CIWS-30

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CIWS-30,

I agree, but he's unfortunately better than the alternative. I would have hoped that a guy whose nickname was "Amtrack Joe" would've done better. I'm guessing he was worried about the midterms or the 2024 election, given that everything that makes peoples' lives harder somehow gets unfairly blamed on him.

It just goes to show that Democrats are just a more sane conservative party with more tolerant social policies, they're not actually all that pro worker. The Europeans are right about this.

CIWS-30,

I doubt the title of this article very much. Ukraine is getting F-16's and probably JAS-39 Gripens very soon. Offensives and counteroffensives have to be slow and methodical by nature against entrenched forces, otherwise you'll take massive losses for very little gains.

Ukraine is on its way to gaining air superiority, and more vehicles and air defense is coming into their forces every month, and the longer this conflict lasts, the more likely it is that they'll gain more advantages over Russia as the sanctions keep draining them.

The lack of air superiority is hampering what Ukraine can do, and once that issue's settled, I think we'll start seeing more steady progress. Plus in the wide world, Japans and South Korea are settling their differences over WW2 and will probably keep cooperating, and part of that will be to send more stuff to Ukraine in order to help win there so they don't have to fight WW3 with China over Taiwan.

It's not just the West that supports Ukraine, it's also the Democratic parts of Asia.

CIWS-30,

That's probably too expensive, honestly. The Japanese have experience with classic voice actors for characters dying of old age (Bulma in Dragon Ball for instance as a recent example) so they're probably planning ahead and getting someone younger.

CIWS-30,

Whoah, what's up with all this traitor talk? When you stop funding a new terrorist group to help them get rid of an older terrorist group that you also funded, the TERRORISTS WIN!

Do you want the terrorists to win?!1!

/S

CIWS-30,

This is also why I stopped going to Mastodon. In addition to negative ragebait politics being almost the only thing that's trending (and I have too much of that in my life already) there's no real nuance or tolerance for anything outside the echo chamber.

You DO get called a racist nazi transphobe for stepping outside the box or trying to support people, ideas or places that might not be 100% perfect or pass the strictest ideological purity test. I thought Liberal Twitter was pretty exclusionary and echo-chamber-y, but Mastodon's a lot worse.

CIWS-30,

Same. I stay away from and just keep to my feed of people I actually follow. And I make sure to unfollow those who are too stressful to hear from constantly.

I agree with almost all the of all politics all the time people who constantly post negative things, but it's too tiring to read them, especially since knowing about it does me no good and I can't do anything about it anyway. I already vote and donate as much as I can, and I live in a Blue state so anything outside of my area's just not possible for me to influence.

I've found it's better just to ignore it and focus on positive things that make my life better.

CIWS-30,

Sad news, but isn't the Doge in the picture Kabosu rather than Balltze?

CIWS-30,

AP Psychology? College Prep or even General Ed Psychology is enough to figure this idiot out, particularly with a good teacher. CP Psychology was enough to give me a head start on what was wrong with me and my entire family. (A lot of stuff)

Edit: Yes I know it's the Onion, but I wouldn't be shocked if he actually tries to do this. Higher learning helps you figure out stupid GOP brainwashing and dysfunction.

CIWS-30,

Before Trump, I would have agreed. But after all the shit he pulled, his support amongst minorities he actively persecuted actually INCREASED by 2020. If anything, seeing shit like this all the time from people like this just normalizes it and makes people desensitized to it.

Stuff like this has to be rare and heavily condemned by a large amount of charismatic and popular people for it to be stopped and not become everyday business. I want less people like this and for them to be taken down faster.

Plus, the more people behave like this openly with few or no consequences, and in the mainstream media no less, the more emboldened people like him become and the more overt they become with their actions. For example: hate groups like the Proud Boys and 3 percenters used to be too scared to be as blatant and public as they are now, but now White Supremacy is loud and proud.

CIWS-30,

Kind of, but more "slightly amusing" than funny.

