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spudger posted...

did smal stand for something?

SirMixALot, his original account
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idk why he keeps coming back
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https://interestingengineering.com/sweden-to-investigate-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-and-banning-sales-of-new-gasoline-vehicles

Here's an article on it btw

alimajor posted...

So... will they be giving citizens that cant afford to transition over gasoline/diesel free vehicles?

Do you really believe electric vehicles will be prohibitively expensive in 10 years? They're also still be able to buy used vehicles, which is why there's a second date further in the future for banning the sale of gas.
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They're not the only country working on this, I believe Ireland is too.

Tupacrulez posted...

This is all just politicians now, trying to do something that'll look good for the future, which has no effect on them now.

There's probably numerous politicians working on this that plan to still be in politics in 2030, not to mention that if they do pass a law like this it will for sure impact them as well.
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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Says the alt account

I have no idea who that account is but look at its post history jfc.

22 AMP and fucking 15 of them are in this topic alone.
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If you were a better poster you wouldn't be having this issue
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If Muff is the one living rent free then why is he the one making threads about us when what we post has nothing to do with him
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HighOnSolar posted...

i dont visit much any more I would like to request a rundown of the situation

Muffin has a weird personal vendetta and obsession with Error and has a subreddit that he uses (along with esteemed users like ROD, AlexG, Spooking, Taiis) to harass and mock CE users by abusing Gamefaqs' off-site policy
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Cowthief posted...

I think FoldingProjects is Gwaak not sock

Not 100% sure on that. The FoldingProjects account did post in one of my topics on Hellhole, and then AlexG referenced it in the General. Does Gwwak even post on HH?
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HylianFox posted...

CarrieChan
User Since: Mar 2019
Active Posts: 10838

what the actual fuck

Welcome to Gwwak's entire existence
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Error1355 posted...

My favourite part of this photo is the [-2] next to his username lol
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There's no way they're actually confident in Kobach winning is there
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Bishop9800 posted...

Wait a min, I missed that. Details please....

Check your PMs
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CyricZ posted...

Found the accelerationist.

I mean his country is literally burning to the ground right now so
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The funniest thing is that even if there were a "baby boom" in 2020 it would probably only bring the birth rate back to what it was like, 30 years ago.
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https://www.instagram.com/liv_cowherd/?hl=en
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ThePrinceFish posted...

Shall we name the conservative counterparts to joke sites like ResetERA and NeoGAF?

What like Stormfront?
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SH_expert44 posted...

For the most part the mods of this site shut down almost all straight racism, and are quick to lock many racially charged topics

But locking topics isn't actually a punishment.
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Umbreon posted...

I have trouble believing something like that would get deleted.

The only reason for it to get deleted is the same reason Kanjo keeps getting hit for using "as a Jew".

E: Notwithstanding the fact that claiming to be black is/was a popular "defense" on here
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When it was actually moddable to post complete articles
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ThanksUglyGod posted...

Really hope NYT realizes Bret Stephens is more trouble than he's worth

If they haven't yet they're never going to
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None of them need to be ported they just need to be remade with the engine from the PS4 game.
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Kinda weird to obviously defend yourself using your own alt but go off I guess
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Uhhhhhhh
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k wait the CNN link says it was at the Rabbi's home but the original says a synagogue? Wut
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Musourenka posted...

When you have most of the Senate, 40% of the House (most of the House in 17-18), and a State Propaganda network spewing lies and misinformation 24/7, and the rest of the media is too worried about decorum or being called biased, this is the result.

The courts don't even care either which is the crazier thing.

Like what's the point of even having it in the constitution if you're not going to enforce it? It wasn't even a fucking amendment it was literally in the original draft of the constitution.
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It really is amazing that this guy is violating the emoluments clause clear as day and everyone is just shrugging their shoulders over it.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Holy wow are you getting upset over make believe stuff, and make believe stuff on a video game website.

you talking about that topic about how white peoples population is going down or something? Wow how insanely racist. Lock him up.

You would defend that topic
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DuranOfForcena posted...

what topic is the OP even talking about?

It's deleted.

