Orogun01

That's every insurance really. I agree it's a bad system, but I don't see how government regulation will fix it, best thing is to have everyone competing that way we get the lowest rates with the widest coverage.

The simple version is that due to monopolies and employer mandated insurance hospitals inflate their bills. I've literally met at least 3 people that have their bill reduced from thousands to hundreds of dollars once the insurance wouldn't pay.

2 was a good in between a larger story with approachable mechanics. The open world of 3 gets a bit too much, I'm specially resentful of Skellige and all it's nautical treasures.

I like 2 better.

Well on the one hand it would legitimize any American foreign intervention on the other hand it would open the elections to more corruption as we can't really properly supervise our current voting, would be worse if it was global. So in short, it's a win win for the oligarch, internationalist **** that rule politics.

Catalan...Honestly I'm surprised that Spain managed to have almost an entire continent speak their language when they couldn't manage to get their country to speak their language.

Cool, I've been struggling with Portuguese. Mostly, I've been wondering why does Portugal even exist and how in the 7 hells they speak a different language even though they were the same country as Spain for ages! Anyways, good luck learning Spanish dear old carioca.

You speak Spanish?

I'm an idiot...all this time I could have 3D printed myself a cool plague bird mask. Good thing 2020 isn't over yet!!!!

I'm sure this is common knowledge by now but, Polanski is a monster that played mind games with the lead actress Mia Farrow. At some point he actually convinced her to walk through real traffic while he filmed, and yes it made into the movie.

Should we make a Rammstein containment thread?

If you seen Nosferatu either the original or the Wergner Herzod remake, I would recommend Shadow of the Vampire with Dafoe playing the titular role.

LA has rural areas, I watch a lot of Tim Pool. One of the examples he brings up to show why a popular vote system is bad is LA and it rural areas. Essentially the major cities voted themselves priority water rights over the rural areas. So a bunch of farmers can't use water but golf courses have their sprinklers on. It is also illegal to collect rainwater in LA, at least it was years ago. IDK if that changed. Edit: my bad, he said California not LA.

Double post, sorry.

I laugh at how transparent that image is with its bias, welfare programs cost the US on average 600+ billions. So I can see why that pot of ice cream got left out or why none of the small ones on your picture show how much we spend on those programs. I guess we can't let facts get in the way of our biases. BTW, conflating the total US budget to support Defunding the police is a type of dangerous stupidity that will lead to people in areas that are already running underfunded asking to defund the police. More so if you defund the police in some of these states you will likely end up with police being focused on the big cities leaving the rural areas of the state running on fumes. Nothing personal Hurl, I just don't like propaganda and i'm always skeptics of data interpretations.

There are a fair amount of hidden camera videos as well as news reporters who thought getting a gun would be as easy as buying fast food, that found out how difficult the process can be made by state legislature. Never mind states that require a CCW license and make that process impossible. I will concede that you are more familiar with legislation than I, I would love to have some sources on the gunpowder laws. For my own edification, please. That's not how the media treats statistics, it doesn't matter if a small number of people are injured in car accidents. If they treated car accidents as they do guns, they would show the most horrific, negligent car accident and then they would quote the statistics to imply correlation. Also; car usage is not a necessity, NY relies heavily on public transport and you could say that only qualified drivers should be on the road, so only Uber/Taxi drivers with the proper permits and training are allowed. Because; another point that the anti gun people ignore is that they're not against guns, as they would like the police to still have guns. They're against private owner ship of guns If guns don't offer safety how come the states with the most stringent regulations against gun ownership are the ones with the most gun crime? Gun possession didn't stop the British and their sympathizers from fighting against the colonials but it did made it possible for the citizenry to oppose them. HA! Good Talk!

There isn't an anti-car lobby that makes acquiring licenses nearly impossible, some of the more liberal, cosmopolitan states have incredibly heavy restrictions on acquiring guns and what kind of guns you can have. There are also a serious number of laws involving the storage and safe carriage of guns with some states requiring a conceal license and forbidding open carry. Gunpower laws were required as it was a public hazard because improper storage could lead to fires. We have cartridges nowadays so it is no longer an issue. It is not a ridiculous comparison as it reveals the attitudes we have towards car ownership and gun ownership. Despite many people driving by car crashes, encountering bad drivers and having near crashes every day there isn't a call for car reform or to restrict car speeds, I mean does anyone really need to go over 75 mph? But if some white kid in a white neighborhood shoots up a school one day out of the year everyone wants guns banned. I bring the race issue because all throughout the 90's gun in schools was an issue with inner city and low income schools, so much that they had metal detectors in schools. Yet it became politicized only after Columbine.

Is that a per capita comparison or total? Because the US has a way larger population that some of those countries; also the narrowness of GUN deaths. How about we count violent deaths, China has no guns but knife killing sprees in schools and hospitals seem to be a problem over there. One saying in the gun community, if you give up liberty in order to gain safety you deserve neither. By your order of thought, we shouldn't drive cars because of bad car drivers.

If we ever get a time machine we should play it in ancient Rome and see if it would be a hit.

Ok, this is an aside but I find the Indo Greek culture fascinating. Particularly the fact that you have Buddha statues and reliefs with Hercules protecting him and this is some of the earliest representations of the religion. History is awesome once you peel back the politics.

You'd think they would be numb to politics by now.

Ok...The don't gamble, kill yourself.

You won a valuable life lesson...don't gamble.

That's why we started the FBI.