Everything posted by pmp10
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Terror attack in Barcelona
That's really not a good argument. Most of Christian religious beliefs are nowhere near as extreme as they used to be. It took centuries of violence and bigotry for modern tolerance to finally be build. I think you take these things far too literally. I doubt any would-be-martyr believes he will go to hell for having been force-fed the wrong kind of food.
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The Weird, Random and Interesting Things That Fit Nowhere Else Thread
But it's not that simple. 90% of men who made up confederate armed forces didn't own any slaves. The popular support confederacy enjoyed was not for the benefit of a few rich men but to defend the system. And frankly speaking I think history is pretty much always an art of reinterpreting the past to push modern political agenda.
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Random Sales
For a multiplayer looter-shooter it's pretty average. Would recommend only if you played Borderlands to death and are willing to accept a drop in quality.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
On the death of immersive sims Real shame. Prey at least should have gotten a sequel.
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What are you playing right now?
You weren't supposed to know in advance. There are ropes in Shady Sands if you can be bothered to back-track.
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux
I'd agree if 'tomorrow' means 'not in our lifetimes'. As is, we would need luck to even see asteroid mining happen.
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux
And it would take trillions to extract them while you can do it on earth for far less. If there was profit in space mining people would be doing it right now.
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux
Moon has hardly appropriate resources even for rocket fuel let alone ship construction. Never-mind lack of business case of going beyond earth orbit.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
Accurate but over-intellectualizes his position. One man's checks and balances is another man's swamp.
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Politics - Episode 9: The Lurking Fear
No, the Republican motto is "We're dumb as rocks, and we do whatever our corporate masters tell us." Isn't that to long of a motto for dumb as a rock party? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/24/poland-president-to-veto-controversial-laws-amid-protests Sharp_one whats wrong with your ruling party? Why do some members of your government think they should have the right to appoint members of the supreme court and judiciary....this was an unacceptable expectation that was set and would never be tolerated in a Democratic institution like the EU That wasn't the real problem Bruce. The real travesty was the idea that they would appoint all of the new judges. That went too far even for some of their own supporters.
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New Scientific Discoveries, Part Deux
It's an enormous expense for very little gain. You are right about it being logical next step tho.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
Please tell me this wasn't serious. People understand that Chernobyl is shut down. Right?
- Politics Episode 7: Remake of Episode 4
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I hate to break it to you but that's Triad Wars. A multiplayer spin-off that was never released. Sadly no Sleeping Dogs 2 will be happening since developer got shut down.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
No, it's objectives may be political and unenforceable but it was supposed to show intent of flighting global warming. 0.3 degrees in the next 87 years! We think! Oh noes! The agreement was far more important in setting trends. The target numbers were pulled out of the ass anyway. US is not just a major polluter but also technological leader and the only developed country expected to keep growing it's population. And for all we know this may set a precedent and turn it into another Kyoto.
- Politics 2017 Act 6
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Politics 2017 part V
That's a pretty natural counter-reaction. Rebelling against propaganda leads people to embrace craziest causes.
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French Election : Macron Victory
volo you are offending the land of your ancestors ? Dont you have any loyalty ? The guy who wants to kick out 2-3 countries of UE has won. What sustainability is this? Who does he want to kick out? I know he has been taking jabs at Poland so I imagine Hungary would also make the list. But I doubt it was anything more than election rhetoric.
- Dear Black People
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Politics 2017 part V
Thanks. That's a really interesting way of looking at change in media.
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US attacks on Syria
That was as rational reaction as you can expect from US in this context. And it has very little to do with situation in Syria. It's just a warning to stop making them look ridiculous. Give the administration I'll gladly take a good thing done for wrong reasons.
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US attacks on Syria
Unfortunate that it had to be done by Trump as if feeds into his strongman image but better this than nothing. Assad was testing red lines for quite a while now and showed no signs of stopping.
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Total War: Warhammer
I see aztecish pyramids and lizard folk... is this Lustria? The continent in Warhammer world that is the equivalent of South America? Holy ****e. If leaks are correct new world and ulthuan are entirety of 2nd game. 3rd game is supposed to be Chaos divided provided there will be interest still.
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Politics 2017 part 4
That and EO about letting coal companies blowing up the tops of mountains are my expected dissapointments with Trump. It's seems like it is impossible to have a sane energy policy in the US, as either you subsidize "cool" technology but leaving whole regions of people to rot away in societal dispair, or you let companies go full haywire and blow everything up as long as it makes job growth. ...and i am also dissapointed that he hasn't told the Saudis to go **** themselves. It's pretty much impossible to have a sane energy policy anywhere. There is far too much money on the line for all concerned. Speaking of which: Trump plans to end the clean power plan Efficiency standards are likely next. Luckily he seems to have given up on refuting Paris agreement.
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Politics 2017 part 4
Most likely research, efficiency and clean power plan. Makes sense as technically they are separate programs.