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The issue with this argument is that pro-life people believe this to be true of all fetuses. You can argue that they stop caring when the child is born, that their definitions of life could be extended to cancer cells, etc. or that that they're not conscious... but you've just established that because the parents want the child and have an attachment to the fetus that is illogical, that it should be treated like a life. Pro-life people would just extend that to all of them, not just their own.

Yeah, I decided when I got my pets that there was a limit I'd not cross no matter how much I ended up caring for them. I still get them their shots and take them in for checkups regularly, but I'm not going into debt because they get sick or hurt themselves

SaikyoStyle posted...

And what is your basis for saying that?

I grew up in an immigrant family with 6 people in a 3 bedroom house, no one in my family went to college or knew how to navigate the system. My parents pulled in less than $40k combined, I had fuck all growing up. I flunked out of college after a couple years because I couldn't hack it. Spent my mid-20s bouncing from small job to small job barely making ends meet.
Finally went back to school and got a degree, now I pull six figures and have $200k in my 401k and I'm barely in my 30s, I pay more in taxes each year than my dad earns.

I'm not saying it's easy, it's just something that's attainable if you work towards it. I don't have a cool job or anything, just work for a Fortune 500 company that has a basic 5% match and the opportunity to promote.

Dungeater posted...

this is lame coming from a multi millionaire

He's not wrong though. Pretty much all of us on here are between 25 and 45 years old, which is 20-40 years before retiring. There's really no excuse none of us have, outside of debilitating disabilities, to not be able to retire. All of us can get a degree, certification, trade, etc. that will allow us to get a job with a healthy 401k matching benefit and pay well enough to contribute to -- or join the government and get a steady federal or state pension.
People think retirement is impossible but that's falling for propaganda from the investor class who want to keep us working until death.

thronedfire2 posted...

no, that's correct. it's public indecency

It doesn't happen though. If it's just public urination, it's usually a misdemeanor charge and you pay a fine.
More often it's someone deliberately exposing themselves who give the excuse "I was just peeing"

Don't give pedophiles the benefit of the doubt.

BlackOmnimon posted...

Reminder that it doesn't mean anything, you can get in the sex offender registry for something as harmless as getting caught peeing behind a tree.

You've been misled

For vegetables you should get frozen unless you shop at a farmers market or something similar. Any fresh veggie at the grocery store was picked too early and ripened on the way, frozen was picked at the right time and stored properly, much better taste and nutrients than the other stuff.

Of course, it's not like $70 is expensive

MaxEffingBemis posted...

You tell me why that show cost a billion dollars to make and ended up looking that shitty. Where did all that money go into? Certainly not on costumes

Had to buy fake reviews from people who said it was good

I don't think it's weird but I'm also not American

MrDrMan posted...

Thats really not a crazy amount of food. Ive ate two Popeyes sandwiches plenty of times. Depending on how hungry I was I could possibly put this down in one sitting.

Yeah it is. A quick google search shows a sandwich is 700 calories, large fries is 800 calories, and 6 wings is 850 calories. That comes to almost 4000 calories once you add dipping sauces / condiments.

I like all the Ivalice races, just not really a fan of stuff like the Ronso

Puglia77 posted...

Very great deal, couldn't even finish it all in one day so I had leftovers.

I'd hope so, it's 12 wings, two sandwiches, and a large fries

Bittersweet considering half the cast defended a rapist

cjsdowg posted...

Can other home owners get some of that.

That's crab bucket mentality

Nothing a driver does with the package is anything compared to what they go through at the plants. Nothing a human does to a package comes close to what the machines do.

If you pack your shit properly then it'll be fine. If you don't, then it was broken before a human even touched it.

Or just humans?

It's easy to forget how white CE can be sometimes

Maybe subscriptions don't make sense for gaming

Tyranthraxus posted...

It's pretty much all one studio.

We'll see: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/xbox-studio-closures-microsoft-plans-more-cost-cutting-measures-after-layoffs

Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

Wut

They're laying off multiple employees from different studios.
The fact they're not keeping Tango and supporting them in making a new game tells you everything you need to know. More than 3 million people have played Hi-Fi and that wasn't enough.

