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i was a big fan of dirty gin martinis with a ton of olive juice
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GregShmedley posted...

Now you know how we feel when you post.

i saw the smoke from orbit
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GATTJT posted...

The article says taxpayer funded agencies, as in the orphanages.

shockthemonkey posted...

The agencies are the ones who are getting subsidies, do you realize that?

in his defense: the subsidies going to these organizations DO make the adoption process cheaper for families looking to adopt through them. generally there is a fee, and the fee serves to cover operating costs, so some of the govt subsidy is passed to the adopter.

i would argue that subsidizing in this way provides the incentive to good families who want to adopt, but maybe only want to pay $5000 instead of $20000.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Social engineering rarely works, and usually backfires spectacularly.

i dont think that is true

i think a huge portion of what we spend taxpayer money on is social engineering and a sizable chunk of it works so well its become bog standard across western democracies
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Questionmarktarius posted...

shockthemonkey posted...

It sounds like you havent thought this viewpoint through

Financial stability is vastly more important than moralistic nonsense.
If you need taxpayer assistance to adopt, then you probably aren't very financially stable.

why do you view it in terms of need, rather than in terms of incentive

also note that the funding isnt just going to the adopting family, but also to the panel who verifies whether they'd make good parents

these seem like good uses of tax dollars to me and i dont understand why they do not to you.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Tax preparation then.
...which... probably happens?

it does. don't you see fundamental value to society in placing children with parents, such that more crime is probably prevented by it than an equivalent expenditure on a police force?
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yeah this is gamefaqs.gamespot.com
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Expecting taxpayer subsidies for adoption agencies is analogous with expecting taxpayer subsidies for wedding planners.

why do you consider people getting married to be equivalent in value to society to children getting parents
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StarsOfCCTV posted...

How are we with General Electric? It's been a while since you advised us to buy it. I'm still holding it.

it was either 13 or 14 at that time. i dont remember which.

if 14, it's been volatile but flat

if 13, it's up 7%

but it has finished its bottoming process, barring some new horror show.

i guess technically it has had an ex-div date since then? so another .75% or so on top
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Questionmarktarius posted...

The only interest "taxpayers" should have in adoption is the paperwork at the end.

why do you say that
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wont pass the senate

meaningless
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its good for 1 thing

adding pomegranate flavor to a berliner weisse
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If there's anyone being honest and unbiased here, it's Qmark.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Don't be at all surprised when democrats dogpile behind marijuana reform, now it's finally gotten a thin majority of popular support.

You'd think that'd be a feature, rather than a bug.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Sorry I don't answer logical fallacy questions.

there is no fallacy in the question.
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Darkman124 posted...

do you think these are comparably bad actions

please respond yes or no

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Darkman124 posted...

roy moore tried to rape young teen girls as a 30 year old man

Coffeebeanz posted...

Don't forget VP candidate John Edwards literally impregnated a staffer while his wife was dying of cancer during the 2004 election.

do you think these are comparably bad actions

please respond yes or no
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dont forget child rapists

roy moore tried to rape young teen girls as a 30 year old man

he almost became a senator when he so clearly belongs in a ditch
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wow.
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0TiamaT0 posted...

Im hoping Ginsburg goes before he leaves office, too.

ginsburg would sooner strange trump to death with her bare hands than leave or die with him in office.
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it's honestly surprising that didn't happen when we split WV off from VA, or the carolinas, or the dakotas

Shuto-uke posted...

But let me ask you, what are we going to do with those red states with people in welfare, opioid addictions, 0 jobs and back yard abortions?

ooh, i know: let's revoke their statehood, declare them territories, and shut off their power.
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effective immediately each borough of NYC is its own state
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all seriousness if states could split to add senators to the mix they'd be doing it constantly, as much as possible, to maximally dilute the chamber
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SpiralDrift posted...

More on-topic, I wouldn't be surprised if California splits into the proposed three separate states. If it's ever going to happen, now is the time it would have the most support. It probably wouldn't solve much, if anything, but people would see it as a kind of symbolic vote of dissatisfaction and right now most of us are dissatisfied.

it wont

gop would never allow it. all three would be dominated by dem senators, even the southern one.
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is op gilberto?
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what is an economic cycle? clearly anytime a thing happens, it represents a permanent trend that never changes.
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scorpion41 posted...

A recession in an upward trending economy? Okay, guy.

how do economic cycles work
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im gonna give frisebeedude a pass in starting shit like that with djl

he's sorely mistaken in treating everyone here the same as the people who are now harassing price on twitter--her actions put off more than just those folks

but if he wants to 'fight the good fight' against conservatrolls he's welcome to. i just put them on ignore. bullshit asymmetry principle always applies.
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Paragon21XX posted...

Trump isn't a lame duck president, yet. That's the nuance.

he is if dems can make supporting his pick toxic enough for collins or murkowski
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frequency of use

i sit down about one in three visits to the bathroom. wife sits down 100% of visits to bathroom

it's used more down than up

ergo, it should be left down. we close the lid as well
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Hairy-man posted...

Definitely mipond

hahaha
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ClunkerSlim posted...

