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Modern Processed foods needs to start reducing the amount of Salt they put inside.

The amount of Salt that we as a human need each day vs the amount that in it is ridiculous.

There are alot of things you can add that isn't "Salt" that will help with flavor.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

The main argument against term limits is that politicians become vulnerable to lobbying / bribery as they know their political career is about to end as such they will do favors for people to secure a cushy high paying corporate job after they leave.

They do that anyways in Governments that don't have term limits.

It's the same BS.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Surely that's a problem with the power afforded to the seat itself and not the term limits.

Both are needed IMO.

The power of that seat needs to be divided amongst many who are properly elected and there needs to be Term limits to allow new representatives to cycle in and out.

There should be no Consecutive Terms allowed, forcing each candidate to take 1 year off from serving in Government after their current term is done.

This would force every representative to do their job in the final year of their term.

Any representative that wants to spend time campaigning can do it on their own dime and their own time.

You can't get rid of the Political Party realistically, but you can force the Political Party to be a team game where they need a coherent strategy in terms of what values that they represent along with the candidates that represent each party.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

The arguments against turn limits aren't bad I just don't agree with them.

I think the concept of the PotUS or one Seat with one person having all that power is STUPID for ANY Constitutional Democratic Republic.

"Winner-Take-All" Electoral Systems are amongst the WORST possible methods for modern Constitutional Democratic Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting

Switzerland got the Executive Branch right with a small council with multiple seats (7 in Switzerlands case) working together to run the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)

And we need multiple Representatives per Seat representing ALL the constituents that voted for them with 1.0 voting power per Representative.

This way we have ACCURATE representation per seat.

Then you wouldn't get the BITCHING from the Two Party system and all sides talking about how ___ doesn't represent them.

When you have a "Winner-Take-All" election system, some part of the electoral base ALWAYS gets screwed over.

That's part of the reason why you don't have high voter turn out, because the "Winner-Take-All" system screws you over.

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There Should ALWAYS be Term Limits, no matter the seat.

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Gringo Bandito =D

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Mace Windu
Yoda = Darth Sidious
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Darth Maul
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader
Qui-Gon Jinn
Luke Skywalker
Kylo Ren
Rey

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DarkRoast posted...

I still have my sealed copy of Valkyrie Profile for PSOne

My friend had a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga. Still can't believe he sold it T_T

I still have my "Valkyrie Profile" for PS1, but it's opened.

I wish you would've bought his copy of "Panzer Dragoon Saga".

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DarkRoast posted...

As I've gotten older, I've ultimately stopped caring about collecting games.

Then your values has changed and the Game Pass was designed for you.

For the rest of us who still collect, it doesn't work for us.

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DarkRoast posted...

I could see someone buying an Xbox and never buying a game (just using Game Pass). That's kind of an amazing draw.

If you're the eternal "Game Renter", then it works for you.

If you're the "Game Collector", that's a big "NO-GO" for you.

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DarkRoast posted...

Also, that memory card is overpriced as hell but it's actually just as fast as the internal storage, so in some ways I almost think it's better than the PS5's goofy SSD upgrade solution.

I think it's brilliant.

They took the old 1.8" HDD form factor, and repurposed it for a custom SSD slot.

It's literally only a bit larger than the old PS1 memory card, but alot denser and heavier.

That's something Sony should've done IMO.

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No_U_L7 posted...

without getting into detail too much...yes, absolutely

Of course, I would never want you to compromise any NDA's / Security Clearance stuff.

If you're a leaky sieve of info, that does nobody any good.

Good Job on not leaking privileged & classified info!

What about random occurances like Sink Holes?

Or Airplane / Helicopter falling out of the sky hitting your area?

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No_U_L7 posted...

i do data analysis and run sims to see the effects of certain natural disasters to mitigate their damages and how to best respond to them when they do occur

Do you account for man made disasters?

Like Earthquakes appearing in geographies that don't naturally get it like some states are experiencing due to Fracking?

Or flooding due to a Dam breaking?

