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9 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

The charges are related to January 6.

He should have chosen a different day to crime. January 6 is already taken with other bad actors.

On 6/8/2022 at 8:16 AM, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Ukrainian forces appear to be on the verge of withdrawing from Sievierodonetsk in order to redeploy to more defensible positions.

 

Ukraine forces may have to pull back in Sievierodonetsk, say leaders in Donbas | Ukraine | The Guardian

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Luhansk governor says Russians trying to capture city by Friday, but ‘no one’ is going to give it up

 

 

Just saying, but Moscow might be great place to pull back to as it's very defensible.

They needed to raid his house while incriminating evidence was still around. Once he moved into the governor's mansion, he might have thrown all that illegal stuff away during the move.

4 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

I played quite a bit of ESO and it was pretty solid. I'll never go back go it but I understand why you're enjoying yourself.

It's a game I keep coming back to over the years. Started playing it when it was released and then take a year or so off and then start up again. I signed in last month after another year and realized that all but two of my 18 characters were level 50. Now, all my characters are level 50. I mentioned that to my long standing guild, and someone said I must have played every day since launch. I just shook my head because I was feeling like I had no idea how to play the game last month when I signed on for the first time in a long time.

Elder Scrolls Online is my cup of tea these days. They just released their new expansion High Isle, which I finally get a chance to start playing through this weekend.

My problem with this show so far is the writing they're giving Reva to deliver. The actress does great, but the lines are atrociously awful. So far, they've told us very little about her, which is not a benefit to a show that's about to end its first season. We should have known her backstory by episode 2 and be rooting for her death. Right now, if she died, I wouldn't care one way or the other. Her character is still being written as a cardboard cutout with potential as a great character. Playing the mystery card only works if we first care about the character to begin with.

What's funny is that he seems to have this convoluted image of himself as some kind of rock star where he tweets out that he's going to be attending some college and expects all sorts of accolades, only to receive an immediate response from the school saying, uh, no, he's not coming here.

The origin of this phenomenon is interesting. I follow the movie review segment of the Youtube population a lot, and years back, it used to be a handful of movie/tv reviewers. Then you started seeing people building brands off their reviews. Spoiler warning: They almost always were young, cute girls. Now, fast-forward a few years, and people started to realize that they needed a gimmick or hook to attract people to watch their reviews, so that's when we started getting "Guy's girlfriend watches Star Wars for the first time" as a new way of spinning this type of content. And now, as you're noticing, we're getting into the technical expert reviews movies stage of this evolution.

The one thing I have to say about this show is that quite often your reaction to it has a lot to do with the mood that you are in. I say this because I watched the three seasons while in dialysis, which is one of the worst places I've ever been in my life. In other words, I hate it when I'm there. So when seeing Barry kill all sorts of people, I'm often in a mindset of "yeah, that school bus filled with children holding penguins really deserved to be offed in that most horrible way".

I've been cheated every time I've bought a car from a dealership. I have zero problem with this moving forward for all dealerships.

11 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

And if there is a shooting do teachers have a duty to act? (Unlike police)

They won't receive any backing from government, so the first time they pull out a gun (for even a rational, perfect reason), they'll be thrown under the bus and every charge made against them that's possible. Right now, "arming teachers" is an argument used just to keep the other side from taking away their guns, or requiring background checks, or refusing guns after a mental assessment goes poorly, or....

Still playing Elder Scrolls Online and finally getting my last character (18 total) to level 50.

1 minute ago, Massdriver said:

If there is a grid failure in Texas, hopefully it helps Beto. 

As much as I agree with you on the desired outcome, it won't happen. We'll all suffer through a horrible grid failure, and every Republican will still get reelected because the voters will go to the ballot box thinking that somehow liberals are planning evil to the status quo, even though Republicans in Texas are doing exactly those things they claim liberals are intending to do.

The truly sad thing is it's so seriously more financially beneficial to just house the homeless rather than to incarcerate them, which is massively expensive.

