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Courtney Barnett - So Long Marianne(cover of Leonard Cohen original, MTV Unplugged)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDSSbMqpUhY

Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZSYDhx0FI

I literally just cited her as a feminist I admire on a test for my Sociology of Women class. And linked this very song in the answer!
It's not quite as awesome as getting a 100 for blathering on about how Steven Universe subverts traditional heteropatriarchy in my web assignment though.

Oh yes, and I feel it's worth noting that student loans often give parents power over their children into their 20s or even beyond. This is likely, in part, an intentional reaction to the '60s and '70s, when college campuses were nexuses of protest movements.

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

First season is great, second starts getting a bit shaky towards the end, and then third jumps the shark so hard I had to give it up entirely.

I thought season 3 was better than 2, honestly, but season 4 is awful and left me with zero interest to watch the last one.
Tatiana Maslany is amazing, and the cast is really great in general, so it was a shame.

NinjaWarrior455 posted...

It would be nice if this sinks any future aspirations Cuomo had

It would be better if he was forced to resign in disgrace.

RebelElite791 posted...

Im 90% sure they still prefer male pronouns?

Also, nah. One of the few good posters left.

Oh really? I'll edit my post then.

Yeah, take it slow. Maybe burn some incense or scented candles or something. It's generally harder for women to orgasm, and often they can't just get there with manual stimulation alone*. You might need to set the mood.

*Am not a woman, just assembling this from bits and pieces I've heard.

He really should just not post outside of his own topic.

Cannot be said enough that the whole public-private partnership deal with utilities is a damned scam and such critical infrastructure should be under wholly public administration.
Also we need to invest tens of billions of dollars in modernizing and improving our grid nationwide.

This is the rot laid bare before us. Do not be foolish and think the rest of our power-grid is any better than Texas'.

SevenTenths posted...

Because progressives aren't approved by corporate daddy.

Helping people would get in the way of corporate bailouts after their high risk decisions stop turning record profits.

Yeah, to use one example: Medicare for All would completely level the private health insurance industry, which is a major donor to the Democratic Party and Democratic politicians(as well as Republicans, of course). However, it would be highly beneficial to Democratic voters(and the public in general).
Ill let you take one guess which interest the Democrats prioritize. The essential tension on this issue(and many others) is that mainstream Dems generally think things are mostly fine and all that is necessary is some tinkering. Progressives generally want major reforms, and leftists basically want to build new, more equitable systems.
To mainstream Dems, especially the partys often gerontocratic leadership, this all seems hopelessly naive, at best, and destructive at worst. They demonstrated in the 2020 primaries how far theyll go to preserve the status quo.

Work was great today, because apparently Whole Foods routes most of its point-of-sale system through server farms in Austin, TX(where corporate HQ is) and couldn't be assed to have back-up generators. Customers couldn't pay with debit and team member discounts had to be done manually.

pikachupwnage posted...

The gameplay is pretty meh but the soundtrack is gorgeous, the art and battle graphics good and the story and voice acting were better then fates.

"The story was better than Fates" is damning with faint praise. The fact that the game idiot-balled Celica at the end was really dumb, especially because she was literally the only one who didn't see it coming.

Echoes owns bones though?

I mean, from their perspective, they have plenty of "elephants" with "spine"?

Meanwhile, Democratic Senators were in a rush to get home for Valentine's brunch and couldn't be bothered with hearing witness testimony.

They will definitely open a commission to look into 1/6 though, which may hold Donald Trump and other complicit actors accountable in unspecified ways at an unspecified time more convenient to them and their Republican friends, and the Republicans will definitely respect the sanctity of a Congressional commission!

I had a pair of Two Roads Brett Noir and feel classy, but then I'm a total snob. Best part of winter is that I bought it before work and left it in my car.

I checked out the schedule at work, and I discovered I won't be seeing much of my redheaded chicken wing this week. Sucks, but I'll just have to deal.

Bjork - Possibly Maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyqKy5P1Y0Q

Honestly, this is really grounded for a Bjork video.

lol flopic bump.

yutterh posted...

