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Congrats none of us care (not you Ruddager <_<)

Ruddager posted...

Kid Cat sent me a fake Graceful Paining if anyone wants it

I mean I'll take Kid Cat if that's what you mean >_>
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-05-19/roe-v-wade-jane-roe-norma-mccorvey-hulu-doc-abortion

When Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe vs. Wade case, came out against abortion in 1995, it stunned the world and represented a huge symbolic victory for abortion opponents: Jane Roe had gone to the other side. For the remainder of her life, McCorvey worked to overturn the law that bore her name.

But it was all a lie, McCorvey says in a documentary filmed in the months before her death in 2017, claiming she only did it because she was paid by antiabortion groups including Operation Rescue.

I was the big fish. I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and theyd put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. Thats what Id say, she says in AKA Jane Roe, which premieres Friday on FX. It was all an act. I did it well too. I am a good actress.

In what she describes as a deathbed confession, a visibly ailing McCorvey restates her support for reproductive rights in colorful terms: If a young woman wants to have an abortion, thats no skin off my ass. Thats why they call it choice.

Arriving in an election year as the Supreme Court is considering a high-profile abortion case with the potential to undermine Roe vs. Wade and several states across the country have imposed so-called heartbeat laws effectively banning the procedure, AKA Jane Roe is likely to provoke strong emotions on both sides of this perennial front in the culture wars.

Director Nick Sweeney says his goal was not necessarily to stir controversy, but to create a fully realized portrait of a flawed, fascinating woman who changed the course of American history but felt she was used as a pawn by both sides in the debate.

The focus of the film is Norma. Thats what I really want people to take away from the film who is this enigmatic person at the center of this very divisive issue, he says. With an issue like this there can be a temptation for different players to reduce Jane Roe to en emblem or a trophy, and behind that is a real person with a real story. Norma was incredibly complex.

Sweeney started making the film in April 2016, frequently visiting McCorvey in Katy, Texas. At first, he says, she was reticent, but when she realized when I was not involved in the abortion debate she was very happy to open up. Over the course of the time they spent together, McCorvey recounted details of her difficult upbringing marked by abuse, neglect and a stint in reform school turbulent personal life, including a short-lived teenage marriage, and a decades-long relationship with girlfriend Connie Gonzalez.

I thought she was extremely interesting and enigmatic. I liked that her life was full of these fascinating contradictions, says Sweeney, who also interviewed figures on either side of the abortion issue who were close to McCorvey, including attorney Gloria Allred and Rob Schenck, an evangelical minister and former leader of Operation Rescue.

McCorvey comes across as funny, sharp and unfiltered, with a broad performative streak. She rattles off lines from Macbeth and jokes, Im a very glamorous person I cant help it, its a gift.

The documentary includes scenes of McCorvey on election night 2016 a few months before she died of heart failure at age 69 expressing her support for Hillary Clinton. I wish I knew how many abortions Donald Trump was responsible for, McCorvey muses. Im sure hes lost count, if he can count that high.

She had a kind of sly wit, says Sweeney, recalling the many hours he spent with her in Katy, going on doughnut runs or sitting in a park, where shed make him pick magnolia flowers.

But there is also great sadness, particularly surrounding her relationship with Gonzalez, which she renounced after her conversion in 1995.

The film explores one of the great ironies of McCorveys life story: Although she helped make abortion legal, McCorvey herself never had an abortion. She was pregnant with her third child when, in 1970, she signed an affidavit challenging laws in Texas which prohibited abortions except to save a mothers life. As an impoverished, uneducated woman lacking the means to travel out of state or obtain an illegal procedure, she was an ideal plaintiff for the lawyers who tried the case, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee.

I know how I felt when I found out that I was pregnant and I wasnt going to let another woman feel that way cheap, dirty and no good, McCorvey says in the film. Women make mistakes, and they make mistakes with men, and things happen. Its just Mother Nature at work. You cant stop it. You cant explain it. Its just something that happens.

But it would take three years before the Supreme Court would render a verdict, by which time McCorvey had long since given birth to a girl who was given up for adoption. (Her second child had also been given up for adoption; her first child was raised by her mother.) McCorvey remembers learning of the decision in the newspaper and receiving a phone call from Weddington saying theyd won. Why would I be excited? I had a baby, but I gave her away. Its for all the women who come after me.

