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DarkRoast posted...

No, there are clearly people vying for the throne. Gaetz, Hawley, etc. Fortunately, most of them are just as inept in their own ways. But there will be someone who actually is smart, well spoken, and better at playing the long game.

Thats the exact problem: Trump is a lazy, incompetent moron incapable of seeing beyond his own needs, and yet, he came perilously close to getting tons of Congressional Representatives murdered.
This would seem to suggest our democracy is actually incredibly frail and you dont need to actually be smart to snap it like a twig: you just need to be somewhat smarter than Donald Trump.

Schools don't even tend to cover American history that well.
You're lucky if you get much about Western Europe, and pretty much SOL if you want to learn about...anywhere else.

spikethedevil posted...

Not that we knew what she looked like prior to 3.

I mean that the pic looks alien and accurate to what little we can see through her mask, whereas the original pic doesnt even try.

I thought of a few more, and this topic deserves a bump anyway.

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

BS Jobs by David Graeber

Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen

yusiko posted...

Llyod was hot
there i said what we were all thinking!

I can see that.
He was also a well-realized villain.

Yeah, thats a great change. Actually looks like Tali now.

LOL, how much more obvious does Israel have to make it?

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for his Empire by James S. Romm

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam by Glen Bowersock

War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam by Peter Crawford

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan Philips

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End by Robert Gerwarth

Carthage Mvst Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilization by Richard Miles

Some of my favorite history books. I have to stop listing books and go to bed. I could keep going.

Yeah, its a really gorgeous game.

Flamer_Blue posted...

But they shouldn't be dabbing in politics either.
That destroys their reputation.

It only destroys their reputation when they defend a genocidal apartheid state.

IdiotMachine posted...

Whats the alternative?

Asking for the vaccination card, obviously.
That would require businesses to turn people away though, and LOL if you think more than a tiny handful would do that.

Yeah, I'm trans and I'm working on it. I had distanced myself so much from myself I kind of disassociated from myself, which allowed me to deny the obvious.
Befriending lesbians helped me a lot.

Yes.

Crazyman93 posted...

Given that vaccination falls under medical care, asking would be a HIPAA violation.

LOL

hockeybub89 posted...

If you aren't going to require proof, then what's the fucking point?

Its pure performance designed to assuage the concerns of sane people without having to forego the business of COVIDiots.

He was in many ways somewhat conservative and was 100% an imperialist. But he also believed in an activist stance against the monopolistic trusts which dominated the economy at the time, which very much was to the left of mainstream politics(then and now). He was also dedicated to conservation and loved nature(and killing nature's creatures, lol).
IIRC, Taft saw trust-busting as an antidote to communism, but I can't remember if TR felt the same.

In any case, FDR and Kennedy/LBJ were basically the only presidents who not only advanced but achieved creation/expansions of social welfare systems though FDR's excluded blacks to win over Dixiecrats and LBJ's Great Society was rooted in part in the pathologization of urban blacks and paired with massive investments in law enforcement.

Going way back, I know John Quincy Adams had a lot of ambitions in terms of building infrastructure and promoting scientific study which were very ahead of their time, but the whole "Corrupt Bargain" business made him a weak and unpopular president.

Yeah, no. There is no forgiveness without penance, without taking ownership, without working to correct your mistake. It's not enough to say you don't support Trump, you must actively oppose him and work to prevent him or the modern Republican party from ever completing the work of 1/6.

Perascamin posted...

Nurses got paid really good money for absolutely no reason and the main workforce (grocery/retail workers and shipping/receiving) got told to either fuck off, were cussed at, or got a $1/hr "pandemic bonus".

Seriously. It makes absolutely no sense that nurses were being offered $100/hr to work in "high risk" wards when the grocery store was PROBABLY the most dangerous place to be in terms of chances at getting infected. But this is all compounded by a culture or nurses constantly patting themselves on the back and always bitching/moaning on social media about HOW HARD their job is and normal people eating it up and clapping for them

Are you goddamned serious? Nobody was at higher risk than the people working with actual COVID patients.
And they got shafted too.

Ill play SMT on Hard on a second play through.
But Fire Emblem? Its either Normal or Hard/Casual. Three Houses throws swarms of super pegs at you on Hard.

$2/hr. extra for two months and then about $350 in bonuses.
Meanwhile we constantly had cases and bled staff like crazy while having a ton more cleaning to do.

