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Sentient Data posted:Good, that means you're still sane for the time being I don't know how anybody can look at America right now and feel absolutely no crushing depression at all. Horror and despair are really the most logical reactions.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I don't know how anybody can look at America right now and feel absolutely no crushing depression at all. Horror and despair are really the most logical reactions. It's only depressing if you don't have money. Have you considered crime?
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's only depressing if you don't have money. Have you considered crime? Didn't you hear? They are going to get the bad guys/hombres
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's only depressing if you don't have money. Have you considered crime? It's payday, fellas.
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Baronjutter posted:It's a government subsidized scheme to do all those things plus local authorities get one-time upfront development fees from huge subdivisions it's also helpful to keep in mind the world population has gone up by like 50% in 30 years (~5 to ~7.5 billion), with a country like the USA increasing by roughly that amount in the same period, and that the populations of smaller cities traditionally either stay ~the same or actively shrink in many cases sprawl is partly the result of all these new people choosing a certain kind of residence, there being more limited opportunities for the development of high density residences in cities that are already very developed and there being limited reasons for constructing high density residences at the edges of cities where there's not much else to court buyers, i'm sure we aren't handling things in the most efficient way but it's hard to call the situation pure malice either imuo
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I live in rural Texas where there's a huge influx of development going on, and I honestly wouldn't mind, but they don't seem to have any interest in interacting with the community that they are latching on to. Like we have lots of cute restaurants and an okay grocer, but you went and built a walmart and a strip mall tucked waaaay the gently caress inside that maze of homes. Plus all the walls they build are hideous. Smoking is still cool as hell when you're real young, but as soon as you hit 25 that stock plummets hard and now your choices are expensive nicotine gum or vaping, and both of those are terrible looks.
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There's no such thing as good breakfast food. At best it's a poo poo version of lunch food.
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Mar 1, 2017 17:31
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Fashionable Jorts posted:There's no such thing as good breakfast food. A good omelette or eggs benedict is good any time of the day. It's much better than generic lunch sandwich with potato chips.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:There's no such thing as good breakfast food. Agreed. Breakfast food sucks.
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Walking up hungry is a legitimately beautiful feeling i rarely experience.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:There's no such thing as good breakfast food.
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I feel like the people who hate breakfast are the ones who get up well beyond normal people breakfast time and just don't "get" it. If you're just heading out for your day at 11am yeah it's kind of stupid to go get some eggs because all the other options are open too.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:There's no such thing as good breakfast food. I agree also, with the exception of eggs benedict. That poo poo is the bomb. /\/\/\ Meh. I just don't really like eggs very much (unless smothered in hollandaise), and I also just don't really like other typical North American breakfast foods like pancakes/waffles/bacon/sausages, especially first thing in the morning. Eggs benedict are more of a brunch item imho. genetic_knockout has a new favorite as of 19:28 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Re: autonomous cars--they are absolutely not decades off. The people who act like they will have completely replaced standard cars within five years are out of their minds, but autonomous cars are already in use and they are not going away. My unpopular opinion is that they are an ethical nightmare. I hope the software engineers working on them are treating them with the gravity they deserve but I know that isn't happening. Not sure how you even begin to sort out what a tangled mess of issues they represent.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Who the gently caress has oatmeal for lunch I do sometimes. Then again I also very much enjoy oatmeal and fruit.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I feel like the people who hate breakfast are the ones who get up well beyond normal people breakfast time and just don't "get" it. I get up around 6:30, I just don't really feel hungry until around 10:00 and then I usually put it off until lunch.
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Red Dead Redemption is not a good game.
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Smoking while drinking at a bar is ageless though and is pretty much the only time I'll bum a cig
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Digirat posted:Re: autonomous cars--they are absolutely not decades off. The people who act like they will have completely replaced standard cars within five years are out of their minds, but autonomous cars are already in use and they are not going away. To be fair that's pretty much every new technological or chemistry achievement in history. You dive in headfirst and then later you realize putting radium on your gums isn't great as a pain reliever Elon Musk is very much an old school "let's throw advanced technology at this problem and ignore the negatives" innovator in a field of scientists who actually are cautious and not ideologically obsessed. He's basically the lead scientist from jurassic park but when it comes to A.I. and robots and letting billionaires buy their way into becoming spacemen. Shits gonna go bad for him eventually and he's probably gonna get burned
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Guy Goodbody posted:Red Dead Redemption is not a good game. Oh it's a good game, I had fun with it and I played it right to the end which I can't say for the majority of my games collection. It is not an amazing game though and I just don't get the massive fandom that follows it or the hype surrounding its sequel.
