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I voted "no" because I know plenty of people are really kinky and/or horny. Like, to a far greater extent than me lol.

As a temporary measure during economic contraction, subsidizing payrolls is an excellent way to mitigate mass unemployment.
However, the US government's administrative capabilities are severely atrophied and its political system almost entirely in thrall to the interests of massive corporations and the wealthy, so there are/will inevitably be a lot of corruption that ultimately weaken the effectiveness of any such program. However, actually doing these things regularly is part of the solution to being bad at them.

With that said, it is overall better to give direct aid to citizens as well, in the form of no-strings-attached cash payments.

It's incredibly refreshing to see a Democratic candidate just treat his Republican opponent with open contempt.
Fetterman is basically stuffing Dr. Oz in a locker and then giving him a swirlie. And I'm here for it.

Hunter Schafer for sexy trans woman Bond! but not really, her talent would be wasted on that.

And this is why I'm never going to Florida again.

This is who cops are, by and large.

Medussa posted...

I don't start arguments, pretty much as a rule. topics like this are as close as I ever come, and even then they're exceedingly rare and, at least from my perspective, lighthearted ribbing rather than actual trolling.

a year or two ago, i stopped marking anything, in response to comments made by a certain salty moderator. instead, i simply started blocking anyone who i would have otherwise expected to receive serious consequences from a quality staff.

and I couldn't be happier with that decision. though, i do sometimes regret that other people might need to pick up the slack from my absence in certain topics.

Im definitely on my way to doing just that. Some of the crap that gets slung here is just terrible. Following the news exposes me to more than enough hate.

Hey beautiful!

Pokemon Gold/Silver. And their remakes.

Split paths would be fine if they were actually all developed (unlike 3H) and made sense (unlike Fates).

A base mechanism is fine, but it defies belief that your army is marching to and from the monastery every month, no matter how far away the battlefield is. I would prefer for this mechanic to stay, but most of the time you're just in an army camp that maybe has a bit less going on. And we need quick-menus, so we don't need to spend hours running around this big, mostly empty place doing random bullshit if we don't want to.

I also hope more limited class options return. 3H's mechanics made some sense with the setting and story-telling, but ultimately it meant there are optimal classes (Wyvern Lord LOL) and set-ups (why yes, I would love an ability to do +6 damage when attacking on literally every unit I have, thank you) and the characters who weren't great at those immediately become suboptimal.

I miss recruiting people, racing to grab chests before an enemy thief loots them or to save villages from bandits. It added a lot of tension to maps, even though it could be tedious at times glares at the chest placements in Whereabouts Unknown. It encouraged and rewarded risky, forward-thinking play conversely, recruiting Raven on that same map while saving the Caelin soldiers gets dicey in the best way on higher difficulties. I have to lure in the obligatory Killing Edge myrmidon with someone they can't insta-gib on crit, but it has to be some one who isn't going to murder the shit out of them on the counter, just so my squishy healer can talk to them. Those are the kinds of little puzzles Three Houses just doesn't present you with, and I do think it's weaker for it.

gunplagirl posted...

That's around when I started speech therapy and I was in it until like 7th grade? Rs were my last hurtle. All I'm saying is, don't dismiss it just because of her age.

Heh, Rs were my bane too. One the rare occasion I struggle to enunciate a word today, its usually because it has hard rs in back-to-back syllables. Never quite fixed that bug.
And, of course, my brain is far more nimble and than my tongue is or ever will be.

I also speak softly, but thats partly because Ive always hated my voice. Its getting better though.

Edit: But yeah TC, your daughter might not have an issue, or she might. Theres no harm in her seeing a speech pathologist.

It wont pass the Senate.

Robot2600 posted...

The map vastly underrepresents the day-to-day violence that trans ppl have to deal with everywhere.

That's not what the map is depicting at all: it is depicting whether that state has enacted or seemingly has the political will to enact anti-trans legislation vs. which states have laws on the books protecting trans rights, and assessing the risk of those in between of doing the former.

