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I see what you mean but also I agree with the first post

Tropicalwood posted...

I still can't believe they gave me infinite punches in Grand Theft Auto.

there has to be some basic level of combat that you can always partake in obviously

seems highly genre dependent because of that, like how are you going to have a run and gun without infinite ammo for the basic weapon?
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

I'm saying it literally doesn't matter as we're not in a presidential election year and the committees that are FAR more relevant to the midterms are doing fine.

yeah, from what I posted the DCCC has actually raised more but has less cash on hand
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hodl?
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as r3x0r noted the FMLA actually does mandate maternity leave, it's really not optional for your employer (unless they are small enough to be exempt iirc)
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I don't have this problem ever.
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is that really the worst part?
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appointed jeff sessions AG
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Esrac posted...

That depends on who you work for, whether you're fulltime or part time, what kind of position you have, etc. Nothing that is mandated of the employers by the government.

For example, at my employer, every pay cycle (~2 weeks) I get a couple hours of Paid Time Off. That PTO can be spent to get paid if I can't make it to work or want to take time off for vacation. There is no X number of weeks paid time off mandated by the government for all employees or anything like that.

Right, so it isn't mandatory.
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thank god Trump isn't some socialist hack like r4X0r

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/29/review-of-the-white-house-infrastructure-plan

Critics are sure to suggest as Governing and Politico have that this bill is the federal government turning their backs on cities and states. This would be a more credible argument without some of the reforms being proposed as part of the bill. These changes give local governments more options for raising revenue and more motivation to find other responses to demand beyond simply begging the federal government for more money to build more stuff they can't afford to maintain.

Perhaps the most radical change is a provision to give states the flexibility to toll interstates so long as the revenue is reinvested in infrastructure. Its a welcome and long overdue baby step towards some actual pricing feedback. We can see this possibly leading to a broader shift away from gas tax, general funds and debt to actual user charges as the primary mechanism for funding highways. Standing ovation for a real, substantial reform.

Im also elated by a requirement this is not flexibility but a requirement for value capture financing to be used to fund major transit projects. In other words, the next time California wants to use billions of federal dollars to make a few people who own property around new transit stops filthy richonly to have those same people become NIMBY opposers of any development that would make the government investment actually pay offthe state wont need to resort to local zoning tyranny to avert multiple crises.

Thanks, Trump
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LUE
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the poors won't survive into old age anyway
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spaghettyhoop posted...

Genuine question, don't you already get paid leave each year in america?

I don't think paid time off is mandatory, no. Paid family leave definitely isn't.
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r4X0r posted...

Poor people are less likely to drive because poor people are less likely to have jobs. You want to screw over the ones that do.

no, that's not why

they drive less because driving is a very cost-sensitive activity. they drive less for the same reason people drive less when gas is more expensive.

r4X0r posted...

What congestion taxing attempts to do is social engineering and controlling people's habits, which is something a real conservative would obviously oppose.

how is it social engineering to control people to ask them to pay for something in proportion to their use of it? whats social engineering is being profligate with public money under the false idea that it should be free for everyone to use. it's not like excise taxes aren't intended to be used to influence peoples behavior -- it just hasn't been changed for so long because people would rather someone else pay for their roads.
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emblem boy posted...

High society of little rock Arkansas

lmao exactly

so about lower middle california
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but my name is in the picture
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ama?

I've been mentioned in the paper before but never pictured!
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r4X0r posted...

Overhauling our fuel taxation system to save people $3.00 annually on their lawn mowing bill at the cost of pricing poor people off the roads is ridiculous.

it isn't just about that, it just shows you don't actually care about the morality of charging poor people too much for no reason

Poor people, who are much less likely to drive at all, especially in cities and during peak times when congestion pricing is in play, are the unequivocal winners when it comes to congestion pricing. Because isntead of charging them based on fuel you charge them based on use. It's a very basic argument that a real conservative would understand
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by charging them what they use instead of an arbitrary amount based on their consumption of gas you would actually lower their transit bill, too

but the proposal would be good even if it raised revenue so I'm not gonna argue that too much, our roads are seriously underfunded and we should raise taxes/fees to pay for them
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they're also more likely to live closer to work
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poor people are also much more likely to work off-hours than 9-5 people who would be hit by congestion pricing btw
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r4X0r posted...

If it's not a business expense and only personal use, who the hell cares? The amount is trivial.

'paul ryan was right that 1.50 a week is meaningful'

'I care about poor people selectively to support my prior conviction"

yeah I already knew that
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r4X0r posted...

Which is why they can get that tax refunded, silly. Do you even 26 U.S. Code 6421, bro?

poor people don't itemize, and not every state allows you to claim the same exemptions for offroad uses (some require it to be a business expense, for instance!)
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government relations
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DragonGirlYuki posted...

Marked gasoline and diesel exists for off road applications though.

that's not a thing in america (or at least I've never seen it!)

and it doesn't address the root issue of the excise funding mechanism, which is that poor people typically drive less but pay more per mile due to driving cars with lower fuel efficiency on average! this is exacerbated by the fact that the US does not actually fully fund roads through the gas tax, meaning we use a lot of public debt to finance infrastucture
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r4X0r posted...