AKA Jane Roe also shows how McCorvey was held at arms length by abortion rights proponents. After a decade of anonymity, McCorvey went public in the 1980s and began granting interviews, and was depicted in the Emmy-winning TV movie, Roe vs. Wade, starring Holly Hunter. But to the leaders of the abortion rights movement, the inconsistencies in her story for a time McCorvey claimed she had gotten pregnant as the result of a rape, then said she had been lying and lack of polish made her a less-than-ideal poster girl for the cause.

In 1995, she was working at a Dallas abortion clinic that was targeted for demonstrations by Operation Rescue, a militant organization known for extreme tactics such as blockading clinics (the group is now known as Operation Save America). She struck up an unlikely friendship with Flip Benham, an evangelical minister, who baptized her in a backyard pool, and for the next two decades of her life was a fixture at antiabortion protests and in documentaries. In 1998, she published a second memoir, Won by Love, detailing her change of heart on abortion. As Benham recalls with evident pride in AKA Jane Roe, McCorvey also took part in demonstrations where he burned the LGBT flag and the Quran.

Despite her visible role in the fight against abortion, McCorvey says she was a mercenary, not a true believer. And Schenck, who has also distanced himself from the antiabortion movement, at least particularly corroborates the allegations, saying that she was paid out of concern that she would go back to the other side, he says in the film. There were times I wondered: Is she playing us? And what I didnt have the guts to say was, because I know damn well we were playing her.

Schenck expresses regret at targeting McCorvey, someone whose vulnerabilities could be easily exploited, he says. What we did with Norma was highly unethical. The jig is up.

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Colorahdo posted...

I think it's 1/3lb of chicken

Bruh what
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lightwarrior78 posted...

You realize if he sells the properties the tenants are out in the street right, usually with little notice?

The guy in the story would have to give a minimum of 3 months notice and that's only after the sale is actually finalized (ie. buyer has actually secured funding such as getting a mortgage approved).
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DevsBro posted...

I'm sure he's operating on the assumption that the number is going to continue growing.

Of course! But if only one of his however many renters not paying is causing him this much financial distress already then he is clearly over leveraged. There's literally zero debate there.

Also it's not in the article but by his own admission this guy basically spends the winters living in Southeast Asia as well.
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Artemis86 posted...

This guy owns literally a million plus dollars in property.

I don't know exactly what this guy owns but even if it's entirely just 25 single-family homes that's like a minimum of $3M just in purchase price alone and not even including any repairs/upgrades he may have done.

So yeah.
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Oh cool the crying cop makes another post crying about how no one likes him
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Took me two random spawns of the right shadow size to catch a Rainbowfish >_> just need the Trevally now
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Squall28 posted...

Kinda sad how people thought the poorer landlords being forced to sell will help regular people; mega companies just ended up buying up the properties instead

This guy is absolutely not a "poorer landlord" lol
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-evictions-landlords-coronavirus-1.5569961

This guy has to be leveraged up to his eyeballs if he has that many properties and only $4k in unpaid rent has him complaining that he's probably going to have to consider selling some.

But here's the icing on the cake

This is the second time Stevens has gone through the process to get the couple out of his house. Last fall, he got an eviction order but decided to give the tenants another chance.

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This topic is a perfect example of how low-quality the trolling on this site has gotten and the Admins are totally okay with this.
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Gen5_AppleJack posted...

They're buying TV dinners and other lazy unhealthy shit instead of raw ingredients.

AlexG, I know your parents still pay for everything so you have no idea about the concept of money or what things cost outside of buying MLP merchandise, but you can literally buy a week's worth of "TV dinners" for $5.
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Mezcla posted...

i dunno bro i didn't name it.

i could call korean perilla too but

Yeah but I mean that's it's actual name, Perilla is Perilla.

Cleo_II posted...

Its called that for Westerners because molokhia is very hard to pronounce. Its mo-lo-khe-ya. And it has similar benefits to spinach if not better.

Yeah but I mean just...teach people. Like if you buy it expecting something similar to spinach you're going to be extremely disappointed.

