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Puerto Rico would have to initiate the process first(Washington D.C. held a referendum back in 2016 and already has a transition plan).

Zeus posted...

Pretty much. Hell, it's why DC exists at all.

However, if they wanted representation, instead of making it into its own state, they should incorporate it into Virginia since it was the home state of Washington, Jefferson, etc.

Two problems with that: 1) Its technically Marylands land and 2) Washington D.C. hates the idea of retrocession and so does Maryland(and theres no reason to believe Virginia would be any more amenable to this harebrained scheme).
Why do you think Washingtonians should be denied the opportunity to decide their own fate?

It has its ups-and-downs, but as long as you focus on just beating the game, youll have some fun.

Oh, definitely. In my early-20s, I was crippled by anxiety and depression and wasnt functional at all. Therapy gave me the tools to change that. Im still anxious, but I know how to handle it and am doing great.
Of course, therapists vary in quality and tend to favor certain kinds of approaches, so even a great therapist may not be the right one for you. At the end of the day...

Shelhamer92 posted...

A therapist is like a personal trainer at the gym. You can show up and have them tell you what to do, but unless you put in the work then you won't see results.

This is accurate. Another analogy Ive heard is that a therapist is a blind mechanic: they can help you understand whats happening and how to make it better, but only to the extent that you tell them whats going on and do the work.

Jefferson County(which contains Louisville) did some real heavy-lifting for him. Still lots of votes left to be counted, of course(I think I saw somewhere they haven't even started counting mail-in ballots, for example).

Such a great game. Only ever beat it on Easy, but I did it a few times.
Some bits of advice to new players:

1) You get more rewards from defeating encounters if you don't destroy the enemy ships(i.e. if you just kill the crew)

2) You should never be in a rush to get through a sector. Ideally you want to leave just before the Rebels catch up to you. If you they DO catch up to you, prioritize escaping: you get next to nothing for winning. Basically, scrap is everything; you need to get as much of it as possible as quickly as possible.

3) Always mash the green options. Lots of weapons, sub-systems, and different crew species give them.

4) Almost every stat is important. Yes, even doors: level 2 doors lock, which helps a ton with boarders. Life support is probably least important. Shields can be relied on, but only evasion and drones can save you from missiles and bombs.

5) Think carefully about your weapons load-out. Your weapons should work as a team to break down a ship(like, you shouldn't be using a beam ever unless you're confident you can create an opening for it). And certain seemingly niche options can be powerful in certain circumstances like, the Fire Beam is pretty hilarious if you can reliably break down shields and board with Rocks.

6) The Rebel flagship is really tough and sometimes you just won't have the tools needed. Here are some tips:
A) You definitely want to be able to board the thing, but leave one crew member alive. If you kill all the crew, it just starts running and repairing itself automatically like a drone, because it's evil.

B) Focus your initial volley on bringing down its weapon systems, especially the ones that are disconnected from the rest of the ship(on Hard, that's apparently none of them lol). This will give you a lot more breathing room.

C) Stealth can totally save your bacon. It doesn't even need to be leveled!

D) You basically need to have at least level 3 shields to stand a chance. Don't neglect evasion either.

7) Try to match your crew members abilities to their roles. Zoltan and Engi should be running critical systems that benefit from their abilities(extra energy and faster repair, respectively). Mantis are ideal boarders. Manage Lanius carefully(they suck oxygen out of any room they're in, so don't leave them in the same room as a non-Lanius). You always want weapons, engines, and shields(in that order) to be staffed whenever possible(they charge faster), and you want to keep characters assigned consistently(including your pilot) so they get good at their jobs, which makes them a bit better.

8) You need to squeeze every last little advantage out of the game that you can. Everything counts, because anything could be the difference between dying or scraping by. Rarely is anything in FTL easy(or pretty).

Tired-Insomniac posted...

That serves alcohol IIRC

If I was an adult in Chuck E. Cheese, I would need alcohol just to deal with the constant child screams.

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Throw in a ball pit and you've got it.

mattymad posted...

So, non-US guy here.