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Ramagamma posted:Oh it's a good game, I had fun with it and I played it right to the end which I can't say for the majority of my games collection. It is not an amazing game though and I just don't get the massive fandom that follows it or the hype surrounding its sequel. I loved it because it was the game I had been waiting for since I was a kid. That and Witcher 3 are my two favorite games of all times. One is bumbling around in the Old West and the other is bumbling around in a monster infested fantasy world. The last one I need is an amazing open world game about the age of sail (AC: Black Flag is close, but being an Assassin's Creed game still finds a way to suck). Like a moderned up version of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons. Then I could just play those 3 games for the rest of my life.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Elon Musk is very much an old school "let's throw advanced technology at this problem and ignore the negatives" innovator in a field of scientists who actually are cautious and not ideologically obsessed. He's basically the lead scientist from jurassic park but when it comes to A.I. and robots and letting billionaires buy their way into becoming spacemen. Shits gonna go bad for him eventually and he's probably gonna get burned That's fine, but I worry he's going to take the rest of us with him. The "innovate now and think about the consequences later" is not workable nowadays when we're innovating on grander scales: relatively untested computer systems driving our cars, etc. It's not that I'm against the technology. I just think that we need to think about the consequences of what we're doing now, before we're so invested in technological changes that it'll be too late to correct our course. That being said, I appreciate the fact that people on this board are a lot more reasonable on this issue than certain other places online, where anything less than adoring admiration for autonomous cars is practically heresy.
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If all you want is to ride around the west and shoot people, then RDR is OK. the horse mechanics aren't great, the number of times I was twisted around in my saddle to shoot at people, then suddenly realized that my retarded horse had stopped moving because he had come to a six inch tall rock. But that's balanced out somewhat by how solid the gunplay mechanics are. But the story and characters and moral system are all garbage. You're supposed to be on this quest to kill your old gang members for the US government, but 15 minutes in you are murdering 20 innocent people to protect a snake oil salesmen. And that doesn't count as dishonorable. At least that part of the story has some fun characters, once you get to Mexico literally every character is an unrepentant, unlikable rear end in a top hat. Luckily, once you finish all of a character's missions, they loving vanish into the ether, never to be seen again. And why on earth do they put all the stuff with Marston's family at the end? I liked that part, it actually made me like Marston and care about him trying to get his family back. But it was at the end! I spent the entire game not giving a poo poo about him or his family, who I was kind of assuming would turn out to be dead or imaginary or something.
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Y'know what's a great way to deliver exposition and character development? Three minute long horse ride conversations. Those are terrific. Just have characters explain their motivations to each other on horseback. That's storytelling.
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WampaLord posted:People are interested in Leah Remini because she's got an extremely rare thing, honest information about the inner workings of Scientology. That's something that very few people are willing to discuss to the public. I'm interested in Megan Phelps-Roper because she was pretty high level in the Westboro Baptist Church, just like her mother. What I find interesting is how she changed her mind, because she was one of the most die-hard members, often holding the most creepy deplorable signs and smiling. All she did was have civil conversations with a Jewish guy and that was it. She started questioning everything. If someone could change her mind, all of these racist could probably be changed. Some are harder to get to than others of course. Megan was always willing to talk to everybody on Twitter. *** I don't believe AA is for everyone. It doesn't work for everyone, and in some ways can be terrible. And if someone doesn't want to do it, it doesn't mean they won't automatically fail and go back out. They just need a different option, except AA is the go-to solution that even the judicial system pushes. I think if you get a good Sponsor it's OK but it's so easy to be a bad one. A Sponsor who thinks they know everything and act like a therapist, even though they have no training. I don't begrudge those who need one and who are successful with one. I'm just saying be careful at those who rush to try and Sponsor you, like they're desperate to be someone's Sponsor. I'm eight months today. I don't have a Sponsor, sort-of got rid of her because she was way too controlling. Wanting me to email her everyday telling me everything I did that day, plus wanting me to go to five meetings a week. It didn't take long to see what would happen if I kept her. She went on vacation for a month and I didn't send her an email or anything and she hasn't contacted me so I'm hoping we've drifted apart and she's given up on me. If not, I have an email ready to send.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Y'know what's a great way to deliver exposition and character development? Three minute long horse ride conversations. Those are terrific. Just have characters explain their motivations to each other on horseback. That's storytelling. A videogame? With bad character development!? Why I never!
