Yep, did a full rewatch last year and nothing against the James but that felt so forced. Nog moving in and those two doing an odd couple / romantic friendship thing was pretty decent though, but that's about it. Wish they'd given him a better intro instead of forcing a character out of nowhere.

I read somewhere they were working on dos3 and put it on hold when bg3 came up. If they go back and work on the dos series I'll be there for it!

I guess it wasn't coerced but "voluntarily" is quite the stretch, call this shi reed richards

Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a 'feature' it isn't getting fixed

Fully agree and I wish the situation was better. I'll keep it on the level, genocide is a deal-breaker for me. I'm surprised it's not a deal breaker for other people too to be honest. And it's awful that our only choices are awful candidates. Really makes you wonder how we got here and I can't help but feel that this a vote blue no matter who bullshit along with Dems always backing incumbents Even when they're terrible has paved the way for our present situation. That's not going to get better unless we do something to change it. We found ourselves in afucked up hole and the first step to finding a way out is to stop digging.

I hope you're right though I guess there's a lot of people that are going to vote for him even though he is enabling genocide, I hope he decides to turn it around and start representing voters.

And you get to order someone shot in the foot (but let's be real, they're going to end up shot in the face regardless face) so congrats on giving the order too I guess

The whole point is saying I'd rather not get shot at all and I'm not going to give any approval to get shot anywhere. Especially when the question is actually closer to where would I like to shoot some random civilian. I'm not going to give approval to shoot them in the foot nor the face.

my genocider is better than your the other genocider, so much so that I'll give my active and explicit support to my genocider

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The president has been dogged by pro-Palestinian protesters at his public events for months, with his team now taking steps to shield him from the public shaming over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Biden has had to switch to smaller events, the locations of which are kept hushed until the last possible moment to evade protesters

Wait no, not direct action like that. You're no supposed to try to influence the lesser of two evils. /s

The president has been dogged by pro-Palestinian protesters at his public events for months, with his team now taking steps to shield him from the public shaming over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Biden has had to switch to smaller events, the locations of which are kept hushed until the last possible moment to evade protesters

Love to see the direct addition but JFC Biden will do anything to avoid ending aid to genocide and anything to avoid representing voters' stances. "Oh while trying to secure the election I'll just have smaller unannounced rallies instead of pulling my head out of my ass"

Explicitly what I'd already addressed because rather than admit Biden is onboard with genocide people gotta "what about something else..." Yeah other guy would be worse but Biden is still enabling genocide. Fact.

A vote for Biden is a vote for genocide. I'm not saying that to abstain or vote for the other guy isn't the same, as bad, or worse; but 100% a vote for Biden is a vote for genocide.

Florida is going to be so pissed at TST for getting all this PR and fund raising while adding to their impressive list of accomplishments listed below:

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A lot of the articles in the earlier link have links within to additional sources many of them are links to court documents but some are needs stories like this one. https://www.newsweek.com/orgies-harassment-fraud-satanic-temple-rocked-accusations-lawsuit-1644042 obviously Newsweek isn't great but I'm on Mobile atm and it's the first one I found, I'm sure you can find more and from better sources in their article or a search and a lil time

Because TST is shit and can't follow through on their promises and use the courts to go after dissenters.

Plenty of reading at https://queersatanic.com/articles/ but a pattern becomes visible pretty quickly.

0% interest would have been better but the banks that process/hold the government guaranteed loans would no longer profit so they aren't going to let that happen.

I feel like that was the mantra in early September. It's too bad it didn't stick but I'm on board with reviving this one.

Israel does fund hamas though, so they're kinda dealing with them in a different way

That was one of my favorite features of the Nexus one. Didn't really need the track ball but being able to customize the color of notification light (I forget if that needed root or not) based on app was great. I'm guessing it must have been persistent blinking otherwise my current edge lighting notification would scratch the same itch, couldn't be just nostalgia on my part...

Thanks for the link! Incredible

I'm going to need some reminding

Yay more ragebait from Washington Post editorial/opinion pieces!

I feel that, like if a lib had posted this then they'd have been sincere about it but it was you posting it so we all know what's up

That's an actual liberal stance I see thrown around way too often so without a /s or some other explicit commentary I can understand why the post would be taken at face value or without assuming there's an implied sentiment.

I know we're talking about this steaming pile of shit over here but look there are other piles of steaming shit over there too!

I really need to watch the sequels, if they're anything like the original it'll be worth it to me.

