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So if someone were to hack into the zoom classroom or hijack the feed they could receive a free harvard education, yes?

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Yeah from early on there have been reports from advisors that things have to be condensed to bullet points to hold his attention. It's fucking bizarre that the "leader of the free world" has to have IMPORTANT INFORMATION spoon fed to him like some kind of grade school kid who struggles with long paragraphs and chapter books.

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The President of the United States only has a finite number of hours in each day and I have to imagine there are much better and more time efficient ways to receive information.

But his advisors handing him a sheet of facts wont have the same feeling of fellatio he gets when he watches Fox News so I can see where that might not appeal to him.

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Corrik7 posted...

What social program is ending gangs, drug wars, etc?

Gangs? Programs to help eliminate poverty and to reduce the number of Americans who feel like they don't have any choice but to live that kind of life.

Drug wars is a more nuanced topic. But a solution would involve some level of decriminalization and reform of our criminal justice system. Get the non violent drug offenders back into society and in programs where they can become contributing members rather than a source of increased taxes to stay locked up.

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And I'm not saying we should have NO cops. Im saying if we had LESS cops and we spent money on more efficient social problems there would be less crime and less cops required.

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Corrik7 posted...

Just crazy. Defund the Police though. O.o

This isn't Minority Report. Police can't stop crime before its committed.

So yeah take some of the money that's going to police and put it towards programs that will address the factors that lead to crimes being committed.

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It's like when trump cherry picks an instance of an illegal immigrant committing a violent crime while ignoring that illegal immigrants commit less violent crime on average.

No one is going to stand up for the individual that committed the crime, but we're not going to demonize everyone else for it.

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SmartMuffin posted...

So you agree that BLM protesters are criminals?

The ones who are SHOOTING GUNS AT PEOPLE are committing crimes and are therefore criminals. The ones who are marching and demonstrating peacefully are not.

How are you incapable of separating the two?

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In Breaking Bad, methylamine is used by Walter White and Jesse Pinkman as they use reductive amination of phenylacetone (P2P) to yield methamphetamine - a process they devised to circumvent the need to buy pseudoephedrine. This P2P and methylamine-based cook produces what became infamously known as "Blue Sky" in the American southwest.

So it was apparently a side effect of using the liquid that they stole from that one place when they used the explosive on the door combined with the purity of his perfect execution of chemistry.

So when he was doing the pseudoephedrine cooks he got it ridiculously pure, but not blue, but then they couldn't get a supply of enough of the cold medicine or w/e so they switched to the other method which only yielded blue in the ridiculous purity that only Walt could pull off. Because science?

I'm sure there is no basis for this in actual science, but that's the answer the show offers us for their version of science.

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HaRRicH posted...

spit. I'm of the opinion that the soundtrack is better than the production itself, but man is it good anyway.

I agree with this. I must have listened to the album in excess of 100 times now so I'll acutely aware of any differences in delivery or inflection. But seeing or visually is a treat.

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Maybe like a "sub class" where you can include 3-5 cards from a different class?

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Yeah finally got the video to play. If they were trying to leave then I don't understand why either of them would have been walking to get behind their car.

But then pulling a gun is an absurd overreaction. That's completely skipping the steps of honking your horn out rolling down your window and telling her to move so you can leave.

It seems like the women recording were making a mountain out of a molehill to begin with, but then the woman in the car makes a planetoid out of the mountain.

But yes absolutely prosecute for the pulling of the gun and aiming it at people in that situation, and if you can prove intent to hit with car then that too. But from what I saw I don't know that you could prove they were trying to hit anyone with their car and were just trying to leave. :shrug:

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The "full video" is not playing in the article so I don't know what other information it contains that would make me sympathetic to the woman pointing the gun.

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Todd's Black Mirror episode is peak creepy, he's good at that.

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IT WAS ABSOLUTELY FAKE

ARREST THAT MAN FOR LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

THE INFORMATION WAS FAKE

BUT ITS CLASSIFIED

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You can also see post 53 for the info as well

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skullbone posted...

The bathroom thing is overblown in my opinion because it seems obvious they just weren't thinking about it. Like he didn't intentionally take a camera into the bathroom to be edgy, his cameraman was just stupid and followed him in. I guess you could be mad at him for being stupid or not hiring a good enough cameraman but to put it on the same level as "cheated on his wife" just seems like you're trying to find reasons to dislike him.

There are already plenty of reasons to dislike him, you don't need to pretend like you're mad about him accidentally filming in a bathroom to make more!

I can agree with this.

It's a reason for twitch to be upset with him because it exposes them to liability, and that is a reason for them to discipline him for making that mistake. But I don't see why your average viewer should be up in arms about it unless there was an intent violate privacy that resulted in the bathroom filming.


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Imagine trying to explain that to the supreme court of the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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My church is actually limiting attendance and taking temperatures at the door so we're doing it the right way.

We also live stream services so we encourage everyone to just watch from home on Facebook, especially if they are in a high risk demographic.

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Is it possible to watch that episode and not immediately watch the season finale?

