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Gaashk
6hr ago
The recent trend in schools is that if a kid tries to bite you or break your stuff or something, the adult should say “no thank you” very firmly. One of these days No a Thank You will probably be mildly offensive, like “bless your heart.”
I appreciate rude yokels sometimes, as a balance to the euphemism treadmill.
TheBailey
soapy mop
7hr ago
Given that Alabama issues real IDs that seems likely.…even if you won, …what you've done…is, essentially, [destroyed] Alabama's implementation of REAL ID.…Now your whole state is mad at you
If any federal regulation actually exists which would prohibit REAL ID cards from being issued in a person's actual legal name, when that name was acquired by a common-law name change—and so far this is just speculation, no-one has found any such rule*—then
- that would be a legitimate, statutory restriction where applicable, which is on “STAR ID” Driver's Licenses
- that would be inapplicable to non-“STAR ID” Driver's Licenses**
AND you have to pay for a passport, AND you have get the court ordered named change to do that.
*I expect no-one will, either, considering that the passport office explicitly allows common-law name changes, Form DS-60.
**I seriously expect these will never be discontinued anyway, because discontinuing them would harm the voting block of “people who live a lifestyle rendering them incapable of fulfilling the REAL ID requirements”.
Barfknuckle
7hr ago
I'll have to throw vanilla on and see how I get along with the basic gameplay. MechWarrior has always sort of been about racing ahead trying to superhero everything to death before your three bumbling sidekicks can get themselves killed.
BattleTech on the other hand, I can sculpt a perfect precise clockwork death squad. The Phoenix Hawk flanks, the Marauders jump forward to look for headshots, the Atlas cleans up anything still alive by its turn. Entire lances wiped out in a single turn, some mechs dying before even getting to move. Reinforcement lances beheaded and burned. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. I do a little bit of this shit in front of the computer.
I gotta see if I can still get into playing DuckTales from Uncle Scrooge's perspective.
anti_dan
7hr ago
Sadly, I already took this “coward's way out” cutting a check to the local probate court rather than raising the matter the hard way, and am now far too satisfied with my legal name to fuck with it any further; someone else with a similar impulse will need to tackle this.
Its hardly the coward's way out even if Catherine Taylor hasn't been superceded by legislation. Which it may well have been. Given that Alabama issues real IDs that seems likely.
In addition, even if you won, I think you still end up at square one. Now what you've done with your extensive ACLU legislation is, essentially, repealed any rulings, regulations, and indirect legislation that enable Alabama's implementation of REAL ID. Now your whole state is mad at you AND you have to pay for a passport, AND you have get the court ordered name change to do that.
Overall, the initial ruling strikes me, given the date, as an intentional giveaway to Birmingham and other machines in Alabama. Partisan and poorly reasoned.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
7hr ago
Oh nice. That is relevant to my interests in a way that I will share on Tuesday.
anti_dan
7hr ago
But why do we want to surrender a freedom we currently have to the government?
Well, voting is directly implicated, and that is your "freedom" to restrict other people's freedoms. So it isn't a black/white sort of question.
Nice elevator hum but I don't get the association with Windows 95. It had no such sounds.
Back then people were often customizing system sounds. The default sounds were the same as now, but a lot more stuff in OS was making noise if I'm not mistaken.
People were also more frequently changing it, now it seems less common. You can do so but honestly I never bother and haven't noticed anyone bothering.
I remember getting a sound scheme based on the ancient game Kingpin(great 1st episode, the rest ass) . Had a modest amount of very profane voice acting. https://youtube.com/watch?v=8PH65GBY5KE
My mom set it up on her work computer. When email arrived the words 'a piece of shit' would sound. Did raise some eyebrows. But it was a small company, nobody minded and she was one of 2-3 people who actually spoke some English.
Windows 95 isn't what most are nostalgic for. It was kind of crap. Windows NT, 2000 and XP, on the other hand..
