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personally my only complaint was that after looking for aang across half the finale and instead finding the last resistance (white lotus) they then decided to split up and take down the fire nation independently

i thought it'd have made much more sense if they teamed up with their respective masters and used their experience to develop the creative solutions they ultimately made

like, by comparison, liberating ba sing se was of trivial importance compared to stopping the fleet. if liberated but the fleet was not stopped it'd have just been incinerated.

i really wanted to see sokka/piandao, pakku/katarra, and bumi/toph working together. each of the masters served as foils for the respective characters: piandao's patience to sokka's impetuousness; pakku's pride and inflexibility to katarra's pragmatism; bumi's childlike energy and creativity in the body of an old man to toph's seriousness and directness in the body of a child.

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Nguyen is now in what is known as a minimally conscious state unable to speak, walk, eat or take care of herself. Her family says she has suffered severe brain damage and will likely remain in this condition for the rest of her life.

i feel like this is the sort of condition that someone struggles to communicate with for years and when they finally succeed, the message is "kill me"

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TANF rules vary by state.

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we do not care, no.

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superpowers for eating his vegetables, the first time cartoons ever tried to teach kids a good lesson

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KillerSlaw posted...

You can't use the argument that Leia knew Obi Wan through her adoptive fathers stories but then also say Ben is the only name she knew him by.

She literally called him Obi Wan Kenobi in her distress message.

it is quite literally the only name luke used for obi-wan, though, and i think it's enough to grasp that the writers chose luke's viewpoint to frame things like character names and homages, whether it made perfect sense to do so or not

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KillerSlaw posted...

It's more like why name him after that one nickname he used on a backwater planet when he was hiding.

ben is a diminutive of obi-wan, and it was used for leia's entire lifetime

it's reasonable to assume that it was a childhood nickname of his that the prequels totally failed to reference because they were poorly written

it's probably less reasonable to assume that it was a good alias considering the person most likely to know it (his apprentice/brother who knew him from the time he was a young teenager) was the person he was using it to hide from

it's also a name much less likely to get a child who looks like adam driver bullied than "obi-wan"

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Amenadeel posted...

It's like seriously other nations, what are you even doing?

mostly living in the natural nexus of their bending element (mountain peaks, polar ice caps, pangaea continent) and either being universally able to bend (air) or subservient to those that can (water, earth)

the motivation for the war (at least, at first) was lebensraum--they only can fit so many people in those volcanic isles.

it's somewhat baked into the names, too: air nomads. water tribes. earth kingdom. fire nation.

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Josiah_Is_Back posted...

^ Bevin really is a fiend, isn't he?

whoever kills him in an automobile "accident" deserves an immediate pardon from beshear

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Conflict posted...

creepy af when grown ass dudes are like "aw s*** a teenager turned 18? YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS"

really any man publicly commenting on his attraction to a woman he does not know is fairly creepy

we dont need to dilute the conversation and make it about pedophilia

men in general need to understand that unwanted sexual comments in the public domain make every woman who has to see them uncomfortable

but they don't send me into a downward spiral of reliving being molested as a kid. that's more of something that happens when an elected politician releases child rapists from prison. save the pedophilia ire for that, there's plenty of it.

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i wonder how far we are from our politicians pardoning the people who murder their rivals

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AlisLandale posted...

I mean, as long as it's looked at as a long-term goal of fixing the systemic issues that cause this inequality in the first place, I don't think calling for "racial diversity of billionaires" is a terrible thing.

it kind of is, because that sort of hyperbole is supposed to be seen as a criticism of the degree to which we've focused on removing the barriers that prevent middle class people from become rich rather than the barriers that prevent poor people from becoming middle class

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paying off debt is not fundamentally different from investing in terms of advancing your long-term financial position, aside from the fact that time works against you with debt payments and for you with equity

but the point is, millenials are "socking away" quite a lot more than other cohorts. they just are doing it to fight an uphill battle that they were stuck with from the very start.

the reason they're doing worse is the impact of that start on both their short term position and ability of their saving to help them in the future--systematic problems that have nothing to do with work ethic or willingness to part with luxuries in order to have a better future

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i like that you didnt even comment on the climax of that plot

i sometimes go back and rewatch from "No, it is not over."

chills, probably the best designed scene in the whole series

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why arent we taking up this analogy of student vs principal? it's actually very apt

when a student hits another student unprovoked, and authorities witness it, generally he's suspended

when a student hits the principal, and authorities witness it, generally he's suspended. occasionally expelled, but often not any more severe than hitting another student.

but when a principal hits a student unprovoked and authorities witness it? he's not only fired, but likely will get jail time.

when two students fuck, it's just students fucking. but when teacher bangs a boy, that's a rapist and they're going to jail.

why do we manage to get this right with kids in school and so wrong with adults?

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same reason fish can't breathe in a solution of perfect H2O with nothing else in it

their gills filter o2 gas mixed in with the water, which is a product of photosynthesis and energy consumption from plants in the ocean

i think this is also why there's so little life beyond the photoactive region of the ocean?