Hate? No, but I dont like it. I would 100% hate it if I didnt have lots of awesome coworkers.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

I said around! lol
I didn't remember which level was the first chainsaw level. That moment of fear when you realize they can cut through the maze bushes.

Yeah, the game is great at constantly upping the ante and keeping you on edge.
Definitely going to have to get it: I only ever borrowed it from a friend, and not spending on this game almost feels criminal.

Things will cost more because inflation is a natural consequence of a growing economy.
People should be able to live on the minimum wage.

TyVulpine posted...

Where I work, the store's manager had been there from the time it opened @2006 until he was forced by corporate to transfer to another store back in 2016 after 3 guns disappeared. Since then, we've gone through about 4 store managers. One quit when regional came to have a talk with him about something, he stood up, took off his radio headset and said "I'm going to go work with my wife instead!" and walked out. TBH, he was an ass that played favorites. Our current SM, she's pretty nice and fair.

My manager's been there for six years. Before he got there, my department(customer service) was surprisingly stable, but ever since he got here, it's been a constant churn of people, especially at supervisor(that team leader has since become a store team leader). He straight-up doesn't know what goes on the department or how to do my job or maintenance(like, not even the most basic stuff). Multiple people have complained about him, both to Store Leadership and to Regional.
Nope, dude's untouchable. Must be incredible at kissing ass, it would be his only strength. He spends 90% of his time in back.
He's also annoying and nitpicky as hell, but he mostly leaves me alone. I think he sees me as beyond hope lol.

We simply werent properly prepared. Our supply stocks were practically useless from lack of maintenance, and our healthcare system is premised on having just enough to save money. Particularly, ventilators and PPE for medical personnel. Not having enough of those undoubtedly made a bad problem worse. Thats the easy stuff.

The hard one is education. Theres a powerful undercurrent of anti-intellectualism in this country, that casts entire professions(apparently including medical personnel) as liars, cheats, and frauds.

As for pandemics...well, you cant prevent them. Theyll happen, and all we can do is contain them as best we can.

The kids are alright.

Some episodes of AQTHF fly right by me.
Some leave me in stitches. More hit than miss too, IMO. It's nothing deep, but it's miles better than Robot Chicken ever was or will be.

This is great news all around.
Also, it would feel unVenture for them to put a bow on it: I expect something like BoJack or Steven Universe or Adventure Time where they resolve some major outstanding stuff and call it like the Monarch burying the hatchet with Rusty and them becoming bros.

Damn, I wish I worked somewhere where management was actually held accountable.

Are there enough opinion columnists and political analysts to fund them?

Plumbing can pay well, but I feel like people dont think about plumbers until they need one.
And sanitation and waste workers in general do work thats essential to civilized society.

Right, I have one more: Kim Petras

Most of her stuff is typical pop(not that that's bad), like this:

Heart to Break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CPeHQHAQyo

And if you're wondering, I like to share music videos so you can see the artist and get a sense for their aesthetic sense.
But what I really like is Turn Off The Lights(Vols. 1&2), which were released around Halloween.

Close Your Eyes(Vol. 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YslddHq0ins

Wrong Turn(Vol. 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lufe_OjG4OU

And then there's the song at the very end, which is something truly special(IMO)

Everybody Dies(Vol. 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtV8puRd38
She's famously trans, if you're wondering where this is probably coming from.

I'm fully vaxxed and have been urging everyone I know to do the same.
Not getting vaccinated is just needlessly endangering yourself and others.

SothaSil posted...

Slave labor wasnt used for the pyramids

Yeah, all the evidence points to the laborers being well-treated(controlling for how insanely dangerous and debilitating their job was, of course) and very well-fed.
And, of course, they got to be buried in the shadow of the Pharaoh, which was insanely prestigious and no doubt would unlock benefits for them in the afterlife. The Egyptian state considered them valuable.

God, that game is hard, but it's so damned great. It looks great, it sounds great, and it's funny as hell Mars needs cheerleaders!

Yeah, it's worth acknowledging that additions are a major barrier to using Albert and Haschel effectively. The former especially has some pretty crazy timings. I mean, I suppose you could Ultimate War God it up, but still. Meru has one or two that are tough too, but nothing that bad. Rose though? Rose has easy additions.
I guess one of Shana's upsides is that, because she doesn't have additions, you can just kind of swap her in at any time without worrying that she'll suck because you haven't been working on her additions.

