CitizenVectron

On a scale of Canada/Saudi Arabia to USA/China, where does this lie in importance?

While I do think that Musk flies by the seat of his pants, we need to keep in mind that Banks is known for creating these types of feuds for publicity because she's a horrible drama queen. She may be embellishing a lot of this.

Either jail all of the priests or shut the whole Church down.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

He's a rascal to be sure, but darn it we just can't stand to see his sad face if we go to arrest him!

I would not compare him to Trump at all, but I also would say he is unqualified for office (at that level).

Even if there are no victims of an event, that doesn't mean that the event is okay. Taking advantage of a position of power or knowledge to enrich your friends and family when no one else can do the same thing is wrong and causes harm.

Is Avenatti more qualified than Trump? Absolutely. Would he be a better President than Trump? Absolutely? But that doesn't matter, because the bar is too low.

Reposed with plain text formatting: A summary of its major points: -Trade deficits and surpluses typically force monetary and other economic changes in the affected countries that tend to eliminate the imbalances. The fact that many large economies have run substantial trade surpluses or deficits year after year, sometimes for decades, violates trade and economic logic; this pattern is evidence that mercantilist policy distortions, either in the surplus countries or in the deficit countries, are preventing trade from adjusting. -The idea that all countries lose in a trade war is unintelligible. This cannot possibly be true, not just because there is overwhelming historical evidence that countries have benefitted from trade intervention but also because the claim is logically impossible. Whether countries benefit or lose from trade intervention depends on the underlying institutions that mediate trade and capital flows, the extent of existing trade and capital flow imbalances, and the types of intervention employed. -While tariffs and other forms of trade intervention may indeed raise prices for consumers, this is only one way, and often a minor way, in which these policy tools affect households. Depending on underlying conditions, they may also reduce unemployment, cause wages to rise, and reduce the growth of debt. -Tariffs and currency devaluation are not the only forms of trade intervention and are not the only ways distortions are introduced into global trade and capital flows. Any policy that alters the relationship between a country's savings and its investment affects that country's trade balance. Tariffs and currency devaluation affect trade balances not by changing the relative prices of tradable goods but rather by shifting income from households to businesses, thus forcing up the savings rate. Because of this, any policy aimed at making an economy more competitive internationally by suppressing wages is effectively a beggar-thy-neighbor policy. Any such policy works in exactly the same way as tariffs and currency devaluation. -Because the relationship between U.S. investment and U.S. savings is determined externally, by the country's role in absorbing excess global savings, tariffs and other beggar-thy-neighbor policies will not reduce U.S. trade deficits. -In a globalized economy, it may be extremely difficult for any country to implement policies that protect the bargaining power of workers, that reverse income inequality, that raise minimum wages, that improve the social safety net, or that otherwise make households better off relative to businesses and governments. Implementing any of these policies causes a country's international competitiveness to deteriorate. Consequently, rather than achieving the desired result, these policies cause the trade balance to go into deficit, and either unemployment will rise or debt must rise. -To put it a little more starkly, a globalized economy must choose to protect its strength in the manufacturing and tradable sectors by lowering relative wages (directly or else indirectly in the form of tariffs, subsidies, or currency devaluation), or it must choose to boost the services and nontradable goods sectors through rapid debt growth.

If only they hadn't dumped all of their water into the ocean... My city is currently blanketed by smoke from California. These are huge fires covering the state.

I mean...good. Turkey in its modern state shares almost nothing in common with NATO. It's a piece of trash country with a piece of trash religious culture. Their military held it together for a while to keep it modernized, but that stopped and it's likely going to slide back. Note - To clarify, it has a trash religious culture in that religion making rules for society is trash, I don't care which religion is doing it.

Honestly replacing men with women in politics would be a good thing.

Jimmy Bound. In all seriousness, I think Elba would be great. Sign him for two films and then move on, and keep doing the same thing. Get back to ridiculous stories without continuity. I don't need invisible cars, but make the villains crazy! I want guys with laser eyes and rocket ships.

I mean porn sites are already streaming services!

He has a Dell HP Elite 7100 Microtower PC. His CPU is a i7 860 2.8ghz with a ATI Radeon HD 4850 GPU. I was thinking of pushing him up to a 1000-series or 1100-series nVidia. Any thoughts? He primarily wants it to play Overwatch (since he can't run it now). Looking online even his old-ass CPU should be okay for it.

Realistically he is only doing this for PR and money. Mind you, the last guy with those goals won...

I agree that Get Out was a good movie. Black Panther had some good scenes, but suffered from many of the same problems as other "good" tier Marvel movies, namely really bad CGI battles and a villain with the same powers as the hero. Don't get me wrong I did like the movie, but I just didn't think it was amazing. I do completely get the overall "event" vibe from it though, especially among the black community. And it did have a well-acted villain (though they killed him off...another Marvel problem).

In my opinion Black Panther wasn't even a great movie, anyway. It deserves recognition for its impact on American black culture and the ground it is breaking, but it's not even A-tier MCU.

In these dark times, finally a ray of hope (though I admit they are great for little kids).

That's true...but the X-Men comics also exist in the same world as Avengers, etc. The trick with the MCU would be to show that it's not responsible adults like Steve Rogers with powers, it's random kids all over the world, and some arnen't using them for good. It's one thing to have a Spider-Man, it's another to have 500 Spider-Men everywhere. Unfortunately the biggest story they could use in terms of society vs mutants (mutant registration) was already used with the Civil War story line with the Avengers.

I don't think that Trump has moved the window so much as he's increased the blind loyalty of the base into a personality cult. If a Democrat were proposing fascist ideas then the GOP base would be against it. Honestly, ideology has almost nothing to do with US politics these days for I would guess the majority of voters.

Have Fox hire him to restart the X-Men franchise.

A realization hit me today that the place I currently work is the most diverse workplace I've ever been in...and it's for the local Catholic School System (which in Canada is publicly-funded and separate from the Public system, but has the basic same curriculum). Of my 17-member team: Two are Filipino One is black One is Muslim (from Pakistan) Two are gay (one guy, one girl, with the guy being married with a kid) And most of the rest are atheist, it seems We are the IT team and handle all the development, hardware, and networking for the school system. While that breakdown may not seem that diverse if you live in NYC or something, for a small city in Canada that is quite diverse. Probably because it would be impossible to find a strong IT team that is all devout Catholic, lol.

I agree that the X-Men don't really need to be rolled into the MCU fully (in terms of being a part of the Avengers movies, etc), but I think them being in the same universe is a good thing, and the occasional cross-over would be fine (much like the comics). The FF4 fit much better in the MCU though, I think. Having said that, I don't think the X-Men deserve their own universe. Have an X-Men series, the Deadpool series, and maybe X-Force (though honestly just keeping them in Deadpool 3 would be great). We don't need spinoffs for X-Factor, New Mutants, or any individual characters. In fact, I'd even sit out Wolverine for the first new X-Men movie. Just focus on the original 5 from the 60s.

Or if they need music numbers, then at least do awesome orchestral pieces from Zimmer and Williams instead of junk stuff.