Nukleen made a topic asking how white people can be encouraged to have more babies and linked to a Twitter post about how the majority of students are now non-white and the % of white students keeps decreasing.
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Paper_Okami posted...

who created that topic?

there are a number of cemen who would do it?

It was Nukleen
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Oh good lord the Lost Souls quest is fucking awful. Who the fuck thought "Let's make them replay EVERY level once, and possibly twice if they do it in the wrong order!" was a good addition to this game

If I wasn't trying to Platinum this game I wouldn't even do it, because the "reward" is literally just unlocking the ability to play the original game from the main menu.
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Nah, everyone knows WWII was started by the Templars in order to form a new world government, and all the main leaders (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler) were just Templar puppets
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Synagogues usually have super beefed up security during major events. Wonder if this was a knife attack and not a mass shooting because of that.
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Yeah me
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Yeah I kind of hope the PS5 looks something like the dev kit to stand in contrast to how boring the Series X is.
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And it was fucking terrible
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Yes, I'm not randomly suggesting this they're literally the sponsor of this game lol.

With no PSX this year this is their best opportunity.
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It'd be wild
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I only regret buying it cause I never beat it and now it's like half the price it was then with all the DLC included.
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https://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2019&wk=17

This will show what you can watch
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Since when does Trump care about homeless people
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I know she had gotten like super into being a fit freak and was super skinny but uhhhh, a nose job and a boob job? Woah.
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No. It's been as low as $19.99 in Canada which is only like $15 USD so you're paying almost double the lowest price. Wasn't it $14.99 on Black Friday?
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The issue isn't really the Federal part, it's more the State laws part.

For example the Democrats in Kentucky put forward legislation that if passed, anyone convicted of a crime related to domestic violence anywhere would not be able to own firearms in Kentucky. Thus, if you had a DV conviction and were found with a firearm, you'd be charged for it (I don't know the penalties, I just know the law was put forth).

So in a "2nd amendment sanctuary" county, the idea would be that this law wouldn't be enforced and either no one would be charged for it, or the charges could be dropped for no real reason.

The Municipal-County-State relationship is far more nuanced than the Municipal-Federal one, so local officials telling people to completely ignore State-level law and that they won't be enforcing it, is a lot messier than the other "sanctuary" thing they're trying to draw a parallel to. For example I believe in Oregon it's directly in their State Constitution that only the State Legislature can regulate firearms, so these counties passing these are violating the law.

In fact I wouldn't even directly compare this to "Sanctuary Cities" even though that's obviously the parallel they're trying to draw, because the US Government has continually asserted that it is to be sole arbiter and enforcer of immigration laws, and continually fought all State-level laws all the way to the Supreme Court (Arizona SB 1070 from 2020, for example), and local law enforcement is not required to help enforce federal law. This has absolutely no happened with any type of firearm laws.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/opinion/jewish-culture-genius-iq.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion

Good ol' Bret Stephens

An eminent Lithuanian rabbi is annoyed that his yeshiva students devote their lunch breaks to playing soccer instead of discussing Torah. The students, intent on convincing their rav of the games beauty, invite him to watch a professional match. At halftime, they ask what he thinks.

I have solved your problem, the rabbi says.

How?

Give one ball to each side, and they will have nothing to fight over.

I have this (apocryphal) anecdote from Norman Lebrechts new book, Genius & Anxiety, an erudite and delightful study of the intellectual achievements and nerve-wracked lives of Jewish thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs between 1847 and 1947. Sarah Bernhardt and Franz Kafka; Albert Einstein and Rosalind Franklin; Benjamin Disraeli and (sigh) Karl Marx how is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the worlds population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?

The common answer is that Jews are, or tend to be, smart. When it comes to Ashkenazi Jews, its true. Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group for which there are reliable data, noted one 2005 paper. During the 20th century, they made up about 3 percent of the U.S. population but won 27 percent of the U.S. Nobel science prizes and 25 percent of the ACM Turing awards. They account for more than half of world chess champions.