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why not both

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

I think that one of the contributing issues is that boomers were creating equity at a much younger age. Later generations were creating debt at that same age.

If a boomer is socking away $100 a month from age 18 then they're going to drastically outpace millennials who were largely incurring more and more debt until well after college.

you made this up

boomers were not 'socking away' 100 a month at 18. they were in fact not 'socking away' much at all, ever. they are currently in a severe 'retirement crisis' for having not saved nearly enough. 45% have no retirement savings and the median savings among those who do is around 100-150k.

source
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/032216/are-we-baby-boomer-retirement-crisis.asp

they were in college, earning a distribution of degrees that was heavier on liberal arts than millenials' are studying today for about $4000 (total, room and board combined cost, in today's money)

source
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/09/310114739/whats-your-major-four-decades-of-college-degrees-in-1-graph

https://cei.org/blog/mind-boggling-increase-tuition-1960-even-students-learn-less-and-less

at 21 they left college and started jobs that rewarded them for their degrees, in an economy that drastically favored americans. they purchased homes straight away that cost about half what they do now, in real dollars (most of the price change from this period was inflation) and made tiny/near-zero down payments.

source
https://www.multpl.com/case-shiller-home-price-index-inflation-adjusted

they saved nothing because their employers promised them real pensions and their employers saved for them. they spent 30 years at those same employers, generally having been rewarded quite a lot early on, and not noticing their pay flattening as they aged.

they retired as such a massive burden on those employers that many are still struggling today to stay afloat because the pension burden of their boomers is so great.

https://www.cfo.com/retirement-plans/2019/12/for-many-cfos-pension-plans-are-millstones-around-the-neck/

they taught their children three things that are total bullshit:

1) just go to college, you don't need a plan. just go.
2) be loyal to your employer! loyalty is rewarded!
3) buy a home, it's the best way to build wealth!

millennials who grew up and generally trusted their parents followed this advice and instead wound up in massive debt. they were not creating NEW debt, they had OLD debt they are paying off, which is much closer to 'socking $100' away than anything boomers were ever doing.

they then entered the workforce just as the bottom fell out of the US economy and their negotiating power hit an all time low. they were employees working jobs for employers who deliberately underpaid them and even as the economy improved, their employers knew that changing jobs was so stressful they often wouldn't. these employers, still burdened by expensive boomer pension plans not at all available to their millennial employees (in place: 401k matching that was trimmed to the bone in 2008 and is only now starting to limp back), opted instead to only reward new hires, while attempting to shame those who realized what was happening and learned to jump ship regularly and play the same game.

source
https://tinyurl.com/vwyzh2h

millenials following their parents' advice were buying homes in a hyperinflated market that crashed soon after they bought. some were lucky enough to not be ready until after 2008, but remember that the cohort starts in 1981.

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seems like a classic example where castle doctrine should've come into play

world would be a better place

except, ofc, the victims were black. it's not safe for them to defend themselves.

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Balrog0 posted...

if you adjust for inflation tax collection fell 1.5%

just to put numbers to it:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2018-11/54647-MBR.pdf
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/CBO-55415-MBR.pdf

Total Receipts: Up by Less Than 1 Percent in Fiscal Year 2018
Total Receipts: Up by 3 Percent in the First Nine Months of Fiscal Year 2019

Prior to the tax cut, taxes were rising relative to inflation every year.

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Balrog0 posted...

lmao

Clinton raised taxes and cut spending, what are you talking about

lets run the numbers a bit

https://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/tax-rates-vs-tax-revenues

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS?locations=US

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.TAX.TOTL.CN?end=2018&locations=US&start=1972&view=chart

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lightwarrior78 posted...

If you rent instead of paying mortgage, like your parents did, you won't build wealth.

honestly i think this is a lot less true today than it used to be

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punctuation rules made your headline pretty confusing, but to summarize

katie hill is stepping down from the house

cenk uygur is running for her slot

bernie sanders has endorsed cenk

cenk's nephew has said some stuff about journalists

cenk himself has said some other shitty things

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Good.
Affordability will come about when the housing stock is finally adequate, not because of rent controls and set-asides.

housing isn't really the primary problem

the primary problem is debt

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Questionmarktarius posted...

The issues with building a post-war shoebox are multiplied a couple hundred times when building an apartment tower.

apt towers are going up all over the place what are you talking about

http://eyeonhousing.org/2019/08/multifamily-construction-data-2nd-quarter-2019/

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Affordable housing isn't affordable.

i think we're way past the issue of people owning homes

and more to the issue of people going bankrupt just trying to pay rent while providing minimum standards of healthcare and nutrition to their kids

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dolomedes posted...

while i agree with you, that just makes me more cynical of proposals like this one - why not attempt to change the system that keeps so many americans struggling to pay their bills despite full-time jobs?

this is an attempt to do that

unless by "the system" you mean the mismatch between cost of living in america and worker market value

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Balrog0 posted...

the health care industry is really powerful, but rich people also really love the stepped-up basis

I personally don't know what to expect

my guess is senate cuts out the 'how we will pay for it' part and makes it temporary (but the device tax cut permanent)

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

It would help you credit limit go up or anything?

no

see post#3 for details

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RoadsterUFO posted...

