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Piroko 14 points ago +14 / -0

The depressing thing about France is that its system basically guarantees that Macron wins again because even though Le Pen has the most supporters, there aren't enough of them to win outright on the first round. So it goes to the second round and Macron wins the "Anyone but Le Pen" vote.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

Okay I'm gonna try to dumb this down to your level.

The shit, that you talk about, gets picked up and run with, by very, very, very stupid people like my evangelical aunt and her bible club, or the guys down at the grain elevator, who think that every fucking jet plane in the fucking sky is spraying when you can see a trail.

Do you get me now?

That is the kind of stupid your bullshit has wrought.

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Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

OBEYCOIN

Obi one coinobi.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

It's entirely governed by altitude and ambient moisture.

The lower a plane is, the warmer the air is. If the air pressure is too high, a cloud won't form. Now, a plane's altitude is a function of distance to its destination. A jet at flight level 400 is gonna need several hundred miles for a stable descent. If you're in say Rochester MN, you're NEVER going to see a plane traveling north south at a high, cloud forming level. Why?

Because look at a map, there are no destinations. Atlanta to Winnipeg isn't exactly a high volume route. But you're gonna see A LOT of east west trails. Seattle & Portland to New York, for example. Those planes are gonna be at very high altitude, where clouds will form.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

I live around too many of you knuckledraggers who freak the fuck out cuz there's a plane overhead. It's Iowa, there's a lot of fucking planes overhead. We got KCI thataway, ORD over there and MSP up there. Lot of fukking planes. And that one's making contrails cuz it's at one flight level and that other one is not making contrails cuz it's about 5 thousand feet lower.

There's no fucking chemicals. It's just fucking heated exhaust.

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Piroko 0 points ago +2 / -2

(oh fer fuck sake)

It's entirely a phenomena of moisture content at flight level. If there's enough moisture, a cloud will form from the turbine heating the air.

I really, really hate it that actual conspiracies have to share double billing with this chem bullshit. Vaccines causing autism? That's a thing. Everything the federal reserve is accused of? That's a thing. Soros? That's a thing.

Chem trails? ARE NOT A THING. It's clouds formed from heated exhaust at -70 degree conditions. You see the same shit on a much smaller scale from your car when it's cold enough. Y'all are fucking stupid and make the rest of us look bad.

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Piroko 2 points ago +3 / -1

I don't get flu shots. Respiratory viruses mutate too fast.

I do get tetanus shots, because that shit sucks.

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Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm guessing it's Iowa State.

I was surprised when ISU decided to require testing when U-Iowa isn't.

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Piroko 0 points ago +2 / -2

Lincoln was killed by an actor who was insecure about not fighting for the south. He wanted to steal the spotlight and be remembered as another Brutis.

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Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

What would happen in your town tomorrow?

I'm pretty sure the amish would still be riding past in their carrages, leaving horse crap up and down the shoulder.

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Piroko -2 points ago +1 / -3

Resist corrupting infiltration, or sit around drinking in funny hats?

I think you know which they chose. Which is why masonic temples in the midwest are all now community centers and theaters and such.

They weren't the only ones. ALL the fraternal societies went to crap after WW2. The freemasons, the shriners, the lions & kiwanis, the odd fellows...

A generation stopped drinking in funny hats and started drinking at the VFW.

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Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

Inflation is artificial

Fiat money is artificial.

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Piroko -2 points ago +1 / -3

(Cartman voice): I hate you guys.

It's inflation.

Not everything is a fucking conspiracy, sometimes it's just "money printer go brrrrrrr".

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

Bet you didn't know that there ARE in fact Christians who do not believe in an afterlife.

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Piroko 8 points ago +8 / -0

I don't think you appreciate just how incredibly petty I am about getting immediate short term wins over SJWs.

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Piroko 16 points ago +17 / -1

Kek be praised.

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Piroko 1 point ago +2 / -1

Okay Troll.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

If I was playing with nitrocellulose I'd want to be in a fucking cold environment too. That shit flashes at 4 C. You can almost ignite it with just fucking stage lights.

It's possible to prepare sheets in such a way that all you have to do is rub two pieces of paper together a bit and they WILL ignite.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

Unlikely, you seem to lack the discernment required to ignite newspaper with your will alone.

You're the one who's falling for a magicians trick.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

I have literally helped someone do that trick on stage.

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Piroko 1 point ago +2 / -1

yet you can only mentally comprehend that your existence (life) is defined by a beginning (inception) and an end (death).

That's just your perspective on it.

Life is continuous.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

I already know of it.

The trick is nitrocellulose.

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Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

...

You think that guys showing that they can be really dumb and withstand pain says something about the fundamental nature of the universe?

I think it shows that humans aren't that much different from rams, butting heads to show who should get to fuck.

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Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

There's no existence outside ALL existence

I used to think like that.

Writing lots of software changed my perspective on that a bit.

The simulationists are correct in one regard, it is entirely possible that an outer context exists which cannot be proven to exist.

It is in that ambiguous outer context void that I entertain the possibility (even likelihood) of divinity.

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