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Chemirmir’s death comes about two weeks after Texas’ 100 prisons were placed on a rare statewide lockdown because of a rise in the number of killings inside the facilities, which prisons officials have said were related to drugs.

So prisons can't maintain the one thing they are there for: security. The prisons or the government funding them are allowing this to happen. They are complicit in homicide. Society judged this man and sentenced him to life, not to execution. Being lax in duty resulting is death is negligent homicide.

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"This must be where we keep the babies. This is the baby pile."

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I did the same. P99 and Asheron's Call servers. I remember why I quit. Good nostalgia to see the old sites, though.

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That's an insane requirement. Pretty much 100% of students would need to cut their hair immediately.

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I wish TTRPG battle/ambience music tracks would be at least 10min long, even if they are looped by their creators. So many tracks are great that I buy but are only 2-3min long and aren't created to loop naturally. So my table is constantly listening to the intro/outro sections that tend to be more attention grabbing. I've had to learn to use audacity to fade them in and out but it's extra labor that doesn't always work.

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Never heard of that before. I'll check that out. Thanks!

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    I see 100x more posts op is describing than I see posts whining about it like this one.

    OP: you are the 1%.

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    I really loved the Ernie & Bert divorce arc.

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    TIL people are putting butter and coconut oil in their coffee. What even?

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    It wouldn't weaken it unless the court tried and failed to stop it. Someone would have to sue Biden for it and I'm unsure there's a party with standing.

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    Wait, did we have affirmative action for women, ever? We had affirmative action because the rate of black people in college was significantly less than expected for demographics due to systematic racism and oppression. So they needed a way to boost those numbers towards normalcy that bypassed the influences of the above oppression on grades.

    At what % are universities thinking they need to give men an advantage in applications?

    There are close to three women for every two men in college in this country. (The way schools report gender may not yet reflect many students’ nonbinary understanding of it, but the overall trend is clear.) Last year, women edged out men in the freshman classes of every Ivy League school save Dartmouth, and the gender ratio is significantly skewed at many state schools. (The rising sophomore class at the University of Vermont is 67 percent female; the University of Alabama is 56 percent female.) Most small liberal-arts colleges are close to 60 percent female, and the discrepancy is even more pronounced at community colleges and historically Black colleges and universities.

    Huh, that's significant. And what do they think is the reasoning behind declining enrollment? Does this mean they are seeing men's applications being less competitive than women's? Or that there are fewer men applying? Because those are entirely different issues.

    In high school, girls volunteer more on average, all the while getting higher grades, including in STEM subjects. By the time they graduate, they make up two-thirds of the top 10 percent of their class. ... The trade-off is especially relevant for young men, who tend to earn higher wages without a college degree than their female counterparts. ... Conservatives have also steadily been devaluing higher education in ways that might be more salient for men; the critique that liberal-arts colleges are pushing “gender ideology” on students positions those institutions as threatening to traditional conceptions of masculinity.

    So it's mostly how competitive men are, somewhat that tuition is out of control, and right-wing extremism. Joy.

    Men without college degrees tend to be underemployed, and underemployed men are less likely to marry and benefit from the grounding influence of raising children.

    Having a kid apparently turns you more productive and stable? Yeah that's a load. Seeing as the guy who wrote that has an Institute for the study of Men and Boys, I doubt that's real.

    It’s a longstanding fear among enrollment officers that if the gender ratio becomes too extreme at a given school, students of all genders will start to lose interest in attending (an idea that persists even if none of the admissions experts I spoke to could point to research about college enrollment supporting it).

    Lol.

    “Whether it’s fair or not, colleges with gender parity or close to gender parity have been viewed as the most desirable.” ... But Title IX does not prohibit gender-based affirmative action in admissions at all schools. In 1972, when the details of Title IX were still under discussion, the presidents of some of the country’s most elite private universities persuaded legislators to exempt their admissions policies from the law.

