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“There’s nothing I can do”
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
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I want the video editing skills to splice in clips of Gypsy Danger fighting Kaiju during that fight. Ocean settings and all.
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This could be the gin talking but… if this makes the EU become more than a loose trade and finance collective, it all might, if you squint, and don’t look too hard, be almost worth it.
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May I propose that talking through the roadblock could be the goal? I know I’ve looked at this and questioned if universal voting was the issue and then getting fed up with myself because I don’t like where my brain is taking me.
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And that wasn’t a one time, “oopsie weather is hard, sorry” kind of thing. He did it twice.
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Everyone says LA will break away from the rest of CA but LA had the national guard called in twice in 30 years because they can’t handle it right now. Could they handle it if we went Yugoslavia? No. Could parts of CA try to breakup? Sure, they have AKs but no stingers, and CA has lots of F-16s.
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Said another way, it’s easier to understand early colonial America as 12 rival nations than one proto-country. Maybe Pitt. an imperial trading post/military base turned city might have more cultural pull with Ohio - maybe not? Could Ohio take and defend Pitt. while also fighting Michigan?
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How /well/ they can reassert is totally different question. Some states are clearly One Big City with a countryside (*cough*, WA) and those will have some interesting times. Other states are rather serious and will carry on as normal. Then it’s greater/lesser states doing what they will/must.
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Yes. That’s entirely why/how the US works. 50 semi-sovereign nation states giving up some aspects of total sovereignty for collective benefit, but that has limits (the 10th). If there was no longer a reason to give up those rights (mad king, etc) the states would reassert those sovereign rights.
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Last episode of common sense was 3 years ago… Everything has gotten worse in the past 3 years…
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I also share that belief. Either because it wrecked the Cycladic culture and destroyed evidence of their cultural “depth”, with them being Atlantis, or because it wrecked Minoan Crete, which later inspired Greece, and they we seen by Greeks as “pretenders” to the “mythical” earlier heights.
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Point of order: it was first used in WW1 Russia (by Brusilov?) in orders to move civilian populations of ethnicities that “couldn’t be trusted” up to ~10+ miles behind the front on worries of sabotage/spying.
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I like to imagine humans as spear wielding monkeys riding crocodiles to help understand all the layers of how we process things. What you’re feeling is the crocodile trying to do its own thing. Remember that you’re smart enough to invent a pointy-rock-on-a-stick and you’ve got the reins.
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Evergreen
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I felt dumb for buying coffee in bulk last weekend during the 5-hour trade war and now… I just feel sad.
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… the “it’s weird that it happened twice meme” is really on point these past 11 days.
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It rained. bsky.app/profile/weat...
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Ok hear me out….
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I was not ready to acquire as much coffee as I just did.
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That’s an intro to an SPC Foundation story if I ever read one.
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Apple and Google: “You want us to put ourselves in your pocket?”
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It’s velour
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Whenever I see one of these videos of how fast and strong fire winds can be I reread Young Men and Fire. It’s helpful in a … nightmare kinda way.
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Bigger if truer that those specifically were modeled off the gun boats used to attack Baghdad (the second time, the one that worked)
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If you were to show a 1918 tank to Sherman and described it as a “land iron clad” he would immediately understand its use and have opinions on how it was being used wrong.
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They were shallow enough to explore waterways besides the main rivers and when they did, they moved with infantry escort on either bank, providing fire support if under attack. Troops would ride on top of the iron clad when advancing into positions.
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Tanks. Not joking. The river iron clad gun boats acted like tanks during river assaults against fortresses, camps, and cities. Moving freely in the water under their own power they formed advancing firing lines and dodged rounds. They couldn’t be knocked out except for hits to the steam stacks.
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Not great, Bob
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You are willfully and recklessly conflating wildly different things. Nothing you stated was remotely accurate and is directly refuted by evidence and passed laws in the prior 10 years. Do better.
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2025 is broken, I’d like to return it.
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Per KTLA people were injured elsewhere and moved to Duke’s for assistance
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Also don’t forget we a Wacky Crazy (tm) way of doing elections - ie they way everyone should be doing it but people are captured - where it’s a free for all primary and the top to move on to general. It makes Ds and Rs more “normal”. AOC couldn’t have gotten elected in CA.
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“Public discourse” is a polite way of saying “lazy reporting for lazy people” because those of us in CA know how many Republicans there are (unless you never leave SF). 20 mins outside of the bay and you have trump murals, you see yard signs before you actually leave LA.
Every election we have.
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You don’t need to take a safety course if you’ve passed the motorcycle driving test, you don’t need to take it to the dmv for inspections or pay yearly fees -it’s a one time $23 fee- and you don’t need liability insurance
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I was gonna say I’d pay good money for populated battlebit servers.
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Thank you for the yearly reminder.
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Sadly this is common. We wouldn’t know anything about the Neo Assyrians except they pissed off that one Judaism sect that cared more about histories and rituals than idols and temples. People lived in their ruined cities having no idea who built them.
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Using the BLS inflation calculator, the Boomer and Gen X numbers come out to ~$1 million+ in 2024 spending power. Gen Z numbers come out to $800K+ in 2024. Only millennials have a yearly income entirely nowhere near $1 million ($350k).
This is either odd or expected based on your priors.
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City Primeval did this as well I think? But maybe intentional? Colors stood out and darkness was dark. So dark the ending was a gut punch for the viewers and characters.
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To quote The Producers, “No… Too good”
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Hey it’s not all doom and gloom, sometimes there are planks of wood with meats and cheese on them.
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So we’re just going to break rules one and two are we!?
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Welcome back!