It's tonight at 9 eastern. They say nearly a million Americans will be watching. They say it'll be commercial free. It's gonna be on ABC, NBC, FOX, and CNN and streaming online on websites like Youtube (so our non-American neighbors can watch as well). Half of America will be watching, if you're gonna, it makes sense that you watch it with your friends on Hubski.
Godzilla films are fun, until you take them seriously and consider the lives lost and ruined, the massive damage to infrastructure, and the economic setbacks that would follow as a result of a kaiju attack. Still, if given the chance I think I'd vote for Mothra. He seems pretty legit.
Someone confirm I'm not hallucinating and that exchange happened. The moderator of the presidential debate had to shut down a racist rant like he was moderating a subreddit and not a presidential debate? That was a thing that happened?Trump: Stop and frisk was great! Let's have more of that!
Moderator: You know New York doesn't do stop and frisk anymore because it was obviously really really racist, right?
Curses! Your eloquence wins you this round, rd95! But remember, I will return with even MORE of my European snide remarks about state-mandated high school curriculum and Schengen Area boasts… our next battle of wits shall cost you dearly, you have my promise. Flees to his lair where none who don't have a passport may enter!
I missed the first half but turned it on to see Donald seem to come really unhinged over the course of almost an hour. When he was just rambling on about names no ones ever heard of trying to tie his birther conspiracy to HRC it was like a slow motion car wreck. He was terrible for the entire time I watched but that whole topic was just next level shitting the bed and it never got better from there. Worst debate performance from any candidate I've seen in my life (one on one that is).
I got up and did some other stuff as soon as I heard any birther comments coming up. It doesn't have anything to do with anything. I get that it makes Trump look like an idiot, but there are plenty of other important topics that can do that as well. It's a non-issue that's really annoying to see is a dominant topic in the election news. I feel the same about Hillary's emails. That matters more, but it still doesn't matter.
I think there are a large number of people that view it as a racist attack on the first black president, with no basis in reality, kept alive for years by DJT himself, and therefore vitally relevant. Especially combined with the reality that DJT was personally sued twice by the Department of Justice for not letting black people rent homes in his buildings, there is a sizable contingent of Americans for whom this matters. You may disagree with the characterization of his motivations, but a lot of folks don't see it that way. If they are right about that, it is one of the more important questions that could be asked (and he still didn't answer it but dodged it twice during the debate). HRC's emails also aren't as big a deal in isolation but again, like Donald, they tell us something about the very nature of the candidate and provide a map for how they will govern. Personally I think HRC (emails) and Trump (taxes) are both candidates who couldn't give two shits about transparency to the public (and will govern that way), and that Don is fundamentally a racist (housing discrimination, birther, refusing to swiftly disavow support from David Duke, etc).
Sorry, this is probably a silly question, but I haven't followed the "birther" topic at all even when it was commonly in the news. What connection does it have to race? If you're not a born citizen of the US, then you can't be president of course, but I haven't seen how race was a factor since the same issue of an unreleased birth certificate could have applied if Obama was white.
Obama is a secret Muslim, his middle name is Hussein after all. Even though he was an active member in a Black Nationalist Evangelical Christian Church for 20 years. He was born in Africa, because he is black (and in Kentucky people believe this shit) even though his birth was better documented than my mom's; his birth announcement was in the papers and his mother was a patient in the hospital. This all at the same time that the guy he is running against. McCain, WAS NOT BORN IN THE USA Note for citizenship, if your parents are in the military and you are born on a military isntallation, you are considered a natural US citizen. Ted Cruz, interestingly enough is not a natural US citizen. The "Birther" people are mostly racist. I say this as someone who has daily interactions with multiple birthers. And he is a Democrat, so all slander against him is fair game.
Ah, yeah. So basically The birther movement began out of the alt-right and white nationalist movement here in the US. it was this massive years long smear campaign directed at the first black president that wasn't directed at other presidents. He was born in the US, there was never even a HINT of a suggestion that he wasn't, his state birth certificate was publicly available in short form, and he even released the long for version because of the conspiracy. All this is stuff that no white candidate was forced to do, not even ones like Ted Cruz, whom it is well known was actually born in Canada. It has as much to do with the people pushing the conspiracy as it does the asymmetrical standard applied to him. And again, even when he produced his long form birth certificate DJT continued to publicly push the notion that he wasn't American for years and years after.
I live where the Birther people are loud and proud. Almost every one of them is an Evangelical, ALL of them are far right wing and most of them are what I would call extremely racist. There are even some black preachers here in the Ohio Valley who call him a Muslim from Africa because of Obamacare murdering nego babies in Planned Parenthood Abort-o-Plexes. Link to the crazy
Biggest winner: 400 pound men laying in bed. Until tonight they have not received their just desserts.