    Sigh.

    I graduated in Engineering and I remember a lot of talk about trying to attract women to that college. But I never heard anyone suggest affirmative action (enrolling less competitive applications) based on gender. It was always geared towards getting more to apply. Perhaps we should not be giving men an unfair advantage (truly the most unprivileged class of people in the history of ever /s) but ensuring they are prioritizing grades and extracurriculars in grade and high school. And keeping tuition down so it's more obviously financially incentivized..

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    Is there a law saying there has to be an ad close button? Because I assume they are all fake.

    Also the sun does move. But it's got so much mojo that everyone else just moves along with it.

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    Yeah. You'd need some type of system that held and heated water separately and then pressurized it so more. It would only last as long as the tank did.

    Also the top front spouts seem a little intense. I've not seen blades of water before.

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    Honey, we can't run the washing machine or wash our hands for a new minutes. The Jones' are showering again.

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    At some point the amount of water may exceed what is delivered to your home.

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    Carl has a house in New Jersey and works from home in 2000. He's living the dream.

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    Court should seize all his assets and sell them. Then seize all income. The court can then grant him a stipend for reasonable living expenses. Since he's obviously committing fraud and refusing to pay court ordered fines. People go to prison for less.

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    Something like 2% of people are intersex. It's a huuuuge spectrum of intersex that many individuals don't even realize they have.

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    I wonder if these land-holders live in an HOA. And if they do, I'm sure they're in violation of something. Racking up fines they aren't told about. Their HOA contract gets sold to a corporation to manage it. The corporation sees the ludicrous fines and repossesses their house as in the new HOA contract. Evict the land-holders.

    It's not realistic because rich people don't have consequences but it'd be a nice sense of justice.

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    Steph Sterling gave it an 8/10, which is fairly high for them.

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    acknowledgment that a person is conscious of the systemic oppression of various groups.

    “stuff that right wingers don’t like”

    theyre_the_same_picture.jpg

    But yes. The right has polluted yet another word and tried to turn it into a pejorative.

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    I got my weekend chores done after work Thursday and Friday. Meal prep, laundry, straightening, and booze run.

    I AM PREPARED.

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    There's a lot of arguments in this thread. Underlying it all is a single issue, a single problem that is generating all of the worries and fears people have.

    Men. We all know men are the problem. We all know society's allowance of men's behavior is the problem. And yet we tiptoe around it with things like this.

    ITT: men who are ignoring the massive problem with sexual harassment, assault, and rape. "not all men". But enough.

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    Your entire account history is hostility and aggressive posts.

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    Some people are blessed with normal bowel movements with average amounts of fiber. We participate in a CSA so have dozens of pounds of veggies every week. Every meal is veggie heavy. My body doesn't care, it's a lazy ass.

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    They can order prison though.

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    Bethesda is sub-par in just about every aspect of game development. Shallow combat. Basic dialogue trees. Skill/feats haven't evolved in several games. Engine so old it has to have loading screens for every type of transition.

    But you picked the story and acting to tout as good? Bethesda is well-known to have pathetically bad main-story arcs. Only a handful of side quests end up being engaging to most people. The face animations are...better now but still deeply in the uncanny valley. Their acting is usually deadpan with only the merest speck of emotion and shown as if the actor is reading their script for the first time during recording.

    Honestly the main thing that Bethesda games have going for them are a detailed, hand-crafted world that is fun to explore and experiment in. Which...Bethesda handily disposed of to have the majority of its world and worlds be procedurally generated.

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    Creation Engine 2.0.

    AKA Creation Engine 1.0 with more patches than a 1sqmi quilt.

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    This comment doesn't actually say anything. It's just casting aspirations against me because you didn't like what I said. It doesn't rebut anything or offer differing opinions on anything I proposed.

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    I would like to add Hook to this list. I was flabbergasted when, as an adult, found out it was poorly received. Then I rewatched it as an adult and was forced to agree. Still one of my favorites.

