Definitely some people getting rich(er) out there on the market whiplash, though. There’s gotta be an entire room of people at the White House rushing to get their trades in before Trump takes the mic.

The voters ultimately caused this current situation, so I absolutely blame them. We are seeing the result of the uncontested will of the American people.

It’ll dry out the beef something bad, though.

We talking in terms of percentage used or number of varieties?

Pastafarianism probably has the highest ratio of silly hat wearers per adherent, but only a few varieties to my knowledge (colanders and pirate hats/bandanas).

I’m unfamiliar with that subreddit and it appears that it no longer exists. What’s the story?

And growing…

shudder

Wow, that is fascinating! As a 37 year old web surfer, I personally would never browse Reddit without using the latest version of Google Chrome™ as my browser of choice. No other browser comes close.

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This. As much as Trump keeps going on about “regime change” in Iran as necessary, I don’t know why Iran doesn’t just pull an Uno Reverse card and declare that they won’t make a deal until there is regime change in the US. The current US regime has demonstrated that they will not honor any agreements, so why bother making one?

I guess it depends on what OP means, though. Different substances can still yield identical or comparable physiological outcomes to cause physical/chemical addiction (as in, you experience withdrawal when not using).

But it isn’t a question, it’s a pronoun.

Note that US is a different country

Is it, though?

They couldn’t even pass a measure to pause hostilities against Iran, there’s no way they will have the 2/3 senate vote needed to remove him from office. I doubt it even has the 50% house vote to advance the impeachment process to that stage.

The majority of American politicians in office approve of Trump and what he’s doing. Maybe after some seats shuffle in the midterms, which is already overly optimistic, there might be margins just slim enough to convince a handful of senators to cross the aisle and vote Trump out of office. But even then, I wouldn’t hold out much hope of that happening. MAGA voters remain committed to the cult, and Republican incumbents want to keep those votes to stay in office.

I never found Elden Ring to be too fast, but Bloodborne (playing now) definitely has a few bosses that are that way for me.

I admittedly sorta like the more responsive player input, because I think it’s very frustrating in those scenarios where you are animation locked for several seconds, an obvious attack is coming your way, and you are trying to react but just can’t. And I know that’s part of the expectation of the earlier games, that you’re supposed to learn when your punish windows are and when to back up/defend. But when you’re supposed to learn through failure, yet failing has consequences (the long run back), that just doesn’t feel as great.

If you play too cautiously, each pull just turns into death by 1,000 cuts. But then when you try to tease out the boss’s limits and see what you can get away with, you die more often and have those long runs back.

Elden Ring is definitely faster/riskier than early Dark Souls, but IMO it made things perfect through the implementation of Stakes of Marika. Having little to no run back so you can just focus on the boss was great, IMO.

Bloodborne, though, I just can’t help but feel like the bosses so far are far too punishing for how fast paced everything is, and then you have some runs back. I’m never sure when I’m even able to parry with the gun, and they seem intentionally made to be deceptive with their punish windows (moments that were punish windows in the first half of the fight often get follow-up attacks in the second half of the fight to trick players into falling for it). The only saving grace for Bloodborne for me is that the blood vials are very instant use and you can go in with a lot of them, but the finite nature of them (having to buy/farm more if you run out) has me worried of relying on them too much for bosses that I anticipate I’ll die to a lot.

I don’t think the mere avoidance of military service inherently makes someone a good person, though. It’s not as though we uphold Donald Trump’s draft avoidance as a virtue, for example.

I try to be a good person where I can. However, the mere circumstances of my life and the social system I grew up in, and which I remain complicit in, will certainly disqualify me from being considered a good person under someone else’s standards. I regret that, but I also accept it.

I’m just trying to eke out a sufficiently stable life for myself in the remaining time I have on Earth, during a moment in time where that is becoming less and less viable or ethical to do.

Yep, never forget the way ICE/DHS tried to spin the narratives around Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

The article does mention that they did already vote to end it over a month ago, but it failed because Republicans control the house and the senate. I’m not sure why this fact seems to keep coming as a surprise to anyone.

Short of staging a coup, which is not likely to succeed without support from the military, it’s not like there’s really much else to do but keep holding votes and hoping that eventually a small handful of Republican politicians will have their “come to Jesus” moment and vote against their own party.

Tell that to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Just the light contrast. Stars are not as bright as the light from the sun reflecting off the Earth and the Moon. If they adjusted the exposure enough to see the stars, the Earth and Moon would look blindingly bright in comparison.

It truly needs to be very dark for stars to be easily visible, to the extent that the mere lights from a nearby city shining through the atmosphere are enough to render them invisible on a clear night.

Yep. I hate to say it, but the system is rigged to push people into serving.

I grew up in a relatively rural part of the south. Among the people I went to high school with, most of the ones who managed to get their lives in order by their 30’s either:

• Came from money, or married into money.

• Had a degree, no student debt, and a nice VA loan to buy a house.

The idea that one can just work hard and opportunities will come is a myth. A lot of brilliant people I knew from high school deserved better than they were offered. I was at least able to go to college and suffer through the process of earning an advanced degree, and now at my age am just barely beginning to pick myself up out of literal decades of struggle. But there are amazing people I know who deserve that shitty overpriced piece of paper way more than I do, yet never even had the option.

But then when you hear that Kevin, the D student who used to sell weed beneath the bleachers, now has a degree, a good job, and a nice house because he enlisted and spent 4 years deployed in Korea just monitoring radio equipment…it’s a bit demoralizing.

I’d like to say that my decision not to enlist at least puts me on some sort of moral high ground, but we’re all basically complicit in the violence of capitalism at this point just by doing whatever we do that keeps the machine running. I never had to worry about the guilt of killing brown people in the desert, but my taxes still bought the guns.

Well yeah, Catholics are the “wrong” kind of Christian in the US.