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hockeybub89 posted...

Oh cool. Video of traitors

The south was on the wrong side but honestly the entire region of the country was in rebellion. In most of the states down south everyone these guys knew would have considered them a traitor if they joined the union army.

Guardians of the Galaxy and Halo Infinite were actually really great games overall in terms of their single player capaigns.

The Burger King next to my work (practically next door walking which makes it too easy as a walking option) introduced the Chi'king sandwich which was amazing the first time I had it

...... But a couple times where they fucked it up so bad that it was inedible. The thinner parts in the unevenly thick chicken sandwich were torched to the point where it felt like you were chewing on rubber. Disgusting but not dangerous as it was gross from over not undercooking.

I think tempura style could be interesting from fast food.

If its an external drive its not an "Xbox Hard Drive" in anything but name its just a USB one.

Sadly no. I'll buy it if it gets anything close to decent reviews but I'm not holding my breath.

Swagger_Dagger posted...

We were in literal world wars with 10+ years of unprecedented global economic depression in between. We will never come close to that.

My great grandfather died of the Spanish flu in which peaked right as WW1 was ending 1919 which actually led to a life expectancy drop several times more steeply than Covid did. It killed young people at very high rates and he was 18 when he died with my grandfather actually being born a few months after his father died. Same grandfather had to drop out of high school during the depression to work and then ended up serving in the Army in WW2 (north Africa, Sicily, France, Germany).

One big difference for him was that the technological advances and the societal advances were incredible whereas today we take basic stuff for granted. After the war he spent most of his life working for a railroad doing math on spreadsheets by hand because he was good at basic arithmetic.

bsp77 posted...

I apologize if it seemed I was making light of TC, disability or aspergers. Wasn't my intention, but I didn't use nearly enough words to explain my point, so it seemed flippant. So I am sorry.

I would say that I think that the requirement that people collecting disability cash not work hurts people with conditions like aspergers that use the program. It creates this trap where there is a massive disincentive to engaging in personal growth/

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I mean I just fail to see how someone putting away a couple hundred a month is at all a bad thing... But if you agree that there are some expensive assets that should be accessible then maybe we have some common ground.

There should, and are, allowances made for essentials
https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-resources.htm#:~:text=To%20get%20SSI%2C%20your%20countable,you%20own%20do%20not%20count.

You also get one vehicle that doesn't count along and there is a general exception for "household goods and personal effects" which I think is fair. This system, SSI, is separate from SSDI which is the disability insurance people get if they have 10 years of working history which has no asset limits.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

My issue, Atralis, is you've basically concluded that someone born disabled and unable to work entirely is not entitled to homeownership, essentially

The home a person lives in is excluded from the list of assets currently.

MarthGoomba posted...

You seem to not understand the point of disability support if you believe that people should have less income than what they have in expenses

It should exceed it but not by much. Obviously this is hard to pin down exactly which is why there should be a buffer of allowed savings.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

care to say why?

oh

so people shouldn't be able to save for emergencies? and people should have zero dollars left over after having spent their money on necessities? but why do you think that other than thinking people should have to live in poverty

I don't think they should live in poverty but I don't think they should be able to have a significant amount of assets either. The formula for disability is based on someone's work history with the idea being that we all pay in to this system and if we become disabled there will be a pot of cash that we can draw on.

If someone has no work history it means they never paid in. They shouldn't be left to starve but they also shouldn't, for example, be able to inherit a significant amount of money or assets and still keep drawing on a fund of cash that is intended to cover people that would literally be homeless if they didn't have those dollars coming in.

Alucard188 posted...

What are you even arguing? The guy gets $841 (before deductions) and can't have more than $2,000 in his account at any one time. That's not a higher income - that's him not being allowed to save his money. Why should we force people living with disabilities into a lower quality of life because they can't provide for it themselves? Disability is not a safety net if it's literally what they use to survive. A safety net is having savings put away in case of emergency.

I don't think people on disability that don't have a history of working should be able to have large amounts of savings. Maybe $2,000 is too small but I am of the mindset that someone should have to exhaust their assets before they draw on cash meant for people in truly desperate situations.

Additionally if they are able to save money using the amount they are given for disability then that means the cash exceeds their actual expenses which shouldn't be the case.

Alucard188 posted...

Basically enough for you to scrape by, but not enough to live comfortably. Have any surplus in your account? That's not allowed. Saving for a rainy day? That's not American. Obviously they're giving you too much money if you have more than $50 and a half a tank of gas.

Why should someone reliant on disability have a higher income than someone that is working? It isn't compensation for something its just a safety net to help the disabled person survive. This is especially true of people that basically never worked and therefore paid practically nothing into the system.

Battle Royale and Counter-Strike for that matter is just not my style of game anymore. I like being able to respawn and get back into it. I don't like the match just being over when you die exactly one time.

