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TopicCalifornia officials: Criminal rings loot billions in jobless funds
s0nicfan
01/26/21 4:30:23 PM
#4
California Labor Secretary Julie Su told reporters in a conference call Monday that of the $114 billion the state has paid in unemployment claims, about 10% or $11.4 billion have been confirmed as fraudulent.

Nearly $20 billion more another 17% is considered suspicious, and a large part of that could be found to be fraud, she said.

That's... A massive amount of fraud.


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TopicHow is this woman so gangsta/not afraid?
s0nicfan
01/26/21 3:32:27 PM
#4
She's gotta get on this woman's level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kJrCy6AptA

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TopicHow the fuck do you get "nucular" out of "nuclear"
s0nicfan
01/26/21 3:30:22 PM
#5
I would assume from people who know how to spell "nuke" but not "nuclear" and they just make assumptions from there.

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TopicDC NG commander says Pentagon restricted his authority before the riot.
s0nicfan
01/26/21 2:06:33 PM
#4
The restriction was placed on Walker after the Guards heavy-handed and widely criticized response to racial justice protests over the summer. In June, hundreds of guardsmen from around the country poured into the nation's capital at former President Trumps request, despite objections from local authorities.

A National Guard helicopter also hovered low over protesters as a show of force, a move that drew widespread scrutiny and rebuke.

After June, the authorities were pulled back up to the secretary of defenses office, McCarthy told The Post. Any time we would employ troops and guardsmen in the city, you had to go through a rigorous process. As you recall, there were events in the summer that got a lot of attention, and that was part of this.

By "before the riot" did you mean June?

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TopicThe difference between Anakin and Obi-Wan
s0nicfan
01/26/21 2:02:23 PM
#2
One can flip over someone and cut them in half. The other can't.

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TopicGoof god
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:39:27 PM
#4


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TopicToday is the one year anniversary of a helicopter crash that left 9 dead.
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:23:16 PM
#6
pogo_rabid posted...
McCrae was a legend, I was shocked hearing about it.

Bill Burr is working on getting his helicopter license too. I'm just hoping against hopes this doesn't see a repeat.

Bill Burr at least seems like the kind of person to have enough sense to not fly directly into heavy fog around a mountainous region.

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TopicDisney to change Jungle Cruise ride because of "racism"
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:18:55 PM
#7
PokemonYoutube posted...
Ah. Didn't remember those. But honestly, those are pretty tame. I've seen way worse stereotypical tribal Africans. And I'm not sure how it's racist when there are still plenty of African tribes that look similar to that. Especially in the time period that the ride is set in.

Disney could have worked directly with tribal communities to design that segment of the ride to be completely 100% accurate to that tribes' culture and people would still scream racism, or cultural appropriation, or whatever other label gets them cheap likes on twitter.

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TopicNewest member of the firearm family, I'll name her Magoo
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:17:15 PM
#3
You opted to name your long-range precision rifle after a cartoon character who's famous for not being able to see?

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TopicThe Democrats have just put forth a bill raising the minimum wage to $15!
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:13:54 PM
#39
pogo_rabid posted...
That's the equiv of a conservative saying "don't like the pay, just get a different job". And if you're working a minimum wage job, you're effectively tied down. Moving cross country isn't exactly the cheapest thing, doubly so for people who are effectively wage slaves to their jobs.

If cost of living is spiraling out of control in a handful of cities, trying to artificially design the system so that an infinite number of people can live there is insanity. If raising the federal minimum wage makes it so that somebody could live a much better life in a state that's less populated, that should be incentivized not used as an excuse to further increase wages in the handful of places that are already overcrowded.

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TopicThe Democrats have just put forth a bill raising the minimum wage to $15!
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:09:26 PM
#29
pogo_rabid posted...
I still think minimum wage should be raised up and determined by cost of living in each state. $15 min wage in Mississippi gives a ton more buying power than say $15 in Hawaii. Trying to have a sweeping, fix-all number just seems kinda backwards and oversimplifies the entire situation for the sake of having a tidy number that looks good on headlines.

