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Her name is not "Blonde with a brain." You lied to me, duckbear.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

I want a farewell for Nat.

I feel like what she got - as sad and limited as it was - was fitting. The whole reason she sacrificed herself was because she knew she'd be missed less than Clint would, and she wasn't wrong. She had very few friends, no family, and basically no life outside of superheroing (and even that, she wasn't exactly top-tier at). A funeral anywhere close to the scale of Tony's would just feel contrived and implausible, since there simply weren't enough people in the world who cared about her enough to attend, nor enough people that she cared enough about to want them there. Bruce, Clint, and Steve mourned her at the time, but they're really the only ones who were actually devastated by losing her. If there were to be a farewell scene, it'd pretty much just be those three reminiscing over beer, not an actual memorial service, and I don't think it's altogether necessary to explicitly film that.
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Noop_Noop posted...

We should make a clear distinction between citizen and civilian.

4 years of public service should be a requirement for citizenship. Otherwise you don't vote and you don't run for office.

An interesting idea, but I don't think it's altogether practical. For one thing, public service jobs are already pretty bloated with a bunch of unnecessary bureaucracy, and that would only get worse if enough jobs had to be added for everyone to be able to spend four years in one (and if said jobs weren't added, then you've got the government picking who's allowed to vote, at which point you should abandon all pretense of democracy altogether). For another, you're talking about making people delay their actual educations and careers by four years if they want to vote, which would inevitably result in fewer, less-qualified professionals, as well as a voting base that's less educated overall, even if they have more experience in public service matters. Neither are a good thing.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

I've never thought about it before

But Mr Ratburn is like

Super gay

Pretty much exactly this.
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NightMareBunny posted...

i don't recall there being any hints or mentions of him being gay previously

... Did you not watch any of the episodes with him in them? Not to stereotype, but this doesn't even remotely surprise me.
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So... you can pay for the annual subscription with the savings from two games? For games that rarely go on sale, that's not actually a bad option to have.
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Zangulus posted...

Im never going to trust something that goes around with starfish sucking on its nipples.

Who doesn't have starfish sucking on their nipples?
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zebatov posted...

"Canadians" have the thirteenth sexiest accent, apparently. Which coast that belongs to, I have no idea.

To say nothing of the rather sizable amount of Canada between the various coasts. And then Newfies, because Newfies.
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zebatov posted...

Rape, or statutory rape?

I feel like you should be on a watch list for even asking this question.
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BlackScythe0 posted...

I don't play hardcore characters.

Why would I even take that risk?

Pretty much. I understand the philosophy that many people have toward hardcore, which is that playing a hardcore character gives the game more clearly defined victory/failure conditions (or if it's not a finite game, a failure state that they have to avoid, with the object of the game to get as far as possible), but playing as cautiously as is needed to succeed in hardcore mode just isn't my thing. I like being able to relax and/or take risks without losing the whole character.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

I haven't needed hydration.

Lol, energy drinks actually dehydrate due to the high caffeine and sugar levels.

This might surprise you, but energy drinks are drinks full of water. Drinking one can doesn't make you produce 500+ml of piss, any dieretic effect doesn't offset the water volume.

(Also I drink zero calorie)

Doesn't have to be a diuretic to be isotonic with blood and therefore not do anything to hydrate you.
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Kind of both >.>
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joemodda posted...

Aren't GPS's rigged to route you through pay-toll roads?

Mine lets me know if a route has a toll, allowing me to choose an alternate route if desired.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm sure you missing the multitude of signs saying "EZ Pass only" and the "stay right for cash lanes" signs had more to do with it.

You would think running into somebody and totaling his car because he was staring at his GPS instead of the road would teach him to pay a bit more attention to the road, but I guess not.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

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OhhhJa posted...

I always figured it was dumb to lie because it would just be kinda awkward when the pants came off.

At one level, yeah, but there usually aren't rulers involved when the pants come off, and women generally aren't that great at estimating wang sizes (men have a frame of reference in the form of their own willy, which helps). You're not going to be able to pass off a 4" member as a footlong, obviously, but if you say you've got an 8" schlong and you're really only packing a 7" package, you won't have to worry about any but the most attentive erection enthusiasts picking up on your dick deception.

Men have a frame of reference, but also usually guess wrong, as well... from what I've seen...

yeah before I worked construction I was bad at eyeballing something and getting a close enough guess.

hell even after i'm still probably off by half a inch at least usually.

I'm mostly envisioning one guy claiming to have an 8" dick sleeping with a guy who knows that his own dick is 7", and the first guy's being the same size or smaller. That pretty quickly exposes the deception. Women, on the other hand, tend not to be able to compare so easily.
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OhhhJa posted...

I always figured it was dumb to lie because it would just be kinda awkward when the pants came off.