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Now that Jerry is out of the way this is going to be the Summer of George!

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Underleveled posted...

Yes. And while I haven't had one in a while, I was just thinking about it yesterday.

You have to ask yourself, what are the odds that you would have just been thinking about this yesterday and someone made a topic today.

Pretty low, I'd say.

Are you sure you are even awake right now?

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Poisoning yourself to get revenge is such a baller move

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metaIslug posted...

Well personally, I think kung-flu is an amazing name.

If you are being sarcastic then it does not come across. It's a virus that has claimed nearly half a million lives worldwide and it should not have a racially insensitive moniker.

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But then they changed that part and kept the early closing time, lol

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Okay, so I posted that and then died IMMEDIATELY.

I ran into another druid.

His hero power was "your choose one spells do both choices"
His other ability was "your spells cost health instead of mana".

So on turn 1 he plays The Forest's Aid to summon five 2/2s.
And then he plays Dark Whispers to turn one of those into a 7/7
And then he plays two wisps
And then he plays evolving Spores and adapts +3 attack onto his full board.

5/2 5/2 5/2 10/7 5/2 4/1 4/1

It cost him 18 health, but then he had lethal on board at the start of turn 2.
And he used savage roar.

LIke holy hell.

Edit: and now i'm playing this deck and DRAWING NOTHING BUT MINIONS. I feel like I got particularly screwed now and I was really happy with my starting deck.

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I'm rocking my original deck still after 3 games. Choices, Choices 321

Druid
All minions have rush
lots of poisonous minions or summon minion spell effects.

Been a fan, but I know I'll get wrecked if I run into a burn deck without enough answers. Also I wish there was somewhere where I could see how many other players are currently still on my deck. I feel like this one is fairly difficult to play so I wouldn't be surprised if most people lose their first game with it and I don't end up with many converts.

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Suppression does not require malice.
Suppression does not require racism.
Suppression does not require INTENT to suppress voter turnout.

Yes, malicious, racist voter suppression has occurred in other instances, and that might not be what this is. But this is still an example of votes being suppressed by changes that made it more burdensome for a number of people who WANTED to cast their votes.

And we're acknowledging that GOOD changes were made to the voting in Kentucky as well. It's possible to make more than one change and for some of the changes to be good and for other changes to be bad.

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turbopuns3 posted...

The point of "it's still suppression because old people might choose to not vote" is pretty rich, imo, considering it's just as illogical when you flip it around and say "it was previously suppressing young people who chose not to vote" when they had to go in person but did vote now that they could do it by mail?

Hot take: It's voter suppression both ways.

Not having adequate options to mail in returns is suppression.

Not having adequate polling locations (which could realistically result in oppressively long lines) is suppression.

I can be suppression either way and it seems like a pretty logical opinion to hold.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Ah yes, the old internet tactic of using pleural tense to pretend you have a consensus. Never seen that one before. Yawn.

What? I just looked at my post again and I don't see anything like this.

Honestly have no idea what post you are even looking at that this could be a response to.

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As far as the rest of it that's pretty messed up. Savjz is awesome and should not be excluded from events, especially for comments someone else made.

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Even if you have gone out of your way to give everyone the opportunity to vote by mail, you can guarantee that a not-insignificant portion of people have decided not to avail themselves of those options. And those people are going to need places to vote.

Unless 90% of in-person voters switched to mail voting you are going to see difficulties at the remaining polls. And even IF they reduced locations by 90% because they know for a fact that 90% of potential in-person voters have already cast a ballot you would still have to very carefully decide which locations need to remain open to keep turnout the same.

I find it unlikely that in person turnout will be down 90%
I find it unlikely that even if it were they will have done a good job of determine which sites to remain open
I find it disingenuous to say "This OTHER method of voting is easier than ever" as an excuse for making the most common method 90% more scarce.

That's like a store that wont accept cash because it's "easier than ever" to pay for things electronically. Even if that's true it's going to cause problems and is empirically inferior to a system that allows for both.

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So what i've been able to gather is that the guy is a psychiatrist who has a blog and he has received death threats over the years because...reasons?

I'm not sure I follow that part, but his logic is that now that his last name will be "out there" his life will be at risk.

Here is a page about him and some of his views:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander

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Personally I'm not sure where I stand. If it's truly a matter of his personal safety then maybe dont out him? But he's already public with his First and Middle name and the fact that he is a psychiatrist on the west coast so is he really that hard to track down for someone sufficiently motivated?

Or is it just an issue where he doesn't want to publicly stand by the things he's said online?

I think if he's received credible death threats then there is a case to keep his last name a secret. But again, a sufficiently motivated person should not have much difficulty with the information that's already available.

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"I think this is one of the metas where skill matters the least".

UltimaterializerX posted...

Hearthstone is not skill based.

Sorry, but as usually the things you are linking are not saying what you say they are saying.

"Skill doesn't matter as much as it used to" =/= "Skill does not matter"

Please start contributing actual content to these topics or I'm just going to make a bot that posts garbage links every few days and we will all block you and never know the difference.

