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Gonna leave this here
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

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People have convinced themselves that an indie studio named Blue Box, which has announced that they're working on a PS exclusive project is secretly a Hideo Kojima front. There are some genuinely interesting coincidences! Like how in the Death Stranding E3 trailer, a character wearing blue hid in an upside down box of oranges (orange being opposite blue on a color wheel)
Or this,
https://twitter.com/just_shav/status/1405298111581413380

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I meant that he wasn't yet drafted.

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BlueTigerLion posted...

Is the media just forgetting Michael Sam existed? Thought he was the first active player to come out years ago.

He wasn't drafted when he came out, and didn't end up playing a regular season game. I assume that's the distinction being made here

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Tommy's more or less right; we should avoid repeating the mistakes of the war on terror, imo

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God bless

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https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1407092969359003648

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Now that's funny.

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Now that's funny

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TommyG663513 posted...

I only ask for sympathy in so much that she was fooled and you should feel some sympathy for the people Trump fools. You don't need to give them a world of sympathy, but a small sympathetic feeling is more than enough.

When you're right, you're right.

In general, we should be more careful about how we use the label that lets the government Drone strike someone.

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What's the libertarian approach to addressing climate change?

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DarthAragorn posted...

What the fuck

https://twitter.com/beebort/status/1407059287554281473
Normal stuff


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Everything else aside, Adams is a tremendously normal guy
https://twitter.com/mattiekahn/status/1407058248818204672


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It's fucked that there are no requirements for job listings to say what the job pays.

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"Parts of the government, even ones ostensibly under Trumps control, were secretly working to subvert him" is something Trump supporters already believed.

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Denizen_Of_Dark posted...

they should at least get royalties for merchandise, but straight up paychecks? hell no

Why not?

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Background_Guy posted...

Adams is the one who supports stop and frisk, right?

That's right!

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eston posted...

I'm playing this too. It's fun, but these cutscenes are painful to watch. I mean I appreciate some of the humor (the urinator quest's dialog was hilarious) but it feels like they all talk really slow and say a lot of stuff that doesn't necessarily add to the scene. Plus I don't get why it seems to randomly switch back and forth between full voiceover dialog and text only. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.

The combat is fun though

Side quests are mostly unvoiced, whereas the main plot is voice acted, for the most part.

FWIW, I played most of the game with the English dub and really enjoyed it.

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https://twitter.com/JeffCMays/status/1406948097272471557

https://twitter.com/JuanMaBenitez/status/1406653846823309318?s=19

https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/1406275087238676482?s=19


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https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1406978404184887298
https://twitter.com/mccannsportslaw/status/1406978807421095940?s=21
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1406978733999788033

The Wiki article about the case for further context
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association_v._Alston?wprov=sfla1

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The_Office_pwnz posted...

Thats weird (posting on iphone 12 pro max, no chip shortage oddly).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-chip-shortage-iphone-mac-ipad-162025388.html

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The_Office_pwnz posted...

pscinco has such low sales that they recoup some profits by gouging people who are gonna spend 1500

Sony isn't the one selling those

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The pressure campaign started months ago. Outside the US Supreme Court in April, a billboard truck with a black-and-white image of 82-year-old Justice Stephen G. Breyer circled the grounds, neon green letters blaring, Breyer, retire.

That unsubtle message, paid for by a progressive group, has been adopted by liberal law professors and politicians, fueled further by the renewed threats by Republicans to block President Biden from appointing a Supreme Court justice.

If anyone is built to withstand the pressure, it is Breyer, who has given no indication he plans to retire when the Supreme Courts term ends in the next few weeks. The senior member of the courts shrinking liberal minority, Breyer railed against public misperceptions of justices as junior level politicians just this past April during a two-hour lecture at Harvard Law School, and has expressed a deep fear that the nations highest court could lose public trust if its members are seen to be guided by politics.

Nonetheless, the pragmatic and likable jurist, who has written more than half a dozen books on the preservation of democracy and the rule of law, is faced with the very high stakes and hyperpolitical moment he has long sought to remain above.

The consternation among Democrats over Breyer escalated last week, as Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged he may not let Biden replace the justice if Republicans win back the Senate next year.

I think its highly unlikely in fact, no, I dont think either party, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election, McConnell told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, while declining to answer whether he would allow Biden to replace a justice in 2023.

Those threats have painted a horrifying prospect for many Democrats: that McConnell, after blocking former president Barack Obama from filling a Supreme Court seat by citing the upcoming elections and then reversing his own standard to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a Donald Trump appointee in 2020, will again change the rules and block Biden from making a pick.

McConnells hardball tactics, which legal experts say have not been seen since the days of the Civil War and Reconstruction, have given Republicans a 6-3 majority on the nations high court, a commanding advantage that the party has pursued since the late 1960s. The dizzying turn of events has pushed some Democrats to rethink their approach to the court.

Thirteen progressive organizations, including the Sunrise Movement, Justice Democrats, and Black Lives Matter, ran an ad in Politico on Tuesday calling on Breyer to retire, even though they credit him with being a critical voice on the court for women and people of color. Nearly 20 law professors and political scientists on Friday published an ad in The New York Times, calling Breyer a remarkable jurist, but one who should head for the exit with future control of a closely divided Senate uncertain.

