16528 pts ยท March 12, 2013
I'm not really sure what to put here, so I suppose I'll leave this here as a temporary filler.
To be clear this is complete nonsense even from a christian perspective. The good book, if she'd actually opened it at some point, would have told her that she was a steward of the earth, and that God had called on her to tend to it. It'd have told her that harming others through pollution of the earth is, y'know, sinful. It'd have told her to be wary of greed, and that the rich - the factory owners, the millionaires, the billionaires driving so much of this - were unlikely to ever see heaven.
Reminder that Christ was killed by the government, lawfully. "We want him crucified with Christ" is a wild as fuck thing to say as a pastor, involved in government, because it sounds very much like it's spoken by those who crucified him. Like, yeah, hang him up there next to Jesus. Ffs.
But then you just have a watermelon in your stomach, same as if you... ate a watermelon. If you count the things you eat, then there could be *anything* in your belly, silly. You could even eat OP.
There's no pressure *because* the story is so disjointed and lacking. You very much feel like you can just do anything you want *because* you don't have a narrative leading you onward. And don't get me wrong, I do think it's a great game anyway. Just. In other ways. They really didn't spend dev time on the story. ... As a sandbox adventure where you just go explore and take in the world, it's pretty fantastic.
Yeah, sure. The Heritage Foundation, that's the preeminent right wing policy think tank - of Project 2025 fame - looked into it (rather doggedly) and determined there had been something like 60ish cases of noncitizen voting over the past 40 years. It does happen, once in a blue moon or so. Think like that guy here recently that had been promised citizenship for serving, did so, and thought - wrongly - that after his service he was eligible to vote.
Traditional sense? The opening moments are fantastic, honestly, but the moment you go over the cliff, the story goes over the cliff with you. Heck at that point, the story stops existing. You just have a quest log, telling you "go to this location, do this". It's like they forgot to actually put the story in when they were putting together the mmo like quests. ... Then of course, almost immediately, you are very much told the world is ending, so... I mean... Yeah you are? Decent game; no story.
I've played it, and... yeah. The story is garbage, the systems are jank, the controls are awkward at best. But it actually is a pretty damn great sandbox, if you're up for just wandering the world, messing around with all the different tools the game gives you. Seeing the sights, tormenting the townsfolk. And cityfolk. Imo it's anywhere from a disappointing 4/10 to a wild 9/10 depending on what, exactly, you're looking for.
I read this entire thing thinking a cat was narrating.
You don't know what the final budget will be until it's actually built.
"100% of the people who say they support Trump say they support Trump"
If you switch the display to waterfall mode, it looks like imgur. But only the image display. It's still missing some other stuff I'd like to see.
One of my favorite characters from the game. I really love that she sings in battle, taking over for the battle music when she uses her ultimate.
Backing down a bit on the language doesn't mean backing down on policy. They can say "violent criminals" all they like, but we already have a system for apprehending violent criminals: it's called the police, and the law. ICE has literally nothing to do with it. This bizarre delusion that "illegal immigrants" can just be "rapists and murderers", immune to the law, walking freely down the street, by the thousands, until the "heroes" of ICE capture them is a shameless and incredible lie.
"The corruption in it" != "it" ... If you ask me, it doesn't sound like he's saying he'll work to "dismantle maga", but instead that he'll work to "make maga great again".
This exactly. Ads remind your brain that certain things exist. Even if you don't immediately stop and buy something, they influence your decisions later. Like when you're wondering what to get for dinner.
Diabetes is a great comparison, actually. Someone who describes lgbtq people using the word lifestyle is *exactly* the kind of person who'll sneer at diabetic people and say they put themselves in that position. Never you mind genetics or other risk factors. In fact there's an entire list of medical conditions you could go down that this kind of clown is going to have "opinions" about.
Why be specific? Prohibit schools from teaching partisan political falsehoods *period*.
Nothing wrong with being a plumber. It's skilled work, and often hard labor. Not that this guy is or ever has been a plumber, or someone you would trust to do that work. Or, y'know, anything else besides.
Maybe we're being fleeced, but so are they. Ain't no way either Patel or Noem are getting what they paid for when it comes to PR.
Did he just run away crying?
R.I.P. brother. Telling people not to order products? The cameras monitoring you for performance have already tipped them off. Bezos is en route to your location now.
"Moderate" democrats are those who're most happy with the status quo, who will spend their time in office accomplishing nothing of note and utterly failing to address the needs of the american public. They won't backslide us into autocracy the way republicans are doing, they won't persecute minorities or blow up trade relations, start wars all over the planet. But fuck if those aren't low bars. And then in the next elections goldfish voters swing red again. Because their life still sucks.
