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JE19426 posted...

SSJCAT posted...

it still refers to before and after christ so how does calling it something different matter

saying it doesnt mean you believe in anything lol

Saying BC/AD is saying you believe Jesus is the Messiah/the lord. Yeah, I know loads of people say it, without believing it.

Using that logic, saying BCE/CE is saying you believe our universal current era began with Jesus' birth, which means it was a momentous event for all humanity.
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Well, the South Pole actually has land under it, so that's the front runner for me.
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BC/AD

It's shorter and all that the BCE/CE system does is directly state that the common era began with a Christian belief, so a secularization attempt actually does the opposite thing, imho.

I'd honestly advocate a new year 1 if you don't want to use a religious-themed year system. Real talk, let's make 1945 the new year 1. We're about to enter year 74, baby.
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Taxes are one thing, the lack of a competent state government is what's really been killing it in Illinois.
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I'd take less to fuck over more people. So yes.
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Zikten posted...

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Vol2tex posted...

K181 posted...

Ugh, I forgot Frozen 2 was next year. My kids are going to rope me into that....

Kids? How old?

At release date, the oldest twins will be 7 and the youngest twins will be almost 5.

Yes, I have two sets of twins, so four kids total.

do the 2 sets ever compete with each other? do they always side with their twin?

Youngest ones are still pushovers for the older ones at this point.
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Vol2tex posted...

K181 posted...

Ugh, I forgot Frozen 2 was next year. My kids are going to rope me into that....

Kids? How old?

At release date, the oldest twins will be 7 and the youngest twins will be almost 5.

Yes, I have two sets of twins, so four kids total.
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Supply and demand, sadly. Workers are cheap nowadays.
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Ugh, I forgot Frozen 2 was next year. My kids are going to rope me into that....
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Dunkey YouTube channel, et al
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ThePrinceFish posted...

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Fair enough, but in the heat of the moment it's absolutely understandable thst self-preservation instincts kick in and a random cop is too afraid to rush in.

You'd be pissed off if a medic "in the heat of the moment" threw all his training to the wind and got people killed. Why should a cop be able to say fuck his training because of adrenaline?

If a medic didn't rush into a dangerous situation? Not really, or at the very least not liable for damages.

Incompetence at stabilizing a patient is different, though.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

K181 posted...

The GOP got crushed in DuPage County in Illinois, a longtime bastion of economic Republicans, and I can honestly say that the GOP in north shore has significantly shriveled up as well. I don't think it can be understated how many wealthier whites have been turned off by the party, which was essential for their electoral chances.

An article was published a few days ago stating that 75% of CEOs conducting international business have had to apologize for Trump's lousy international diplomacy.

I'm not surprised. Explaining Trump has been something internationals have asked my wife as a tech firm executive fairly regularly. We're going to Japan and South Korea later this year for a conference of her's coupled with a vacation, and that's something they've given her an extra heads up on especially with North Korea.
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Fair enough, but in the heat of the moment it's absolutely understandable thst self-preservation instincts kick in and a random cop is too afraid to rush in.
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Sunhawk posted...

Disney owns ESPN?

That's the oldest thing listed they owned.
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I'd warn them about Darfur, 9/11, Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, etc first, tbqh.
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ThePrinceFish posted...

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CreekCo posted...

Going "above and beyond the call of duty" is literally the job

No, that's why that phrase exists, to recognize exceptional bravery and sacrifice. It's not a soldier's duty to jump on a grenade to save their squad mates' lives, which is why when it does happen it's so extraordinarily conspicuous.

Rushing into an active shooting is the same thing for a random cop or security guard as well.

Running into an active shooting at a school is exactly what every random cop is trained to do, and has been standard protocol since Columbine. They are LITERALLY taught not to wait for backup, and to intervene in the shooting as soon as they are able. Not when they feel safe doing so, when they are able.

No offense, but [citation needed].