CIWS-30,

It's true. If anything, people are more tolerant of women being this way. Where a man would get a fist in the face, a woman will get polite or even good treatment, especially if she's pretty.

White House Confirms: US Will Support Providing F-16s to Ukraine After Training (www.eurointegration.com.ua)

On Friday, Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, has confirmed Washington’s approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to deliver F-16s to Ukraine after Ukrainian pilots complete their training.

CIWS-30,

This is good. I hope that a pipeline's put in place to give Ukraine some JAS-39 Gripens as well, as they seem well suited for the chaotic conditions of the Ukrainian battlefield.

Baldur's Gate 3 minmaxer finds terrifying 240 damage-per-turn Monk build, carrying on D&D's long tradition of rules-based ultraviolence (www.pcgamer.com)

It was only a matter of time, right? While technical tricks like stacking a thousand explosive barrels or leveraging fall damage for Owlbear elbow drops are impressive in their own way, I've yet to see anything truly representing Dungeons & Dragons' frightening powergaming underbelly from Baldur's Gate 3's community. That is,...

CIWS-30,

I skimmed that article, but from what I remember, in 5th Edition you're only limited to only one bonus action per turn. Meaning that stacking that many bonus actions is probably a bug rather than a feature.

CIWS-30,

That I knew, and agree with in a lot of situations, but something like this is probably unintended and will most likely be fixed. Unlimited bonus actions combined with multiclassing is way too easy to break, as this player proved.

Plus, being unfairly overpowered can make a game less fun almost as much as being underpowered. When nothing's a challenge, there's no stakes anymore. At least when it comes to difficulty settings that are supposed to be a challenge.

CIWS-30,

Truth. If you open your mouth and speak truth to power (or to evil, although those things tend to be the same) you'll make enemies, especially if you're a good person who stands up for what's right. Unfortunately, life isn't like the movies, and unless you're rich, powerful, famous, good looking, physically fit, and in particular some combination of the above, you'll most likely end up dead and / or broke if you don't shut up after you get warned to stop talking about certain things.

I'm the kind of person who naively spoke truth to power in the past with none of the power / privilege I mentioned. Now I wish I'd just kept my mouth shut and my head down. I didn't change anything, but I did get myself and to a lesser extent, my family hurt. Although to be fair, some members of my family were dumb enough to say things like, "This isn't right, you should speak up about it." and I should've trusted my gut instincts and disregarded them.

"Snitches get stitches" is the real truth of life. People who speak out have to be careful when they do, and especially make sure they don't get caught. Same thing with action, "If you take a shot at the king, make sure you don't miss." is also extremely true. Not saying that people should be cowards, but I've learned that if you're not going to change anything anyway, don't put yourself or your family at risk.

CIWS-30,

Yep, watermarked memes (and watermarked most things in general) are a scourge on the internet. I stopped following a Youtube channel that's mostly playthrough's of old fighting games because he suddenly decided one day to add an annoying (and ugly) watermark to the corner of ALL of his videos including the old ones.

Luckily, I'd found a similar one who was actually better at playing the fighting games themselves. I switched to that dude instead.

Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group (www.theguardian.com)

It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi)....

CIWS-30,

Agree. Even recently, I would have up to 5-6 cans worth myself (have since cut down a lot), but alongside the financial cost, there's also the acid eating away at your stomach lining and the excess caffeine to worry about alongside the Aspartame.

Frankly, given the stomach issues and acid reflux that too much soda can give you, I would imagine that people (even sodaholics) would have to stop much sooner than 20 due to all the other issues involved with sodas before the problems with Aspartame would even come into the picture.

Not to say that I'm not leery of Aspartame, but diet Soda has other major issues beside it.

CIWS-30,

Eh, if it's not environmental disaster due to climate change, I have a hunch it might be microplastics or forever chemicals. That's what I expect will do me in before old age does.

And to think that I was seriously considering moving up north to the Great Lakes to get away from Climate Change and to move to a place that actually has fresh water. Joke's on me, that fresh water has microplastics to kill me. Total Catch-22.

