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To the people saying it’s easy or not time consuming to do in all cases, that’s just wrong.
describing what is going on in a picture is really quite difficult at times, especially when there are a lot of elements.
Also please consider those whose ability to type is hampered in some way.
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I am deeply disappointed that Ken was chosen by those few people who elected him.
I believe that whilst Ken may have the best interests of the country at heart, he fails to connect with real voters in a meaningful way that will get people excited about the realities of our political process.
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Where everyone else found it.
www.audacityteam.org
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Relaxation and time limits aren’t mutually exclusive.
I can be relaxed because I am playing a video game, but the pressure of a time limit can increase fun without causing any stress.
This is because video games inherently are not real life, and the escapism inspires relaxation.
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My beloved Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy used Quantum3D Obsidan2 3dfx cards in their board set.
The boards are flakey as hell with more problems than I can count on both hands and feet, but boy is that a fun ass game to play with a few mates and a lot of beers.
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at least you get away with just having nuggies and chips, and the wait staff won’t give you side eye
also bottomless crayons to eat :)
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Another instance of Bethesda’s bug.
Does it tell us that orcs are in fact beastfolk? Goblinkin? Does it tell us that in becoming a vampire you shed your race, becoming a daedra under the service of Molag Bal?
Or does it mean that the dev in charge of Wuuthrad just forgot
Well probably never know
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It’s actually never okay to like something unironically. If you do you you failed the media literacy test. /s
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That’s fair.
If I came off as aggressive or contentious or even condescending, that was not my intention.
I can see your point and respect your position.
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It says something about the ingrained capitalism in your head, that you think that things that are broken must be thrown away.
There are the skills and experience to fix it in the hands of experienced NHS workers.
Sunak undeniably broke it. Starmer is right to call this out.
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I’m not making the same argument that they are, but, to be clear:
If your fast food prices are on the whole cheaper than grocery shopping; you are the outlier.
That is to say that your lived experience is not moot. You must consider that your experience is not the experience of the majority.
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I was only using the numbers they gave me.
I have no reason to believe they were lying about that.
Further up the thread they explained they also use a monthly subscription that allows them free delivery and I would assume some gratuity to the driver.
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$20 per meal, say you only eat 2x a day, lunch & dinner = $280 a week
You said 6x so lets say $240 to be generous.
$150 for one shopping trip to last 2 weeks =$10.71 per day, or $5.35 per meal.
That is quite high per meal, but doing the math on the numbers you have that is a substantial saving.
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Not it’s not.
That was only very true for a short period of time during 2022.
Please, do not say “proven fact” when government institutions have done the research to show that is not true.
www.businessinsider.com/food-prices-...
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Food that is bought from a grocery store is always going to be cheaper in every scenario.
Hot food that is made to order, by multiple people, and then is brought to you by a person, is always going to cost more, in every scenario.
Each person needs to be paid, that cost is paid by the consumer.
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Until the end of January all in game purchases have been reduced to 1 gold. You should be able to play all the content that ESL has released over the years.
I will very much miss Legends as it’s the only digital only CCG that I enjoyed to any degree.
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If you don’t post it you a betraying the prime directive of all internet posters:
Always act unemployable
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This is not encouraging, this is not cool or incredible.
It’s saddening to think that people are happy the right wing ghouls are saying things that on the surface seem agreeable, but just below that is a deep hatred of anyone who uses cumin as the main spice in their food.
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They always say this shit for completely different reasons that the good reasons to say it.
Then that tricks a bunch of idiots into thinking that the right is being based for once, when the actual message they want you to take away is: you need to hate brown people more.
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This is a huge argument in many different communities.
The idea of being a fan of a media property without interacting with the primary source material is being a “secondary”.
This is neither good nor bad but it can lead to bad interpretations of the source material e.g. Mouthwashing romance ships
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This is largely true for older games getting a breath of fresh air. Like for example the lighting improvements in OpenMW.
This issue lies with raytracing and bloom effects being used in slightly dumb ways that add nothing to the composition of the scene, and seek to be a marketing gimmick.
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As Outrun 2006 is a conversion of OutRun 2 SP, with content from C2C, this makes sense.
OutRun 2 SP was designed to interface over a LAN with another cab. You had to be connected to SEGA severs, there are ways around this using SBCs
Here is a shot of a linked cab I worked on a few years ago.
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I’m not gunna give a specific mod, but the mod sets the can be found through Wabbajack are all pretty brilliant.
www.wabbajack.org
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This is the kind of dogshit low IQ trolling that has been missing from the world since 2012. Thank you very much for being the change you want to see in the world.
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More bilateral (omnilateral?) trade agreements rooted in fair treatment of workers need to be the main mode of economic development going forward.
A focus on encouraging degrowth in our most polluting industries to promote human health and happiness.
