DradisPing
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DradisPing
9mo ago
- Syria is a Russian & Iranian ally.
- They've been refusing a Saudi oil pipeline to Europe for a long time.
- The governing tribe is made up of Alawite Muslims. There's a longstanding conflict between the Alawites and the Sunnis. The Saudis feel that the Alawites are heretics unjustly ruling over their Sunni brothers.
So really it's an assortment of reasons, but the US & allies wanted al-Assad gone and Sunni leaders brought in.
DradisPing
9mo ago
Have you tried taking them to a neutral location and tiring them both out? Sometimes the problem is that introducing them at one home or another sets off an intruder / defender dynamic where one dog feels the need to protect its territory.
Take the dogs camping and run them around separately. Let them both sit by the fire once they're too exhausted to fight.
DradisPing
9mo ago
I'd suggest using the FPS templates in Unity or Unreal Engine. You'll be able to do that without any coding.
DradisPing
9mo ago
I think schools should have libraries, but I admit I'm not sold on the importance of advanced degrees in library science.
DradisPing
9mo ago
The rest is simply outside of your control. You cannot make the DA press charges, so you don’t need to worry about the outcome here.
That seems like abdicating responsibility. DAs are often elected. A US citizen is capable of doing many things that would damage their re-election chances. You arguably have a duty to draw attention to their transgressions if you're upset.
DradisPing
9mo ago
There's a concept in literature analysis called "death of the author" where they only care about what was written, not whatever the author intended.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathOfTheAuthor
DradisPing
9mo ago
I would say that your definition of socialism has been abandoned.
DC is full of people who are better described as ruthlessly exploitive nobles.
While the left in the US pays lip service to workers rights, the prevailing view is that greedy American workers deserve to have their jobs offshored. Baristas deserve $15/h but it's just fine to hire illegals at less then minimum wage to perform work around your home.
Worker's rights are all well and good, but they don't mean much when a federal bureaucrat can bankrupt your employer on a whim.
It's hard to go into more detail without knowing the specifics of what socialism means to you.
DradisPing
8mo ago
The electors aren't fake either way. They are proposed alternative electors, which is how past elector disputes have been done. There was never any conspiracy to present them as the primary electors.
DradisPing
8mo ago
I think the moral dilemma is "Should you put yourself at risk to help people who endanger themselves foolishly?"
If you assume 20% of people will pick blue because they misunderstand the question then the moral calculus is very different.
DradisPing
8mo ago
There have been thirty (30) World of Warcraft novels. None of them will ever be considered literature.
A lot of people don't need writing to be high quality to enjoy it.
DradisPing
8mo ago
The limited scope makes the gameplay less tedious and allows them to put in more random fun.
For instance the implemented the talk with animals spell with full voice acting. So you can chat with a cow and then catch up with her when she’s been moved to a new area. They also put in this bit with a cat the seems to have no plot relevance.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XXpDsROtiT8
Gameplay wise the choices hit the right balance between mindless levelling and having to read every skill description and overthink things.
DradisPing
8mo ago
That said I suspect "push for a law limiting the number of mail-in ballots a single person can mail in on behalf of others" might be a popular policy for the right to push.
It's already in place in a number of states, it's just a matter of the will to enforce it. The footage from 2000 mules was from states that banned third party ballot collection, but there was no will to admit that there was a problem.
DradisPing
8mo ago
2012 was the year of Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
His team felt he might have trouble getting the same turnout because he hadn't delivered enough for his base. So leftwing activists started agitating various left wing causes online and off.
One big thing was the Trayvon Martin shooting, which was made into a national issue and kicked off BLM. The press went all in on the shooting, ignoring a lot of facts on the ground. ABC famously edited Zimmerman's 911 call.
Also SanFran tech workers started building in ways to censor and throttle conservatives on their platforms.
As a result random left of center people started having the attitude that "things are worse than ever but we're winning". Previously there was a perception that racism was on the decline.
The re-election of Obama was taking by many on the left as a signal of final victory, that the era of the white man was over. Social media throttling prevented them from hearing any opposition.
That lead to a great deal of shock when Trump won in 2016.
DradisPing
8mo ago
I think that lip and cheek filler can improve looks if done correctly. The problem is that women acclimatize to their appearance and star to feel they no longer have the "wow" effect, so they keep pushing farther with the filler.
I'm less sure about the "preventative botox" injections. It's been going on for a while, but I remember back when I first saw an episode of "The Hills" that none of the girls could furrow their brow.
DradisPing
8mo ago
It was trendy in some places to start earlier. I remember I first saw it when a friend was showing me clips from "The Hills" and none of the girls could furrow their brows when they were upset.
DradisPing
8mo ago
The biggest jackasses I've known were always people who's dads were cops.
