obviously this means there are even more specific kinds of brain rot we are dangerously vulnerable to, but orbital mechanics are never simple and surprisingly unpredictable
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obviously this means there are even more specific kinds of brain rot we are dangerously vulnerable to, but orbital mechanics are never simple and surprisingly unpredictable
a smarter way of putting this:
sitting at the lagrangian point between 3 different and distinct kinds of stupid means we end up with an extremely narrow political spectrum that also manages to be quite adverse to specific brain rot
trying to search "when does HARROW THE NINTH take place compared to Gideon" and having Google suggest "when does HARROW THE NINTH start making sense" and, you know what, I feel seen (the answers are hilarious, granted)
When I read GIDEON THE NINTH back in 2021, I wasn't sure I liked it but I figured I'd give the sequel a shot when the hold queue got to me 3.5 years later I only kinda remember Gideon but whatever, I'm sure HARROW will make sense with what I've retained right? literally Chapter 1: lol, lmao
not Mom, not Dad, not the elder sibling, this actually leaves a surprisingly coherent culture entirely through the process of elimination
on "not voting FOR someone, voting AGAINST everyone else" those that would prefer an option they can affirmatively support and identify with, or just different options, are invited to coalition build with their fellow travellers, the federal/provincial party registration forms are right over there
In my old age I'm coming to the conclusion that this approach is Good, Actually, it maintains the proper relationship between the voter and their vote (as an expression of what option for governance/representation is most acceptable)
this is how I learned there were more stories in that world, thank you so much but curse you, Nathan, my TBR already stretches to the stratosphere and I do not have TIME to reread Raven Tower But For Understanding This Time, no matter how enjoyable it was the first time
unfortunately the devs for his game found this way less funny than the devs for ours
on "very few other places" see also this batch of quotes (the original post is from Australia, before anyone else goes down the wrong track) bsky.app/profile/dumb... we are only kinda succeeding at something a shocking percentage of the world is not even really trying
whatever you think is going badly in the world at any given time this is a valuable lesson to learn
It's not quite Spurs qualifying for the CL despite a 17th place league finish but I do enjoy that it's happened twice this year, even if it was for the Galaxy magic of the cups indeed
We have not fully accomplished the ideal but what we have accomplished is worth defending AND perfecting, and whatever my next forty years here look like I want to help do that, even if just through my voice and my example and trying to keep the ladder hanging down behind me
but for all that I've seen the flaws in how it's been implemented and the cracks in that consensus of late, I've never lost sight of the core fact that there are very few other places in the world where I could have started out where I did and still ended up where I am
As I've gotten older my relationship with the ideal and reality of Canadian multiculturalism and welcoming tolerance of all manner of newcomers has grown more nuanced for all the usual reasons we don't need to elaborate on here
Feeling reflective this past week because it was the fortieth anniversary of this flight though unfortunately not reflective enough to take the absolutely perfectly symbolic photo opportunity that presented itself while I was out with friends the night of for unrelated but timely reasons
Yes, because "success" is not measured in the total conquest of bigotry but the cultivation of tolerance. As MLK put it quite succinctly, "The law can't make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me."
You are in for a treat, I regret that I can't watch it for the first time again
this, too, is Gender
my VAR position remains that it probably will continue to exist as long as media, fans, and in many cases managers refuse to shut up about referees missing things in live play that THEY are only sure they saw thanks to replay so I'm pretty sure we'll have it forever and am thankfully fine with this
Yeah, I think this is an eternal cyclical problem with maintaining a norm of anti-fascism - if it's successful, you eventually reach the point where the fascists are just a few sad and pathetic middle aged men, and at some point people get averse to harsh exclusion of what seems harmless + pathetic.
orrrrrr when those devious Kiwis put Path of Exile 2 on a free weekend after a big EA update even though MOST of said review still seems true there are a lot of good changes laser-targeted at the things I hated about the first game so I have some decisions to make oh dear
I was beginning to believe your media/society was just inherently incapable of doing this for Trump somehow, so this kicking off is immensely gratifying for that reason alone that it's entirely self-inflicted is a bonus
Mourinho is the coach that USMNT fans deserve.
Maybe you should, but the "you" in question probably needs to be broader than "party officials making rules to freeze out old people/long serving people who remain too popular to beat normally" voters especially need to put more thought in than "do I know this guy?", particularly in primaries
It didn't happen before he actually WAS incapable in the eyes of enough people also the reason it was Harris is BECAUSE she was chosen by primary voters to back him up if he became incapable, and there was outrage at the idea of skipping her
If enough Ds think this about someone, the legitimate method is for them to vote for someone else in the primary Any other way to prevent this is "party elites putting their fingers on the scale against the legitimate preference of voters/members", and I am assured there is no greater sin
there we go, that's the good stuff
if they are out of touch with current society why is that society re-electing them?