When I was there, this place was on a like a night life street (like that one shot in Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia.) It was the only strip club there in the middle of other restaurants and bars. It was kind of a small place, two stories but the top was more like a balcony for the stage. It was so cramped as hell in there. You could hardly move. I remember two Mexican dudes bumped up against a waitress and took something out of her hand. Either credit cards or credit card receipts and she was freakin out. But this place was definitely by itself and just inside an existing building along with the other bars on the street.

gotcha, mustve been reshuffled.
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treewojima posted...

God knows what.

god here:

they don't fuck you in there.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

No idea. It was 2000 when I went. I lived in Owings Mills for about 8 months and the locals called it the inner harbor. Maybe it technically wasnt or maybe thing got moved around. I dont know.

for a long time now all strip clubs have been on baltimore st by the police station

its possible that 18 years ago that wasnt the case and perhaps situations like what you experienced are WHY they were moved, lol
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Asherlee10 posted...

Darkman124 posted...

pound of broccoli a day.

1 pound of broccoli farts.

blame on dog
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tripled my intake of fresh and/or frozen vegetables. i now am back to my old habit of a pound of broccoli a day.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

When I went to a club at the inner harbor in Maryland, Im pretty sure $5 would have got you an HJ in their champagne room or whatever they called it.

just want to be clear that baltimore st isnt the inner harbor
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joestarrr posted...

Oh yeah definitely not.

Just be sure everything you do is healthy for you.
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joestarrr posted...

Darkman124 posted...

because normally those relationships are in the bedroom [and similar safe spaces] and not 24/7

I mean yeah that's usually the case, but I don't think it's wrong if it extends outside of the bedroom either.

CE is not a safe space.
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Sayoria posted...

The groups backing the initiative say the public accommodations bill is broadly worded and allows individuals to access bathrooms or locker rooms of the opposite sex. Supporters of the 2016 law say there isnt one incident of assault or invasion of privacy that has occurred as a result of the law.

Due to potential confusion due to the required wording of the referendum, Galvin noted that a yes vote on Question 3 would actually keep in place the current law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity in public places. Meanwhile, a no vote would repeal that part of the law.

who writes this shit

that's so deeply misleading.

KamenRiderBlade posted...

The fact that Corporations are legally recognized as people is horrific.

we are one far left president away from using citizens united as pretext to institute a corporate death penalty
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FrisbeeDude posted...

DudeBros really believe this...and you expect anyone to take your political advice lmfao

as a dudebro, i want to say that the OP is a little shit and doesn't reflect on my kind.

shock is spot on: present trend is a clear attack on existing feminist progress that demands defense.

what is true is the left needs to fight battle for both labor and women's/minority issues. we have generally done an okay job for the latter, but a very poor job for the former for the past three decades.

and no, the firing of an employee in an at-will hiring state for bad behavior on social media is not a labor issue. the existence of at-will hiring laws, however, could be.
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CyricZ posted...

It's how you avoid court cases for wrongful termination.

Another way to avoid that is situate yourself in a state with at will hiring laws.

Which they did.
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Hey Kerred, how's the family?

Do you still play Twilight Struggle online? Terraforming Mars just had an open beta, looks pretty great. Would be awesome to play that with you when it releases, if you're thinking you might get it.
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beat em ups were about learning to kite enemies and manage to kill them without taking any damage. it was possible to play without 'paying to win' so to speak just very, very hard.

like, consider golden axe. the real secret to winning was playing the dwarf and using the charge attack over and over, back and forth, with careful timing.
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because normally those relationships are in the bedroom [and similar safe spaces] and not 24/7
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DarthWendy posted...

What do you think ?

fire engine tie with an ill-fitted suit that he paid $5000 for off the rack and never had tailored
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what i like about PC gaming is access to electronic board games, indie titles, paradox interactive titles, and firaxis titles.

i've spent 100 hours on mordheim. 125 hours on twilight struggle. 150+ on templar battleforce, 200+ on dungeons of dredmor, 300+ on FTL, 400+ on XCOM/XCOM2/Civ V, 500+ on mount and blade, and 1000+ CKII/EU/Victoria/HOI.

these games aren't particularly graphically intensive. they're not really pushing the hardware. but they're what I want to play.
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Kazi1212 posted...

Do you look at technicals? All TA traders I know have been saying the stock market would be bullish, they must be seeing bullish momentum in the charts that goes beyond the level of impact Trump can have on the economy through fundamentals.

i try not to put too much trust in technicals. there's a lot of indicators and they're never functional all of the time.

but yes.
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Kazi1212 posted...

Yea, I mean, its clear a lot of liberals didnt think that based on what they were saying how the trade war would hurt the US markets.

ill be honest

no, it was not obvious to me

i held off on investing during his presidency until collins indicated she was going to vote in favor, that was late nov/very early dec. by then i had learned, and it was clear.

that was when i threw most of my portfolio long. i left some off the table until jan, then put that on.

through everything that has happened since i have generally put new money to work anytime there was a market shock related to a statement made by him/someone quitting his admin, because i've always taken it as an action to fade.

markets are going up, trump reliably says things that are false, and in general i assume the opposite is true whenever he speaks.

had i trusted markets would consistently rise throughout his presidency and ignore his asinine bullshit, I'd probably have an extra hundred thousand dollars in my portfolio. that was my personal idiot tax.
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Highwind07 posted...

coming at

the words chosen there really tell you everything you need to know.
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