The Simple Truths Silver Mine

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

"The real economy" as a phrase should be taken out back and shot.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Of course Inks would be giving out 10 points; he seems to have no understanding that there are options to give out less than 10.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I consider 0°C to be "pretty damn cold out", but that's just me.

My scale:

-10°C (14°F) Pretty damn cold
-5°C (23°F) Damn cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cold
5°C (41°F) Cold
10°C (50°F) Pretty cool
15°C (59°F) Cool
20°C (68°F) Pretty
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Pretty warm
35°C (95°F) Hot
40°C (104°F) Pretty hot
45°C (113°F) Damn hot
50°C (122°F) Pretty damn hot

Absurd scale.

-30°C (-22°F) Absolutely cold
-25°C (-13°F) Pretty damn cold
-20°C (-4°F) Pretty cold
-15°C (5°F) Cold
-10°C (14°F) Somewhat cold
-5°C (23°F) Mildly cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cool
5°C (41°F) Cool
10°C (50°F) Fairly Nice
15°C (59°F) Nice
20°C (68°F) Ideal
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Hot
35°C (95°F) Pretty hot
40°C (104°F) Insanely hot
45°C (113°F) Hotter than I've ever experienced
50°C (122°F) So hot I'm never going anywhere that gets to this.

[Fritz]

Well, I enjoy saunas at 200 degrees F, but only for 10 minutes at a time.

(where is the key for the degrees symbol?)

[Antonio the Sixth]

The sort of stuff that damages the credibility of all of us. Again.

*sigh*

[Antonio the Sixth]

One of the luckiest presidents in American history. Had his tenure not coincided with eight years of relative international stability, economic prosperity, and insanity from the opposition party, people may have noticed that he wasn't especially competent.

[Sol]

^{(seriously? megYn??)}

That's the first thing that came to my mind.

Some American names are just retarded.

I assure you that it's not just non-Americans who think so. White Americans will give their children absurd half-made-up names or normal names with ridiculous spellings to make them seem 'special', then turn around and make fun of black Americans for giving their children names that are often significantly more euphonic.

[Hatman 🍁]

I consider 0°C to be "pretty damn cold out", but that's just me.

My scale:

-10°C (14°F) Pretty damn cold
-5°C (23°F) Damn cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cold
5°C (41°F) Cold
10°C (50°F) Pretty cool
15°C (59°F) Cool
20°C (68°F) Pretty
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Pretty warm
35°C (95°F) Hot
40°C (104°F) Pretty hot
45°C (113°F) Damn hot
50°C (122°F) Pretty damn hot

Absurd scale.

-30°C (-22°F) Absolutely cold
-25°C (-13°F) Pretty damn cold
-20°C (-4°F) Pretty cold
-15°C (5°F) Cold
-10°C (14°F) Somewhat cold
-5°C (23°F) Mildly cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cool
5°C (41°F) Cool
10°C (50°F) Fairly Nice
15°C (59°F) Nice
20°C (68°F) Ideal
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Hot
35°C (95°F) Pretty hot
40°C (104°F) Insanely hot
45°C (113°F) Hotter than I've ever experienced
50°C (122°F) So hot I'm never going anywhere that gets to this.

This is correct.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I consider 0°C to be "pretty damn cold out", but that's just me.

My scale:

-10°C (14°F) Pretty damn cold
-5°C (23°F) Damn cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cold
5°C (41°F) Cold
10°C (50°F) Pretty cool
15°C (59°F) Cool
20°C (68°F) Pretty
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Pretty warm
35°C (95°F) Hot
40°C (104°F) Pretty hot
45°C (113°F) Damn hot
50°C (122°F) Pretty damn hot

Absurd scale.