It is illegal, of course, and punishable by law. In this case, it ends any chance the guy ever had of becoming a citizen and gets him deported. Which is a crying shame, really, considering he served. ... There have been, according to the Heritage Foundation, 68 cases of noncitizens voting illegally in the past 40 years. 68. While 0 would be ideal, the number is so low as to be completely meaningless. It's a mistake to think we *must* do something about it, buying into right wing talking points.
The wrong conclusion to make here, and it's one you'll hear often, is that because this guy managed to vote illegally, we need to tighten policy. We need stronger safeguards to ensure every vote that gets counted is legal and valid. ... And what inevitably happens when we do that is the disenfranchisement of american citizens. We make it harder - usually disproportionately, along racial or gender lines - for people to vote, unintentionally (or intentionally) stopping citizens from voting.
Nah, it's not that it's impossible. It's impossible to make it impossible. Voter fraud *does* happen. It's just that it's statistically irrelevant, and doesn't affect election results. ... It's usually guys like this, people who've lived and worked in the U.S. and even served, some who even falsely *believe* they're citizens and have even been misinformed on their right to vote - who slip through registration requirements and manage to vote, illegally. It happens. It's just incredibly rare.
You're off your meds, bro. I very clearly said that the chart shows people who died because of the end of USAID, who died when they couldn't get lifesaving medical support. I have absolutely no idea why you took my acknowledgement of that reality and ran with "genocide loving monster", but, like. Fuck off.
This is grossly misleading. It's comparing *direct* deaths in Gaza - those shot, blown up, run down in the street, beaten - to *indirect* deaths caused by the end of USAID - people who died when they couldn't get proper medical support, for example, that wouldn't have. The problem is that many, many, many people have also died in Gaza *indirectly*. In as much as you can call systematic starvation and bombed hospitals "indirect". That red bar should be far, far higher.
I had a few of the carrot shaped Reese's two days ago, before being made aware of the change, and thought there was something wrong with me because they just did not taste right. After hearing about it, I double checked the bag (it was a full bag, which I could only bring myself to eat a few out of) and... yeah. And I *love* Reese's. Eat them all the time. This is the first time I've ever just stopped and said ew. ... I'm just saying. Anecdotally, the change is very noticeable.
HR is not Brenda's friend, either, though. She's just as disposable as you are, and this'll be a great lesson for her.
For real, tho. If just heating things up made them safe, you could eat rotten hamburger meat and crap like that as long as you cooked it first. Don't do that.
To be clear this is complete nonsense even from a christian perspective. The good book, if she'd actually opened it at some point, would have told her that she was a steward of the earth, and that God had called on her to tend to it. It'd have told her that harming others through pollution of the earth is, y'know, sinful. It'd have told her to be wary of greed, and that the rich - the factory owners, the millionaires, the billionaires driving so much of this - were unlikely to ever see heaven.
Reminder that Christ was killed by the government, lawfully. "We want him crucified with Christ" is a wild as fuck thing to say as a pastor, involved in government, because it sounds very much like it's spoken by those who crucified him. Like, yeah, hang him up there next to Jesus. Ffs.
But then you just have a watermelon in your stomach, same as if you... ate a watermelon. If you count the things you eat, then there could be *anything* in your belly, silly. You could even eat OP.
There's no pressure *because* the story is so disjointed and lacking. You very much feel like you can just do anything you want *because* you don't have a narrative leading you onward. And don't get me wrong, I do think it's a great game anyway. Just. In other ways. They really didn't spend dev time on the story. ... As a sandbox adventure where you just go explore and take in the world, it's pretty fantastic.
Yeah, sure. The Heritage Foundation, that's the preeminent right wing policy think tank - of Project 2025 fame - looked into it (rather doggedly) and determined there had been something like 60ish cases of noncitizen voting over the past 40 years. It does happen, once in a blue moon or so. Think like that guy here recently that had been promised citizenship for serving, did so, and thought - wrongly - that after his service he was eligible to vote.
Traditional sense? The opening moments are fantastic, honestly, but the moment you go over the cliff, the story goes over the cliff with you. Heck at that point, the story stops existing. You just have a quest log, telling you "go to this location, do this". It's like they forgot to actually put the story in when they were putting together the mmo like quests. ... Then of course, almost immediately, you are very much told the world is ending, so... I mean... Yeah you are? Decent game; no story.
I've played it, and... yeah. The story is garbage, the systems are jank, the controls are awkward at best. But it actually is a pretty damn great sandbox, if you're up for just wandering the world, messing around with all the different tools the game gives you. Seeing the sights, tormenting the townsfolk. And cityfolk. Imo it's anywhere from a disappointing 4/10 to a wild 9/10 depending on what, exactly, you're looking for.
I read this entire thing thinking a cat was narrating.
