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Cacciato posted...

You dont just put your back to the shower head and then her back to you?

im also a little ashamed for posting in a Philoktetes topic without just immediately calling him out on the copy/paste thing

But then you're getting all the water and she's naked in a shower and probably wet which gets really fucking cold really quickly.

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Answer is entirely contingent on whether we get a new, even more in-depth Chao Garden. Because that was the sole reason I played SA2 for any amount of time and the reason I subjected myself to some of those ridiculous levels over and over.

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Dmess85 posted...

11. Insulting the Philips CD-i Games without having played them

If you show me a photograph of a wet, runny poop, I don't need to be in the same room to know that it stinks. I've seen Youtubers play the CD-i games. I've watched a lot of YTps. The CD-i games suck and I haven't played them.

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Jobs get lost. I don't see people who used to manufacture typewriters throwing a fit. Shit gets phased out. It's unfortunate if it was your livelihood but that's no excuse to cling to an archaic or harmful system.

And yeah I think the government should probably make an effort to help people displaced by federal policy changes find new work or at least pay for them to take courses on how to work in the new way.

But honestly the writing has been on the wall for fossil fuels for literally fifty years. Republicans love to tell people their misfortune is their own fault. In the case of people who have careers in fossil fuel industry affiliated positions, yeah, actually, you should have seen this coming.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Tons of people still use cash, even if you don't.

If anything, the people most likely to still be using cash are also the ones most likely to be annoyed by the change.

The difference is, you can always choose which stamp you want.

If you go to the Post Office and ask to buy stamps, they'll usually give you a selection of at least 3-4 different options... the US flag is generally default, they'll often have holiday themed stamps at certain times of year (so maybe a stamp with holly on it around Christmas), sometimes they have "icon" stamps for honoring people (whether feminist icons or political figures or famous musicians or whatever), and sometimes they have other commemorative stamps (like, say, having a stamp with a lunar lander on it to represent the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing).

So if, say, I'm filled with rage about anything involving Christmas, I can ask for something other than Christmas-themed stamps if I buy them. I'm given a choice.

If they officially change who is on the $20, no matter who or what they put on it, people really don't have much choice (other than to not use cash at all) as to which bills they're getting or using. They're stuck taking what they're given.

Personally, I think they should drop the "honor" aspect entirely (because in our current outrage society, no matter WHO they choose to put on a bill, it's going to annoy someone, because literally no politician, public figure, or celebrity we've ever had in this country is completely pure and free from controversy or "problematic" actions). We should just go the Euro route and have the money be mostly symbolism and buildings or eagles or whatever, with no people at all.

I don't disagree with any of this either.

Money is numbers. Make the physical representation of money also have numbers. We don't need people on money.

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Paper money is already more or less archaic so it's a purely symbolic move that a lot of people wouldn't even notice. I can't remember the last time I had cash in my wallet.

I have no issue with it symbolically. I just don't think it matters. It'd be like putting a feminist icon on a stamp. Who really cares at the end of the day and what does it change

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I don't feel compelled to check the news every hour to see what fresh dumb shit has transpired. It's also reassuring to see that serious action is being taken on covid, both restrictions and vaccine acceleration. Trump pretty much gave up even mentioning covid for the last two months let alone doing anything about it.

Politics being boring is a-ok with me.

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During lockdown I've been letting my beard grow longer than it ever has before (more than an inch or so) and the stiffness of the hair is now starting to bother me. Any internet search just yields a ton of products that advertise a lot of bullshit jargon about "growth and thickness" and I just need something that will make the hair softer but not leave a residue that will feel oily to the touch or make me smell from across the room like some people I've known before.

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Two slices of unbuttered toast coming right up.

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MasterChiefer posted...

Have him bring you the bills hes been getting and tell him youll pay some of them directly. That way youre not directly giving him money and if hes bullshitting it will be rather obvious.

This. I do the same thing when people hang around restaurants and takeout places asking for money because they're "hungry." I offer to take them inside and buy them something from the menu and suddenly they're not interested or they have reasons why that won't work. You either directly handle what they're asking you for or you don't drop a cent.