At one level, yeah, but there usually aren't rulers involved when the pants come off, and women generally aren't that great at estimating wang sizes (men have a frame of reference in the form of their own willy, which helps). You're not going to be able to pass off a 4" member as a footlong, obviously, but if you say you've got an 8" schlong and you're really only packing a 7" package, you won't have to worry about any but the most attentive erection enthusiasts picking up on your dick deception.
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Made mother's day dinner for my girlfriend's mother, who's visiting for the weekend (baked mac & cheese, chocolate cake with vanilla italian buttercream (which didn't work out for some reason)), ate said dinner, cleaned up the kitchen, then spent the rest of the evening playing Factorio. Now it's bedtime.
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Like pretty much everything, there are benefits and drawbacks, meaning moderation is important.
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OhhhJa posted...

it really seems like the left celebrates abortions. Like it makes them giddy when someone has one.

[Citation needed]
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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

7 inches is average size.

Average for Americans is 5.1". 7" is most definitely not average. You should stop letting porn influence your perception of statistical reality.
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Steve is pretty noble, but that doesn't mean it should be capitalized.
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So if unborn babies are legally considered people, does that mean that incarcerating pregnant women opens the government up to wrongful imprisonment lawsuits for jailing the innocent person inside her?
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I don't know about you, but I was definitely having feelings of attraction at that age. Dating simply means acting on those feelings, not necessarily banging.
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wwinterj25 posted...

I wouldn't count walking around at work and/or being stood on your feet as exercise. It certainly isn't on the same level as hiking or anything like that.

You might be surprised. If you spend even a quarter of an eight-hour day walking around, even indoors, you're going to have walked 8-10 km. That's not the same level of exercise as you'd get from hiking the same distance over rugged terrain, certainly, but it's definitely enough to qualify as being active.
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I did one because the cashier at Michaels told me it would net me a coupon for 25% off a whole order that would stack with the 40% off coupons they hand out for single items, and that said coupon wouldn't expire, but then the coupon I got wouldn't stack and only lasted for like two weeks. I was displeased but also haven't really gone looking for anything at Michaels since so whatever.
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SirPikachu posted...

And a cell phone period is still a luxury, you can just answer phone calls on a landline or a s***ty cell plan

A landline isn't going to save you that much over a cheaper cell, and won't be able to handle texts (which are now a very common way for employers to communicate with employees). You still don't need anything top-of-the-line, of course (see: my phone), but there's a pretty solid argument to be made that owning a cell phone is necessary, especially for anyone looking for work.

SirPikachu posted...

and answer emails by going to the public library

Even at minimum wage, the opportunity cost of that (realistically, it's going to be at least an hour out of each day unless you live right next door to the library) is going to be greater than just having your own internet at home, and will quickly pay for an internet-capable device. It's a bit different if you're job hunting and your time therefore isn't actually worth anything, but even then it's an asset to be able to answer emails faster than one can without home internet and an internet-capable device, especially when you also consider that being tied to a landline means potentially missing calls from employers if you have to leave the house to check your emails.

Beyond the general necessity of a cell phone, though, it is worth noting that smartphones are one of the most cost-effective quality of life improvements a person can have. With a single device, you get internet access (for free at public wifi hotspots) and all that entails (namely entertainment and socializing), the ability to communicate with others long-distance (friends, family, professional contacts...), a camera (mostly for entertainment purposes, but also a valuable asset for anyone looking for work in a field where portfolios are expected), a clock, a calendar/planner, games (many of which come at no additional cost), a music player, and a wealth of other useful and/or enjoyable features that would all cost much more if they were purchased individually. These aren't all truly necessary things, but they're nice to have, and if your luxury spending budget is tight, getting them with something as cost-effective as a smartphone is actually a very sensible decision.
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Welp. That's gotta hurt.
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zebatov posted...

Overtime is also a thing.

Yes, but the whole point of the discussion is that overtime shouldn't be needed, particularly where overtime isn't a thing in many jobs. Full-time work at minimum wage should be enough to get by reasonably comfortably (that is, basic necessities taken care of and enough left over for life to not completely suck). Overtime (whether at a higher rate of pay or just the extra hours) should be a bonus on top of that to add some extra cash to the coffers, not something that's necessary to pick up minimum wage's slack.
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zebatov posted...

on $15/hr.

That's not minimum wage in most of Canada, and it certainly wasn't when 2013 cars were brand new (Alberta's rise to $15 only came last October, and it's currently the only province with that minimum). If you're going to make claims about minimum wage, you should probably actually talk about minimum wage.

zebatov posted...

I afforded a brand-new (financed) 5.2L 2013 Silverado (~$450/m), insurance ($250/m), gas ($300/m) phone @ Canadian prices ($80+/m) $200-$300/m for food, with $700 rent for a bedroom on $15/hr.

