Wasn't this the earliest presidential debate ever? I mean technically they're not even their respective parties candidates yet- the Republican National convention is next week, and the Democratic National convention is in August.
My guess is that this debate was set up specifically to gauge Biden's fitness for the election this fall. If he did poorly, the Democrats were planning to kick in their contingency plan to replace him, which we're seeing now.
The turmoil this is causing in their party is awesome, but I have to wonder if it wouldn't have been better if Trump had refused to debate him until it was too late for them to swap candidates.
The last season was the best.
"The shelling has stopped; the war must have ended. The Great War, 1914 to 1917!"
"I'm afraid not."
I find the very first one, set in medieval times, to be barely watchable. It worked much better as they shifted Blackadder to being smarter and Baldric to being dumber.
I don't like Biden. I think he's emblematic of the very worst of career American politicians, and his party is actively working to destroy the country. That being said, when I see videos like this I almost pity him.
Here's a guy who should be sitting in an old folks home watching Matlock and reminiscing about past glories in the few hours a day that he is cogent, and instead they're dragging his body from event to event, probably pumping him full of drugs, and just generally practicing elder abuse, to maintain a farce that nobody believes.
The Biden presidency is a pretty stark confirmation of just how evil the Democratic party is- in no small part due to how they're willing to debase Biden himself in order to hang on to power.
IIRC, the original Gladiator trailer used music from Conan the Barbarian. Quite a bit more classy and fitting.
The ghettoize so much shit with rap music now because they think it makes it sound hip and edgy.
"fighting-man" is your go-to, very first example of "insensitive and derogatory language?" You fucking loser.
"GI Joe, GI Joe; fighting man from head to toe!"
so you removed content? Gotcha. So it's worth than useless and, if I wanted that edition, I should just go get the originals
That's what I did. I never really played D&D proper, but I read some of the novels and played some of the computer games and I have appreciation for the source material. I downloaded all of the stuff from second edition and earlier from The Trove several years ago.
Modern D&D doesn't exist, it's a just Hasbro wearing The branding of the original IP like a skin suit with none of the charm or wonder
The history of the game and TSR itself is pretty interesting: did you know they were acquired by the family that owned the rights to Buck Rogers, which is why they had to push out a bunch of Buck Rogers crap towards the end of their existence? They paid royalties for using that IP too. I would prefer to read about it from an unbiased source however.
Who are the leaders of Wikipedia?
Back in 1995, when I was born, Gerard was my age...an Australian sci-fi fan and early career sysadmin, a proudly weird bisexual and polyamorous goth
He hammered out much of the essay’s content with his fellow Wikipedia editor and close friend, a pre-transition trans woman who would later become known as Elizabeth Sandifer.
The article goes on at length to discuss how this sexual deviant abused his position as an admin in Wikipedia to skew articles against people he didn't like, including doxxing a few individuals both personally and in conjunction with his tranny freak friend.
Ultimately, after much handwringing and debate it seems like the only punishment he got was being barred from editing a page about someone who he had a personal grudge against and had contributed material to the NYT to help them write a hit piece on- citing the article he himself had contributed to as a source.
What a retarded, disgusting, broken wreck of a human being. And how dysfunctional and toothless must the leadership of Wikipedia be to not do anything about it?
Zionism is the doctrine that the Jewish people were entitled to an ancestral homeland in the location of the historic kingdom of the Israelites, and that they should achieve it by colonization and the forced removal of the existing populace. It emerged in the late 19th century.
There's nothing incompatible with simultaneously not having a problem with Judaism in general or the Jews as a people but not agreeing with a doctrine that they can just seize other people's land based on some nebulous historic claim. Certainly, the nearly century long warfare in the Middle East and the personal cost to the US in blood and treasure alone is a very valid reason to say that Zionism is bad.
Kicking off with the Rocky Horror freak and ending with the fucking elf girl with her "authentic self"- priceless!
I wouldn't be surprised if this was some high level troll; it's just too perfect
He was shot down flying a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber and rescued by a submarine. The two other crew members on his plane were killed.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/navy-aviator-george-h-w-bush-and-his-squadron-attacked
I watched it for about 5 minutes until I realized it was just going to be some asshat with a headset responding to comments people typed to him about someone else's video.
Why does anyone watch this style of YouTube video?
... Hale’s family claimed they assigned them the copyright of her written materials.
Supposedly the family assigned the copyright to several organizations related to the victims. I have no idea why the article phrased it this way, as the family either did or didn't assign the rights, the term "claimed" really has no place here.
Eh, it wouldn't take a very sophisticated algorithm to detect groups of people consistently voting as a block or people accusing everyone who beats them of cheating. That sort of pattern recognition is actually one of the areas machine learning excels in it.
20 people who consistently play together and consistently flag the same people as cheaters can be weighted significantly differently than 20 people who have never played together before or since flagging someone.
It's just cheaper to buy a piece of off-the-shelf bloatware; the problem is that those tools will always be one step behind.
I don't understand the point of layering in memory hogging anti-cheat software. All you need to do is have a system where if an account gets enough complaints about cheating it gets flagged and only ever plays against other people with the same flag.
Just vector all the people using aimbots and seeing through walls into the same matches so they can enjoy each other's company.
