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Nomadic View posted...

I was waiting for that one!

It's a fair point given Trump's past when it comes to charitable donations
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It's good.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2w2hEZUkAA6t4i.jpg
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Balrog0 posted...

I bet the Houston region didn't

well

Houston proper didn't

4.7 million voted for Cruz in 2012.


That's 17% of Texas' population.

Texas didn't vote for Cruz.
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Mernardi posted...

Antifar posted...

Yes, Ted Cruz is a hypocritical cretin, but denying aid to hurricane victims is an incredibly petty response.

Are you genuinely responding to the guy?

I've responded to dumber trolls.
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Yes, Ted Cruz is a hypocritical cretin, but denying aid to hurricane victims is an incredibly petty response.
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chill02 posted...

proceduraly generated content

Is this a like, or dislike?
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Focus on design/gameplay elements, not stuff like pricing/DLC

Like: One thing I'm fond of is "single-player online" modes/features. They don't really call it that, but what I mean is aspects of games that allow you to challenge your friends/the community without going directly head-to-head. The blueprint bucket lists from FH3 come to mind, or even stuff like the leaderboards in Sonic Mania.

Dislike: Always-online games. Most games don't benefit from this enough to warrant, say, not being able to play the campaign without connecting to the server.
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Anyone get it?
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*grumbles about console version being delayed*
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Are they just going to make guns that extend a flag that says "Bang!" on it?
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This is crap on a moral level, but it isn't good politics either
http://americasvoice.org/press_releases/new-poll-americans-oppose-repealing-daca-program-dreamers-58-28-margin/

A new poll out today finds that by more than a 2:1 margin, 58%-28%, Americans oppose an effort to repeal the DACA program for DREAMers.

Conducted by Global Strategy Group, the poll also finds that intensity is strongly against repealing DACA, with 45% of respondents “strongly opposed” to a DACA repeal, while just 19% “strongly support” repealing DACA.

https://morningconsult.com/2017/06/16/poll-trumps-decision-dreamers-popular-one-even-among-base/

In a Morning Consult survey from late April, almost 4 in 5 (78 percent) registered voters said the Dreamers should be allowed to stay in the country, with more than half (56 percent) expressing support for eventual citizenship.

Just 14 percent of respondents said those undocumented immigrants should be deported, a pledge made by President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.

There was also broad support in favor of the Dreamers among the voters who helped elect Trump in November: 73 percent of those voters said the Dreamers should be allowed to stay in the country, with almost half (48 percent) of those voters also saying they should have a path to becoming U.S. citizens.

Some Trump voters may be less enamored by the move. Almost a quarter (23 percent) said DACA recipients should be forced to leave the country. However, Morning Consult surveys on a range of topics have shown that the president has the ability to swing the sentiment among his base.

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ChromaticAngel posted...

- There is no minimap, but there is a map and you can check it. Sucks that you can't put down a player objective, but it should be enough to help you figure out where to go next.

I know that, but it's kind of a pain
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My understanding of BLM is that it doesn't have members. It's not like there are people paying dues to a national organization, it's not even like registering with a political party.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Appointing Pruitt is quite possibly the single worst thing Trump has done so far.

Sessions comes close, but I won't argue.
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Bat178 posted...

Can't Macron do anything about this since it is a French company?

I don't think France has any jurisdiction over plants outside their borders, regardless of ownership. Also, not a given that Macron would come down on the good side of things here.
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The term for this is "damning with faint praise"
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http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/texas-republicans-helped-chemical-plant-exploded-lobby-against-safety-rules

The French company whose Houston-area chemical plant exploded twice on Thursday successfully pressed federal regulators to delay new regulations designed to improve safety procedures at chemical plants, according to federal records reviewed by International Business Times. The rules, which were set to go into effect this year, were halted by the Trump administration after a furious lobbying campaign by plant owner Arkema and its affiliated trade association, the American Chemistry Council, which represents a chemical industry that has poured tens of millions of dollars into federal elections.

The effort to stop the chemical plant safety rules was backed by top Texas Republican lawmakers, who have received big campaign donations from chemical industry donors.

Representatives from Arkema Americas and the American Chemistry Council did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In 2013, a West, Texas, chemical plant explosion killed 15 people, prompting the Obama administration to try to raise chemical plant safety standards (investigators later found the explosion was caused deliberately). In an executive order that year, President Obama proposed an overhaul of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program with the goal of increasing safety and transparency at chemical plants by strengthening existing regulations. The EPA said the enhanced rules would “seek to improve chemical process safety, assist local emergency authorities in planning for and responding to accidents, and improve public awareness of chemical hazards at regulated source.”

