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stop blowing my money on crap
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

I'm going to buy a Switch for this game on Friday.

is it because you get paid Friday?

That's why Im waiting til Friday
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the NES is one of the best consoles ever
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mma is also a joke now tbf
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where is, no, except when pacquiao, mayweather, or GGG fight?
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I am going to by buying the game and console
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wtf, the N64 was really not a good console

It had a good ratio of great games to garbage, but that is mainly because it had no games to speak of
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ugh i want a switch
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yeah it's true, I haven't touched a video game since the 4th of July which is a week ago today I think
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Swagnificent119 posted...

Like, I really don't think most developmentally challenged people give a shit if you call other people the R word, so it's basically people who are just looking to virtue signal or be upset about something.

Yup pretty much.

It's a fun word that I've always used. And it sucks that Howard Stern has to change people's names. Wendy the slow adult just doesn't have the same ring to it.

lol, are you guys serious?

Go to a middle school or high school special education classroom and call them that. Let me know how they react.
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I question your decision to post a rawstory link instead of the source material
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clearaflagrantj posted...

I'm like 80% domestic stocks, 10% each of international stocks and domestic bonds. We're young and you're not going to beat index funds so I don't understand why anyone would do anything other than index funds and hodl for 30 years. Three fund lazy portfolio set it and forget it, market timing is for suckers.

I'm more like 60/40 domestic/international with no bonds because I am young
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All I know is my state is being wreckt because soy beans are like 99% of what we produce for export
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how did u know how short I was?
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no one pays off student loans any more, we get them forgiven after 25 years
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I just rubber band between exercising and not exercising because I'd rather drink than exercise and I don't like exercising after I drink
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I mean in the grand scheme of things, I lost them like $300 max which is less than the hotel room costs a night so it's not like the end of the world

I guess I'm mostly asking if its weird to care about it considering it isnt my money
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lol idk I'm sure it's happened but we're pretty small (maybe 20 F/T equivalent employees) and I'm sure it's coming out of a dedicated fund

so it will definitely be noticed, though I'm not sure that's why I feel bad about it per se
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$550 for a plane ticket that probably would've been more like $300 if I'd gotten it when I knew I'd need it

is it weird that I feel guilt and shame over this?
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Jerry_Hellyeah posted...

I guess I read a different thread title and article.

apparently so
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I mean when the snap election was called, labour was predicted to lose seats but instead they picked up dozens and nearly matched the conservatives in total votes

expecting them to pick up a majority based on an election called by the other party simply isn't reasonable. they vastly exceeded expectations
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Al-Uzza posted...

Nintendo simply has insane luck considering all their fuckups.

What do you mean? When they fucked up the CD technology thing, they suffered heavily for it and lost basically all of their share of the console market.

What kept them alive wasn't luck, it was the Gameboy.
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ArchiePeck posted...

retrogamer magazine

I've been thinking about subscribing to that actually
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yes
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ArchiePeck posted...

Secret Of Mana was known to have been developed for it, then they had to substantially cut the planned game down to become a regular SNES cart game.

interesting
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Parappa09 posted...

i'm worried corbyn isn't good enough to get the tory's out of power

i mean he's had several opportunities and they shouldn't still be in government

wat

I mean he's only had one election as leader and Labour crushed it
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does it say something bad about me that I really don't think about their personal lives when I see them fuckin
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/10/rich-people-prefer-grey-poupon-white-people-own-pets-data-behind-cultural-divide/

yeah that's a clickbait title. it is also apparently true.

In the world of television in 2016, some of the top-ten predictors of whiteness were watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, American Pickers, The Big Bang Theory and the Kentucky Derby. If were looking at specific brand names, the top 10 included Thomas English muffins, Sweet Baby Rays barbecue sauce and Stove Top stuffing.

More generally, in consumer products, the best predictor of whiteness was whether someone owned a pet followed closely by whether they owned a flashlight. Many of the differences appear to be correlated with wealth and homeownership, areas in which America suffers from vast racial disparities...