The idea that we are all ontologically who we are from birth until death, and that none of us can ever actually change, is an incredibly pervasive and deeply toxic belief in political discourse at present, and it is profoundly harming all of us.
in re Xavi Simons #COYS
refusing to get hyped until there's an actual announcement even though I didn't actually want Willian or Eze They Haunt Us Still
Every small landlord ive ever had has their unemployable nephew deal with maintenance on a bimonthly basis in their absolutely not up to code rental and every corporate landlord has been Basically Pleasant and Responsive. Rents too damn high bc we dont bild
Chapeau to M. Boisvert for calling Legault's latest brainwave what it is
For my fellow Football Manager enjoyers, a surprisingly candid interview with the studio manager about what went wrong with last year's edition and the fallout alas, only the slightest of hints about the promised New Hotness, for which I am starting to itch www.eurogamer.net/the-big-foot...
Excellent analysis of why housebuilding is grinding to a halt in London here. With an important challenge to those who want to focus only on social housing.
three more days of tinkering and still no idea why it wouldn't start but it DOES start now at least with only ten more days until the next DLC/patch release means I have to do it all over again lolsob
think I need to rewatch The Death Of Stalin soon, we're due for a good Second Time As Farce
evergreen skeet
probably because you're on Bluesky I feel compelled to also note as an answer to OP that Ds tried to make the 2024 ballot question "these people want to end democracy, including deploying the military against citizens, and that would be bad", and we saw what the media and the audience made of that
wait, they legislated for that? wait, they CAN legislate for that with the old party dissolved? I suppose they could just notwithstanding away the Charter argument my half-awake brain just came up with.
if your elf smut has good worldbuilding (besides Maas anyway) please recommend it to me, I am interested in branching out both male-coded (Sarah Hawke @hawkenovels.bsky.social was a recent revelation in this regard) and female-coded varieties accepted
It probably works so well in the Premier League specifically because the reffing is famously laissez-faire by soccer standards, much like playoff hockey, and the culture pushes that now I'm imagining what an English Don Cherry would look like and it's far too early for this
Presumably Romney and McCain weren't political options that adequately met their evident non-material needs (shameless bigotry)
clearly THEY got to him, it's the only explanation the priors cannot fail, they can only be failed
host nation curse
I _own_ ME Legendary and probably need to actually play it (and also finish Andromeda) but I have no clue where I would find the time
I was just vaguely embarrassed when Vancouver fans went down this exact same rabbit hole about the San Jose game two weeks ago but maybe a neutral can tell me if we were actually this funny then
I would love something like this but unfortunately the first three DA games are probably way too different for this not to be an insane amount of work
Assuming OP meant the first but I am like 90% sure that the Murder Intent for guests will be available like it is for other activities, for the most dedicated of shit disturbers not necessarily literal shit disturbers but I can't rule anything out, the event writers for this game are unhinged
the quotes to this post are as full of hot dog suit memes as you would probably expect
we have been watching Nautilus and I don't know whether it is GOOD exactly but it is filling me with a far greater terror of the sea than I was expecting from a Disney+ series so assignment understood
I'm paywalled but I can only assume the article describes how she is proud of her and her party's role in this and taking credit because I have trouble believing anyone who can walk upright and not constantly collide with things could manage to be oblivious enough for the alternative
TBF she is probably no longer in a position to
this is the only worthwhile take on soccer refereeing, everyone else can go home now
all of this is why I thought, and continue to think, that export taxes on various resources were the better counterplay but a) nobody asked me and b) there are tradeoffs to that too and I'm not pretending to be an expert on the economics of trade
now entering week 3 since I decided "hey I should try out a nomad run in Crusader Kings 3 with the new expansion, let's update my mod stack to the new game version" and I still have zero idea why it won't start you people who just play games as the devs intended are to be envied
I do agree that the division of powers in the Constitution has a deeply flawed understanding of where certain responsibilities should be from a practical perspective
I think the wrinkle here is that you CAN provinces have broad taxing powers and the federal government has on several occasions reduced its own taxes to allow provincial governments to actually raise revenue to fund things ("tax point transfers" is the phrase I recall) they just don't
if I hear any #VWFC fans talking about Tim Ford again after this I'mma lose it, this was one hell of a makeup call turned the game off after seeing that live because I thought Bazakos had blown for full time, what a mindfuck to come back half an hour later and learn he'd whistled for VAR
the poor cameraman trying to keep the second place horse in frame with 1970s tech while Chic Anderson calls "he's moving like a tremendous machine!" chills
This news prompted me to actually watch the footage of Secretariat's Belmont race that he won by like 30 lengths - which predictably I hadn't seen as it happened ten years before I existed reader, I was left in awe RIP, hopefully horse and rider are reunited now, young and whole
Even if he doesn't control them in the sense he can make someone he likes win, the more important perception (in the eyes of GOP electeds who might otherwise check him) is that he controls them enough to make someone he hates lose
this is especially true when your strategy actually IS harmful to your citizens, who have just temporarily forgotten this in a fit of widespread outrage
it really is incredibly funny that this keeps happening
Yet another first half in the life of Tottenham Hotspur, the Soccer Death Star's Single Inexplicable Weakness
I had meant it about Canada, I actually have no idea if Ukraine's strategy is "working" beyond the simple observation that they remain capable of resisting so it is clearly working to some degree
it currently feels worth reminding my compatriots of the second part of this point if your strategy is not working (because your opponent is both more powerful and so deeply irrational as to defy easy description) you should, actually, change your strategy
“is anyone actually doing this” is the one question that it is apparently verboten for most political commentators to try to answer
It was an economic consequence of the pandemic AND of the responding stimulatory government fiscal policy. Debatable how much of it was ACTUALLY attributable to either but the narrative tied him to it contrast Obama's more restrained post-GFC stimulus: probably insufficient BUT also less inflating
thank you from the bottom of my heart for alerting me to this masterpiece (the rest of the piece and indeed the series is great too)
Very sorry to hear that James Dobson died peacefully
DC and Montreal in furious competition for the Worst FO In The League award (Wooden Pen? Wooden Spreadsheet?)