Like Jicama also being known as "Mexican yam bean" like fucking stop that shit
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I mean even on a good sale here fresh chicken breast is going to run you like $2 each so...easily.
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"Egyptian Spinach"

>Not even related to actual spinach and has a bunch of other names that were perfectly fine

Like...why
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Cleo_II posted...

Ive only seen him once in the month Ive been playing. Same with CJ, Celeste and Redd. The spawn rate of these visitors is absolutely ridiculous. I feel like this was designed for online play to get things, but then the online experience is dreadful.

CJ and Flick seemed to be WAY more common before the last update, and I don't know if it was an intentional nerfing or if they're just "rarer" because the (new) forced weekly spawns of Leif, Savannah, and Kicks doesn't leave many other days for the two of them to show up.

And you can't even take advantage of Flick or CJ through online play either, if they're not on your island you can't sell to them.
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Also Flick finally showed back up so I was able to unload the $550k in bugs I had saved up.

Could be more but I'm saving 3 of each of the rarer bugs for whenever he shows up so I don't have to frantically find something to get him to make a statue of.

Guy better show up more than once a month or I swear because if it is a) it's going to take forever to get every bug statue and b) I've already gotten like the next year's worth of statue requests backstocked
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Why the hell is it raining so much
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Does anybody actually pick the "expensive" option with Wisp >_>
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I think restaurants will realize it is cheaper to do it themselves.

Like hell there were restaurants here giving out 10%-20% discounts on take-out during the lockdown if you actually called them and came and picked it up yourself.

Because that still made them more money than doing it through these apps.
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I have a hard time believing these companies are going to last beyond like 2025
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The listed numbers from the 50s and 60s/70s have never actually been accepted by the scientific community worldwide.
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Antifar posted...

made combat both less of a slog

The enemies in Odyssey are still ridiculous damage sponges though >_>
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Me: Aw fuck here we go again

(It's actually just the 40th "anniversary" of it the major eruption back in 1980)
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Makeveli_lives posted...

Odyssey just for the 40 or so people you had to track down and kill. Never have I put that much time into a sidequest and enjoyed it.

I remember when I killed my first Sage and got one single clue as to who the Ghost of Kosmos was and I immediately knew who it was :/
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Pretty sure the advertising rule is meant for like yourself or someone you know
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The person he replied to made a tweet about "Sunday" sounding similar to "Someday", which is something Pete had said in a previous tweet.

He definitely overreacted but it's hard to tell if these people are serious or not.
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Museum Stamp Rally is kind of lame but getting plaques to put in your house that look identical to the plaques in the museum labelling the wings is pretty cool.
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My parents need a new printer and looking around even the "cheapest" printers are like $80 (CAD) regular price these days.

Like I specifically remember back when I was in uni in the late 2000s/early 2010s everybody still had printers that were like $30-$40 regular price and now those are basically just gone.

I wonder if all these companies had to change their business models with selling printers for a loss and recouping money through ink and paper sales.
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LeperMessiahXX posted...

How common is that broken glass thing in your lungs when it comes to pneumonia? My mom had pneumonia back in Novermber and they did a chest x-ray on her and they were surprised to see something that looked like broken glass in her lungs, and now that seems to be a key sign of this virus. She often wonders if she had it then, and I keep telling her that the odds of that being true are extremely unlikely, but I do wonder sometimes. I have zero clue how she could have got it, so I still doubt it, but no one has ever given me a clear answer on how common having that broken glass look in your lungs is.

Fairly common, I think, and can even be caused by things that aren't pneumonia.
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Anteaterking posted...

What does legitimate mean?

I think it's something people can truthfully be, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as sexual orientation or gender identity.

I think the "legitimate" argument is centered around whether or not it should actually be considered a sexual orientation.
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There's nothing really "weird" about random cases actually popping up in late December, given what we know about the timeline, however

ncsonic posted...

December 2019 COVID19 cases in the United States:

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/

05/two-washington-residents-sick-with-coronavirus-like-symptoms

-december-test-positive-for-covid-19-antibodies.html

This literally says they can't confirm when these two people had the virus, only that they did.

