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BigG777 posted...

Become cops themselves and change it from the inside?

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It's such a reductionist way to look at things.
Sure, it works for the folks who want to do that job, would be good at it, and could qualify for it. But what about the 40 year old doctor who isn't happy with what he sees? Should Philando Castile's mom sign up for the force, so she can not shoot someone? Should George Floyd's family become a cop just to not be racist?

Seriously, imagine a doctor using the same reasoning. Your mom died because I misdiagnosed her cancer? Your fault for not becoming a doctor, one better than me.
Now yes, the medical profession as a whole has not been accused of delivering substandard treatment like the police have been, but you can't use "You should just totally change your entire life in order to compensate for us doing a bad job" as an excuse for problems.

Just because you're not in a profession or directly involved doesn't mean you can't comment on things that affect all of us. That's why we have this representative system of democracy, and concepts like public accountability.

tl;dr: The fundamental point is that you shouldn't have to be a cop to criticize a cop, any more than I need to enlist in the Syrian army if I think they're committing war crimes, or any more than you need to work for New York Bankers if you get pissed off at Wall Street corruption.

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What's so wrong with death by suicide, provided it's not from mental illness? We allow people to do all manner of things that increase their likelihood of death (smoking, eating to obese levels, sports, guns, hiking, driving fast cars, etc.) and we don't stop them (gun control notwithstanding), but the actual final act is apparently so abhorrent that we don't allow people the freedom of choice and autonomy over their existence.

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PrideOfLion posted...

There's literally no reason to take the $4k unless you suck at saving money and need magical guaranteed income forever

Exactly. It takes over 20 years to get to $35 million, assuming you don't invest any of the lump sum, and you have no idea what kinds of fucked up you will be in (or how inflation will be).

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I'm with you. Kinda weird to kick off the next phase with a character who won't show back up
It's also weird since her whole sendoff in Endgame would have paired well with this movie, if the movie had come out before Endgame and we got to learn more about her.

But really what sucks about the whole thing is that ScarJo is a great actress and yet she phones it in constantly as Black Widow. Doesn't help that the trailers make the movie look as generic and boring as ever, if it didn't have the MCU connection it'd be relegated to the straight-to-DVD bin

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What gets me is that the little vignettes they put out are so wildly different from the movies. Vader crumples an entire door with the force, the Emperor uses lightning against the Jedi who come to arrest him, etc.
I literally thought the whole point was to show that Star Wars is more than what we see on the screen and that's why the way the Force is shown varies between trilogies and such

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They're never gonna go on sale and the DLC is right around the corner. Now's as good of a time to get into it, right?

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indica posted...

God, I hope that's a joke

The idea is that a gun license includes a background check done by the government, a college id does not have any requirements besides getting enrolled
Of course the real reason is that students tend to be more liberal and gun owners more conservative, but still

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Oh goodie, can't wait to be told what opinions I should have and scream at fans over the internet for being wrong!

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I mean, it happens irl. My boyfriend never outwardly showed any gay thoughts until he finally accepted who he was. Before that, he was dating women (seemingly) happy.

But it definitely can feel forced in fiction

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https://lucasnorth.uk/sapply/thequiz.html

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What?

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I assume cruises won't be operating by then. We booked this back in January before we knew about how bad this was.

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Blue Mage for me, so much fun

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Ruddager posted...

. So yeah, even with 2 visits per month (if youre lucky) thats gotta be over 10 years if you do it legit, absolutely terrible design choice from the devs.

What's the point, man? There's going to be an update this week, who knows if they're going to change the spawn rate of the NPCs? Who knows if there are going to be new updates later this year that will present us with more opportunities to get art?
You've just wasted your time to accomplish something that isn't even an accomplishment at this rate, it's just a numbers game.

I just don't get it.