But the Jews are smart explanation obscures more than it illuminates. Aside from the perennial nature-or-nurture question of why so many Ashkenazi Jews have higher I.Q.s, there is the more difficult question of why that intelligence was so often matched by such bracing originality and high-minded purpose. One can apply a prodigious intellect in the service of prosaic things formulating a war plan, for instance, or constructing a ship. One can also apply brilliance in the service of a mistake or a crime, like managing a planned economy or robbing a bank.

But as the story of the Lithuanian rabbi suggests, Jewish genius operates differently. It is prone to question the premise and rethink the concept; to ask why (or why not?) as often as how; to see the absurd in the mundane and the sublime in the absurd. Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different.

Where do these habits of mind come from?

There is a religious tradition that, unlike some others, asks the believer not only to observe and obey but also to discuss and disagree. There is the never-quite-comfortable status of Jews in places where they are the minority intimately familiar with the customs of the country while maintaining a critical distance from them. There is a moral belief, incarnate in the Jewish people according to Einstein, that the life of the individual only has value [insofar] as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful.

And there is the understanding, born of repeated exile, that everything that seems solid and valuable is ultimately perishable, while everything that is intangible knowledge most of all is potentially everlasting.

We had been well off, but that was all we got out, the late financier Felix Rohatyn recalled of his narrow escape, with a few hidden gold coins, from the Nazis as a child in World War II. Ever since, Ive had the feeling that the only permanent wealth is what you carry around in your head. If the greatest Jewish minds seem to have no walls, it may be because, for Jews, the walls have so often come tumbling down.

The "2005 paper" he cites is this one, "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence"
https://web.mit.edu/fustflum/documents/papers/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf

Which was co-authored by a known White Nationalist and Eugenicist

Reminder the NYT decided they no longer needed to have a person in the position that would have been responsible for reading this article and saying "What the fuck is this we're not publishing this"
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Paragon21XX posted...

Similar to sanctuary cities for illegals, local authorities have refused to commit resources to enforce gun laws that they consider to be most likely unconstitutional unless and until the SCOTUS rules otherwise. If the state wants those laws enforced, they will have to commit their own resources to do so.

It actually sounds like it's the local courts refusing to enforce it and not like, the police or anything.
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https://local12.com/news/local/white-house-proposes-500-increase-in-cost-of-getting-immigration-records-cincinnati

Tracing your roots is about to be a lot more expensive if the Trump Administration passes proposed rate increases for historical documents.

In November, the Department of Homeland Security announced rulemaking adjustment proposals for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Immigration Examinations Fee Account schedule. What once cost between $40 and $50 could soon cost upwards of $600.

"I don't know of any other agency or archive that charges that kind of money to obtain a copy of a historical document, said Rich Venezia.

Venezia is a professional genealogist in Pittsburgh. Hes one of nearly a dozen people in his field leading the charge to convince the government to not make the rate increase.

"These new fees would run you anywhere from -- starting at $240 and go all the way to possibly $600 just to get a copy of a single file, said Venezia.

Researching family history is extremely popular right now. However, Venezia says if the rates skyrocket, that casual hobby will disappear.

"I think theres very few people doing hobbyist genealogy in the country that have a spare $240 and certainly not $625 to obtain copies of records, said Venezia.

The genealogy program by the USCIS allows genealogists like Venezia and everyday people the opportunity to obtain citizenship and alien registration files, visa applications and other records of immigrants who came to the U.S. through Ellis Island between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.

In November, the acting director of the USCIS, Ken Cuccinelli, released this statement regarding the proposal"

USCIS is required to examine incoming and outgoing expenditures, just like a business, and make adjustments based on that analysis. This proposed adjustment in fees would ensure more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimizes subsidies from an already over-extended system...Furthermore, the adjudication of immigration applications and petitions requires in-depth screening, incurring costs that must be covered by the agency, and this proposal accounts for our operational needs and better aligns our fee schedule with the costs of processing each request.

Venezias effort Records, Not Revenue aims to lay out all the information and give people a place to go to make public comment the USCIS will review. The public comment period ends on Dec. 30.

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Well there's Florida, which is basically a testing ground for all the batshit insane NRA-backed firearm policies.
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