LazyPiranha

I’m gonna assume that there’s some drowned Russians in there

That check was in Rubles baby, even if it cleared it’s going to worth less than the ink it’s printed on before it hits the account.

Is that a different area than the one they say is going to be bombed?

For me it’s a combo of not being super eager to go to a theater and also not really caring to see the fourth super gritty Batman movie in a row. By the time Rises came out I was already kind of tired of it.

So the company that got caught ripping microchips out of the steering system to try and make up for shortages wants their cars to have increased processing power to play video games. Good plan.

Yes, I read it. It’s written to give a veneer of credibility to something that is outrageous and unjust. Let’s brush aside any questions about the efficacy/effectiveness/long term studies of the procedures and medicines mentioned for the time being because they aren’t relevant to the point. The fact is that many, many trans kids have done none of those things. Maybe they just dress different, present different, whatever, but have never done any of the actual codified restrictions. How is a teacher or any other licensed professional that works with children supposed to know that occurred? Unless a child literally tells you, you as an uniformed outsider can only speculate, which is the entire point. You, the outsider are now placed into a position where you have to make a choice. Do you do nothing and take the chance that your own lack of reporting will be deemed acceptable, or do you err on the side of caution and report this kid and their family to CPS to avoid the threat of criminal prosecution and loss of your job and license? That also assumes that all educators and the like are actually compassionate people and not outright bigots, which is a bad assumption to make. You think there aren’t teachers out there who will happily narc out young trans kids with glee because the state government just gave them a huge thumbs up? You think hateful assholes won’t call CPS specifically to fuck with kids and families they don’t approve of? If Texas is anything like my state, EVERY report has to be investigated, so what does that mean in this instance? Can someone call every day because they think the kid next door started taking estrogen this afternoon because they went to the Rite-Aid, for real this time? Whatever the paper says, the intent is open and obvious. It is a way to lawfully harass trans children and their families, it is a way to force unwilling participants to harass trans kids and their families, and it is a way to force trans kids and their families to hide that fact for fear of constant inspection. Even if you accept the paper thin argument that this is really actually a way to prevent harm in the form of a newer field of medicine, this intentionally catches so many other people in the crossfire.

All you whippersnappers can kiss my 37 year old ass, I ain’t getting drafted for shit.

It’s not a goal post shift? You cannot be outraged by the flimsy logic of Trudeau painting you as a nazi apologist, then willingly appear on a network whose entire business plan is to use flimsy logic to paint everyone as tyrants and villains. You’re demanding an apology then running off to the biggest perpetrator of the exact same sin and smiling for the camera. It’s bullshit.

She’s on the show isn’t she? You think she doesn’t have someone on staff watching the live feed to see if they put shit like that under her and she can’t say something about it? You think she didn’t watch it after the fact? Has she made any sort of statement that this chyron was unacceptable? Unless she recently woke up from a coma and was shoved in front of a live feed without warning, she knows who and what Fox News is.

Look, I’m sorry, but if this woman has no problem with using laughably tenuous logic to call Trudeau a blackface enthusiast, then she’s got no right to bitch about being lumped in with nazis and nazi apologists regardless of her background. You’re talking to Laura “heil hitler” Ingraham for fuck’s sake. You’re so far from the moral high ground you can’t even stretch high enough up to polish Anakin’s boots.

Inscryption Until Dawn Miles Morales Bloodborne ————————— A twofer this time. Mundaun Bought this for the Switch for spooky season last year and just never got around to it. I enjoyed it, the art style added an interesting layer of otherworldly feeling to it which I appreciated. It was more creepy than outright scary, and the story was interesting, although wandering around lost most of the time took a lot of the wind out of the sails. Worth playing if you’re looking for a creepy, folk horror experience, but not really worthwhile outside of that niche. Castlevania Yeah, the original NES one. Bought the Castlevania Collection on PS5 because it was on sale. Still an utterly infuriating banger, but save states really make the tedium easier to swallow.

On top of that it’s usually a zero sum game. Attempted murder and aggravated assault usually don’t have a ton of variance between the two in terms of sentencing, so you as a prosecutor would be stupid to take the heavier lift. Sometimes they take it up because they have no choice, the defendant was stopped in the act before they could actively harm someone.

