Got bummed about losing my flagship in Cosmoteer, so taking a break with Diablo 3’s new season. Still grinding Balatro. I’ve about 2/3rds. of the decks beaten on gold with the rest not far behind.

Capitalism once again destroying everything it touches. The techbros think money = success = personal worth because capitalism ties a person’s value to how much profit they generate. Because the techbros have six figure salaries and college educations, they think they’re the pinnacle of intellectualism. Teachers get looked down on because they don’t make money, therefore the techbro is smarter than teachers.

And once you’re the smartest person that can exist, why do anything more? Why bother reading or making art? Why bother understanding philosophy or people who led political movements? You’re inherently superior and therefore an expert on those subjects because (again) you make more money than the people involved in that stuff.

It’s especially comforting to subpar failsons who were dipshits growing up and finally found something they were good at. But rather than having some humility, they gloat about how everyone who doubted them was wrong.

Now I’m thinking “Where can I get a stockpile of yuan here in the US?”

There’s banks in some major cities that allow you to open an account in yuan, but they’re for corporate clients only and require something like a $20k minimum balance.

I bet bird researchers would have a field day, at least. They could see if the migration south is instinctual or if it’s a learned behavior passed down.

Anyone know about if you had a whole flock of geese born and raised independently away from other geese if they still migrate?

You can still get a lot of the dangerous artist paints. I know because I have some of them lol

Question 1: I’ve played a lot of weird stuff over the years. Probably Maze’s End, Glittering Wish Midrange, or Sea Stompy for unconventional decks.

Question 2: One of the weirdest that comes to mind was this sick Modern 5-color Elemental deck revolving around Incandescent Soulstoke, Nova Chaser, Smoke Braider, and Soulbright Flamekin. This was before the Simian Spirit Guide ban, so it was possible to get domed by a turn 2 Thorn Elemental. The “champion” mechanic let him keep any large fatties around after cheating them into play. Was a really spicy deck.

Question 3: I really, really want to make the Turing Machine deck and see if I can get it up and running before I die.

And Sealed is already miserable. Some prerelease events will hold drafting events as well, which are actually worth playing. Sealed still requires skill, but it’s the most luck-based format by far and it’s not even close.

You’re describing monarchies lmaooo

We just left a practice because of this. Dentist wanted to pull out my mom’s teeth and give her implants, then got pissed when she said no. New dentist says all she needed is some crowns and fillings. A full replacement is just excessive and unnecessary.

Looks like he’s at least into nazi facial hair…dude has a Hitler mustache going on idk

Adding on to this, you should show them videos on YouTube that were proven false. One example I can think of is Joey Salah’s video about Trump cars being vandalized in black neighborhoods. People not part of his video caught the video on film from other angles. There’s one where you can see Salah talking to a group of people, who all ended up being the “vandals” in the video. Turns out, he hired a bunch of black actors under false pretenses, got the footage of them smashing cars with Trump bumper stickers, then edited all together to look like they were random people.

The whole thing got exposed and there’s videos of it explaining the whole thing. You can show your kids how footage can be edited to reinforce biases (in this example: “black people are violent and will attack you or your property for any reason”) and how sites like YouTube use content like this to generate revenue through controversy.

Project Veritas is another. It was also an early adopter of deep fakes, using them to make people say things they didn’t. Deep fakes of politicians saying stuff would be another example. The Biden-Vaporeon copy pasta is a hoot (probably not age appropriate for 9-year-olds. I dunno. I’m only an uncle).

Trump says so much inflammatory and treasonous shit if democrats were actually serious people, they could have him executed.

Like Clinton is still a former first lady and therefore gets lifetime protection from the secret service. In 2016 when Trump was threatening her, she would have been within her rights to have him brought up on charges. If I said the stuff Trump was saying, but about Michelle Obama or Barbara Bush, a SWAT team would kick in my door guns blazing, kill everything that moves.

Critical support to American bounty hunters kicking in his door and dragging his ass off to court.

wdym shouldn’t all Republicans openly advocate for dropping nukes on Iran when we’re not even directly at war with them, but at war with their prime adversary in the region? It’s the P R E S I D E N T I A L thing to do. Trump thought we should use our nuclear arsenal on a hurricane!

I’d put money on Fox News personalities like Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson have more viewers each day than all of Twitch combined.

He sure as shit won’t post his models. He probably just saw God Emperor Trump memes and thought “WHY DIDN’T THEY MAKE THAT ME?!?!?!?”

And I suspect that tweet wasn’t about how discrimination against names was wrong?

Holy shit I thought the whole “Tau Mechanicus” thing was a joke. That’s fucking real?! Honestly should charge both parents with child abuse.

Generals in the US back in 2002 and 2003 were advising we’d need at least 4 million troops to occupy Iraq. We had 4 million troops worldwide including support personnel when we invaded. Lo and behold, the thing they were warning about happened. We wiped out Iraq’s military in just a few weeks, but then had no way of dealing with the insurgency or helping civilians get their lives back to normal. Entire cities without water or power for months, making them prime real estate for insurgents to occupy.

Make no mistake, the US will do the same stupid shit we did 20 years ago. The same mistakes made during Desert Storm and Vietnam were never learned from going into 9/11 and the 2003 invasion. Pure adventurism on behalf of the US government.

This is always funny to me. Like…maybe it should just be their rock? It’s in their sea and no one appears to be using it. What? Does the US need it to build a military hospital on in case another one of our Navy SEALs drowns (lol) and needs treatment?