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No_U_L7 posted...

Plans

Plans for (You don't need to be so specific that you violate any NDA's, just generalize it)?

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@Aeriis

I haven't heard of that! has it been dubbed?

I believe so, but by various groups, so it's not consistent.

It's still better to watch it in it's original Japanese dubbing with Eng Subtitles they're entirely consistent there.

And the latest 2-3 seasons from them isn't even out in the US, you can only get the fansub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafner_in_the_Azure

It's a original series not derived off of any existing Manga/Light Novel/etc.

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@Aeriis

lol I watched the 3rd one the other night... it was bad

Have you watched "Soukyuu no Fafner", it's a FAR superior Robot series than NGE, IMO.

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What do you engineer generally?

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Unknown760 posted...

When you show me first that most Democrats ships jobs overseas.

Bill Clinton(D) along with Diane Fienstien(D) are the ones who lobbied to bring China into the WTO so all their Wall Street Friends can ship their work over seas and avoid having to pay more Americans higher wages.

And it worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Relations_Act_of_2000
Bill Clinton signed the act and lobbied to bring China into the WTO.

Impact
When President Barack Obama met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2011, officials were concerned that China was not acting in the free trade spirit it agreed to when it joined the WTO 10 years earlier. They proclaimed that China was still restricting foreign investment, avoiding national treatment of foreign firms, failing to protect intellectual property rights, and distorting trade with its government subsidies.[16] There were also complaints by various lawmakers who wanted the administration to act against what they said was China's manipulating its currency, worried that it would allow China to underprice its exports and put American and other nations' manufacturing at a great disadvantage.[17]

The U.S.-China Business Council in 2014 said that China was restricting investment in more than 100 industrial sectors, including agriculture, petrochemicals and health services, while the U.S. was restricting investment outright in just five sectors.[18] A number of senators and congressmen wanted the White House to place tariffs on some of the underpriced Chinese imports, stating that if the administration wouldn't do so, they threatened to mandate some tariffs on their own.[17]

By 2018, U.S. manufacturing jobs had decreased by almost 5 million since 2000, with the decline accelerating

Diane Feinstein has been a integral part of bringing China into doing business with the US
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Husband-invested-in-China-as-Feinstein-pushed-3051244.php

An investment fund backed by the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinste in pumped millions of dollars into firms doing business in China while Feinstein was boosting expanded trade between China and the United States, The Examiner has learned.
Feinstein has denied that her husband, San Francisco financier Richard C. Blum, has investments in China.
In May, before she voted for a measure that normalized trade with China, she said through a spokesman that Blum had divested of his last holdings in mainland China in 1999.
In response to queries for this story, Blum said he had earmarked some China assets for charity and sold others, one as recently as August.
Public records show a venture capital firm backed by Blum's investment bank owns millions of dollars worth of stock in corporations doing business in China.
The firm is Newbridge Capital, a joint venture between Richard C. Blum & Associates and another firm called Texas Pacific Group. It maintains an office in Shanghai for an affiliate called Newbridge Asia, public records show.
And in the past two years, the firm has pumped more than $400 million in U.S. venture capital into East Asian businesses in hopes of profiting from the region's rebounding economy.
At least $90 million of that - perhaps more - was invested in companies whose profits are pegged to the burgeoning mainland China market, according to the companies themselves.
Two are companies headquartered in Hong Kong: Kerry Properties, a realty firm that is building highrise hotels and apartment complexes in China; and Asiacontent.com, which is establishing U.S.-style Web sites for Internet users in China. Another is IAsiaworks of San Mateo, which hopes to wire China for the

