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Very much agree about democrat delusion re: crime and enforcement, but my autism does not allow me to let this go.
Because some American cities are more dangerous than Ukraine.
This is statistical torture, the numbers are screaming as they are twisted into this narrative. Also kind of a rhetorical one as when you say "Ukraine" people read "front line of the Russo-Ukrainian war" but I imagine whatever stat underlies this is the mortality rate in the country overall, most of which is not a warzone. On the other side, if you are not a poor American involved in, or adjacent to, the drug trade, I imagine your odds of being shot in Chicago et al. are extremely, extremely low.
Also from the politics angle, the way and "vibe" in which these troops were deployed was intentionally maximally inflammatory, so I am not surprised that in a country with the most guns, a crazy person was baited into doing something dumb.
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3d ago
Well, why are they deployed? Why is there a ton of tension and pressure around their deployment the a crazy ideologue can hook into?
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4d ago
the personal computing revolution has been pretty bad for productivity
Please explain
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5d ago
I would argue that the development of the personal computer and the internet especially, rather than more analog tech like that shown in the Fallout Universe was a very real cultural path.
Very curious to hear your take on this, I've never thought about it
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5d ago
we had one a while ago about 'what does it mean that God allows bad things to happen' where I earned a decent number of downvotes and pushback for giving what I see as the Christian answer.
Damn I might try and dig this up, sounds funny
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5d ago
Yes, it does come off as a bit of a Christian hugbox at times.
Somewhat true
Many posters here, yourself included (yourself especially?), take ample opportunity to mention that they are Christian, and often use the forum to discuss Christian topics and Christian theology
Definitely true
I hope you can appreciate that an atheist watching a thread devolve into bible study would be miffed.
Wait why? I just immediately close these threads because I have no interest in them, just like I close every thread I have no interest in. Why does this bother you? I'm happy they have their hugbox and I don't interact with it.
Now the pre-marital sex-ed discussions, those are fun to wade into
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5d ago
How is failing to confirm someone such that they have the legal authority to prosecute people when you control ALL THREE branches of government not your fault?
How is everyone in the DA's office deciding they would rather literally get fired than sign off on it the fault of "Trump's enemies"? Do you think the entire DA office is staffed with Democrat sleeper agents?
From other comments in this thread:
In this case, Siebert was the lawfully appointed U.S. Attorney for Virginia. But he wouldn’t sign the indictment. Bondi fired and replaced him with Halligan, who did. Since that skipped the confirmation process, though, it ran into the same problem which got Smith.
Typically, a line prosecutor would be in charge of the case and sign the indictment, but these indictments were so incompetently handled and obviously politically motivated that nobody else in the office was willing to sign them. Hell, her predecessor got fired for refusing to sign. So the only person who signed the indictment had as much authority to do so as you or I do, so they aren't valid.
"Wahhh it's the Dems fault"
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6d ago
Shoot and scoot
I'm not an expert, but it sounds like this isn't meta anymore in this war
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counter battery radar seems to not be as strong/precise as "you have 2 minutes after you shoot before the place you shot from explodes". This could be a "lol Soviets" issue, or maybe a limitation of the systems in practicality. I also wonder if emitting as a counter battery radar is dangerous. So there isn't profound pressure to move after firing.
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scooting is really really dangerous. The prevalence of ISR drones means ripping down a road is very dangerous. They might not find you if you pop out, fire, and pop back into your hide sight. It's much more likely they'll find you on one of the handful of roads in the region, which they're likely watching regardless. Plus your hide site can be hardened against drones.
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6d ago
"why are the people who perpetually go out of their way to step on rakes, stepping on all these rakes??? I voted for President 'i love stepping on rakes to own the libs' so he could get shit done, not step on rakes!"
Elect clowns, expect a circus
Or in this case, elect a reality TV star, expect amusing antics
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6d ago
Starsector, one of the best games I've ever played
Mount and Blade but in space + with an incredibly tight combat loop
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7d ago
The problem with doing this is that then more housing is built and the Venn diagram of "reliably votes in municipal elections" and "actually wants more housing to be built" is two unconnected circles.