What's this place like? Is it actually fun and 'good enough' food? Or is it a hell whole of food violations and dangerous equipment?

It's a casino for children with terrible pizza.

NeoShadowhen posted...

That isnt really surprising. For the purpose of expedience they just sent them out based on data that wouldnt necessarily reflect if they were alive or not. Im sure they knew this would happen.

Yeah, it would have delayed the checks going out to check(and, of course, would have cost money).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-kentucky-senate-primary-election.html
Jefferson County came in, netting Booker almost 7,000 votes, good enough to put him in the lead. In fact, he now leads by 3.5%. Still a lot of votes left to be counted, of course.

Eh, yeah, that sounds a bit dicey. Have you talked to your brother about it?

Shablagoo posted...

Im talking about your thought process which enables you to support a candidate who voted for the Iraq War which killed a million Iraqis and thousands of Americans, a guy whose administration ramped ICE up to 100, a guy whose administration bombed innocent people including hospitals and Americans, a guy who worked with segregationists, etc.

Don't forget Social Security and Medicare: Biden has wanted to cut those for basically his whole career, and Obama tried to and was only stymied because Tea Party Republicans refused to agree to modest tax increases in exchange.

IMNOTRAGED posted...

That element isn't gonna just disappear cause another corporatist is in office for a while. There will be someone else more than willing to pick up where Trump left off, "better than Trump" isn't good enough

My money is on Sen. Josh Hawley from Missouri. Hes no less evil than Trump or Tom Cotton, but hes a decent-looking Ivy Leaguer who speaks well, so he checks that decorum box for the never-Trumpers and the media.

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275803793192615943
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275663358289678336
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1275660645879463936
First call I've seen for Bowman. Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Diaz are also the apparent winners. Final tally will take a while, but their leads appear greater than the number of outstanding ballots could make up.

AOC also got almost 73% of the vote in her primary, in spite of her challenger spending ~$3 million dollars.

Vote for something or some one you can believe in. I can't stand for Biden and he is contemptuous of anyone under 45(and that's being generous), so I could never vote *for* him.
That he'll win anyways is an improvement, at least in the short run.

berlyman101 posted...

McGrath is dusting Booker rn

There's nothing in from Jefferson or Fayette County, which contain Louisville and Lexington respectively.
In any case, it's close enough we might not know the winner for another week.

Edit: Apparently the Booker campaign expects Jefferson county to be very good for them: their exit polling has him up 82-16.
https://twitter.com/JoeRagusa/status/1275586496767164417
Which would probably put him in the lead. Take it with a generous helping of salt, of course, as with any unofficial tally.

Whoa, Carolyn Maloney(NY-12) is up less than two points on her challenger Suraj Patel. She won by 40+ points two years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html

Antifar posted...

Diaz down big:
https://twitter.com/NY1/status/1275612795204222982

Torres isn't ideal - AOC and DSA had backed Samelys Lopez in this race

Yeah, it's a shame Lopez wasn't able to get any traction, but at least Diaz is getting his ass handed to him.

Anteaterking posted...

I'm thinking more of national attention/fundraising. Like when Beto ate up a lot of funding in 2018 because people really wanted to see Cruz lose.

Though tbf, it might be more of a bias thing as someone who doesn't vote in either district that I'm conflating "who I hear about" with "who is getting more (important) attention".

I honestly don't hear anything about Shahid Buttar outside of a certain set, but Jamaal Bowman and Mondaire Jones got a lot of attention.
In terms of primarying, you throw some one at everyone you can, because you can never know who will stick.

Me, personally? I'm bearish on Kentucky. I worry Booker will be sunk by nebulous concerns about "electability" with people who think other people won't vote for a progressive black man and thus it would be better to vote for the garbage white woman.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Bowman though. Incumbents generally don't reach for the kitchen sink unless their internals are giving them bad news, and Engel has seemed increasingly desperate.

DD Divine posted...

Sparta sent trained soldiers to fight against slaved troops forced to fight. And most the battles took place in narrow passages giving the Spartans and their style the advantage.