Hopefully that incentivizes people to actually move out into those states. The country would be in a much better state if people weren't trying to cram themselves into the same three cities and actually distributed themselves more evenly.

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TopicThe Democrats have just put forth a bill raising the minimum wage to $15!
s0nicfan
01/26/21 1:04:55 PM
#24
RetsuZaiZen posted...
By 2025. Did they intentionally not factor inflation?

2025 is only 4 years away. How much inflation are you expecting in that time?

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TopicWhatever happened to all those "loot crate" companies from years ago?
s0nicfan
01/26/21 11:41:39 AM
#6
It's a whole industry now. You can basically get a monthly subscription box for anything.

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TopicWhy do people get upset when they see a poor person with nice things?
s0nicfan
01/26/21 11:40:35 AM
#9
If your friend tells you that he needs money to cover rent so you give him some, and you find out he didn't spend it on rent he spent it on a new video game console, you would feel cheated.

It's the same mentality, but with taxes. People are constantly told that it's important for government to provide support to the underprivileged and that you're a bad person if you don't agree. So when somebody sees an individual who is likely benefiting from their taxes using their own money to buy junk they don't need, it feels like a betrayal of the system. It's made doubly worse by the fact that you can't even call it out without being accused of hating the poor.

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TopicBad movies that you like?
s0nicfan
01/25/21 7:16:05 PM
#19
Hook got torn apart on release and Spielberg himself says he regrets making it, but I consider it a classic.

Zoolander also bombed on release but I find its stupidity brilliant.

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TopicHow is Doom 3?
s0nicfan
01/25/21 7:08:49 PM
#4
Imagine Dead Space but much darker and way less fun.

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TopicDude on WSB paid off his entire student loan balance off with Gamestop stock
s0nicfan
01/25/21 6:40:25 PM
#16
Should have waited for the govt to forgive $10k of it first.

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TopicDoritos 3D is back for a limited time
s0nicfan
01/25/21 6:02:48 PM
#8
E32005 posted...
damn. its 1998 again

Well, I mean, there's a new Jumanji in the works, FF7 just released, The Matrix is getting a sequel, and Animaniacs is back.

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TopicDoritos 3D is back for a limited time
s0nicfan
01/25/21 6:00:14 PM
#2
I don't remember them tasting like bugles, and the original shape was just a puffy triangle. Haven't tried the re-release yet, though, so I can't compare.

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TopicDo you consider Jiren to be above the power level of a God of Destruction?
s0nicfan
01/25/21 5:56:11 PM
#8
No. Even if you wanted to entertain the idea, the most recent chapter implies that Beerus has some tricks/techniques up his sleeve he hasn't ever shown off.

I think Jiren is certainly a candidate to become a GoD or exceed one, but he's not there yet.

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TopicAre stonks the latest playthings for millenials?
s0nicfan
01/25/21 5:52:52 PM
#12
Anecdotal statement: Millenials grew up through the tech boom and the birth of crypo. Perhaps more so than any other generation, theirs is one of getting lucky on the market. Watching BTC go from 7K to 40K in a year has to have motivated a lot of people to get in early on these new trends.

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TopicLooks like Jim Sterling's losing subscribers
s0nicfan
01/25/21 5:34:16 PM
#49
DarkBuster22904 posted...
1. his videos have begun leaning a lot harder into national politics and social issues. Yes, those elements have been present basically from the offset,, but when I say he's leaned far more into them, I mean a while hell of a lot more. For example, he's shifter from slagging off specific companies/practices to just outright slagging off capitalism in general, which is a harder sell. And on a social level, while I agree with his stance that games/stories are inherently political, as its basically impossible to avoid, his relating absolutely everything to modern political issues, at every turn, is also a harder sell than what he did before. And that's gonna alienate some folks.

This is the big thing for me, and why I unsubbed from his channel maybe 4 or 5 months ago. I never minded his critical analysis of industry, and for a while he was a sort of Youtube Jason Schreier. After a while though, it became way too repetitive. I could tell within the first 20 seconds what the full content of his video was going to be and I started skipping more and more videos until I realized I wasn't actually looking forward to a new upload so I just dropped him entirely.

