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I'll take the bait.

When a two-year old developed brain damage from lead poisoning, was it:

1. their fault for exposing their own body to lead, (according to your first post, it is.)
2. their parents' fault for not being able to get housing without lead or not recognizing the lead in the water/paint, (because apparently people "choose" to expose themselves to poison out of "laziness" or "lack of accountability.")
3. or the system that red-lined the family into a district that hasn't updated its infrastructure since the 1800s and then kept them in impoverished so they could never accumulate the wealth to renovate or leave?

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Truth is that it's a gross oversimplification and a worthless platitude. People just want individualistic answers to complex social problems so they can feel morally justified in not giving a fuck about the struggles of others. After all, why should they waste their beautiful minds on something like that?

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Part of it is a self-insert thing.

However, it also let you differentiate between your save file and that of another person playing the same game.

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Much as I despise Joe Biden, he did not give his relatives positions in government, while Trump did.

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No, but I support organized labor.

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You could make peppermint bark, which is very easy and seasonal. You just need a bunch of peppermints, crush them/food processor them, and some bark for melting. Spread it out, harden it, break it up, and stuff it into baggies.

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Yes! I really liked it as a little kid. Scuzz was probably the best, but I usually picked the cat... she was french I think.

Zeus posted...

The paperclip? He sucked.

No, it was sort of like a Mascot-themed interface program from the 90's. You could pick a mascot, a house, what would show outside the window, and use clipart and stuff. It was like... Cutesy windows. Some of the mascots were actually pretty complex.
https://www.danielsays.com/ms-bob-friends.html

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I like roguelikes but they do struggle with making things feel really rewarding. I think that Dead Cells and Binding of Isaac and Enter the Gungeon are examples of roguelikes that pace out unlocks and progression very well, with Dead Cells probably being my favorite.

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Tbh, I thought DS2 was significantly better than DS1.

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*Shrug* They're both fine. Neither one is particularly amazing or anything.

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I'd get them reduced again. They caused me health problems before.

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Trialia posted...

13 is past the age of legal responsibility in NY, as best I recall. Isn't it ten, there? Even if he's prosecuted as a juvenile, that'd likely mean the rest of his teen years in some kind of secure unit.

You misunderstand my point. If you think that a kid should be tried as an adult, why then also demand that the parents of the kid face charges? If the kid can be held legally responsible as an adult, then the parents are irrelevant.

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Handmade cards are better anyway.

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For one fact... bats are highly social animals that form cliques within colonies and even have "best friends." Vampire bats, which comprise about 3/1000 species of bats, must find food every night. If one bat fails to find food, others will regurgitate food to save their companion.

I'll do you better.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g/videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJ4dsU0oGMLnubJLPuw0dzD0AvAHAotW

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While he is not the killer of Majors, according to a testimony from the arresting officer, he did allegedly pick up the knife and give it to another teen.

The comments on Yahoo are hilarious. "Why did you only increase patrols AFTER the crime and not before?!" Uh, because people aren't clairvoyant. Ha, there are people demanding not only that the kid be tried as an adult, but that the kid's parents also be charged for "bad parenting."

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It was not a terrible year for gaming, but a lot of the best games just didn't make it up onto the lists. :-/

Uh, feminist pandering, what? Where? Who cares?

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Eh? What's wrong with Sekiro? I haven't gotten too far into it yet, but it seems fine? I wish it had costumes, but that's not a huge issue.

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I'd offer a comprehensive rebuttal but my sleeping pill is kicking in so I think I need to stop posting, lol.

I'll just say that the negatives drastically outweigh the positives, imo.

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Reparations are more about justice for families wronged by the government, in which case only the history of the victims, not the perpetrators, would be required. People take reparations too personally. Think of it as a large scale version of a civil court case, perhaps comparable to a wrongful death suit. In this case, the plaintiff would be African Americans, and the defendant would be the US government, paying for damages.

Reparations really shouldn't be a controversial topic- I suspect that most people are freaked out by it because they assume that they will be taxed to pay for it, which is... not how economics works on the federal level anymore, unless austerity is implemented. Speaking of implementation, there's the real hang-up. Programs like this tend to be vulnerable to predatory agencies that will target the people being compensated and try to trick them into signing away their money. It's very common, (happens a lot to black people who received money due to red-lining and gentrification leading to them being exposed to lead) so if reparations are implemented, something needs to be done to prevent predators from snatching the compensation.