TheDag
Per Aspera ad Astra
8hr ago
Ahhh I see! Nope, I think the Church was never meant to be a monarchy, and have a King besides Christ. I believe the more decentralized approach of Orthodoxy is correct.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
8hr ago
CGL has enormously poisoned the well with their shenanigans.
What has Catalyst done? I don't really keep up with the tabletop side, I basically bought a starter box and never played. I'm not surprised they have been up to shenanigans after how badly they botched Shadowrun 6e, but I'm not familiar with it either.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
8hr ago
If you're a Millennial, this Windows 95 theme ambient track is probably pretty nostalgic.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9hr ago
Not a dedicated one, no, just a simple little 10 line Python script
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
9hr ago
wait how are you even seeing this
https://www.themotte.org/comments shows all comments as soon as they are made, regardless of the top-level post's age.
urquan
I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness.
9hr ago
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But in reality, if I wasn't Catholic, I'd be straight-up atheist, no replacement Christianity or other religion for me - if belief goes, it goes completely.
While you're entitled to your conscience, every time I hear these kinds of statements it just makes me very sad; like what is being honored is the whole edifice, and not the encounter with Jesus Christ that is at the very heart of the Gospel -- and has always been the charge of the Church to transmit. Unfortunately, it often makes it easy for me to side with the Protestants and start going, "Wow, is Jesus really so contingent in your eyes not just on the historical continuity of the Church, but on the continuity of one particular interpretation of continuity in the Church?" And I often seriously consider at that juncture whether the attitude being presented is that of many Jews who expected a warrior-messiah and received a crucified one, and even rejected him, because he did not fit their preconceived notions of what God's plan in history would be.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
The typical bishop who has the Latin mass as a live issue likes the Latin mass because he never has to worry about it and gets at least something from fairly low investments. There are exceptions but TLM restriction was not popular with the world's bishops or with the junior clergy. Many were upset at orders to be the bad guy, just didn't understand why they were supposed to be cracking down, resented Vatican micromanagement on the issue, and thought that the benefits of a permissive attitude towards the Latin mass outweighed the completely negligible costs. Summorum Pontificum was the majority moderate opinion.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Most of those lists were dumb agglomerations of candidates secular journalists thought they could write an interesting thinkpiece about. We'll have a better idea of how the rounds of voting went and who was a runner up as more cardinals leak over the next few days, but initial impressions are that the church specific journalists had a reasonably accurate idea of the frontrunners for the first few rounds, they just didn't know who Dolan would whip for, and didn't expect the uberconservatives to break for a known pragmatic centrist instead of throwing all in on a more ideologically acceptable longshot. That those happened to be the same person enabled Prevost's victory.
wait how are you even seeing this, I intentionally put it on an old post. Also the funniest answer would be "both".
Edit: lol should have checked the author: I assumed that this post was by paperclip_perfector. Sorry for the ping.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
More or less a centrist. He was considered to have dragged the Pope Francis admin in a meaningfully centrist direction and the stats nerds who predicted his election put him smack dab in the middle of the cardinals by viewpoint. Center-left maybe, but the most centrist center left winger to have been technically center left, and probably more likely to govern by machine politics and procedure than with any ideological influence. There's a reason that the rumor of the ultraconservative faction swinging behind him early is being seriously entertained by the more informed observers.
WhiningCoil
9hr ago
So, I think so. I too played it on release, preordered it even for a sweet chest of MWO bonuses. I was profoundly underwhelmed, and I don't think I played more than 5 hours for all the reasons you mentioned. Radar was LOS only, enemies constantly spawned out of thin air right on top of you, frequently 100 ft behind you where you just walked because your radar didn't cover that.
I'm not sure all the things that changed, but I wasn't losing my fucking shit over that happening anymore. I played probably half my most recent playthrough with a Better Spawns mod, and half without. Honestly I couldn't tell much difference.
