Fascism doesn’t exist in a binary state. It isn’t a switch you turn on. I have this conversation with people often, they don’t think what’s happening now is too big a deal because DeSantis isn’t rounding people off into camps. That’s not how it starts, that how it ends. It starts with little changes, then progresses…

I was thinking about how exactly Blizzard was planning to “fix” the issue. Based on what you said here, which makes sense, the only fix is for them to match massively over-geared players with other players that have no chance of beating them. This seems like a solution that will backfire very quickly.

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Why does it seem like the mega rich and powerful, those who could actually have an impact on how we deal with climate change, all act like they have a spaceship waiting to take them to some other paradise planet where they won’t be bothered by all us “lessers”? I have yet to understand that mindset. Either they really…

I can’t keep track of how many times I hear people use this same argument. This idea is not based on reality. Most people don’t have the luxury of just quitting and finding another job, even in high-skilled positions. From your comments, it seems like you are misunderstanding what crunch actually is. Crunch is not…

I had the same thought about Waller but then it hit me. The entire point of Taskforce X is black-ops providing plausible deniability for the US. They send the Suicide Squad specifically to be disposable and to provide the US with the ability to say “Why would we send a bunch of bad guys to do anything for us?”. Waller…

I have a version the rage-quit table flip that I do when I’m utterly defeated and frustrated by a game. I started doing this as a joke while my daughters were watching me fail miserably at killing a boss in Bloodborne and one of them said “Are you going to rage quit now?” so I made a play on rage quitting, but it…

Thank you for saying this. Their point of view is that of the person that doesn’t vote because “it doesn’t really matter”. The problem with that kind of thinking is that you can expand that to everything, why bother doing anything, we’re all going to die eventually so what’s the point? I know that voting or writing my…

I just had an argument with a friend about NFT where he was saying that if you have an NFT of say a jpeg of a celebrity and someone else has the exact same jpeg, the non NFT is a forgery. His reasoning is that if you copied the Mona Lisa, the copy would be a forgery. I stopped arguing at that point because I realized…

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As is the case with most regulated industries in the US, what is legal and what actually happens can differ greatly. The letter I received informed me that my new loan servicer is a company called Ascendium. I looked them up and it seems they are part of a group of companies that have been buying out student loan…

I received a letter last week informing me of the change effective September 1st. One thing I found very curious is that the letter listed my new servicer but said they would not be handling payments. Instead the letter listed 3 LLCs that I know for a fact are debt collection agencies. I spent a few hours on the phone…

So.... Unemployment benefits? I think the point is, this may allow people to do work they WANT to do, not work they HAVE to work. Right now, I HAVE to work. I work hard. I actually like my job, a lot. I make a decent salary that just doesn’t quite cover expenses for a family of 4. My wife had to stop working last year…

I don’t know if I’ve already lost all hope but I honestly think nothing will happen. Our government is too broken already. The only reason Trump is still President is because the Senate GOP formed a defense wall around him the moment he took office. Trump could go on TV tomorrow and admit to working with Russia, admit…

Because giving up your rights today makes it that much harder to hold on to them tomorrow. The biggest problem is that too many people think it’s no big deal. That’s how we get people thinking that Stop and Frisk is OK. We do not live in a police state but if the average citizen folds when their rights are being…

My problem was also with the execution. It would not have been that hard to get to the same narrative conclusion in a manner that made sense. This is how I ran it by the wife:

Very good point. I’ve heard the same things from friends and just quickly remind them that that’s not how math works. Technically speaking, Thanos could have gotten rid of half of all living creatures in the universe and there would have been entire planets snapped to dust, but I’m pretty sure his entire premise was…

Was I the only one that saw the frames right before Arya attacked where they show a WW’s hair move. I took that as Arya running full speed past all the WW and jumping at the Night King’s back to catch him off guard. In any other movie/show, this would be where the hero does the same thing except they’re screaming…

I’ve given this a lot of thought, and have a really crazy theory about the Lord of Light. I think the Lord of Light is Bran. We’ve already seen that he is not only able to see what has happened but also affect the past (Hodor). So it isn’t too far of a stretch to think that at some point in the future, he goes back in…

It might be a show, but having 5k+ troops at the border will make an already tense situation worse. I can see poorly trained CBP officers with itchy trigger fingers getting big heads knowing they have the US Military at their backs. All it takes is for one person on this side of the border to fire a shot and all hell…