympic flag rather than the Stars & Stripes. A bunch of countries did this in 1980.

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Piroko 9 points ago +9 / -0

Conscription is Napoleonic nuclear weaponry. Once one superpower has it, they all have to have it. It's not going away.

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Piroko 5 points ago +5 / -0

But not with WIC.

SNAP doesn't care too much what it's subsidizing.

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Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

"What is that?"

"What do you mean 'what is that', that's Petty Officer Louis Machengo."

"I know that. Why's he on this ship?"

-Yang being the ironic stereotype of a racist Japanese person

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Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

LotGH is basically Japanese Starship Troopers.

It goes in a different direction though, exploring the merits and flaws of republicanism vs oligarchy vs autocracy.

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

I figure they're just

Well, you're going about it all wrong.

See, presented with that sort of situation, I'd take the whole pile of tickets, put it into Puppet and bang out an image for them in an afternoon. Are they bullshitting? Maybe. But they're gonna have to be more creative about it than trying to push the wait on me, cuz I've got my tools figured out.

Oh, you want a new VM too? Wait ten minutes and you'll get an email when the clone is done. Close ticket.

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Piroko 42 points ago +42 / -0

Our report on recidivism shows that people convicted of homicide are extremely unlikely to commit another violent crime after release from prison.

Cuz by the time they get out they're fucking old.

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

42 charged

I miss the days when that sort of headline would be about finding communist spies.

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

"The curse of a civilization. It was neither war nor pestilence that wiped out the race who built the great city lying around us. It was their reverence for this lovely flower."

-Drax, Moonraker (1979)

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Piroko 18 points ago +18 / -0

Its like they wanted to be Paul Verhoeven doing what he did to Starship Troopers, but didn't have his talent and lack of style.

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Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

I voted against Romney because he thought horse parking was a more worthy Olympic sport than wrestling.

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Piroko 20 points ago +20 / -0

He also has a post about how to get away with running people over on the street.

Protip: Not like that.


How to get away with running people over in the street:

Step 1: Live in Bangalore

Step 2: There is no step 2.

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Piroko -1 points ago +2 / -3

You're the sort who goes on /b and gets angry about all the mad people around you, aren't you?

The world is mad. The only sane ones are the people who can still laugh at it.

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Piroko -11 points ago +1 / -12

"Grandma, I think we hit a little kid."

"That was a flock of geese, dear. I'll have to write a letter to Jesus about it right away. Here, Tran, take the wheel."

"WHAT!?"

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

this sub is not political

You're thinking KIA. This is KIA2.

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Piroko 2 points ago +4 / -2

this board feels like it's gatekeeping properly

Why are you even posting over there, you fairweather traitor?

If you aren't willing to go completely cold turkey on reddit and walk away from everything then just don't even bother posting here.

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Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

Let the salt flow

Like Gates molten salt reactor.

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Piroko 4 points ago +5 / -1

Cautiously pessimistic. Molten sodium's notorious chemical reactivity kind of cancels out any advantages of not having to deal with a steam primary.

Also the sodium will itself be radioactive (albeit short lived), compounding the contamination of any accident that compromises the primary loop.

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Piroko 14 points ago +14 / -0

the US knew about the Japanese wanting to bomb Pearl Harbor

Cordell Hull (SecState) and Roosevelt wanted them to do it.

US Ambassador Joseph Grew sent Hull a message that basically amounted to "WTF ARE YOU MADMEN DOING?!" (in a lot more words) after they snubbed Fumimaro Konoe's negotiation attempts. Grew realized that Hull wanted the Konoe government to fail, so they'd get Tojo who would give them the war they wanted. Grew was furious about being led on by Washington and went to Hoover with a tell-all.

by xleb2
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Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

You wouldn't have believed me, but actually I envision it going a lot further.

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