ClarkDuke posted... i don't think there's much i can say but, damn, ok?

Yeah, that's pretty much everyone's reaction to that bit. I was a bit stunned myself when I first learned that.

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hypnox posted...

No, I am tall so I have to get everything from big and tall stores which are expensive and every time I go I am reminded I can never wear cool/funny tees as they will never be in my size.

You could have your own made or make your own. It's not hard.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

From what I gathered, Boris won big time?

Yeah, it's not really a surprise. Corbyn's name has been dragged through the dirt for years and the Brits tend to be more conservative than I think people expect. Case in point, they still have royalty.

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Clinton was complicit in (and frankly, largely responsible for) the destruction of Honduras and Libya. You won't see me shedding tears for any war hawk.

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BeerOnTap posted...

Meanwhile Communist China

Someone stepped out of a time machine...
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-went-from-communist-to-capitalist-2015-10
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/08/chinas-economic-success-proves-the-power-of-capitalism/#1ab338893b9d
http://www.usfunds.com/slideshows/how-china-became-a-capitalist-nation/#.XfN1idV7lEY

Sometimes I forget that people don't bother to educate themselves about post-Vietnam history after primary school. Makes me glad my grandfather was a university professor of history and worked for the CIA.

China has not been a communist state for decades (never gave up its authoritarianism, though)... but most people know even less about economics and economic shifts than they do about general politics. Communism, for all intents and purposes and regardless of authoritarian or anarchic variations, no longer exists on any meaningful State level today.

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Uh... a photographic example would be useful, but I'm going to go ahead and say that it's mostly cons.

If you're looking to reduce damage from impacts, there are better more modern options.
It would burn in the heat and freeze in the cold.
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Yeah, I just can't think of a reason why you would want one outside of novelty in this day and age.

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xjayguyx posted...

You see my "leader" here in Canada.? Lol and please name some good world leaders plz.

Well, I would have said...

Lula De Silva, whose policies more than halved the poverty rate of Brazil.
Evo Morales, whose policies more than halved the poverty rate of Bolivia.

... but we all know how that's turned out. CIA could never keep their paws off of South America.

... Anyway, this is not unexpected. Term limits were originally instituted on the presidency to prevent another economically astute center-left president like FDR from coming to power again, and now they want the limits removed since they finally have their Oligarchic golden boy in and the practice of nepotism has been sufficiently normalized.

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On the one hand? You don't get to piss and moan about "personal interests" when that is literally all Capitalism runs off of.

On the other? Um, no. That affects authoritarian systems more, of which the Soviet Union is merely a (no longer existing) Stalinist example. China is authoritarian (Oligarchic and capitalist). Russia is authoritarian (Oligarchic and capitalist). Brazil is now authoritarian (beholden mainly to foreign oligarchs, Christian fascist). The USA has been backsliding into authoritarianism (Oligarchic and capitalist) for years now to the point where we have a billionaire oligarch as president.

So unless you're going to tell me that you're for an anarchic distribution of power in which everyone holds control over local means of production thereby dis-incentivizing them from polluting, I'm not really interested in hearing about someone trying to Red Scare in a world where communism basically doesn't exist in any notable country on the planet at this point in time.

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It's a little more complicated than that. There are some other factors to look at.

1. There is a legitimate argument to be made that Congress is obligated to go through the process given the allegations. You don't have to like it to acknowledge that, but it's basically the only half-decent justification to be found.
2. For those who support Trump, this is actually a good thing because it's made him more money for his re-election and it is obvious that the impeachment proceedings will fail.
3. As far as the Democrats go, this is a good thing for only one person: Joe Biden, the incompetent establishment darling. His two main competitors, Sanders and Warren, will have to waste time on this stupid impeachment process instead of staying on the campaign trail during a key cycle in the primary.

With that third point in mind, it becomes obvious why it is Nancy Pelosi twiddled her thumbs for so long on the matter of impeachment only to abruptly change her mind. This can only benefit center-right corporatists like Pelosi and Biden, who are far more comfortable with Biden or Trump than they are with Warren or Sanders.