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These people are practically openly acknowledging they're in a cult and that their leader used them but rather than stepping back and harshly scrutinizing their life choices they're doubling down and saying they're gonna continue forward without Trump or looking for a new dictator to direct them.

I genuinely don't see how these people can be reasoned with or ever made a productive, peaceful part of the union again. They just don't fit with any civilized society and they are immune to rational discourse and education.

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Some of these are way too vague and there are a few in the intelligence/wisdom category that are clearly attempting to trick the test taker in a very specific way and have nothing to do with general intelligence. And getting food poisoning once in your life doesn't mean your constitution sucks it means you probably went to a restaurant that undercooked your chicken.

Also looking at the results it doesn't feel like the stats are reflective of the bell curve nature of a lot of these questions. For example feats of strength become exponentially harder as you increase the weight involved--you can't assign a linear increase in score to that. E.g. Military pressing 200 pounds is not simply 33% harder than pressing 150.

All that being said I think it's a cool concept.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

It's because they expect everyone acts like they do when we don't. Any time they accuse us of something you should be aware it's because it is a thing they do or want to do.

It makes sense when you think about it. Right wing politics is more or less constructed on the idea of "fuck you, got mine." So it shouldn't be surprising when people who subscribe to that philosophy assume everyone else does the same. Which is why right wing people always interpret attempts by the left to benefit all of humanity as some veiled personal power grab. Like climate science is a scam because those nefarious scientists are only claiming to be trying to keep the planet inhabitable so they can somehow make tons of money and have power. And restructuring the economic system to be more bottom up is a communist plot to focus power within the Clinton family. Or something. I don't quite get the specifics of how their brains work.

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Dikitain posted...

Had it, was bored off my ass.

Honestly I would rather a job where I was so busy that I feel like there is not enough time in the day to get everything done then a job where I was sitting around doing nothing. Problem is that when you spend so much time doing nothing, it is hard to get motivated to do something when you actually do have things to do.

Second this. Also, you start to resent that you're essentially wasting your life sitting in a place symbolically to earn money when you're not really working and you could be anywhere else. It starts to eat at you.

Also the days are loooong.

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I love when people try to defend Trump's behavior by stating that "all politicians are 'xyz'" as if any other president of either party has ever been remotely comparable. There have been presidents who are liars and presidents who are criminals and presidents who are sleazebags but never has there been one who is all three and also a moron and a childish narcissist on top of it.

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I would've thought even Zeus would have the decency or good sense to shut the fuck up and stop trying to defend Trump after what happened yesterday but I shouldn't be surprised he's still contriving a way to make it look like Trump did anything resembling good leadership and adult behavior.

re: topic title, no. He has built his entire career and persona on the idea that he's a genius and can't possibly lose at anything unless the other side cheats. He cannot and will not ever admit he made a mistake.

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eating4fun posted...

Dang, mr businessman doing business is avoiding the shutdown.

"I don't like this thing and I'm gonna say I don't want it the way it is right at the end even though I could have said something at any point before now and saved everyone a lot of time and effort and panic and by raising objections at the 11th hour I'm going to raise a ton of logistical issues."

. . .

"Ok fine I'll sign it as is a few days later."

***Businessman deals A+***

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Primaries and general elections aren't the same thing?

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LuciferSage posted...

there's literally no excuse for making the same mistakes 20ish years later.

that being said, i really don't hate DQXI, it has a lot of charm.

i just think at this point that DQ peaked at DQVIII.

. . . So you're agreeing with me then.

I'm saying breath of fire was clunky and so is DQXI but it is relatively a greater game design sin for DQ because it's much newer but just as clunky.

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LuciferSage posted...

Go play Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter for 30 hours and then tell me how bad DQXI is...

That game is almost 20 years old. DQXI is current gen. I have played the former and I didn't get very far for the same reasons, but at least I can give it a bit more leeway because of its age.