"Wow, this must be some parody, maybe it's an Onion article or something." Nope, it's fucking real:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297751609_The_benefits_of_world_hunger
I can't stand when a company calls it's employees "team members". They work for wages and you will fire them the second it becomes advantageous.
Nothing wrong with that, it's just business, but let's not pretend that the relationship is anything more than this.
[W]hile the record reflects that the Government defendants played a role in at least some of the platforms’ moderation choices, the evidence indicates that the platforms had independent incentives to moderate content and often exercised their own judgment. The Fifth Circuit, by attributing every platform decision at least in part to the defendants, glossed over complexities in the evidence. The Fifth Circuit also erred by treating the defendants, plaintiffs, and platforms each as a unified whole.
You know why evidence collected illegally is inadmissible, even if it absolutely, irrefutably proves the guilt of the defendant? Because we want to create the most powerful disincentive possible for police officers violating the law in obtaining evidence.
I don't particularly care if Facebook would have chosen to censor the same stuff the government asked it to on its own. I don't care if it was just a suggestion that Facebook was free to refuse and not coercion. The idea of the federal government even asking a private company to be their proxy in censorship is so repugnant to the 1st Amendment that the nuances don't matter, and it should be treated under a similar "fruit of the poison tree doctrine" as illegal searches.
It's shit decisions like this that have convinced me that, just like politics and elections, the judicial branch is just a bunch of kayfabe bullshit.
I watched a documentary once about a lady with kids that got kicked out of her apartment because it was condemned and didn't have the means to get another. She was couch surfing at friends houses, sleeping in her car, hitting up the different social services, using computers at the library to apply for jobs, etc. At the end things ended up working out.
I suspect that there's something seriously wrong with the homeless in filthy clothes begging on the corner. A normal person will exhaust every option to avoid that fate.
It's more than just that. The cost to raise a child from birth through college is now astronomical. This article says the per-year cost is 41% more in 2024 than it was eight years ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-kids-cost-raising-child-inflation-childcare-tax-exemptions-2024-1
In an agrarian society children were assets, because they provided a workforce for the family once they got old enough. As the makeup of our society changed in the 20th century they shifted from an asset to a liability, with the only "return on investment" being that they will potentially care for their parents in old age, which is not guaranteed because our society doesn't place a heavy stigma on stashing your parents in an old folks home to die.
Faced with that reality, the only people having children are those that really want them for the sake of having a child in and of itself, and poor scumbags who don't practice birth control (see Idiocracy).
It's even worse than that. Little kids and old people aren't committing crime except by rare exception. Take everyone under 8 and over 65 out of that 13% and what do you get? 9-10% maybe?
Imagine having a demographic that represents less than 1/10 of your population committing more than half the crime and saying it's everyone's fault but them.
Das, not right. She was wrongfully accused.
Bitch brought a marijuana vape pen into Russia. I haven't heard anyone dispute this. There's plenty of room to argue that her punishment was unjust (it wasn't) or that she was used as a pawn in geopolitical politics between Russia and the US (she was), but her underlying guilt has never been in question.
How in the world can she keep such a huge smile considering that fact?
You probably already know this, but c/MGTOW has the answers to that mystery.
Sell everything out to foreign investors, then you flip the switch and just take everything back.
I've actually pondered this as a solution the problem that the US is selling everything to foreign investors. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from citing "national security" and seizing everything right back or paying pennies on the dollar in some sort of eminent domain proceeding.
The shame is that it won't help the individual losers: if you sold your farm to a Chinese company it's not like the US is just going to give it back to you, even if they seize the farm from the Chinese.
It's also a one time trick. You're not going to get foreign investors ever again if they think you can just steal their property on a whim.
Eh, his shit was silly, but there was an earnestness about the earlier stuff that had appeal.
His content was definitely designed for a certain demographic, being nostalgia bait for the generation that grew up with the NES. Even the shitty games from that era are memberable, because there was no reliable way to find out if a game was any good before you bought it like there is now. How many people's game libraries are full of turds from LJN because they liked Friday the 13th or Back to the Future and nobody warned them? Raging against the NES's version of what we would now call shovelware hits the spot for those that were there.
The sheer stupidity of it is that leftists actually do ban books, often at the publishing and distribution levels.
If they're not just straight up rewriting them. Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl have both been victims of having their work edited to "eliminate outdated cultural perceptions".
The rights so-called "censorship" has always been simple time and place restrictions- this book isn't appropriate here and for this audience- and only in circumstances where the book is being provided at government expense.
The left, on the other hand, wants to simply erase works that it doesn't like from existence.
What do you think about this idea I read in an opinion piece:
Biden makes Obama his running mate and publicly announces that he will resign pretty much immediately upon election. The 22nd Amendment only bars someone from being "elected to the office of President" more than twice. He wins, resigns, and you get another 4 years of Obama.
I personally don't think it will work because running Obama wouldn't get them any votes they didn't already have, and may very well lose them a few from people who don't appreciate them gaming the system.
Plus, they're almost certain to be mired in court challenges- the 22nd Amendment also says that you can only be elected once if you served more than two years of another president's term. Since Obama's already been elected twice, that language would seem to bar him from just assuming Biden's term.
The suggestion, just like calls to pack the Supreme Court, does serve to illustrate how the Democrats are only interested in the rules as a means to acquire power, and they eagerly look for any loophole to abuse the system when it no longer suits them.