That's an assumption. 1 these aren't all houses, some of these are small rooms. Looking the place up I've actually been there, some folks end up there for PT or hospice and I can tell you the place aint swank. 2 They could afford the 1.3K monthly fee they expected, sheeeet that's about what I was paying for a one bedroom in the city in not a particularly great area and I didnt have the assisted living aspect that River Glen provides which I assume is the biggest cost. it's not a surprise that they couldn't handle it going up to $6K a month. can you handle your rent going up 300%? Also you gotta keep in mind these are olds. They probably bought their house back forever ago and with housing prices here, and from what it sounds like damn near everywhere, the value of their houses have just been going up like crazy. That doesn't necessarily mean they have money, they probably sold their house or whatever and that's how they managed to get that hefty down payment.

In the end in both scenarios they sunk what they had into a thing that was supposed to last them to the end, the didn't have much left after that and now the terms of the agreement have changed and they can only pray the terms of the agreement don't change further. I get not wanting to side with perceived rich people and prices vary by region. you can feel different about that if you want but they aint all that different of situations

Same area, st Charles and Elgin are one town apart. It's been a while since I checked but I think $100k-200k would be the average house price in the area. I'm a little closer to the city than those burbs and tiny foreclosures that aren't even up to code can be 200k.

So yeah that might be rich compared to some areas but for this area it's not but all surprising.

This news are actually quite similar. You'll find in both people investing heavily, most of their retirement savings, to establish themselves and then the management company or property owner jacking up the rent to the point where people can no longer live there and have to abandon their investment/retirement fund. Not too complicated of a comparison really.

Sam Zell was doing the same shit in the '00s (and still is) and even in the same area https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-05-27-0705260052-story.html this one ended up with my grandmother losing her retirement plans she financing.

There's always scams and they often target those most vulnerable who can't fight back. You'd think there should be some protections or safety nets but gods of capitalism require blood sacrifices

Was is ever not completely under capitalism? As far as I've seen they were always fully going with hype over substance posturing

partially sarcastic, Tasha Yar as a character had big potential and was intended to be cooler but they started off on the wrong foot, never corrected, and never developed her.

The wikipedia rabbit hole for Tasha Yar and her actor Denise Crosby is an interesting one. Some of the creators thought she was the most interesting character in the "show bible" so maybe it was the episode writers that missed the message and gave her such empty stories and flubbed what could have been a cool character. Either way it would have been interesting to see a woman in the role of chief of security and another big leap in the progressiveness of star trek.

TOS had post cold war russians, and showed that black people are part of the future. Aside from briefly having a woman in charge of security I can't think of any progressive traits on TNG other than negotiating and 1st contact (are Picard's bag and) better that fighting. Don't get me wrong through I still hold a special place for TNG, just finished a rewatch not too long ago, but on second-ish watch, with the rose tinted glasses off, it is disappointing they had an opportunity to make a statement about a brighter, freer, more equitable future but ended up going with rape gangs and forced marriage (oh and fucking Data) instead.

So yeah the character ended up weak but was originally intended to be a bad ass. missed opportunity for something cooler and bigger.

That's literally Tasha's shitty/lazy backstory, grew up orphan style on a busted ass plant, hiding from all the rape gangs that were running round. I forget which episodes she mentions it in but there's a surprisingly few references to it: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rape_gang https://memorydelta.fandom.com/wiki/Natasha_Yar [1) ctrl+F Rape 2) say "damn, wtf!"]

Wait wait wait, are you trying to say that a character whose first big episode s1e4 saw them, as the head of security, get kidnapped for a forced marriage and had a character background of [checks notes] planet of rape gangs wasn't enough of a character?

Early TNG wasn't great, not surprising Denise Crosby asked to be released from her contract early. Fully agree they did her dirty with that death story but glad they still brought her back a few times

That works. The local L trains running along side the highway in Chicago got me, seeing 5 trains roll by while barley moving in bumper to bumper gave me the final push to covert to public transit

please tell me there's an office space community and they're also involved in the disagreemement

Pure enshittification, squeezing both sides. I had no idea on this part but that would explain a lot, fuckin wild

Here's how that worked: when you ran a query like "children's clothing," Google secretly appended the brand name of a kids' clothing manufacturer to the query. This, in turn, triggered a ton of ads – because rival brands will have bought ads against their competitors' name (like Pepsi buying ads that are shown over queries for Coke).

Here we see surpluses being taken away from both end-users and business customers – that is, searchers and advertisers. For searchers, it doesn't matter how much you refine your query, you're still going to get crummy search results because there's an unkillable, hidden search term stuck to your query, like a piece of shit that Google keeps sticking to the sole of your shoe.

But for advertisers, this is also a scam. They're paying to be matched to users who search on a brand name, and you didn't search on that brand name. It's especially bad for the company whose name has been appended to your search, because Google has a protection racket where the company that matches your search has to pay extra in order to show up overtop of rivals who are worse matches. Both the matching company and those rivals have given Google a credit-card that Google gets to bill every time a user searches on the company's name, and Google is just running fraudulent charges through those cards.

"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg

Always good to keep in mind

That's really fucked up, hopefully he's not a teacher anymore