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10d ago
I'm thinking of my late grandmother — the one who was a "special ed" teacher because the crippled and cognitively-impaired kids were easier for her to bully.
... Based?
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11d ago
I second this, but depends on the audience (and your rizz)
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12d ago
I found the "ring up and sass the villains" part broke the illusion for me just a couple of minutes into the movie
I genuinely debated leaving the theater because I realized the movie was a lost cause, but that would have bummed out my dad.
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12d ago
View of Hamilton by the Canadian artist Robert R. Whale.
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13d ago
Star Wars wasn't Rian Johnson's to destroy
Let's be so for real here though, the prequels were mid and only redeemed themselves way later on.
The Force Awakens was SO BAD. TLJ is probably worse, but TFA was actually so bland and pure slop. Rise was also terrible, and it would have been just as bad if TLJ had been better. So many unforced errors that Rian didn't cause.
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13d ago
because what else can you even do?
Obviously nostalgia is providing some fuel here, but there's actually so much you can do. Star Wars shines because the universe, while logically inconsistent (I'd take over so fast with a Dyson swarm that makes missiles it's not even funny), is such a VIBE
All the best Star Wars content is the side stories. It's a clone raid on a McGuffin factory. It's the story of a bounty hunter getting caught up in something big. It's a tale of exploration in the Old Republic. Basically take any plot that would work in a Western, and give everyone blasters instead.
The graphic novels went so hard.
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13d ago
Thank you for expressing my thoughts better than I could have. I started composing a version of this comment in my head as I was reading my way down, but I don't even have to.
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13d ago
I think Holdo was supposed to be incompetent. Why are all the rebel leaders in Star Wars so good at their jobs? Real militaries are full of idiots who get their jobs through political connections, and rebel forces even more so. Her strange appearance ("admiral purple hair") also suggests this. The movie is just being realistic here- an incompetent person is placed in high rank for political reasons ("the force is female!") and disaster ensues
This is hilarious. Otherwise I'm not sure if I agree, although I like this flavor of Star Wars cope. @hanikrummihundursvin put it perfectly.
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13d ago
Yankee agency became an object of fascination for him: "Should an obstacle appear on the public highway and the passage of traffic is halted," Tocqueville told his readers, then "neighbors at once form a group to consider the matter; from this improvised assembly an executive authority appears to remedy the inconvenience before anyone has thought of the possibility of some other authority already in existence before the one they have just formed."
I really like antibiotics and the Internet but fuck me reading shit like this makes me want to RETVRN so bad.
This photo broke my heart when I saw it in person, similar vibe, we've lost something
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13d ago
Unbuckle.
Of all the hills of masculinity, this is by far the stupidest to (literally) die on. Literally all downside, zero upside.
I used to get way more speeding tickets
lol. lmao even. One day you may go flying through your windshield and paint yourself across the ground like a meat crayon. The people in the other car will hopefully think "damn, what an uncucked belt-Chad, unbounded by a feminized and broken society".
Godspeed warrior King
Battlefield 6 baby! Free week right now.
It definitely released somewhat under-baked, but the infantry gameplay is PHENOMENAL (with some caveats). Engine is amazing. Vehicle gameplay is shit compared to BF5 (I skipped 2042) which is disappointing, but air vehicles are not very strong and look great when they explode, which is awesome as a good BF5 pilot = just leave the server the game is over. Plus the RPG is very fast and accurate, and RPG-ing helis is a herion-tier hit of dopamine.
Plus, the popularity of BF6 means a lot of... median Americans are playing. As a PC gamer, I missed most of the golden era of cod lobby shit talk, but I have genuinely heard a smoke alarm beep being picked up by someone's PS5 controller mic they hadn't muted.
I have never farmed noobs as hard as I have in this game, it feels like many of the opposing players have Hellen Keller tier awareness and coordination, you can (literally) run circles around them, my K/D has never been this high in a FPS and I'm not even tank-whoring (which I did a lot in BF5).
The median American cannot comprehend a silencer, you can just keep killing them as they walk around a corner into you, blissfully unaware that 3 team mates in front of them just died the same way.
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