Yes, kick the poor people off the road. They don't have jobs to get to, or anything.

yeah, instead of making people pay for the things they use let's just tax everybody who buys gas whether or not they use it for driving! all those poor people mowing their lawns sure do deserve to pay for you to drive
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these arte the numbers that matter:
https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cmte=DCCC&cycle=2018

https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cmte=NRCC&cycle=2018
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lmao I literally came in to post what you posted as the very first thing

I actually feel some of the criticism of the CFPB is justified but putting a fox in control of the henhouse is obviously not the way to address it
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the morning commute is the most dangerous and unnecessary part of the day anyway

if america was a less politicized nation we would have congestion pricing in every metropolitan area to ensure an adequate and safe traffic flow
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who cares?
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man I forgot about water guns
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man I think I saw a related study that showed there were returns to authors who used more jargon/write in a less readable manner (in terms of... number of articles published? number of citations? I can't remember) but now I can't find it
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I kind of doubt they actually did that. I got in trouble so many times at mcdonalds for actually filling up the fry containers. They stopped letting me do fries.
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Oprah's show about a black church in memphis

pretty good show, though the end of the first season kind of felt pointless after the big antagonist was more or less taken care of

does anyone on CE watch it?
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emblem boy posted...

I'm just curious. My gf and I see each other almost every day and she brought it up. I think it's too soon since we've only been dating for 6 months, and I like having my space. I was like, it's something we can talk about more in a few months, but even then I might not feel comfortable yet.

But I've also been wondering if maybe I'm in the wrong for thinking that would be too soon.

yeah it is definitely something you need to consider carefully imo

my gf doesn't want kids and neither do I, but another issue is where we want to live -- I'd like to live in little rock, she wants to live in north little rock, she wants more bedrooms and I want fewer etc

its a big decision that I would not treat like just moving in with a roommate
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philsov posted...

As opposed to grabbed someone from their local chapter to run against him in the primaries(?). It's a lost cause anyways in terms of winning the seat, but as far as PR goes, enabling this is an odd call.

it actually isn't that easy to get people to run for congress when they know they'll lose tbh
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hahaha, that second tweet is spot on actually
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Black History's People:"Nowhere in the annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage by patience alone."
-R.F. Williams

Robert F. Williams was a militant who was an open advocate of armed self-defense. Born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925. He migrated to Detroit, Michigan during World War II where he organized for the United Auto Workers (UAW), and fought in the race riot that rocked Detroit in the summer of 1943. Williams returned to Monroe in 1955.

Elected president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Williams set out to build a membership in his own image: working class, militant, and armed. Williams began stockpiling guns in anticipation of an attack by the Klan. Vowing to "meet violence with violence," Williams was rebuked by the national office of the NAACP and suspended from his leadership post. In 1959 he began publishing his own newsletter, the Crusader.
As white mobs stormed the black community in the wake of the Freedom Rides, Williams and his wife left town, but only after allowing a white couple to take refuge in their home. Authorities indicted Williams for kidnapping the couple, forcing him to flee the country and take up residence in Cuba as a guest of Fidel Castro.

From exile in Cuba, Williams continued to circulate the Crusader throughout the South. With Castro's support, he also began broadcasting a radio program, "Radio Free Dixie," that reached black listeners in the US. Over the next few years he traveled Asia and Africa, speaking out against racism, colonialism, and the war in Vietnam. In 1968 while still in exile, living in Tanzania, Williams was named the first president of the Republic of New Africa.
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emblem boy posted...

How often do you guys see each other?

literally every day, why?

we pretty much always sleep together and etc, but I still have my own place for all of my stuff and that I spedn time at to hang with my roommates and stuff

I guess I could have been more clear about that but thats why I pointed it out, I am in a relationship where it seems logical for many reasons other than financial ones for us to live together but I'm still kinda iffy on pulling the trigger so its weird to me to see someone willing to jump in for purely economic reasons even when the personal ones are kinda dicey
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r4X0r posted...

LOL the Democrats have nothing to run on and nobody to run.

what does that have to do with it?
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

.... so just anyone is allowed to run for public office under the banner of any party they choose without consulting that party at all or getting approval? i dont know about that, off to google

that is absolutely true

probably, maybe, some states allow for parties to call some kind of conference to vote on whether or not he would be 'their' candidate after he won the primary but in general the way it works is that you just say you're part of a party and you are
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havent read the topic but it makes sense since it is a heavily democratic area and this year is going to be a wave election for democrats

why would some random ass GOP county commissioner or city councilman in democratville, illinois waste his time and money running?
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I dunno, it is kinda weird to me to move in with someone when your expectations for the future of the relationship are not clear and your impetus for doing it is financial

I mean I don't even live with my gf and we have been together for almost 4 years and I do intend to marry her because I prefer a higher level of independence until I do actually pop the question
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setting aside how much of a nutcase she is

isn't it verifiably true that good artsy types usually are nutcases?
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gafemaqs posted...

StickFigures720 posted...

Seriously TC, what were you expecting when you made this topic with such a controversial and subjective claim?

I was expecting that everyone who still owns their rose-tinted glasses would try to refute it but ultimately be unable to do so. I was right.

There are plenty of essential shmups, run and guns, racing and fighting games on it that haven't been mentioned, though. Puzzle games are harder to qualify, but it has good puzzle games, too.

Ftr sotn is not a metroid clone anymore than mgs is a snatcher clone. There's much more going on in comparison.

Quantity definitely plays a big part in the appeal, though!
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gafemaqs posted...

It made games truly cinematic

In what way do you mean? How'd it even do this better than Snatcher?
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Also it's really not super important anymore but PlayStation has the first arcade perfect console ports of many series I believe

Unless you count the neogeo which no one actually owned I'm p sure
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What makes metal gear essential? It's aged terribly.

In terms of historic significances symphony of the night is more important and more fun
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Plz respond
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I know there are a lot and people will disagree over what counts as underrated etc but I'll have all day tomorrow to play vidya so let's figure it out
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I'm 28, I like some let's plays but usually they are bad and I never like it when it's a group of commentators
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