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What did you find most confusing?

Just the person - Survivor II Champion and all around bad ass: Disco! Maybe you could tell us all little bit about what the experience was like.

So, let's start with any questions anyone has. Does anyone not know how this game is played?

We can't have a Survivor without you.

Well, that changes everything.

Was she hot?

Anyone interested?

This is why you're a swim LEGEND.

Yeah, I'm not really familiar with their music, but I do remember the nightclub fire.

Yeah... that's bullshit.

It's all a refinement of an extremely delicate process to control the reaction with more stable fuels. Ironically (yeah it is), a heavy hydrogen atomic device has a more controlled reaction than a pure hydrogen fueled combustion. I would imagine that the russians unlucky enough to the unorthodox car bomb got the turbo charged equivalent of lighter fluid fireball.

Everything Tesla blows itself up eventually.

It's been about a year and a lifetime of political shenanigans, sport bloopers, and entertainment that defies imagination for all the wrong reasons. I thought now might be a good time to see if you all would be interested in another edition of UEMB Survivor. For those who are newbs, infrequent visitors, or don't pay much attention to anything outside their folder, UEMB Survivor is, like its name suggests, a competition with participants competing with each other than against each other to win the title and a special gift. Teams compete against each other to run phony election campaigns, create absurd stories and art, and sell useless products, among other things, to win the votes of our esteemed judges and their UEMB peers. You can stop by the Survivor club to get an idea of the sport itself. This competition is a whole-site event; it's something that everyone can participate in even if they don't sign on to be competitors. If you could all be so kind as to take a moment to answer the two question poll, I would really appreciate it. Edit: The poll closes by Friday 08/30, now

But, you're going to lose that YETI sticker.....

Like Buddy said, it's click-bait and it's most definitely not a scientific article. The idea of calling a thermonuclear device a" hydrogen bomb" is itself something of a misnomer since the hydrogen isotope component of the nuclear device is secondary to the actual process itself. It's not that the writers even expect the general public to know what is actually involved in generating a cataclysmic bomb, just that there should be heavy (pun intended) scepticism about the idea that a rag tag bunch of soldiers have the technological know-how to build such a device and that a wrecked Japanese import has the requisite fuel for such a device. That's how clickbait works - it makes an ostensibly absurd statement that is just interesting enough to warrant the reader opening the article to confirm that doubt and discover how the literal clever "trick" works. That's not to say you shouldn't be angry, though. Clickbait articles almost always are a waste of time because they have a tend to foist minor or irrelevant events onto a time constrained reader. ... FWIW- hydrogen had a notorious reputation well before Oppenheimer's team developed the atomic weapon. It had been a little less than a decade since the Hindenberg captured the public's imagination and first introduced the idea that hydrogen itself posed a lethal risk of combustion. When it came time to describe the next generation weapons, identifying the unrelated hydrogen isotopes used as fuel could be a quick way to describe the increased peril of the advanced weapons. Personally, when I think of "hydrogen bombs", the first thing that comes to mind isn't a nuclear bomb, it's an exploding Zeppelin. That's because the strongest visual image I have of hydrogen being destructive is of a fully engulfed blimp, while the images ingrained in me of atomic weapons are distinctly different and less defined by the explosion itself and more defined by the surreal destruction that comes from the weapon's shock waves. Clickbaiters rely heavily on these collectively understood visual images when peddling their misdirections.

Well, that's one way to come off a ban.

I was kind of hoping you were going to say someone made a hydrogen bomb out of a cyber truck.

Probably because the average reader doesn't actually have common sense. I mean, even McGuyver couldn't make a thermonuclear device out of a Toyota.

I’d say you can’t outrun a thirsty Fuggs, but you can.

It would make sense that there are ultra progressives who are willing to warp reality to an ideology. As absurd as it sounds, the idea that Bernie Sanders might be a sellout is easier to process than a geopolitical reality that suggests Jewish progressives are powerless to stop a strongman that is hijacking Jewish identity to further his personal aims. Israel can’t stop protecting itself just because Netanyahu is engaging in a genocide. It’s not as simple as cutting off arms shipments, and putting restrictions on shipments is hard when they go through a strongman with a ultra conservative agenda that aligns with racist Republicans who are also pushing to approve those arms shipments. It goes to the greater concept that idealism rarely meshes with reality in ways that easily disillusion idealists. It’s no coincidence that Distorted isn’t all that intelligent - he rarely processes information other than to directly refute. But, more than that, he’s similar to Trumpers and Musk Bros in that he’s powerless to maintain the worldview he thrives in.

No, I don't think so. God forbid Trump regains the presidency, whatever is in these emails will likely pale in comparison to any of the potential gaffes. The thing about Trump is that neither he nor his supporters are a mystery - we know who they are and what they stand for. Even his increasingly erratic behavior is a known element. The possible gains from what is almost certainly botched and incomplete candidate qualifications is negligible in comparison to just about anything else, and blunted by the universal understanding that Trump picked Vance because he's an obvious toady. Those memoirs place a premium on unique interactions, not something released albeit in a clandestine manner to multiple outlets. If this leak makes it into any memoirs, it will be because at least one of the reporters covering the leak has a personal relationship with the unidentified leaker.

@Doom Metal Alchemist: don't forget to wear fatigues and combat boots.

In all seriousness, JD Vance has all the makings of a future political puppet. It was one of the huge knocks on Pence, so it's no surprise that Trump would choose an equally weak replacement - and it's why Vance's past criticism of Trump is a feature rather than an anomaly. Trump isn't just sending a message that he expects his running mate to be loyal to him like Pence was, he wants the VP to also be disloyal to the party establishment. A guy as spineless as Vance who would publicly denigrate Trump just to get attention in the party is actually the perfect guy to flip because he has no convictions of his own. That also means Vance, in a Trump vacuum, will end up being the puppet not of the relatively stable GOP establishment, but of the fringe right elements that can promise Vance undying support.

From inside your link, I guess Trump's lisp was really noticeable. For all the talk of Biden's campaign covering up medical issues that might preclude him from having another four years, there should be talk of Trump's campaign covering up medical issues that might mean a more imminent and severe incapacitation.

Or there isn't anything exciting in them. Newspapers, no matter who owns them, aren't going to sit on something that will get looks from their paying audience. That being said, the information in them will be relevant at some point and they'll magically reappear.