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Ranting Nord posted...

No, they're a little classier than that.

There are box wines of decent quality man

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Yeah please do a scoxit and come back to the EU m8. You can do a union with NI and Ireland instead

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I can see how people are disappointed in Luke's characterization. The very center of his final conflict was to throw away his lightsaber, because fixing the problem with violence would lead him to the dark side. In a way, raising his lightsaber against Ben undoes all that.

About the whole map thing IIRC the novelization of TFA tried to salvage it a little. It said something along the lines of R2 having a huge galactic map buried somewhere in a backup from the time he hooked himself into the Death Star imperial database. So that would have been why he was asleep, he was scanning his stored backups.

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Star Wars is crap but I like crap so I don't care

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evil_zombie11 posted...

Same exact lines I heard from TLJ early showings. Tbh

Well that's promising then

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Person assuming everyone has leaky butts accusing others of not knowing anything about human anatomy

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Hey I like Matt Parker. I hope you hear back

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Balrog0 posted...

I still thought Octopath was bad even grading on a curve

I'll admit I have weird taste. Reason I like it is because I like the battle system

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I like it some, but I really don't care about the plot. Old school JRPGs never had amazing plots, and this one is no exception.

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When you use it? Duh

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Rimmer_Dall posted...

Oh, it's without a question an anime. It aired in Japan in 1990, Finland and Sweden in 1991. And I seem to recall some episodes never aired outside of Japan due to being considered too scary for children or something along those lines.

Ah I didn't know that, I thought it was one of those deals where they just had a Japanese studio animate it.

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Yeah I guess it is technically. I always thought it was just outsourced rather than produced for a Japanese audience, so I guess it depends on your definition

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the_rowan posted...

yeah I'm sure the last 44 presidents were also whiny bitches who insulted, taunted and threatened news organizations in front of the entire world just because they faced biased coverage

Actually some of them were. Trump isn't as unique as one might think I'm this regard

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Greta didn't drop out of highschool, she's taking a sabbatical before starting highschool

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Tm glm
Pumpa dumpa


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The media campaign against him was pretty disgusting

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joe40001 posted...

Maybe I'm a bit too quick to get antagonistic, but personally when I hear people talk about how hard it all is, it sounds to me like they are giving excuses why we shouldn't try.

And considering the stakes we really need to try everything we can. Going to the moon was hard, and we did it and we didn't even need to.

That's called a strawman argument

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Crazyman93 posted...

The problem with that, at least insofar as say, solar, is that they rely on materials that are themselves in limited supply and the making of such is harmful to the enviroment. And some have limited use lives before they degrade, again solar.

Now, hydroelectric works great, and does so for long periods, look at the Hoover Dam, but there are so many issues with dams that make them near useless, like, for instance, the fact that there aren't exactly a wealth of locations to build a hydroelectric dam.

Yeah, it's very very tricky. Solar like you say isn't exactly good for the environment, nor is building windmills. Hydroelectric kills ecosystems. Wave power is interesting, but nothing is without environmental impact.

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Phewfus posted...

And renewables aren't high cost?

They're high cost but hopefully into a resource that isn't depleted sooner rather than later.

joe40001 posted...

Any change that's going to matter is going to happen at the government/company level. Susan feeling shitty about using her Keurig isn't going to make a difference, taxing carbon until the world becomes carbon neutral will.

I agree. Governments need to seriously step up and address consumerism, and give up on this crazy idea that there can be infinite growth. Susan is a tiny part of the system, she can't really avoid it.

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Phewfus posted...

Why does it have to be limitless? Depending on the time frame, it may only be needed temporarily before finding a feesable energy alternative.

Well the time frame doesn't necessarily get much longer in the first place, but more importantly it needs to be renewable. It's just not sustainable to keep mining non renewable minerals for a host of reasons. The issue I see additionally is that the cost of converting to nuclear would be too high for what we're getting out of it.

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joe40001 posted...

Yeah but Earth's DEATH is on the table so maybe we shouldn't be such choosy beggars.

Sure, but in the end what we really need is systemic change. We need to move away from mass consumerism etc, so that we actually use less energy. If we keep scaling up like we're doing now, we'll just be putting nails in our coffin, nuclear or no nuclear.

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Phewfus posted...

Does it need to be? It's way more abundant in nature than uranium is and produces far more energy in the same amount, meaning we wouldn't run out of it for a long time.

Besides, if total irreversible climate change is a mere generation away like many alarmists say, wouldn't you want to find a quick solution to solve the problem without rolling back society to a third world nation and give us time to better develop alternatives like better renewable energy sources?

It kind of needs to, yeah. It's more abundant, but it's far from limitless.

About a quick fix solution, it wouldn't be a quick fix. Replacing all our power plants with nuclear plants is not a trivial task, it's an absolutely massive project.

Of course, there are no easy answers at all, since production of solar panels and windmills is also problematic. But nuclear is far from the silver bullet that NB people believe it to be.

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Phewfus posted...

Doesn't have to be Uranium. Could be Thorium.

