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Former landed gentry.

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People are protesting over Israel/Palestine all over the country.

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The entire point is that we have to act like it is expected or else we have given up. We have to expect justice, and we have to express outrage whenever we do not get it. Otherwise we are accepting injustice/lack of justice with people like Trump.

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Xbox 360 was a fun time. Gears of War is still striking today. Also, the best designed controller ever made

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I have my wife’s old Lenovo x1 carbon. It’s probably eight years old or so now. What would you recommend I run on it? Thinking of just stripping it down and making it a little Plex server so I can get that off of my main computer

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I need to pull it out but probably 256gb SSD and 8gb ram if I had to guess. Maybe an i5 of some gen

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Server is a generous description of Plex lol but noted.

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“They don’t actually want to do anything substantive, they’re just lazy, entitled, complaining libs” is the dog whistle translation. Naturally I had to translate it into something useful that assumes basic literacy because the GQP only speaks in dog whistle now.

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This is an NBC piece with a headline calling it out. I’m confused by your comment.

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I don’t have an issue with Jedi. I am tired of the Skywalker family.

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But to be clear, it’s mostly Sony’s fault. So spreading the blame isn’t warranted. It’s their obnoxious requirement. It’s their network. It’s their dumb account.

If this was Microsoft there wouldn’t even be an attempt to find nuance. If it was Nintendo you’d get passionate defenses of how they’re actually doing it to help us lol

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If you’re going to accuse a foreign power of something substantial you have to be sure. You can’t just make these accusations and go “because duh we all know” no matter how true it is. Just like if someone clearly murders another person in broad daylight with hundreds of people around and dozens of videos proving it there is a still a trial (in most countries).

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They also made records. They destroyed the evidence.

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Good let them sort it out the fucking ghouls

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reminds me of Jennifer Aniston going off on her manager in Office Space because he said she wasn’t wearing enough flare, even though she was wearing the exact amount that was dictated.

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This entirely depends on the service(s) one wants. Yes if you only want 1 or 2 of the cheapest ones I’m sure it’s fine. But you’re talking almost no sports at all or news/etc., regional restrictions, constantly changing libraries, potentially a LOT of ads, HD-only in many cases, and many other compromises. Also they’re all vacuuming up your data to sell to third parties while they’re at it.

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Would love to try one of these services because frankly they sound too good to be true

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I am not forcing it with hostility. I made a broader point about treating people like pawns on a board and I got lectured about econ 101. Yeah I got a little snippy with them, sure I could've not been that way. But these responses are so absurd, they leave no nuance or middleground and keep telling me I am either saying things I didn't say or put up a lazy strawman as if it responds to what I said.

Also notice not one person wants to acknowledge that there is this implication people have some obligation to not leave their country as it means they are participating in "brain drain."

I get what you're saying, I really do. But the fact is people got all prickly when I tried to introduce nuance. Of course economic factors heavily drive our decisions. I'm not sure where I said anything remotely to the contrary, so I'm getting irritated.

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once they acclimate

I’m curious what you consider “acclimation” (and I assume you mean assimilate) because that’s a pretty loaded requirement

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For the same reason we can’t take 15min without the context of the US’s size, smaller countries having larger percentages also need to be contextualized. The raw number does have some meaning here. It’s also about annual rate of immigration.

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It would be much more useful to look at it state-by-state as a few states are doing the heavy lifting. I say this as someone is decidedly pro-immigration. The logistics are no small matter

I live in Louisiana. Our only major experience with immigration was hurricane Katrina and they basically rebuilt our communities. I am eternally grateful.

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Pretty much

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There are also different immigration rates for different states, some of which are as big as major countries. There are many states in the US driving the national average down because they have such a low percentage.

Edit: added some stats.

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I didn’t shift it. I introduced nuance. Nothing I said denied the impact of imperialism/economic realities. Show me where I said anything like that. I have written several responses that clearly indicate I know those are major factors. At this point responses like yours just mean you are choosing to deliberately misinterpret what I wrote/put words in my mouth and that you are ignoring anything else I wrote that could possibly clarify the situation.

Feels like I’m back on Reddit with this nonsense.

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