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Pretty much every group has privileges that others do not. In the western patriarchal society we live in, overall it's better to be a straight white man

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Gay people who are Christian are just guilty of cherry-picking what they want out of their religion, just like every other religious person

At the risk of sounding like an angsty edgelord, I don't understand anyone who believes in a religion


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The whole "Darmik shits on Sony and excuses Microsoft" narrative is starting again

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I would just really appreciate not being painted as some kind of abuser, alright

You literally said that you wouldn't be cool with a bachelorette party because you somehow think it means fucking someone. You're not an abuser, just dumb

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There are Roaming NPCs and Plaza NPCs, they can both be on there together

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Technically I can get all of them but are they all worth it? I'm WFH so I have time to play

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Just found out my best friend only brushes his teeth once a day. His fiance is in Dental School

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I mean, both Trump and Biden are alleged rapists. If you're planning on voting for one of the major party candidates, you're sort of stuck between two guys who have a history of sexual assault accusations. In that case, you are left to ignore said accusations and focus on the other aspects of their candidacy. Therefore, it is not surprising that liberals will ignore Biden's issues and conservatives Trump's.

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Something about putting a tracker in the vaccine?

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Peak privilege is a liberal refusing to vote for Biden

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BettyWhite posted...

Perhaps there could be personal shopper associates that wait outside and assist the elderly and those without smartphones? I'm envisioning a person holding a tablet that inputs the order and completes everything for them.

Which still sort of sucks because I often go into a grocery store unsure of what particular item I need until I've looked at it. The associate could very tediously describe different items I guess, but it would be a major pain in the ass.

Like many people, I decided to be productive during my time off. I went to a paint store and they had curbside delivery. They had signs all over the door explaining to call the store and they could help me over the phone.
They were super helpful and patient, more than happy to give me a color book and let me sit in my car and tell them what colors I wanted and different product lines and finishes.
I can only imagine they'd be just as helpful to the elderly, even if they didn't have a cell phone.

Grocery stores would probably be more of the same, just on a larger scale. They have the benefit of more employees and could probably organize it so that they have people taking orders and telling others to get stuff.

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BawdySausage posted...

I'm not endangering anyone by calling it the Chinese virus. That's not how this works.

Even if it doesn't endanger people, I agree that it's a weird flex. We have scientific names for it and one that everyone calls it (Corona), forcing a new name is dumb as shit and as pointless as Trump's fake tan.

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I don't think socialism would have saved us, I went into detail in my opening post. The title is clickbait

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A corporation is, at its core, a fictional legal entity that shields those running it from too heavy of a personal loss should its business ventures prove too unprofitable.
Allowing this serves to stimulate the economy, since it frees people to take somewhat more of a risk than they might otherwise. Groovy so far. The problem came when corporations started successfully lobbying (read: bribing politicians) to be given the same rights as actual people. It used to be that when it was found that a corporations actions were against the common good, they could be dissolved even without having necessarily broken any laws. This was useful, since it put a check on the enormous amount of power and lack of real accountability the people who ran them could amass through them.
So now you have these huge conglomerates wielding enormous amounts of wealth, with all the rights and none of the accountability that private citizens have, who are allowed to donate (read: bribe) as much as they want to politicians to keep writing laws in their favor (or writing the laws themselves and getting them rubber stamped by Congress) because theyve made it so that political contributions count as free speech and that free speech applies to them even though they are, as mentioned, legal fictions and not actual people.

The biggest political issue today is getting corporate money the fuck out of politics. There will never be a level playing field between the socioeconomic classes so long as corporations are given the same rights as people.
The mishandling of the crisis that led to the current situation is merely further proof of the dystopia we were already living in.

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If I'm just getting the game now, is it that bad to time travel the first day so I can get the pole vault?
Or am I a scrub?

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The Nintendo Master posted...

I do hope they can find some sort of solution, but I can't picture one coming at the moment.

Not to sound complacent or naive, but this sort of news happens every couple of years. And every couple of years, they manage to figure out a way to fix this issue.

In February of this year, the House passed a bill that would remove the pension loophole s0nicfan has posted about. Obviously the Senate has just sat on it since then, but this sort of thing has several simple fixes that just require the passing of legislature.

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DevsBro posted...

Coming soon: UPS now handles letters too. Now hiring people with experience in letter and package delivery to handle the increase in business. Boom, problem solved.