It's different than say, the French hospital that said last week they tested a sample taken from a patient that was admitted at the end of December and it came back positive.
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There's a difference between being asexual and being aromantic.

You can be both, you can be either, or you can be neither.
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CruelBuffalo posted...

https://twitter.com/ewsorg/status/1261842453184655360

Tbh the actual image with the two super buff arms grasping hands where one is black and the other is white is funnier in all contexts of these jokes.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/395/654/9b3.jpg
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EnragedSlith posted...

I don't know what you mean. You can't customize clothes because they're available in a wide range of colors already. And you can make custom clothes with the advanced design editor.

The vast majority of customizable items are things you have to craft, anyways...and there's very little in the way of craftable clothing.

I don't know if they'll add customizable/craftable clothing to the game, but I assume any possible introduction of Reese and Cyrus would be related to that as that was their new role in Pocket Camp and Timmy and Tommy have already (mostly) replaced their old role in this game.
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I had two Villager homes have the "noninteractable door" glitch this morning and I can't understand why this hasn't been fixed yet or why it even occurs because there's literally zero points in time where you're not supposed to be able to interact with a Villager's door. Even if they're outside or away it tells you they're not home.

Also I can't find my 4th fossil >_> it's not even where the 4th one is usually "hidden" when I can't find it
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Okay so it's night + raining and the first 3 fish I've caught at my pier using bait are a Barred Knifejaw, an Oarfish, and a Mahi-mahi lmfao

Also I've already caught a Coelacanth and 3 Red Snapper when running around digging up clams as well >_>
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He's going on about it in TWO topics right now
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I'm honestly getting tired of waiting for Flick to show up. I know it's unrelated but at this point I don't even feel motivated to hunt down the new pier fish.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

My turnip prices are 19. I didn't even know it could get that low lmao

I think the lowest possible value period is 9 and that's only possible on a Saturday afternoon if you hit a Small Spike immediately first thing in the week and your turnip buying price was only 90.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-california-spacex-idUSKBN22R389

A California state panel on Friday rejected a request from Elon Musks SpaceX for $655,500 in state job and training funds, citing the chief executives recent threats to move Tesla, the electric carmaker that he also runs, out of the state.

The snub comes as Musk has sparred with officials in Alameda County over his plans to resume production at the Tesla plant there, which was stopped because of the coronavirus.

Five members of Californias Employment Training Panel voted to reject the proposal and two voted for it, with one member absent, after discussing Musks tweets on Teslas reopening and media reports of layoffs at SpaceXs Hawthorne, California headquarters in recent years.

In my opinion, given the recent threats of the CEO to leave the state of California, and everything else weve discussed today, this proposal does not rise to the level for me to feel secure in supporting it, said Gretchen Newsom, a panel member and the political director of an IBEW electrical workers union local.

SpaceX is a different company, but they have the same CEO, said Newsom, who is not related to California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Though a small amount of money, the funding was opposed by organized labor groups. Tesla and SpaceX are both nonunion shops.

The funding from the state employment development fund was supposed to help SpaceX train 900 employees for its Starlink satellite project and hire 300 to work on its Starship program. It was unclear whether SpaceX intends to move forward with its hiring plan after Fridays rejection.

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Since the disagreement between Tesla and Alameda County gained national attention, officials from such states as Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Utah and Oklahoma have pitched Musk about considering their state for existing operations or for a new factory the company has promised.

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Btw if you're going to cry about "gaslighting" as well you should probably make sure you're using the term correctly, because pointing out what you do and how you post is absolutely not gaslighting in the slightest
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If you wanna cry "slander" then fucking mark it lol. It's not like the Mods don't know who you are and it's clear you have a STELLAR reputation.
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Annihilated posted...

Pretty easily when the reason for most of the moderations comes down to "I just felt like it." I speak from experience, of course.

Lmfao

Literally all you do is post alt-right racebaiting nonsense.
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MrMallard posted...

He's been posting like that for years, if this is true than he bought it fucking ages ago.

The TC account has two years and like two months worth of karma and was brought out of cold storage a few years ago. The account was clearly either hacked or "given" to someone to use and it should have been Locked + Closed ages ago.
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I finally swapped my physical copy for a digital copy now I can actually play other things too
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