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Snow, because fools tend to drive normally in heavy rain but treat snow with at least some measure of respect. And things get cancelled in snow, leading to fewer fools on the road to begin with.

Revisited posted...

Oh my God that sounds amazing, and here I was painstakingly casting break on every enemy so that they'd just give me GF points instead of exp, I could have used that!!!

Card also works, as does devour.

Revisited posted...

Ok I've been searching around and I need to know what this bizarre strategy is to keep squall dead, why?

To keep him from leveling while leveling up your GFs and also collecting magic and items. Then when you get to endgame the mobs are his level while he's severely OP.

Pretty sure Somalia exists without police as we know them. Doesn't mean it's a place anyone really wants to live, but society can and does survive.

Perhaps the most important point: If my SO invited them, why aren't they preparing something?

MrMojoRising posted...

At least Russia is fighting an actual military with support from a superpower. The IDF is just massacring people.

Amazing how the enemy wearing uniforms and not hiding among civilians helps keep the civilian casualties down.

wackyteen posted...

Sounds like modern America <_< Immigrants exploited to do the jobs the regular citizenry doesn't want to do.

If it had a thousand times the mortality rate, maybe. It's been probably 20 years since I read it but it was something like 1/3 of people didn't live through their service to get citizenship.

Gurifisu posted...

Now that I think about it, that'd be pretty crazy if that was just every country that did it like the US. Pick a country, get free citizenship and then the first 4 to 6 years you not only get paid, but don't have any rent to pay and food is covered too, so then you just spend that time saving up to start your new life when you get out. The choice would be so easy for weebs.

Most people are only familiar with the (rather terrible) movie rather than the book. Citizenship was only earned after your term of service, however long that service was. For those not fit to serve in the military, other life-threatening duties could be found: hostile environment construction, medical experimentation, etc. The point was that no one who wouldn't risk their life for the state deserved to vote or hold office, and the state was constantly in a world war level of conflict such that many who signed up for service didn't live to get citizenship.

Karovorak posted...

Sometimes I'm wondering how these people on social media are able to live in the real world.

Delusion is a hell of a drug.

creativerealms posted...

Yes.

When Starship troopers (the film) did that we the audience are suppose to realize that's a bad thing

The difference being that in Starship Troopers military service was one of the ONLY ways to gain citizenship. No one was born a citizen.

cjsdowg posted...

So there best defense is they were in tanks ppl came running for food since we been holding that. Then we feared for our lives while these people were running to our tanks so we shot at them. And becuae of that Stampede..happened. Am I getting this right?

Apparently many were killed because the truck drivers drove over them. There's no confirmed breakdown as to how many died of what causes.

Viewer discretion advised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEncPLLA11M

WingsOfGood posted...

which movie?

C.H.U.D.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.

texanfan27 posted...

Any aid sent should be handled by outside forces. Cant trust the IDF to handle it.

Truthfully someone needs to step in and force the IDF to stop

No one else is dumb enough to want to put boots on the ground.

WingsOfGood posted...

what if you call a known leftist a chud? what if someone called you that?

I've been moderated for that.

WingsOfGood posted...

wait is this rooted in racism?

It's from the movie and means cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers. You're basically calling someone a subhuman.

Jupiter posted...

If you use a line break instead of space, people can still copy and paste the link without altering anything.

I've never had issues copy/pasting links even with multiple spaces. Could be the browser you're using.

MisterPengy posted...

I remember watching a show about a guy who had a stupidly large dick. I feel like it was 11 inches, but it's been years so I dunno.

Anyway the dude was basically a virgin because no chick could take it, and most didn't event want to try. So appreciate what ya got.

I remember seeing something about a guy with a stupidly large dick, the photos showed a visible bulge in his pants the size of his forearm hanging down his leg almost to his knee. And that was flaccid.

I think I have a frozen pizza, some chicken salad, four bananas, and instant oatmeal.

Heineken14 posted...

He would still need to get 270 or it'd go to Congress, no?

There's no way he's getting 270, so yes it would go to the house. That's why he'd have to get at least third in the EC, because the house is only allowed to choose between the three candidates with the most EC votes.

Edit: also, the house vote is even more stacked against Democrats than the EC is, since each state gets one vote regardless of population. I don't know off hand whether DC gets a vote since they're not a state but do get EC votes. Using the 2020 election results it would be a 25-25 split, with DC going blue if it does get a vote.

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Theoretically possible, so long as he comes in third in the electoral vote. Wildly improbable but technically possible.

Mr_Karate_II posted...

How is squatting even legal?

As BBT implied, what we call "squatter's rights" are actually two different things. The more common version that most people think of as "squatter's rights" isn't actually squatting at all, it's just abusing the generous protections renters have against landlords. I'm pretty sure removing the toilet would be illegal in Illinois, even if the tenant didn't have a lease. I know removing doors or changing locks is illegal.

Actual squatter's rights are much longer term, technically called "adverse possession". It can take the form of living in an abandoned building but more often applies to land itself. For example, if you have a pasture where you feed livestock but part of it extends onto a neighboring property, you can eventually file to have the property lines redrawn to give you formal title to that land. The biggest hurdles there are 1) the owner has to know you are using the land 2) the owner has not taken any steps to remove you from the land and 3) you've been using the land for a very long time, anywhere from 10-20 years depending on state.

