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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

Don't forget Brave New World. The drug cocktail they use isn't quite as good as Soma, but it works great until someone on it decides to shoot up a school.

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

at some point the girl makes money by selling pictures of the panda on the internet

Surely this isn't in a Pixar movie, right? At least it's not portrayed as a good thing? It's not like Pixar hasn't done propaganda before (WALL-E was a great movie, but it didn't even try to hide it's anti-corporate, environmentalist message), but if they're essentially portraying a 13 year old on OnlyFans as being a good thing then their office needs some redecorating.

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8BitArchitect 5 points ago +5 / -0

Sounds like a reference to "Shower with your dad simulator", so I don't think so, but I'm not searching it on Steam to find out.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

Half of black pregnancies in the US end in a medical abortion, according to the statistics I've seen just about every time I look. I don't know what that is when you compare raw numbers black vs. white, but if the pregnancy rates are roughly proportion to the populations (and that's definitely being conservative) I think around 1/8th of white pregnancies would have to be terminated by medical abortion in order for those numbers to be equivalent (which seems high) given that the white pregnancy rate is lower than the black one, it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that 8 black babies are aborted for every white baby aborted in the US.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

I mean, if you read Genesis part of the curse of sin was agriculture (or at least making it necessary and laborious as opposed to optional and easy.)

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8BitArchitect 13 points ago +13 / -0

"If you aren't raising the children of someone who's fighting, no passes. No, you can't have a 9 month delay to get railed until you pop one out. If you don't have one now you're SOL. Here's your Mosin AK and stripper clip box mag. Not one step backward!"

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8BitArchitect 18 points ago +18 / -0

Translation: Be rich you moron. Buy [...] a REALLY expensive solar system.

If I could get anywhere close to being able to buying even a dirt cheap solar system I'd do it in a heartbeat, so long as it contained the necessary elements to support human life, just so I didn't have to be within a couple parsecs of these morons. Sadly, I think those are orders of magnitude more expensive than the annual GDP of the whole earth.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

Disney has billions in cash on hand, and they can probably* write off the theoretical loss in value of their park when stripped of their IP if they were to sell it. The main realized financial losses would come from closing the park before they could build the replacement, or expending the resources on building another park and it not having the same (or probably more) revenue as their existing park, and even then you're not really talking about a 'loss', you're talking about the relative value of a new park versus the existing one. DeSantis made the right move from a ideological, political, financial, and moral standpoint here. Disney may take an insignificant (relative) loss because a handful of people don't like that the state of Florida made it more illegal to groom children, but it's way less than what they'd take by closing/ moving the park, and DeSantis knows it.


*(I'm not a tax accountant, so I could be very wrong here)

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8BitArchitect 23 points ago +23 / -0

The various communist genocides that combined to kill an order of magnitude more people than the worst estimates of the Holocaust.

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8BitArchitect 3 points ago +3 / -0

I mean, to use a religious reference, Jesus was a "friend of sinners", but I kinda doubt that friendship was primarily a social thing. Someone has to try to correct their flawed beliefs, but after a certain point the only way I can be civil is to hold my tongue.

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8BitArchitect 10 points ago +10 / -0

MAPs should be displayed proudly on the wall.

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8BitArchitect 8 points ago +8 / -0

Maybe I'm a bigot, or maybe I'm just picky with the word "friend", but I find it difficult to be friends with someone that socially and politically opposed to me. I can really only think of maybe two-three people I do or at one time considered friends that might be leftists, and I don't think I've had contact with any of them in two-three years (mostly for unrelated reasons.)

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +3 / -1

This very community

Only 'cause DoM/AoV are too cowardly to put the rules to a vote like the HalfKiA mods did before the split.

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8BitArchitect 2 points ago +2 / -0

They also gave an earlier date for the invasion which fell through. Very Nostradamus-like.

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +5 / -1

So this is just two jews fighting because one has toys the other wants, and they're screwing over millions of eastern europeans in the process?

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8BitArchitect 4 points ago +4 / -0

From what I understand they decided to make the game cheaper while it was in "early access" and increase the price as it reached major milestones. Once it was released they decided that was the final price and that people that wanted to play the game would pay that or find it through other means.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

I was able to call my phone while it was placed in the microwave, so don't expect this to work perfectly. Better to build one to the proper specs.

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8BitArchitect 13 points ago +14 / -1

"I'm gonna get fucking destroyed in the primaries in a few days. What can I do to win some easy points with my base?"

Greg Abbot, sometime two days ago.

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8BitArchitect 7 points ago +7 / -0

https://grassrootsgold.com/

Compilation of a bunch of conservative voter guides. I'd recommend iVoterGuide as a good baseline as they don't technically give any endorsements, but compile endorsements from other sources, along with questionnaires and some other stuff to allow you to make a relatively informed opinion.

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8BitArchitect 5 points ago +5 / -0

I don't generally buy the "optics" argument (because, as you said, the media will present their own narrative), but at the moment the convoy appears to be winning the PR battle. Now, should the convoy remain peaceful regardless of the actions of the government? I'd say no (I'd rather not be executed in the street while exercising my right to peacefully protest), but if you're going to violently resist the government you'd want to have as much support behind you as possible, or you're accepting that the end result for you is likely to be a life of torture until you are executed or expire of "natural causes".

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

I actually don't support this move. If Amazon wants to let you support a charity of your choice through purchases on their platform, they should allow you to chose any registered charity. They'll go after right wing orgs next, and for far more innocuous "sins". That said, I don't think BLM meets the financial criteria for a registered charity.

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8BitArchitect 1 point ago +1 / -0

Doesn't Factorio have a separate verification key from Steam? You should just be able to download it off their website and use that key if you were ever to be banned from Steam's platform.

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