I think you're vastly overstating your case if you believe that police officers are specifically taught to run into active shooting situations without backup. And even if it's something that they're taught to do, it's hardly shocking if self-preservation instincts cause a random guard or patrolman to free under the pressure.
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The GOP got crushed in DuPage County in Illinois, a longtime bastion of economic Republicans, and I can honestly say that the GOP in north shore has significantly shriveled up as well. I don't think it can be understated how many wealthier whites have been turned off by the party, which was essential for their electoral chances.
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prince_leo posted...

K181 posted...

3 state solution

State of Israel - with international compensation for ceded territory back to the West Bank to make that territory fully contiguous
Republic of Palestine-West Bank - backed with international aid provided through Jordan with UN monitoring
Republic of Gaza - backed with international aid provided through Egypt with UN monitoring

I like this. i've also heard of making Jerusalem a city-state as well

Some type of condominium status between Israel and Palestine is likely necessary for Jerusalem, but I'm not sure if a fully independent state capable of being swayed to one side or the other is a valid longterm option.
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3 state solution

State of Israel - with international compensation for ceded territory back to the West Bank to make that territory fully contiguous
Republic of Palestine-West Bank - backed with international aid provided through Jordan with UN monitoring
Republic of Gaza - backed with international aid provided through Egypt with UN monitoring
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CreekCo posted...

Going "above and beyond the call of duty" is literally the job

No, that's why that phrase exists, to recognize exceptional bravery and sacrifice. It's not a soldier's duty to jump on a grenade to save their squad mates' lives, which is why when it does happen it's so extraordinarily conspicuous.

Rushing into an active shooting is the same thing for a random cop or security guard as well.
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Let's use a lifeguard analogy.

If a lifeguard sees someone struggling in a pool or in the ocean, there is an obligation for them to try to save the person. And ignoring such a situation has been held to be a situation where they are liable for damages for dereliction of duty.

If a lifeguard sees someone struggling in a raging whirlpool with debris in the water during a hurricane, you can't force them to be courageous in that circumstance and jump in.

Same goes for cops. If the police just sat and watch someone beat someone else to death, that's an incompetent liability. A cop not wanting to rush into an active shooter situation? Police have a right of self-preservation as well and you can't force the to be courageous above and beyond the call of duty.
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Cracked still exists?
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eston posted...

The idea that a lone police officer should have rushed into the building when he did not know where the shooter was or even how many shooters there were is completely ludicrous and flat out unreasonable.

This. I will certainly fault the response, but I'm not going to keyboard warrior it up and bemoan individuals not being willing to rush into an active shooter situation.
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The northern hemisphere of Mars has a significantly lower elevation than the southern hemisphere, so if Mars was ever terraformed it would almost assuredly be a massive northern ocean, a long valley sea near the equator, and a significant round sea in the south. So, when Mars is terraformed in projections, the southern half still looks reddish just from the soil color and relative arid nature of that half of the planet.
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BigSLM1993 posted...

I dont like him in the slightest but he'd at least bring a level of dignity and poise back to the position.

The difference between Trump and Pence is that Trump is a buckshot blast of crazy while Pence is a narrow, focused laser of crazy.
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From a strict hydrological perspective, Lake Michigan-Huron is actually a single lake and thereby the largest freshwater body of water by area on the planet.
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VI then IX and then it's up for debate for third place and down.
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All I know is that all of my Hoosier friends, both left and right, were happy at that fact that Pence was no longer their governor after 2016.
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I don't get her popularity. She made porn for like three or four months, made a handful of scenes, retired about five years ago, and is still the most popular porno star on several major porn sites. Her staying power is astonishing.
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kirbymuncher posted...

https://twitter.com/brehonisbest/status/1073491717570117634

That's the mother of all political walkoff statements. Goddamn.
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s0nicfan posted...

Well okay... so are people saying the UK are the bad guys here? Or is it case where both sides have valid reasons for their stance and nobody is the bad guy, because both are acting in their own self interests?

