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History Buff, Engineer, Urbanite, Woodworker, Packer Fan
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It seemed obvious the Iranian war was a distraction meant to keep Bibi in power longer yet again, the never ending crisis cycle that prevents power from changing hands, taking advantage of that sweet executive immunity.
Kinda giving away the game here, no?
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Chuck Shumer is a Liz Truss tier politician. The party appears completely unaware of this, though voters notice.
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Dolomite is basically a limestone variation, they are close relatives.
Concrete is manmade limestone.
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Empire Strikes Back
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I don't think Shumer's imaginary centrist family wants universal healthcare, they like the current system.
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It's been this way since Woodrow Wilson was president.
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Kids will never become fans of sports their parents aren't fans of.
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What about the Adams family?
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The kids play Fortnite and Minecraft and not much else nowadays.
It's killing the gaming industry, but it's all the kids want to play.
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People who drive trains and people who drive computers do not represent the engineering professions in general.
Writing code is a very different task than designing and building a building.
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75 Democrats in Congress recently backed a resolution thanking ICE. Almost all cabinet members had some Dem votes, no matter how ridiculously unqualified.
They are actively encouraging it, there has been no attempt to stop anything.
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Two ways of looking at this.
Yes there was a big R wave in '10. But it also included a huge amount of R turnover, throwing the moderates out of the party.
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A huge chunk of them thought it was a good idea to publicly thank ICE the other day.
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I'm curious if the GOP has similar numbers in '09 before the rino wipeout.
Seems like comet is coming for the nearly fossilized dinos.
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Shumer, the current most powerful Democrat, is a notably worse politician than Liz Truss.
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Treading on others
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REMEMBER THE MAINE!
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Back when Ice Ts song came out, the controversy meant every middle and high school kid had to hear it. I was in middle school, we passed around tape copies of it (along with 2 live crew's banned album).
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LA Riots -> Ice T's song about cops -> white suburban kids make gangsta rap popular
There was a very direct thru line from Rodney King to Snoop, Dre and West Coast rap's popularity a year later.
Also LA Riots -> Rage against the Machine
The LA riots literally fueled early-mid 90's music.
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The footprints of cities like Atlanta and Houston are staggering.
These aren't old world compact medieval cities by any means.
Atlanta's moat (the perimeter freeway) is a 64 mile trip around, and that's just the core.
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He without a doubt has the least American family tree of any US president, by a wide margin. Virtually every president (possibly every single one but him) has colonial roots in their tree.
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Her influence by mid-Biden was such that widespread condemnation of Garland and by extension Biden by Dem voters was muted. Definitely on the short list of most important people that made Trump v2 happen.
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Automobile design is relatively common across them; an underrated factor in capping most families desired child count at 2 and all but eliminating large families.
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Gosh the opposite.
I've seen it used for basic internet search replacement.
But at work? Engineers (not software, real things), project managers, technicians, schedulers, management, etc, not one person I've encountered uses it (outside of a spell-grammar checker).
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But avoid becoming a history nerd, esp with any interest in Rome, as that has become bro coded and actively repulses non history nerds nowadays.
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My kid himself likes to tell us this.
They've been told that tablets have fried their brains and eliminated their attention spans; it's become an excuse used by teens to not have to try.
To which I point out that playing 4 hours straight of Minecraft screams the exact opposite.
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That and all the calculus and increasingly vague problems hopefully make the engineering student's mind a general problem solving machine.
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Rock for the kids of helicopter parents that weren't otherwise allowed to listen to anything actually good.
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By the time Creed and Nickelback were a thing, MTV was all in on reality TV and had basically given up on playing music videos.
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Zoomers: If it happened last century it's boomer bro.
Us old people might differentiate these things, zoomers don't really bother to.
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Chat, do zoomers like to listen to boomer music?
(I'm sure there's a couple of them out there, but have not witnessed this phenomenon, the zoomers I know only listen to hip hop or country).
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In this case the source of conservative judges in lieu of the FedSoc list could (will) quite literally be Fox News.
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You say this, but at the same time Mr Beast is being watched by more kids than any other single TV show ever, by a wide margin.
Just about every single kid has played Minecraft and Fortnite together, many heavily. These have become far more of a shared experience than previous gens ever had.
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Youth are pretty checked out on mass media. Kids nowadays aren't cord cutters, but rather grew up never having known of the cord. Yet youth stars like Mr Beast are as big as they've ever been.
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Ha. Being able to technical write is one of the more important things you learn in engineering school, and certainly has a bigger effect on your future promotion potential than your ability to do math.
Somebody has to communicate with clients.
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Yeah, lefty Karens were group A years ago, but post-pandemic it's purely B.
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Kids born and raised in modern console gaming are generally taken aback by the 8 and 16 bit era because of the intensity; button mashing perfection was required.
Gaming is nothing like that nowadays; the shift happened in the 32/64 bit gen to more chill games on consoles, Sega missed out.
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It was less about 3d than the intensity of the gaming, going away from difficulty tuned to make money on a quarter per play (and games these games influenced) to totally different genres unfeasible in an arcade.
Being able to put the controller down in M64 mid-game was groundbreaking.
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The shmup basically died on consoles in the US during the 16 bit generation, yet the Saturn was loaded with great examples of the genre, which continued to be very popular in Japanese arcades.
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My memory, backed up by a recent arcade build, is that Sega pushed ahead with arcade tech and arcade style games while console style games meant to be played on the couch (Mario 64...) was the feature of that gen; console gaming lost that arcade intensity while Sega was taking it to overdrive.
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Perhaps Thune can be convinced to kill single payer health care for a generation by proposing a M4A constitutional amendment that surely will die on the vine in exchange for progressive backing of more tax cuts for the rich; an echo of the income tax.
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Yeah.
Though I think that taking on the robber barons has been political propaganda all along; the progressive movement's big wins were usually devils bargains with big business.
Right now unfortunately we're in the payout phase for the progressive bargain with big tech in the Obama-Biden era.
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Taking it to hopefully friendly social media has been ridiculously ineffective for its face value purpose and crazy effective as a political tool against all that are not the far right.