Trump’s withdrawal of the TPP was a tragedy.
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As the counter part spell is “Recall” I think it’s fun to think that the potion creates a magical memory.
When you Recall it recalls the memory of drinking the potion and transports you to that place.
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I’m okay with SEGA saying they refuse to be a retro company.
You have to remember that the DC cost SEGA well over $160 million. Even if you have fans claiming they’ll buy a remade version of a console that nearly bankrupted your company. You have every reason not to take that bait.
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Knowledge Cleric is a good choice if you’re still thinking about it.
You can be the best at ANY skill or tool for 10 minutes through Knowledge of Ages, which can get you out of tight spots.
It’s also a rules based solution to many problems, noting also that vehicles and mounts count as tools.
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Christmas 2005. Star Wars Battlefront 2. Mos Eisley, Assault.
Me, my brother and my two cousins sharing two controllers between us.
Non-stop, for hours, never getting bored, always screaming about this death and that kill.
Pulling hair and taking forfeits for sucking hard at the game.
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So it doesn’t work for you?
That’s fine to say and I bet there are a number of people who find themselves in the same situation, but I would put a decent amount of money on the notion that equal numbers or maybe more people are happy, or at the very least content with their health coverage
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I don’t think for most people it’s about what’s best, but what they are more comfortable with.
It is not about what they might gain for themselves by switching systems, but what they might lose, and I don’t think that anyone has made a declaration that they 100% won’t lose anything in the trade
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*people
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Like most pipe get private insurance through their employer and it just kinda works for them. So yeah efficiency and outcomes are obviously important, but there is also no political will to change it.
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Sure, but I’m also jus generally curious why private healthcare needs to go away. Just from a popularity point of view the American healthcare system, a majority minority of people right now say it’s Excellent or Good, and that’s only recently gone down to that number in the last like couple months.
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That was MY suggestion at the start of this discussion:
Single-Payer, with private as a secondary, optional system that is not necessary.
In this system (that most of Europe uses), public benefits from private, but private does not benefit from public.
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How literally how. I'm going to start disengaging now and just ask questions, because my point is backed up by an entire continent of nations, and completely getting rid of private seems to be a complete outlier in terms of the structure of the medical system.
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The point of this entire conversation, was for me to say that keeping private as a non-necessary but useful part of your medical system would simply be the sensible thing to do as EVERY OTHER CIVILIZED COUNTRY does it that and it seems to work for them just fine. The burden of proof is on you now.
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I am not speaking hypothetically now, I am TELLING you that it would not have been possible on the NHS. They point blank refused after a couple assessments showed that my breathing was "within normal bounds".
I also had the same thing for the same reasons, told to me by a doctor in Minnesota.
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I wouldn’t have been able to afford it without, and it has improved my quality of life, but they wouldn’t deal with it, and I know that in the USA it wouldn’t have been dealt with unless I paid out of pocket.
When insurance isn’t dealing with life threatening conditions, it’s an amazing value add.
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When I lived in the UK, I had insurance through my employer.
I got a nose job that was somewhat medical, as it helped my breathing to a non-negligible degree, but not to an extent that the NHS would deal with it.
Like I said there are medically valid reasons for elective surgery.
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I never said that they should be, or that they need to be profitable. They could all be non-profit organisations, I don’t care.
Also I am looking at private as an entirely different system, like in Finland, Sweden, France and Spain etc. where offices and hospitals are owned outright by insurance.
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Do you want nose jobs done on pubic dime? Do you want hair transplants done on the pubic healthcare system?
These are complex procedures that require months of preparation and waiting. The drag on the system would be insane.
There are valid reasons to get them, but very few of them are necessary.
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Prove it?
In the UK, waiting times were the most important factor for people choosing private, with ease of access not far behind as the second most important thing.
I’m now defending private insurance when all I said was that no private healthcare is not something any country does, like ever.
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What we get is the ability for people to have a more comprehensive and faster treatment of fringe, non priority health issues for either themselves.
This takes the burden off the public health system, as dealing with complex, non life threatening conditions is a real drag on the system.
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I don’t understand why you could think that a system far more radical than that of any European nation, which all still have private insurance to some degree, like almost every single one of them, would hold up to scrutiny either.
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Sure you might have a pretty bad year for mortality. Buuuut, if the people which chronic conditions just died that year too, and they decided that in the next year they would try to serve as many people as possible, you bet efficiency would go up.
I’m being sardonic, but I think my point stands.
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For one, taxes fund the healthcare, unless you’re assuming that everyone will get their insurance through their job, which is a big assumption.
Are you assuming that there is just not going to be regulation? When and how a private->public referral is allowed and visa versa already exist in Europe.
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That is to say that focusing on outcomes is more important here, as well as an equitable approach to patient care.
Efficiency and speed are secondary assuming that a properly structured system can prioritise correctly.