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I couldn't deal with it. I got maybe a dozen hours in before I bailed. I like old school rpgs but dragon quest is a series that hangs on to all the worst, archaic parts of rpgs and it feels super clunky and slow and tedious to play to me. Tons of tiny little quality of life user interface issues that other rpgs have solved long ago but for whatever reason dragon quest is stuck in the early 1990s in every single regard.

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It's bothering me because it probably should be pronounced Kay Eff Sonsul but that just don't sound right

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Good, people need to go work instead of sucking on the teet of government. Also, that bill did more harm than good.

Maybe you didn't notice but there's a pandemic going on and we've lost millions of jobs.

Far-Queue posted...

I don't understand the $600/$1200/$2000 whatever one-time payment. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to burn the check if I recieve it, but it's going right into my savings for when I inevitably have to pay it back. I don't need the money, I've been working throughout the pandemic. I'm sure there's plenty of employed people who would spend that money, but don't necessarily need to. They have income.

You aren't going to have to pay it back and it's not taxable.

As far as why give money to people who still have jobs, I think the reasoning is that if you only give money to the unemployed/ extend unemployment benefits, you're essentially just indirectly paying the renters and mortgage companies of the world. That doesn't stimulate the economy, it only keeps people from being evicted. Whereas people who are still employed but may be more fiscally stingy right now out of caution can take that extra money and immediately spend it at local businesses, which does help keep the economy rolling and prevent more job loss. I have also remained fully employed and paid through this entire pandemic and I plan to immediately spend the entire stimulus check on various products and takeout from my favorite local places. I want them to survive.


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Unbridled9 posted...

Hey. Let's be fair here. Trump's not only been on the campaign trail (which takes a lot of time and focus) but part of the whole reason we HAVE things like the senate is so that the president CAN'T do exactly that and/or just write the whole bill himself.

Trump could have publicly expressed his support for a $2000 check right off the bat and all it would have taken was ten seconds of twitter activity. If McConnell had known Trump wouldn't sign the bill otherwise he probably wouldn't have fought so hard for a $600 check for so long.

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Archgoat posted...

I don't disagree about the stimulus not being enough and too much pork, but if he really felt that strongly about the $2000 check then he should of been pushing his own party instead of doing nothing.

Right. Seven months they've been arguing over this bill and all that time Trump could have been siding with the democrats saying we needed larger checks and pushing McConnell to accept it, but instead he waits until they finalize the bill to say something. Now it's going to take even longer.

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Ogurisama posted...

Also posting scans/pictures of terms of employment can be a cause of termination or even lawsuits at some employers. Sure maybe one part might not be sensitive information, but one part can. And the terms of employment its basically has to be all or none for just reasonnto far.

I was mostly refusing to find and copy and post my own employment contract because Zeus isn't worth the time it would take for me to dig for it to prove something I have no earthly reason to lie about only for him to then move the goalpost arbitrarily.

But also yes because I am technically not even allowed to talk about what I do on a day to day basis other than acknowledging that I work in a research lab, yes, it probably would be seriously frowned upon if I pasted my employment contract onto some message board.

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Zeus posted...

It'd be so much easier for you to just admit that you're full of crap instead of everybody's time with an excuse that lame. You tried to make a point by making shit up and you got called on it. Just own it and move on.

Or how about you could spend five seconds googling "can employers require vaccines" like I just did and find this from the website of a random research university that I don't even work at with positions similar to the people I work with listed, and I quote:

"Those entering the Medical Assistant/Laboratory Assistant, AAS Medical Laboratory Technician, AAS
Medical Coding & Billing, and AAS Health Administration programs requiring externships as part of the
program curriculum may require documented proof of certain vaccinations"

Now shut the fuck up Zeus and stop being a complete tool 24/7/365

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From everything I've read the vaccine is only supposed to prevent you from experiencing severe symptoms. One of the reasons they were able to fast track the vaccine is because they didn't test for its efficacy and preventing you from remaining a spreader. So a significant percent of the population needs to be vaccinated before we can just ditch the masks altogether.

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RampageHowl posted...

