Orogun01

Too late, that already happened. It's funny how people are so afraid of entertaining ideas, as if our powers of reasoning will suddenly ran out of gas and stop at the wrong place. Look, I get why you think the way you do but as a guy that has recently been doing light research on the Indian American conflicts; from King Phillipe war to the war against the Plains Indian, there's more to this than the modern narrative. Let's face it, one commercial of an Indian crying over littering is what dictated our modern view of the natives, strangely enough we accept that they committed scalping (which is horrific) but somehow they are still regarded as the victims. Why? Cause evil white man didn't believe in Great Spirit and wasn't connected to nature and a whole other sleuth of modern politics that have muddied perspective.

Have you seen what China's doing lately? With their big red flag???

Yeah....that's why popular sentiment at the time stopped the US from all out war on the Indians until stories of the Indians peacefully scalping, torturing an raping those settlers spread. Why those poor noble savages, its a good thing Communist Hollywood corrected the record out of pure selfless reasons.Not because shaming and subversion were their purpose, after all that doesn't work...I mean its not like we have a bunch of self hating communist white people rioting on behalf of minorities.

funny thing, unless you have your gun drawn over 10 feet is the safe distance from an assailant. Within 10 feet you're better off drawing a knife.

Man, if I ever get enough machine guns to keep the unwashed, uncivilized hordes of natives away. I could see myself in S.Africa...No offense to Bruce, he can visit....provided that he bathes.

Up until April of this year all Vodkas were required to be odorless, flavorless and colorless. So you might as well just keep the bottle and refill it with the cheap stuff, legally you should be able to tell the difference.

I thought you were a seal.

No and there shouldn't be one, usually what you get is counter protestors.

He's been nominated twice because of 2 peace deals between Arabic nations and Israel.

BTW, can we take bets on whether Trump wins the Nobel prize?

I worked blue collar jobs for the longest time, I actually miss a lot aspects from them. Corporations would work better if they operated like blue collar job, but that's almost impossible. Blue collar jobs work because they're small and specialized, so everyone knows what everyone else is doing or has a strong idea because they see the process. Corporate jobs tend to be a mishmash of different jobs, you have product development, marketing, legal, sales, etc etc... Because of that you have competing interests that go unchecked, the worse of it is that this is a natural occurrence since in order to grow a boss has to delegate and as they delegate further they become further removed from the job. A good example would be Twitter, they have been selectively banning people because of ideology. Jack Dorsey came out and faced the whole situation in 2 Joe Rogan podcasts. Now, I wonder how aware he was of the situation as it was happening. I think not very much, he just had an ideology and then hired someone that had the same ideas because he related to them and though they shared his vision. Repeat that process a couple of lower steps down the hierarchy and you end up with a rainbow colored leftist that thinks right = bad and bans everyone. The point of that example is to show how distant the people making the decisions are from the process and even more so from the consequences. The thing that allows these multinationals to operate freely is that governments can't enforce the laws so they're free of punishment. The reason why SJWs get their way is that top corporate are afraid of consumer revolt, they have seen companies fall because of failing to adapt to consumer habits. The more options makes boycotts more viable, the more competition the more diversity of choice and the more we organize and are informed the better that we the public can hold companies accountable. Because the reality is that due to the open nature of our governance, the poor have a say but the rich also have a say...and we don't want to change that even if the rich get a bigger say, it matters that the poor at least get to say and threaten with consequences. TL;DR: I'm buzzed and had a fight/tender/growing closer moment with my biological mother....the other one still thinks I'm a psychopath, and the one that's crying just found out about it....wait that has nothing to do with what I said.