Nobody's the bad guy. The UK is just the dumb guy as they acted against their self-interests by voting to leave due to all the morons that fell hook, line, and sinker for outright lies that were identified as lies and despite literally every economic expert telling the electoral that Brexit would be inherently self-destructive, continuing to today where many assume they deserve to have their cake and eat it, too.

Meanwhile, the EU is just saying, "fine, leave, but if you're abandoning all the responsibilities and obligations of EU membership you sure as heck aren't going to reap all the benefits of EU membership."
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Person A) I'm breaking up with you.
Person B) Okay, then you have to leave my house, I'm taking back the car I let you borrow, and you're not getting any money from our "joint" checking account that I put all the money into.
Person B) Whoa, why are you being so unreasonable?
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Lucas' plan for the sequel trilogy was to double down on the midichlorians.

Even the Disney haters have to admit it could've been a helluva worse.
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Loved it, still loved it albeit I do admit the casino subplot could've been trimmed considerably.
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Why do you care? They're pretty easy to ignore.
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It's been at least a decade since I bought a movie, so honestly no clue. I just stream everything I want to watch.
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As in, you have a buddy or a family member or an old classmate or even a coworker that has a job that you honestly can't believe someone gets paid for.

For example, a good friend of mine from college is a lobbyist for the dairy industry in the Wisconsin state legislature in Madison. In other words, he's effectively paid to decide which of the many, many, many volunteering legislators can be sponsors and co-sponsors for bills that his group wants. What they want goes 99% of the time up there, how the hell do they have a need for a six-figure lobbyist, much less several of them?

Also, outb4 YouTube/Twitch personality.
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Snowflake in chief
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What? Max armor and endgame enemies knock off multiple hearts with each swing.
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BotW 2: Same game, but on a new landmass, with a couple new abilities (Sheikah slate grapple hook and scuba come to mind), more enemies, and dungeons you can find.

Game of the Decade
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I legitimately forget that there's a comment section on YouTube every time until I read or see someone complain about the YouTube comment section elsewhere.

Just pretend that it's like TV on demand. Just watch and move on.
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I remember getting a mild kick out of it, especially how they obviously shoehorned Sonic in at the literal last minute of production.
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Brexit

At least Trump could stupidly viewed as a lesser of two evils and that he may have only been saying things to rile up votes and settle down once in, as idiotic as that my be.

Brexit was an obvious fuckup from every perspective.
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It's always been popular, but I'd say Brawl is where it became much more of cultural phenomenon versus merely a popular franchise.
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.... continued from previous post.

2) With all that in mind, the costs of waging a land invasion of the Japanese mainland were, in short, astronomical. People may like to claim that their estimates were inflated, but that doesn't change the fact that American policy planners really believed that a land invasion would lead to the deaths and woundings of hundreds of thousands of Americans and the deaths of potentially tens of millions of Japanese. In fact, in preparation of the invasion, we began making en masse in preparation for the losses they expected to suffer. To this day, there are still 120,000 WWII era Purple Hearts in stock, despite all the ones that have been awarded in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere over the past six decades.

3) Logistically, there would've been only two alternatives to nuking or invading, either increased conventional bombing campaigns or enacting a blockade. Just to give you a reminder, more people died in a single day during the firebombing of Tokyo than died in either atomic blast. And a blockade of Japan would've resulted in mass starvation, as evident by the fact that Japan was already starving by the time that the bombs were dropped and by the fact that thousands of Japanese died from malnutrition-related problems in the weeks after the Occupation began, in spite of the massive amount of foodstuffs and medicine that MacArthur started sending in.