Arkema has six production plants in Texas and has received more than $8.7 million worth of taxpayer subsidies from the state. Arkema’s Crosby plant — which OSHA fined more than $90,000 for ten “serious” violations earlier this year and is now spewing black smoke over the Houston area — appears to be covered under the existing EPA rules because of the kinds of chemicals it uses. While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has given chemical companies legal cover to hide the locations of their EPA-regulated chemicals, the Associated Press reports that the Arkema facility where the explosions occured houses large amounts of toxic sulfur dioxide and flammable methylpropen, which required Arkema to submit a risk management plan to the agency — and which would have subjected the company to the strengthened safety rules.

However, those rules — which would have taken effect on March 14 — were blocked by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. The move was a big win for the chemical industry that has spent more than $100 million supporting federal lawmakers since 2008. Among those who have received more than $100,000 from the industry are powerful Texas lawmakers including Sen. John Cornyn (R), Rep. Joe Barton (R), Rep. Pete Olson (R), Rep. Gene Green (D), Rep. Pete Sessions (R) and Rep. Kevin Brady (R).

In its letter to the EPA, Arkema noted that it is a member of the American Chemistry Council — a powerful lobbying group that has delivered $1.6 million of campaign donations to federal lawmakers since 2010. That Arkema-backed group helped spearhead the effort to block the EPA’s chemical plant safety rule. In January, the council was one of 21 groups that sent a letter to congressional leaders asserting that the new rule’s costs were not worth the alleged safety benefits.

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This is bad, imo.
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So

- I'm kinda lost, which isn't aided by the fact that there is no minimap
- Loading times are better, but still too long
- I remember now my frustration with trying to figure out what is a ledge that I can jump to, and what is a rock formation/piece of the setting that I'm not really supposed to be on. It seems like if you can see it and jump that high, the game will let you land on it, but it's very janky for a game with this much platforming
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Is the tank out?

Apparently!
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This latest update seems interesting, and I didn't actually hate the game when I played it around launch. Loading times were rough, and it seems like that's been reduced.

So, yeah.


Should I stream this or something?
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The Admiral posted...

At least they're honest about it.

*groan* they don't even know what leftist means
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597035573/barry-and-joe-the-animated-series-pilot
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Veggeta X posted...

Same but I do it on CE. I don't want people on FB to think I'm a person who likes to complain about complainers so I do it on here instead.

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We aren't given as much to work with

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2014/09/It-pays-to-be-a-CEO-in-the-U-S-The-ratio-between-CEO-and-average-worker-pay_chartbuilder.png&w=1484
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OrtegaTron posted...

Where's the mass exodus?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/08/03/canada-opens-montreal-stadium-haitian-refugees-fleeing-u-s/535827001/
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Rexdragon125 posted...


That bit about a "once in 500 year flood" is not actually Trump's word for it; it is a 500 year flood, a term which means you would give it a 0.2% chance of happening in any given year. The fact that there have been three 500 year floods in Houston in the past three years is noteworthy, but that guy is misunderstanding the term
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ThyCorndog posted...

they're doing it with our weapons

And intelligence, and refueling
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The Admiral posted...

The liberal media can't just blame Saudi Arabia for being despicable, it's got to take shots at Western countries too.

We are arming Saudi Arabia, providing them the weapons to carry out this destruction

The Admiral posted...

And then, if the U.S. or U.K. actually enter the Middle East to remedy this, they'll take shots again for invading foreign nations occupied by brown people.

It is incredible that your idea of a remedy is the U.S. or U.K. invading a country here. Or that our bombs being all over Sanaa doesn't constitute "entering" the Middle East.
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Isn't the advice to "write what you know?" Which in your case would be the UK
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Caution999 posted...

but he is a well rounded and informed individual.

He's spent the past seven years watching five hours of cable news every day.
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Anteaterking posted...

No. Did they also talk about that?

No, they didn't, which makes his question odd
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That_Happened posted...

Imagine thinking that Trump's behavior is that of a "normal human." I'd hate to see what examples your parents set.

President Normalman views everything through the lens of TV ratings
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I'd say our center of gravity is basically liberal, but the most vocal posters are either left of that or right of that.
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You ever play any of the Civilization expansions? From what I understand, WotC is very much in that model; it's not a separate campaign or attached at the end, but an overhaul of the game's core systems. Reviews say to just jump right in with the expansion.
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Romulox28 posted...

i have some far left friends (like communist) and they always talk about how money is basically just a tool for exploitation, in an ideal utopia it'd be "for each according to his needs from each according to his ability" or whatever the phrase is, etc.

but then they act like money is everything, so money is simultaneously the most important and least important thing to exist.