The Chao Garden, 1000%.

Conversely, a lot of herbivores will engage in opportunistic predation - deer are well known to eat baby birds that have fallen out of their nests, for example, but they generally aren't able to safely consume anything aside from fresh, easy meat.

Kitt posted...

And I take it I'd need to hunt down a GameCube in order to play the FPS games? Those look really neat too.

The Prime series. Well, there's also the trilogy on Wii, but it's still basically shares most of its DNA with the rest of the series: it's more about exploration and platforming than fighting, just in first-person.
They do make good use of the more limited perspective though!

Zero Mission is how I got into it: it points out what to do next, which is helpful to players who aren't well-acquainted with the series' logic.
But Super Metroid is also a pretty great entry-point. You just might struggle to figure out how to get into Maridia. And probably get lost in Maridia for a little while.

Yes, I'm going to bump this, but I need to add: transphobia is rooted in patriarchal gender norms. In other words, it is rooted in misogyny. It is also rooted in the idea that men are inherently predators. And it also assumes that trans men are simply weak-willed women who have been misled: it infantalizes them in the same way it infantalizes cis women. The transphobic stereotype is trans men as misled butch lesbians, but, of course, it's actually the case that trans people are much more likely to be homosexual than straight.

MrToothHasYou posted...

If you made a similar map showing anti-reproductive rights legislation efforts, Im willing to bet it would look nearly identical.

And yet somehow (cough), many cis women got the idea planted in their brains that trans people are the problem, rather than allies against a common enemy.

It's easier to oppress a tiny minority than it is to fight Christofascism.
But yes, the underlying belief is that neither women nor trans people should be allowed bodily autonomy. And conceding to Christofascist framing on one leaves you unable to clearly and cogently argue for the other.

Unrelatedly, it's a shame that John King has little chance of winning the MD Dem governor primary. He actually met with Erin and other trans rights activists and pledged to enact a CT-style trans refuge law.

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The numbers that show American life expectancy declining certainly are.

Well, thats not really a lot of real estate.

Edit: Erin is a trans rights activist who lives in Maryland, IIRC. An excellent source on these matters.

02fran posted...

HJK's recoil was actually always only 1 in Gen 1 because it's supposed to do half of the damage you would've done +1 but in Gen 1 they accidentally programmed it to include the miss (which does 0 damage obviously) so it always just does 1 damage.

That's....incredible. I should have expected nothing less from RBY.

Jeff_AKA_Snoopy posted...

Normal is only strong because Fighting Type is so weak since everyone uses psychic types or has psychic moves.

It is a vicious cycle.

Yeah, it's not just that. It's that Fighting Type has no good moves in Gen 1. Outside of High Jump Kick, which was exclusive to Hitmonlee (a pokemon with the durability of tissue paper: it had 35 base Special in Gen 1, to go with 50 base HP and 53 base defense. A stiff breeze could kill this thing!), the strongest Fighting type attack was Submission, as detailed - an extremely shitty move. HJK only had 85 BP in Gens 1-3 and has always had 90 accuracy with the incredibly punishing unique recoil on a miss, so it's not like it was that much better.

Ah yes, the hedge fund that runs a university on the side wants to pay less in taxes.

RottingGoat posted...

you made this account just to harass joestarrr and everyone knows that. the fact that you get away with it is criminal.

A lot of people get away with that stuff here lol. You dont even know the half of it.

Ive been modded a handful of times. Mostly my unwillingness to respect the dead as a matter of course.

I just try and make this place a little bit better, personally. Im not here to start drama.

I have an Accent. It's old but had like no miles when I bought it. Pretty obviously underpowered but the gas mileage is great (especially considering it's 10+ years old) and has yet to have any significant issues in the...5 years I've had it? Damn, has it been that long already?

I don't really go anywhere though. I like the size: parking is a cinch when you only take up 2/3 of the space and you can squeeze through some tight spaces. Like, I once did a 3-point turn in a large two-car garage.