You can cherry pick any stats you like, now whats the ACTUAL percentage of death from corona? Say tomorrow I go to the store, whats my odds of dying? Extremely small, not worth freaking out over, not worth giving government control of your life, not worth ****. Stop living in fear.

Infection fatality rate is literally what percent of people who get it die from it. That's not cherry picked it's a direct rebuttal to your bullshit math and rationale.

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RampageHowl posted...

Idk man, should we all quit our jobs and stay home 24/7? Because driving to work has a greater chance of death than corona. There are risks to everything we do, we cannot live in fear wrapped in bubble wrap.

Covid has approximately a 1% infection fatality rate. If driving to work every day were the same risk then statistically everyone in the world who drives to work would die about twice a year on average.

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Jen0125 posted...

I can get that but people need financial help like... Months ago.

We shouldn't need to see who is Senate majority to do what is in people's best interests.

Well we keep electing these assholes and they keep looking out primarily for their own interests and focusing on their own reelections so I'm not sure whose fault it really is at the end of the day. There's maybe like ten people in all of congress who genuinely try to do their jobs and happen to be reelected by virtue of their job performance.


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streamofthesky posted...

Ok, not sure what's with all these new-deleted posts, but if you want to bump the topic, just post something. I was considering it yesterday, but saw it had only been a day since the last post so I let it lay.
It's genuinely really annoying.

*sigh* Since I'm posting anyway, idea for the Part 3's title: Turncoat Toddler Trump's Terrible Tedious Tawdry Tantrum: The Trilogy

You could find a way to fit a form of the word 'treason' in there somewhere probably. I know turncoat is almost synonymous but it needs to be emphasized.

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Because trolling is legal but cutting their hands off isn't.

Scalpers are scum. No matter what product they're manipulating.

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It is amazing that year after year Valve is somehow unable to keep their servers running correctly during the major sales. And that they take no preventative measures despite it happening like clockwork every single year.

I say 'amazing' and not 'suprising' because it I am not surprised in the slightest.

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I also like that they're specifically suggesting he redo elections in swing states only, as if swing state is a specific quantifiable metric that applies to particular states and not an arbitrary designation being used for states where he lost by a small margin rather than a large one. Or that redoing those elections in a way that results in him winning by a few thousand votes would change the fact that he lost the popular vote by millions.

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It's not like the people who push trickle down economics base much else of their political platform on reality or facts so this isn't likely to change anything.

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Zeus posted...

Or, you know, you just fucking post a citation to back up your bullshit claim which is what I asked for in the first place rather than some anecdotal shit where you pretend it was a clause in your employment agreement and then claim that you can't access that paperwork because "reasons"

Why on Earth would I make it up and why would I go to the lengths necessary to prove to you I'm not lying about something totally mundane when you're a completely nonsensical human being who would continue to argue that knives don't exist as he's being stabbed to death just because you can't go five minutes without arguing against something for no discernible reason.

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Zeus posted...

Then you could pull out your employment paperwork and show me.

Yeah let me just dig up my employment contract and upload a photo of it so I can prove to you that I'm not lying about a mundane point on the internet for no fucking reason jesus christ Zeus are you a real person or are you a computer program designed to be illogically contrary and annoying?

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Zeus posted...

Citation?

Literally my own job that I have right now.

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Employers can require that you have a tetanus and MMR vaccine, this is no different. If you're skeptical about the vaccine because you don't know about it that's not the employer's problem it's yours.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

What exactly is it made of

It's meat. It's grown using the same chemical reactions and processes your body naturally uses to produce tissue. It's just that the meat was never attached to a nervous system or a living animal. Theoretically it should be indistinguishable from 'real' meat once they get the process perfected.

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Zareth posted...

Libertarians fantasize about a world with no laws where they live in their own fortresses and shoot anyone who comes near, don't try and apply logic to them.

They also like to ignore the fact that no country has ever had a successful libertarian government, the fact that the countries in the world with the highest standard of living by pretty much any metric are all countries with very large governments, the fact that the countries with "small" governments are more or less all third world countries run by warlords, and the fact that pretty much all of human history has demonstrated that if you take away structure and put more autonomy and responsibility in the hands of individuals, they will fuck each other over for short term gains 100% of the time.