https://nypost.com/2018/08/08/dianne-feinstein-was-an-easy-mark-for-chinas-spy/

Still, Beijing got its favored trade status extended thanks in part to Feinstein. In speeches on the Senate floor and newspaper op-eds, she shamelessly spun Chinas human-rights violations, as when in 1997 she compared Beijings 1989 massacre of hundreds of young demonstrators to the 1970 Kent State shootings, calling for the presidents of China and America to appoint a human-rights commission charting the evolution of human rights in both countries over the last 20 to 30 years, that would point out the successes and failures both Tiananmen Square and Kent State and make recommendations for goals for the future.
Feinstein also led efforts to bring China into the World Trade Organization in 1999, which gave Beijing permanent normal trade relations status and removed the annual congressional review of its human-rights and weapons-proliferation records.
Feinstein, still among the Senates most influential China doves, travels to China each year. Joining her on those trips is her mega-millionaire investor husband, Richard C. Blum, who has seemingly benefited greatly from the relationship.
Starting in 1996, as China was aggressively currying favor with his wife, Blum was able to take large stakes in Chinese state-run steel and food companies, and has brokered over $100 million in deals in China since then with the help of partners who sit on the boards of Chinese military front companies like COSCO and CITIC.
China investments have helped make Feinstein, who lives in a $17 million mansion in San Francisco and keeps a $5 million vacation home in Hawaii, one of the richest members in Congress.
Feinstein has insinuated that Trump is compromised by a foreign power. But its clear Feinstein has an alarming blind spot when it comes to China and national security.

Feinstein and Chinas Influence:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-03-me-44704-story.html

Thank you for the March 28 article chronicling the conflict of interest Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) faces with her husbands business interests in China.
It is mind-boggling that a politician cannot see this potential conflict of interest. When she is in a position to influence legislation regarding China and when her husband is in a position to profit from those decisions, thats a definite conflict.
There has been much published about Chinas attempts to influence the Democratic administration by laundering illegal contributions through various Asian organizations; millions of dollars have been returned as a result. If China shows a proclivity for such tactics, whats to stop its leaders from offering Feinsteins husband lucrative business contracts to curry favor with the senator?
Feinstein should excuse herself when voting in the Senate on issues relating to China or should eliminate all personal business interests in that country.

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@Unknown760

And Republicans are still shipping jobs overseas and that's a fact

Please show me more hard proof than your words.

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Unknown760 posted...

a conservative party who ships jobs overseas.

Actually....
It was Bill Clinton and the Democrats who brought China into the WTO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Relations_Act_of_2000

https://www.courierherald.com/letters/clinton-to-blame-for-current-fight-with-china-not-trump/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-world-opened-the-gates-of-china-1532701482

We're suffering from the aftermath of Democrats wise decision to sell out Americans to China to this very day.

China gets alot of their influence through Wall Street who influences Capitol Hill to sell out Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RggIqnDruYo

Wall Street continues to sell out to China for any promise of more $
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLt9RnWtdJg

Because of China's expanding power, they're influencing South Korea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndpsJ1xcec8

They plan on Biden resetting relationships in favor of China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTbwN__8dHo

And they'll continue influeincing our Politicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GhdZqMlps

Henry Kissinger is pro China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcQ0kMD-qo

But it seems like the West aren't willing to get off their butts to do something when a fellow Democracy like HK is taken over. They lack Cajones to stand up and do what's right for all the citizens of Hong Kong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20oQ6QlXAx0

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vigorm0rtis posted...

No. I'm not ashamed of it either, but being American wasn't something I achieved, I was born here.

I'm proud, but I wasn't born here, becoming a US Citizen has meaning for me.

The history of the country is inspirational to me and even with all it's imperfections, it's done alot of good for this world.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ajala

David Ajala, 34 y/o.

He's young enough, but has the looks to back it, along with looking the part and is physically fit.

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Heavy_D_Forever posted...

You should read a lot more American history TC

PMarth2002 posted...

darkest? it doesn't crack the top 100.

Doesn't even crack top 1000

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Ya'll should really try Gringo Bandito, it's good stuff.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

What's the deal with the push to organic and non-GMO foods?

Ignorance and fear mongering based on lack of understanding of science.

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FreedomEtrtment posted...

Thanks TC I needed this

No problem, it's fascinating what you learn if you watch news from around the world.

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Gears of War franchise?

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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

Gringo Bandito is my favorite Hot Sauce brand.