Weavile is like the best one, because its purely offensive and part Dark lol.

Gamefreak: *creates Avalugg*

Clearly, the problem was that there werent enough cops. Gotta give them more money! There is literally no other explanation. /jk

Gwynevere posted...

Things aren't great

Lifes got me sitting here like
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/5/AAVkBcAADdmv.jpg

Aww, I'm sorry to here that. Sending you love.

NoxObscuras posted...

That sounds complicated. But glad things are working out with you and your girlfriend. And thanks.

She's got a lot wrong with that little body of hers, unfortunately. But she's crazy smart and warm and affirming. She told me she had a dream about me recently and that I spoke to her "in the most beautifully feminine voice" my actual voice has come a long way but it's nowhere close to that lol.
Plus, you know...she's hot.

NoxObscuras posted...

Going pretty well. I'm working on getting my BSIT degree online. Off to a good start there. And I have a third date tomorrow, so that will be fun. I'm trying not to put all of my eggs in one basket, but I feel like things have been going well.

Yeah, that's great dude!

I remember my first date with my lady. She had delayed due to gastrointestinal distress and dismissed me a bit early because she didn't want me to be around if she had trouble with her dinner her diet is insanely specific, I won't get into it and she just said good-bye, then stopped and added, "I mean, I don't think it's like we'll never see each other again, right?" That was a good four months ago now.

I hope date #3 goes great.

Big_Nabendu posted...

Pretty darn good
Enjoying my 3 day weekend, and just wrapping up reading Ordinary Men.

Ever read it tc?

I have not. What's it about?

I just finished reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. I didn't find it mindblowing or especially illuminating, but it is cool to get such an intimate look into how he organized his world and how he sought to handle his affairs. A little window into the mind of a man dead for almost two millennia now. I have a lot I could read next but as of yet am undecided.

Intro2Logic posted...

Now's a bad time. I've been impatient to see this woman again after we had our third date this past Monday, which went very, very well. We had plans for tomorrow night, we were gonna watch a movie at her place, and I've been really looking forward to it all week. Tonight she texted me to say she'll have to cancel, she's feeling "super socially drained and needs to take a break."

Obviously I understand, and I'm not gonna push things, but my anxiety is through the roof about it right now.

Yeah, that's a perfectly acceptable reason, but the beginning of a relationship is always stressful. I think when I was first messaging the woman I dated now, there was a stretch of like 3-4 days where she didn't get back to me and I had started looking through profiles in earnest again, but it just turned out that she was busy.

Antifar posted...

The last week has been kinda stressful; I'm coming up on the end of my contract at work, and not wanting to commit for another full year at my current job, but also being worried about my ability to find a different one. My boss offered a six month contract today, and I'm probably going to take that, and hopefully I can use this time to burnish my resume (really knuckle down on learning to code).

Yeah, I think you have the right idea. Brush up your coding, tool up your resume, and try to have a new one ready when your contract is up.

DespondentDeity posted...

Im doing really well. I got a big raise. I got some new tattoos. I started taking my progesterone rectally and my boobies have been filling out a lot more and my booty is getting more shapely. Dealing with some existential anxiety of course with this shit hole country and it feels like its taking a really long time to hear back on my name change petition since the dispute period closed at the end of June, but all in all Im extremely pleased with how the transition and other areas in my life are going.

Progestorone really is magic. My thighs are hella thick now and my breasts really took off because of it. Plus it helps promote erectile function, if you're into that.

CyricZ posted...

Wow that all sounds pretty awesome :)

I am meeting with my boss this Tuesday for what may be some changes to my job (in a good way). I just finished up a run through RE4 (hadn't played since the Wii version I think). Also watching Ducktales (up to Season 2).

My niece is getting into games, too, so Uncle Cyric has been handling lots of important questions such as "can I make sure my daughter isn't messaged by weird people in the games" and "what games have local multiplayer".

