There was a whole era of gaming from the late 90s to like 2010 where like a couple developers made something special, left, and then the company coasted on the code for a decade.

For me it was the Company of Heroes series.

Squirrels aren’t a typical vector for rabies. There was no indication the squirrel was exposed to a rabies vector, like a bat, any more than a household pet or human.

It bit a NY cop though, that’s what happened.

If they can deny a genocide is occuring in Gaza they can deny that Bernie would have won with the same intellectual rigor.

All I ever saw were ads of Obama asking for five dollars. Everytime I saw it all I could think was “Damn this is going to piss people off.”

The final days and weeks the Trump campaign hit the swing districts saying all the things people had been asking Biden and Harris to say.

Biden made sure there was no question there would be 0% chance of course change. Trump, being Trump, could shrug his shoulders one day and decide to change course. Higher than 0% but still probably 0%.

Dishonest politics, but that’s how campaigns use issues to win elections. It sucks and we’re all in for the very preventable ride now.

Squirrels tend not to be vectors for rabies. I got shredded by a squirrel my cat brought in that I thought was dead. The doctor shrugged me off and sent me home with some antibiotics.

Squirrels don’t consume rabies vectors, so they’d have to be bitten by a bat with rabies first if they have it.

I actually kind of enjoy powerlines and junction boxes. There’s a level of engineering that is both rough and delicate that is magnified by how orderly and chaotic they are alike.

Now if the power lines are at the expense of a view through trees, that’d be more a bummer. Likewise if the trees remain that’s a hazard waiting to happen, which is also a bummer.

Buried lines and conduit pipe are preferable in most cases and share similar aesthetic characteristics.

Here are some details to the context of why the ban went into effect:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/10/israeli-football-fans-pro-palestinians-attacked-in-amsterdam-what-we-know

Essentially Israelis did a bunch of racist violence and got their way out of it.

The only reference I have for this was someone who I knew who rubbed said slime on herself for YouTube when she was 17 to build a following for when she turned 18 and started camming.

There’s a classic greek play, Lysistrata, that tells a tale of women refusing sex to get the men to end a war. It is notably a fictional account.

Essentially the reference resonates most with college educated (white) women.

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Unemployment is typically measured by people seeking unemployment benefits, not by volume of people out of work.

Similarly job creation is usually measured by job offerings and not positions filled.

As a result you can get what has been happening: low unemployment and high job creation where people aren’t getting jobs and jobs aren’t being filled.

Ah the first 40 minutes of The Princess Bride countless times through K-12.

But that would be gud politik.

It really is just an anti-trans thing.

Monopolistic competition makes a lot of wild assumptions that can result in such ideas.

Biden had claimed he would be a transition president, a bridge to the next generation-- an allusion to being a one-term president.

This is from June, just before his debate:

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/

The tone of that article, with the clarity of hindsight, should be obvious to anyone.

I did this as a teen with my learner’s permit and my dad. It was him playing the Eaglea and Bob Dylan while I learned to figure out driving on the highway in NJ through the indiana turnpike until the glorious open road out west where i was stuck behind semis and 1 lane road work across the midwest until montana.

I have remained driving on the west coast only since.

Where are all the passionate leftist politicians.

Systematically removed from office and primaried from power anywhere and everywhere they appear.

Bernie is an Independent and as a senator is mostly the exception to this rule. The remaining progressive House members are isolated and picked off in primaries each cycle.

Well the argument being made here is that the campaign’s strategy actively depressed turnout.

So not doing normalizing the opposition and implementing the policies your voting base tends to oppose.