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UltimateMarvel wrote:LOL! That's funny. A lot of celebs showing up to the Women's March.

WyldeMan wrote:Shia LeBouf got arrested again this time for assault cause he pushed a Trump supporter at his latest Performance Art routine.

UltimateMarvel wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:Shia LeBouf got arrested again this time for assault cause he pushed a Trump supporter at his latest Performance Art routine.

I see no issues here, he shouldn't have gotten arrested for that. They'll arrest you for anything these days.

My internet speed used to be 20Mbps, now I'm getting 116Mbps because Charter bought it. I'm supposed to be on the 60Mbps plan but buying your own modem increases your speed apparently.

Tyger wrote:In 2017 it's now questioned if we can punch Nazis. Nazis! If you can't celebrate punching nazis, you can't punch anyone.

WyldeMan wrote:Meanwhile Robin Thicke is a coke head rage monster who frequently beat on Paula Patton. 

WyldeMan wrote:Last night on Kimmel, Momoa was drinking Guinness and throwing homemade Axes. Dude knows how to party.

joey con carne wrote:About 11 hours after Wylde's post, it's now over $434,000. I don't know why he blocked out that guy's name, though. Should let it be public.

joey con carne wrote:I finished The Good Place season one the other day. Really good show if you guys haven't watched it. I liked every character except one: Jian Yu. He was really annoying. You know how there is dumb but reasonably dumb and might do some funny dumb things from time to time? Well, it was a miracle Jian Yu even knew how to breathe because he was just unbelievably stupid. I mean, he was so stupid my suspension of belief was interrupted every time he was on-screen. No one is as stupid as him. I really hate when writers do that. Besides this one issue, the show was very good. All the other characters made up for it.

joey con carne wrote:This Super Bowl is pretty disappointing. No Woo Guy.

I hope NE wins tonight.

Oh hell yes. This is fantastic. Fuck yea.

Tomorrow, the newspapers and internet will be ablaze with all the anti-Trump peeps hating on Tom Brady for winning the Super Bowl.

The acceleration in Tesla’s Model S P100D is absolutely ludicrous, with or without the California-based car maker’s pricey performance option and “Ludicrous Mode” Easter egg. There is simply no other widely available production car on the planet that can pin passengers’ heads back like Tesla’s top-of-the-line Model S. So, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that a new software update would bring even faster acceleration to the P100D, it was a bit difficult to believe. As it turns out, however, the company’s latest update has managed a new 0-60 record that is even faster than Tesla thought it would be.

In a tweet last month, Musk stated that early tests of the Model S P100D’s updated Ludicrous Mode were “promising,” with the car having achieved a blistering 0-60 mph time of 2.34 seconds using the Motor Trend spec. Well, Tesla’s big update is now available, and Motor Trend got its hands on a fresh new Model S to test the update.

The results were nothing short of pure insanity.

In Motor Trend’s tests, the newly update Model S P100D managed a 0-60 mph time of just 2.28 seconds. Or, to be more accurate, 2.275507139 seconds. That’s faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo S, and faster than a Ferrari LaFerrari. In fact, no production car had ever cracked the 2.3-second mark in any of the magazine’s tests until now.

“Launching a Model S P100D (weighing 5,062 with gear and driver) in full-on Ludicrous Easter-egg mode snaps your body in a manner that is utterly impossible to replicate in any other street-legal production car on normal tires and dry asphalt at a mid-$100,000 price point,” Motor Trend’s Frank Markus and Brian Brantley wrote. “We regard 0-30-mph acceleration times as the benchmark for how hard a car launches, and this new Tesla gets there 0.05 second ahead of the next quickest (aforementioned) 0.92-second 911 Turbo S. The two run pretty even through 40 mph, after which the Tesla pulls ahead, maintaining a 0.2-second lead from 60 mph through 90 mph. The two cross the quarter-mile mark together at 10.5 seconds, at which point the Tesla is running 125.0 mph, and the Porsche is traveling 6.8 mph faster.”

UltimateMarvel wrote:A lot of movies being released at the same time right now, have you checked? It's crazy. My weekend is set. lol

joey con carne wrote:I'll be watching this weekend:

Kingsglaive
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker
Chinatown
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (I love Lily James)
Mardock Scramble Trilogy

Rusty Cunt wrote:Was  the forum down for a bit today, or was my internet connection just shit?

WyldeMan wrote:

UltimateMarvel wrote:A lot of movies being released at the same time right now, have you checked? It's crazy. My weekend is set. lol

What have you got lined up?

A veterans group is hoping to get President Donald Trump‘s attention during this weekend’s Saturday Night Live.

VoteVets, which is described as a progressive political action committee backed by more than 500,000 veterans, military family members and their supporters, has bought commercial airtime during Saturday’s Alec Baldwin-fronted SNL, furthering its efforts to try and convince POTUS not to abolish the Affordable Care Act.

