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no its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Community:_How_Cuba_Survived_Peak_Oil this one
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she learned that the Cuban economic crisis was survived with a fundamental shift in the country's economic policies, rather than with new energy sources.

i agree there's probably something to be studied there but i think people can overdo it with this. i mean think of three key parts of cuba's survival strategy: importing cheap oil from venezuela, having millions of tourists fly planes to cuba each year, and oil and gas exploration off the coast. they also have a lot of blackouts caused by insufficient power generation, in part because they run out of oil. i've read in a few places that their internal/urban transportation system is pretty bad too.

also if maduro had lost (as he easily could have) then i'm not sure what they would have done. like who would give them oil for doctors and such. seems more likely they'd have to start paying more cash for it, which would be hard for them to do (i think it would cost them a few billion a year). i don't think they can reduce their oil much more without just shutting down parts of their economy.

i don't mean they are dumb, they are probably smart about things, i just mean... like... it's not really a "sustainable" economy in my mind.

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tpaine posted:

pretty up on that shit huh madmedico


By "shit" you mean by what people major Hollywood actors are fucking then yes I guess.

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Dont Mess With Sucess
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tpaine posted:

pretty up on that shit huh madmedico

I was also aware of this joaquin phoenix fact, but I think she's 20 now, Madmedico.

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I watched Fargo again
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tpaine posted:

what's the most you ever lost on a coin toss lesons


My ass

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Im gonna go buy beer then Im gonna watch this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)
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MadMedico posted:

Her becomes a lot more creepier once you remember that Joaquin Phoenix's irl girlfriend is a teenager.



The movie should have taken care to show that Phoenix only dates technologies that are over 18 years old. Maybe he could tongue a pager, and the clip gets stuck to his tongue, leading to a big physical comedy setpiece, or get his dick stuck in a vcr head cleaner and more hijinks.

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i, too, would want to see videodrome reimagined as a slapstick comedy. seriouspost.
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c_man posted:

i, too, would want to see videodrome reimagined as a slapstick comedy. seriouspost.


It's called Brazil

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hah
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tpaine posted:


I went ahead and watched this again too. Just as good as the first time I saw it but I wished it used music more.

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yall should listen to the audiobook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3A6M0iyQLI#t=1880
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Lessons posted:

Im gonna go buy beer then Im gonna watch this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(2012_film)



he died

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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murdered in his sleep by Scientologists
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Der siebente Kontinent
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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hes sharting up in Heaven now
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I'm legit sad that Phillip Seymour Hoffman died, he was one of my favorite actors
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I agree thuggles.
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lol at jacobin's article on him

Hoffman’s talent moved him rapidly toward award-winning “prestige” pictures of the sort I tend to avoid: Capote, Doubt, Cold Mountain.


and then they spend the rest of the article talking about the big lebowski

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without the necessary means for the necessary means for
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no mention of Synecdoche NY

or Twister
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burritonegro posted:

no mention of Synecdoche NY




thanks for reminding me about that movie. i borrowed a friends copy like 4 years ago and still havent watched it. not coincidentally, that friend is also known for looking a lot like Philip Seymour Hoffman and once sharting himself in a memphis video game store (NOT a joke)

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chickeon
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its good
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UNUSUALY COOL
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"sharting" is like "sort of pregnant"
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serpico's kind of a dumb movie
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why? I always fall asleep like 10 mins into whenever it happens to be on
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all movies are pretty dumb honestly. like, it's obvious that it's just a series of images blown up and projected onto a screen in rapid succession. there aren't actually 30 foot tall people who happen to be actors and who you conveniently never ever see walking down the street.

dunno how people still fall for this shit