So, you get to be the cool uncle who introduces her to the world of gaming, eh? Sounds fun! Wish my sister would hurry up and have some kids so I can be an aunt.
And that's good about the job.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Found out I can still inexplicably have some semblance of gymnastic ability.
I think it's the same as riding a bicycle. When you're younger you're dumb enough to assume you can just throw yourself at it and you'll get it eventually.
I assume I can't do a backflip because I didn't learn it back then and now every sense is screaming at me that if I attempt this it'll go horribly wrong.

Yeah..uhhh...def don't just do a back flip randomly. Maybe into a pool or something?

googs19 posted...

Not great.
Though I did take the kids to the Mall of America today, so at least they went well.

Thats a fun day trip. My lady has a tween daughter and I can tell parenting is exhausting lol.

Smackems posted...

Pretty depressed tbh

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Jeez, I read your post and I guess we all should all be grateful its mild. Mild sounds quite awful enough already!

I have a friend who hurt her lower back at work years ago. Her team leader just handed her a ~40ish lb. box of fish unexpectedly and she caught it low. She carried it to a cart, put the box down, and immediately realized something was very wrong. Shes been dealing with it ever since, and only recently became able to walk without a cane again, a good 2 1/2 years later. Any chronic back thing is just seems like a complete fucking nightmare.

Heartomaton posted...

It's going terribly and I can't see anything but more suffering in the future.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy. I hope things improve for you.
I've definitely been there. I still go there sometimes, even. These are terribly distressing times.

Tell me. Tell me all about it!

Me, I'm in a great relationship with a fantastically loving and affirming lady, I'm going to file the docs for my name change Monday, and will be taking a Masters-level social work course in the Fall as a visiting student to bolster my case for being admitted to a program. So, how's it going?

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Oof, probably because it's less famous somehow.
But yeah...they're definitely tearing that down too. How else are they going to stop the "Great Replacement"?

God, once I get my name changed, I'm getting a passport.

It's weird people want to specifically treat trans innmates more harshly....for reasons.
It's weird no one ever suggests male prison guards should get vasectomies before working in women's prisons, even though they "cause" way more pregnancies. I wonder why?

It's all coming down. Obergefell, Griswold, Lawrence, maybe even Brown.

Big is just different and goofy enough to hit a different note from basically every other Sonic character.
Apparently Frontiers is bringing him back.

HylianFox posted...

That's because the vast majority of ordinary people don't give a shit about school board meetings and such.

So all the crazies with an agenda show up unopposed

It's more that there's infinite money and lots of orgs on the right that have been devoted to this kind of thing for decades, whereas the liberals couldn't care less about anything that doesn't effect them personally and the left has no money and thus is mostly localized in specific areas.

Many of the Revolutionary leaders would have hung, and likely many patriots would flee west from the triumphant loyalists the war had become an excuse for settling personal grudges in many cases, and most loyalists emigrated after the war, though their right to do so was protected by the Treaty of Paris.

The British were a bit less interested in westward expansion but likely lacked the will and means to prevent it entirely.

Probably Spains colonies still rebel around the same time as in OTL and likely succeed. The Brits dont go to war with Mexico for its territory, so theres a much larger Mexico. The Brits probably dont mess with it as much as we did/do either.

Louisiana is a bit of a wild card. Maybe rebels seize part of it and install Aaron Burr as king? Let me be fanciful here.

The Native Americans are still completely fucked. Sorry, I wish it was plausible they could come out of this okay.

The modern US is a member of the British Commonwealth. It is territorially much smaller (how much smaller is uncertain). Nothing is named for Washington or Jefferson (and anything named Franklin might be after Ben Franklins loyalist son). Maybe some things are named after Benedict Arnold particularly if his plot to betray West Point succeeding is our divergence point. The US is a Parliamentary democracy with a little bit of a federalist streak. Maybe the Brits got Louisiana after beating Napoleon and made it its own thing to counterbalance their once-rebellious subject. Perhaps Mexico became a superpower.

Do you see why alt history is hard? Theres ultimately no way to say.