You don't know what the final budget will be until it's actually built.
"100% of the people who say they support Trump say they support Trump"
If you switch the display to waterfall mode, it looks like imgur. But only the image display. It's still missing some other stuff I'd like to see.
One of my favorite characters from the game. I really love that she sings in battle, taking over for the battle music when she uses her ultimate.
Backing down a bit on the language doesn't mean backing down on policy. They can say "violent criminals" all they like, but we already have a system for apprehending violent criminals: it's called the police, and the law. ICE has literally nothing to do with it. This bizarre delusion that "illegal immigrants" can just be "rapists and murderers", immune to the law, walking freely down the street, by the thousands, until the "heroes" of ICE capture them is a shameless and incredible lie.
"The corruption in it" != "it" ... If you ask me, it doesn't sound like he's saying he'll work to "dismantle maga", but instead that he'll work to "make maga great again".
This exactly. Ads remind your brain that certain things exist. Even if you don't immediately stop and buy something, they influence your decisions later. Like when you're wondering what to get for dinner.
Diabetes is a great comparison, actually. Someone who describes lgbtq people using the word lifestyle is *exactly* the kind of person who'll sneer at diabetic people and say they put themselves in that position. Never you mind genetics or other risk factors. In fact there's an entire list of medical conditions you could go down that this kind of clown is going to have "opinions" about.
Why be specific? Prohibit schools from teaching partisan political falsehoods *period*.
Nothing wrong with being a plumber. It's skilled work, and often hard labor. Not that this guy is or ever has been a plumber, or someone you would trust to do that work. Or, y'know, anything else besides.
Maybe we're being fleeced, but so are they. Ain't no way either Patel or Noem are getting what they paid for when it comes to PR.
Did he just run away crying?
R.I.P. brother. Telling people not to order products? The cameras monitoring you for performance have already tipped them off. Bezos is en route to your location now.
"Moderate" democrats are those who're most happy with the status quo, who will spend their time in office accomplishing nothing of note and utterly failing to address the needs of the american public. They won't backslide us into autocracy the way republicans are doing, they won't persecute minorities or blow up trade relations, start wars all over the planet. But fuck if those aren't low bars. And then in the next elections goldfish voters swing red again. Because their life still sucks.
It is illegal, of course, and punishable by law. In this case, it ends any chance the guy ever had of becoming a citizen and gets him deported. Which is a crying shame, really, considering he served. ... There have been, according to the Heritage Foundation, 68 cases of noncitizens voting illegally in the past 40 years. 68. While 0 would be ideal, the number is so low as to be completely meaningless. It's a mistake to think we *must* do something about it, buying into right wing talking points.
The wrong conclusion to make here, and it's one you'll hear often, is that because this guy managed to vote illegally, we need to tighten policy. We need stronger safeguards to ensure every vote that gets counted is legal and valid. ... And what inevitably happens when we do that is the disenfranchisement of american citizens. We make it harder - usually disproportionately, along racial or gender lines - for people to vote, unintentionally (or intentionally) stopping citizens from voting.
Nah, it's not that it's impossible. It's impossible to make it impossible.
Voter fraud *does* happen. It's just that it's statistically irrelevant, and doesn't affect election results. ... It's usually guys like this, people who've lived and worked in the U.S. and even served, some who even falsely *believe* they're citizens and have even been misinformed on their right to vote - who slip through registration requirements and manage to vote, illegally. It happens. It's just incredibly rare.
You're off your meds, bro. I very clearly said that the chart shows people who died because of the end of USAID, who died when they couldn't get lifesaving medical support. I have absolutely no idea why you took my acknowledgement of that reality and ran with "genocide loving monster", but, like. Fuck off.
This is grossly misleading. It's comparing *direct* deaths in Gaza - those shot, blown up, run down in the street, beaten - to *indirect* deaths caused by the end of USAID - people who died when they couldn't get proper medical support, for example, that wouldn't have. The problem is that many, many, many people have also died in Gaza *indirectly*. In as much as you can call systematic starvation and bombed hospitals "indirect". That red bar should be far, far higher.
I had a few of the carrot shaped Reese's two days ago, before being made aware of the change, and thought there was something wrong with me because they just did not taste right. After hearing about it, I double checked the bag (it was a full bag, which I could only bring myself to eat a few out of) and... yeah. And I *love* Reese's. Eat them all the time. This is the first time I've ever just stopped and said ew. ... I'm just saying. Anecdotally, the change is very noticeable.
HR is not Brenda's friend, either, though. She's just as disposable as you are, and this'll be a great lesson for her.
For real, tho. If just heating things up made them safe, you could eat rotten hamburger meat and crap like that as long as you cooked it first. Don't do that.