To maintain statistical integrity, the authors were able to break the population into only two categories, white and nonwhite, which may hide differences across a large and diverse population.

Within the surveys they analyzed, social attitudes and media habits were almost as closely linked to race as consumer behavior was. The racial differences in social attitudes were particularly notable.

By a relatively large margin, the view that best predicted being white in 2016 was approve of police striking citizens. In previous decades, the best indicator of whiteness was saying that the government was spending the right amount (or too much) on improving the condition of black residents.
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NeuralLaxative posted...

The real generational gap is really honestly going to be those who grew up with cell phones, tablets, high speed internet and those that did not, as it has completely changed the culture and avenues of communication in early childhood and adolescence. IMO the generation born late 90s and early 00s is astronomically different than the generation of 80s and early 90s

I mean, dial-up internet and computers were a really big difference between us and the generation before us. That also completely changed the culture.
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Capcom is probably my favorite developer I suppose
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Why did you phrase it like that? imo it's a worse abuse of power to target political dissidents than actual convinced criminals. *shrug*

It isn't about which is worse... It's about what would be a reasonable thing for her lawyer to consider when advising her to take a plea deal.

He or she would have no reason to assume there would be denaturalization as a consequence of this action, despite the fact that it is technically legal, because it hasn't happened before.
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

And that's suppose to be a sympathetic position?

I don't understand your question, but I think so?

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

First off, it was always a possibility under the law, just a low one for the administration at the time.

Yep, I already said it has happened before, as recently as 75 years ago. And that occurrence 75 years ago had a more narrow scope than this one does today.

So to be clear, you are saying, yes, she should have prepared for this eventually happening when planning her defense. Right?

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Second off, ignorance is no excuse.

For what?

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Third, yes I recognize imperfections in the law and the in way it's administered. If we're talking what ifs, maybe she was coerced into a deal because the risk of lose was too great and not professing her innocents was a calculated cost. I don't fucking know, I'm not omniscient.

So why are you so okay with it, when you acknowledge it can be shitty? This isn't even the case where you can play some kind of whataboutism because it has never happened before in the history of our country.

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

However, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with enforcing the law, unless the laws are fundamentally immoral, which perjury laws are not.

No one is saying there is something 'fundamentally wrong with enforcing the law.'

What is being asked of you here is not whether or not it is fundamentally wrong to enforce the law, but why it is that we have decided to change how to enforce those laws, and what you think about that change. You are not actually engaging that conversation, you are just trying to emphasize how she doesn't deserve to be a citizen because you want to win an argument about how Trump doesn't attack citizens.
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Now, you could say that is still her fault for not thinking of every contingency in her own defense.

If so, though, you'd need to deal with the fact that this kind of denaturalization hasn't happened since the McCarthy-era, and even then it was targeting political dissidents and not secretaries who helped their boss commit fraud.

So far as I know, that has never been a thing before in the U.S.

So are you really saying that she should have anticipated this eventuality back when Obama was still trying to pass the ACA?
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

That said, she took a deal and plead out. I don't think her guilt is in question.

Certainly not legally-speaking. Which is why, in this article, it mentions she would have made a different decision regarding her case had she known that revocation of her citizenship were a possibility based on the results of that case
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honestly the way anarchy juiblex insists on framing the conversation is a big tell

he says he voted for Clinton, but I don't believe it and I imagine he will vote for Trump in 2020 because he is the poster boy for the kind of cultural grievance that drives support for Trump
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I mean, just to emphasize this again, that is actually a really good result for Democrats considering this is probably the worst Senate map either party has ever faced

So, if you're using this data point to show how the left is pursuing a bad electoral strategy, you need to sort of deal with the fact that losses in states like Indiana and North Dakota are balanced by wins in red-to-purple states like Nevada and Arizona
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definitely not a supermajority, as that implies 2/3 control

I can imagine there being someone who thought the senate might tip heavily towards Rs right after the election given the number of Senators that are in states trump won but yeah
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Darkman124 posted...

BWLurker posted...

