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I'm sure thinking positive thoughts will feed a thousand chinese families. Look, I'm the first to admit people can focus on the negative and forget the good but the more research into poverty the easier it will be to find the critical areas to solve, and sweeping comparative statements just mean that information will reach further. You're not even getting your statistics "that matter" from someone who researched how much better people are doing. You're getting them from someone who researched how many people are still in deep **** and said "gosh, it's bad but still, it's not as bad as last time". Being well-intentioned and positive doesn't always help - ever heard stories of well-intentioned and positive people holding clothes drives for people in third world countries, effectively neutering the local tailoring industries and leaving their economies worse off in the long run? You need to diagnose the disease before starting treatment because otherwise you're treating cancer with aspirine. Yes I dont dispute much of what you say but at least my data paints a much better and improving picture of global poverty The Oxfam report presents the facts is a negative and counterintuitive way and they dont offer any real solution that can be realistically implemented. For example they say " Oxfam called for fundamental change to ensure that economies worked for everyone, not just “a privileged few” These reports of how to " address poverty and inequality " are generally the same, they highlight all this inequality and tell other people. corporations or countries what they need to do....its easy to tell other people how to fix global problems when you not involved or need to make the sacrifice So because they came with data they also need to offer the solutions? I find this an odd requirement. Statistics researchers are usually not good at implementing solutions, that's not what they do.

Nobody's running for office here.

I'm sure thinking positive thoughts will feed a thousand chinese families. Look, I'm the first to admit people can focus on the negative and forget the good but the more research into poverty the easier it will be to find the critical areas to solve, and sweeping comparative statements just mean that information will reach further. You're not even getting your statistics "that matter" from someone who researched how much better people are doing. You're getting them from someone who researched how many people are still in deep **** and said "gosh, it's bad but still, it's not as bad as last time". Being well-intentioned and positive doesn't always help - ever heard stories of well-intentioned and positive people holding clothes drives for people in third world countries, effectively neutering the local tailoring industries and leaving their economies worse off in the long run? You need to diagnose the disease before starting treatment because otherwise you're treating cancer with aspirine.

Me and Bruce were just kidding around, honest. Fair enough. I'm a bit cautious with this thread, but only because I want to make sure it doesn't end up like the last one. It may be the politics thread but that doesn't mean we have to spend more time taking jabs at each other than debating the issues, right?

Gosh, I thought I ended the last thread with a warning regarding derailing threads in favor of insulting each other. Guess not. Let's pretend I did, though.

At least he's not Baron Harkonnen.

I hope it's not PoE 2 because this thread would look silly. I have simple entertainment needs. Teehee!

Wow, this thread is so edgy I need a bandaid. Live and let live unless they're not the same as everyone else, huh? The last time I saw such bunched panties over pronouns it was a bunch of SJWs. Horseshoe theory and all that? Anyway, the fact that there's been people summing up punished American whistleblowers concerns me more than this one's punishment. There's so many of them! Why does the US do so much **** their own people can't even live with?

Oh yeah. Also, Edwin becoming Edwina. And on my first playthrough, before I knew romances were a thing, Jaheira and Aerie fighting over me.

Presented without comment, for surely such a comment could only be filled with dread.

I could see past that, this show's had geniuses make dumb decisions before (last seasons villain keeping no insurance for his blackmail for example). But there's a difference between misdirecting your audience for a twist or simply cheating them for one and the girl on the plane is the latter.

Sherlock finale was a great example of a twist that makes a writer feel clever but an audience feel like said writer is a ****.

I felt like Enterprise was just more of the same but then I was never a big Star Trek fan. By the time I started watching both TOS and Next Generation were already horribly dated to the point of being ridiculous camp, so everything else after being ridiculous hasn't been much of a deviation.

I missed Fargo season 2 when it ran so I caught up on it. What the hell was up with

You can find Romance in France. Just not in any major city because they've commodified it.

Dude, that's not.... actually, never mind, it's entirely true.

I made it to episode 4 before

True. Although...

To be fair, he had made sure he was off his **** at the time....

I'm a bit jealous because of how many people in this thread who from my perspective seem to take their self-discipline ("drive") and ability to self-motivate ("enthousiasm") for granted. I didn't have any of that in my formative years owing to and causing itself a myriad of mental issues. It took me developing those skills through years of therapy and fostering positive habits and learning mindfulness for me to be able to appreciate or enjoy any kind of work or learning. Now I'm an extreme outlier, but it's been a longstanding observation for me that those people who are stuck in dead end jobs but come home after a long day to just watch TV do so not because of laziness (most of the time) but because they have problems in self-worth. If your self is worthless, what does that mean for your self-motivation and self-discipline? For those who are surprised people don't take more initiative and create their own education, let me ask you something. Would you be able to stick with something if it felt completely pointless to you? Because for a while I got my "dream job", I developed video games for a living, and then I quit because it wasn't doing anything for me. I didn't even dislike it, I just felt empty. I worked scrubbing office toilets for at least a year after and it felt pretty much the same. I had to learn to appreciate myself before I could learn to appreciate anything else. If you don't believe you have the potential to improve, everything becomes a pointless chore. Why work to better yourself if you don't think that's possible?

Then again, college knowledge has some major gaps if the people building the curriculum don't know what they're doing. Even worse if they lack contacts within the industry and the students can't get a real working experience. 100% truth. My college education ended up being around 100% wasted time because of this, and I would have been better off going autodidact as I spent a lot of time doing pointless homework and papers that prevented or took time away from learning important skills more than anything else. Sadly this seems to be the norm for multimedia educations - I don't know about other fields but most people I know who studied design, animation, marketing or code-monkeying found their education to be a waste of time and money, and the vast majority of them switched fields after school. But schools here also work differently - I studied multimedia specifically and didn't really get the option to study say humanities or history with it, they work closer to trade schools here.

Sherlock. Well, that sure was interesting. Look forward to learning more about "Sherrinford", and whether or not that was it's reveal or a red herring because "everyone stops looking after three".

Whelp, since this page is pretty much filled with sniping I can safely say you guys have no politics left to talk about. Since you're talking about each other instead, I'm closing this thread now. It's been too long for a while anyway. I'm not going to forbid any more politics thread, but I'd like to suggest you guys give it a rest for a while. For the record, the next time I come into a thread and I find members ignoring the the conversation in lieu of attacking each other like ****ing children, those members might find themselves jumping up the warning ranks and going straight into moderated mode. These little board feuds have gone on long enough.

QFT. I literally thought it said it contained sensitive material because it was the kind of thing that would make alt-right whiners lose their minds. The media at this point is bending over backwards to give them their own little safe space from things they disagree with moreso than they ever did for hardcore SJW feminist whiners. I can't believe they deigned to respond to those fruitcakes who saw the villain of Rogue One and decided "this weak and ineffectual man reminds me of Trump, that must be Disney's fault".

I was joking but that was an interesting read. Did Prince Amentep have a nemesis? An arch-villain? Would make a good evil alt.