They argue the court is already politicized, and Democrats will continue to lose power if they dont wake up to that fact.

Look at how the Republicans blocked Merrick Garland, Obamas ill-fated nominee in 2016, said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and one of the letters signees. Look at how the Republicans pushed [Supreme Court Justice] Amy Coney Barrett. Breyer retiring at the end of his term is no more likely to politicize the court than those things.

Not all believe the tactics will work; some worry the pressure campaign could even backfire on Breyer, who has long written about the need for courts to be apolitical, and whose long view of history insulates him from the tweets, cable news chyrons, and billboard vans of the current age.

Suppose he wanted to retire? Do these calls make it easier or harder for him? In some ways they make it harder for him, said Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of law and political science at Yale University who clerked for Breyer when he was a federal judge in Boston.
Breyer has publicly spoken out against the proposals of progressives urging Democrats to fight back by adding seats to the court.

If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts, and in the rule of law itself, can only diminish, diminishing the courts power, including its power to act as a check on the other branches, he warned in April.

He has long said he doesnt believe justices should time their retirements politically. Its not really our job, Breyer said in a CBS interview in 2015 about the pressure his then-colleague Ginsburg was under to retire during the Obama administration. Your job is to treat administrations not as political entities, that you favor some politician or you disfavor another politician.
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Breyers closest friends and former clerks say they wouldnt dare to get into Breyers mind, and refer to his retirement as a deeply personal decision. But if they can offer any insight into his thinking as he finds himself at the center of a pressure campaign its this: He will do whatever he believes is best for the institution and the common good.

His code words are common sense, decency, democracy, said Charles Fried, a professor of law at Harvard who served as US solicitor general under Ronald Reagan and has known Breyer since he was a law student. He is a very practical person. If you look at some of his writings, he is very interested in what the practical effect of what his decisions will be.
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So far, the court has avoided the extreme polarization of Congress. Even though high-profile cases touching on voting rights and abortion have fallen along partisan lines, justices often decide lower-profile cases unanimously.

But some believe Breyer has gone out of his way somewhat naively to portray the court as above the political fray at a time when the confirmation process is anything but.

I think the Supreme Court is a political institution and at some level Breyer recognizes it as well, said Christopher Kang, chief counsel for Demand Justice, an advocacy group that formed in 2018 to push back against the ideological right tilt on the court and funded the billboard van. Kang said he did not believe the groups tactics would backfire.

So far, Biden has followed the lead of Obama, who declined to encourage Ginsburg to retire during his time in office, by not pressuring Breyer to step down. He believes thats a decision Justice Breyer will make when he decides its time to no longer serve on the Supreme Court, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in April. Biden has promised to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court should he get a vacancy.

The clash over Breyers retirement reflects a broader rift among Democrats over whether to pursue sweeping structural reforms, such as expanding the court or abolishing the Electoral College, to counter Republicans, who are passing laws to make voting harder in many states on the false pretext that the 2020 election was fraudulent and who have dominated judicial appointments at the federal level.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-breyer-under-pressure-from-left-to-retire-takes-the-long-view/ar-AALdSGo?ocid=uxbndlbing

These people love losing. They think it's noble.

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matchboxsantana posted...

They are ok with european fans throwing bananas to black players and call them gorillas.

Racism has gotten European fans stadium bans too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/sports/soccer/bulgaria-uefa-racism.html
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/uefa-orders-montenegro-to-play-game-without-fans-over-racism

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It would've been bad, imo.


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On a per capita basis, this is equivalent to 5 people getting shot and one dead in a city of 200k people, like say, Rochester, NY. That, too, happens without much media attention, because it's just not that interesting.

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Back when I was working part time, I did a lot of this. Made like $150 my first month, which wasn't nothing at the time. But there were diminishing returns after that.

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It should be illegal for my favorite sports teams to lose as often as they do

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I would note that there are more PS5s sold than there were PS4s at this point in its life. I think the biggest difference this gen is that because of backwards compatibility and the similarity of the development architecture, it's just easier for devs to make crossgen games.

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Given the overall sample is 1000 (a perfectly fine statistical sample on its own), I'm imagining the WWE and Nascar subsets would be somewhat smaller than that, maybe 100 people each. Given the selection bias of this test being administered to people visiting a sports betting website, I'm not sure how much info can be reliably gleaned about the differences between individual fan bases here.

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VitalGetPrank posted...

Does this program include training? Could just be trying to train cops better instead of hiring more.

It's explicitly for hiring

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office, for short) is a component of the Department of Justice (DOJ) that administers grants to state and local (and tribal) police forces.

There are several grant programs, but the biggest one in terms of dollars obligated is the COPS Hiring Program. Funding is provided to state and local governments to hire and/or rehire law enforcement officers. Some funding goes to bonus pay for existing officers, but overall the program does what its name suggests: inflate the size of police departments.

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Medussa posted...

it'd be a neat spinoff.