consistency with prior statements in other situations is old and busted, everything is ad hoc now if he Does A Sicario it won't be because of saying this
last-in-the-ear syndrome plus his weird complex about always doing the opposite of whatever Obama and/or Biden did is yielding bizarre results
I am a frequent Leagues Cup enjoyer/defender but Parker is absolutely correct
I say this extremely seriously: one of the main skills children have to learn to be adults is to do things they *don't* find interesting. This is both because many necessary things in life are boring and because sometimes interesting things take time and effort first.
What made Star Wars IV-VI world building work and I-III mostly work is that trick of the light, the implication, left lots of room for new stores because it was literally the impression of just a big lived in galaxy full of possibility. Conversely VII-IX's tricks shrunk the universe.
Right? Most of these same people were complaining about the LC being too disruptive in its original format - and they were correct, and the organizers adjusted accordingly, and as a result this framing comes off really weird to me I beg for the honesty of the ones simply saying it shouldn't exist
the fact that it is both makes it EVEN BETTER
I love many things about Clair Obscur but maybe at the very top of the list is that every person I know who has played it - myself included - has made this post it is so, so French
if a youtube channel gets the right to show a top 5 league in the country of another top 5 league then surely we must be reaching the point where the tv rights bubble is going to burst
On one hand I hear this on the other, Brazil, Argentina,, and to a lesser extent the Scandi leagues exist and thrive and sell in this same situation
but Ben, if Bradley and Dempsey and Altidore had only stayed in Europe the team wouldn't have blown the 2018 WCQ cycle!
Habemus Diem! man I don't know HOW they are going to do this Pivot to Simulation they've been pitching and depict so many of the population, social, and economic changes that were abstracted in previous Europa Universalis games but I am so hyped to find out on November 4 youtu.be/nP59vpuEJx8...
Even after all these years: Garbage - #1 Crush Madonna - Like A Prayer
It is somehow working so far? (I am mostly joking, in Schuster's tenure he's had a remarkably more varied transfer record than Lutz)
Lutz Pfannenstiel walked so Axel Schuster could fly
oh of COURSE it's the PNW, I should have known
The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature you go girl, but also the brains that came up with this scheme and also RESPOND so fiercely to it over the simpler alternative of just...taking and sending said sexy photos without the intermediary platform need to be studied for science
If you had told male nerds of my generation that women would get into our nerd shit, like it, and that men within our communities would get mad about this they would have competed with each other to come up with clever references for how absolutely insane you sounded.
Yes, he absolutely needed a move and Miami can always use more cap flexibility, I mostly don't get what's in it for Charlotte unless they know something we don't about Kahlina or about the league GK market more broadly
I have always found interesting the amount that female candidates are criticised for being "inauthentic" in their messaging specifically BECAUSE performing their authentic selves draws that sort of reaction
I actually like that sub most of the time but they have been constantly showing their entire ass since the Apple and Messi deals and I visit way less, which sucks because there aren't a lot of good places to talk MLS otherwise
I absolutely don't get Charlotte trading for Callender (unless Kahlina is leaving or they think they can flip him for more?) but, indeed, c'mon man
this is possibly the most correct thing she has ever said though she doesn't realise why it's bad and many people criticising her don't seem to realise how that same technique can also be employed to good effect by those on the proverbial side of the angels, if they would let themselves
this is an insightful analogy, especially since the social image of geekdom before the tech boom empowered us was a very fem-coded softness (which is why the masculinity of that era treated us so badly)
"women also feel free to be creepy sex predators in the right circumstances" was not the result we expected from the sexual revolution but perhaps it should have been a Maenad in every woman, a satyr in every man, and the work of civilization is keeping them in check while bemused asexuals watch
(butterfly meme) is this Sharon volunteering?