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16-BITTER posted...

Seems like pretty shameless corporate pandering to me. Like "we don't actually care about this issue, but we'll pretend to in order to sell some cheap booze"

I'm disappointed it took this long. This is the answer right here.

I understand the desire to have an appointed replacement, since no state should go without its maximum representation for any longer than it absolutely has to, but an election should be held ASAP to elect a permanent replacement. It's the properly democratic course of action.

At least they funded CHIP through the rest of the Trump presidency. That's something, but the word of Mitch McConnell is so utterly worthless. Given past events, I have no expectation they'll ever actually get a decent DACA bill.

nicklebro posted...

Hitler is on the right. Gary Johnson is also on the right. Stalin was on the left. Bernie Sanders is also on the left. You claim its impossible to categorize these people in the manner I just did. Well, this post literally proves you wrong. Idk how else I can make it simpler for you to understand. Its impossible to break it down any further. If you still don't get it, then all that means is you lack the cognitive ability to understand the topic.

And I didn't attempt to call you a fool. I said that doing what you did will often end up with you looking like a fool. Which is true. Lol but to even act as if that equates to the plethora of insults you've hurled my way in lieu of legitimate arguments is laughable.

Like most of your bullshit, no one is dumb enough to fall for that either man. You're completely transparent. Your emotional response (aka hissy fit) ITT only further solidifies the fact that you got cornered ITT and you know it.

Eh, there's more than just left and right. There's also authoritarian and libertarian spectrums(basically how power should be wielded/goals achieved, the extreme ends representing totalitarianism and anarchism), and, last of all, the question of what some one is saying means to them and how it all plays out. Hitler(he admitted it himself!) lied about almost everything all of the time. Hitler was simply saying and supporting certain things and keeping quiet/vague on others to get as many votes as humanly possible. All to seize power and end democracy. Stalin took a state-structure that had already been drifting towards authoritarianism and put a brick on the accelerator.
That's why it's an important distinction: I don't think Johnson or Sanders are looking to dismantle democracy.

s0nicfan posted...

shockthemonkey posted...

Yeah they seem to think that monitoring these issues is costless.

You'd have to weigh the monitoring costs against the societal benefits of more people earning a paycheck. Plus if the purpose is to get them off benefits sooner, then the costs would also have to outweigh the future checks no longer necessary because the person got out of the hole they were in.

You're assuming that the only barrier to getting a job is wanting one, but it's much more complicated than that. Even in a boom economy, there simply aren't enough jobs for everyone(equilabrium unemployment is generally reckoned to be between 3-5%, IIRC). Particularly in rural areas and endemically poor urban neighborhoods. Add in the high cost of living for many areas and the country's lacking public transit infrastructure, and there are many people who are unable to get to where jobs even are.

I mean, the two most "prominent"(I use that word loosely) 3rd-parties are the Libertarians and the Greens. The former seems divided between a Republican-esque conservative wing and whatever the hell a left libertarian wing is. It typically runs failed Republican politicians for president. The Greens cater to anti-vaxxers, anti-GMO, and anti-nuclear types(basically, the anti-science left). At their absolute best, they're watered-down versions of the two big parties. At their worst, they're straight-up nuts. They're simply not serious. Everything else is even smaller than them.
Honestly, I don't think 3rd-parties can realistically compete at the national level, particularly with our campaign finance laws(or lack thereof). Best to focus on the local level, where it's cheaper and connecting closely with a community is possible.

I'm not terribly impressed by the deal either. Nothing to stop the Republicans from just running out the clock on the DACA people.

coolcono posted...

BignutzisBack posted...

But only one can choke today who will it be?

Both. It will end in a tie.

Playoff games can't end that way. But they could play theoretically infinite overtime periods.

Yeah, the military is classed as "essential", so you'll still get paid. A lot of government employees won't though: most get an unscheduled unpaid vacation, a lucky few get to work for free until this gets sorted out.
And, of course, Congress still gets paid, because I'm sure you were worried about them.

Define "good".

Hexenherz posted...

Guess who still has to go to work on Monday rofl

*this guy*

Don't worry, Congress still gets paid! I'm sure they feel your pain though.

Schwarber posted...

Thanks Obama

I think you'll find that Hillary Clinton is actually Shadow President right now.

Who would have guessed Republicans would be bad at governing?

Bio1590 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Cj_WlLL_VVlN posted...

Democrats are trying to compromise

What have they said they're willing to accept/give up to Republicans in exchange for DACA? I legit don't know what the negotiations have been like.

Why is this even a thing? Like legit why should one political party have to compromise on something to ensure a fuckton of people's lives don't get fucking wrecked

Yeah, the Republicans essentially don't want to cut a deal because they want to ruin 80,000+ lives(because they're brown), and they're not sure kids should have health insurance.

