“Maybe we shouldn’t discriminate against Muslims or invade their countries” = “I adore the most repressive forms of Islamic government”. These strawmen from autumn 2001 sure are bringing back memories!

You make it sound like unskilled positions are just a public service these companies are providing out of the kindness of their hearts, to give young people a helping hand. Some people move on to better things, and others stay in unskilled jobs for a variety of reasons - maybe they’ve got low intelligence, chronic…

Most plane crashes happen near takeoffs or landings, and it’s only in the final seconds that passengers realize they’re goners. A plane in a high-altitude emergency can’t stay airborne “for hours”. If it’s a no-hope situation, impact will happen in minutes. If a plane has enough function to potentially remain…

If you’ve ever showered while drunk, that carries a way, way higher risk of injury or death than flying in a commercial passenger jet.

Part of why they haven’t installed Pence is plain old political inertia, and the fact that organizations like the GOP are notoriously bad at getting out in front of a problem before it grows out of control. Also, Trump has managed to survive so far despite committing offenses that should have sunk most politicians.…

“in the right hands”, sure. If those hands happen to belong to Kephrii, or one of the six players on that chart. Defending on a payload map gets a whole lot easier when the attack team has a Widow. When she’s not being pounced on and harassed by our Winston or D.Va, she might score random headshots on us here and…

This type of elite-level 3D art brings up another question that’s been bugging me: when it comes to 3D art & design in video games or film, aren’t the various roles hyper-specialized by the time you get to this level? Any time I see a documentary on how big-budget productions are made, the roles are always divided…

The upcoming “Archives” event starting a week from today will have a few types of PvE brawls, with last year’s Uprising (4-player vs Omnic horde) mode and a new “Retribution” brawl that’s yet to be revealed.

Hitscan just means a gun that hits what the player is aiming at instantaneously (McCree, Soldier) as opposed to shooting projectiles with a slight time delay (Genji’s stars, Orisa’s gun) or a beam (Mei’s freeze spray, Symmetra’s gun). It’s how most FPS guns have worked since the old days of Quake and GoldenEye. It’s…

Yes. Heat, a good immune system, or bleach.

Remember that alcohol-based hand sanitizers are great at killing bacteria, but don’t do much against viruses like rhinovirus, norovirus, or e.coli.

It’s hard to target specific enemies like Tracer and Genji. It’s hard to dive onto enemy backlines and stay alive. And it’s hard to gang up with a buddy and take down the enemy healer.

I think a big part of the 2017 storytelling drought (at least the lack of animated shorts) had to do with the OW team needing to divert more resources into rescuing competitive mode from the hordes of griefers, throwers, and rage trolls.

Sadly, the 5th amendment has been significantly gutted by the recent Salinas v Texas decision. Now, if you simply stop responding to questions and don’t have the lawyer-like savvy to clearly and affirmatively state that you’re invoking your 5th amendment rights, the police can bring your silence up at trial,…

“- Ban on unlicensed 3D printed or CNC machined gun parts, including hardware and software marketed as such.”

A technical nitpick, but while revolvers do fire one bullet per trigger pull, they use the mechanics of the trigger pull & cylinder rotation to ready the next shot rather than the explosive force of the previous shot, so they aren’t considered semi-automatics.

Did we all time-warp back to 1996? Who gives a shit about the “middle”? They don’t decide elections any more. Any politician with half a brain should flat-out ignore the middle. Hillary was about as middle as you can get. Trump didn’t win because a wave of centrist independents decided to hop on the MAGA train. He won…

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You see, “states’ rights” only applies to certain... issues, so to speak.

Eh, maybe they felt it had a better chance competing with Aquaman and Mortal Engines than Ant-Man 2 and Mission: Impossible 6