The impeachment proceedings also allowed Congress to sneak the re-authorization of the Patriot Act through, as well as the further shredding of internet rights. I expect there will be more unpopular policies pushed through during the impeachment proceedings, particularly the horrific S.2765 - Bipartisan Congressional Budget Reform Act, which has (as the name indicates) bipartisan support from Republicans and corporate Democrats and functions as a way of forcing extreme austerity practices on the general public (presumably how they will pay for any future tax cuts for themselves).

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EventualDecline posted...

LOL at people who think capitalism wrecked the environment, when communist regimes are historically the biggest polluters. The SJWs are awfully silent in this thread.

Might have something to do with them not being tankies, and the fact that the entire framing of the argument is dishonest. Runaway pollution is due to a combination of tech booms like the industrial revolution coupled with the failures of research into the consequences of not curtailing pollution keeping up with said booms, and governments of pretty much any kind being unwilling to regulate production and waste for fear of cutting into profit or progress speed.

It just so happens that if you have system which is susceptible to corporate interests, a given government is dis-incentivized to regulate, and there's no system that isn't susceptible to this, though fascism has by far the worst potential for it due to the incredibly close relations and interests between the private and public sector under that system. So currently we have the USA being a major polluter due to a dismantling of regulations on pretty much every front over the course of many decades, and China which has adopted a state capitalist system in an effort to boost-jump its economy to the front of the international economic race- and they will NOT compromise their effort to come out on top by cracking down on their ecological damage, not when the USA won't do the same.

Ffs, right now one of the most imminent threats to global environmental health is in Brazil, and it's not coming from Silva's ilk; it's from Bolsonaro's. He wants to clear vast swathes of rainforest for big ranching and mining operations, and assault the indigenous population while he's at it. Brazil is a massive country that is gearing up to do almost unfathomable amounts of ecological damage as we speak. Or how about Canada? Canada is a petrol state and its dealings with the USA to build pipelines has resulted in obscene amounts of pollution, but they aren't authoritarian leftists; they're capitalists.

*Shrug* TL:DR, it's not so much about the political systems in and of themselves, but geopolitical relationships as well as technological advances and corporate interests utilizing geopolitics to avoid being regulated. It's also not just a matter of scale but also what exactly is being damaged. Deforestation coupled with air polution and ocean acidification is a three-way primary threat and it's coming from multiple countries with vastly different political systems.

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My father's father was conscripted into the fascist Italian army during WW2 and ended up in a Soviet camp. Not sure what camp it was; the only thing I know about it is that it didn't have a fence because there was nowhere to run to. Interestingly, while my grandmother was abusive to my father and his brothers, my grandfather was apparently a very meek and gentle man, albeit obviously traumatized. Several of his siblings starved to death when he was young... he'd been raised by monks at some sort of Catholic monastary, and I think he spoke... 16? languages. But he didn't talk much about his past and I don't know much because he died before I was born.

I am also descended from Sarah G. Bull (early US settler), so I am distantly related to a ton of other people in the USA. Wouldn't be at all surprised if a bunch of them were involved in fascism... it's almost certain, tbh.

Edit: Damn, I wasn't emotionally prepared to look up one grandfather only to find the obituary of the other one. Man... ;_;

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Um, from that list I guess it's Metroid Prime IV, but I'm not particularly excited for any of those.

I'm more interested in:
Tales of Arise
Nioh 2
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Destroy All Humans! (remake, can't wait to get this for my mom, lol, she loves this game)
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (remake)

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Erm... not really, no; I've got very specific tastes which means finding something affordable that I also like and fit in the way I prefer makes it frustrating, not fun. Shoes are the worst thing to shop for, though.

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Cops committing sexual assault is hardly shocking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ora0otsEZlI#t=2m12s

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hypnox posted...

No, the weird bestiality, incest, rape fantasies, Loli, and the hundreds more.

Literally all of those fetishes exist in pretty much every country. Japan just produces/distrubutes more fetish fuel than average for a variety of reasons.

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Unbridled9 posted...

No. ATM the worst polluter in the world is easily China

Yeah... a capitalist country.