The difference between those two examples is that the pipeline is not a false pretext to the reason that they’re protesting, nor is it sucker bait to get people to say they’re in favor of the protest generally while being absolutely opposed to the larger goal. If the pipelines were ok’ yellered behind the woodshed and it was genuine, the pipeline protest would actually stop. Yes, the people protesting would still have grievances that weren’t even touched upon, but the overwhelming majority of them would be satisfied with the outcome of their protest and leave. This is not the same thing. Trudeau could say “le fuck it” and remove the mandate this very moment, and these fuckers would not leave. They aren’t truly anti-mandate protestors because the mandates always were at best a palatable window dressing to their true goals which is effectively minority rule over federal government through force. Even they aren’t so far gone to realize that “trucker convoy to illegally depose a democratically elected government” is going to get zero fucking sympathy from anyone but the loons.

How many blatantly obvious examples of chuds not being pro-police but exclusively pro-police doing only what chuds like and nothing else are law enforcement going to have to live through before they get the hint?

Wait, hold up. You ate with liberals who thought what they ordered was supposed to be hot, or you ate in a liberal area that served you hot pimento cheese?

I don’t preorder anything these days unless it’s a Nintendo game I want a physical copy of that I know I want to play day one, and even the I almost never do it. With a Nintendo game though, screw it, shits not getting a price drop in the next decade anyway.

Inscryption Until Dawn Miles Morales ———————— Bloodborne Finally got to experience it after all the hype for all these years. I liked it a lot, probably my second favorite of the souls/souls adjacent games. Really my only problems with the game are the lack of build options compared to other souls games and some truly awkward pathing. I got lost plenty of times with not a single clue where to go just because so many corridors looked the same and some critical paths were hidden behind obscure bullshit. A door to a whole new area just opened up at some point. Why? Fuck if I know, it was just open at some point and I had nothing to do with it. The story was completely incomprehensible, but that’s just par for the course. Some day I’ll go for the NG+ and try to find all the things I missed, but for now it’s on to Death Stranding Director’s Cut so I don’t totally burn out on the formula before Elden Ring.

JJ Abrams - man, I wish people didn’t hate me for Rise of Skywalker… * monkey paw slowly curls one finger

I was more referring to the omicron surge seeming to, anecdotally anyway, reduce people’s willingness to go to theaters in comparison to October or so last year when things we’re doing better case wise.

Man, if only fuel had some sort of characteristic that could be used to identify it, like maybe an easily identifiable odor or something? Shame.

If my very brief reading is correct, this is one of those wonderful situations where everyone is kind of wrong and kind of right! The assembly, in 2013 well before this dipshit was elected governor, passed an act adding specific language to the statutes of the commonwealth. For whatever god damned reason, they chose to pull a very generic quote from a case to use as the language they were passing. It’s an essentially vague statement that you could probably pull verbatim, or near enough as makes no difference verbatim, from hundreds if not thousands of family law cases across the country. WHERE they pulled it from or the underlying facts of the case are meaningless NOW because the sentence has been codified into statute absent of any context. They could have pulled the same quote from a yoohoo bottle, it no longer matters, it went from something else to statutory law. So yeah, the facts of the case for the purposes of what limited definition of parental rights this bullshit statement gives are pointless because it was lifted out of the context of the case and put onto the actual law books instead of just being the case law. That the assembly decided to use this pull quote of all things is curious and kind of stupid, but it doesn’t really matter. That said, claiming that the facts don’t matter for the interpretation of court opinions is also false. The case wasn’t, and never was about WHAT parental rights are, but rather who has them and under what circumstances. To bring this full circle into now, if the chud governor wants to use this as a justification for removing masks now, Breit is not going to be a part of their argument, section 1-240.1 is. In this instance, the facts of Breit aren’t a part of the conversation, not because it was a state supreme court opinion, but because that exact language is now codified into law. At best you could argue that the intent of the legislature was relevant when they pulled this specific case, but that’s only one school of thought for interpretation and given that the case in question doesn’t question what parental rights are in any context, it’s not exactly helpful on the topic. Whatever lazy homework was done on researching the concept of parental rights was done nine years ago by whoever decided to pull that quote.

You’re trying to tell me that the cornerstone of Conservative politics has been and always will be utter hypocrisy? This is brand new information.

Also if you want to make things look bad for Biden, how is massively undershooting and then constantly being revised to be BETTER make anyone look bad?

Can’t invite more violence if they’re all dead, youknowwhatimean?