I feel like Sonic Team spends a lot of times chasing the latest trends. and often fails to grasp the short-comings of the technology available. They also seem to create new characters without having a firm idea of why that character should exist. The Adventure games are decent, but they're not particularly different from "early generic 3D platformer". Arguably, the problems games of that era had in terms of camera were only exacerbated by the fact that Sonic games are fast, and the engine does really weird things sometimes.

The debt ceiling is a thing that they made up which applies a statutory limit on how much debt the government can issue. It will be reached tomorrow at midnight, at which point no new debt(bonds) can be issued, and the government must run purely on what revenue it gets. This leads to the suspension of all services of deemed "non-essential", as well as all payments to government workers(salaries, etc.) except Congresspeople(IIRC).

The current hot potatoes are Trump's demands for funding for his wall, Democrats demands to extend the protection Obama granted to so-called dreamers(non-citizens who have, essentially, lived their entire lives here) and SCHIP(health insurance for children). Conservative Republicans want to drastically reduce the amount of immigration, and probably also want to sneak in something to hurt Obamacare, because that's what they do.

In spite of controlling both the House and Senate, there doesn't exist a bill which enjoys enough support among Republicans to pass both chambers, so Democratic assistance is needed. It's also unclear exactly what Trump wants.

That show is amazing. And you have plenty of time to get caught up, because there are literal years between seasons. Soon the show will be older than Hank and Dean...
And Season 6 is something of a soft reset.

DKC3 could have been better if it had a better soundtrack, way fewer gimmick levels, and more parity between the player characters. DKC2 dunks on it in virtually every way possible. I will; however, give it props for the overworld, which was cool.

It's amazing what getting out of a Jeff Fisher offense can do for a career.

That was incredible.

LinksLiege posted...

luigi13579 posted...

It's fairly easy to remember given Lapras, Jynx, Articuno, Dewgong, Cloyster, etc. Also with how useful Freeze was in gen 1 since Pokemon never thawed out naturally.

There's also the fact that fire didn't resist ice in Gen I.

It was extra nasty.

It does, but whatever little thing which was responsible for displaying an effectiveness message only checked the last type(so it would say an Ice attack was Super Effective against Charizard because its second type was flying). It didn't actually do SE damage though.

Ice could definitely use a hand defensively though. Water could probably live with Ice resisting it, but the only other resistances that make sense(to me) are already marginal offensively(like Grass).
Oh, and it recently occurred to me that it's really weird that Victreebell and Carnivine don't have some sort of ability that makes them stronger against bug types(as they're both based upon carnivorous plants that primarily eat bugs).

WilliamPorygon posted...

Poor foreveralones Mercury and Venus :(

Seriously. Even that planetlet Pluto landed itself some sweet satellites.

There are certainly much better uses for your money than giving directly to the DNC.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

I just wonder what the long-term effects of shitty government fuckery will be. Bad leadership is what got Trump elected and things across the western world aren't much different.

Real talk: the election of Trump is proof that our system is in terminal decline. Trump being Trump just makes things worse.

KILBOTz posted...

The weapons/escapes exemptions I get. Go ahead and ban those sort of books. But getting rid of constructive uses of their times just seems like we will make better criminals as an end result.

I can understand that. Also, I'd be fine with banning Nazi crap like Mein Kampf. That's it though. The entire point of prison should be getting people re-oriented in the right direction, and reading is great for you.

Yes. Until our overlords can replace us with soulless automatons, we must mold our children into the best possible facsimile so they can get jobs.

Did you lose a bet?

I hope Tyrod will be okay and will go somewhere he won't get benched for Nathan Peterman.
If you're wondering, counting today's game, Tyrod Taylor threw 5 interceptions all year, which is how many Peterman threw in one half against the Chargers.

That's entirely wrong. Even aside from Egypt, you have the Nubians, who built tons of pyramids and ruled over Egypt for a bit. You have Ethiopia, which was quite active, including invading Arabia as early as the 6th-century. The various Somalian and Swahili states south and east of there were extremely active in trade and comparatively powerful during the Islamic Golden Age. Then you have West Africa, which was a vibrant patchwork of kingdoms which occasionally produced a mighty empire(Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Sokoto, etc.) And the Kongolese in Central Africa.
Unfortunately(for them), the Europeans pulled ahead at the right time, and the European-fueled slave trade simultaneously left them economically dependent on Europe and badly destabilized many African states(even as it enriched the slavers in the short-term). Even then, they were never all that far behind, they were just fractured politically and economically weak(for the most part) which left them easy pickings for the European powers in the 19th-century.

Tmaster148 posted...

I wouldn't really call holding up the lgbt flag and then nominating pence as vice pres to be a very good indicator he cares about the lgbt community.

Most voters wouldn't have had any idea who or what Mike Pence is. Only political junkies pay much attention to VPs.

