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For some reason I grow fonder and fonder of that video. I really enjoy how she's singing about her vagina and such, dressed in a sexy outfit, but is completely unable to manifest an ounce of sexuality in her performance. She stomps around like an elephant on stilts.

I choose to believe that Bill Nye is sitting there the whole time reminiscing about how when he was younger he didn't need to give a woman like Rachel Bloom a spot on his show just to sleep with her.

I think I big problem is that there's such a thing as an illegal image.

If an unfriendly outsider hacks an account and starts posting CP in threads it's a big deal. Sure mods can take it down quickly, but it's just safer if everyone just has to use imgur or some other external service for their images.

Peak performance requires all of your joints to be in excellent shape. I think the issue is that every hard hit does a little bit of permanent damage. Or at least slow healing damage that never heals because they keep playing.

Accumulated micro-damage isn't visible. So the number of times they carried the ball is a reasonable proxy.

Having some dedicated fans go through all of the hits for each player and ranking them from 1-5 based on how hard they looked would probably also work well, but that's a lot more work.

The instruments sound more like layered samples than a band playing together.

I doubt it's the unions. The Oscars brought in explicit diversity rules. I'm guessing other awards shows have followed with explicit or implicit rules.

Also Amazon is probably tracking the ESG rating for Prime Productions.

They crow about how it allows you to more efficiently write to the screen with few calls, and that seems possible in theory.

Planar (bit pane) video modes are actually about fast reads. Not for the CPU, but the hardware on a video card can read the data from multiple vram chips in parallel when outputting to a monitor. 320 x 200 x 4bits x 60Hz was a lot of bandwidth for 80s memory chips.

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Hungary is run by a populist right wing authoritarian, Viktor Orbán.

It's also where one of the most prominent internationalist activist left wing billionaires is from, George Soros. He still gets involved locally.

So posts about Hungary end up being proxy fights about Soros and his agenda.

It is almost certainly illegal in some capacity to fly illegal immigrants further into the country. I’m almost certain the federal aviation code, at least, has something against flying around people who have no legal right to be in the country.

It is not. Obama started a program to relocate illegal immigrants deeper into the country back in 2014: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/289742-just-before-election-obama-doubles-down-on-illegal-immigrant-fly/

Biden restarted and expanded the program.

His administration went farther, now illegal aliens can use their arrest warrants as ID for TSA purposes.

From https://www.theepochtimes.com/tsa-backtracks-on-allowing-illegal-immigrants-to-use-arrest-warrants-as-id-to-fly_4229583.html

"When illegal immigrants and other non-citizens and non-U.S. nationals “do not otherwise have acceptable forms of ID for presentation at security checkpoints, TSA may also accept certain DHS-issued forms, including ICE Form I-200 (Warrant for Arrest of an Alien),” a TSA spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times in an email."

It takes a shocking number of dead peasants before an intellectual will admit his ideas were wrong.

Changing medical and agricultural practices puts the peasants lives on the line. They weren't going to make any big changes without a lot of proof.

I cannot say for certain if there was cheating only that the current system is vulnerable to it.

If Canadian voting scares you then you need to read up on California voting.

Is this sort of thing just "baked in" to Canadian politics, and will the various parties in the Canadian CW just not take notice?

Basically yes. The courts have been playing a weird game where they say "we never said give natives lower sentences, we just said they need special consideration".

There's just always been a very strong trend where people in large cities think of natives as more like magic wood elves than human beings.

People on the right just view it as a hill not worth dying on. The legal system is filled with urbanites with minimal contact with natives. Their beliefs are strongly held.

There's just so much lower hanging fruit elsewhere.

Quebec is very unusual. Look farther back.

Basically it's quite socially separate from the rest of Canada. Most identify more as Quebecers or French than as Canadians.

So it's very common for Quebecers to vote federally in terms of what Quebec or their district will get instead of ideologically.

In Canada ministers are chosen from the elected members. But cabinet ministers are expected to have representation from Quebec.

So if the Conservatives win, and they only have a handful of small town members of parliament, then those members are basically guaranteed to be in cabinet.

Quebec ends up having big swings.

In 2000 the NDP got 1.8% of the vote in Quebec.

In 2011 the NDP got 42.9% of the vote in Quebec.

In 2019 the NDP got 10.8% of the vote in Quebec.

The two party system in the US is pushed by factors missing in Canada.

First, separate executive elections with multiple elections on the same day. A Florida's state representative's campaign will get to piggy back on GOTV from the national presidential campaign. Even if there are ideological differences there's a huge reward for tying yourself to a presidential candidate.

The other big thing is state run open primaries. In Canada candidates are decided by votes by members of Electoral District Associations. That is, the party members in that district. It tends to be a small group of people running it. It's easy to keep outsiders out.

The PRA states that Presidential records must be saved and returned, but the president gets to hold on to "personal records". There are always disputes between the archivist and the ex president's office.

The only legal precedent is Judicial Watch v NARA from 2012 which found:

"NARA does not have the authority to designate materials as “Presidential records,” "

So the designation is at the former presidents sole discretion.