Dungeater posted...

anyway its Dark Souls youtubers

Ah, I wouldn't have known. Three of those four countries are home to geology channels I watch, and the fourth is arguably covered by the guy born in Canada but living in South Korea.

Bump for day CE.

I forgot to list Serbia.

CSCA33 posted...

Maybe if you read the article, you will understand better. Many people have been misgendering him, and this is super common for trans people early in transition and/or trans kids to be frequently misgendered.

FYI, being non-binary doesnt mean someone uses they/them pronouns. Pronouns =/= gender

Actually read the article youre responding to -

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/fight-hasnt-ruled-cause-nex-benedicts-death-police-say-rcna140780

I read it before my first post and it says nothing about why they switched pronouns. Apparently he used both he/him and they/them pronouns.

Ally, who uses they/them pronouns and asked to go by only their first name to protect their privacy, said in an interview that they were close friends with Nex.
It was one of those things where you meet them and you automatically feel like youve known them for years kind of thing, Ally said Sunday before a vigil for Nex, whom they met at the start of the school year. They were such an adventurous little thing. It was never really a dull moment with them.

Ally said Nex primarily went by he/him pronouns at school but also used they/them pronouns, which Nex's family also used. Several other friends said Nex preferred he/him pronouns.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/vigil-friends-remember-nex-benedict-fiery-kid-rcna140440

bigblu89 posted...

The 10 feet rule would basically make it impossible to travel via commercial airline.

But think how much you could make as a lumberjack. Look boss, no chainsaw!

Music_Rock_Cat posted...

I was reading some article on that Air Force Member who passed away and it said something about how US Soldiers were involved in the genocide secretly or some shit like that. Idk it was just like woah

I've seen headlines of that but only from sources that are... sketchy at best. Like further right than Fox News level of sketchy. I haven't bothered to read any of them but I really doubt there's anything to it.

Umbreon posted...

Money.

The ban would have to be lifetime and irreversible (No other accounts ever again) for me to even consider it otherwise.

This. Mapaxing and KOS one user might be worth it. One single account with nothing to prevent them from coming back is worthless.

Robot2600 posted...

wasnt there some thing where the silo soldiers had to use all the rocket fuel to not freeze to death or something?

Doubt it, as storable rocket fuels (solid rocket fuels or room temperature fuels, not cryogenically chilled liquid fuels) tend to be absurdly toxic if you're too close to them, either before or after being burned. It's not anywhere close to siphoning diesel out of a T-90.

Almost certainly a high percentage of them are not operational without years of lead time, but no one is going to bet that ALL of them are nonfunctional. Even a couple dozen is still a credible deterrent. For instance the UK only has about 40 usable at any given time; France, India, and Pakistan are at a similar level. Russia supposedly has 1500 or so ready to be used at any given time, so even 1% of them being functional could lead millions to having a very bad day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fSGukQknN0

Punished_Blinx posted...

The pandemic did fuck with expectations with games for a bit. I think a lot of companies and investors thought of it as a 'to the moon!' moment. Now reality has set in.

In saying that unless these companies find something new that continues to drive up spending or users they were going to hit this point eventually. We're kinda at the point where no one has a great answer.

Like most industries, they're chasing trends that haven't happened yet. If they see a downward trend in the industry two years from now, they're not going to wait until they're running a deficit to start cutting back. That can possibly lead to self fulfilling prophecies, but the companies that don't do it tend to go broke and close.

Zoks posted...

Hamas has a monopoly on political power in Gaza. Realistically the peace process should consider how to disarm and integrate Hamas into the government, because all you are likely to get out of Gaza is people changing the shirts they are wearing if you say no Hamas at all. It's still going to be the same guys.

You can't "integrate" Hamas into a Palestinian government because Hamas already is the Palestinian government for just under half the Palestinian population. Literally the best we can hope for is a situation even more fucked up than the de-Ba'athification of Iraq, and that led to years of insurgency.

CSCA33 posted...

Good to see they are using his correct preferred pronouns now btw (he/him)

I thought they were nonbinary and used they/them, in which case the police are still misgendering them.

Dungeater posted...

iceland
australia
canada
south korea

can anyone guess the content i most watch from this?

Science, geology specifically. I didn't count Iceland because I don't generally watch that channel but I see it in my feed.

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The only thing I remember about his is getting warned for calling him a complete idiot, and that "that's his username" was not sufficient grounds to reverse that moderation.

US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine (US now, Ukraine before invasion), Russia, Israel, Qatar, India, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia.

I'm sure I've missed a few.

Vyrulisse posted...

Was duckbear even a "fun" gimmick? He would post articles and edit them in weird ways to turn them into misinformation and never provide a source.

He never needed to. All his material always came from the Daily Mail.

ai123 posted...

Collapsing, or keeping institutional shareholders happy by slashing costs year on year?

A lot of gaming companies, and tech companies in general, increased manpower starting at the beginning of Covid and the surge in gaming/work from home has long since peaked. Now that a stable "new normal" is appearing they are sizing themselves appropriately for the demand that exists.

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

But that's also a problem of having too many large SUV's / Trucks on the road as well.

Especially large / heavy trucks that aren't necessary when the rest of the world is using lighter / smaller trucks / vans to solve the same problems.

Blame stupid regulations and import taxes. Small trucks fall under different regulations than big trucks so they can get away with worse safety and mileage standards if your pickup has four+ seats rather than two.