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I've had a few times where details were a little fuzzy but I don't think I've ever completely blacked out and done anything weird or crazy. Nowadays, I live pretty straightedge and drink a beer or two maybe once or twice a month

King_Dilly posted...

Metroid should be retired.

I mean it pretty much is. Metroid basically just comes out of retirement with a comeback album every 10 years. Metroid prime series was just a triple album

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Just the ones used for tax benefits.

Charities are a front is probably more accurate. But in many cases, it's been shown that money pledged by billionaires in these charities is often times funneled right back to them instead of going toward what they're supposed to

She looks creepy. That mouth is too weird

Poor bozos is flat broke! All his money is virtual and tied up in Amazon! You can find him under the bridge at 85th st begging for change!

WhiskeyDisk posted...

And unless you can show me how the likes of Gates

Gates has at least been at the forefront on this and has been a loud voice about keeping everything shut down. I'm not sure when he became our public health overlord but I definitely don't trust him. Dude is a snake

Is there supposed to be something interesting about her? Does she get naked or something?

Revelation34 posted...

"Charity organizations are all fake"

Stfu lol

Neither console really has much at launch that I care about so I'll stick with the current gen for now. Buying consoles at launch is for suckers and children really

darkknight109 posted...

So, it's really kind of sad I have to do this, but you kind of need to read the entire sentence you're responding to if you don't want to make yourself look like an idiot.

You know you shouldn't throw around ad hominems like idiot if you're going to look like one yourself. You yourself stared that canada has 5 major cities compared to 10 in the US if we're going by populations over 1 mil. And if the rural/urban spread is roughly the same that means we have 330 mil spread over 10 major cities vs 30 mil spread over 5 major cities. 330/10 = 33, 30/5 = 6. This is of course without subtracting the rural percentage from the overall population but the ratio is the same anyway

darkknight109 posted...

He says with no source for his assertion.

See above

darkknight109 posted...

In what universe were we talking about "standard of living" in this topic?

I mean... we were comparing countries by various metrics. So your comparison metrics are ok to discuss but mine aren't?

darkknight109 posted...

Put it this way: the ENTIRE European Union, which has far more scattered governance compared to the US, has fewer cases and fewer deaths than the US, despite having half-again as many people in their borders.

You can try and torture the statistics of this as much as you like, there is no way to avoid the fact that the US has been an abject failure when it has come to COVID-19 management. The country is almost a perfect case study in what not to do during a pandemic.

You're the one torturing statistics here to make direct comparisons to Europe and the US. If the US had a population of 10 mil though im sure we'd be doing great by now

The best part is billionaires pretending they're doing a lot by funneling a few billion through foundations so that most of the money ends up going back into their wallet instead toward the causes they're "supposed to" go to

darkknight109 posted...

And I already pointed out that our population distribution is pretty much the same as the US. There are more people in the US, which means more population centres, but the distribution doesn't change. When you look at the actual areas that have people in them and not the vast swathes of wilderness and arctic in Canada that have, essentially, no people in them, Canada has a pretty similar population density to the US.

Lol no. US pop density is 90 per sq mile. Canada is 10 per sq mile

darkknight109 posted...

So, by your own logic, Canada has MORE of its population living in "major cities", therefore making America's failure to adequately address the virus all the more acute.

Also untrue. Upon Googling, both are approximately 80% urban and 20% rural which actually surprised social admit that I thought Canada's rural population was a higher percentage. Still, US cities are definitely more densely packed overall

darkknight109 posted...

...which sounds to me like a good reason why the US *should* be far and away ahead of them and why they make for poor comparables. Or they would... but the US isn't, even when you set the bar almost as low as you possibly could. Worse, when held up to other first-world countries - even those in east Asia that have population densities far, far higher than even the most cramped US cities - the US still lags far behind.

For the first bold type:

Not really. It actually shows the US does a great job by comparison of maintaining a relatively high standard of living compared to other countries of comparable populations that all have a significantly lower standard of living.

For the 2nd bold section:

Managing hundreds of millions of people is obviously tough work which is something no European country nor canada would know anything about. Japan has indeed done a great job of containing the virus though despite having over 100 million people densely packed together but they are also a highly xenophobic homogenous population so it's not completely unsurprising

ComradeSeraphim posted...

And you think allowing infected people to spread the virus uninhibited doesn't violate the human rights of the rest of the community? Please...

I'm not sure you know what the word uninhibited means

And if you're suggesting we follow the Chinese model of welding people into their homes and either starving them or actively murdering them then you're not really worth debating

darkknight109 posted...

Neither is a per-capita infection rate, but that seems to be lost on you if you think that population difference is actually meaningful to this discussion.