Also, after all the DLC, the Inner Sphere is positively teeming with life. Mercenary companies are operating scattered about, and will hot drop into your missions to help or hinder you. There are wacky televised mech duel contracts on most industrial worlds. There are several mini campaigns that cover most of the major events of the IS pre-Clan Invasion. I honestly can't imagine what more people might want from it. They even finally added melee! It's the game people have been begging for since Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, and it's frequently all on sale for about $50-ish. Still, haters gonna hate, and CGL has enormously poisoned the well with their shenanigans. But IMHO, it's the best MW game we've ever gotten, or are likely to get.
A lot of people though MW5: Clans was underwhelming compared to MW5: Mercs. It's a linear scripted story with lots of story and cutscenes. But once again, this is the game everyone wanted since Mechwarrior 2, and it's better than ever. I get that it's less replayable than MW5: Mercs and it's career mode, but it's still damned good, and thus far the Ghost Bear expansion is fantastic too.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Rumor has it Dolan was the kingmaker in the conclave and Burke also swung behind Prevost early. Maybe he did get the American cardinals to elect an American.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
If I'm gonna have steam pouring out my ears about a humour site dissing the Church, there's bigger targets I'd go after right this minute.
Given Parolin's pre-conclave behavior, that doesn't really seem very beyond the pale.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
9hr ago
Ugh! I had a comment almost 100% finished and then closed out the tab by accident.
Basically here are the four things Vatican I requires someone believe:
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The Pope is the chief bishop, primate and leader of the whole Church of Christ on earth
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He has episcopal jurisdiction over all members of the Church
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To be a member of the Catholic Church a man must be in communion with the Pope
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The providential guidance of God will see to it that the Pope shall never commit the Church to error in any matter of religion.
There are many, many people in the East, outside of Constantinople, who wrote things that either explicit agreed with these statements or logically entailed them.
If you want to imagine the longer version of my comment, I was mostly summarizing https://www.calledtocommunion.com/2012/08/archbishop-minnerath-on-rome-the-papacy-and-the-east/
it_is_so_weird_to_be
10hr ago
I like making stained glass. Cutting the glass, grinding them, foiling, soldering them together. It is such a great and unique gift to give to people, and really exercises my brain in multiple ways. Precision is very important, also thinking ahead multiple steps, plus it stimulates my appreciation of aesthetics. It's a great hobby.
I've had some challenges to overcome specifically at the grinding step. During this step you grind the edges of the cut class pieces to ensure you have a consistent surface to adhere the copper foil to and ensure your pieces are the precise shape you want them to be. But I've had issues because my template pieces I've typically printed out on sticker paper using a regular printer. Problem is during the grinding process the water involved causes my templates to loosen and shift around. I've tried smearing vaseline on the pieces to make them a bit more waterproof, but it's not a great system.
So I've purchased a cutting machine akin to the popular "cricut" machines, but without their walled garden of paid software. The idea is that I can use waterproof vinyl stickers to adhere to the glass instead of paper. The precision of the machine will also help because there's some leeway when cutting using scissors that leads to weird gaps later in the process. I've been having trouble figuring out how to use the thing though. It's called a silhouette. I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point.
Anyway, I just wanted to see if anyone else has this hobby.
No_one
10hr ago
He doesn't like Russians much you can tell, but I think he's simply one of the few professionals and is mostly fair in his reporting and analysis. What he says isn't too dissimilar, rhetoric/attitude to Ukraine aside from what I hear from certain anti-Ukraine/US westerners with military experience who take their time following the war.
These are people who deplore the senseless waste of life but have little to no sympathies to Russian state.
Corvos
10hr ago
The Scots Wikipedia chap was pretty impressive. From the non-Scots wiki:
In August 2020, the wiki received scrutiny from the media for the poor quality of its Scots writing and the discovery that at least 20,000 articles had been written by an editor who did not speak the language.
They fired one of their longest running and best IMHO authors because he was conservative. Then they stepped in and broke the "no real world politics" rules the assorted communities have and made celbrating pride month mandatory.
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