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It's painful how right she is and how deeply invested most of the Democratic Party is in Trump being an aberration and Republicans actually being not evil.

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tremain07 posted...

s0nicfan posted...

China has been the bad guy for decades now. I'm glad all this information is finally getting out, but the world isn't quite ready for another world war so I don't know what anybody is going to do about it.

You are correct, as long as china keeps their evil in their own backyard and don't get in other countries way like Germany did back then their evil will go unpunished

I doubt a full-scale war between nuclear powers would improve the situation, in any case.
By the way, Uighurs have a hard time seeking asylum, since China has stopped renewing their passports. Many who manage to flee end up getting deported back to China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/world/asia/china-uighurs-sweden-asylum.html

Kamala Harris tanking is really good. It's a shame she still has that Senate seat, but I don't want her to get a job in a potential Democratic administration either, because she's garbage.

It's ridiculous it's taken this long, and I hope against hope they don't set themselves up to fail from the word "go" by artificially restricting their inquiries to just this or that. Trump has barges full of dirty laundry that hasn't seen the light of day.

I think she's a serious contender. And she could definitely deliver a fiery acceptance speech.

Oh, that's just beautiful. It cannot be missed, even in the midst of this Brexit disaster, that Britain's government is quite a bit more functional than ours.

Mahomes is phenomenal and easily the best QB Andy Reid has ever had(sorry Donovan McNabb, you were good but not like this). It's difficult to imagine he won't get multiple rings, but then Brees and Rodgers only have 1(and Peyton had to be carried to his second).
Also Mahomes probably makes it 100% that Rivers never gets one(there was always the possibility the Pats got punked before they could clown the Chargers or Brady would retire first).

Victoria 3
A licensed NFL sim focused on managing teams

DuranOfForcena posted...

i can't see myself ever wanting to play through the ME series again, knowing how terribly it ends

I have the same problem. It was just such a massive let-down(and I didn't even experience the original ending!)
It probably didn't help that I played through the fantastic Citadel DLC before the end. That's fantastically-written and also really funny.

DarkRoast posted...

ME3's ending was so disappointing they literally had to remake it in the same game

Even then, they only succeeded in making it feel disappointing and hollow.
Seriously, ME3 was even really good outside of everything related to Cerberus and then the ending happens.

We definitely didn't hunt mammoths into extinction though: they were probably killed off by climate change more so than us.
Fun fact: there were still isolated populations of mammoths alive when the Great Pyramids were built!

It's incredible Pelosi is still dragging her feet on this. She's clearly incapable of confronting this challenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system

tainted_emerald posted...

_Rinku_ posted...

X - Turner Syndrome
XXY - Klinefelter Syndrome
XYY - XYY Syndrome

Just, without googling them, tell me what you think the gender or sex of the individuals with these chromosome arrangements are.

P.S. this is all stuff I learned in a second-year Genetics class, so it's not something you'd know from your ninth grade Biology class.

I learned it watching House back in the mid 2000's.

I believe that patient had a disorder, rather than abnormal chromosomes.
This, IIRC: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/androgen-insensitivity-syndrome
That episode was gross(for other reasons).

Absinthe.

A little over a year ago, she was sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament with a sign by herself. She got more classmates involved, got to talking with foreigners via social media, and this thing has grown from one girl in Sweden to a global phenomenon. Pretty fantastic story.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a357wp/isra-hirsi-ilhan-omar-daughter-climate-strike-profile

Isra Hirsi is one of the bigger figures in it here in the States. She also happens to be Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, so she's inevitably going to be a target of right-wing hysterics.

Ive been playing Victoria 2 and Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Got the Netherlands to the #4 world power(France got dismantled in a Great War) and punked Matador(only to have trouble with Thor, of all bosses).

TommyG663513 posted...

Didn't even bring up the Sicario movies. Such a bad oversight.

The first one paints the Americans as being no better than the cartels.
The second one was uncritically based upon the chain e-mail your <insert old Fox News obsessed relative here> forwarded you in 2008.