4) Look at the regional theater. China was still suffering losses in huge quantities. The Soviet Union was preparing to (and, indeed, did) invade Japanese Manchukuo (Manchuria). Had it not been for the dual punch of the Soviet invasion and the American nuking, you'd better believe that the Japanese would've tried to hold out even longer, Hirohito in power or not. Additionally, look what happened after the war. The Soviets were prepared to take all of Korea, but they stopped because the Americans asked them to. Do you really think that they would've stopped if America didn't display a willingness to use their exclusive nuclear power? Do you think that Korea would be better off right now if all of Korea was under Northern control? Instead of having one totalitarian regime and one thriving democracy on the peninsula, there'd just be a single totalitarian government. And, with all of Korea, so you think that the Soviets wouldn't have wanted a piece of Japan as well? They could have very well demanded a North and South Japan, which clearly would have worsened the situation for the Japanese up to this day.

So, with all of this in mind, I really don't see how you could possibly say that the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't justified. It's not a matter of what's right. War is almost never like that. What it's a matter of is what is the lesser of two evils. Would you rather have inflicted horrific damage on a portion of a country in exchange for a better chance for peace, prosperity, and overall lower casualties or would you rather have a prolonged war with greater suffering, even more widespread destruction, greater fragmentation, and more potential for open conflicts?
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Admitted self-plagiarism, but I posted these thoughts a while ago and saved them:

Here are my opinions.

Was the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki horrific? Of course.

Should we be proud of the fact that we're the only country to have engaged in nuclear war? Hell the **** no.

Should we feel horrible for the suffering and pain that it caused, both on the victims, survivors, and national psyche of Japan? You'd better believe it.

Was it justified? Damn right it was.

World War II was, beyond any shadow of a doubt, the single most horrific event in human history. It was a truly global affair, with fatalities potentially as high as 75 million and casualties obviously therefore in the hundreds of millions (remember, casualties = killed + wounded + captured + missing). It utterly devastated two continents, wrecked havoc across dozens of countries, and almost wiped out a number of religious and ethnic groups, especially Jews and Gypsies.

Atrocities were committed en masse. From the Bataan death march in the Philippines to the death camps in Poland to the rape of Nanjing to the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden to untold numbers of massacres, rapes, and other crimes against humanity. It was a war that sometimes brought out the very best in human nature, but more often the very worst as well. Terms like evil are tossed around far too easily in today's parlance, but the death regimes of Japan and Germany and even the Soviet Union (albeit more to incompetence rather than deliberate mechanisms like the two Axis powers mentioned) can clearly and easily be described in such term.

But all that being said, despite the horror of the nukings, despite the dramatic impact that it had, despite all the claims that Japan really was on the verge of surrender, let's get the facts straight.

1) Japan was not on the verge of surrender. Sure, it was slowly beginning to be discussed, and many claim that if we removed the abdication requirement of Hirohito that the war could have ended prior to the events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is nothing more that whitewashing the past and looking at the end of the war with 20/20 vision. This is what the Allies knew..... the Japanese became an overly fanatical and warlike country due in large part to the cult of personality that had formed around the mostly powerless emperor. Allied powers initially believed that keeping him in power would, in fact, just push off future conflicts much in the same way that Versailles merely delayed the endgame of WWI in Europe for a generation. Also, note how fanatical the resistance that Japanese soldiers gave on every single island that we battled over. We're talking about battles where 90%+ of the soldiers fought to the death and, in battles on islands with civilian populations, often ended in massacring their own people rather than let them fall into American hands (which a very pervasive propaganda machine led many to believe were raping monsters). Even more, note how even after the nukings were carried out, a portion of the military attempted to overthrow the emperor to prevent his surrender. With all this information in mind, the Allies clearly thought that the Japanese were willing to fight on.

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Sex is an important part of a healthy and mature relationship. Not having sex until you make a supposedly permanent commitment is about as sensical as not having a long conversation with a partner before marriage or not eating a meal with each other before marriage.
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What, all seventeen of them?
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31, clicked 30
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It's not about how many dicks a woman's taken in her life, it's about how many dicks she voluntarily took at once that matters.

Woman A) Fucked 100 dudes in a decade. Cool, whatever.
Woman B) Fucked 10 dudes in an evening. Ew, no.
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