topmarx.bsky.social
Theatre PhD. Independent games and media scholar. QA Analyst. Marxist-Leninist.
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My boss and my zoomer coworker talk a lot about their paid fantasy leagues and like.. yall are in Texas and California. This shit ain't legal in *either* of those places.
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People are out there harassing athletes' social media accounts bc they did too well and blew the spread. Like wtf is going on when an important historic upset ends up pissing fans off.
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I wish Cohen cited that particular figure in Losing Big bc it's so fucking wild. The RTP was 90% but ppl are still staking so much money on a fucking fantasy draft or point spread.
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A bookie used to be a smalltime, clownish crook from a 1970s sitcom. Now people are putting down more in sports bets than they spend on nearly all other recreation combined.
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They didn't do shit about the Iraq War, they won't do shit about this.
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A nursing home worker in Michigan was assaulted by a coworker in February and pressed charges. The cops did a search to put in a home address on the form, it sent a notice to ICE without anyone even knowing. They walked up to her car, busted out her window, and pulled her out across the broken glass
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Expedited removals don't go before judges. It used to be limited to the 100mi zone within two weeks of entry, but as of January it's now two years anywhere in the country. And the burden of proof for 2+ yrs residence is on the detainee, so effectively it's now everyone.
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Somehow it's actually worse. Literally any time a cop looks up anyone on their national database, even if they're the one filing a complaint, it will silently flag any immigration notice directly to CBP. Even ones that aren't violations or are decades old and closed cases.
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Tbf 76 is the first one that heavily features coal mining.
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The Shield and the Sword, about a soviet spy undercover in nazi germany
youtu.be/3g_7eDAsj2o
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He's a Kennedy, he 100% had a different institutionalized cousin for every single condition he has ever spoken aloud on that stage.
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Nothing so convinced me of the power marketing still wields like when went from Game of Thrones being everywhere you turned to "Game of Thrones? I barely remember that show" in the week before and after it ended. Truly nothing behind that show at the end but Ad Spend.
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Stuart Hall lead me to Engels's Infinite Series of Parallelograms letter. It isn't as pithy as 18th Brumaire but yeah he's right www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
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Also people never went back to Fallout 76 once it found its legs, this and Shenandoah are on the radio in that.
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Being on a tiny QA team on a live service game over a decade old means complete regressions usually can't happen. Whitebox guides the process in a way that makes testing at that sort of scale and pace feasible.
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I'm an Analyst at a studio where I have whitebox access and it's such a huge gamechanger. Blackbox QA gives you solid fundamentals, but you spend half the day banging your head against a wall trying to figure out something you could just look up.
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He's definitely going to throw the stick this time
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How it must have felt to be one of the very few political writers in the early Iraq War era who weren't clowns.
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Exactly, we can't just throw him out like yesterday's trash or a cashier with a bad attitude. We need to show him the same grace and forgiveness that we would give to an oil CEO whose tanker spill destroyed a nature reserve.
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I've seen that man's recipe for Mac and Cheese. He would get really good at the mechanics and machinery of producing it but it would still turn out mid.
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Samuel Adams is def also in the running.
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Obama deported 5.25 million people. 3 million of them criminally. Hundreds of thousands each year were expedited removal orders that circumvent court hearings. Anyone whitewashing the scale and violence of this for political rhetoric doesn't give a shit abt the violence being enacted now either.
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Many of the migrants and asylum seekers deported by the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden admins earned no such distinctions. This notion that many prior deportations were safe and free is a fiction, and a frankly pretty evil one.
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It must feel so new and immediate and all-encompassing to them bc they're all 60 year olds who have never given a shit about the evil America does unless this one particular guy is doing it.
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This feels correct but Musk would also just kill it out of sheer incompetence. Like his knockoff chatgpt would tell it that a hamster eats a clove of garlic per day or something
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ye shall soon uhh be initiated into certain facts like hitherto pretty generally unknown
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If David Frum coordinates the pre-assault mortar barrage from the DC Mall trenches then maybe he will avoid his final date with the guillotine.
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Chinese socialists
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There currently isn't even a head of US Fish and Wildlife, the California Regional Director is just acting director. The current head of NOAA is just an industry consultant and lobbyist.