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karlpilkington4 posted...

CommonStar posted...

The interviewer is a conservative. He was merely asking a question to have a discussion.

He had a clear bias and Ben called him out on it.

Ben called him a lefty shill
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masticatingman posted...

Antifar posted...

Climate/access to trade routes and the Atlantic

I have a very good guess what you wont bring up.

I mean, the post is already over; you aren't exactly cracking the mystery by guessing what isn't in it.
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I'm not a historian or expert, but I would say these factors played a big part:
Climate
Access to trade routes and the Atlantic
Distance from Mongols
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Ben Shapiro must be stopped
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Revert?
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I live in New York, so I won't think twice about voting third party or abstaining if Biden is the nominee.
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I'd rather have one big park than a bunch of lawns that aren't big enough to do anything in
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Or?
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darkstar4221 posted...

If Mr. Conservative Donald Dump wants manfaucaters relocating their factories to the United States, how about cutting spending? How about lowering the minimum wage? How about not spending any more money on social security, medicare, medicaid? Why not abolish social security since it's practically useless?

Because those would be bad ideas
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PowerMang posted...

Is Sapienza actually the best map or just overrated?

It's very nice, and easily my favorite of the 2016 game. The way it's layered and has all these alternate routes to where you want to go, it's a near perfect example of what they set out to do with level design.
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"Any game rated T or below is for pussies."
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That's a tough one. I think Mumbai and Miami are my favorite missions, but I really like Sgail as a level for creating contracts because it has such verticality and a lot of different areas.
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Specifically Hitman 2
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Lincoln and Grant are hard to top
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friendbuddypal posted...

Well, this is proof we need socialism. Also why is "lost" in quotes TC?

Because that value was never real in the first place; it only existed on paper
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https://gizmodo.com/congratulations-to-uber-the-worst-performing-ipo-in-us-1834681882?

Rideshare unicorn Uber doesnt do anything small. When it was in the game of raising money, it raised close to $25 billion. When it loses that moneyand it does every single quarterit loses it at astronomical burn rates. It finally debuted on the New York Stock Exchange today, in the middle of international trade uncertainty and following a massive, international strike by its own drivers, howd it do?

According to University of Florida professor Jay Ritter, Ubers 7.62 percent decline since hitting the NYSE makes it bigger than first day dollar losses of any prior IPO in the U.S.

In terms of percentage losses, Ubers dip doesnt even scratch the surface of the worst IPOs. But the staggering valuation of the company makes it, in raw scale, among the top 10 IPOs ever including companies outside the U.S., Ritter told Gizmodo in a phone interview. That single digit decline resulted in an estimated $617 million paper losses.

Consider also that Ubers debut valuation of $76.5 billion was a considerable drop from the between $90 billion and $120 billion the company had been worth in some analysts estimation just a month earlierone meant to stanch the forthcoming bleeding that had begun with competitor Lyfts bellyflop IPO. This defensive position did little to keep Uber or its investors from taking on water within a single day of trading.

According to one analyst, the company may be profitable by 2024, though its only real plan so far is to continue to screw workers and eventually replace them with unproven technology. As former CEO Travis Kalanick said in 2014, the reason that Uber could be expensive is youre not just paying for the car, youre paying for the other dude in the car whos driving.

Presently, investors are probably realizing that what theyre paying for is an unsustainable company so huge that its main justification for existing is sunk cost.

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Guide posted...

He represents so many qualities of his fans. Literally bursts out, like a child. He's 28. Good lord.

Fact check: He is 35
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Why do you care?
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https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2019/5/9/18541982/sexual-harassment-me-too-eeoc-complaints

Numbers released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws against gender, race, religious, and other forms of workplace discrimination, show that even as the overall number of complaints received is down 9.3 percent from 2017, complaints about sexual harassment rose 13.6 percent over the previous year.

Weve seen more people, mostly women but not exclusively women, willing to speak up, said Victoria Lipnic, the agencys acting chair. The numbers show that despite the obstacles to reporting harassment, more people are doing it.

Its a useful, if imperfect, marker for measuring the magnitude of #MeToo. If that many more people made it to an EEOC filing, its reasonable to imagine that complaints registered elsewhere, whether at a state or local agency or internally with an employer, rose as well.

Since we started in January 2018, weve had over 4,000 people reach out to us for help, said Sharyn Tejani, director of the Times Up Legal Defense Fund, which offers assistance to individuals facing workplace sexual harassment. Tejani said two-thirds of those who have reached out identify themselves as low-wage workers.

But if there are more people speaking up, there may be more people than ever being fired for doing so. Its hard to quantify the number of people who face retaliation like Jen did she never filed a complaint with a government agency, and her NDA silences her. But retaliation remains the most frequent charge filed with the EEOC, and three-quarters of sexual harassment charges filed with the commission include a charge of retaliation.