Ok, I don't know what your workplace experience is. But I've worked for a multinational corporation that's top 10 within their industry for the past 4 years, yet they run things like a mom and pop shop, and being that close to other departments has granted me perspective. The owners were lawyers, so yes they had enough seed money to fund their business and enough job safety to take risks. Their parents had businesses, so they also had hereditary experience and their support in their endeavor. The business didn't grow overnight, it was tenths of people and a lot of ups and downs before they were stable, eventually it grew until it became absorbed by a larger corporation. I tell this in the hope of giving perspective into how small businesses can grow and become global, it won't be the same for each but I know that before working at this company I didn't know the process and how many smaller companies that service the larger ones exist. It is very easy to see success from the bottom and think you know how it happened, some of it is true; connections are worth their weight in gold, but you develop those connections by being active within their industry. It is easy to see the top but not the climb when it comes to businesses. The reality is that big businesses encourage regulation that raises the cost of entry to gain monopolies, absorb smaller businesses and will outright sabotage businesses in order to gain their expertise. As gamers we should be keenly aware of this since it was a common practice back in the early 2010's when publishers deliberately sabotaged their projects in order to acquire developers. It has now led to a very small AAA industry that rehashes the same types of games, the AA market took a big hit from this and if it wasn't for Kickstarter and other funding alternatives. There likely be even fewer mid range developers. Sorry for the long post. TL;DR: Big companies were small at first and once big they stop others from competing.

I fear that UBI will just mean that price elasticity will go up due to sellers realizing that customers have more money, or because increased demand. Without competition UBI will not solve wealth inequality, it might have the opposite effect and create economic instability that consolidates competing companies into monopolies. The ideal solution would be more competition because it keeps prices down. But that is very difficult to achieve at a global scale and if you subsidize small businesses then you end up financing failures and there's no profit incentive for the business to grow. If you over-regulate, you also hurt small businesses that can't absorb the costs of regulation and have their actions more limited. I guess that deregulation and some stricter antitrust laws(or they could just enforce the ones in the book already) could have an effect, but really I just favor deregulation. UBI would only help if it creates more products not increase demand, it really should be a program to help rising businesses until they get to a certain profit margin or are acquired by a larger corporation. Help generate wealth by creating labor demand.

Or how about encouraging other countries to become trading partners by encouraging production? That way competition stabilizes the market and we don't run anyone's economy off a cliff. BTW, Moderators. We need an emoji to express a patronizing tone.

Well to be fair his presidency was assaulted with a Russia collusion conspiracy, which saw a reduction in the number of firings. Which I think was its intended purpose because it would look as obstruction of the investigation. Yeah, I don't see a lot of enthusiasm for Biden either where I live, seems like a lot of Trumpers in S. Florida. I just saw on the news the head of a Venezuelan restaurant, in Doral apologizing for Kamalah Harris unplanned visit. Seems like they don't want to be associated with her.

I think that sentiment is what led to Trump being elected, he is seen as an outsider to politics. He definitively played to that when he promised to "drain the swamp"

I don't get why people are afraid of the deficit, it's to measure of how much US dollars are in circulation.

I also didn't like Minsc, he displays may symptoms of low functioning autism. But I also don't like Baldurs Gate, the game has an interesting view of what evil is, I would just tell rude people to f off and when they became belligerent I defended myself. Then I met Minsc, who was standing around for weeks at that point in the same spot. When I told him that his witch was probably dead (a reasonable assumption due to the amount time passed) He flew into one of his autistic rage episodes and attacked me, after putting the mentally deficient bastard down the whole town's guard came after me. Apparently acts of self defense are not lawful in Baldurs Gate.

Crazy Taxi

Stop it, I can only get so hungry.

That's ok, you sound delicious....Mhhh, danishes.

We did but we had to take a step back when "breathy teenage girl singing slow version of 90's hit" was a massive failure.

Well, in America the emergency line is the same for medical emergencies or police emergencies so it goes to the same place. Why the dispatch didn't mention that it was an autistic boy having an episode and not a crazed teenager with a weapon, we don't know.

It not about permission is about avoiding misunderstandings, you communicate ahead of time so that there's an established agreement. But feel free to do whatever you want, I'm a big believer in social eugenics

...Look dude you cant get shot to death over the phone and it will really let them know what kind of situation they're walking into if they get a complaint. I get you're being funny and facetious but if it will keep you safe, it's just less than a 10 minute call and it will save you a lot of trouble. Just stay safe.