China is currently investing into Thorium reactor technology.

And is thorium all of a sudden a renewable energy source?

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

In my opinion, they should have kept the EU going.

But then completely ignored it when it came to motion pictures and television. Just not even acknowledge its existence.

Completely ignore it? Heck, Coruscant comes from the EU. Admiral Thrawn does. The son of Han and Leia going dark. Etc

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PatrickMahomes posted...

<code>This time</code>

Damn what happened to code text

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And let's face it, a lot of the EU is crap. Even the parts that are lauded are essentially enjoyable, pulpy adventure romps. I suspect many people look at things with very rose-tinted nostalgia glasses.

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MetaMajik posted...

Flims based on various EU books would have been infinitely better than anything that has or will be released.

Films based on various other EU books would have been infinitely worse though

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Oh look, everyone's favorite president has weighed in:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730

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metallica846 posted...

Hmmmmmmmmm well lets see....Barry O got the award in december 2009. Now hold on just gotta do some math here real quick. Ok Im back.

Now he was elected in 2008 and took office in Jan 09 iirc. Now thats hmmmm 1 whole year of bombing the shit out of Iraq and Afghanistan if my math holds. Come at the king, best not miss.

I'm a scientist and I can confirm that the math here checks out

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metallica846 posted...

China wanted one and the US said fuck that.

That doesn't really prove anything. Before it's working, I'm skeptical. Because I know what type of crazy projects get hyped up in Silicon Valley.

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metallica846 posted...

Bill Gates is working on that but people are too afraid of the nuclear boogey man in their backyard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

It's an interesting project but I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, this is nothing more than a Silicon Valley "aim for the stars" kind of deal like the hyperloop or Theranos etc

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Phewfus posted...

Of course she is.

It shows that environmental activists like her are more interested in pushing for their special interest groups in the renewable power industry and promoting social justice on an economic scale than actually reducing carbon emissions to stop global catastrophe.

You do realize that nuclear power is not a renewable energy source and that we're rapidly running out of uranium even with the current rate of use, right?

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JonTaylorThomas posted...

So she turned climate change into an identity politics movement.

Sounds like the opposite of progress to me tbqh

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Oh I see

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JonTaylorThomas posted...

why isnt greta going to china and india?

I guess because they didn't invite her?

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https://twitter.com/acablart/status/1204753050834878465

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

So anyway, can someone please explain how impeaching Trump guarantees his re-election?

I guess the argument is that it energises his base, but I'm not sure they wouldn't be energised otherwise

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I'm surprised the favorite dismissal of Sweden's Twitter shithole isn't brought up here:
"In '38 Hitler got it and in '39 Stalin got it"

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gunplagirl posted...

I thought it was just the money and stuff behind the awards making her angry because she'd rather it all went to making an impact?

Yeah she's been vocal about this. She's not interested in awards or stuff like this. She wants people to stop fucking around and take climate change seriously. Instead of doing that, they're like OH GRETA YOU'RE AMAZING and she's like shut up with the praise and start doing stuff you hypocrites

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If it were up to her, she'd probably decline that kind of award. If it's an award even

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You mean games like WoW, LoL, CS, Overwatch, Starcraft..?

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Manocheese posted...

People spending their time and money helping others for reasons other than profit? You mean charity?

...no. Let's be clear, when I'm talking about charity here, I'm talking about organizations being funded by charitable donations.

What I said "without profit" in the post your quoting, I didn't mean volunteer work. One example of work without profit could be public sector work.

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Antifar posted...

I don't know what purpose Democrats are serving by making this such a limited matter.

My guess is that they want this over with by the time the election really kicks in, so they can focus on election stuff instead of having a drawn-out impeachment. When Clinton was impeached, his popularity went up. They'll want to avoid that with Trump, so they just do this thing as concisely as possible then move on.

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Foppe posted...

RIP Marie Fredriksson.

RIP. What a spooky coincidence that I just mentioned her

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vigorm0rtis posted...

I'd argue, though, that there are a lot of problems that get addressed by "charitable" organizations that might be impossible to address otherwise. I've been a volunteer with the American Literacy Council for about 10 years, and the people that come to us aren't likely to get the help they need elsewhere. They need one-on-one training that's typically tailored to their specific issues. Many have learning disorders. Most professional teachers wash out in the first 5 years, and Special Ed teachers are in astoundingly high demand. We have 20 volunteers in rotation at any given time, and most of us only have one or two pupils at a time. I suppose throwing a completely unrealistic amount of money at the problem could solve it, but these individuals only receive a couple hours of tutoring a week. It's not a situation you could formalize into a proper "job."

Absolutely! Don't misunderstand, I'm not laying the blame at individual charities. In the current system, they're sorely needed, sadly. And like I said, it's an incredibly complex set of problems. I'm sure there are edge cases where charity/philanthropy or whatever you want to call it is the most optimal solution with regards to efficiency. Maybe even under paradigms other than capitalism.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Oh shit, is this all just a copypasta?

No, it isn't.

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