These online types; streamers, "influencers", etc. really think their videos are important. We've got a whole generation of narcissists that think the world hinges on what they had for breakfast this morning. The rest of us in the real world wish they would just fuck off.
No worries; when you need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy loaf of bread that 200k you owe on your house won't seem like much at all.
Russia will still be crippled and a has-been and your copes won't matter.
You're a special kind of stupid. You're never a has-been when you possess a massive nuclear arsenal.
Ask yourself what the US would do if Russia decided to gift a dozen nukes each to Iran and Syria. Fuck all, because if they kill a single Russian soldier they risk nuclear war. Russia could glass most major US cities, and at that point it doesn't matter if the US could "win" when we're all dead.
Our meddling in the politics of Russia's neighbors had brought us closer to nuclear war than we have been since height of the Cold War.
we are defending not just Ukrainian independence, but we're defecting a rule – we are defending a rules-based system that says, might doesn't make right, you can't just extinguish your neighbor.
Ah, got it. What does a "rules-based system" say about an anti-Russian alliance making promises that it will not grow and then it spends the next 20 years growing? Your style of "diplomacy" literally caused this by recruiting all of Russia's neighbors into an alliance against it.
I saw a nice leather-like bound set at B&N and Costco a few years ago. You might look for that one.
Well yeah because making TikToks is my job
Woe to the world that anyone can say this. I hate the government as much as the next guy, but I could almost support something like a 90% "your 'job' is silly bullshit" tax.
Rewriting history is absolutely some Stalinist bullshit. Throughout my life, despite all the discussions I've seen about "banning" books from public schools or libraries, no one ever suggested editing them. It was universally understood that whether you like them or not the author's words are what they are and it's not appropriate for someone else to surreptitiously rewrite them.
How did we go from at least understanding that to this sort of 1984 bullshit? And in the span of a couple of years. The left has turned into a fucking cartoon villain and their NPCs are cheering them on.
Especially books. It's a lot easier to find a computer file that someone ripped off a DVD online. Even if you find a scan of a book, you will probably prefer to read an old fashioned paper copy instead of on a screen.
“A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set,”
No, keeping it "as close as possible" would be a straight reprint. There's nothing preventing that, these edits are a conscious decision that wasn't prompted but anybody's need.
Exactly. EULAs and Terms of Use are a contract between you and the service. Contracts bind both parties, and in order to be valid, both parties must derive benefit.
Given that public figures have a reputational interest in their access to these services and others have business models that rely on them, there's real money at stake which gives rise to a cause of action when the website software provider breaks the terms.
I mean that's really hateful bro.
When did not preferring something turn into hate? He said he didn't want to have sex with a trans male. He didn't say he wanted to put them in death camps or beat them up for fun.
It's a tripwire. The same reason we had the Berlin Brigade during the cold war. If China takes a hostile act, American troops will die and it forces us to go to war.
That's a knarly screencap; you can see his bicep exploding.
And that something about living by water turns people into democrats.
Aside from the complete mess in Arizona and New Mexico, almost every other blue county is adjacent to the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean or the Great Lakes.
The federal government's power stems primarily through its purse strings. If states can learn to wean themselves off of federal funding, they can largely eliminate its influence.
Even in areas for federal authority is clear, they lack the manpower to really enforce their will without the cooperation of state government and law enforcement. Once a state has eliminated it's reliance on federal money it has removed the only tool the feds have to force cooperation.
The only reason there hasn't been a second civil war at this point is because the lines are not geographically drawn
That's certainly making it harder to split. Most blue states are dominated by a few major population centers that override the votes of their more conservative rural neighbors.
Compromise is only possible when you have compatible end goals. If it was possible for one side to live the way they wanted and the other to do the same, we could have compromise.
I just don't see that happening anymore. Take gun control for example. The left won't be content to just ban guns in NY or CA. They want to ban them nationwide.
Is Florida a proximate cause state? Proximate cause means that if the root of the damage is covered, any derivative damage is covered, regardless of whether or not it would have been allowable on its own.
I had an insurance company try that shit with me, when they said water damage wasn't covered even though the water intruded due to something that was covered. I let them know that I knew the law in my state was proximate cause, a different insurance company had lost a case within the last year making the same exact argument they had, and that if I sued them and won they would have to pay my attorney fees and triple damages.
They decided to pay after I told them I was very happy to take them to court in a lawsuit I was sure to win and profit handsomely from. A lot of times they will deny your claim simply hoping you'll go away, and when you don't they cave because they don't really have a lawful reason to say no. It's still bullshit though. You shouldn't have to fight to get what is lawfully yours.
The concept of pooled risk is sound. It's basically the reverse of gambling- somebody is going to be a big loser, so we all pay a little to mitigate that risk. The problem really stems from how insurance is run.
As soon as you pay your premium, the money belongs to the company, and any claims they pay out is just money out of their bottom line. It would work correctly if they only got to keep an administrative fee and the bulk of your money had to be deposited in a fund for the purpose of paying claims.
The company is still incentivized to not pay spurious claims, because it would deplete the fund, but denying all claims and allowing the fund to grow to billions of dollars wouldn't benefit them, because it's not money they get to keep.
If they were required to publicly post their premiums and information on how often and how much they pay, the competition would be to attract the most customers by walking that fine line of paying every claim you could, because the only way to increase profits would be to increase your customer base.
Their primary focus is helping you grind your JRPG characters more efficiently.
As a side gig, they shit all over white people in favor of Muslim immigrants.
About 80% of Americans aren't even real people. Just NPCs. Their existence doesn't matter.
I call them cattle that can speak. Most people I meet are so profoundly stupid, I wish they could be shot on sight, as they're simply draining resources from people that matter.
To be fair, I agree with him on OnlyFans, YouTube "influencers", Twitch streamers, etc.-But both male and female.
I get that capitalism rewards shit that sells, but these people contribute nothing to society and reinforce the myth that everyone can be rich if you just find the right trick to beat the system.
Every time I hear about one of these people, I think of the poor lady cleaning my hotel room for minimum wage that will probably slave away there her whole life, while this asshole gets rich making videos of himself opening toys or that thot shakes her tits and simps buy her a car.
I guess the real societal cancer is the fools that fund them, but it sure would be entertaining to see them fed into some military meat grinder and blown into a million pieces.
fitness, it is a force management tool
And this is true for all the services. I doubt it's a coincidence that this announcement was made a week or two after they released that they all failed to meet their recruiting numbers for last year. Fitness standards go up when the military is full and has high retention and go down when they're desperate to fill slots.
What was always hilarious to me was it failing a fit test would prevent positive personnel actions like a PCS or promotion, but not a deployment. If they were truly concerned about fitness as a readiness issue like they say they are, all those fatties would be non-deployable.
He just needed some time off to fly out to Oregon and help out the Goonies...
And that puffer jacket: It doesn't matter what the temperature, if you run 3 miles at any decent pace, you're going to get hot and you're not want to be wearing warm clothes.