There's no room for any creativity or newness under Microsoft. Everything has to be a massive commercial success apparently.
This is the obvious consequence of a strategy like gamepass. When you give all your games away for a few bucks, you devalue your own products.

Isnt it wild how the Activision deal might have ended up being the worst thing to ever happen to the Xbox brand?

Before, Xbox accounted for about 6% of Microsofts total business. The ABK acquisition was the largest acquisition in Microsofts history, and all of a sudden put all the eyes of the trillion dollar decision makers on the Xbox brand, and theyve been in practical free fall ever since.

Wild stuff.

HudGard posted...

Ah, the peace of mind being poor.

The guy in the OP is poor and still got hit. no one's safe

Sir_Will posted...

The ACLU argued that the bill "unnecessarily and unduly intrudes on the fundamental rights of marriage without sufficient cause," adding that "largely banning marriage under 18, before we have evidence regarding the nature and severity of the problem, however, puts the cart before the horse."
What is that supposed to mean?

Basically they're saying they're not convinced that child marriage is an epidemic in the US and they're worried that by making laws against it, could end up being twisted in the future by anti-gay marriage politicians.

Not a doctor but my understanding is that for a healthy person, sodium isn't really an issue. Just drink water and the excess will leave the body with it.

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I mean, he also saw my post and assumed I was doing whataboutism. Probably not his forte.

MarcyWarcy posted...

its so fuckin weird that people are taking sonys side here.

Won't speak for anyone else but for me it's less that I'm taking Sony's side and more shaking my head from how embarrassing other gamers are acting. Hits the front page of /r/all and it's all these people freaking out, people in this topic making references to comic books, all the review bombing and screams of "HOLD THE LINE FOR DEMOCRACY," etc.
It's not the first time a game has required you to sign up for their own service and it's not going to be the last. The way people are acting online it's like they think they're taking a hardline stance to prevent genocide instead of a company doing what companies always do.
It doesn't help that these fans are also spamming in other communities, mostly just copy and pasting large comments from other people. It's not "oh think of the poor billion dollar company" and more "these people are having meltdowns acting like children cause they were told they can only play with their new toy if they wash their hands first"

They messed with Gamers. GAMERS.
Man, we are part of a hobby made up of some of the most pathetic people on the planet.

C-zom posted...

It takes a couple minutes to let you farm your data to Sony and then you're done.

So use a throwaway email that was made with a fake name if you're that paranoid.
Seriously, every company at this point is a data company first and a "whatever they're selling" company second. If that bothers you then it started a long time ago before PSN was a thing and you should flood the market with fake data.

I also don't think it's about the data. They pretty much have everything they need on you with your Steam account (probably worth more if you were forced to make one for the game). It's more likely a combination of wanting to boost their active account numbers and wanting to ban people easier. It can be annoying for developers to ban cheaters through Steam so much easier on them to force players to use a different account and ban you that way.

I will never understand the way gamers are always the worst with this.
It's pretty normal for games to require another account, I'd bet the majority of people who are active on Steam also have a PSN account. If you don't, it takes a couple minutes to make one and then you're done.

I've never met a smart person who thinks it was dumb we had to take classes outside of our major

Never beat it on PS2, grabbed the HD Remaster.

Anything I should know?

Poor guy was groomed

DrizztLink posted...

Because the only way to reliably get that much human milk is pretty fuckin' distasteful, to say the least.

Same with cows tbh

Sort of the entire point of the movie is that he's Iron Man in or out of the suit

Looks good despite Ryan Reynolds trying his best to be funny

God, Ryan Reynolds is so insufferable

PraetorXyn posted...

Its dead in the water outside the US just like every other Xbox.

At this point, theres nothing Microsoft can do.

The things against them are:
1. If you have a gaming PC, an Xboxs only purpose is backwards compatibility with a handful of older exclusives that havent been ported, remastered, or added to collections that were remastered / ported.
2. If someone primarily plays Japanese gameswhich Xboxes historically havent gottenand their whole library is already on PC or PlayStation, why would they switch now?
3. Since Xbox has gotten shellacked for two generations in a row, sales demonstrate most people have PlayStations and most of their libraries are on PlayStation rather than Xbox, so again, why would they switch now?
4. People have Steam achievements / PlayStation trophies and a lot of play progress outside the Xbox ecosystem, so why would they start over on Xbox?
5. One of the reasons a lot of people (myself included) bought a 360 was to play online with their friends, but with the advent of crossplay that lets PC / PlayStation owners play with their friends on Xbox, theres no reason for them to buy an Xbox to play with their friends.
There are probably even things I cant think of here, but thats a start.

