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Thaluikhain wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:19 am

Much preferred the Dragonlance animated film from way back when, And that has an effing kender it in.

Hadn't seen this so I went and downloaded it - I think if you watched it again now, you would prefer the new D&D movie

sensible center left and its good friend the sensible centrist right. I heard something recently that I thought made a lot of sense, in that many centrists will say they are socially liberal but fiscally conservative. But this position isn't realistic, in that progressive social policy needs fundin...

Netanyahu is meeting with Biden on Thursday. I expect a change in Israeli policy on or before that point. Put a little pin in this, because being wrong about the last 40 times the US met with Netenyahu hasn't changed deaddm's mind that the US is trying as hard as possible, so it also won't change h...

Here is 'it's complicated, it takes legal action', and the attitude it represents, in my opinion: I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the strid...

Just want to highlight that we are not just continuing to fund Israel. We represent, are, and have acted as a violent threat to any force that wants to a stop to what Israel is doing. We have acted against and prevent any legal sanctions others might want to put on Israel for committing a genocide....

I believe that Israel should stop their incursion into Gaza, immediately. I don't know if you're doing it on purpose or it's just the product of the media you consume, but have you noticed that you won't actually say the words "active genocide in Gaza", even though you vaguely claim to be...

Who on this site was arguing that the United States should invade Myanmar to stop the genocide of the Rohingya? 1. What is it with you and whataboutism ? Can you not argue your point without trying to distract with something else ? 2. If the US were giving billions of dollars and military equipment...

Goddam dude. So you don't think there's a genocide happening (just a "conflict"), and even if there were a genocide, you wouldn't approve military force to stop an ongoing genocide. What is there even left to say.

My wife thinks it's a waste of time to discuss politics on a gaming forum, especially with people who don't know the historical context of the conflict. I don't think a lot of the discussion and pushback you're getting is about politics though (unless you say that everything is politics, but let's ...

deaddmwalking wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:32 pm

but with so many on both sides committed to the utter destruction of their perceived enemy, that type of change in attitude is a hopeful sign.

What I'm really curious about now, is what your wife thinks about this situation.

deaddmwalking wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:46 pm

The United States has both one of the most flexible policies for granting citizenship and the most tolerant of immigration/absorption into society.

Migrants aren't the reason you lack a public housing program, a public transport system, a funded public school system, a public health system, and basic functional city zoning regulation. This is the thing that stood out to me and I was going to comment on, over all the other stuff. Listing a bunc...

but it's clear to me that "owning stocks in general" is referring to owning some stock but not having that be your primary source of income. Yeah that's what I meant. I think there's a deliberate misunderstanding here between the phrases " owning stocks" (meaning the stocks are ...

70% of Americans contribute to a retirement plan (like a 401k) meaning that they own a piece of the means of production.

Just want to add, trying to conflate owning stocks in general with "owning the means of production" is a pretty bad take.

An idea that layoffs might be a prelude to D&D being sold to Tencent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3kLTJ7x4rw

Broken items can be repaired for 10% of its cost and 8 hours.

How are broken magic items repaired ? Village blacksmith, or spells like mending, or ? My opinion would be that it would need some kind of magic or very highly skilled person fixing it...

The Onion, continuing to be prophetic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECscKICzsJ0

Kaelik wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:01 pm

We've fully entered the post 9/11 all muslims are evil and we will make sure that we remove them from sight era again because we love genocide so much.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapit ... honouring/ a Palestinian author

There's this, a study being posted all over reddit today. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119023000578 "An event study design finds census places with early BLM protests experienced a 10% to 15% decrease in police homicides from 2014 through 2019, around 200 fewer dea...

So I have no idea where you came up with the idea that the evil Joe Biden has waged a war on the second amendment, or that Trump would in fact win more votes by saying that he promises to make sure we continue to do nothing for every single school shooting. Maybe from recent stories like this: http...

It's actually more important to stop respecting a supreme court that takes bribes at all then it is to keep respecting the bribed supreme court, a sentiment I apply generally to a lot of institutions. Thanks, that's good to know there's no complicated law wrangling stuff, just plain corruption (or ...

Necro: Speaking of the supreme court, Kaelik (et al), what's your take on the recent news that all of the justices voted against a formal code of conduct? Are all the justices corrupt, or is there more to it than that? I saw one excuse was that judges wouldn't want that power to be wielded against t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/commen ... magic_the/

Seems a guy got hold of some MtG cards he shouldn't have had (legally? illegally?), and posted about them on YT. So WoTC had some Pinkertons go over to his place to get the merchandise back.

Maybe you want a direct neural interface with your commlink - I think you could implant a data jack for the DNI, and then jack your commlink into that, or maybe you could add skin link to the commlink and keep it against your body. Both those would probably need some kind of display (glasses, contac...

Does that not also mean the government can then make vaccinations mandatory because fuck your bodily autonomy? And is that not basically something the people who want to get rid of abortion also do not want? The "govt" already does make some vaccinations mandatory, there are numerous vacc...