I’d say it’s more of a legal loophole than anything else. To allow contentious issues to be discussed and advocated for, Parliamentarians and Lords are protected from prosecution from anything said in session. Plus, anything they say becomes part of the public record. These two protections trump any legal orders to…

Hello from tomorrow, where he is indeed blaming CNN.

Some barf from across the sea for you: A court has ordered a British newspaper not to name the subject of its #MeToo special investigation, saying contracts are more important than the freedom of the press (even though the newspaper never signed a contract with him): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/23/british-…

You’re thinking of Xenoblade Chronicles, this article is talking about Xenoblade Chronicles X.

It got better.

In addition to what others have recommended, one resource for a crisis or difficult time is https://www.blurtitout.org.

Since when is the left an amorphous blob rather than a collection of individuals? Yes, plenty of people on the left decided not to vote in 2016 because they let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Yes, plenty of people on the left are now outraged by what’s happening now and trying to pressure senators to stop it.…

Given how many rapes he committed, I’d say this is far from what he deserves. But since he could only be convicted for one, this is about as much as we could hope for (even in the US, a surprising number of convicted rapists get off with a slap on the wrist).

It seems to be rare among humans in general; it’s a built-in ego-defense mechanism that it’s hard for us to admit that we were responsible for doing harm. The people who have the capacity to overcome this generally do so with smaller mistakes and course-correct when it’s easier to do so, without letting themselves…

So what I’m reading is, every man gets to do this once without going to prison. I’m sure this will cause no problems whatsoever. /s

I don’t count Naoto as trans in the end, which was why I said it simply “played with trans themes.” It felt to me like there might have been tension on the narrative team, with one or more people pushing for LGBT themes and others pushing back, resulting in kinda-but-not-really LGBT storylines for her and Kanji.

Yeah, it came out as a twist at the end, package alongside the implication that she’s really a man, since she suffers the same nightmares that otherwise only men are subject to.

That being said, for the time at which the game came out, it was one of the best representations of a trans character in a video game. It felt…

Notably, the original game already had a post-op trans woman who had sex with a man without telling him she was trans, so this train has already left the station unless they plan to go back and revise that part of the story.

This actually makes me wish I hadn’t changed my legal residence away from Texas this election cycle. I did expect Texas to eventually become a swing state, I just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.

Meh, society won’t stop calling women “girls” until they hit 50, I’m sure things won’t fall apart if we call a few 30-something men “boys.”

Apparently it’s not currently possible to link existing accounts to this service though, meaning kids who already have accounts would have to lose all they’ve done in order to benefit from this. Hopefully Niantic will very quickly fix this so it is possible, but they don’t exactly have the best track record for…

Well, this is taking place in California, so I’d hazard a guess that California’s laws and definitions might be relevant here.

The only way I can make sense of that is if there’s three seats in a row, and it’s just the middle seat in conflict. The problem with that theory is, I can’t recall ever seeing an airplane with more than two first-class seats together.

In general, the best advice I can give is to focus on learning the boss’s patterns. Don’t attack, just watch the boss, and note down what it does in each attack rotation, dodging whenever you see an attack coming at you (or blocking if it’s too late to dodge), until you have a good handle on it. Then attack only as…

What the left was saying is, “The Constitution says the role of the government is to ‘promote the common welfare of the nation,’ and what we’re doing does that, so it’s okay.” While that’s an arguable point (and there is the 9th Amendment to contend with on some fronts), it’s a lot more reasonable than you’re giving…