If you want the price of mail to go up like crazy
Or people in economically nonviable delivery areas (such as most rural areas) will get mail only once a week or so where there is little profit

As mentioned in this topic, the mail should not be a for-profit company.

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Blue_Dream87 posted...

Why are y'all arguing with someone who doesn't know what a leftist even is lol

Or whose username is about being forgiven for misdeeds by God and not by being a good person

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But us doing nothing is better than giving machines that are known to aerilize the virus. Like, we are literally at zero people saved when he's gone negative.

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Not really sure how to find out if I like this kind of game.

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I didn't play Ruby or Sapphire, I jumped straight into Emerald so I may have missed some of the earlier issues.
But I never thought there was too much water. I loved the variety in the world, caves/deserts/volcanoes/etc.
Secret Bases were awesome
Introduced some of my favorite pokemon, both in design and types

I just remember playing it as a kid, bouncing between Emerald and FireRed, thinking pokemon was at its peak (which was actually HGSS but I digress).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImHZsSqB11U

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HagenEx posted...

This is the same stupid whore that filmed herself with Old Senile Bernie in one of Michigan's poorest districts, claiming they would "pick them up from poverty", and then got ASS BLASTED when someone posted the last 50 years of people in charge of said District being from the Democratic party, right?

Calls women 'whores' but says"I'm not sexist"


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For reference I have a Pikachu named 'Zapatouille' and a Squirtle named 'Oogway'

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

not everyone is as economically illiterate as online leftist

He didn't say anything revolutionary

HotLap posted...

Biden is the only one getting big cheers and hes gotten the biggest ones from yelling at the moderators of the debate.

That makes sense, SC is Biden's best shot

Antifar posted...

Many people are saying Bloomberg paid people to be there

Interesting if true

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Did they seriously boo Bernie for calling out billionaires?

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Bump

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Guide posted...

This doesn't solve predestination. If he knows everything, then he knows which future will come true. You either admit predestination, or admit that God doesn't know the future.

God doesn't have to follow logic, he's literally beyond that. If he wants free will to be a thing while also knowing everything, he can. He doesn't have to make sense to our puny human minds, it just is.

Of course he isn't real, but I digress.

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https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/entertainment/2020/january/warning-to-parents-new-disney-cartoon-teaches-kids-how-to-be-witches-using-a-demon-to-do-so

Disney has come up with a new cartoon about a teenager who, in their words, "finds herself stuck in the Demon Realm and battles the forces of evil alongside a rebellious witch and a pint-sized warrior."

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The show tries to portray witchcraft as a positive tool to fight evil. That's similar to what real-life witches have been promoting over the past few years as they've been putting hexes on President Trump and others in order to fight for their beliefs.
Folks, if you think this latest "Owl House" show is just "fantasy and fun," think again. Over the years, Disney has gone farther and farther into the darkness of the spiritual world that opposes the living God, coming up with programming and characters that lead the vulnerable into that dark world of deception.

The Bible tells us clearly that there is a spiritual realm that is not of God. It warns us not to participate in witchcraft, to not consult with mediums and spiritists, but to call on God for answers in our lives.

I thought that was a meme.

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Testosterone is a hell of a drug. The average man should be able to take her unless she gets them on the ground.
Any guy who does a small amount of exercise should win 7/10 times

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Is this your new act? Pretending to be incapable of learning simple concepts?

It's a multi-step process.
Rank up support points ---> Go to blue dots on map --> Have support convos --> Increase Happiness so you can teach them shit

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Beast Makers > Artisans >>>>> Gnasty's World


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SauI_Goodman posted...

I get it but what happened to wearing gloves if you work with food.

It's been shown that people wash their hands more often than they change gloves, so going without gloves is usually the cleaner option

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emblem boy posted...

I mean, isn't that kinda part of having a kid.
Kids cry and there's only so much you can do at times.

In my experience, it's the parents faults.
Kids cry most of the time because they're hungry or tired. You can fix this by making sure they're fed and not running errands with them for hours at a time

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