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50Blessings posted...

Antifar posted...

I'm like 2 minutes ahead of most of you it seems lol

What stream are you watching?

Twitch on my Xbox
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I'm like 2 minutes ahead of most of you it seems lol
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Neat.
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Hey Red Dead didn't win
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Darkninja42 posted...

Not gonna lie I'm salty as fuck about that DMC demo being Xbox exclusive

I think they said first on Xbox, not exclusive
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Forza deserves this shit
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FH4 has to win this
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Normal guy
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Oh shit Bioware
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They could have given a bit more time to these smaller categories that indie games might win
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Do we not have enough retrofuture style RPGs?
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Is that just a remake?
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My guy named his daughters after presidents. America is a cult.
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Oh hell yeah, Forza
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Far Cry 76
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Darmik posted...

Wow he sounds nothing like Arthur. I assumed they got someone who just talked that way lol

They don't call it voice acting for nothing
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pikachupwnage posted...

Insanely easy except for 11.

Yeah p much. I could also see younger folks having difficulty with SMRPG or maybe Nintendo's translation, but
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No, I am not
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I won 56 cents. Hardest question was 11, I had to guess on that. Apparently Nintendo made a Breakout clone in the early 80s
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Gafemage posted...

what are your thoughts on cumtown

I listened to one episode and couldn't get into it, but it's probably something I would enjoy if I tried again
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MabusIncarnate posted...

How do they compare? Aren't Pringles themselves dirt cheap, like $1.50 for a full tube? How much money are you really saving by going generic?

Pringles are like $4 a tube; the mini tubes are $1.89. These were 75 cents cheaper

Taste wise, they're fine, they feel a bit thinner though.
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glitteringfairy posted...

Do you have a job?

Yes
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SSJGrimReaper posted...

plain pringles are trash

This is not a question, but they are chedder and sour cream flavored
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How many members of congress do you figure believe the same?
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Smashingpmkns posted...

What time does it start?

830 Eastern
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How are you supposed to reason with someone who believes this nonsense?
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edededdy posted...

yeah but good luck trying to change it

Other countries have
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Ask me anything
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What time do these awards start anyways
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Seems bad, imo
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/06/democrats-get-on-board-with-manchin-for-energy-committee-post-1014354

Senate Democrats are growing more comfortable with giving coal-friendly Sen. Joe Manchin a leading role in shaping climate policy.

The West Virginians expected promotion to ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee had set off alarm bells among liberal activists who said his pro-coal views are out of sync with the grassroots push for Democrats to do more to champion aggressive policies to confront climate change and elevate the issue on the 2020 campaign trail.

But those worries have not been echoed by Manchins Democratic colleagues in the Senate, who say they are confident he will work well with other members of the party. Manchins surprise decision Wednesday to oppose Bernard McNamee, President Donald Trumps nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, over his views on climate change also encouraged his colleagues.

He may be the ranking member, but hes part of a team when it comes to issues of climate change, issues of the environment, Sen. Cory Booker, a likely presidential candidate, said of Manchin on Thursday. I have a lot of confidence I can work with him to fight for a far more aggressive agenda for dealing with the planetary crisis of global warming.

While there is virtually no chance of major new legislation to reduce carbon emissions being enacted with Trump in office and the GOP controlling the Senate, activists worry that Manchin would be in position to water down a future climate bill if Democrats win the Senate and he becomes energy chairman. But his fellow senators point out that the energy panel would be one of several venues to write climate legislation, along with committees like Environment and Public Works, Agriculture, Finance and Commerce.

Democrats also made clear that the caucus would not welcome sidestepping seniority to install someone more progressive on climate issues in Manchins place.

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Certain people, but it also depends on the game. I get antsy watching other people play Hitman when they aren't aware of routes or secrets that I know.
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GrindcoreShark posted...

Smashingpmkns posted...

Most of those confederate statues were made during the civil rights movement. Hardly historic, mostly despicable.

The ones on NOLA weren't but it didn't stop them coming down to appease people who have zero respect for their heritage and history

What does Robert E. Lee have to do with New Orleans' history? There's not even record of him ever visiting the city. Their heritage and history would be better respected with a monument to the city's slave revolt, or general strike, or any number of jazz musicians.
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Are they not the same?
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Can't imagine where a Christian church would get the idea to discuss the treatment of refugees and outsiders.
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lol
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Same reason they got rid of Diane on Cheers, no?
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That probably doesn't surprise you, but here's a story about them:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/us/trump-bedminster-golf-undocumented-workers.html

During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trumps bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.

Because of the outstanding support she has provided during Mr. Trumps visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.

Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper.

Ms. Moraless journey from cultivating corn in rural Guatemala to fluffing pillows at an exclusive golf resort took her from the southwest border, where she said she crossed illegally in 1999, to the horse country of New Jersey, where she was hired at the Trump property in 2013 with documents she said were phony.

