Weird. Was there a source claiming there was one?

Didn’t think to check Youtube. Ty!

Thanks!

I think they’re more regulated there, like the only flavor is tobacco, their use is prohibited in certain places, etc

Nice! I’ve been meaning to check it out too.

Any chance you could DM the link?

Is there a good site to listen to Blowback? Been meaning to check it out for some time.

Tried checking out the first season the other day and the sites I found it on had embedded ads and I couldn’t get through the first quarter of the episode before technical difficulties followed by an authentication wall, so kind of lost interest.

The site literally made a subreddit years ago for bots trained on specific subreddits to interact with each other. Waaay before ChatGPT, the tech to do something like this is not new lol.

You’re probably just goofin, but maybe chill with the person just asking for reading material.

I’m also not a big fan of quizzes to figure out political stuff, but everyone starts somewhere.

That’s cool to see. Please be conscious of your infosec, but have you worked with them? I’d be interested in learning more. Feel free to DM me if you’d feel more comfortable replying that way.

I tried to contact them a while back but it never went any where.

What’s the deal with Stein? I periodically see that she sucks or is a grifter, but usually it’s a dem who is pissed she might “split the vote.”

From what I’ve seen of her platform she actually has many concrete, progressive goals with pretty specific carve outs for of various largely overlooked groups of people. It’s not like she’s explicitly for landback or dissolving Israel and the US, but definitely leagues better (on paper) than the dems.

All that being said, I’m voting for Claudia and Karina for an explicitly socialist platform. Ngl though, I wish the PSL vote socialist website had a long list of concrete points like the Stein website does.

An American who spent time stationed in Kenya (they never could tell me why we have a base there, go figure) told me about a group of navy seals that decided to try to put a t-shirt on a baboon once. Apparently they all ended up in the infirmary.

America isn’t sending the brightest.

Agreed, besides discussing history the other context to use the term luddite is “I’m a luddite.” They were right and if a new group emerges ready to burn down data centers and tar and feather tech oligarchs then let them have at it.

Pretty sure I stopped playing after an early boss fight.

The good stuff:

• struggling to carry too much stuff
• dropping too much stuff
• throwing containers at people
• building stuff with players you don’t have to interact with
• peeing to grow mushrooms

The bad stuff:

• story was eh
• npcs
• sudden boss fight after 10+ hours of not using any combat related controls

Enjoyed my time with it overall though. Keep meaning to come back to it and never do for whatever reason.

I also never got around to MGS 5 even though I really liked all the other metal gear games I’ve played, something about a more open world is vaguely intimidating I guess.

With the right button, you’ve got MLK and Mother Theresa taking turns to punch it.

Well yeah, “the right button” could be anything. The button could have been “push this and Jewish Israeli people can live anywhere on earth safely and perpetually at peace with their neighbors.” It doesn’t even have to be anything about Israelis, religion, the region, it’s a fucking hypothetical.

Instead, the button is “kill millions of people that inconvenience me”. It doesn’t resolve anything for the country - they’re still at odds with a large number of neighboring countries. It doesn’t completely remove their inconvenience - settlers would still need to settle the stolen and destroyed land (even if the button just evaporated humans, Gaza is effectively uninhabitable).

They just want to talk about killing an entire people on their, apparently, large platform.

Well, with any luck they’ll be stuck somewhere in England with all the Amerikkkans because both shitty societies collapse at once.

I’m convinced that a lot of the (mostly old now, thankfully) takes about English dubs being worse than the original Japanese VA boil down to 2 things.

1. Cringe dialog is the same cringe in both languages, but a foreign language gives the viewer a language and cultural buffer to hide behind. It’s the same cringe people!
2. Non Japanese speakers have a hard time telling if Japanese VA is any good. How would they? Understandimg VA quality requires a nuanced understanding of language (inflection, word emphasis in a sentence, region, time period, etc etc).

Not saying that all, or even most, dubs are as good as the original language VA, but they are certainly of a similar quality level as a lot of other Western animation VA (that is to say, a generally accepted level of quality). And you cannot convince me that all anime has good original VA, that’s just super unlikely. That would be like saying because America has Hollywood most movies made there have good acting.

I had a coworker like that! His going away meal was sushi lmao.

When asked why he didn’t say pescetarian he said he just didn’t like the word (?). Whatever the hell that means. Guess he wanted some kind of vegetarian street cred lol.

Maybe it’s just cause of where I’m from, but other than the lettuce and tomatoes I’d order and enjoy that. At least something is edible on the menu, which is better than basically every restaurant near me.

Am I missing something? Is the sauce dairy 🤔?

Watched that b/c it was posted here last week. Incredibly disappointed they stopped making that series, it was really getting good.

There are some lol, United 93 and Nic Cage’s World Trade Center were released in 2006.

Also, ::: spoiler spoiler Apparently this Robert Pattinson movie has a 9/11 plot point? ::: wtf?