The outgoing Obama admin packed up all the records in the white house and stored them in a commercial facility to go through later.

Basically the raid doesn't have a good foundation.

Or, alternatively, why wouldn't Kiev use a totally-lost-Soviet-Nuke-totally-not-from-NATO to counter-nuke?

They can trace back nuclear weapons to the facility that generated the nuclear material. The mix of contaminants in unique to each.

The US did it. They wanted to punish Russia and take pressure to cave off of German politicians.

The Swedish Security Service is doing an investigation, they've confirmed it was a detonation. So Methane Hydrate plugs are out.

The other European countries you mentioned don't have teams trained to do exactly this sort of thing. The US does. They are just way ahead of everyone else at undersea operations.

There's no evidence of China being in the area. They could pull something like this off in the South China Sea, but the explosions happened just outside of Danish (Bornholm) territorial waters.

It's a heavily NATO controlled area. If the US didn't do it then they know exactly who did.

Other quotes in favor:

“one way, or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.” - Victoria Neuland

"If Russia invades,” said Biden, “then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."

Polish MEP & Former Defense Minister Radosław Sikorski tweeted out "Thank you, USA"

Look at the map. They happened just outside the territorial waters of Bornholm which is a Danish island. Some of the explosions were right at the Denmark / Sweden border.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Nord_Stream_gas_leaks#/media/File:Nord_Stream_gas_leaks_2022.svg

You changed detonation to explosion, then argued that explosion can mean anything.

But articles about the Swedish probe have been specifically using the word detonation. eg https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/nord-stream-leaks-detonation-sweden-probe

A detonation is a supersonic explosion from an exothermic reaction. They wouldn't have used that word for a methyl hydrate pipe burst.

"Bring an end to it" meant to get it decertified.

That's a matter of opinion. Here's video of the quote.

https://twitter.com/realchasegeiser/status/1576413365127155712

When asked to explain how he'd end it he didn't say anything about decertification. He just gave an ominous "We will, uh, I promise you we will be able to do it."

The decertification explanation just sounds like his staff trying to walk back his threat.

As for heavily controlled, while its not an ocean, there is still a lot of water out there. A sub, or a nondescript looking boat with divers could go the area without attracting notice

I think you're underestimating the complexity and the likelihood of being caught. Multiple bombs at multiple sites. A very high risk operation for the Russians.

Sure, it could have been a frame job, but that's not the most likely option.

Definitely part of the problem. They needed to make parts of the show noticeably different from Tolkien's work to show that they weren't using material the didn't have the rights to.

I imagine that they had to run major creative decisions by lawyers. That doesn't help the writing.

Actually Sherlock Holmes' early adventures are in the public domain now. His later ones are not.

So you can publish your mashup, but it will have a similar mishmash of restrictions on material.

Swedish investigators have been examining the sites and they've said it was cause by "detonations". So that's a blow against the burst theory.

The US has a lot of allies in the German government, but the German people don't care enough about Ukraine to freeze in the dark this winter.

Blowing up the pipeline takes pressure off of their allies in the German government since it's now impossible to reopen the pipelines.

The situation is slipping out of their control. They though that control of the global financial system gave them control over all governments. But it turns out that Europe needed to buy Russian gas more than Russia needed to sell it. The German government would likely have folded from domestic pressure if the pipeline was still an option in the winter.

I'd read his comment as "the political class of Poland takes it for granted that the US did it".

He's the sort of person who goes to dinner parties with a lot of people who would know secret details. Presumably he's noticed that they don't seem confused or concerned about who did it.

It's not speculative at this point. They know how much gas they typically burn for power and heating in the winter. They know that they don't have it.

It's already mid October. They certainly don't have any plan they can roll out in two months and people are going to be cold in December.

The German energy crisis isn't six months away. It's happening now.

https://apnews.com/article/business-germany-government-and-politics-0e2a5f4bb528bd71128c0278650a410c

Germans are using too much gas to avoid a potential energy “emergency” this winter, the head of Germany’s national network regulator warned Thursday.

[...]

“We will hardly be able to avoid a gas emergency in winter without at least 20% savings in the private, commercial and industrial sectors,” Mueller said. “The situation can become very serious if we do not significantly reduce our gas consumption.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1124448463/germany-coal-energy-crisis

It wasn't supposed to be like this. This coal-fired power plant is one of several nationwide that were scheduled to be shut down by the end of the year, to maintain Germany's commitment to phasing out coal by the end of this decade. But with Russia cutting natural gas deliveries to Europe, and with no quick options to replace that energy, Germany is warily turning to its most reliable — and environmentally polluting — fossil fuel. At least 20 coal-fired power plants nationwide are being resurrected or extended past their closing dates to ensure Germany has enough energy to get through the winter.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/growing-energy-crisis-a-grave-threat-to-industry-in-germany-a-9152547c-a31d-483e-a70c-242c280cab23

The questions that executives across the country find themselves faced with are of an existential nature: For how long can we continue to withstand high energy prices? How can we save? Is production in Germany even still worth it any longer? Or is it time to move away to a place where energy prices aren’t as high?