Hollywood is run by old white men, like everything else, and, at best, theyre risk-averse. At worst, they sexually harass people and/or are racist.

thronedfire2 posted...

left wing, right wing, chicken wing

Honestly, the chicken wing is the best wing, no question.

The Nib is a damned treasure.

Bio1590 posted...

The funniest thing is that he said "better choice" despite the fact they're not even running for the same branch of Government.

Omar's actual opponent hasn't been picked yet.

This is why he blocked us all lol

Yeah, this is the weird part: he's running against Sen. Tina Smith. He's probably trying to gin-up rural white anger against Democrats in general, but like a lot of politicians(especially, lately, Republican ones) he's an idiot and said exactly what he accuses Rep. Omar of saying.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Mars is too small to hold in an atmosphere. If some moons crashed into it to increase its mass then it would have an active core.

It definitely *did* have an active core: otherwise it wouldn't have those mountains. Though, IIRC, the size of Olympus Mons is indicative of the fact it had no plate tectonics like Earth does.
Of course, the core is long-dead at this point.

IIRC, there's some evidence for Venus having an active core, but that thing makes Mars seem lovely in comparison.

Jaghave posted...

7, 8, and 10 are the only good ones

Officer player spotted.
XI was really good, though I got tired of building up every city the one right way, because conquering a city instantly destroyed 90% of its buildings.
I had one of my best RoTK experiences playing as Dong Zhuo in the Yellow Turban Rebellion: He Jin fortified the living hell out of Chang An, so when I invaded, it turned into a months-long battle with me and him sending in reinforcements. Luo Yang was relatively lightly defended, so I took it. I already had recruited Lu Bu and absent-mindedly hired Wang Yun. Since I controlled the Emperor, it immediately triggered the assassination of Dong Zhuo, and I click to play as Lu Bu over Guo Si, only to find that Wang Yun and Diao Chan are the only officers Lu Bu has and Guo Si has everything else.
It was so hilarious I wasn't even mad.

Debates and duels suck in the base game: its very hard to win if you have less INT/WAR, even if its just one point.

Doom_Art posted...

Don't put a ton of stock in polling this far out

Nevertheless this will drive Trump insane so I approve

Yeah, you might as well be reading tea leaves this far out.
IIRC, polls this early had Obama losing to McCain by some ridiculous margin.

Donald the Dove!
You think all these U.S. caused funerals might have a negative impact on their perception of the U.S. ?

He needs Trump's support for his re-election campaign in 2020. And also he doesn't disagree with Trump on much.

The best way to combat homelessness is...by giving people homes. Who would have thought the answer was so simple!
Because it literally actually is. Tons of properties sit vacant(18 million, as of 2014) even as I type this and hundreds of thousands are homeless. It's incredibly difficult to get on your feet when you have nowhere to live.

Man, it must be great being a mega-wealthy old white dude. You can deal drugs or go down to your friend's rub-and-tug and suffer the absolute minimum level of consequences in the extremely unlikely scenario the police even bother to hold you accountable.

I wouldnt want a direct sequel, more of a typical SMT sequel that employs similar mechanics.
A souped-up port in the vein of the Devil Survivor games would be nice too.

https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1173993155089391616
New California Poll out today.

Biden - 26%
Warren - 20%
Some angry fringe socialist- 26%
Yang- 7%
Harris - 6%
O'Rourke- 5%
Buttigieg- 4%
Gabbard- 2%

She's literally in 5th place in her home state, and within the MOE of Yang, Beto, and Mayor Pete.

The problem with states like what you find in the Middle East is that they're primarily designed for several goals:
1) Extinguish any and all alternative sources of power or legitimacy(aside from the strongman) to secure power
2) Staff any bureaucracy with cronies carefully selected for loyalty
3) Create an us vs. them dynamic: (Nation) is under siege by the U.S. or other foreign interests, therefore any and all dissent is manufactured to advance said interests
4) Make certain the elite have material comforts but understand that they enjoy them only at the pleasure of the strongman
5) (Optional) Extend the above to citizens. For example, the Gulf States essentially use imported slave labor to do all the hard and dangerous work. Some authoritarian states even build social safety nets, as much to distract the citizenry from their lack of political rights as improve their conditions.

