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Seeing his partner, and then the kid, was being like punched twice in the face.
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It's from Golden Axe, an old Sega game.
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It's because they know people will push the limit. If they set them at 40, people would drive 50.
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I thought 90% of the hobby was filling a shelf with obscure and esoteric manuals that you get out once in a while to look at for the rad art, but largely gloss over the minutiae of the rules and gameplay.
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I think you've just proved the point that it is largely arbitrary. The bottom one is obviously wrong, but the difference in dash width just seems like an aesthetic choice rather than a functional one.
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Oh, you just spent £200 on a brand new pair of headphones? Perhaps you'd be interested in buying the exact same pair of headphones again?
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There are still web forums out there. They're certainly not common anymore, but they aren't extinct yet.
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Not to say black activists haven't utilised boycotts very effectively, but boycotts are named after Charles Boycott. An Irish landlord, and the 'victim' of the movement that coined the term in 1880. I imagine the practice pre-dates the coining of the term too, so it's been around for a while.
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Tame Impala's one guy is actually about 5'10", so he's a pretty regular sized musician. Slightly above average size if anything.
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I'd argue it's a better experience because I don't have to stand around waiting in a queue. It has inconvenient edge cases for sure, but I don't have to wait behind a family who haven't decided what they want until they get to the counter. I don't think anxiety plays as big a role as you think.
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You can ring in one person's long order twice as fast as they can do it themselves on their phone, but they aren't the only person ordering on their phone. It's still faster for ten people to order when they can do it asynchronously, even if it takes each individual double the time to do it.
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I don't think there is a connection between automated systems and phone anxiety. Automated call systems are a consequence of capitalistic pursuit of cost saving, they aren't doing it to make anxious millennials comfortable, they're doing it to employ less people.
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I think you're running on a slightly different definition of flashmob.
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You won't because you can't, because you're throwing baseless accusations. You're either well meaning but deeply ignorant, or you're a troll deliberately trying to make leftists look stupid.
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Like I said. A company isn't a person, and can't hold political beliefs. You'll need to be more specific than that.
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Tell me who at Mercedes right now was part of their historical support of the Nazi party.
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Crazy that "It's not okay to support Nazis, but it is okay to support people who aren't Nazis" is a bigoted statement to you, but go off. Keep up the alarmist rambling and see how it goes. I'd rather focus on the actual nazis instead of making some up.
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Maybe read the whole thread, because yes we are.
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A corporation isn't a person. It doesn't have values or beliefs. If it is supporting a modern fascist regime, it is wrong to support them. If at some point, under a totally different set of management and staff, it once supported a fascist regime, that's largely irrelevant. They're different people.
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We're specifically talking about the German Nazi Party, which dissolved quite famously in 1945. So they'd struggle to actively support them right now. I don't know where they stand with modern fascist parties, but that's not what is being questioned.
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Was anyone who was involved in the business when they were supporting the Nazi party still part of the business?
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Even slice of life anime about teenage girls is pretty firmly associated with the alt right these days.
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It's crazy that a rock just does that.
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I have followed just to leave a reply, and then I will unfollow. Or I might just keep following and see how I feel later.
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No there aren't.
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The same thing happened in the UK with Brexit. Farmers voted for it enmasse, without realising that a huge chunk of their income came from EU subsidies and trade. For some reason they never realise that the Right do not care about them in the slightest.
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Better for them to admit it than double down and dig their heels in I suppose.
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We don't want him either, please just send him to Mars and get this whole thing over with.
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Whiteness isn't real
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How did you help? You looked at a two party election and decided to enable the worst choice by refusing to vote for the second worst. By election day, it was clear the Dems weren't going to change their position, but you decided your principles were more important than imperfectly reducing harm.
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Optimus is not coming out soon. There is a reason they're having to do fake demos and pretend they're autonomous, so they can rip off investors with less than half achieved promises.
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Must feel good to have so many things you've worked on be in the most popular list, but all behind your magnum opus.
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You might find yourself not a citizen at the end of that process.
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It literally is. He's claiming responsibility for getting the World Cup and Olympics in the US, and said he regretted that he wouldn't be President when they happen due to the term limit. But since the Democrats won in 2020, by rigging it according to him, he will be President for those events now.
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I understand how you're making this mistake. He's claiming the Democrats rigged the 2020 election, meaning he'll be president during 2025-2029 instead of 2020-2024 and will be in charge during the Olympics and World Cup.
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At best he alluded to the possibility. I don't doubt that they'd be willing to cheat. I don't think it's all that unlikely that they did, or at least attempted to. But it's just factually incorrect to say he admitted it. This isn't like Elon's Nazi salute, he's well within plausible deniability.
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He didn't. He said some odd stuff about Musk campaigning for him and knowing about computers, and perhaps it bears looking into, but he didn't claim he won because of Musk manipulating computer votes.
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Trans rights are human rights. Human rights aren't conditional.
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Not sure 'fixed' is the right word here.
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Whatever is better for pacing when it is read as a finished product, rather than week to week.
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It doesn't mean maps. World building can be done entirely without literally mapping out the world, and often creating a map is actually detrimental to the worldbuilding.
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Depends on how and where you do it. If you barge into a space that is trying to appreciate something, and then spout the same criticism they've all heard a thousand times before, it is not going to be received well. Not every place is for criticism, and not every critique is valuable.
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It's okay for authors to use words in unorthodox ways.
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This only applies because we've had decades of relative peace, with most of the world's fire over in places that we only hear about in the news. The attitude of 'It's always on fire, it'll be fine' only exists because it has always been fine for you, but it's only a matter of time until it isn't.
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Parcels yes. But letters are the essential part of the service, and it will be at least a decade or longer before they're phased out. Private ownership means they get lower and lower priority to keep profits up, so important documents continue to fail to be delivered. We will still pay, but get less
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Physical mail delivery is a service that costs more money than it makes. It's not financially profitable, but it is still essential. That means it is a prime contender for service cuts, to make his investment more profitable. There is no profit incentive if it is nationalised. We pay either way.
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Because a large portion of the population still relies on physical mail for things like medical information. The Royal Mail has been failing them for years after being brought under private ownership, because corners are being cut in order to increase profits at the cost of service quality.
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So what you're saying is you define gender by how people visibly present themselves, not through genetics or what genitals they possess. Thanks, glad you agree.
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When was the last time you checked someone's chromosomes before knowing whether to refer to them as male or female? I can answer for you, it's literally never.
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I'm also on the semantically accurate side. Reading is reading and listening is listening, but both are equally valid. Unfortunately, our opinion does get lumped in with the people who think listening is an inferior method, so I try not to be too outspoken about it, lest I side with ableists.