Fuck. He's got her. She's been baited in to his style. He's going to be our next president. Fuck. She needs to call him out as being a one-trick pony. Edit: I think she did a nice job as the debate continued, letting him dig his own holes.
This is a perfect time to be on IRC. It'll be YOOGE.
I don't drink... so I probably shouldn't be the one suggesting this... but isn't there some kind of game that would make this more fun? Like every time the donald says "Yooge" - take a shot. Every time Clinton says something catchy, take a shot. or maybe I just want to watch the world burn....
I have twenty bucks riding on The Donald uttering the words "crooked Hillary." I bought my shares too early, so I'll only get $31 if I win. You can do better than double your money if you buy now.
No, I lost my investment and half a million brain cells committed suicide. Obviously I was tuned to the wrong channel. I tried to resist the idiocy by working on a probability problem. Maybe you can show me how to generalize a solution using Bayes. How was Riyadh?
How was Riyadh. Good question. All in all, it was relatively dull. I spent the majority of my time being shuttled between the hotel and conference center at King Abudulaziz university. Didn't see much of the city, but what I did see didn't really impress me: mainly car dealerships and malls. I can't say I was really exposed to any novel cultural experience, aside from sitting on the opposite side of the auditorium from my female colleagues. They did, however, let us eat lunch and dinner together, which I'm told represents a liberalizing effort. It seemed to be a fairly friendly place, but with something hidden under the surface, like they were putting on airs for a couple dozen westerners . On my last day there, as I was leaving the conference enter, a young medical student came up to me, beaming, and kind of had a fanboy moment. Apparently, he was quite enamored with the work our lab does, and was happy to have a conversation with a western scientist (even though I'm not a notable one by any stretch). Although flattered, I thought little of it until he sent me an email a short while later: I'm Mohammed, the medical student you've met earlier today. It was great to listen/speak to you. Long story short, I hope we meet in person. Maybe in the hotel lobby for your convenience. I'm a secular atheist pacifist introvert science freak, the worst combination to be in this land. You could be the first one I have the GUTS to honestly talk to in person. You're probably spending the evening with your conference colleagues, but I'd appreciate if you could spare whatever time you feel not busy. I'm a benevolent guy to know and it'd mean the WORLD if I know an understanding person. Followed by this one: You've served much of what I hoped for by expressing your understanding, all that I hope is someone whom I don't fear my life talking to freely. My existence is an utter anathema, terrorism punished by prison, lashing and (they charitably abstained) execution. even psychiatrists can report us secretly, I know someone on Twitter who got exposed to his family by his psychiatrist. Perhaps he was a government agent trying to get me to say something untoward as retaliation for me telling their organizers that their scientists were always going to be at a disadvantage unless or until they have a more open society. Probably not though. I'm sure they kid was genuine, and it really broke my heart. I thought of inviting him to Hubski, but haven't decided yet. Mostly, I just wanted a beer.Hey, Dr. X
Thanks for your reply Doctor,
Thanks for sharing, that was interesting. I attended my first conference a couple weeks ago at UCLA, and I wish that I could have just observed, but of course you don't get flown out to those things to simply watch. My presentation was an absolute train wreck. Voice audibly wavering in pitch, I kept walking off from the microphone to get a better view of the screen, laser pointer dot amplifying the tremors of my hands. First time I'd spoken into a mic since a birthday party in 2nd grade, I think. Finished my 15 minute presentation in about 8 minutes, and no one dared asked this poor grad student any questions, likely out of pity. Sigh
Being your first, it was probably bad, but probably not as bad as you think it was. The thing is, most people forget everything they saw in a talk by the time the next one is finished. They might, however, remember your face, name or topic, and that's the best you can hope for. Next time you submit a funding application, you hope that one of the reviewers has heard of you. The more talks you give, the more likely it is. You'll get better at it.
http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/outkick-s-presidential-debate-drinking-game-092616 Every time Clinton says "more good jobs," apply for a Visa to the UK.
My friend texts me this morning apologizing for his ranting about halfway through the debate (Most of it incoherent babbling). He said he woke up with the most vicious hangover he has ever had in his 23 years, and he also doesn't remember much after the first 45 minutes.
Missed the entire debate. 400lb hackers? Uhhhh?
Part of DJT's response to HRC's comments on cyber-security. There is an annotated/fact-checked transcript at NPR: http://www.npr.org/2016/09/26/495115346/fact-check-first-presidential-debateAs far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said. We should be better than anybody else and perhaps we’re not. I don’t think anybody knows that it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She saying Russia, Russia, Russia. I don't -- maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China, it could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds, ok?
Please, please let Trump trip on the way up to the podium. That would be glorious.