So far, it’s hard to fault how Rowling spends her money. She hasn’t donated to any anti-trans organizations, at least not publicly, and she donates a lot more money to worth causes than most people in her income bracket. But I also wouldn’t be at all surprised if that changed in the near future.

So this is a pretty good if you were gonna buy Avengers anyways, but it is worth saying explicitly that the 9900K is the previous generation of Intel processors.

So this is a pretty good if you were gonna buy Avengers anyways, but it is worth saying explicitly that the 9900K is…

Nothing wrong with leaving your house. You just don’t want to go to places where you’re forced to be in close proximity to other people, which I don’t imagine this game will do.

Wait, Kamala Harris or Kamala Khan?

So it’s pretty clearly apparent that Ramsay hasn’t learned anything new in decades, and there’s some pretty terrible ideology underlying some of his advice. But on this particular issue, I’m pretty sure he’d say you should opt for a more-than-four-year-0ld Camry if you’re not in a position to pay cash, which is pretty…

Yes, yes, you’re very counter-cultural and independent in your tastes. We’re all very proud of you.

The difference is that orcs, goblins, and so on are filling a narrative role traditionally filled by racial minorities. They’re the “savages” that you’d find in an early Western or pulp adventure story. Saying “They’re orcs, not real people, so it’s not racist” is just kinda transparent. Any person of color playing…

I imagine with the Forgotten Reams drow they’ll lean into the “People suffering under a malicious godless, and driven to cruelty by that suffering” angle, over “They’re evil elves, you can tell because they’re black”.

Tolkien explicitly described orcs as “mongoloid”. Goblins are big pile of anti-Semitic tropes. Drow are literally the black, evil version of elves. The visual signifiers used to code D&D races as evil are definitely rooted in racist caricatures, even if those signifiers were probably adopted without intentional malice.

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...you really think innocent people never go to prison?

Club sports—as opposed to school sports— generally have fees associated with them that can be prohibitive.

I mean, sure, but if you’re a white person you have to be aware that there’s a very real chance you’d be in prison if you were black but otherwise lived the exact same life.

The fact that club team sports are extremely beneficial to a kid’s development is exactly why they perpetuate inequalities. To be clear, no one is saying that you, as a parent able to afford such opportunities, shouldn’t enroll your kids in sports. It’s a list of privileges to be be aware of, not things that you need…

Standalone expansion, maybe?

Yeah, it was. Notably, it includes both Yellowstone and Bryce Canyon, which are almost six hundred miles apart.

One thing I don’t think is getting emphasized enough is to bring hand sanitizer. For a multi-hour protest in the June heat, it’s not viable to never take your mask off; you need to drink. At least at smaller protests it’s not hard to find somewhere six feet away from anyone to have a drink, but if you’re taking your…

Well, donations from rich people and corporations are tax deductible. The donations of people who take the standard deduction aren’t past a certain very small amount. Which isn’t awesome.

On the other hand, it’s worth emphasizing that the tax savings from donations are substantially smaller than the amount of the…

Consumer-grade 3D printers aren’t generally food safe, so it’s probably not a great idea unless you’re carrying a medical-use-only water bottle.

You realize that faster load times doesn’t just mean less time on loading screens, right? Stuff is getting loaded and unloaded during gameplay. At least under some circumstances, twice as fast load times means you can load twice as much stuff into a scene.

Considering the amount of data being thrown around in that demo, it seems quite likely it’s reliant on the PS5’s faster SSD. Which isn’t to say you couldn’t make something equally impressive to run on the XBox, which outperforms the PS5 in most other categories.