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there are evidence based, secular addiction help groups out there. AA is poo poo and has no proof their methods work even after all this time
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starkebn posted:there are evidence based, secular addiction help groups out there. AA is poo poo and has no proof their methods work even after all this time If memory serves AA and NA are a bit better than trying to quit entirely by yourself but yeah...they're ultimately a front for Christianity recruitment in the end. You don't see it at first as all they tell you is to "believe in a higher power greater than yourself" but a bit longer in and it's "oh by the way it's Jesus." Their last few steps are even "gotta pray to God!" You literally can't be considered to have completed the program until you believe in God and go through a "spiritual awakening."
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yeah I eat rear end posted:If you're just heading out for your day at 11am yeah it's kind of stupid to go get some eggs because all the other options are open too. ToxicSlurpee posted:they're ultimately a front for Christianity recruitment in the end. You don't see it at first as all they tell you is to "believe in a higher power greater than yourself"
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Tiggum posted:I guess that's not specifically Christian, but it's pretty obviously religious. The "higher power" part isn't by itself but later on they push Christian beliefs on top of that. That's the issue; it's a veil around "only God can save you from the booze."
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It's anecdotal, but I know a few people it's worked for and they never had to do the "god" stuff. One of my buddy's "higher power" was his cat.
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's anecdotal, but I know a few people it's worked for and they never had to do the "god" stuff. One of my buddy's "higher power" was his cat. That is really cute and I'm glad for him. I saw Umberto D for the first time tonight and I'm on a pet salvation high.  Speaking of film, I really wish the States would put less stock in how hot their actors are. I can't tell a lot of the fuckers apart, or at least am really bad at confusing [x] for [y] since they're all set to such a narrow standard of "acceptable." Foreign actors are always very memorable for how different they look or, hey, maybe because they're better actors than they are models. More Peter Lorres, fewer... whoever those kids in Cloverfield were. All of them. Das Boo has a new favorite as of 07:33 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves AA and NA are a bit better than trying to quit entirely by yourself but yeah...they're ultimately a front for Christianity recruitment in the end. You don't see it at first as all they tell you is to "believe in a higher power greater than yourself" but a bit longer in and it's "oh by the way it's Jesus." Their last few steps are even "gotta pray to God!" You literally can't be considered to have completed the program until you believe in God and go through a "spiritual awakening." I had trouble getting and keeping sponsors because they couldn't deal with the fact that I was atheist. One just quit contacting me. Another took a really long time to figure out how to proceed. If you ask them, they deny they're religious. I mean, God is in nearly every Step and Tradition but, you're right, you're not religious. It's hilarious! And I'm happy for those that AA has worked for. Whatever works is what's important. My thing is that AA is not the end-all be-all they claim to be. In fact they have a huge fail rate. If asked about it, they shrug and say the person didn't do the steps correctly or use the benefits of their sponsor. Nothing they do is their fault. Personally I don't do any of the steps. I read a little of the book but not much. I do attend AA but I just go for social interaction and to meet with friends that go.
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Das Boo posted:That is really cute and I'm glad for him. I saw Umberto D for the first time tonight and I'm on a pet salvation high. That's the best high there is. Das Boo posted:Speaking of film, I really wish the States would put less stock in how hot their actors are. I can't tell a lot of the fuckers apart, or at least am really bad at confusing [x] for [y] since they're all set to such a narrow standard of "acceptable." Foreign actors are always very memorable for how different they look or, hey, maybe because they're better actors than they are models. More Peter Lorres, fewer... whoever those kids in Cloverfield were. All of them. Yeah, agreed on this one, too. You ever watch old TV? They used to let ordinary-looking people have recurring roles, for god's sake.   
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Das Boo posted:That is really cute and I'm glad for him. I saw Umberto D for the first time tonight and I'm on a pet salvation high. Plus if you have an accent, Americans will think you're hot anyway (well, maybe not Peter Lorre). This is why Benedict Cumberbatch is a sex symbol despite being a literal reptile.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Yeah, agreed on this one, too. You ever watch old TV? They used to let ordinary-looking people have recurring roles, for god's sake.  
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