I can sympathize with him over the fact that his other videos (shitty game reviews, digging through greenlight, trailer reactions, and actual game reviews) got bombed by the algorithm, and I'm sure his recent shift is good for his channel in terms of long-term growth. It's just not why I started watching him in the first place.

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TopicWhat's a perfect middle ground between North Korea... and North America?
s0nicfan
01/25/21 3:06:16 PM
#9
Probably something like Thailand, a relatively free society where you can be jailed for literal decades for making fun of the monarchy. You're basically looking for a country that isn't a theocracy or oppressive dictatorship where your average citizen benefits from equal rights but everyone is equally held down on a handful of specific issues.

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TopicLet's check up on Dutch centrists
s0nicfan
01/25/21 2:24:22 PM
#5
Uhh... Your link says that party was disolved in 1986....

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TopicYou know, for all the hate it gets I kinda like Borderlands 3
s0nicfan
01/25/21 2:13:20 PM
#12
If couch co-op on a base PS4 wasn't hot garbage I'd probably still be playing it.

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TopicLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will have 300 playable characters...
s0nicfan
01/25/21 1:26:04 PM
#6
I think I would have trouble naming 30 Star Wars characters that were meaningful enough to be worth playing. 300 seems kind of pointlessly excessive.

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TopicThe Senate Democratic Caucus May Choose Failure
s0nicfan
01/25/21 1:23:34 PM
#3


Democrats used the filibuster against Trump far more than any other president. if you think getting rid of the filibuster is a good idea, just imagine if they had done it during Obama and every single one of those 314 blocks made it through.

I get that a short-sighted power grab seems super appealing right now, but Democrats would be shooting themselves in the foot long-term by stripping away that power.

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Topicthe fact that there's no Fez 2 or any spiritual successor just shows how
s0nicfan
01/25/21 1:16:07 PM
#4
Isn't Monument Valley a spiritual successor to fez?

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TopicThe Medium releases this week
s0nicfan
01/25/21 1:03:28 PM
#9
I think it's being simul released on game pass, so for anyone who has it you can probably try the game before buying it

I was super excited by the reveal trailer and hearing that some of the silent Hill team worked on it, but the actual gameplay that I've seen has brought my hype down a little bit. I don't like that the game is split screen so you can see your character and both realms at once. I figured there would be some sort of realm switching mechanic, or forced switching like silent hill.

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TopicNier Automata reminds me a lot of The Last of Us Part 2.
s0nicfan
01/25/21 11:00:12 AM
#13
Alucard188 posted...
One is a transcendental masterpiece, and the other one allows you to blow up to show off your ass.

When does Tlou2 let you blow yourself up?

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TopicWait, people unironically like Super Mario Bros. 2?
s0nicfan
01/24/21 2:34:57 PM
#34
Wii_Shaker posted...
It's pretty fun. I was watching the history of SMB2 speedruns. Good video.

Always fun to see another summoning salt viewer in the wild.

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TopicSundance movie: girl has sexual relationship with carnival ride
s0nicfan
01/24/21 2:18:16 PM
#19
I have to imagine Sundance execs sitting around a table laughing their asses off when they make some of these picks, knowing that people will bend over backwards to try and talk about how brilliant it is simply because it aired at sundance.

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TopicJim Carrey tweet (art?)
s0nicfan
01/24/21 2:07:55 PM
#14
The Trent posted...
does anyone come back from the dark side on this one?

IIRC he only has a high school education, and he might actually be a dropout. He's basically the perfect candidate for publicly acknowledging that he was not educated on an issue, listened to the experts, and has since changed his position.

But from what I can see online he just does that anti-vaxxer thing where he says he's not anti-vax, he's just anti- ingredients that are included in vaccines.

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TopicJim Carrey tweet (art?)
s0nicfan
01/24/21 2:01:35 PM
#11
Is he still antivax?

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TopicAlot of Christians think the Anti-christ would be president
s0nicfan
01/23/21 7:05:26 PM
#7
Presumably being leader of the richest country with the most nukes is a far faster strategy than becoming president of Poland or something and then spending decades slowly climbing a clogged bureaucracy all so that you could... have as much money and fewer nukes.

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