You can't simply focus on per capita though since how the populations are distributed is a huge factor. In the US, we have large concentrations of people in major cities. Canada has what... two real major cities... and then the rest is distributed sporadically among a bunch of moose (exaggerating of course but the point stands). Also, far more people travel to and from America and China than anywhere in the world and its not even close. It's either disingenuous or oblivious to disregard these factors

darkknight109 posted...

So congratulations on naming four countries that have lower virus numbers - both raw and per-capita - than the US, thus doing a great job of proving my point for me.

Yes I believe the US should be compared to other countries among the highest populations in the world and not countries that don't matter that much like Canada. You seem to also believe i have a higher opinion of my own country than i do lol. I just also don't believe canadians are as amazing as they seem to think they are on the world stage.

India and Brazil are quickly gaining on the US and, as I said, I trust the US case reporting a lot more than Russia, China or Pakistan, or even Brazil and India for that matter. These places are all impoverished shitholes even compared to the US. Even if china's numbers are accurate and they have actually stopped the spread thats because they will weld people into their homes. So yeah, if you completely put human rights aside a lot can be accomplished
darkknight109 posted...

OK, so you're basing the assertion that this is Canada's most "well-known" show off of Netflix only, which seems spurious. I don't know what metric you're using for this, or how Netflix calculates it, and I don't honestly care enough to dig into it, because the fact that you've been reduced to trying to talk about a fictional television series as a line of attack during a discussion of a global pandemic is honestly kind of pathetic. If that's where you're going to try and find your W's, go ahead and take this one, but you might want to set your sights a little higher next time.

I feel that trailer park boys simply paints a solid picture of your average Canadian. Thats all

This happened

darkknight109 posted...

And why do you think that would make a difference?

Most of that wilderness is uninhabited. Canadians aren't evenly spread out; we have a pretty similar urban/rural population split to the US.

And the US still has several dozen times the amount of major cities that Canada has and 10 times the population. This isn't a difficult concept to understand

darkknight109 posted...

particularly when dozens of other countries with higher population densities have managed this virus better than you.

Like Brazil? India? Indonesia? Russia? All places where the virus is really starting to take hold now and the cases are rapidly growing. And excuse me if I don't trust places like Pakistan or China to post accurate numbers

darkknight109 posted...

I mean, if that's the Canadian show that Americans are most familiar with, I think that says more about Americans than Canadians...

Not just America. This is the show your country is most known for period. Unless you think Netflix is only watched by americans. Sad truth is that the biggest impact your country has had on global television is a show about stoners stealing car stereos

darkknight109 posted...

I mean... we objectively are. The virus numbers don't lie.

Not saying we don't have idiots here - those protests clearly show we do - but we plainly have a lot less of them.

Or maybe it's because Canada is mostly wilderness with like two major cities compared to the US having dozens of major cities. No couldnt be that. It's probably because Canadians are so much smarter. That's why their most famous TV show is a show about a trailer park with stupid people committing small time crimes and going to jail

The lockdown is absolutely a wet dream for the big megacorporations. Small and mid size businesses are being decimated and all that will be left in the aftermath of this is giant corporations

I enjoyed the game for a bit but I got tired of it eventually and just played through the rest to finish the story

Zareth posted...

As someone who never wants to have kids, I will never understand why some people want to have kids so badly.

When I was in my early 20s, I thought I never would. Then I eventually warmed up to the idea as I got closer to 30. Anyway, its awesome man. Being a father has been pretty rad. I used to be kinda cynical about children and now I find that I have a much softer spot for them. Turned me into a softie

Lokarin posted...

I was a centrist until the centre jumped to the right, now I'm on the left

People on the left keep saying this like its a thing. At least in America, republicans and the mainstream right haven't really changed in the past few decades. Its the left that has quite obviously drifted waaaaay further to the left hence the large scale protests happening across America demanding the police be defunded, toppling and vandalizing statues, burning down businesses and federal buildings, etc. I think it's pretty clear which side of the aisle has become more extreme. Of course some fringe right groups started emerging in response but these movements are MUCH smaller and generally way less vocal

O lawd he comin'

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Dementia is not a predictable thing. As I said, lucid Biden is sharp, whether you agree with his politics or not. Biden on derpmode is indistinguishable from the BLR video of him. There are drugs that can mitigate it to a degree, but it's still a total crapshoot if you're going to get Joe the Body Biden on the debate stage or Sleepy Grampa Joe talking about tying an onion to his belt to defeat the Kaiser.

It must be nerve wracking for his handlers heading into a big event like a debate not knowing which biden they'll get

WhiskeyDisk posted...

If they can't even do that for his streams from the bunker, how do you figure they'll get it right for a live debate?

He was mysteriously way more competent during the debate against sanders but im guessing its something they can't just do all the time hence his embarrassing random public appearances

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Afraid of what? Biden forgetting where he is and wandering away from the podium mid-sentence while telling an illogical story that has nothing to do with the question asked?