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clyde_frog posted...

Didnt USA Today literally endorse Biden for president? Lmao

All Media / Celebrities should be LEGALLY BARRED from mentioning who they support to try to swing an election in ANY direction.

ANY form of Speculation should be BARRED by ALL media, pundits, reporters, etc.

Just tell people to get out and VOTE should be enough.

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ExtremeLuchador posted...

Mexico? Where journalists and opposition politicians used to mysteriously die in car crashes?

They still do "Mysteriously die or disappear" right now, to this very moment.

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harley2280 posted...

People get real antsy about the federal government putting names on a list.

You're incredibly naive if you don't think the Federal Government doesn't have every single citizens name on their list already along with all those who aren't citizens who reside within the US borders.

Bio1590 posted...

How can one person be this close but also so, so far

How can you think that so many people are inept as adults to not have basic Valid ID when you need that basic feature for SOOO many things in your day to day life.

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TheLiarParadox posted...

Guess who's needed to push back, then guess who is targeted with their disenfranchisement tactics.

Then work on getting it LONG before election time and push back so that you have more hours.

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Will_VIIII posted...

Republicans don't go for that.

I'm not necessarily opposed to a national ID at no cost to the taxpayers and requiring it to vote if the conditions I outlined were to be met.

I'm all for "National ID" & "National Federalized Drivers License".

There's no reason to have 50 states + territory versions of Driver laws.

We have one "FAA" with one set of Flight regulations.

We can afford to have one set of ID's & Driver Licenses along with Driving Laws.

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Antifar posted...

The people pushing voter ID laws have also pushed to do the exact opposite of this, as I'm sure you know.

Then push back, I'm all for 24/7/365.

That's plenty of shifts for the DMV to run.

I've seen the lines at my local DMV, wouldn't hurt to run more shifts.

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Will_VIIII posted...

For something so critical to society, DMVs should be open from 7 am to 10 pm and on Saturday.

Then increase Local Government funding for DMV's, and expand their work hours to 7 days a week.

Hell, why don't you ask them to fund it so that it runs 24/7/365

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Blightzkrieg posted...

Like this statement is fucking dumb because it's a fact that millions of adults lack these IDs. Your entire position is based on your own sheltered and naive worldview rather than th actual truth of the situation.

And look at how many millions of Adults DO have ID's.

Because you didn't prioritize getting your own Photo ID vs doing Everything Else, you have to "Rush at the last Minute" to get it?

Election time isn't the only time in life you need a "Photo ID".

Air Travel, buying Alcohol, there are plenty of places that require "Photo ID" just to enter.

Not to mention getting a basic job.

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How are you an adult and not have valid Photo ID like a Drivers License or State ID?

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Or, for something more awesome:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33573417/carbon-dioxide-ethanol-catalyst/

As long as it can be used to replace modern Crude Oil distillation process, I'm all for it.


We get ALOT of use out of Crude Oil when we distill it.

If it can cost effectively replace all of that, then it becomes a better solution.

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Joker98 posted...

I agree. At some point in the future we need to move away from cars, or at least come up with energy neutral cars

https://energypost.eu/extract-co2-from-our-air-use-it-to-create-synthetic-fuels/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/carbon-capture-to-fuel-is-almost-here.htm

Carbon Capture & use it to manufacture Synthetic Gasoline / Petrol as needed.

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Shablagoo posted...

I dont use cars. Im saying we should restructure our society so cars are no longer needed.

(Although for the time being I guess the fewer people using public transportation during a pandemic, the better.)

There is a HUGE contingent of us Humans who DO NOT want to live in cramped cities or live close to each other.

The further apart we all are from each other, the better.

Cities aren't all what it's cracked up to be.

Many of us also like Automobiles, the freedom it brings and the fun & utility are great.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

so, we make polonium powered cars.

You can rub polonium on your genitals and it's harmless. Just don't get it inside you or stare at it too closely.

You really don't understand why using Nuclear Materials in a Automobile is a bad idea, do you?

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