The data shows that #MeToo has raised many womens expectations and increased their willingness to seek some semblance of justice in the face of harassment. But its not clear whats happening to these women after they report. If speaking out against harassment isnt paired with more power in the workplace, outcomes like what happened to Jen are all but inevitable.

The number of retaliation charges has been climbing, said Lipnic of the EEOCs numbers, calling retaliation the next frontier in terms of what we need to deal with on the harassment front. The commissions 2016 report on workplace sexual harassment emphasizes retooled trainings and the role of cultural change in curbing this behavior. But such efforts can only go so far without redistribution of power toward employees.

You can know you have rights, and know youre being harassed, but if you have no power on the job to do anything about it, it really makes no difference, said Saru Jayaraman, director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, a workers center that advocates for improved wages and working conditions for the restaurant workforce. Although the restaurant industry employs just 7 percent of US workers, it accounts for more than a third of EEOC sexual harassment charges. Getting millions of women to come forward and say, Im being harassed isnt necessarily the solution, said Jayaraman. We want the harassment to stop in the first place and our research shows the best way for it to stop in the first place is to give women the power.

For ROC, addressing that power imbalance means, first, ending the sub-minimum wage. In most states, restaurants can pay tipped workers below the minimum wage. ROC has found that in the seven states without a flat minimum wage, rates of harassment in the restaurant industry are half as high as in those without one. Thats because reliance on tips pressures workers to put up with anything from customers, fueling harassment and a sense of subordination in the workplace. Thanks in part to #MeToo, more states have since introduced such bills. The biggest effect was helping us move policy on the issue, which I think is as it should be, she said.

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Isn't this just Soul Man?
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That's the spirit
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Romes187 posted...

Yeah hopefully we can shame him into agreeing with us. Cant have gibberish aka people who disagree with me

He very specifically doesn't disagree with anything, except perhaps the idea that words can and should have meaning.
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ElatedVenusaur posted...

I even read that the dude he interviewed with is a Tory. Sad that a Tory was harder on him than America's "liberal" media.

Not just a Tory, but a particularly dumb Tory. Guy got trounced by a man who thinks climate change is a myth and straight people can't get AIDS
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Parappa09 posted...

Broseph_Stalin posted...

can't believe ajax are going to win the champions league

lol

Lol for a different reason
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https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1126830542878650368

This is gibberish
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The old line goes that journalism is supposed to afflict the comfortable. An interview is supposed to be challenging
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Dyinglegacy posted...

I don't feel like being embarrassed right now. Just tell me, how bad is it?

Ben used the line "I'm famous and no one has ever heard of you."
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p078tgjd
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boxington posted...

in recent memory, God of War, Witcher 3, Tomb Raider, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and the Uncharted series have attractive women characters

even Red Dead Redemption 2, in a more realistic kinda way

I haven't played a lot in a while, and I'm likely missing some.

AC Odyssey
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Bump
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-10/2020-democrats-vow-to-bypass-congress-to-keep-their-promises

Of the top-tier candidates, only the front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden, has yet to roll out policy proposals or promises of unilateral action. Instead, he has taken an optimistic approach, presenting himself as a president who could overcome partisanship. If Republicans become part of a coalition that can win on important things, they will begin to vote their conscience, he said at a fund-raiser in Brentwood, California, on Wednesday.

Bidens quest for the nomination hinges on a bet that his vision of reviving bipartisanship will win out against progressives who consider it nave and instead say Democrats must fight the GOP to get things done.

This sort of thinking is at odds with the reality of the last decade, during which Biden served as vice president for an administration that tried this exact tactic to extremely limited results. It's a pipe dream.
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IDEC
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/health/hospitals-prices-medicare.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

In Indiana, a local hospital system, Parkview Health, charged private insurance companies about four times what the federal Medicare program paid for the same care, according to a study of hospital prices in 25 states released on Thursday by the nonprofit RAND Corp.

Colorado employers were shocked to learn they were paying nearly eight times what the federal government did for outpatient services like an emergency room visit, an X-ray or a checkup with a specialist at Colorado Plains Medical Center, northeast of Denver.

Across the nation, hospitals treating patients with private health insurance were paid overall 2.4 times the Medicare rates in 2017, according to the RAND analysis. The difference was largest for outpatient care, where private prices were almost triple what Medicare would have paid.

Its eye-opening, really, not just for the employers, said Gloria Sachdev, the chief executive of the Employers Forum of Indiana, a coalition that helped with the study. Its eye-opening for the hospitals.

The RAND study underscores the widening chasm between what the federal government and the private sector pay the nations hospitals.

The disparity shows how competition has faltered in an opaque market where the costs of care are secret and hospital systems are increasingly consolidated, gaining outsize clout in price negotiations with employers, some experts say.

