The News Thread

[rms]

I paid 25% every year and 33% on my enlistment bonus and I was still rich as fuck

20k per year suckas

 

[viewerfromnihil]

It's quite a club to be in. It's even better when you win scholarships and, as a result, receive a $300 tax refund.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/03/why-ill-never-regret-my-bernie-tattoo

more lulz.

A twenty-something that just got their first tattoo and is quite sure that they will never regret the fact they got it? Profound.

 

[tagradh]

My initial reaction to tattoos like that is that they're awful and that the people that get them are morons.

But then I remember that the same is true for 90% of tattoos and it doesn't seem quite so bad.

 

[Dak]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/who-are-donald-trumps-supporters-really/471714/

RAND tested several queries to clearly divide Trump’s support from his rivals. For example, they found that Trump crushes Ted Cruz among voters who both strongly believe that “immigrants threaten American customs and values" and among voters who "strongly favor" raising taxes on the richest American households. But voters who agreed with the statement “people like me don't have any say about what the government does” were 86.5 percent more likely to prefer Trump. This feeling of powerlessness and voicelessness was a much better predictor of Trump support than age, race, college attainment, income, attitudes towards Muslims, illegal immigrants, or Hispanic identity.

 

[CiG]

Ben Shapiro is currently swimming in anti-Semitism from the Trump camp.

 

[rms]

dude comes off like such a dick

 

[CiG]

Yeah it's great. He'd fit in here.

 

[rms]

http://www.dailywire.com/news/3896/shapiro-i-will-never-vote-donald-trump-heres-why-ben-shapiro

Did you read this? I can't tell what he's advocating for other than no trump. Hillary and Cruz? lol

 

[CiG]

He's not advocating for any particular person. He says he likes Cruz but still has big criticisms about him. He said he'd vote for anybody over Clinton, he said he'd vote Bernie over Trump.

 

[rms]

Ted Cruz? An inspiration to every kid in America who worries that he’ll never be able to run for president because nobody likes him. He’s running. And look, I told Barack, if you really, really want to remake the Supreme Court, nominate Cruz. Before you know it, you’ll have eight vacancies.

-Joe Biden

 

[Dak]

 

[rms]

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sus...king-about-ending-gun-manufacturing-america-I

And people wonder why Republicans think Dems want to 'take the guns away.' What a ridiculous amount of applause to a stupid legislative idea. Sanders with a solid answer though

 

[Dak]

It's amazing how level headed he suddenly becomes when it's on an issue that could get him kicked out of the Senate by his electorate.

 

[rms]

I think Vermont is really pro gun, but when isn't he level headed?

 

[Dak]

The only thing that codger has any demonstrable knowledge about is how to get elected by a bunch of sheltered white people.

 

[CiG]

Hillary is utter trash.

 

[Dak]

http://nautil.us/issue/34/adaptation/super_intelligent-humans-are-coming-rp

Each genetic variant slightly increases or decreases cognitive ability. Because it is determined by many small additive effects, cognitive ability is normally distributed, following the familiar bell-shaped curve, with more people in the middle than in the tails. A person with more than the average number of positive (IQ-increasing) variants will be above average in ability. The number of positive alleles above the population average required to raise the trait value by a standard deviation—that is, 15 points—is proportional to the square root of the number of variants, or about 100. In a nutshell, 100 or so additional positive variants could raise IQ by 15 points.

Given that there are many thousands of potential positive variants, the implication is clear: If a human being could be engineered to have the positive version of each causal variant, they might exhibit cognitive ability which is roughly 100 standard deviations above average. This corresponds to more than 1,000 IQ points.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Hillary is utter trash.

this. That bitch is poison.

 

[rms]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/03/10/3276486/

The comments..jeez

Story : Journalists asks Trump a question, Trump's campaign manager grabs her arm and pulls her down

 

[Matt]

Not shocking coming from Breitbart.com. The people that frequent that are the scum of the earth, really.