I could have sworn analysis done last year gave a small, but decent chance of R getting a supermajority.

none that i am aware of

So, I don't follow this as closely as I have in the past, but my general sense of how things have progressed:

Lots of emphasis on the House post-2016 election, especially because of special elections in that chamber (member Ossoff raising record numbers in fundraising?). But no talk of the Senate that I can recall. Remember, the Dems were supposed to win the Senate fairly safely in 2016, so there was little enthusiasm.

But then after Democrats lose a bunch of special elections (the aforementioned, that dude who body slammed a reporter but won anyway, a close race in South Carolina), and the fact that Roy Moore was a bad candidate that keeps getting worse, makes Doug Jones the great white hope for Dems to actually get a special election win in 2017, which they do.

Because of this, many journalists start talking about the Dem chances of taking the Senate, with some writing about it as a toss-up, even though the fundamentals haven't changed

Now I guess we're coming back around to the realization that the fundamentals haven't changed
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that's actually better than I anticipated for the senate democrats
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yes
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Prestoff posted...

What do you mean by won? In most cases, "won" usually means which console sells better. For instance I think the Wii U had a spectacular library of games with high review scores, but most don't consider it a "win" because the Wii U sold like crap. Switch is selling well, but it's still behind the other 2 consoles.

it moved more units in its first year than any other console -- maybe ever? but certainly for the last few generations -- slightly edging out the Wii

granted first year sales don't necessarily translate to long term success but there's reason to be optimistic
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s0nicfan posted...

Like... the scope and scale are just so radically different that you almost can't compare the two.

I agree with this, though, and there are other differences, too.

I'm just saying that a general defense of respectability politics rings hollow to me unless you can square this circle -- for example, I can imagine the person who inspired this thread saying that it's different because people protesting outside planned parenthood aren't just opposing people who support abortions but the people who actually get them

but that would just change the terms of when politics of respectability are appropriate, and that is almost entirely a circular argument from what I can tell

anyway I am literally just typing my thoughts
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They kill people outside abortion clinics and follow doctors home and kill them there lol

In more routine protests, they are just mean, just like the left is... It's not all old people, either.

The kind of things they yell and write on their signs are also kind of personally insulting in a way that 'smash fascists' or whatever lefties are saying isn't at least imho
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A more recent example would be that person who had his hat knocked off at the Whataburger. Same rhetoric there as for Sarah Sanders (I mean I personally would consider that a different kind of thing given what happened but this is an example I can scroll down and see people talking about on my feed this way lol)
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I mean, they deploy this rhetoric for everyone not just politicians or people who work for Trump.

For instance, those girls that were wearing Trump hats on a college tour in D.C. were harassed and the conservatives defended them on this basis. At least, the conservatives in my personal orbit
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rude/not being polite to political opponents

I mean for my entire life people have been protesting planned parenthoods and been quite rude to women getting abortions (or even who aren't getting abortions but they are going to a place that does abortions)

My position on that has always been it makes sense if you believe about abortion what those people believe about abortion.

But when the shoe is on the other foot, the right triangulates and says stuff like, "you shouldn't be rude or yell at someone JUST BECAUSE of political disagreements, that's childish"

the thing is, when its their politics, they understand that that not all political 'disagreements' are created equal and that sometimes there are ethical considerations that come into play

probably both sides do this to some extent but this is the hypocrisy that I am seeing today so its what I'm talking about on ce
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makes sense

if you're a resident of DC you have literally no other way to make your displeasure known
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DK9292 posted...

Yeah... so it's not a non-compete clause because it's restricting you from working in more than one location for the same franchise, rather than restricting you from working for a different franchise.

Or am I missing something?

No, I don't think so, but maybe. If two different people own two different McDonald's, they are competing against each other. So in that way, it is a non-compete clause, just restricted to a particular business rather than every firm in that sector.
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DK9292 posted...

It specifies it's a clause meaning that they can't work for a competing employer.

that's what another franchise is
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it is literally a non-compete clause, just one that is more limited in scope than what we typically call non-compete clauses
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