That's a total of $2080/month. At the average Canadian minimum wage of $12.49/hour, that'd be 166.5 hours of work per month, or 4.16 40-hour weeks. On average, a month is 4.35 weeks long, or 173.8 hours of work if you're doing 40-hour weeks, working out to a total of $2171/month. So yeah, at those prices, it's doable, but I'd hardly call a $91/month surplus "easily doable." Especially where you've left out utilities (easily another $100-200/month, depending on where you are), vehicle maintenance, and other recurring expenses. That gets even worse if the full-time position in question only consists of 35 hours per week, in which case you simply can't make up that $2080 at $12.49.

That said, Canadian minimum wages are generally alright. Terribly inadequate for some of the more expensive cities, and a little bit more room for luxury spending would be nice so life at minimum wage isn't devoid of fun, but they're at least moving in the right direction. Most of the minimum wage discussions here are talking about American minimum wages, which tend to be more in the $7-8 range and far less adequate for subsistence (let alone living a quasi-decent life).

CTLM posted...

Problem is, the people who say they NEED a cellphone are the ones who are the people who have the $800+ phones. I have never met a person who said they absolutely must have one who didn't have a super expensive, top-tier phone.

I have a flip phone that I paid $20 for over 7 years ago that is literally falling apart that I continue using because I'm too cheap to upgrade, and I will happily say that I need a cell phone. A land line would suffice, but be much less convenient and not that much cheaper. Consider your anecdotal impression invalidated.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

A part of every group turns out to be scumbags.

Pretty much. Celebrity scumbags are just more visible.
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aDirtyShisno posted...

Not voting no is not solidarity its failure to do ones job. Literally all but 3 Democrats said they gave up because they cant have their way. Children, all of them.

I mean, if you know for a fact you're going to be outvoted and it's not a matter where you could end up with any sort of proportional representation, there isn't that much point in voting. There's also not much point in not voting, given that it's not like they had any other work to do instead of attending the vote, but it's not like they had any harmful effect on their cause by abstaining.

There is also re-election to consider. By abstaining, they deprive their future opponents of the ability to say "don't vote for ____ because he wanted to kill babies," which is not an invalid strategic move. Probably a pointless one, since the issue of abortion is so clearly divided along party lines that anyone against it would vote against the Democrat anyway, but understandable.
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Gunsandredroses posted...

$15 minimum wage: We demand up to 105% more pay for doing zero additional work.

Current minimum wage: We demand that you do the same amount of work for 52% less purchasing power than we gave people when the current laws were put together.

Yeah, it's a big jump, and that's rough, but it's only a big jump because the laws haven't been keeping up with inflation. The people who campaigned against making smaller jumps are in no position to complain about the big jump that's needed to solve the problem they campaigned to create.

Gunsandredroses posted...

Companies can't afford to pay you more than they do if you don't earn them more money.

adjl posted...

The cost of living is the cost of having a human do a job. If you can't afford to pay for an employee's cost of living, then you can't afford to hire them. If an employee's cost of living is greater than the income they will generate for you, then you have failed as a business and need the government to bail you out by paying your employees the rest of the salary you owe them. It's that simple, as tempting as it is to hide behind hideously outdated minimum wage laws and pretend you're doing well enough.

Covered that already.

BlackScythe0 posted...

So you're making wild claims about working full time (35+ hours a week) at 11 which is illegal and now it's skipping grades instead of getting a GED? And had time to do some crimes that kept you out of the military?

To say nothing of having a writing style that very strongly suggests he was in no position to be skipping grades.
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Moneymoney posted...

Hourly pay is based on what you can provide

If, as a business owner, you're looking to buy a machine to do a task, but the machine costs more to maintain than you would be able to make by running it, do you demand that the machine be maintained at a loss so you can operate it at a profit? Or do you accept that you need to design your tasks more economically so you either turn a greater profit by using the machine or don't need it?

The cost of living is the cost of having a human do a job. If you can't afford to pay for an employee's cost of living, then you can't afford to hire them. If an employee's cost of living is greater than the income they will generate for you, then you have failed as a business and need the government to bail you out by paying your employees the rest of the salary you owe them. It's that simple, as tempting as it is to hide behind hideously outdated minimum wage laws and pretend you're doing well enough.
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If you can't afford to pay your full-time workers enough for them to survive comfortably, then you've failed as a business owner.

That said, I think mandating a minimum wage at a federal level is stupid because it doesn't take into account the extreme variation in cost of living. Minimum wage should be legislated based on median rent and food costs within some reasonable radius of the workplace (e.g. a half-hour drive, provided the wage also takes the costs of driving into account) in question, which means that the minimum wage for a McD's in the Bay Area is going to be substantially higher than the minimum wage for a McD's in a small town.
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DeltaBladeX posted...

adjl posted...

There's a third one free in the Tiny Build sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/438680/One_Troll_Army/

That one was free to play with a discounted DLC, the other two are temporarily free.

Well then. Disregard. I just saw it listed in the freebie section of the sale.
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There's a third one free in the Tiny Build sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/438680/One_Troll_Army/
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