That'd be a neat idea for Nintendo to do, make a game that features dungeons from a bunch of previous Zeldas

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Medussa posted...

inbefore the activist gets in more trouble for the recording than the candidate does for the murder threats.

Florida is a two party consent state, so

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I don't think I've ever bought a game more than twice

Games purchased twice:
Sonic Mania (Xbox and Switch)
Stardew Valley (Xbox and Switch)
Rocket League (PC and Xbox)
Cities Skylines (PC and Xbox)

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Conflict posted...

It's far too limited. You can't make multiple levels in one game

You effectively can, by using the "swap game" nodon. When triggered, you go right from one "game" to the next, letting you create separate levels.

At least, I think that's how that works. I haven't actually used it yet.

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Day 3
https://gfycat.com/unfoldedunitedbarracuda

Progress today: added a second floor to level, figured out how to make it so it takes two hits to die, added a health power up

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Ivynn posted...

At least it's a dry heat. Can you imagine if they were in a humid environment? The entire city would be abandoned.

The dryness may prove to be a problem
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/drought-here-stay-western-u-s-how-will-states-adapt-n1270248

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Critical race theory is a lens of analysis regarding race, its creation and impacts throughout history. Now, an effort is underway to inflate and conflate what it means to include a number of things that aren't actually CRT. We know this because that's what its critics have said their goal is.
https://twitter.com/MerkinMuffley5/status/1371575896977649666

This Rufo isn't just some nobody; he's played a big role in a lot of the push we've seen against CRT.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory

Now, many of the legislators leading the legal efforts to remove it from schools cannot or will not actually define it:
https://bit.ly/3h1pbQv

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Nemu posted...

No idea if that's just bias in them only covering the horrible aspects, but I don't think it'd be so widely condemned if it was otherwise beneficial.

Buddy, you really need to rework your thought process here

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LostForest posted...

Tricky situation here cuz like. I thought there was evidence that Blacks and Latinos were more wary of COVID vaccines, and less interested in getting them.

https://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/survey-despite-similar-levels-vaccine-hesitancy-white-people-more-likely-be-vaccinated

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Hitman 2
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Civilization V

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Nemu posted...

People using their connections to secure positions for qualified family members is perfectly fine. It's only an issue if there are conflicts of interest or they're not at all qualified for the job.

I mean, these are the sorts of qualifications we're looking at
https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1405181219709534209?s=19

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That's not the problem the US has; it's that we have a system that continually empowers a minority of idiots over the interests of the majority.

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Eramir posted...

Wondering where this outrage when Trump had his OWN kids as top official advisors in the White House, Ivanka, Don Jr, Eric, Tim and Jared

Do you really not remember that outrage?

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https://bit.ly/3zxwgAF

Several children and relatives of President Joe Biden's top aides have secured jobs in the White House, according to The Washington Post.

At least five children of Biden's senior staff are now working in the administration, the paper reported.

Experts on ethics and diversity have expressed concern that this is a continuation of the sort of nepotism seen in former President Donald Trump's White House, they told the Post.
"While it may not be as bad as appointing your son or daughter to a top government post as Trump did with Jared and Ivanka, it is still bad," said Walter Shaub, who served as director of the Office of Government Ethics from 2013-2017. "'Not as bad as Trump' cannot be the new standard."

On Monday, the son of a trusted Biden counselor was hired to a junior-level position. J.J Richetti, a 2020 college graduate and the son of Steve Ricchetti, was hired as a special assistant in the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Post reported.

Richhetti's two other children also have jobs in the administration.

Daniel Ricchetti, the eldest child of the veteran White House staffer, is a senior adviser in the office of the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. Shannon Ricchetti, the eldest daughter, works as the deputy associate director of the office of the White House social secretary.

The daughter of deputy White House chief of staff Bruce Reed, Julia Reed, works as Biden's day scheduler, according to the Post.

And the director of the White House's presidential personnel office, Cathy Russell, also has a child employed in the administration. Sarah Donilon, Russell's daughter, works with the White House National Security Council, the Post reported. Russell's brother-in-law, Mike Donilon, is a senior adviser to Biden, the paper added.

The sister of White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, was appointed a senior adviser at the Health and Human Services Department in March, the Post said.

The wife of Biden's longtime ally and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain also works for the Biden administration, the paper reported.

The White House insists that everyone has been hired based on their qualifications. There is no evidence that any of Biden's aides have played a role in securing the jobs for their children or other relatives, reported the Post.

"The president has instituted the highest ethical standards of anyone to ever hold this office," deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates told the Post. "And he's proud to have staffed the most diverse administration in American history with well-qualified public servants who reflect his values."

But ethics and diversity experts are skeptical. "In a country that had just come through a pandemic, how can these children of political appointees be the only people who are qualified for employment?" Shaub told the paper.

"All political appointees should be hired similar to the way the rest of the world is hired, where it is posted, competitive and transparent," Mark Hanis, the co-founder of Inclusive America, told the Post. "Unfortunately, with a lot of these political positions, it is relational. It's more about who you know."

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Day 2
https://gfycat.com/immediatesilverhammerheadbird

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The one time when retiring from football might not be the optimal decision for one's health.

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