At whos expense?

did you read the OP?

Balrog0 posted...

Romney and Bennet would pay for the change in part by repealing stepped-up basis. Thats a federal tax rule that greatly reduces the taxability of inherited property. It says that if, say, wealthy art collector Milburn Pennybags Sr. buys a painting for $10 that is worth $1 million when he dies years later, then Milburn Pennybags Jr. can sell it for $1.1 million and only pay capital gains tax on the $100,000 its appreciated between inheriting it and selling it. Under Romney and Bennets proposed change, the younger Pennybags would have to pay tax on the nearly $1.1 million in value the painting gained since his father bought it.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Thats a fucking awesome bill, so I assume it has no chance to pass?

actually it's also carrying the technical changes required for the 2017 tax bill to do what it was intended to do (because it was passed without being read, there are drafting errors that prevent businesses making capital expenditures from being able to take the deduction in the year they did them)

and it repeals the obamacare medical device tax

so it probably passes

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no, carried balance for credit history purposes does not update at the same time as card carriers check to see if you owe interest

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Questionmarktarius posted...

That's unfortunate.

the program it modifies already goes on top

this just makes that program less work dependent, which more or less cancels out the changes to SNAP

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Loud_Pipes posted...

You earn more by working hard and selling your skills and taking calculated risks.

you earn more by changing jobs. repeatedly, and with an aggressive attitude towards salary negotiation.


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"Based on internal accounting documents from February 2018, the complaint estimates the portfolio has grown in value from $12 billion in 1997, when Ensign was formed, to about $100 billion today," WashPost notes.

This isn't out of the realm of possibility, 400% return since 1997 with zero new contributions would put it halfway there and that's what the indexes did

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right but those are the millionaires (and, more commonly outside the 1% subset, near-millionaires) in blue states who donate to dems consistently

democrats defending their own funding stream is certainly not any more surprising than the no-compromises approach the GOP took to the corporate tax cut

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GregShmedley posted...

And the ones that do support them have lived in rough areas or poorer areas and see the validity in owning one for protection.

this seems anecdotal

Balrog0 posted...

would universal background checks really be unconstitutional?

of course not. only the assault weapons ban might fail a SCOTUS challenge, though it passed the 9th way back.

in general though, municipalities have no argument here--it's for the judicial branch to rule on constitutionality.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

heavy-handed paternalism about it all only makes us feel better with no real benefit to whoever we're supposedly helping.

like i said, the cruelty is the point

specifically, to feel better than other people

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Amenadeel posted...

That dude with the burned eye is the bad guy, I don't know why I get flashes of sympathy when they shift to his story. Can't help myself. He's bad but him and his uncle actually have a... good relationship?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SympathyForTheDevil

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Balrog0 posted...

its the same amount of money coming from the general fund whether they spend it on oats or lobster

the cruelty is the point

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HellRatUFO posted...

Within the past few years in the United States, countless businesses have been started by prominently Latino/Hispanic entrepreneurs creating jobs. According to yall, many of these people that grew up in lower income neighborhoods that have made something of themselves should have their income and businesses killed off with insane increased corporate tax rates, mandated wage hikes, and mandated benefits as so long as it sticks it to richer white business owners to pump into bloated welfare programs with no oversight to cut any spending what so ever.

https://cnbc.com/2018/09/25/latinos-are-a-powerful-force-fueling-small-business-growth-in-the-us.html

small businesses don't pay corporate taxes

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beholder and reus are both pretty good and definitely worth 2.50

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Highwind07 posted...

If it succeeds it just means that he can be sent to court to be tried at least that is how I understand it.

sent to the senate for the trial, specifically, who must vote with a 2/3 majority to remove him from office

i think the SCOTUS oversee the trial in the senate itself, although they are not the ones who make the removal decision, only the senate does that

one of the many problems with the US republic is that our more powerful legislative body is the one that is representative of land rather than population

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some crazy editorializing by op

we all know trump can't aim. he'd have to be able to see his genitals over that enormous blubbery gut to aim.

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Wewillrocku posted...

prove it? lol just search and find the info. here's a link. there's more too.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/politics/donald-trump-data-pivit-2016-election/index.html

this appears to be a poll aggregation for the republican primary, during its earliest stages

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Autocraticus posted...

Remember when major news outlets gave him a 1% chance of winning?

i don't. which one said that and can you prove it


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Marauder64 posted...

You were saying no jewish king distinguished between the two correct?

i was saying no jewish king used the 'majestic we' to refer to themselves

not sure if something in your post was intended to rebut that or not, i see you italicized 'them' in describing the 'enemy nations' in psalms?

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