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Corrik7 posted...

Of course. The police can commit crimes.

And unlike everyone else they have borderline immunity when they do it and are incredibly less likely to be held accountable.

Many people feel like this is a serious problem that requires significant reform.

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that sounds complicated, youre probably trying to trick me. I have this simple graph that shows crime going down as police budgets are going up and my common sense tells me that if police stop crime then less police means more crime and I dont like that.

Yes there are a certain amount of people who will oppose any effort to reduce funding to the police.

But there are also a lot of people who can agree that a funding reduction might be correct but who do NOT want to abolish the police altogether.

And by leading "defund the police" you are putting a sour taste in the mouth of people who will initially think it means abolishment and not simply "give less money to". A more ideal situation would be a phrase that gets this across so you don't have to quickly explain what it really means to the majority of people who take it to mean abolishment.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

they can still do that with reduce funding for the police (which has way too many syllables for a good slogan). Theyd still just say look at these socialists who love crime so much they want to take money from the police who keep you safe and use it to pay for abortions for illegal immigrants

this feels to me like a similar case as to when people had concerns that if Bernie was the candidate conservatives would attack him as a communist. Theyre going to do it no matter who the candidate is and they were going to attack an anti police slogan no matter how tame. We may as well just go for the thing we actually want.

And then you show them a graph of the city budget and explain that crime can be reduced with other programs and we wont need to pay ALL The money to cops to kill people after the crimes are committed and sometimes when crimes aren't even committed.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

the problem is who is they?

there is definitely a significant group that wants to completely defund our current police system and replace it with something else

And those people should still accept a slogan of "reduce funding to police".

Just in their opinion it should be reduced to 0 instead of (insert more realistic amount)

But they damage the optics with a slogan that can easily be lambasted by conservatives.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Yeah I have never gotten how anyone in good faith could ever be confused by Black Lives Matter

I can see it for Defund the Police

This.

They should have adjusted it to "reduce funding for police" like immediately.

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Fiverr seems like a good platform for that sort of thing, particularly for having different price points for different levels of service.

And you could start out by undercharging to try and stimulate sales and get positive feedback and then adjust to more realistic prices that value your time spent.

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MrSmartGuy posted...

I have learned that Golden Shifter Zerus will in fact transform into other Golden Minions. Thanks, Eudora for the turn 7 Golden Sneed's Shredder!

This works with Murozond as well. You play the golden murozond and get your discover card, and also a golden copy of a minion from your opponents board which will give you another discover card. It's a fantastic way to discover two 6 drops.

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And it takes zero skill to use Basic Strategy so there is absolutely no difference between a pro and a brand new player.

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Counting Cards in blackjack = knowing all the possible cards in your opponents deck/hand in hearthstone

Basic Strategy in blackjack = playing cards optimally in hearthstone

Card shuffling machines in blackjack = increased card generation in hearthstone

It's looking increasingly like a perfect analogy if you ask me.

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Blackjack is a game with zero skill. You have no control over what cards you are dealt. I've been calling casinos out for years for supporting a crap game and now nearly everyone agrees with me about it. The ones who don't agree are just fooling themselves into thinking blackjack is anything other than pure RNG garbage.

The last time I played blackjack I took fifteen minutes to stand on 19 just to troll the dealer and waste his time. Man I owned that guy.

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It was clearly a joke. You just don't get it.



Seriously though even if you assume that was being delivered as a joke, what is the point of the joke? That positive results make him look bad so ha ha it would be great if we stopped looking for them?

A more aware president might say something about how we're doing so much better at testing that it's starting to make him look bad. But when you consider how slow the original response to the virus was and his role in that slowness you would think he might realize that he isn't really in a position to make that joke.

But I'm confident it's just another case of trump being too dumb/narcissistic/arrogant to realize that he was implicating himself of something bad.

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Clearly they did not see the Trump 2020 re-election song or their excitement would have overridden any misgivings.

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And Ulti only listens to EPs

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It said they would start at 30% capacity I thought?

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xp1337 posted...

Which leaves you of a list of probably: Duckworth, Harris, Cortez-Mastro, Abrams, and maybe Julian Castro.

Yang :(

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LordoftheMorons posted...

What the fuck

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1273763757592735746

This doesn't feel different than any other company to me.

I live at the edge of the city of Clovis and the city of Fresno, and the two cities handled the pandemic entirely differently. There was a long stretch of time where clovis had already rescinded it's stay at home order and changed it's mask requirement into a mask suggestion and so you could walk unchecked into a Target or Wal-Mart on the clovis side, and on the fresno side they were limiting the number of occupants and requiring full mask participation. And sure, they companies could have enforced stricter requirements on a company-wide level, but they didn't and I think that's the same for most companies. I imagine amc will conform to the state and local statutes whatever they happen to be, but they will not enforce their own company rules on top of whatever the locals ones are.

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"Cops have murdered people, and we think it's unacceptable"

"But look at all those murderers that are murdering people!"

Hell of a defense.

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