CIWS-30,

Always, but things like unfettered worldwide capitalism and the concentration of wealth and power just makes it easier to do and cover up.

Inequality and lack of competition (not just economic competition, but also things like political party alternatives) lead to concentration of power, which leads to corruption.

Diversifying power and providing people with alternatives, checks and balances, and separation of powers leads to reduced corruption that groups of average people can fight back against.

Hence things like the 2nd Amendment and the Founding Fathers believing that Citizens should be armed to resist even tyrannical overreach from corrupt elements of their own government for instance.

No I'm not a Republican by the way, I just find it ironic that the people that started the USA actually had some good ideas that their successors have unfortunately just thrown out the window.

CIWS-30,

Honestly, you shouldn't tell anyone to calm down when they're upset, especially don't yell it at them. People who are upset want to be listened to and validated. It's common sense for empathetic people, but even research science backs it up.

You'll often find this fact in "Top 10" lists of things to not do for people skills / customer service jobs / relationship advice, etc.

CIWS-30,

Yeah, it's strangely always those hypocritical types with zero self-awareness that are like this too. I.E. see all the actual sexual predators going around calling Democrats "pedos" while being arrested for exposing themselves to a minor (like Lauren Boebert's husband for instance) or something similar.

Every accusation is a confession and all that.

CIWS-30,

Tim Walz was right. Isn't this the real pro-life and pro-child position to have? Some Republicans used to think like this. Waay back in the day when I was a naive young moderate Republican, even I thought that this stuff should be common sense.

Bible said that rich people who ignore the poor might go to hell, so I even thought it was the Christian thing to do and what Jesus would want. You know, the Jesus that the GOP's always going on about? Hell, when a bunch of people followed him and got tired and hungry, he fed them all for free. He wasn't all like "Hey guys, you should have planned better than this, use your own wallets and have some personal responsibility."

I also believed in taxing the rich to house the homeless, even if the housing was just barely acceptable. I also thought that all poor children should be taken care of with government money because if you force babies to be born (I was pro-life) it's YOUR responsibility and you have to take care of them now.

Needless to say, I didn't stay a Republican very long. I realized really quick what they were really all about. Cognitive dissonance, bait and switch, and total hypocrisy.

CIWS-30,

Me too. If the sales aren't high enough, Microsoft may reconsider and decide to sell it on the PS5 (probably with some DLC included) a year later or so. It cost them a whole lot of money to buy all those companies, including Bethesda, and they're going to eventually have to recoup a profit from those purchases.

If that means releasing on Playstation again, I think they'll do it rather than risk losing money. Even Disney has learned with Disney+ that having your own exclusive platform and not sharing isn't great business sense. It costs them a lot of money every month to host everything and produce content, and if they don't license out that content to competitors, they can't make their money back.

I can see Microsoft learning the same lesson. Especially given that Disney+ hasn't been profitable ever, and now the red ink is starting to catch up with Disney. If keeping big games from big studios starts losing Microsoft a lot of money, I think they'll fold, at least partially.

CIWS-30,

Too true. What's bonkers is that rules on this vary state by state. You move across state lines, and sometimes it feels like you're in an entirely different country. I used to favor "States' Rights" and flexible, empowered local governments who could respond to nearby challenges more surgically than a larger, more lumbering government bureaucracy further away.

Looking back, I see that now that I was naive, and that what I had was an ideal, and wasn't the reality. Republicans always seem to turn "States' Rights" and "Local Authority" into a way to flout sensible Federal laws and do horrible shit like this instead of what they claim to be doing.

CIWS-30,

This crap has sent me back to physical stores. If they have it in stock, I don't have to wait for it to ship, I just drive there and pick it up. Same with returns too, and exchanges. Same day.

Plus, I can trust that the company itself has probably looked at and tested the products, and has a real product and not a fake. I doubt I'm the only one going back to brick and mortar as well.

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