It probably wouldn't have done half as good if Trump wasn't promoting it so much. Major self-own.

The concept has great potential. It had a great cast and a great look.
The problem was entirely one of execution: the movie wasn't sure what it wanted to be about or even who it wanted to be about. It spent a lot of screen time with a character(the Joker) who was extraneous to the plot. Watching the fighting scenes was like watching some one play a cheap Dynasty Warriors knock-off. The movie stopped to tediously introduce us to every member of the squad one by one, and then introduced them to us again as if it hadn't done so already.
There were lots of rumors of re-shoots and trouble in production sparked by the negative critical reaction to Batman vs. Superman, and it shows. As a result, the movie is hopelessly muddled. There's probably a good story in there somewhere, but it asphyxiated early in the movie's production.

EnterTheTekken posted...

Bring back megalodons.

And terror birds.

No. It's not going to splinter, just like it didn't splinter in 2006. Or 2008. Or 2012. Or 2016. Republicans excel at falling into line, whatever personal misgivings they may have.

Nature has no concept of balance or anything else. We invented the very idea of nature, just like everything else.
This doesn't mean I think we shouldn't take better care of our planet, by the way.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000902117/article/marvin-lewis-stays-with-bengals-on-twoyear-contract
It's official. Marvin Lewis will be coaching the Bengals for at least one more year.

Touch posted...

Wasnt it reported that Marvin Lewis would step down after this season by his own accord?

There's now the possibility of him returning, which would be dumb. He brought the Bengals back to respectability, but it's obvious that they've gone stagnant. And that Marvin Lewis can't keep players like Vontaze Burfict in check.
The Browns retaining Hue is dumber though. He's obviously out of his depth as a head coach. Even dumber is how the Browns power structure works: everyone reports directly to Jimmy Haslam, which means Hue Jackson, Brian DePodesta, and John Dorsey are all essentially of equal rank.
At this point, I think Hue must know where Jimmy buried the bodies or something.

I believe firmly that history is primarily driven by the latter. It would be going too far to entirely discount powerful personages/geniuses/etc. but even they are primarily shaped and formed by the social forces of their times.
Put another way, some one who believes mostly or exclusively in Great Man Theory doesn't understand history.

It's a dick move people. At Whole Foods, front end types usually go home as soon as the customers are gone. They will not let us leave if there are customers in the store, even if they're in the store past the scheduled end of our shifts(10:30 is standard for a closing shift). Moreover, it is against company policy to have u-boats, pallets, and pallet jacks on the sales floor until all customers are gone, so you're holding up the closers and the overnight people. If you need to come in just before closing, then please be quick about it.
And definitely don't wander the Prep Foods department having a conversation with your friend for 45 minutes.

I'm rooting for the Vikings. The Bills won't survive the wild card round, and that's ok. But the Vikings are the only other team to have lost four Super Bowls without winning one. I want them to win. I want them to crush their enemies and hear the lamentations of their women(possibly Giselle).

The last time the Bills made the playoffs was 1999. They were coached by Wade Philips and quarterbacked by Doug Flutie and Rob Johnson. Tom Brady was a senior at Michigan St. Bill Clinton was president. Tyrod Taylor and LeSean McCoy were in middle school. Kyle Williams was in high school. The Houston Texans didn't exist. I was 12. The Titans lost the Super Bowl by a single yard(but only after cheating the Bills out of victory).
The Bills will be ground into paste by the Jaguars, but it's okay. Everything is okay, because everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. The Bills are in the playoffs.

They don't even teach basic math(seemingly), so probably not.

Vicky could desperately use some streamlining though. Vicky 1's idea of interactivity was pop-splitting, which was much more tedious than it sounds. Vicky 2's economy is some kind of black box and your capitalists are terminally stupid, but going communist means manually clicking every single one of your provinces to upgrade railroads. Also, the economy breaks if China civilizes. If India successfully rebels, the world starves. It's utter nonsense.

I wouldn't have recommended getting ALL the DLC, personally.
As far as getting into EUIV, the Ottomans are a great start. Great start position, powerful ideas, lots of avenues for expansion. You're the top dog, more or less, and just have to make sure you don't end up fighting 2 of Muscovy/Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Austria, and the Mamluks at once(and even then you could win, but probably not in your first game ever). If coalitions start forming, expand away from them until things cool down.

Only to an extent, but it's pretty much impossible to be happy without it.

I see no reason why depictions of Mohammed would be offensive in and of themselves.
http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full/
Here's a gallery of Islamic depictions of him. Not all sects were against depicting him.

I'll say it on Christmas Eve and Christmas.
You know, when it's actually Christmas.

A holiday for Eid would be good.
We definitely need more holidays though. Like, Juneteenth should 100% be a holiday. And the anniversary of the moon landing.