The Persians probably weren't fielding much of "slaved" troops. Their army would have been a diverse collection of troops pulled from every corner of their vast empire at the behest of satraps and client rulers looking to get in on the glory of the empire's latest conquest. The core, of course, were the Persians themselves, including their elite infantry, the so-called Immortals.
This would have made their army unwieldy(lots of sub-commanders, all giving orders in different languages, who had varying levels of understanding of classical Persian) and uneven in quality. My (limited) understanding is that they generally weren't heavily-armed or armored and that their infantry generally fought in looser formations emphasizing mobility and flexibility. Thus they had great difficult against quality hoplites, who were generally heavily-armored(for the time) with metal shields and fought in a tight formation(though not as tight as a phalanx).

Salamis, I believe Themistocles tricked the Persians into believing a good portion of the Greek fleet would flee, and it appeared to, but it in fact rowed around Salamis and hit the Persian fleet in the rear as it engaged the rest of the Greek fleet in a narrow channel, which created panic in the Persian fleet(the backbone of which were Phoenician and Ionian Greek sailors) and led to a large portion of it becoming trapped and being destroyed. By then, it was already late in the campaign season, so not long after a lot of the army(along with Xerxes) went home, leaving a smaller force behind to winter in the portions of Greece which had submitted or been conquered. That was defeated the next year at Plataea, after which the Persians decided the whole affair wasn't worth pursuing further.

monkmith posted...

good chunk of the older generation support him because he's a republican, they always vote republican, and they think taxes are evil in general. trump lowered taxes, even though most people done actually benefit from it, and lowering taxes is good, so they vote for him.

This is why Trumpism isn't going to go away, just saying. Most people aren't very engaged in politics, they just loosely identify with a party and don't really have many concrete political beliefs, they just adhere to what the TV or whatever tells them a Democrat or a Republican is.

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

I feel like psychology works a lot better on a micro level than trying to scale it up to fit the general population. People are so very different from one another, and their experiences play a significant role in the way they react to certain situations. Psychology is a subject where it's absolutely vital to be doing research with a holistic perspective. Humans are far too complex to give blanket statements.

That's why there's sociology, though they do of course overlap a bit.

Drawing and quartering was also pretty brutal.
Hell, the English gave William Wallace a three-for-one special: castration, hanging, AND drawing-and-quartering, all in one long, gruesome execution.

What should have happened at the beginning was that the government ought to have subsidized payrolls and preventing layoffs. That way, people would keep getting paid and their jobs wouldn't disappear(the problem with that being that many jobs don't pay people nearly enough to live on).
Barring that, a monthly check through at least the end of the year would, in addition to the enhanced unemployment benefits that we got and the enhanced pay for "essential" workers we didn't get, have kept people afloat and mitigated the necessary economic pains of lockdowns and social distancing measures.
Instead, the crisis has been appropriated to accelerate the transfer of wealth to the wealthiest Americans, and our economic suffering is only just beginning.

Did he tell Mitch?
In any case, grocery worker here: my hazard pay(+$2/hr.) ended last month. The unemployment benefit bonus ends 7/31, and that's probably done more than anything to keep people afloat. I very much doubt Mitch and the Republican Senate will allow anything generous for actual people though I'm sure there's at least another trillion to be had for corporations.

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

It sucks that we wont have a season but at least the MLBPA gives a damn about their players

In comparison, the NFLPA is trash

To be fair, the NFLPA has the problem that the average NFL career is relatively brief(and, compared to baseball, not very lucrative), making the potential sacrifice of losing a year huge to most players.
But yeah, the NFLPA is weak even controlling for that, I'm glad the MLBPA isn't going to let the owners jerk the players around on a whim.

Certainly, they aren't "white", not in this country, and many Latinx have African heritage.

Ive always wanted to get my hands on one, but Ive yet to actually see one. Plus, my parents would doubtless be unamused.

Firewerx posted...

The Germans fucked with Russia pretty successfully in February 1918 when they became tired of Russian foot-dragging over peace negotiations. A renewed advance by 53 German divisions drove the Russians to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in just over two weeks.