How so? Bernie lost because the DNC was able to realize the kind of threat he was and had amy and pete drop out just for biden can compete. Bernie still would have won if warren dropped out to help bernie. Having it all at once also gives each state a fair chance to vote for their candidate. Since like someone said the last states only get to vote on the people that are left. Would also help candidates with fundraising since they will have more money to spend on the presidency not just being the front runner for the party.

I suppose you're right.

It probably would have gotten us Hillary in 2008, which probably would have kicked the Obama grenade further down the road though...

iPhone_7 posted...

How about all the states have their primaries at the same time

That would probably be even more "the party decides" than it is now.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Bernie had a commanding lead in the first few primaries, and Biden still crushed him after South Carolina. What would changing the state order have done? Just have Biden be the front runner from the start?

Not really: he won Iowa and New Hampshire narrowly. His biggest victory by far was in Nevada, a margin sufficiently threatening that the party decided he needed to be stopped.

It's almost impossible to model how the order would affect things(other than that he still wins huge in Nevada), because momentum is absolutely a vital factor in primaries. People like to vote for winners, or just don't vote at all if they perceive their favored candidate as losing by the time their state comes up.

My own suggestions:
1) Caucuses are dumb and bad and should be abolished yesterday
2) Having fixed states going first is dumb and bad, even if they're more diverse than Iowa and New Hampshire. Rotate them, and try to get a representative sample of the voting public between the first 3-4.
3) Based on the fact that Bernie won California quite handily and still lost overall, you don't necessarily need to hold the big states back.

Happy Valentine's Day, CE! Hopefully you're spending it with that special some one, but many of us aren't so fortunate. Me, for example.
I got this idea from earlier in the week, when a coworker's boyfriend came in and she brought him all around the store and introduced him to everyone him, proudly declaring, "This is my boyfriend!" I hope a woman shows ME off like that...

Like her coworker, the little redhead I have a crush on. I try and take my half when she does(she usually tells me when she's going to take hers) and she got wings from hot bar. That woman loves wings, and I happened to look over in her direction, and she had chewed a wing clean. There was basically nothing left on it!
She's sweet and seems like she has a good head on her shoulders too.

Term limits would do nothing to fix the Senate(or anything, really), because it is the the apportionment of senators which is the problem.

I feel you. Ill be closing tomorrow, and its not like I would have had plans anyway.

I have a crush on a redheaded coworker though. Shes having dinner with her parents, and I feel bad that Im relieved by that. Not that Ill ever get with her, I suck so bad at relationships...

Ludwig Von 2 posted...

Why are they going back on witnesses, what was the whole point of the vote if they aren't going to call any up?

They realized that if they called witnesses, they couldn't go on vacation.

Edit: https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1360656609186308101

Antifar posted...

Democrats have decided that they don't really want witnesses either

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1360647779392106501

LOL I wonder if everyone will swallow their paeans about the courage and conviction of the Dem impeachment managers now that they've folded like cheap tables.

Ugh, U.S. income tax is progressive, meaning that your income up to $10000 is taxed at that brackets rate, the next chunk is taxed at that rate, etc. etc.
Our tax code is not quite so fundamentally stupid as to penalize you like that.

Hearing witnesses would get in the way of all the obstruction they want to get to?

Illuminoius posted...

there's some weird shit going on with sega having huge amounts of unpaid royalties to the jackson estate (among other entities)

It sounds like they handle cutting the royalty checks as well as they handle making the games.

Which is to say, not well. Seriously, they can't go more than two games without making something bad since Sonic Adventure 2.

CM_Ponch posted...

What a dumb bitch

Oh, I assure you, she knows exactly what she's doing. And the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee will back her to the hilt in 2024.

That would be a start.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Sinema's argument is that it's got nothing to do with the budget not that she's against it. It was already removed from the budget proposal.

So the headline should actually read "Sinema opposes nuclear option for $15 minimum wage"

In other words, she doesn't think it should pass: ergo, she opposes it.

s0nicfan posted...

For what it's worth bernie actually agrees:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/a-15-minimum-wage-is-out-of-the-latest-stimulus-package-for-now.html

Because Bernie isn't willing to torpedo the whole stimulus over it, while Sinema probably is: he previously asserted it was germane.

BlueTigerLion posted...

RIP to that unity Dems keep talking about. If they cant even agree on what they want. We probably wont get those student loans cancelled either.

