Jump to content

ShadySands

Members
  • Posts

    4329
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    74

Everything posted by ShadySands

  1. "Go back to " has a long history here. Maybe some of the international folks have similar things in their own countries. Words or phrases that have other much more negative connotations behind them than may appear at first glance or to someone unfamiliar. https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741827580/go-back-where-you-came-from-the-long-rhetorical-roots-of-trump-s-racist-tweets I've personally been told to go back to various different places usually depending on where I am in the country. Though to be fair to the racists, because everyone needs a break, I'm decently tough to pin down since my (ancient alien) ancestors are from figurative literally everywhere.
  2. Picard's dog's name is Number One
  3. He said he prefers turned based so I don't think slowness or not being flashy enough is the issue but more that they don't have a lot to do. I tend to agree as my first BG character was a fighter and I hated it being such a passive experience. I ended up switching to casters because even though low level casting is pretty weak it gave me a sense of participation. I believe it was one of the things Josh Sawyer talked about in the first Pillars Kickstarter and why Pillars fighters have more to do right from the jump.
  4. I don't favor indiscriminate mass release as I think each case should be reviewed in-depth prior to any release Also, there actually are a small number of people incarcerated in federal prisons for simple possession. It's only a misdemeanor on the first offense and even that can still get you up to a year and since I don't think the federal goverments operates jails I can only assume where they go various links and whatnot https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/844 https://www.ussc.gov/ https://www.bjs.gov/ https://www.drugwarfacts.org/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/ Note: last 2 have an agenda to refrom drug and/or prison policy but they do dash the notion that prisons are overflowing with people put there for possession and do generally state how many are there for that reason Bonus link https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/04/16/john-boehners-claim-that-we-have-literally-filled-up-our-jails-with-people-for-minor-marijuana-possession/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2f801a3843df
  5. I liked that one a lot too but I thought the sound was a bit weird in parts
  6. Not sure where you're getting that https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/drug-possession-penalties-and-sentencing.html That's just checking laws which vary quite a bit depending on where you're at. I'm not sure what your jails are like but ours are generally used to house people awaiting trial or sentencing but also hold inmates with misdemeanors and low level felonies. It's also more short term and typically no more than a year. Again, also varying depending on location.
  7. Well, you clearly have some investment in this for some reason. Is it overblown that prisons are filled with people with just possesion charges? Yes, very much so but to say that nobody is in prison because of it goes against the data available. Also, this is just counting prisons and not jails which I'm sure would increase the numbers quite a bit.
  8. The South didn't like the country so they tried to leave it PS and if I'm not mistaken one of the original plans for abolishing slavery was for them to leave the country afterwards
  9. Skarpen, do you own stock in a prison or something? Nobody in their right mind is saying we should release murderers and rapists and other violent offenders. Pretty much everything I've seen has been calling for low level offenders generally ones with possession charges of personal use amounts of drugs. Some of these plans also have some decent bipartisan support and Trump has already supported and signed the First Step Act. If you want to keep taking all the worst cases and applying them across the board then I guess that's your windmill to tilt at
  10. I still can't not use the created companions in these types of games. I dunno what it is.
  11. I dunno but she rubs me the wrong way in pretty much every interview I've seen with her. My spider senses say something is off.
  12. I'm still where I was at before. I prefer some candidates like Warren, Gabbard, Sanders, and Yang but would not vote for Harris or Biden for anything. Everyone else I'm still undecided on.
  13. As far as I've heard it's just a randomized place for people that love to dungeon dive. Supposedly dungeon depth is partially locked to your progress in the game if you play it as part of the campaign but I don't think there's any story to be found inside.
  14. Are you playing on a private server? I thought the game was closed down. I always wanted to give that game a try
  15. Couple of snakes seem to be living in the backyard. I call the bigger one Mr Snakey Cornelius S. Cornwallis Snakeypants III of the Connecticut Snakeypants and the smaller one Snek.
  16. John Paul Stevens
  17. Maybe Terrio is good but it looks more like one success in a sea of turds. I don't mean to be too harsh as I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with being a one hit wonder
  18. My wife has been making fun of me because every song I sing to our son ends with " in a half shell, turtle power."
  19. Well, Disney did give the second movie to just some guy so maybe they can give the 4th movie to these hack frauds. They literally can't do any worse. Literally.
  20. Bruce, why not both? A racist distraction. I agree that racism and other isms being called a too freely and broadly but I don't think this is one of those cases He's not outright calling them names but he is saying they're not from here (3 were born here and 1 came as a child) and insinuating that they aren't "real" Americans (they're all Americans) because of that first point and therefore have no right to try to dictate US policy/law (that's pretty much what they were elected to do).
  21. I like how they chop up the threads
  22. Made some chicken and mushroom ramen for lunch with bacon, sun-dried tomatoes, black garlic, and green onion. Pretty much no broth and topped with parmesan cheese. Made some chicken in milk for dinner and a salad. Yum.
  23. I was hoping for Idris Elba
  24. Can they tie or both lose? 'Fraid I don't know the rules.
  25. Been a long time since I've had to think about flag etiquette but I believe burning is the preferred method here as well. Personally, I don't really care. I think if you want to burn your purchased inanimate items then it's your money to throw away. Though be aware of burning restrictions in your area lest you also pay a fine for that.
×
×
  • Create New...