The pointed commercial (embedded below) first aired during the Feb. 6 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

It begins with a close-up of a veteran doing squats with a heavy barbell. As the camera pulls back, it reveals he only has one leg, the other having been amputated above the knee. During his workout, the vet’s voiceover reads the following message aloud:

President Trump, I hear you watch the morning shows. Here’s what I do every morning. Look, you lost the popular vote, you’re having trouble drawing a crowd and your approval rating keeps sinking. But kicking thousands of my fellow veterans off their health insurance by killing the Affordable Care Act, and banning Muslims, won’t help. That’s not the America I sacrificed for. You want to be a legitimate president, sir? Then act like one.

The group first announced its intent to reach Trump — who seldom seems to miss NBC’s “not funny,” “really bad” SNL —  in a series of tweets:

Hey @realDonaldTrump - remember us? Since you won't meet with vets at the WH, we're airing this ad on #SNL this weekend to get on your TV.

The best way to reach @realDonaldTrump is through his tv set - which is why we bought an ad on tonight's @nbcsnl http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-watching-tv-cables-news-234914 …

joey con carne wrote:Dang. I heard about it but was unaware of the mass evacuations.

Is the dam predicted to fail or has it already failed?

Edit: ah, it appears a part of the dam is eroding. I think it will be okay but it's better safe than sorry. Hopefully nothing happens and the engineers can fix the issues quickly.

Oroville is 770' high, 6,920' long. It is one of the 20 largest dams in the world. If Oroville breaks, The city will be flooded.

Eight thousand three hundred and seventy five residents are at risk within the inundation zone. Two hundred thirty critical facilities in the city of Oroville are within the inundation zone, including; Eleven schools, twenty one day care and children service centers, fourteen elder care facilities, twenty six bridges will be lost, the airport, two fire stations, the government administration building, three law enforcement stations, the EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER (brilliant) Two waste water treatment plants, the jail, and the Hospital. (from the City of Oroville local hazard mitigation plan update May, 2013)

We are not talking about a river rising, where people have time to evacuate. We are talking about a wall of debris, mud, and water taking out a city, buildings, roads, bridges, life, in an instant.

OROVILLE, Calif. (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Californians faced an indefinite stay in shelters as engineers worked for a second day on Tuesday to fix the United States' tallest dam before more storms sweep the region.

After what looks set to be the wettest winter in Northern California following years of drought, more rain was forecast for as early as Wednesday and through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Crews were working to shore up an overflow channel and drain the reservoir at the Lake Oroville Dam but authorities gave no indication of when it would be safe for people to go home.

Late on Sunday, about 188,000 residents were ordered to evacuate their homes in the Feather River valley below the dam, 65 miles (105 km) north of Sacramento.

Authorities say they had averted the immediate danger of a catastrophic failure at the dam that could unleash a wall of water three stories tall on towns below.

“We're doing everything we can to get this dam in shape that they can return and they can live safely without fear. It’s very difficult," California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters during a news conference on Monday evening.

On Monday, Brown sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump asking him to issue an emergency declaration, which would open up federal assistance for the affected communities, after an emergency overflow channel appeared on the brink of collapse.

Yolanda Davila, 62, of Thermalito, ended up at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, one of only five in the area taking people with pets. She left home without medicine and dog food in the rush to find shelter before the evacuation deadline.

She said that areas such as Sacramento had been issued flood warnings earlier in the week and that authorities should have warned residents near Oroville much sooner.

"We didn't have a plan, all we knew is to head north toward Chico," Davila said. "If I knew we had to get out earlier I would have went to the Bay Area."

The earth-filled dam is just upstream and east of Oroville, a town of about 16,000 people. At 770 feet (230 meters) high, the structure, built between 1962 and 1968, it is more than 40 feet taller than the Hoover Dam.

On Monday afternoon, crews dropped large bags filled with rocks into a gap at the top of the emergency spillway to rebuild the eroded hillside.

The main spillway, a separate channel, is also damaged because part of its concrete lining fell apart last week. Both spillways are to the side of the dam itself, which has not been compromised, engineers said.

joey con carne wrote:Watched a few news broadcasts on the Oroville situation. It looks pretty bad. Hopefully the engineers can figure something out but I'm not sure they would be able to do anything if it rains again. You can't stop mother nature.

joey con carne wrote:Been trying to follow this Oroville Dam situation. Some reports are saying it is okay while some other sources like youtube is saying the media is lying and the situation is fucked.

So it's Friday. What are you's guys' plans? I was going to go to TGI Friday tonight and eat the endless apps with some of my buddies but we are postponing that until next Friday. In case you guys didn't know, the endless apps are no longer a promotion. It's permanent. And now you don't have to only get one app forever. You can have whatever apps you want on refill. Woo hoo.

Yes, I know. TGI Friday sucks. It's more of a nostalgia thing for me. Reminds us of our university days.

WyldeMan wrote:This place has been deader than Robin Williams, what's everyone up to these days?