All of this is true. I'd also add that Microsoft needs to figure out a way to get better involved with their studios. Sony is still far more involved with executives flying out to check on progress and status as well as lending a hand with their very robust development pipelines and support network, which also helps. Cory Barlogs interview about how Shu called GOW 2018 a bad game during his visit springs to mind. The candid and potentially demotivating response really pushed the team to do better, and see where it got them.

Xbox and Microsoft gives their studios freedom it often feels like a lack of direction and a disconnect from what people want. 343 has failed Halo three times in a row. Rare spent five years floundering with their game 'Everwild' which now seems to be canned. Avowed got internally restarted and the devs are already trying to lower expectations and the news seems to spend more time saying what the game won't feature. Hellblade 2 spent five years in development but seems to be 5-6 hours long. Whatever that Minecraft game last year was flopped and has already had its supported ended. Plus Minecraft has become a mess of multiple editions with the infamous super graphics update getting cancelled after years in development.

It also helps that PlayStation Studios games have been regarded as quality releases since the late PS3 era, so this prestige culture is likely ingratiated into the development studios all the way to higher up SIE corporate. Long story short Phil Spencer is a PR master but a simply fucking terrible leader.

VRX3000 posted...

I keep trying to care about anything Witcher. And it always come across as an edgy 12 year olds fan fiction who just discovered curse words. The best thing in the entire series is Dandelion and hes criminally underutilized in everything.

Also yeah, the source material sucks and the video games are really the only thing worth it

Not surprising, the people who like Cavill left once he did and the people who don't like him aren't about to start

I know it's crossplay, but what's better?

Buy better sunscreen

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Youre unironically a both sides person lmaooo

thats hilarious

It's willful ignorance combined with a genuine inability to understand, he's basically one step above Duncan at this point

Leaks pretty much confirmed this a month ago, she was almost played by Anya Taylor-Joy
Possible spoilers in the same leak if you're interested that could explain:
F4 will take place in another universe similar to the MCU one but not quite. By the end of the movie there will be an incursion (brought up in Strange 2) that results in the universe dying and the F4 moving to the main universe

Definitely not my mortgage, I got my house at 2.8% why would I pay that off early when the stock market will outperform it? Hell, my savings account is over 4% I could just leave it in there if I wanted and I'd come out ahead of paying my mortgage.

ZMythos posted...

Yea getting them fresh is the best for sure. I really dislike the ones you buy from the grocery store since they're frozen and thawed and left out on the shelves for days.

Literally in the article
The doughnut chain uses a hub and spoke model that lets it make and distribute its treats efficiently. Production hubs, which are either stores or doughnut factories, send off freshly made doughnuts every day to retail locations such as grocery stores and gas stations.

LonelyStoner posted...

Im about to have an aneurysm.

The posters in here who don't care about music are uncommon, but it's not unheard of. Plenty of people exist without consuming books or video games, and there are even people who don't watch TV or movies. Then think about things like theater where very few actively follow.
So I don't get why it's so bad people skip out on music.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Just fyi being confined to your house for a year actually fucking sucks

Yeah, I feel a lot of guilt for the fact that the pandemic was basically the best thing for me. I was able to buy a house in socal because my industry did well during the pandemic and I made a ton of money, I was able to cut off friends that I had grown apart from, I was able to spend time reading books which I hadn't really done since college, I got in great physical shape, etc. and I had no deaths in people close to me or I cared for.

Tyranthraxus posted...

As I said before

Tyranthraxus posted...
Mostly because people don't usually bother reporting it. If you slapped someone in front of a police officer you'd probably be arrested right there.

I disagree. Cop's in most cases would separate and assess the situation, but if the slapper clearly isn't going to do it again and the victim doesn't escalate, the cop is not arresting anyone.