The other students were afraid to punch them in the face in high school when they deserved it, and it's difficult to do that in a workplace as an adult.
DradisPing
8mo ago
I don't think there's anything new here. I'm quite certain that there's a long history of courts ordering employers to inform their employees about their rights regarding things like unionization, racial discrimination, sexual harassment, etc.
DradisPing
8mo ago
That would be fantastic. I'm picturing SBF trying to buy designer stimulants from the neo nazi gang that sells meth.
DradisPing
8mo ago
I don't really understand why we can't have retro style gameplay with high-res 2d graphics. Hades did it.
Hades is cell shaded 3D with a perspective to make it look 2D. It's more work to try to do that with the higher detail sprite look.
DradisPing
8mo ago
I find it's a lot easier for me if I can see their name written beside their photo. Facebook was super helpful when people used it. I've had jobs where the HR solution has a photo directory.
DradisPing
8mo ago
It doesn't look like anyone will answer so my best guess is Hock Mountain.
DradisPing
7mo ago
Had I been asked at the time to predict how often QI is granted as a shield against §1983 civil lawsuits, I probably would have said around 80%. The real answer (thanks to Gdanning) is somewhere between 57% and 3.7%.
This is probably just due to how you're thinking about statistics. You're probably picturing a slightly different number, where QI blocks 80% of 1983 lawsuits you'd like to bring.
However most lawsuits won't proceed without a plan to get past QI, so a large number of potential claims have been excluded before they ever got to court.
DradisPing
7mo ago
I'll be honest about my feelings towards unions: I don't get it at all, and I think I'm missing something.
There's a lot of history there and a lot of competing interests. It's probably worth reading this: http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html
I think you'd be insane to not just fire anybody who joins a union on the spot. I don't get how places can "vote to unionize". Why does the employer not simply fire the people doing the organizing?
There are explicit laws against that. Unions in general have a lot of laws to protect them. Read up on Pinkerton strike breaking.
The owner of the "Giant Tiger" chain of stores in Canada likes to joke that "you don't get unions unless you deserve them". I don't think that's entirely true, but early unions were created in response to genuinely horrible treatment.
Are the people running factory machines inside of Ford and GM (or starbucks, or a hollywood writers room) really that highly skilled?
More or less yes. Starbucks isn't terribly high skilled, but a key part of the atmosphere is the preppy gayish vibes they curate in their employees. They needed to do a lot of careful hiring and firing to get that while staying within the bounds of the law.
Hollywood is actually a case of very functional unions. Each production is a new company, so everyone is fired afterwards. The union can't force anyone to employ low performing employees. So standards are enforced by constantly having to be rehired and treatment is enforced by the union. Writers getting royalties makes a lot of sense. Without them writers would save all of their best ideas for a time when they were co-producers and could share in the profits that way.
Skilled autoworkers do deserve decent pay and are difficult to replace. One issue is that the janitorial staff will often get better contract than they deserved, and the union representing them is stuck fighting for raises on top of an already overpriced salary.
Autoworkers and old industry are very interesting. Their golden age has passed, but a lot of unions still expect generous contracts.
Unions are often overly adversarial in the US. I have a controversial explanation for this -- the culture was strongly influenced by soviet spies who wanted to sabotage US industry. The KGB was certainly trying, and had a lot of connections on the left. I admit I can't prove they succeeded.
But countries closer to the iron curtain tended to have more reasonable unions. Germany has national unions based on job type instead of local unions for each company. That makes them more accepting of contracts that are in line with industry standards even if they don't offer big raises.
American unions will bankrupt a company then shrug and say they were just representing their workers, who are now all unemployed.
Unions in the US (and Canada) also like to start taking over management roles, which creates conflicts of interest. Controlling shifts and vacation dates. Sometimes people need a way to protect themselves from an abusive union rep. As far as I know no one has managed to organize a sub-union to curtail union abuses, but I think it could happen.
DradisPing
7mo ago
A quick follow up is where unions fail...
Unions have a negative effect when there's a fixed capital asset that the union can hold hostage that is unrelated to worker performance.
For instance LA port workers are crazy overpaid just because the port is so important for the US economy and there is no political will to fight the union or build a second big pacific port in Seattle.
Railways are always struggling because unions base their demands on the value of the entire rail system. The fix here is to split of the railway companies... pass a law that the company that owns the rail lines can't use them for shipping, they have to charge other companies for rail access who actually do the shipping.
I recall that being a longstanding issue.
Also there was a funny part with the previous name and UN seating, which is alphabetical.
Macedonia was officially known as "The Republic of Macedonia". They wanted to be seated under "M".
Greece insisted they should be called "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and seated under "Y".
The compromise was to seat them under "T" for "The".
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