She said she was not the only worker at the club who was in the country illegally.

Sandra Diaz, 46, a native of Costa Rica who is now a legal resident of the United States, said she, too, was undocumented when she worked at Bedminster between 2010 and 2013. The two women said they worked for years as part of a group of housekeeping, maintenance and landscaping employees at the golf club that included a number of undocumented workers, though they could not say precisely how many. There is no evidence that Mr. Trump or Trump Organization executives knew of their immigration status. But at least two supervisors at the club were aware of it, the women said, and took steps to help workers evade detection and keep their jobs.

There are many people without papers, said Ms. Diaz, who said she witnessed several people being hired whom she knew to be undocumented.

Mr. Trump has made border security and the fight to protect jobs for Americans a cornerstone of his presidency, from the border wall he has pledged to build to the workplace raids and payroll audits that his administration has carried out.

During the presidential campaign, when the Trump International Hotel opened for business in Washington, Mr. Trump boasted that he had used an electronic verification system, E-Verify, to ensure that only those legally entitled to work were hired.

We didnt have one illegal immigrant on the job, Mr. Trump said then.

But throughout his campaign and his administration, Ms. Morales, 45, has been reporting for work at Mr. Trumps golf course in Bedminster, where she is still on the payroll. An employee of the golf course drives her and a group of others to work every day, she says, because it is known that they cannot legally obtain drivers licenses.
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I never imagined, as an immigrant from the countryside in Guatemala, that I would see such important people close up, she said.

But Ms. Morales said she has been hurt by Mr. Trumps public comments since he became president, including equating Latin American immigrants with violent criminals. It was that, she said, along with abusive comments from a supervisor at work about her intelligence and immigration status, that made her feel that she could no longer keep silent.

We are tired of the abuse, the insults, the way he talks about us when he knows that we are here helping him make money, she said. We sweat it out to attend to his every need and have to put up with his humiliation.

Ms. Morales and Ms. Diaz approached The New York Times through their New Jersey lawyer, Anibal Romero, who is representing them on immigration matters. Ms. Morales said that she understood she could be fired or deported as a result of coming forward, though she has applied for protection under the asylum laws.

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catboy0_0 posted...

why does this matter. people do what they want. let them.

What if people want to give money to Trump's campaign but not his businesses?
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Just an inability to recognize that context exists. Not all statues hold the same value.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced...
Van Halen - Van Halen
Led Zeppelin - IV
Bob Segar - Night Moves
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
The Who - Who's Next
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-brett-favre-cameo-anti-semitism-scandal-explained.html

Heres a recent addition to the long list of stuff that happened in 2018 that mostly flew under the radar because of, you know [gestures vaguely around]: Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre and the rapper Soulja Boy were tricked by a group of white nationalists into recording anti-Semitic videos. Wow! BuzzFeed reports:

A group of white supremacist YouTubers are using a new app to pay celebrities to create videos where they make coded anti-Semitic statements and then the YouTubers use those recordings to promote hatred on the internet. The videos were made using Cameo, where users can pay to have celebrities record a personalized message for them [Favres] video is loaded with coded anti-Semitic language.

It sounds nuts to say that Brett Favre was taken advantage of by white nationalists to spread anti-Semitic memes. But thats only because you think of Brett Favre as a very famous football player. If you think of Brett Favre as a social network, well, it makes complete sense to say that Brett Favre was taken advantage of by white nationalists to spread anti-Semitic memes. And Im here to tell you that Brett Favre, in 2018, is a social network. A very primitive social network but a social network nonetheless.

If youre not familiar with it, Cameo is an app that allows you to hire moderately famous people (think reality-show contestants and one-hit wonders) to record personalized videos a birthday message for a friend, say. You select your celebrity and write instructions for the video message; the celebrity decides whether or not to record the video youre asking for. If they approve, you pay a fee (Favre videos go for $500), and the celebrity records the video and sends it to you. You now have a video of, say, Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer congratulating your niece on graduating from Tufts. Or whatever.

Its a fascinating app not just because of its bad science-fiction satire uncanniness but because of what it tells us about the future of the social internet. And, indeed, depressingly, Brett Favre unintentionally recorded an anti-Semitic video for $500 is less a weird aberration than exactly what we should be expecting from the platform era.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/celebrities-white-supremacists-video-app-cameo-anti-semitic

In one recent video, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre one of the NFLs most legendary figures addresses the group.

BuzzFeed News has viewed the videos but will not include them in this article, since the users who paid the celebrities have said in livestreams this week that they want the recordings to go viral.