In a PC gamers opinion..... the PS5 wins this one. m.2 nvme hard drives have crashed in price in the past year or two and there is a ton of competition driving down the price.

Looking at the Xbox expansion slot hard drive thingie its still an nvme but since its so specific and its only made by seagate it costs about double. This isn't just about a $100 difference either. The 2 tb one is $400 for the Xbox while you can get a 2 tb fore $200 on Amazon from several different companies.

I honestly think its worse for tolerance towards gay people to have a disease where 99% of the people that have it are gay men where you pretend like its spreading through handshakes or touching the same doorknob than to actually admit its spreading through sex.

Zikten posted...

Only the first 50 levels are good. The original Level 1 to 50 class stories are the main treat of the game. After that, the story isn't as good

I sometimes wish it was a single player game.

Not sure how far you made it or the last time you played it but I was actually pleasantly surprised with a couple of the big expansions made a few years ago when the developers embraced the whole "its basically a single player game at this point" philosophy. Knights of the Fallen Empire and Knights of the Eternal Throne had big single player campaigns with selectable difficulty levels that embraced them being Kotor 3 essentially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzq9epS2b1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpDxrew4A0

TheAttackTitan posted...

Yeah. My parents forced me into boot camp in a high school summer. Lasted four days before I got them to take me back home. The boot camp went to a military base once during those four days. Reaffirmed that I would never join the military thanks to that circus.

I was on a funeral detail as one of my first assignments after training at Fort Gordon. We did funerals for veterans in the area around Augusta GA. The "Youth Challenge Academy" was right next to where we were based. And we got to watch these sad looking teenage boys in oversized dirty sweat pants and sweat shirts being yelled at as they jogged an old track right near where we met up before funerals.

It seemed so fucking morbid. These poor kids being screamed at by their "Drill Sergeants" while we we carrying around coffins practicing for military funerals with taps, flag folding, and 21 gun salutes.

My Dad was in the Navy when I was a kid so I went on the base fairly frequently then after he retired he could take us on on to bases for various reasons (usually to hit up the exchange, when we visited Hawaii we would stay in military recreational sites like Bellows Air Force Station (look it up, its cool).

Then I was in the Army for four years so obviously a lot of time on bases then.

I don't care about rap and I think the whole 'anti sitches' aspect of it is emblematic of the fact that it sprang from a culture where violence and crime is normalized.

"Snitches get stitches.... why is our neighborhood a high crime ghetto garbage fire?"

Well I wonder why. In my neighborhood when people commit crimes they are convicted and put away by a jury of their peers. In yours "snitches get stitches".

The negative is the feature. They cancel noise. If you hate outside noise distracting you then get some decent over ear noise cancelling headphones and you will be deaf to the world and be able to focus on what is in front of you. At the same time a lot of times its obviously useful to be able to hear what is around you.

This is common practice in big corporations.

MICHALECOLE posted...

No, theyre fucking not

Jesus Christ you people

A majority of the homeless are not drug addicts, a majority of the homeless in camps in cities that allow anyone that isn't actively using drugs to have a roof over their head is a drug addict.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Do you think that the majority of people are like this?

theyre not

A majority of the ones in homeless camps actually are like this. The mayor of my city went in lived in a homeless camp for a couple weeks and he came out and said "these people are all hard drug addicts" and then we passed an urban camping ban.

In the Denver metro area we have shelters but they require people not to use hard drugs while they live in them. Guess who doesn't use the shelters and lives in camps instead.

I think people in homeless camps should be arrested, drug tested, and if they have heroin or any other hard drug in their system they should be held until they go through withdrawal every single time they are picked up and then offered a choice of housing without drugs or going back out on the streets.

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

And of course the Xbox Series X version is still $70. Fuck you Best Buy lol

Not a console gamer but is there actually a difference at this point? The whole thing of different generation versions seems weird with the Xbox One X being about the same in power as the Xbox Series S. Like what is the different between the versions but the label on the box?

I'm 6'1" and I feel like its a good height to be. I've never felt short but never felt weirdly tall either.

theAteam posted...

These days not much. I guess a steady career choice would be ideal, even if you aren't currently making a lot. At least choose a direction to go in. You can still change course but if you're still waiting around for the world to give you a sign about your purpose in life you're wasting your time by 30.

This is basically how I feel, particularly in careers where years of experience are valued. I was a late starter for a variety of reasons but I got a degree in Computer Science when I was 29 almost 30 and started a career as a software engineer and I feel like I'm at a pretty good place as a result.

Its good to be in a career where your work adds to your skills which adds to your pay potential. Feels a bit like steadily leveling up in a game to me (I get that sounds immature but I like thinking about it that way).

The first game got the most improvements but it really needed the most love to make it decent.

I did a midnight to noon shift in the Army for several months and I hated it. Walking out of your workplace at fucking noon knowing you had to get to sleep by 4 pm if you didn't want to feel dead at the start of the next day..... jesus.

