if they do that we’ll never get another good Batman game.

I run krohnkite and klassy, but damn is it a fine default.

what I’m talking about is more that running away isn’t actually an option unless you can win the fight already because if you try to run they can just instantly knock you down.

hopefully the combat system is improved so you actually have a chance of at least escaping when fighting more than one enemy

intelligence has nothing to do with empathy or humility, it is a measure of knowledge and problem-solving. lying about the contents of posts and pretending you are justified is not intelligent, even if you add a quote.

it isn’t more accurate though, you are lying about where the funding came from. congress only approved the budget for the government, they didn’t have a say in who got the money that was being handed out. there is a single right answer and it is to not change the titles of news articles to suit your own opinions. if you want to present your opinion, you do it by making your own post. posting a news article is for sharing the article, not for lying about it’s contents to suit the story you want to tell.

I swear this community is as bad as a flat earth one when the government gets brought up. why change the title from the original to imply that congress (other than deciding the federal budget) had anything to do with it? That is at best irresponsible and misleading and at worst actively malicious. Yes government entities do sketchy things, but that does not mean something can’t be trusted because a government entity interacted with it.

the public housing part is like one bad decision from a workhouse, but otherwise yeah

the postal system is significantly more efficient

that depends entirely on what they’re doing. if it’s illegal then whatever the law says to. otherwise, there’s nothing you really can do other than try to ensure people won’t get caught up in whatever they’re doing.

for example, flat earthers are harmful to society because they push an anti-science narrative that makes people reject reality in favor of whatever they want to believe. However, stopping them from saying things would be a violation of their right to free speech (which must be upheld even then because otherwise people could simply label any idea they don’t like as harmful and suppress it, leading directly to a dictatorship), so instead we try to make sure people know that the earth is not flat and why.

in much the same way, someone taking advantage of someone else (say a guy leveraging a girl’s trauma to make her not leave him, without actually violating the law) often can’t be effectively governed without introducing something that could be used to take people’s rights away in the name of protection. because of this, we have to try and make sure that people don’t fall for it instead.

because the people that are taking advantage of people won’t stop, so you need to make the people being taken advantage of less vulnerable.

good point, and it also does have a “recommended for you” category. I honestly think it’s a pretty good system so long as you keep in mind that it isn’t meant to be what youtube is.

I’ve been using it for a year or two now, and here are my notes on it.

• There are a lot of pretty good creators on there (real engineering, hacksmith, berm peak, and real life lore, for example.) .

• Though Nebula has a lot of good creators, the vast majority of youtubers are not on it, so you will really only be switching for the ones that are.

• It has pretty much every feature (user-facing, anyway) that youtube does except for likes/dislikes, comments, and live streaming.

• It is paid with no free-with-ads option, but it is cheap (currently $36 a year) and provides a comparable experience.

• It handles podcasts well, but there aren’t that many good ones (imo) and a lot of them seem discontinued.

• It has really good discoverability, but it does not match content to the user (i.e., no personalized home page).

• It’s homepage is made up of various categories like a normal streaming service, including continue watching.

• It is not a pay-creator-directly kind of service. you pay nebula and they give 50% of the subscription fees to creators based on view count. It is more like a streaming service version of youtube, in a good way.

Overall, I really like it. It does a lot of stuff right and I feel that my money was well-spent. I would like for there to be more of the people I watch on it (Dankpods, for example). Nebula’s pay scheme seems like a fair deal to me given the type of platform it is.

yeah, and I should have been clearer that I more meant the gun part. buying a lot of guns isn’t that concerning, but buying a bunch at once is.

I mean the accent isn’t really relevant (though it would probably get a comment) but the large quantity of guns and ammo would raise suspicion.

there goes what’s left of my time

I get what they were trying to do but it was such a cop out instead of writing an actual explanation.

I rewatched the whole show just a couple months ago and I didn’t watch TV much as a kid so I only saw a handful of episodes then. this is my current, up to date opinion.

it’s done plainly in reference to real life now, as opposed to being integrated seamlessly into the show. a good example would be the episode where the doctor had to erase his mind and Martha (a black woman) had to try and protect him while posing as his servant because it was the 1800s when they were stranded. this was still in real history (aliens aside) but was integrated as part of the plotline and not randomly mentioned with no context. a good example of when they get this wrong is the special with the meep where Donna’s daughter says something along the lines of “I’m nonbinary because the doctor-donna is binary” which doesn’t make sense in the story because the doctor-donna is binary due to Donna literally merging with the doctor, not gender identity. these things can be integrated well and when you do they only enhance the story by making it feel more realistic, but you have to make them fit the story, not the other way round.

also they don’t care that much