Brett Favre here with a shoutout to the Handsome Truth and the GDL boys, Favre says in the shaky video. You guys are patriots in my eyes. So keep waking them up and dont let the small get you down. Keep fighting, too, and dont ever forget the USS Liberty and the men and women who died on that day. God bless and take care.

The video is loaded with coded anti-Semitic language. For example, small stands for small hats, a slur for yarmulkes.

The USS Liberty is a dog whistle referring to an incident in 1967 where Israeli forces fired on the US spy ship, killing 34, during the Six-Day War. In the aftermath, Israel said that its pilots had thought the ship was an Egyptian vessel, and apologized the government eventually paid out $6.7 million in reparations to the survivors and families of the dead. Ever since, there have been unproven conspiracy theories surrounding the circumstances that question whether the attack was intentional. Both the Israeli and the United States governments have said that it was a case of mistaken identity.

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https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1070700253693792257
ah,
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Thatuser posted...

The balance of power was always intended to work this way,

The founding fathers were not as unified in this view as you may think; there was pretty significant opposition to equal representation in the Senate at the time.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/minority-rule-not-in-the-constitution.html

To say, for example, that the Framers consciously built minority rule into the Senate is to ignore the actual debates around the structure of the chamber, which show fierce disagreement leading to a tepid compromise between two sides, one advocating proportional representation and the other backing equal representation of the states. Madison flatly rejected the latter. [W]hatever reason might have existed for the equality of suffrage when the Union was a federal one among sovereign States it must cease when a national [government] should be put into place.

On its first vote, the committee responsible for designing the chamber agreed on proportional representation. The Senates cooling functionits ability to be more deliberativewould rest not on equal representation, but on its smaller size and longer terms of office for members. (Its worth mentioning as well, in discussions over state sovereignty, that Madison wanted to give the Senate a veto over state legislation.)

When small state representatives pushed for equal representationwhich had been a feature of the Articles of ConfederationMadison and other advocates of proportional representation in the Senate responded with sharp arguments against. Madison dismissed the fear that large states would gang up on their smaller counterparts, pointing to cultural and economic differences among large states. In point of situation they could not have been more effectually separated from each other by the most jealous citizen of the most jealous state. Madison even made the pointedand to modern ears, familiarargument that the real division between the states was North and South, free and unfree. He summarizes the point in his notes from the convention, in which he contended that the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but by other circumstances; the most material of which resulted partly from climate, but principally from the effects of their having or not having slaves.

Benjamin Franklin, another opponent of equal representation of states, pushed back against the idea that small-state citizens would be burdened under proportional representation. The Interest of a State is made up of the interests of its individual members, he said. If they are not injured, the State is not injured. Pennsylvanias James Wilson was more prophetic: Equality of votes among the States will subject the majority of the People & Property to be governed by a minority of each. This, he said, was too palpable an error, too great a Defect in the Constitution to permit the expectation of public harmony & Happiness.

But small-state representatives wouldnt budge, using the threat of exit to force compromise. In Federalist No. 62, Madison says it is superfluous to justify the Senate according to republican principles. Instead, it is the result of a spirit of amity. Rather than lose the small states from the union, the advice of prudence must be to embrace the lesser evil."

Put simply, key voices anticipated the problems the Senate might pose for governance and democratic representation. That future Americans, to whom the Framers entrusted the republic and its maintenance, might seek reform to solve those problems is not an attack on the intent of the Constitution. It is in keeping with the debates around its creation.

Even if they had been in agreement on this, there are other things they intended that we've done away with.
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s0nicfan posted...

Which is the driving force behind every successful progressive movement in the history of the country.

The New Deal happened because Democrats had immense popular vote majorities. The Civil Rights act went through the House with relative ease, but was delayed by lengthy filibusters by Senators representing a small minority of the country's population. The ACA, to give a more recent example, required a landslide election to make it possible. In what ways are these tyrannies of the minority?
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s0nicfan posted...

Our entire government is explicitly set up to prevent tyranny of the majority.

And in doing so, enables the tyranny of the minority. That is not preferable!
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s0nicfan posted...

Are people really so stupid as to think that republicans will never again hold a majority in the house when they call for something like this?

It's not about eliminating Republicans from power. It's about eliminating an institution that allows a small (and shrinking) fraction of the population to control the legislative process.

My friend Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, sees a demographic shift coming that will effectively transform us into two countries. He tells me that in 2050, 70 percent of Americans will be living in just 15 states. That 70 percent will then have 30 senators, and the remaining 30 percent of the people, mainly those living in the smallest and poorest states, will have 70 senators.

That's an undemocratic (small d), untenable situation.
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Bio1590 posted...

They'll learn to actually work together.

That doesn't mean what they produce will be good. No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act, and the Iraq War all saw bipartisan approval.
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P4wn4g3 posted...

Or we could just have oversight for it.

How so?
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