They'll pump him full of alzheimers drugs like they did for the last debate

He said you don't have to remind him ok?!

Lucky was hilarious

"Slipped on peepee never have to work another day in my life"

Never been to BJs so Costco i guess

Zeus posted...

You're confusing government with society. They're not the same thing. You can have a society without a government (although large scale societies would be tough to run without leadership) and, I suppose in a technical sense, you can probably have a government without a society (and you can certainly have a government without a *functional* society)

Yep. It's been shown humans actually do best functioning in small tribes of no more than 200 people. But yeah, if you throw someone out in the wilderness by themselves with nothing that's tough

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Funny how he cut out the first part of her statement;
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-call-biden-racist/

I do not believe that you are a racist

She was blasting him for working with racists, not that he was one. She even made it clear that she wasnt calling him one.

Translation: "I dont believe that you are racist but here's why you're racist"

Wanded posted...

She sold shirts with the writing "that little girl was me" on them

Trump should wear that shirt for the debate

That would be amazing actually

On more than one level

Wanded posted...

https://youtu.be/i04p2A4yqfc?t=103

'member when Kamala called Biden a racist?

She's a woman of conviction

DirtBasedSoap posted...

lmaooo

Lol yeah I saw that last night. What an asshole

HornedLion posted...

Black man chose white guy as VP. White guy returning the favor. Fair, next.

You really think that's why he picked her? Lmao

PK_Spam posted...

Lol stfu

But let's be real... biden picked her because a black female VP is a wet dream for the far left and democrats are slowly losing the black vote

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Is that really true now? Basically everything that comes out on xbox is also PC now, so that leaves some Sony exclusives and the Nintendo ecosystem?

The halo games, Microsoft flagship, haven't even all been released on pc. But yeah, Nintendo games and tons of PS games also do not. To say all you need is a pc is just dumb when there are tons of games you miss out on

YoukaiSlayer posted...

What does this have to do with anything? You know controllers work on PC right?

Sure they do but how many people actually do that and as I said tons of big games don't come out on pc and many that do come out years after initial release

Halo for example. Halo 3 just now came out on pc through mc collection last month. So if you're ok waiting 13 years after release then cool lol

BeerOnTap posted...

Besides Switch, who tf would buy either of these peasant boxes when you could play on PC for superior graphics.

Eh I have a good gaming pc and have done a good bit of pc gaming but I still personally prefer a well crafted controller to mouse and keyboard but also a decent amount of games are released on console and not pc

lol so now I got modded for explaining that I got modded for implying biden was something that I can't say anymore apparently. It was considered offensive material and now it was followed with a threat from what is clearly the same angry mod

"You were previously modded for the same thing, which will only lead to a harsher punishment the next time."

I'll probably get warned for this post now for "offensive material"

Putin is small potatoes and a totally different faction. If anything trump has more ties to mossad

Judgmenl posted...

ok?

I wasn't responding to you. It was just a random one off post my dude

JixHedgehog posted...

"why the hell would I take a test?"

I really don't even think the actual substance of biden's comment was that bad or anything. Its more just about how he seems to fly off the handle whenever he doesn't get softball questions

I'm actually not sure why biden supporters would be mad about Kamala Harris when the candidate they support practically authored the infamous crime bill that locked up tons of black people and others for nonviolent offenses

I was actually just having this discussion with a coworker. Either candidate could literally say or do anything and their base will vote for them regardless

Judgmenl posted...

Notice how every time Trump is called out for being racist and upsetting the republican status quo they're labeled lib****s?

Whatabout

Judgmenl posted...

Gabbard is a Russian operative

People are still parroting this hillary manufactured propaganda? Also hillary was careful to use the word "asset" and not "operative" because it was a baseless conspiracy theory to discredit her. Notice how anyone upsetting the democrat status quo is always a russian asset?

streamofthesky posted...

Reminder of what Biden's campaign just inherited:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfp_IIdVnXs

What a POS

Zeus posted...

I kinda imagine you must be, if you somehow think this is the norm. Kamala ran an unusually vicious set of attacks against Biden, probably the worst in a presidential primary that I've seen in years. Picking her undermines both of them. If she wants to pretend to be some great racial crusader, deciding to work for somebody she repeatedly criticized as being racist rips the rug out from under her. It's a categorically bad pick. Biden may be ahead in polling, but this is a ridiculous risk with no real payout. Doubly so when you consider the two don't even have much of a prior relationship.

ITP: politicians have never attacked other politicians and then later endorsed them.

Oh wait, that happens every time!

helIy posted...

but the decision to use a very old build

Did they prove this claim? Because I'm not buying that bs. Thats just damage control. And the delay more or less confirms it was bs