Elden ring was the one that clicked because it had more abundant save points. I just don’t have time to do the same 45 minute trek to a boss only to get stomped in 20 seconds.

Internal prejudice against Jesuits, if I had to guess.

These agencies are clearly failures and we should cut all funding to them so we can pay double for half as much support to some private agency senator ___________'s friend/relative/donor owns!

Low precision excavator

I said the first time he was elected that, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is an accurate caricature of America.

Are we cooked, Chat?

For sure, it wasn’t super widely reported at the time. Nuclear weapons and foreign policy just happen to be “special interests” for me so I tend to follow things like that.

There was a sincere risk of Russia using nuclear weapons earlier in the conflict, around the winter of 2022/2023 when the first major Russian mobilization of 600k failed to achieve the desired outcomes and the North Western front started to collapse. The released intelligence info put it at about 50/50.

This is why, at the time, the Biden administration made several clearly coded messages/announcements that nuclear weapons usage in Ukraine would result in an overwhelming conventional retaliation that would remove Russian military capability from the board. It’s also part of the reason nations were so slow to provide advanced support capabilities. There was a fear (justified, imo) that immediately opening the floodgates and giving Ukraine tanks, jets, advanced missiles, and using those missiles to strike deep in Russian territory would result in usage of nuclear weapons. It still is a risk, honestly. If Ukraine started doing heavy damage to Moscow, there’s a real chance Putin might decide to flip the table over rather than lose the game.

Weed is illegal and minorities get arrested for it more because Nixon wanted to create more felons to stop people from voting for Democrats. Because in his view mostly only hippies and minorities smoked weed or used other hallucinogens, and those people overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

The slavery is a bonus, but that was the real reason.

As someone working in the field, that’s what makes everything happening the biggest US policy blunder ever. The NPT is dead in the water and it was completely preventable.

The Internet becoming algorithm and bot driven was the point of no return I think.

Lmfao thanks for that, I needed that laugh this morning

It wasn’t me, it was the ketamine walrus!

With a few million people it doesn’t even need to be a specific bank. It would cause an enormous problem. Especially since we’re used to assets being digital these days. Request enough actual physical cash and it would rapidly reach a breaking point.

It’s also winter and pretty much every facet of our society is designed to prevent it from occuring.

Mass Protests happened during Covid because everyone was at home. You can be sure they won’t make that mistake again, no matter the cost.

I understand why he didn’t, obviously, but the whole time I watched that happen all I could think was, “PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE”

Ah yes, the famous prison yards where I can go participate in the slave auctions and literally purchase people as property. I get your point, but they’re really not the same.

The state of the prison system is awful but this comparison really feels like it minimizes the horrors of chattel slavery.

And also to get people accustomed to the idea of participating in mass actions. You don’t go from barely having protests to a multi week general strike in one go. You do things like this, first.

I knew I’d get this comment. And you’re not wrong, that is the case. But I’m referring to it being fully legal and accepted. Like open-air slave market level.

That path is dangerous, too. It’s currently what’s allowing states to deny abortions and I bet it would eventually be used to re-legalize slavery.