Even Lenin, who put a premium on getting out of the war(and had made ending the hated war a central plank of his platform from the time he arrived back from exile), was shocked at how much the Germans demanded.
He was able to seize power in large part because the White government stupidly insisted on staying in the war.

Balrog0 posted...

I'm sure she'll be fine lol

Yeah, this. She's been doing a ton of work in her district. Helping to distribute aid and masks and the like.
Instead, focus on growing the squad and send some last-minute cash to Jamaal Bowman, Mondaire Jones, and Samelys Lopez in NY or Charles Booker in KY or Andrew Romanoff in CO. Or Jess Scarene in Delaware, if you're feeling optimistic.

The British had a powerful navy and air force backed by advantages like radar. Most importantly, two things happened:
1) Hitler became enraged that British air raids intentionally targeted civilian assets and ordered Goering to retaliate, distracting from the much more effective targeted raids on British airfields which had been seriously degrading the Royal Air Force. Air superiority should have been their sole objective: it was what would have made an invasion at all plausible and would have allowed them to ravage British industrial, military, and naval assets with virtual impunity.

2) Hitler became frustrated with the lack of progress and got distracted by a newer, shinier plan: Operation Barbarossa, because Hitler was an impatient idiot.

People are bored and have nothing much to do, so they buy fireworks for entertainment. I very much doubt this is all some elaborate psy-op.

Don't take the bait, Harpie. He's a serial abuser, he's abusing you now and he'll never be capable of having a healthy relationship with you.
And that sucks, but you're doing well right now. Keep him out and it will continue going well. You'll be okay.

That's utter Trubbish!

Protestant - Church of Christ Congregational

I don't go to church anymore, but my church was and is very progressive.

Surely the solution is a NATIONAL ban on chokeholds! They definitely wouldn't ignore that! #Biden2020

He already has faded into obscurity seriously, how am I the first to make this obvious joke?. You would see him even less, maybe you would get a ghost-written book decrying "online leftists", Bernie Sanders, and everyone other demographic he wasn't able to turn out.

He probably won't lose though.

Final Fantasy V: it's Four Job Fiesta season. Got Blue Mage/Berserker/Time Mage/Ninja , so it shouldn't be too bad. Certainly better than the Black Mage/Berserker/Geomancer/Dragoon party I got saddled with once.

Dathrowed1 posted...

We actually know the opposite, Egyptians were notoriously propagandist

I mean, that goes for almost everyone.

Hinakuluiau posted...

A lot of what she says in there is fine at face value. The problem is when you read between the lines you get the gist of what a lot of people are criticizing

Yeah, this isn't some context-less tweet into the void: Rowling has a history of boosting trans-exclusionary "feminists" and defending them. Pretending this tweet exists in a vacuum and that her intent is unknowable requires actively refusing to see the problem.

Possibly throw Arizona in, and that's more or less it.
I doubt Trump will win Michigan or Pennsylvania this time around. Holding the other three would *just* do it, but he can't quite take North Carolina or Ohio for granted and the environment right now is so bad for Trump Joe Biden doesn't even have to do anything.

ModLogic posted...

its america so its possible

That said, it's looking less possible than last time, at this early juncture.

uwnim posted...

I fully agree with the tc.

Yes, and the carts should be in the corral so they can effectively collect them. By having carts scattered all over, it takes longer for them to do that task which means they can't do other stuff which means the shopping experience is being negatively affected for other people.

This. I am actually the person who collects it.
Also, sometimes people park them in. Like, the idiot before them leaves it up against the curb, and then the next idiot comes and pulls into the space up against cart, causing it to be wedged between a car and the curb.
I will try to pull them out, and I am not gentle.

Antifar posted...

You're not wrong to point this out, but I remember pointing the same thing out in the buildup to super Tuesday. Maybe on the ground campaigning just doesn't matter.

Not when the media is in the tank for you, I guess. Biden will win regardless if things continue as they are and given that Trump is as incompetent as you can get, it's definitely not going to get better for him.