This yawning spread in hospital rates will likely fuel the debate over Medicare-for-all proposals that would give the federal government authority to decide what to pay hospitals and that have proved popular with many Democratic voters on the presidential campaign trail. The plans, especially one championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, would provide universal coverage by replacing employer-based insurance with a government-run program.

Some proponents of Medicare for all argue that employers and private insurers have failed to control costs. About one-third of all health care spending in the country goes to pay for hospital care. Many supporters point to the billions of dollars that could be saved annually if hospitals and doctors were paid at the much lower Medicare rates.

The shadow of single payer hangs all over this, said Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which helped fund the RAND research.

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Because rates are normally a closely held secret between insurers and hospitals, the RAND study reveals a startling first glimpse of how much and how steep a price a broad swath of hospitals are charging private insurers. The lack of transparency, coupled with public outrage over rising hospital bills, has spurred calls for disclosure of the rates negotiated. This is the first time pricing information on a large group of individual hospitals has been made public.

Nationwide, employers provide coverage for most Americans under age 65, about 181 million people. And hospital care accounts for 44 cents of every personal health care dollar spent on those with private insurance.

The RAND study shows market forces are clearly not working, said Richard Scheffler, a health economist at the University of California, Berkeley. Prices vary widely and are two and a half times higher than Medicare payment rates without any apparent reason, he said.

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https://wapo.st/2VeIvN9

For decades, debt collectors have relied on a limited set of communication tools: landlines and the U.S. mail. Now they are finding increasingly personal ways to reach the millions of Americans regulators say have been contacted by debt collectors. Some debt collectors worry that these contacts fall into a legal gray area because the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was written 40 years ago and doesnt directly address digital communications.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday proposed rules that would give the industry the go-ahead to send consumers unlimited amounts of texts and emails, accelerating a trend the watchdog bureau says could be beneficial for everyone.

The proposal is a victory for debt collectors such as San Francisco-based TrueAccord. Instead of making a barrage of phone calls, TrueAccord sends out millions of emails and texts every month. Next, it hopes to contact delinquent consumers through chat programs such as WhatsApp.

When you have a good online digital presence, you dont need to make those calls, said Ohad Samet, the companys co-founder and chief executive. The only question here is why hasnt everyone else moved to digital-first models yet.

But this digital-first approach has alarmed consumer advocates who worry that the CFPB could give an industry known for high pressure tactics a new way to violate consumers privacy. While many Americans understand how to deal with a pesky creditor calling their landline, their texts, emails and social media are new and more personal territory.

People are able to ignore phone calls, and that is the thing debt collectors dont like, said David Phillips, an Illinois attorney who has filed dozens of lawsuits against debt collectors. Its as if a debt collector is able to show up at your house and pound on the door. That is the effect of a text message.

In addition to addressing the use of email and text communications, the bureau also proposed limiting the number times a debt collector could call someone to seven times in a week. After reaching the consumer, the debt collector wouldnt be allowed to call again for a week. It would also update the disclosures the companies must provide in written communications.

Consumers can still tell debt collectors to stop contacting them in any way, under the law.

The debt collection industry said it appreciates the CFPB proposal, but called the cap on the number of phone calls they can make arbitrary. It would unnecessarily impede communications with consumers, said a statement from Leah Dempsey, senior counsel for ACA International, a large industry lobbying group.

Consumer groups that had called for the CFPB to limit the industry to three calls a week were unhappy with the proposed rules.

The cap applies to individual debts owed by the consumer, said Linda Jun, senior policy counsel at Americans for Financial Reform. Someone with more than one bill in collections could quickly be inundated, Jun said. It could add up quickly, she said.

If the debt collectors emailed or texted too often it would be considered harassment and be illegal, according to the CFPB. But unlike with phone calls, the bureau is not proposing a specific cap on the number of contacts.

The proposal also asks debt collectors whether they anticipate using social media to contact consumers while prohibiting such contact if it could be viewed by a third party. Some debt collectors have already found ways to use social media.
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The proposed rules are likely to set up a battle between debt collectors and consumer advocates. The CFPB received about 81,500 complaints about debt collectors in 2018, according to a report released in March, making the industry one of the agencys most common sources of consumer complaints.

https://twitter.com/renaemerle/status/1126122871523291136
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https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5cd45369e4b0796a95d828ad?aqo7

Solidarity
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What the fuck is that font?
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https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/1126588583626846213
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The auction house in Forza games does the same
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Wildlands didn't do much for me, but the improvements they've made seem to focus on stealth, so I'm semi-curious about it
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DepreceV2 posted...

Firewerx posted...

A bit like the 1960s and 70s, really.

Really?

Those were much more violent
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