-30°C (-22°F) Absolutely cold
-25°C (-13°F) Pretty damn cold
-20°C (-4°F) Pretty cold
-15°C (5°F) Cold
-10°C (14°F) Somewhat cold
-5°C (23°F) Mildly cold
0°C (32°F) Pretty cool
5°C (41°F) Cool
10°C (50°F) Fairly Nice
15°C (59°F) Nice
20°C (68°F) Ideal
25°C (77°F) Warm
30°C (86°F) Hot
35°C (95°F) Pretty hot
40°C (104°F) Insanely hot
45°C (113°F) Hotter than I've ever experienced
50°C (122°F) So hot I'm never going anywhere that gets to this.

Don't be so hard on yourself. I wouldn't call your scale absurd.  It probably makes perfect sense for Minnesota.  But for the temperatures I experience here in South Carolina, there is no real need to go as low as you did.  Maybe as low as -20°C (-4°F) since that is the record low for where I live, set way back on Feb. 14, 1899.  But since I wasn't around then, I feel no need to include that rarity in my personal scale.

[Morning in Atlas]

Torie, in the same vein as Hitler or the Ayatollah.

I'm not going to go faux outrage on you like the others, but it really isn't funny or edgy at all. It makes you look small.

[Napoleon]

Nationalism mixed with socialism is depressing.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

No, in fact it's the single most significant thing. In the Cold War you had one side, which, although supported by some very flawed elements (such as Pinochet), had leadership whose ultimate goal was one that envisioned democracy for rich people, free speech for rich people, and free markets for rich people

Translated from libertarian to English

[Mechaman]

Another one from that great thread:

It didn't have to, and that's not the point. The point is that we are better off today because it won, and while, say, Pinochet was terrible, it was still better than allowing Allende and his ideology to take root.

My problem with what you're saying is that you're quite blatantly admitting you think, when the chips are down, capitalism is more important than democracy. You're happier with capitalism by the barrel of a gun and the rape of a dictator squad, than marxism by democracy. Your priorities are perverse.

Marokai, one of our biggest FFs.

[Napoleon]

And that whole "dudes drink beer, chicks drink wine" (or that race-based BS krich is going on about) is f'ing idiotic.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The one with the baby in the flag was my signature for a while. Ron Paul has become a genuine American folk hero; a near God figure to his supporters (including to me when I was a bit too into the movement) and a modern day Don Quixote to his detractors.

Jesus, Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul...what do they all have in common? All white. All heroes. All American. Ron Paul 2016.

[Morning in Atlas]

To be fair, I would be surprised if the NY Post didn't have a racist and/or sexist cover.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think that putting one's own posts into the Gallery, Gold Mine, or Silver Mine is generally held to be in poor taste.

[Napoleon]

It's almost as if racial classifications are completely arbitrary and artificial constructions...

[Antonio the Sixth]

The issue is that Dems don't reliably support anything that would alleviate poverty, so why bother voting for a party you disagree with on everything else?

Republicans want to gut food stamps, Democrats don't.
Republicans want to privatize Medicare/Social Security, Democrats don't.
Republicans want to gut Medicaid and reject expansion, Democrats don't.
Republicans want to gut public education and financial aid, Democrats don't.

But clearly, saving the "life" of a blastula is more of a pressing issue than those. I guess I'm just too "elitist" to understand.

Edit: The real issue is that the voters never get the consequences of their vote because the national Democrats save them from their own stupidity by blocking the GOP from destroying the programs that sustain their livelihood. Give Republicans total control of the country for a decade, and even Utah and Texas will be solid D.

[Maxwell]

...Yet 44% of Arkansans will vote for someone who opposes it.

For the same reasons Catholics in the Northeast vote for pro-choice candidates, why staunchly anti-war liberals continue to be Obama apologists, and why Midwestern farmers are not all Farmer-Labor types. A combination of partisan loyalty and the fact that not everyone is a single issue voter. 

[traininthedistance]

We tolerate far too much killing by car.

[Sol]

It's almost as if racial classifications are completely arbitrary and artificial constructions...

Came here to post that.

[Mordecai]

Treating education like any other market-based commodity is simply the worst idea ever.

[Lief 🗽]

Moral of the story: do not capitalize opeob

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's not Based God. It's Nased God.