Only leftists have to sacrifice their principles for unity.

Doom_Art posted...

Win more seats in 2022 I suppose.

I am sure the DSCC will promote more stellar candidates to replicate the success of 2020.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/12/kyrsten-sinema-democrats-468768
Welp, that's not happening. She's insisting that it isn't germane to the reconciliation process(even before a ruling from the parliamentarian), which seems like nothing but a fig leaf to justify opposing what's supposed to be a Democratic priority, because she also opposes abolishing the filibuster or otherwise changing the rules of the Senate.

Dreepapult posted...

I just don't know how we can afford these without causing major inflation

I know people need help. I get that. But inflation is a concern

Inflation hasnt been a problem in literal decades.

Maninstagnate posted...

Yep definitely will be when $15 minimum wage occurs. One of the major causes of retail losses is when a cashier miscounts the customer's change or if they decide to rob their tills. The self checkouts prevent that.

It will happen regardless of what the minimum wage is.

The question is: what will we do when there are half as many jobs as there are now due to automation?
Because the capitalist class' answer seems to be neo-feudalism.

https://screenrant.com/what-do-shadows-season-3-filming-start/
Harvey Guillen(who plays human familiar Guillermo) confirmed that they started filming it a little bit ago, and based on the turn around time for the first two seasons, Season 3 will likely premiere around Halloween.
I can't wait to laugh so hard I can't breathe again!

I do think it should be obvious they would have killed any VIPs they managed to get their hands on. Hell, they probably would have live-streamed it! They would have been super brutal too. Hard to say how bad that gets, but it would definitely lead to further violence.
As far as if the insurrectionists were treated like a BLM protest and more of them died, right-wing media would absolutely have (gleefully) portrayed it as a massacre of unprecedented brutality and urged patriots to respond in-kind.

Solar_Crimson posted...

You're talking about the same series that gave us Thunder Armor.

And aim for the horn!
And activating the gyms sprinklers to defeat Onix(LOL).

A blizzard would definitely kill it, or at least come very close.

The reason her Garchomp is so nasty is first and foremost that Garchomp itself is a beast. It's very fast and hits like a truck, but it's also reasonably sturdy.
It also runs obscenely powerful attacks: in D/P, it has Earthquake(100 BP), Dragon Rush(120 BP), Giga Impact(150 BP), and Brick Break(75 BP). Dragon Rush can miss, and Giga Impact is basically Hyper Beam(because Hyper Beam became a special attack in Gen 4). Add in the fact it likely has several levels on your team(particularly on a first attempt) and it's not hard to see why it's a challenge. Unless you have something really sturdy(that's not weak to any of its attacks), most of your pokemon are going to die in 1-2 hits.

In Platinum, it swaps out Brick Break for Flamethrower and drops 4 levels. And before you ask, yes: Garchomp is a respectable special attacker, and you're very lucky it's not Fire Blast. Brick Break comes back in rematches, and also it shoots up to level 78.

In my experience? In aggregate, women don't find me attractive.

I doubt time is a stable or linear thing, given how much gravity screws it up. We just experience it as being linear.

Most conspiracy theories are modern versions of, like, old monster stories.
Like, the monsters are always mega dangerous, but can be defeated by obscure or even common means.
Like, vampires being repelled by the sign of the cross or garlic or jiangshi being compelled to stop and count/pick up every individual grain if you scatter rice from a sack.
We never stopped believing in monsters, we just invented new ones.

CE is, on the whole, much more knowledgeable about politics than the American public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_CO_tj8hc&list=PL0BXQR_relPBngBaz34Yzmq8h6JBP1vYV
I guess I should link the album, because that's nice. And also that's an awesome fist.

Yeah, if an elephant wanted my hat, it could definitely have it.

That is very exciting, TC. Happy for you :)

I am sure Joe Biden will hold them accountable and not just give them a limp slap on the wrists.

ROBANN_88 posted...

There is a full visual novel deailing how his body was infused with Reaper tech during the First Contact War.
Also the same part where Saren got in contact with it

The more it's explained, the more contrived it sounds. Did they at least get to pick which color indoctrination they got?
I want to know their choices mattered.