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@sadolite
Would you buy a used EV
No.
What kind of cars do ya"ll have and have they been good or have they been POS money pits.
2012 Toyota Corolla. Had to replace an alternator in 2022, but it has been in a wreck. The previous owner did the repairs. Otherwise, it’s been a good car.
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I’m gonna go ahead and guess the lynch is correct based on the rage quit plus post 219.
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@Lunatic
No it was 4/6 last count. You plus his self hammer equals a lynch.
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I check in for one quick skim and the DP is already over. Bruh lol
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@WyIted
@Casey_Risk
Wylted wants out. I guess I’ll go for it.
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Link people to post 153 if there's any confusion in the future
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@whiteflame
@ADreamOfLiberty
@Casey_Risk
ok i didn't notice. Go ahead ADOL
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@Earth
@Vader
@That2User
@Cerulean
@iamanabanana
^^^^^^^^^^
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@Lunatic
@whiteflame
@ILikePie5
@Savant
@WyIted
Replacing Danilaykus; have not received his role pm yet
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How random are our thoughts, exactly? It seems most of thoughts have thoughts brought on upon something else… not to mention the whole “what is true randomness” thing.
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Played a lot of Bastion for a while. Was def a Bastion main, and a solid one at that. Got good enough to hunt down Sombras.
Ended up quitting Overwatch 2 recently because I’ve decided I don’t want to support that woke garbage anymore.
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Mondays aren’t as horrible as people say they are.
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@FLRW
@7000series
Looking at the possible military targets and major population centers nearby, I’m remarkably safe.
Do they get larger than 8,000 kilos?
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@zedvictor4
Reminds me of a joke.
“Are you two girls from Eng-“
“Wales”
“Are you two whales from England?”
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@Savant
Go for it. Same warning I gave to Pie applies.
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@Greyparrot
@ADreamOfLiberty
Perhaps the real oligarchs are the friends we made along the way…
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@zedvictor4
I imagine moving to another country and experiencing their weather would be jarring.
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If you ever want to grab a cat’s attention- just pretend you are working on something
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I once worked in retail. Nearly beat the shit out of a drunk customer; thankfully a superior escorted him out before he became enough of an asshole. Many such cases, I imagine!
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I remember a few years ago people had a problem with the fact that every other movie was a superhero movie… looking back it seems they hated the MCU and the failed DCEU. Both are irrelevant now, so the complaints have subsided.
Meanwhile shows like Invincible are doing well. The Boys was always garbage but for whatever reason it got some hype early on.
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Realistic gore in movies/tv shows… fine at first but now it seems like audiences delight in it a little too much
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@Shila
Sounds like capitalism wins.
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@Savant
He was a utopian buffoon.Maybe that's too harsh.
Ha! It’s not harsh enough. He was a bum.
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Current Mafia:
None
Sign ups:
Casey Risk - The Russian Mafia
In the Hopper:
ILikePie5 - Bollywood Songs Mafia
Bullish - Themed semi-open
Lunatic
On hold
Earth - Tales of Symphonia Mafia
Mharman
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@WyIted
That’s a reference to a Minecraft YouTuber who succumbed to cancer.
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@WyIted
Honestly I’m still not gonna watch it.
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Sometimes I store up random thoughts from my day and dump them here at the end of it. Probably an ADHD thing.
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I’m goated at platformers and terrible at shooters. I don’t know why.
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Beer is too bitter. I like fruity drinks.
I’m a bit of lightweight, so I can’t have too much of them. I underestimated a fruity drink once. Never doing that again!
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@Owen_T
Just by familiarizing yourself with these, you can spot them in your opponents’ arguments easier
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@Shila
I’m not a beer drinker, but flavored rums are good.
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@7000series
Wtf?! Based 7000series?!?!?!
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@Double_R
That has nothing to do with my point. Of course every news outlet is slanted, but when nearly every outlet that actually employs journalists is slanted left, along with every fact checking organization, every major scientific organization, etc. etc. that should raise an eyebrow.Again, there's two ways you can deal with this; you can accept that this is the case because they're more closely aligned with reality or you can claim it to be some sort of conspiratorial takeover by the left of all of society. The latter defies Occam's razor. So you can write it off as liberal smugness and disregard these facts, or you can engage in honest rational thought and attempt to construct a worldview where all of this makes sense.
This is just appeal to the majority combined with appeal to authority.
Also, it’s not complicated to think that political biases affect research fields. Confirmation bias is human trait and our so-called “experts” are not immune.
It doesn’t need to be a central conspiracy either- the fundamentals of human behavior would result in this, given how intolerant of competing ideologies progressivism is.
It’s also not complicated to think people in power will grift to keep their power. If you follow the money, there’s a pretty hefty incentive for our media, academia, and govt to act not in our interests, but in theirs.
Are you familiar with the concept of “the cathedral?” It explains how decentralized narrative collusion happens. You take a few power-hungry grifters have them employ social pressure and convince a few newcomers to join their side (most of whom don’t even realize the grift), they make their way into institutions and exert further pressure, and eventually reach the majority, at which point all dissidents are cast out.
Here’s a great video on it. This guy is extremely well researched. https://youtu.be/tMKrDxFUZWk
But to your point, I don't take issue with what you're saying. What's ironic is that the only time it becomes an issue is when the administration decides to inject politics into an organization like this, which is exactly what Trump is doing. As long as he sees government funding as a tool to crush dissenting voices I fully support getting rid of funding for NPR because otherwise he'll just turn it into another extension of his propaganda apparatus.
Correct me if I’m wrong here, but did you just argue that he’s defunding certain agencies as part of his propaganda effort, while simultaneously arguing his defunding of them is what saved them from being a part of his propaganda effort?
He is the one getting rid of NPR funding (through Elon Musk), so I doubt he was interested in turning NPR into govt propaganda. As a matter of fact, he’s getting rid of govt propaganda, given that NPR has been subsidized by the govt until now.
As for the govt agencies, keep in mind that the departments are part of the executive branch- they serve at the president’s pleasure. Trump has every right to get people aligned with his agenda in those departments- the same way Biden did when he was president. If hiring and firing people based on the president’s vision is considered “propaganda,” then every president since their inception has been guilty.
There is a legitimate criticism of Trump that does arise here- he doesn’t go far enough in his defunding efforts. If his usage of presidential powers to influence the government is a problem to you, then it’s a good argument for the closure of at least most of the departments (and for the abolition of executive orders!) on principle.
Personally, I think Trump is being foolish in thinking he can save these departments by having them in allegiance with his agenda. There is nothing stopping the next Democrat in office from doing the same thing- hell, a new republican establishment to replace his could do the trick.
I believe that for most of these departments, our country is better off leaving things in the hands of the private sector.
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Final result of my bracket: 95.4% accuracy, 1500 points scored.
If it weren’t for Houston beating Duke I could’ve gotten Top 25 in the “Fans of Notre Dame” group. Ended up finishing 210th.
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@FLRW
Florida won. You a fan of theirs?
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@ILikePie5
Higher quality games at this event. Just be aware that MU is full of leftprogs lol
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scum would know the entire setup and which roles were in the game.
Bruh.
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