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OT: Hrricanes Lounge XLVII: The return to obeying Rhules

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hblueridgegal said:
I was finally able to actually get a VPN to work properly without ads and malware warnings. Such that I could blissfully use the BBC iPlayer and watch the new seasons of some of my favorite programs without the usual 6-12 month wait for them to come across the pond. Just in time for the arrival of the polar vortex!

In these ever increasing uncertain times, sometimes it's the little things.
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What's good on the BBC these days?
 
Svechhammer said:
Joy Taylor, apparently
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Lol I can't stop laughing about this.

So if any of you had a Rax fast food place around their best sandwich was a bacon beef and cheddar. So back than BBC at least around here didn't mean that, and that's how we always order them.

So long after the last one around here closes a the owners son comes to work with me. I'm 50 he's in his early 30s. We started talking about Rax and how awkward it would be to order it now. We all go out to lunch. We all go out to lunch one day and we start joking about putting a BBC in our mouths and his mom not liking the fact that she doesn't understand what's so funny makes him explain to her why us talking about BBC at lunch is funny
 
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Svechhammer said:
Joy Taylor, apparently
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MrazeksVengeance said:
Also that Greenland/Canada/Panama take is insane.
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It’s not insane if you understand how his mind works. He’s literally wrote a book about this strategy (well, a book has been written about him using this strategy. I doubt he actually wrote it.)

Hes going to ask for the most insane thing he can think of, simply to get people talking about it. And he’s going to appear to stick to those negotiations, because he wants his opponent in the negotiations to think he’s serious.

And since you can’t really negotiate with a crazy person, the other party is going to offer him something simply to be done with the interaction. And that something is going to be some they probably wouldn’t have ceded if it were normal negotiations, but it seems like a reasonable secession compared to “We want your entire country.”
 
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Blueline Bomber said:
It’s not insane if you understand how his mind works. He’s literally wrote a book about this strategy (well, a book has been written about him using this strategy. I doubt he actually wrote it.)

Hes going to ask for the most insane thing he can think of, simply to get people talking about it. And he’s going to appear to stick to those negotiations, because he wants his opponent in the negotiations to think he’s serious.

And since you can’t really negotiate with a crazy person, the other party is going to offer him something simply to be done with the interaction. And that something is going to be some they probably wouldn’t have ceded if it were normal negotiations, but it seems like a reasonable secession compared to “We want your entire country.”
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Oh Russian negotiations. Just say nah.

Ze line must be drawn.
 
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And it's not just Twitter that's become an echo chamber. Meta recently updated their rules. Any guesses on what's changed?

The company’s new guidelines prohibit insults about someone’s intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations. However, the latest guidelines now include a caveat for accusing LGBTQ people of being mentally ill because they are gay or transgender.
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The long list of changes to the new hate speech guidelines include removing rules that forbid insults about a person’s appearance based on race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and serious disease. Meta also scrapped policies that prohibited expressions of hate against a person or a group on the basis of their protected class and that banned users from referring to transgender or nonbinary people as “it.”
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Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill

Changes to its hate speech guidelines were among broader policy shifts Meta made to its moderation practices.
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Borsig said:
Exactly.

My boss's boss is a serb. You know what he says all the time? I grew up under socialism. Why would I ever willing vote for that?
Meanwhile the chinese expat in our office is the biggest commie you ever met. I mean I wonder where her red book is some days.

So what youre saying, is that CZ is more Libertarian, and PL is more conservative.. And you wonder why CZ holds a place for my affection. I lot of us US libertarians have a fondness for the CZ, bro.
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The issue is here sometimes semantics conflict with reality. Some people deem communism something despite it not being that.

However I do definitely agree with the sentiment,
 
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So, I’m torn about what to do tomorrow. It seems like the snow/ice won’t hit before I head over to my hockey job, but it will be in full force when the game is over. Meaning I’ll have to drive home around 10:00ish in a mess of rain, snow and ice. Not an ideal scenario.

And, normally, I’d call out because risking thousands of dollars worth of repairs for a day’s pay is just bad math. But the Canes have a few national games (that I won’t get to work) over the next few weeks, and the 2-2 1/2 weeks in February for the 4 Nations will also likely lower my expected paycheck for that month. So any little bit I can make now would help.
 
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LostInaLostWorld said:
EVERYTHING IS WHITE!
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But inauguration isn't until the 20th!

Blueline Bomber said:
So, I’m torn about what to do tomorrow. It seems like the snow/ice won’t hit before I head over to my hockey job, but it will be in full force when the game is over. Meaning I’ll have to drive home around 10:00ish in a mess of rain, snow and ice. Not an ideal scenario.

And, normally, I’d call out because risking thousands of dollars worth of repairs for a day’s pay is just bad math. But the Canes have a few national games (that I won’t get to work) over the next few weeks, and the 2-2 1/2 weeks in February for the 4 Nations will also likely lower my expected paycheck for that month. So any little bit I can make now would help.
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From what it all sounds like, itll be snow until Saturday morning where the tail end of it will be .2 inches of sleet/ice.

probably won't be an issue, but you never know.

Also, 12:45 school dismissal tomorrow for Wake County
 
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