Also, I got to thinking about Kongol, and I think the easiest thing to do would give him the same damage modifiers as Meru(and give him the normal Dragoon addition cap, why did they even do that to him!?). He rarely gets to act, let him have that crazy 600% damage modifier on his final addition to really cook with his sky-high attack(plus, he's GIANT, c'mon!). I was thinking about spells, and it makes sense to give him one that works independently of his atrocious magic(he arbitrarily only gets three spells), and you know what makes the most sense for Earth?
Damage reduction, lol.
Maybe let him reduce enemy defense for a few turns and have it work on bosses! so Kongol just becomes "big numbers" the character, and let him and Rose be "easy addition" characters.

Shana is tedious as hell and pretty much dead weight in normal encounters. Meru isnt much better before her final addition. Bosses are a different story, of course.

Rose and Daschel have a great mix of speed and power, whereas Albert is beefy and hits hard, and Rose Storm is baller utility on a character with otherwise crap magic. Kongol is hilariously terrible, because they just randomly decided he should have worse additions(normal AND dragoon!) than everyone else, meaning he cant even take proper advantage of his insanely high attack, making his combo of garbage speed and magic defense even worse.

But you can mostly use whoever you want, because the games just not that hard. If they ever remaster/remake it, hopefully theyll fix Kongol though.

Unknown5uspect posted...

Haschel also looks very fat in Dragoon form. Such disappointing design on that one.

Yeah, Haschel's Dragoon model definitely looks off. Also his spells kind of suck because nothing is actually weak to Thunder lol.

I'm actually doing a paper for a sociology class about mass incarceration, and I can tell you it was rooted in notions of personal responsibility and those in power patholigizing urban blacks as fundamentally broken and criminal(which conveniently absolved those in power of blame for the rampant racism and the disproportionate rates of poverty, undereducation, and unemployment in these neighborhoods).
What does this have to do with the topic at hand? Because it works the other way: it also told (successful, mostly white) Boomers that their success was due to their superior ability and moral fitness i.e. it taught them they were better than those other people who didn't succeed. So they're primed to blame us for struggling, because it both validates their success as special and absolves them of responsibility for creating an environment where most of us are doomed to struggle.
That's very macro-level, of course.

Aight, I'm back with some more.
This time it's Freezepop...

Less Talk More Rokk Future Future Future Perfect(2007) Guitar Hero 2 Bonus Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcAFkYUnSjg

We Don't Have Normal Lives Imaginary Friends(2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbpSbHqOXU

Queen of Tomorrow Fantasizer(2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEvMrHQ3s4I

Really, I could just link the entirety of Fantasizer, because it's full of jams.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Yes, beans are easy to grow, inexpensive, full of fiber and filling. It was a great way to feed a family for a low cost.

Yeah, it's just ridiculous how good beans are. The damned things even taste good, and they come in a million different varieties.

Let's get a little weird, with Bjork, of course.

Hyperballad Post(1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kye1TOlAWWw

Bachelorette Homogenic(1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJv-Ebi67I

Earth Intruders Volta(2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDnjSIUqfY

Stonemilker Vulnicura(2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQEyezu7G20

Stealth Edit Addition: Notget (see above)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWrV8NQnbqE

She's like this magical, timeless being.

I work at Whole Foods. The biggest differences between that company and your average grocery store is that Whole Foods will pay you more, but is absolutely insufferably high on its own farts. The management is awful and the customers all too often manage to be worse.
My coworkers are great though!

I really cant stand dill, so I have to be careful with it, but even then its fine.

I guess (very publicly, from what I can gather from afar) throwing Corbyn and his platform under the bus wasn't the magic antidote to what ails them, huh?
Seems like they may, in some ways, be in worse straits than us...

I don't have the personality or drive to do something like that.
What most people seem to miss is that it's a lot of work and 99% of people who do it don't make much money.

Have we discussed Laurel Hubbard's actual resume here?
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/05/06/laurel-hubbard-olympics-weightlifting/
She placed 2nd and 6th, respectively, in the past two championships, and is currently 16th in her weight class in qualifying trials.
I mean, Laurel is one strong lady, but neither has she trivially out-lifted her cis competition.
Or would that get in the way of the rampant transphobia and general ignorance that infests these "discussions"?