The majority of the North American continent is basically a burn ecology; native plants are literally built to handle having fires sweep through every so often.
Only people who've never touched grass think otherwise.
If anything, we should be encouraging more fires to clean up the previous century worth of mismanagement fuckups.
It's not like they ever expected to actually have to follow up on their promises.
Easy enough to write checks when you know you're not going to be the one paying for them.
Sadly, it's the way the world works. Once you get past a certain point in an organization, that position was filled because that person knew the right people, and only that.
And if you're lucky, they're atleast slightly competent. But it's one hell of a coin flip.
You're not wrong, though.
You could do a pretty good 'passing the torch' story by simply using the Thrawn Trilogy(with some allusions to Jedi Academy) with very few modifications.
Of course, if they wanted to go complete balls to the wall, simply use the Legacy comics and keep one particular characters heritage as a 'wham' moment.
It's a variant of the typical-minded fallacy, imo. That's my take on it, atleast.
If you're not familiar with it; TLDR, you assume that the way 'you' think is identical to the way others think.
Every time I see someone trying to brand lolicons as pedophiles, it always makes me raise an eyebrow.
Cause the only ones I ever see do it are the terminally online left. And then, inevitably...
Thing is, I can't figure out the why. Jealousy? Confession through projection? Just straight insanity? What?
Yeah, maybe I don't want to know.
Skill based, and if you have any type of criminal record, they'll deny you automatically, just off the top of my head.
I also recall antecedent mentions of immigrants always constantly getting checked by Mounties, much more than they ever did living in America.
There's old 'askreddit' threads floating around about redditors trying to emigrate to Canada post-Trump election and getting rudely introduced to reality.
I'm not asking for much.
I'll just want the same immigration policies as, say, Mexico. Or Canada, before they started gushing about letting in all those poor refugee migrants.
Yeah, try to illegally enter Mexico and see what happens. Hell, try it in Canada, as a white person. Please. Spoilers: It's not going to go as well as liberals think it would...
One; if a job is in extreme demand, price of said job will rise to fill the needed quota of workers.
Two; I'm reminded of various photos/videos showing old people's last moments surrounded by screeching sheeboons.
Who do you want taking care of you; A highly skilled professional that's worked their ass off to get a very high-paying job and all that implies, or some third-world rando who's background is sketchy as fuck?
For that matter, do you actually want to relate to your caretaker at all? How do you think that's going to work when they can barely speak english and don't give a flying fuck about your society at all, given that they've self-sequestered into their own little ethnic enclaves?
If they want to live in a foreign country, they can fucking move to a foreign country. Please.
Arguments aside, I doubt sincerely that they give a flying fuck about the health and well-being of boomers. They just want those exotic brownerinos lurking about so they can gush about it online for good boy points.
Sorry you can't abuse women any more, bro.
Wait, no. I'm not sorry. At all.
Granted, given that he's both trans and a cyclist surprises me that he hasn't joined the 41%, seeing how he's double-dipping.
JMS and Babylon 5 really predate 'modern' politics by - good god - over a decade. Decades?
JMS is one of the few writers I'd judge as being a fairly even-handed about portraying 'both sides' in a fair manner, despite his personal politics.
But can you call it corruption if that was how it was originally designed? What was corrupted if it was always there?
Except it wasn't.
When I say 'low level corruption', I'm referencing stuff like nepotism, social networks, 'who you know'. People(normies) assume that you pass through the ranks of organizations via meritocracy, when if you have any experience whatsoever with how this shit actually works, anyone past a certain level of power is either really, REALLY fucking good at their job(rare) or knew the right people and sucked the right dicks.
So when all this was originally setup, I'm sure it was done with the best intention possible that the best people would fill the positions and do the best job.
And maybe it even worked, for a short while.
Then reality hit. And hit hard.
Most of the time, this isn't noticed. It goes by, and works... kinda well enough. Yet the moment anyone learns about this, or encounters it, or is forced to accept it, I'd bet good money the very initial, instinctive reaction is 'This isn't fucking fair. This is wrong.'
Corruption of this nature survives because most people just... aren't aware of it. They don't notice. They can't, because they don't have to deal with it. And if they don't notice, is it... really that bad? (Answer: Yes. But others may disagree.)
Kreia is one of the best-written Star Wars charachters in any medium, and the one that really shows off what's possible with a made-up group of people that amount to space wizards with laser swords.
Valkorian is probably another, if only for the sheer ham the man brings to the table that you can't help but take seriously. He's one of the few charachters who could seriously utter the words 'I am a God' and you can't help but nod in agreement.
If I had to venture a guess; people tend to assume that a certain level of corruption is baked into the cake to begin with, and only when it reaches past a certain point does it become a problem.
White American-type culture assumes a very low-level of corruption, which is why it's one of the few that tends to stress 'fairness'. Start moving outside of that, though, and hoo boy...
You're not wrong, though.
I watch alot of Zach Hazard and Mike Burnfire - going by thier LPs of the Frontier, techical-wise, it really is fucking awesome and the bees knees. Like, alot of the stuff that's in it is rather innovative and impressive given the game engine is fucking ancient.
Story-wise, though, it's an absolute clusterfuck.
That seems to be the rule with alot of big-time Fallout:NV mods. Which is sad. A twisted part of me keeps wanting to try out Fallout: New California, but every time I come back to the Dev notes and the OC Donut Steel Self Inserts, I promptly feel the need to throw something through a window.
Give it another year and you'll see an article whining about the lack of available housing for everyone because landlords don't want to risk renting to people with sub-retard IQ who don't give a fuck about rules or law.
Granted, I'm a little skeptical of the data that search uses, as it claims I'm in the fucking top 2.2%, but... okay?
I would have no issues putting in laws that make all drugs legal to own and consume at people's leisure - if we make it illegal to resuscitate overdoses.
The mad scientist in me jumps in glee at the idea of finding out what kind of bottleneck that would produce.
Even with Kylo, people were pointing out the suspicious similarity between him and another, much more cooler character from the Old Republic times made by much better writers(coughcoughRevancough).
For all the screeching KK did about not having any source material, they seemed very eager to poorly copy alot of shit from their betters.
A part of me wants to huff the copium and think that there's more power-plays going on in the background than we realize.
But who the fuck knows?
Been there, done that, still trying to get out of it. It sucks, but the only way to solve the issue is to figure out what you want, break it down into small parts, and go for it.
Though I will point out -
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Women live life on easy mode despite what a fair number of them screech. Comparing yourself to them isn't a level playing field.
Lawyers in my experience tend to suffer from some serious dunning-kruger effect. They think that because they've 'mastered' one area(law) that they're automatically right on everything else.
It does tend to lead to some hilarious circumstance, though.
Yup. I've helped out in a number of tournaments. It's always interesting to see how the age/gender divide works out.
Hint: You really don't see many women participating in tournaments, even when they're allowed in as white-belts, locally. To get any appreciable number requires you to start pulling from all across the country.
The prequels had issues, and weren't perfect by any means, but good god were they fun.
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Can't really say that about the Disney trilogy.
It's not even lying on the stand - it's believing the police officer's word over the defendants.
Yeah, this is an article I don't want to think too much about, or else I'll be fedposting for the next fucking week or so.