Just turned 36 and I still have a full head of hair. My Dad's hair started thinning in his 60's but he still has a decent amount at 73. My grandfathers never lost their hair (died at 91 and 74).

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

I get what theme RJ was going for w/ the Poe Holdo story, but it was executed horribly. I wonder if they could have made it better if they used Leia or Admiral Ackbar in that role instead.

I'm not sure how people would have reacted to admiral akbar in a purple wig.)

This isn't enough to alter the US housing market's trajectory in a meaningful way.

Questionmarktarius posted...

That may be right. 2006 or so seems like when the GHzs just stopped increasing for some reason

I got a gaming PC back in 2003 (I got to pick the family PC and my parents were making good $ at the time and gave me a budget of like $2000). I got a top of the line Pentium 4 with a Radeon 9800 pro and my PC was many times better than any console on the market for 2-3 years until the PS3/360 came out in late 2005/06.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Moore's Law gave up somewhere around 2010.
Basically, its remnants are RAM and flashRAM capacity regularly doubling every two or three years.

I feel like it happened at more like 2004 for CPUs. Intel and AMD both ended up having to go to multi core architectures at around that point and it stopped being a straight speed upgrade from that point on in the sense that it was before and since then its slowed down even more noticeably.

Just get an old unlocked phone on amazon. Nothing that new phones is game changing over the s9.

I have mixed feelings about FFXV. The game had a lot of beautiful moments and the gameplay looked incredibly epic. The summons, both their appearances in game and their random appearances in the open world were some of the most memorable moments in that generation of gaming.

That being said...... the story was a total mess. It felt like they had an outline of things they wanted to happen in the game and then they planned to fill in the gaps between those events but they never found the time to do it.

The gameplay also felt like a mess. You could, and most did, get through the game just spamming the dodge and attacks with the basic sword. Magic just felt like different colored nukes that you would farm up to get supplies to use. It was flashy and a bit fun but super dumb.

The real answer?

Their messaging at the time and to this day is that they think it should be protected under the existing constitution and there is an argument to be made that passing a law codifying it would imply that in a time where they are in the minority Republicans could just pass a law banning it.

For the decades when Roe was held by the Supreme Court both parties were fairly content with just being able to point at the supreme court like its some sort of act of god they can't control as the reason why abortion is legal.

Long story short?

The Russians overextended themselves early in the war thinking they could win in weeks or even days not months and took heavy losses. Imagine columns of vehicles trying to drive along highways and getting picked off by guys in the woods with man portable anti tank weapons.

The Russians have regrouped at this point and seem to be gradually winning a slugging match in the east using overwhelming superiority in artillery with the Ukrainians hoping that high tech western weapons coming in, and their guys training on them will let them keep the Russians from making further advances.

In Colorado the tolls went cashless back in 2009. It seems to archaic when I see toll booths in other states.
Basically when you get on and off the toll road cameras catch your license plate and then you get a toll in the mail if you don't have a sticker or transponder from that toll road.

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I may be modded for this for being offensive and harsh as someone up above suggested but....

330 MILLION * 1 billion is actually not "$330 billion".

The number you are trying to imagine is actually exactly a million times bigger than "$330 billion". I get that math is hard but jesus.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Might need to divert some of that money to help clean up the fallout from this meltdown that's going on

What have I said that isn't true?

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What is 330 million * 1 billion? Is that an amount of US dollars that has ever existed?

Smashingpmkns posted...

Where they getting this money?

https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

Literally "where is the country with the most money of all the countries in the entire fucking planet in the entire history of countries getting the money to do something".

That is literally what you just asked?

We are spending about half as much on defense even with this boost than they did for most of your parent's lives as a %. Am I even wrong? Look it up and tell me.

It isn't that much of a stretch from what we are currently doing and its much less $ per person % than we were spending throughout the entire cold war in a year when we are pouring our military equipment into a European country that is fighting the Russians

I get it to be honest. How do you oppose an expansion to the military budget when we are funding the Ukrainians fighting the Russians when we are still spending a lower % gdp. Before someone responds with "we can't afford this" please understand that we are still spending less as a % of GDP than we did for 40+ fucking years during the cold war and realize you will look like a fucking moron to everyone that knows that and that everyone in this topic knows that because I just told them?

If you ask "how can we afford this?" you are objectively an idiot. Because we can. Because we have. If we escalated to WW2 level spending that budget would be 10 TRILLION DOLLARS!

I was 15 and now I'm 36.

I REGRET NOTHING.

The US actually had a national speed limit of 55 from 1973-1995. It was widely ignored, especially in rural areas and in western states and some states basically rebelled against it by making anything over 55 that wasn't under the old speed limit a fine of something petty like $5 (Nevada introduced a $5 fine for people that went less than 70 mph on interstates that were marked as "55").