DengistKhan

The alternative to over ordering is probably going to be always having shortages...

The US is just starting it's Great Leap Backwards.

> Similarly, some people always think that the current president will crown himself a king and the Other Party will never ever be able to get into power.

As far as I know, this is the first time a president has completely disregarded civility, declared marshall law under false pretenses (not false alarm, specifically false pretenses), talked about crowning himself king, and various forms of rigging future elections.

So the fact that some people (allegedly) thought Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden would crown themselves is pretty irrelevant.

Milei's "created prosperity" seems to be dead in a ditch (as far as actual Argentines are concerned) and somehow still stealing money from working class US tax payers.

They'll probably say mostly the same things the citizens of Ravenholm say about Wallace Breen.

A lot of schemes I've seen proposed for this end up setting up a dollar amount spammers may choose to pay while pricing out most normal people.

Unfortunately, this narrative's utility is pretty low and it's intended implications are severely weakened by the current administration's obsession with revenge, blaming everything on someone else, and persecuting political opponents. If such openly hostile and norms-breaking rhetoric did not exist before the pardons, then the pardons would appear suspicious.

Sublime

> But then the year that left wing violence finally exceeds right wing

this framing will most likely confuse most people because it's essentially a 100s of murders/mass shootings (by the right) vs 2 murders (by the left, the rest is probably property damage or whatever).

It's also going to be confusing because Luigi is not a confirmed leftist, the Kirk shooter is not a confirmed leftist, and putting aside the problematic presumption that they are before we have evidence, doing so means totalling up to approx 3 left wing murders since 2020.

But ICE's current actions would clearly be classified as right wing violence by those standards, which is overwhelmingly well documented and numerous. Some people also might not like that framing, whether it's because you're a right winger or because you're looking for info on non-state sanctioned terrorism, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to give ICE their own category in the next version of some of those charts.

When you walk across the street, you're taking a gamble that a large bear isn't going to come out of nowhere and attack you, for the huge prize payout of safely reaching the other side. Therefore, other things like dog walking and long strolls by the beach are also gambling.

I don't personally believe in the supernatural or that the act of gambling itself is technically evil, it's the marketing efforts targeting youth and merging of other industries like sports and video games into the gambling industry that are wholy objectively evil (and if the supernatural existed, such industries would definitely be backed by supernaturally evil forces).

I'm fascinated by the prospect of receiving a free $20. I'm not fascinated by the prospect of putting my finger in a mouse trap because I "might get the cheese this time". Putting your hand in the mouse trap in front of your kids is not a smart move. The addiction is top down enforced by both large industrial agendas and the parents giving weak unprincipaled stances against the normalization of gambling, or worse, being culturally addicted themselves in front of their kids.

> taxes are extortion

Then move to North Korea where there are no taxes.

> Flood insurance is literally saying "I bet my house is going to be underwater" and winning the big cash price if it is.

yeah the big prize of all your personal belongings being destroyed, being semi-homeless for an indefinite period of time, fighting insurance companies to get the full value of your home and all assets (glhf finding out what's secretly not covered or you can't prove you owned), searching for a new home in an inflated market, lost productivity, dead pets, etc.. What a prize! This is something you'd expect a 12 year old to try to argue.

Insurance is not legally classified as gambling for very obvious and practical reasons.

You could do that, but it seems kind of obvious and condescending? Cause right now you can forbid it and theyll see all their friends lose money and never win anything until your child is of legal age. For everyone else, it seems like some kind of inherited cultural addiction that gets culturally passed down. Just openly mock gambling as evil/a scam/rigged and they'll probably be more likely to pick that up if you back with principals instead of taking the weak, confusing, and contradicting stance of feeding $50 into the evil system.

> let's make it interesting

to which I've always responded, "How would that make it interesting?"

laminate?

Also could be a honeypot.

Residential will still cost more somehow.

I just assume the perfect world map script already does this.

Or you could say the ruling class is generously donating their software industry to India, much like they generously donated their manufacturing industry to China.

Better that millions roam the streets starving and homeless than a single person receive a penny they didn't slave themselves out for.

I think a better way to get the mediocre out of the field is to make some other, perhaps slightly easier, field a more attainable and well paid career path.

Did you forgot that health insurance is something you have to pay for?

> Lots of bad things were done in the name of empathy

nothing relevant or on topic tho

In my decade of experience with laravel I've seen ordersof magnitude more public APIs randomly breaking than private ones.

If one dude is using a private API, that's him being reckless. If thousands of applications are using a private API, that's poor API design.

I haven't watched the video, but if it's "funny video featuring Pokémon" and not "Direct parody of Pokémon", then fair use/parody might be a losing defense. I assume in this case it's not a direct parody of Pokémon, but instead a promotional video or propaganda video that features Pokémon with humorous intent.

An alternative game, Theotown, which may or may not be better, is available on steam and android/iOS.

The national guard was illegally deployed over a fake emergency, but AFAIK the troops themselves did not perform any additional constitutional violations.

Currently only the widely unpopular executive branch of federal government is misbehaving.