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    Especially with how iffy planes leaving Russia have been lately...

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    Tyranny of the majority shouldn't be tolerated.

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    I was a mistake.

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    OK so if the US has the ability to make Super Soldiers, and the "effect" is turning people gay, then the logical conclusion would be half of the US military would be gay by now.

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    I didn't want to call out a very specific and very wet branch of service. :p

    But I did just remember the Village People have that song so I guess I'm a few decades late.

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    "No, I don't own a bag of foam trash, actually." I wish he said. Or "lumpy pillow"

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    I imagine, if he dislikes Mike Pillow, he was ecstatic. This guy is digging himself a deeeep hole. Oh my his lawyer tells Mike to calm down and hour and half in. Oof.

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    Probably a bit of, "I can't believe my friend would do these bad things." People close to someone are harder to convince without seeing things first hand or hearing from other people they are close to.

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    Always nice to see JoCo in the wild. :)

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    Instead he merely did it to a strong US ally to benefit a long-time US adversary. An adversary we have practically as many sanctions on as is feasible before it becomes a declaration of war.

    I don't know what crime this is. Logan Act violation? But at this point Starlink is being used as a strategic asset in a US ally's war and should be seized by the US government as a military asset.

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    Man, I hope he tries that and moves to Moscow. The oligarchs would eat him alive and it would be some prime schadenfreude to watch.

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    The Matrix Awakens ran on the console presented by Nintendo with “graphics comparable to current generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft” , citing that medium. The demo included “advanced” ray tracing and used Nvidia’s artificial intelligence upscaling technology, the well-known DLSS .

    So Nintendo didn't share specs. And they saw a handheld Unreal 5 demo that they thought looked as good as ps5/xbsx. But it was also running DLSS so it might have running at significantly lower resolutions.

    But on a handheld screen that's harder to tell. And Nintendo are masters of making games running at low resolutions and levels of detail look like they are a lot better. So there's zero chance it's actually as capable as a PS5 but there is a decent chance they can run Nintendo games that would appear to be. So maybe TOTK at 4k@60 with higher resolution textures? Honestly that'd be plenty.

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    I remember the complaints when they moved away from the 40-pin to lightning.

    Are apple consumers more prone to this complaint than the rest of us? Since I've had cell phones I've moved from USB-mini to USB-micro to USB-C. Every time it was a better change. This is just as many as apple is being asked to do except now they get to benefit from all of the 3rd party cable manufacturers.

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    No. We'd just need to get rid of the ridiculous interpretation that half of the 2nd amendment text doesn't matter. Well regulated militia doesn't mean any Tom, Dick or Harry.

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    Left foot is gear shifter. It's an up/down button. Easy to relocate.

    But who the fuck cares? Vet, hero, dog-savior. Don't park like a fucking asshole. Park in an actual spot or don't park there at all. In this image's case they are potentially blocking 2 spots, at least 1 handicapped. I hope he got 2 $500 tickets.

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    Isn't blockchain the un-editable database that tracks changes by appending new ones?

    How does this benefit an authentication server? Needing it to be decentralized with multiple accurate copies sounds like a recipe for forking your auth server.

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    Yeah. This isn't taking jobs. This is Gizmodo deciding they no longer want a Spanish speaking audience.

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    This kind of thinking costed us Apu Nahassapeenapettalon…

    ...a trope-filled caricature was the only representation Indian-Americans had for years and years.

    which in my book is more racist than what we are attacking… Judging movies cause of the color of an actor’s skin (related to the role they play or not) kinda seems worse to me… 🤷‍♂️

    Oh look! This old racist chestnut. "The real racists are the ones calling out racism."

    you should watch Monty Python

    Are you seriously equating a sketch comedy troupe with hiring new actors and actresses? Not only is that a bad faith argument that misses the point entirely, it's not even a good attempt.

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