Countries with weak institutions tend to fall prey to this sort of regime, and former colonies tend to suffer from it severely(Russia is an excellent European example).

Basically, if you remove the House of Saud, you remove all the "legitimate" power and moral authority, as there are no other authorities(the Wahabbist religious establishment is also under their thumb and also terrible as well). It's difficult(but not impossible) to construct a civil society and a functional government from those conditions(Tunisia, for example, is doing extremely well) but it generally takes time(it took the French the better part of a century to fully shake the old absolutism, for example).

He sounded super hoarse at the debate, so Im not surprised. The man keeps a brisk schedule.

The Bills could realistically be 3-0 when they play the Patriots in two weeks.
Theyll get annihilated regardless

Everyone wants economic security and woman have the ability to pick and choose who they partner with. And economic security is increasingly beyond reach for average Americans.

Yeah, there's no reason for either Bernie or Warren to be VP.
I saw an argument that was persuasive to me: that Bernie and Warren are beneficial to each other(and certainly they seem to have a non-aggression pact between themselves, save the odd comment here and there): essentially, Bernie covers Warren's left flank, making it harder for others to paint her as "extreme"(which seems to have worked on the party's ruling class). What Warren does for Bernie is that she's essentially prevented candidates to her right, particularly Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, from getting oxygen: it's hard, if not impossible, to argue that either is a better debater, more substantive, or smarter than Warren. This keeps Biden in place as the "moderate" candidate of choice, and Biden is already in a weak position in 3 of the 4 early contests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdak
Probably not as socialist as old Mazdak there though. He believed in the collective use of property and wealth for the good of all.
Naturally, the conservative clergy and nobility eventually purged him and his followers. It still survived even into the Islamic era and likely influenced a number of Islamic movements, especially Shia ones.

Yeah, sounds about right. The carceral state has long been advancing the idea that non-citizens do not have rights: it is already common, for example, to deny detained immigrants access to a lawyer(they are typically held in remote areas and are not given access to public defenders).
Coincidentally(I'm sure), the current administration is champing at the bit to restrict access to citizenship.

KillerSlaw posted...

Why not just file for bankruptcy?

He has Huntington's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s_disease (It's what Thirteen in House has, theoretically!)
It's a degenerative neural disorder, and it's incurable. He'll need more and more care through the rest of his life, but I'm sure he'll be able to easily navigate bankruptcy proceedings and haggle with Tricare while his motor and cognitive ability decay. He would have to declare bankruptcy multiple times, and then his family will have to declare bankruptcy too, except they'll live long enough to enjoy the fruits of completely wrecked credit.
That is, if they're even allowed to declare bankruptcy at all.
How do people think this is at all sane or reasonable?

The US-backed Khmer Rouge which was overthrown by *checks notes* Vietnam.

I love smooth legs. They feel really great and all, but I find society's general obsession with women being (body) hairless to be kind of creepy. They have hair, naturally, because they're adult humans. And that's fine. I'm not going to worry about it.

Whole Foods was already cutting benefits before Amazon bought them. They were nice about it though: they let use vote on what benefits we wanted cut!(what? you want us to NOT CUT benefits? Silence, peon!)
So I'm not the least bit surprised Amazon is picking up where they left off. Probably a lot of hand-wringing and anger over how those unruly, ungrateful workers demanding a living wage is hurting their bottom-line.

SwordMaster13X posted...

Who the hell is Tom Steyer?

Also did Amy get back in? Who is backing her?

The October debates have the same requirements as the September debates. You'll have to wait until after the early primaries to get rid of ALL the chaff(everyone not named Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders).

Nate's little debate club...also isn't the general population?
In any case, Castro was right: Biden did, in fact, assert his healthcare plan was an opt-in, then tried to say people would be enrolled automatically after Castro said his would have automatic enrollment. It's weird how that's being ignored in favor of excoriating Castro for how he called Biden out.

No surprise. They were already cutting benefits before Amazon.