IMO hardcore libertarians are all just people with no understanding of history or significant superiority complexes and I've never met one who didn't clearly fit into one of those two categories.

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Smarkil posted...
The government doesn't need a law to keep me from killing myself. That's fucking stupid.

If you fly off your motorcycle and end up in a coma rather than having a few scrapes and bruises, you're draining resources from society. Even if you have health insurance preventing you from being accountable for the cost of your hospital stay that doesn't mean the taxpayers aren't covering it. I would rather my tax dollars go towards something productive and not medical expenses for people who chose to not follow common sense safety measures. Not to mention the hospital staff who need to attend to you when they could be trying to save the life of someone who is dying through no fault of their own.

If you're willing to sign a waiver that says you incur 100% of the cost of any injury sustained when not following safety rules and that you volunteer to forfeit your hospital bed the moment another patient comes in, then by all means, ride without a helmet. But you don't live in a vacuum and the consequences of your poor choices don't only affect your health. Wear a god damn helmet because you're not cool or edgy or badass for being reckless.

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RampageHowl posted...

No. I'm a big boy and I don't need big brother watching over my back telling me what I need or don't need to do. Same with helmets, Michigan finally is a helmet free state and I take the Harley out helmetless BECAUSE I CHOOSE TO. Its funny how people actually like gov't deciding what we can and can't do. Sheep.

I find it hilarious that people will unironically call others sheep for following rules that are meant to protect them and legitimately believe they're being intelligent and somehow less naive by risking their safety. You're not cool or rebellious for thinking helmet and seatbelt regulations are some "big brother" scenario. That's just dumb.

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hypnox posted...

I am in the boat that believes they committed an act that was labeled as a crime and sentenced accordingly and thus should stay their sentence.

Problem with that line of thinking in this case is that most things that are illegal are morally objectionable or damaging to society whereas growing or consuming marijuana is neither and so it was never "bad" to break that law. The law should not have existed and was implemented purely as a means of controlling a certain segment of the population.

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streamofthesky posted...

Fixed.

We may well need a Part 3 to this topic, lol

I'll bring mixed nuts and a variety of drinks.

If Trump hasn't given up yet it's unlikely he will before January 20. Or maybe even then. I was thinking before that there's no way he'd even try to stay in the Whitehouse after Biden's inauguration but given his attitude as of the last day or so and the fact that even wormshit-human hybrid Mitch McConnell has now turned on him, I kind of want to see him try to stay.

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Mead posted...

That is a very stupid thing to believe without any evidence suggesting it could be true

It's the same kind of dumb logic of people who think there is already a cure for cancer but doctors are hiding it in order to somehow make money even though doctors and their family members and the richest people in the world still die of cancer and also it's a fundamentally idiotic idea.

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Yellow posted...

This is not an elaborate debate. The claims made by Trump and his team have been debunked, end of story. Even if you haven't debunked every single one, just one or two caught lies should be enough.

Now let's go back to a simpler time, back to 2010, when Donald Trump was well known for his con artist career.

It's. Donald. Trump.

From the fake universities to the vax denial, the guy is fucking crazy, and always has been. Congratulations to 40% of the country for worshipping him.

"But he's rich because he says he's rich and he can't be a liar or a loser because he's rich because he says he's rich and rich people don't lose things so Trump can't be a loser or a liar and I like him because he tells the truth and wins."

-Literally dozens of million people

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BUMPED2002 posted...

LOL I'm of the opinion that there was a vaccine before the virus was launched sort of like recording an album then putting the band together after the fact.

I don't understand how people like you function day to day

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SunWuKung420 posted...

There was all that talk about a SARS vaccine.

There was but then SARS blew over and people being people the development of a vaccine more or less halted because we don't like spending money on preventative health measures. Luckily we were able to pick up that research and that's why we have a covid-19 vaccine so quickly. That and international motivation.

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