I think the distinction you're missing here is between "is" (money is deeply important in our current society) and "should" (it should not be like this)
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Romulox28 posted...

they believe that money is detrimental to human happiness/progress/etc yet simultaneously believe that having lots of money buys you the best life possible at the expense of others.

I don't see that first view espoused very often, if at all. The second is a basic fact; having money allows you far greater opportunities than not having money. Now, depression and mental illness and sadness can hit you no matter your income, but not having to worry about how you'll keep the lights on is a relief.
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ForestLogic posted...

Who the fuck is Joe Walsh and why should we care.

A former member of congress who really ought to pay his child support
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/08/31/wells-fargo-review-finds-1-4-m-more-unauthorized-accounts/619794001/

An independent review of Wells Fargo has found more than 1 million more potentially unauthorized accounts than the bank originally estimated when its sales scandal erupted nearly a year ago.

The finding, announced Thursday, bore out Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan's Aug. 22 forecast that the investigation would likely find wider customer damage from the scandal. It also marked the conclusion of the bank's review of the accounts issue.

The San Francisco-based bank initially reviewed 93.5 million current and former customer accounts opened from May 2011 through mid-2015 and identified roughly 2.1 million potentially unauthorized accounts.

But Wells Fargo said the newly completed independent review, which examined more than 165 million retail banking accounts opened from Jan. 2009 through Sept. 2016, found approximately 3.5 million potentially unauthorized accounts.

The bank said it would take steps to compensate retail and small business customers "who may have been harmed or impacted."

"We apologize to everyone who was harmed by unacceptable sales practices that occurred in our retail bank," Sloan said in a statement issued with the disclosure. "To rebuild trust and to build a better Wells Fargo, our first priority is to make things right for our customers, and the completion of this expanded third-party analysis is an important milestone."

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Also, uh, Rosa Parks is notable for not giving up her seat.
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Yeah, I don't think we're done feeling the effects of massive floods hitting a bunch of petrochemical plants
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JohnLennon6 posted...

Its been proven time and time again that we don't actually have free speech in this country.

I trust that you wish to get rid of at will employment and otherwise enshrine protections for workers from the whims of their bosses to fire them over the things they do outside of work.
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Welcome to the Christian Democrats, a tradition of such politics mostly found in Europe

And the Pope, though his economic beliefs fall to the left of liberalism
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/30/547459673/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-sb4-texas-law-targeting-sanctuary-cities

Chief U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled late Wednesday that Texas officials may not implement Senate Bill 4, a controversial measure designed to crack down on so-called "sanctuary cities" in that state.

The law, set to go into effect on September 1, would have given local law enforcement the authority to ask about a person's immigration status during routine interactions such as a traffic stop.

It also required local officials to comply with requests from federal immigration authorities to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Local law enforcement officials could be fined and removed from office if they did not cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Critics of the law said it would encourage racial profiling and violate the First and Fourth Amendments. The cities of San Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Austin had joined a lawsuit brought by the city of El Cenizo against SB 4, arguing that the law would undermine any cooperation between local police and immigrant communities in dealing with crime.

In his 94-page ruling, the judge said that there is overwhelming evidence from local officials, including local law enforcement, that SB 4 would "erode public trust and many communities less safe."

Gov. Greg Abbbott promised to appeal the ruling. Attorney General Ken Paxton echoed that call in a statement.

"Senate Bill 4 was passed by the Texas Legislature to set a statewide policy of cooperation with federal immigration authorities enforcing our nation's immigration laws. Texas has the sovereign authority and responsibility to protect the safety and welfare of its citizens. We're confident SB 4 will ultimately be upheld as constitutional and lawful," said Paxton.

In a statement, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project praised Garcia's ruling.

"The court was right to strike down virtually all of this patently unconstitutional law. Senate Bill 4 would have led to rampant discrimination and made communities less safe. That's why police chiefs and mayors themselves were among its harshest critics — they recognized it would harm, not help, their communities," said Gelernt.

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The topic title suggests that the state itself fired him (which would raise some first amendment issues).

That's an UnfairRepresentation of what actually happened.
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Caution999 posted...

I'd like to hear from @Antifar on the matter.

Pelosi sucks.
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The Admiral posted...

Even the far-left is bailing on that sinking ship.

Jesus, can we not call Nancy Pelosi far left? Hopefully this helps to illustrate the gaps between "Democrat" and "Anarchist."
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PonyLivesMatter posted...

Congrats! Now throw it away and get a real laptop.

Nah.
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What apps should I get, though?
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