1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

Honestly, for me the larger issue with gaming and violence like this is the notion that certain gaming communities and groups are a safe harbor for white supremacy posting, talk, and thoughts. It's not uncommon for toxic shit to be ignored by fairly significant streamers in the interest of not rocking the boat.  I don't think there's a causal link or anything, but Steve Bannon didn't hang out with WoW players for no reason.

There's a definite right-wing gamer community that is online that I run into a lot, especially when it comes to following gamers who actually review games. What I discovered a few years ago is that because of Youtube's algorithms, if you follow any of these gamer reviewers who also have a right-wing presence with a lot of their other videos (even if it's a completely different channel on Youtube), you start getting recommended a lot of right-wing hatred stuff (from the manosphere to straight out Let's Go Branden content). So, I'm not surprised there's a connection. I just don't think it's as obvious as the media tries to make it out to be ("doom leads to violence" type of reports).

Bought all the expansions for The Elder Scrolls Online, and I'm back to playing that. Also subbed up for a year so that got me a lot of in game cash as well.

Pretty sure my dad is my dad. He left when I was two years old and never looked back. Yep, that's definitely my father.

I guess it's a good thing I recently gave up on eating baby formula.

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

The larger picture is even worse:

 

 

The Russians built a pontoon bridge, and the Ukrainians waited until a bunch of vehicles cross before blowing it, then mopped up the far bank.

I remember the first time crossing a HUGE river in Germany in a Humvee. I was a young lieutenant, and I was saying I don't think it's wise, but this master sergeant was standing on the ground saying that it could be done if I aimed for the wake. And it would have taken hours to go the long way around. Man, I was scared crossing that river, especially as it seemed there were waves growing (on a river) and then we made it. That's when I learned that you trust the people who know what they're doing and forget that most of the rest of us are morons until we're taught otherwise.

If this happens, I leave Twitter forever. The only thing that made it worthwhile was that those lying tweets were finally ended.

I'm astonished that I haven't caught some variation of it yet.

28 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I would like to see in the curriculum where teachers are supposed to discuss their sexuality with their middle school students, encourage classroom discussion for each of the student's sexualities/gender identities, set an assignment for each student to create a flag that represents their sexuality/gender identity, and then hang those flags on the door of the classroom.

I seriously doubt it happened like that when dealing with kids. They probably asked her if she had any boyfriends, and she probably said no, like most people would, and then they started to ask more and more leading questions nonstop because that's exactly what kids do. All attempts at any actual education would probably be completely out the window as the kids would continue to hound her over and over for more details. All attempts to shut them up would be ignored, and they would continue to ask her over and over until she probably, out of frustration, just said "I'm attracted to everyone. Now, please, for the sake of god, go back to the lesson." I've actually observed exactly this type of exchange numerous times in a female instructor's class. Strangely enough, this rarely happens in a guy's class. The kids don't really care about the social lives of male teachers.

I'm not surprised. Not since its inception have I ever seen Facebook as a platform for good. They've done everything possible to show exactly that.

I tend to read reviews more often by players who actually play the game over time and then give assessments of that game after time. Of course, when I play MMOs it makes more sense, but it definitely works for me.

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Supreme Court Leans Toward Coach in Case on School Prayer - The New York Times

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Members of the court’s conservative majority indicated that the coach, Joseph A. Kennedy, had a constitutional right to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after games.

It’s already on the docket! (And also nyt has such a shit summary)

One of the weirdest experiences I had was while working for an HBCU in Texas. They never asked about religion when interviewed, but a couple of weeks into actually working there, I noticed a trend for mandatory assemblies in the main auditorium that were essentially prayer sessions and random sermons by religious leaders from the community. Opting out was basically forbidden.

To make it worse, some of the higher ups in administration were some of the most corrupt individuals I'd ever encountered, including the president who would often start every speech to the auditorium with the fact that he owned 6 Rolls Royces and you could, too, if you worked hard. Meanwhile, he kept asking the professors to take pay cuts because they were always running out of money.

That's often what I think of when I see the dissolving of church and state in this country. Lack of accountability causes all sorts of problems that are never actually solved.