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Depends on the zebra.

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No, I'm not really interested in relationships. Not when I don't have health care, anyway.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

We also took on Syrian refugees.

So did we. There are a ton of them in my state. They aren't the ones killing us. You know who is?

If a terrorist attack on par with 9/11 happened once a month, every month, for a year, it would not equal the # of people who die in the USA every year due to LACK of health care alone.

So go on. Keep fearmongering about refugees and immigrants. I'm sure you'll find it comforting to scapegoat them for everything that goes wrong in your country even as your health care system is dismantled piece by piece and you start dying in droves like we are over here just so you can make a handful of CEOs and shareholders a few more pounds to pile on their dragon hoards.

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That's a really bizarre story. If it's true I expect there would be other students who witnessed it. Was it specified exactly when/where this happened? At school presumably, but in class? You didn't link an article, so...?

Edit:
Looked it up. No mention of where/when it took place. No mention of witnesses though it must have occurred at the school. Also:

Paul Kato is originally from Nigeria. He worked to establish a residential soccer school in Nigeria for 10 years, and the school officially opened in 2018.
It's called the Kato International Training Academy (KITA) and it opened with 24 students.
Kato has also coached the high school soccer team in Mason.

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I do wonder if they will be too apathetic to save their health care system from American corporations.

But hey, if the Tories keep hold, maybe they'll let the NRA have at the British people alongside the drug companies. Then they can pay tens of thousands of dollars for a bunch of maimed children like we get to here in the USA. Freedummmm woooooo

Edit: I don't mean it, really. I'm just in a morbid mood today.

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Mulan and the Fantasias are in a 3-way tie for first place.

Runner-ups would probably be... The Emperor's New Groove or Lilo & Stitch.

The Lion King/Aladdin/B&tB are all great movies.

I really liked Oliver & Company and The Little Mermaid when I was little.

A lot of the pre-101 Dalmations films are absolutely beautiful... but also pretty boring, tbh. Tarzan and Hercules are actually pretty fun to watch but their narratives are pretty meh as well compared to other films from the same era.

Hunchback is a film that could have been great if they hadn't compromised it with some really out of place stuff. Shame.

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No one's going to do a statistical analysis on the racial demographics of each of these contests over the entire duration of their existence in relation to the racial demographics of their winners just to placate people's hangups over race, but holy crap, Kyuubi, you really do not know the first thing about these contests, do you?

Anyway, if all people are going to do is piss and moan about these stupid contests no matter what then they might as well be shut down. I can appreciate the promotion of advocacy but other than that they're pretty worthless.

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JoanOfArcade posted...

Dark Souls

Eyup. I'll probably play Sekiro later provided my headache goes away, since I've beaten DS several times already and haven't beaten Sekiro.

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SaltyAndSweet posted...

How many years were they all white?

That's an interesting question actually, but it would take a lot of time to look up and compare the results for each contest for all the years of their existence and I frankly do not care enough to try. I'm going to simply say... probably a lot more times than just once.

Kyuubi4269 posted... How many of the competitors are white?

No, he means... how many times have white women swept the results for these four contests.

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I_Always_Die posted...

he implied it was wrong and I think thats a shitty mentality

No. Not only did you misunderstand the post, you apparently also missed the use of the word "most" in it.

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Person self-immolates because a bunch of insane people told them to... or did they?

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You guys are really good at framing this in terms of "b-b-b-but what if I end up being a statistical anomaly at .02%?" rather than "how do I avoid hurting sexual partners or vice versa at 20%?" which is a loud and clear message to me that you shouldn't be having sex, btw.

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The best response to a Trump tweet is to donate to/stump for a political opponent of his of your choice.

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LinkPizza posted...
A few people are talking about asking. But the problem isnt what they say. I think they are asking about if after

Videos I linked and the comments sections therein, with the last few minutes of the second video being the most succinctly relevant bit. Here's my far less charitable personal take: if someone is so incompetent that it doesn't occur to them to keep up communication with a sexual partner before, during, and after sex, that someone shouldn't be having sex. The BDSM community has had this crap figured out for decades.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfcrxsRKoIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_oehPPHSUY

You're welcome.

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Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unKpd5CrQBA

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