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And as @KaineParker pointed out, it is rather incongruous how it's perfectly well and good to wholly generalize certain groups...say, the protestors...while saying or suggesting it would be totally wrong to do the same to others...say, cops. The reverse situation, of course, happens elsewhere with people on the opposite extreme of things, but given that hardly any (none?) of us are saying "ALL COPS ARE PIGS" or anything of the like, but rather making more pointed criticisms of police as a flawed institution (criticisms that have long been known to and held by many), it seems weird to use us as your sounding board on the radical evils of protestors. Has anybody here extolled the virtues of the protestors/rioters that have gone too far and murdered anyone or razed anything (or attempted to)? Maybe somebody did and I don't remember. Don't think anybody here has even gone so far as to say "defund the police" or anything of the like, either.

Ended up asking on some private moviegoer forums what the best option for my movie poster was, which I guess was probably the logical idea to begin with - apparently, high quality frames that have very limited chance of degrading or damaging the poster over time and that will also properly protect the poster from e.g. UV damage or acidic corrosion without also making it look like crap will run more in the $100-150 range. About as expensive as the poster itself was. This is a bit more of an expensive poster project than I bargained for. Oh well, I guess you can't put a price on staying quality!

The frequent lack of accountability and proportional consequences for blatant bad actions taken by 'bad apples' probably doesn't do any favors for moderating their dispositions or encouraging patience and understanding either, I'm sure. I posted a Twitter image a while back whose content was essentially, "Why are store clerks better at de-escalating situations than cops?", to which the top reply was, "Because we get fired if we don't."

I'm the opposite: eat a good breakfast, eat small the rest of the day. Much easier than the other way around - once you've had your big meal of the day, the rest is so much easier to manage (and it's not nearly as big of a deal if you have to skip something later, whereas if you had a small breakfast, eating a small lunch or skipping it really sucks).

@Gromnir You mentioned the "3 seats flipping to impeach" thing before. I don't remember exactly how this works - it's the House doing what's technically the impeachment (basically laying charges against) which is simple majority, then the Senate votes to convict...but that's 2/3rds majority, isn't it? Or is it only 2/3rd majority to remove the president (as opposed to some other form of punishment)?

Does anyone know anything about framing/hanging posters? Wooden frames for the size (24x36") seem to run around $40-50, but I just don't know that much about poster-framing, and don't know if I'm approaching it from the right angle to begin with.

I actually did get MedicineDan and ComradeMaster mixed up. Whoops, that's my bad...thanks. Those nonsense double noun names get to sound a lot alike after seeing too many of them over the years, and it didn't help that that particular post really rather read like one of SonicMage's, but that makes Malcador's asking for an explanation make a lot more sense - couldn't really understand why he'd bother to ask, .

well no, of course not, but this is self-proclaimed political expert SonicMage I mean MedicineDan you're talking about (e): had the wrong username, RIP

y tho

@Gorth The fusion of traditional instruments and metal was certainly interesting. Not too big on the vocals, but still a decent listen.

...Have you ever actually voted for the person that, you know, ended up winning? If not, please vote for Donald Trump this fall, .

Don't know which Total War game you're playing specifically, but I've found the AI of Total War to be rather mindboggingly stupid. Like, they can't determine how to weigh the worth of anything and have a habit of giving absolutely outrageous trade offers - either in their own favor or against themselves, without much discrimination and in complete defiance of the realities of their situation. And really, once you start noticing the patterns that determine how they behave, you basically have to start setting your own limitations to make it so you're not abusing and exploiting their stupidity. I'd like to see a competent cross between a Paradox game (the underlying systems that it so everything works in a detailed and mostly sensible/consequent way) and a Total War game (real time battles and more cultural/leader/nation personality/variation) sometime in my life, but it's probably not ever going to happen.

I hate heat and noise, so I usually go for whatever mid-end card is the most power and price-performance efficient, especially since I'm finding current "realistic" 3D graphics more and more hideous. I'm hoping AMD's new series will be slightly more inspiring than nvidia's. Most likely, I won't end up buying a card this generation anyways, but I'd prefer to at least be able to recommend AMD cards to others this time around...

I started following the Bucks two seasons ago, but never actually watched any games. Even though the Bucks were very good last year, I still didn't watch any games. This year, I've actually watched a handful of games, including a couple of non-Bucks game. I don't know what's happening to me.

It's easy enough to read on a screen when the screen is only two feet away from me. On an actual flag with any amount of distant between you and it, it's going to be an unreadable blur. The least they could've done is use a bolder version of the font - tiny and thin lettering is not conducive to reading on fabric whipping in the wind.

Too small text generally makes my blood boil when I look at it. Years of image editing and seeing the horrific damage people do to text with .jpegs, I guess.

Second and third one kind of suck (tiny text on the second one makes it a no-go, third one looks like an NFL logo knockoff), fourth one is pretty decent, fifth one is just a busier, brighter, and not-as-good version of the fourth, and the first one is obviously the best.

Decades of forum-posting have taught me to always CTRL+C any post that is longer than a paragraph at most before hitting post. If it took you longer than five minutes to write a post, then you're technically no longer even logged in (timed out), and I imagine that causes weirdities.

IIRC, in the first part, they specifically stated that these are their "favorite" episodes, and not any attempt at determining the "best" episodes, which have different criteria. I think they also said it was extremely difficult to pick just 5 and there were a number they could've just as easily picked instead. (e): Nice, at the end of this, they said they were down to make a "top 10" to continue listing five more each.

That despite their best efforts, they haven't been able to make it completely fail yet?

"Hurlshot reacted to this: (sad face)" don't feel bad, I largely despise comedy as a genre and more or less ignore its entire existence "What kind of retiree wants to be in charge of an entire country?" who the hell wants to do that at any age, what the hell is wrong with these power-hungry monsters

who dat (e): oh some rando comedian I guess

Guard Dog might on the basis of "total incompetence and infighting + legislative gridlock is actually good for those of us that don't want anything to change" - it really depends on what you want out of a president. In terms of being able to accomplish general U.S. goals and maintain domestic stability (a little more objective measures), I would guess she'd probably be the best on account of not being a crazy old lunatic with dementia like either Biden or Trump. Don't know about Pence, but the current general Republican mantra of "business/money over literally anything and everything no matter the cost in any other way" makes me think she'd probably be better there, too.

I thought whatsherface from Minnesota was the much more logical choice in pretty much every way even though I don't particularly like her (...she's my senator, why can't I remember her name?), but I guess not. I wasn't going like any option they chose, I suppose, but Kamala seems particularly uninspiring.