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American logic:
Canada is the 51st state, but Puerto Ricans are immigrants.
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Crash 1 came about in an era where the rules of 3D platformers weren’t yet defined, and it very much suffers from that situation. The camera angle alone renders many of the jumping challenges “annoying”.
Of that entire era, only Mario 64 happened to land on the right formula.
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The first one I never played at all was 11 - I was extremely not into the idea of an MMO. (I didn’t FINISH most of them, but I played all 10 until then at least a couple of hours)
And then after 11 I just never got into the mainline series again. Only played (and hated) 15 since.
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They’re definitely better for water-focused soups as most Asian cuisines lend themselves to, but I suspect that if you try to eat a creamy chowder with it you’ll have trouble with the inside corners of the Asian spoon.
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Clench your buttcheeks when you want the machine to think you’re lying.
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It’s not necessarily the Sith, specifically. It might be the Ewok equivalent of “evil master” or “dark lord” or “dictator”
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ICE being at only 5% is unfortunate
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Oh. Then, no. Honestly it’d be way easier to use our supply of nukes to destroy ourselves directly
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We have one chance to affect its orbit: its close approach in 2028. In order to do so, we will need to refine its orbit to a point of certainty, so that we know that we wouldn’t cause it to impact when it wouldn’t have (and that’s still the 96% odds). So “lots of looking” is what we do now
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I imagine that if the situation gets bad enough for Trump he’ll just issue a pardon. That will make the story fade away quickly. (It does have the downside for them that they won’t be able to hold the charges over Adams later)
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If the VR headsets get comfortable enough, then the idea of having VR meetings might be workable. Until then, I’m not making my face hurt for that.
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Angry, and powerless through traditional means. That’s what we have become.
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They’re also engineering hardware with it. Thats pricier.
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Been that way at least since the 90s, it’s nothing new. Arguably, game studios ought to change prices on their games based on how good they are (or, consumers should change buying habits to force that). A 6/10 game is fine at $20 but abysmal at $70; a 10/10 could be worth $100.
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That kind of common hyperbole actually does change the accepted meanings of words. It’s why we no longer have a word that we can reliably interpret as “literally”.
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New York should lead the way on this. If the feds can outright steal $80mil from our state, then it’s time to help them realize that blue states pay more into federal coffers than we get back.
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“Taking up resources” most undocumented immigrants pay taxes when they work and get far fewer benefits from those taxes than citizens do, while accepting lower wages than most citizens would. This idea that they mooch is wholly unfounded.
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That would require someone in governance to be willing to sue them. Hochul is absolutely spineless, and Adams is out and out owned by this administration.
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You poor creature
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Yes, mayor Adams was, in the final analysis, Really That Bad
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Sure, but saying all that doesn’t negate that these tactics, which ARE voter suppression, create non-voters who are measurably indistinct from apathetic non-voters.
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It often isn’t in districts like this, and/or information about it is hidden. Both are common vote suppression strategies.
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Just knowing what voter suppression looks like.
Say im a voter my polling place got closed. I could go an hour away to the next one, but I choose not to do that. There is no measurable difference between me and someone who was never gonna vote anyway, but I was suppressed. Impossible to separate.
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A flaw in that graphic with your message: the green block includes people who chose to vote AND those whose votes were suppressed by the GOP.
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I pity anyone who gets heartburn from bananas
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Oh here we go with the fucking “norms” and “precedent” bullshit again.
This is the kind of liberal cowardice that got us here in the first place.
Which is exactly why Hochul won’t do it, but we need to oppose that nonsense.
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Is there a word for when that person’s strings are also pulled entirely by someone else? It’s just quockerwodgers all the way down
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At this point if Hochul doesn’t remove him, she’s directly complicit.
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To find a mayor of NYC who isn’t a piece of shit I’d have to go back before I was born. It’s amazing that we keep choosing the worst possible option.
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The top things ketchup is good on:
1) fries that are not well seasoned enough or are too dry
2) chicken nuggets
3) hot dogs
In that order
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This looks to me like the bribe to get them to drop the charges against Adams.
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Holy shit this title screen sent me into the past
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Gulf of Ejecting Press You Don’t Like
They’re removing reporters whose papers arent kowtowing to the name change
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They would say that removing “scammers” (anyone who gets help from the govt) would let the free market lower the price.
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Very clickbaity headline to not include the name of the ex-fiance she’s accusing
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What good is measuring the cumulative wealth of millennials if Zuckerberg has so much of that wealth and the rest of us have none?
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You can just look up aviation incidents, it’s not hard. First one I noticed was 2/9/24 in Florida, 2 fatalities. That one alone disproves the OP’s thesis, but there’s plenty to choose from.
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You SAW zero incidents during Biden. Thats not the same thing as there not being any.
There have been zero airline crash deaths in decades, that’s true, and the Potomac crash did break that and can be attributed to Trump. But the crashes since then are not out of the ordinary; just being reported
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A less skinny tower might be 100 or 1000 times as massive, getting as high as a billionth of the earths mass. Definitely not enough to destabilize anything
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Let’s ballpark. Let’s say 100pounds per sqft per floor, and I think we can make the tower tiny at 10x10. So that’s 10,000pounds/floor, 5 tons. 1Bil floors = 5bil tons. Earth is 6billion trillion tons, so our very skinny tower is a trillionth of earth’s mass.
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He’s exposing how much of our system at the top is reliant on norms and historical precedent. So none of the “normal” ways of recourse are available to us, as they all rely on that framework.
His unprecedented actions will have to be resisted by unprecedented methods. It’ll take time and creativity
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Game design knowledge lets you get closer to the desired experience without using your user base as alpha testers
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The colon is a really problematic punctuation mark due to constant ambiguity and we should be actively replacing it with clearer marks. Worse than the lack of an Oxford comma.