RandyLahey

nah earthling ed is dope, hes very lib but hes earnest as hell and his heart is very much in the right place so i would doubt there would be substantive cuts that frame the debate in a different light

hes also the most phenomenal debater ive ever seen in a way thats like the anti-v*ush, and i feel like hes a great example for leftists to look to for how to "debate" someone when your goal is to actually convince them to your point of view rather than EPICLY DESTROY them. knows his shit of course, but its mostly hes unbelievably patient and calm and understanding, doesnt die on pointless hills, doesnt try and make people feel stupid but rather just "oh yeah i hadnt considered that perspective", and generally really tries to avoid things becoming combative and adversarial while still pushing hard. this girl is incredibly defensive and hostile and seems like a lost cause (i couldnt make it more than a few minutes in), but ive watched quite a few of his "debates" and half of them end with the other person halfway or more towards veganism

I hate to say it but similarities between broken, desolate cities in most zombie apocalypse movies just can’t be dismissed

on a picture of a cityscape that would look completely normal in most of the world

You are looking across into South Korea. This open space is the Joint Security Area which straddles the political border within the Demilitarized Zone. The physical border is where the light gravel turns dark denoted by the raised concrete line. Cross that line and you’ll be shot. The blue buildings are halfway in each Korea and by entering them, one can theoretically cross to the South. The large building ahead is the ‘Freedom House’, ironically housing a dozen surveillance cameras.

whoops when you forget that the scary orwellian building youre talking about is actually on the south korean side

starving 👏 to👏 death 👏 is 👏 a 👏 human 👏 right👏

fuck me, my subconscious definitely picked up on some kind of extra racial weirdness when i was going through all this shit arguing with people on r*ddit, but yeah it didnt quite click until you mentioned it that this is exactly what it was

and yeah im just realising as well that there was lots of talk about religious persecution etc, but very little talk about islam - rarely called "islamophobia", and i have a strong feeling that if you looked at all the articles with this in mind youd find that as much as they focused on religious buildings that they really downplayed "mosques" in favour of other terms or generic "houses of worship" etc (this last bit might actually be legit though, it does seem from my very limited knowledge that their version of islam is a bit different in its religious buildings from "mainstream" islam)

this shit probably should have been immediately obvious but there was so much other bullshit to wade through that i guess i didnt really notice

some lib on r*ddit the other day was using an article from this place as a source for uyghur genocide, with the whole line of "oh the victims of communism foundation is too nazi a source for you is it, hows this for a non-nazi source checkmate hur hur"

and it turned out the article in question had no sources, but it did have a whole personal sob story repeated uncritically (with sad pictures) from rushan abbas, the lady who did the famous ama on reddit and it turned out she just happened to be a cia spook who worked at guantanamo

anyway im sure its just a coincidence

We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Cuba (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in Florida.

I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I’ve done in my life.

a tattoo on your butt cheeks that just says bottom text

I particularly like the ones where they go through and spend millions on the redesign and millions more updating all their stationary and signage etc etc and it goes through hundreds of internal people and nobody says anything, and then the first person from the public sees it and says "that looks like a dick lol"

Given that so many logo redesigns cost huge amounts of money and end up being some minor change like this, I do wonder whether this isn't just kinda a standard thing to have pages of grandiose nonsense to justify paying millions for a change of font or whatever, and this was just the unfortunate one that got leaked

But yeah, absolutely phenomenal grift, it's hard not to be a little impressed

Also the same problem as New Vegas, you can have the best writing and the best voice acting, but it is 100% impossible to take any of it seriously when it's coming from Oblivion faces

There's the first part of a free update/prequel out now with a new map (I think they're planning three parts), and it's a bit more friendly to you staying put in the middle of the map and spending ages building yourself a luxury mudbrick mansion

Yeah I've also been trying but it really hasn't clicked for me

More focused on the survival than the crafting side, but I've really been "enjoying" Green Hell lately. Something about how manual and tactile and just hard the crafting is makes it really satisfying when you manage to carve out even the most limited camp for yourself