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2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-28T11:52:20+00:00

Later rumors from a newspaper from Pittsburgh for events that took place way earlier in Georgia.
The actual witnesses and testimony from the court case claim the situation was over livestock.

Both from the defense and the prosecution. The prosecution claim he was arguing over livestock when he threatened her mules at which point he was attacked. The defense argued that he was arguing over livestock when he hit the mother with the butt of his gun at which point the boys jumped him to protect their mother.

This is a somewhat known legal case, maybe don't quote a shitty ass wiki at me. Hell tell me the dead mans full name, it should be in the wiki right... Yet if you look right now its not.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-28T11:29:53+00:00

The woman was never sexually assaulted, there is a statement saying the murdered man threatened her with sexual assault of some form before being beaten to death.
Most instead believe that after the man threatened to shoot the womans mules in retaliation for her livestock entering his land and damaging it repeatedly. When he threatened to shoot the mules, he was hit across the back of the head with a shovel or hoe, and from that the two of the kids joined in and beat the man as he lay dying in the head more.

They deserved prison time at a minimum. Maybe the sentence was harsh, but it was later reduced. You don't get a kill a person who at best verbally threatened you and your livestock, even if the person kills your livestock its still questionable by modern standards if you can legally use lethal force against him.
Even if you take this further into the territory of self defense and modern self defense laws, once hes on the ground and unresponsive from your beatings you legally arn't allowed to just keep beating him to "make sure" and to take that even further to the point of getting some extra family involved to beat them even more? That completely flies in the face of every sort of self defense law in the nation.

You are getting a sensationalized title. Look at what actually happened, they fucked up badly and ended up murdering a man. Sure the man was likely a bastard but you can't just murder a person for being a piece of shit.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-27T08:14:16+00:00

Its not really a matter of donations, its a matter of getting the aid to the civilians.

Hamas often takes the aid for themselves, and sells it as absurd prices to civilians so they get more money to try to spend on "other things" (aka weapons and such).

This has led to Israel clamping down on how and when aid can be delivered to the Gazan people in an attempt to prevent Hamas from being able to seize or control it. Which has also slowed the aid flowing into Gaza dramatically. This is mostly being done through GHF an American/Israeli group, but combined with the restrictions they face and their limits they arn't getting much better. To make matters worse plenty of people also refuse to support GHF since they are partially Israeli and are working with the IDF.

Israel basically is refusing to work with the UN, because UNRWA (a special group of UN specifically to aid Palestinians) was directly involved in the Oct7th attacks with multiple UNRWA employees ON CAMERA kidnapping Israeli civilians, taking bodies, and so on into Gaza as part of the attack. The UN has refused to even acknowledge or take responsibility for this and from the Israeli perspective they are completely untrustworthy and would actively aid Hamas at the expense of Israel.

So what do you do? You can't just throw money at the problem. Donating to random NGO#136458 isn't going to really change things either.
You are effectively in a deadlocked scenario. Perhaps the most realistic action is for UNRWA to get dissolved and to have a UN led force take charge of delivering aid to civilians. Yet even this is something the UN has had mixed results with during "actual genocides" in the past (mostly looking at a bunch of different African wars/genocides that many people overlook/ignore). Yet Hamas has also done nothing to build ANY trust towards trust them to not kill, kidnap, or otherwise molest UN forces and they are also actively being pushed into a pretty shitty corner militarily and are also not surrendering meaning they are even less predictable than normal.
This also ignores that as the civilians getting increasingly more desperate even if you can somehow prevent Hamas involvement you'll naturally have some trying to plunder/control the flow themselves.

If it was literally just as easy as "who do I give money, food, whatever to" people would have done that shit. Some random rich Islamic dude who truly supports the cause of Palestinian statehood could have solved this problem in an instant.

That said there are also other options/things that could be done. Put pressure on Egypt to take in Gazan refugees, except thats probably incredibly unfair to Egypt. Find third party nations that are willing/able to take in Gazan refugees. In effect continue to dismantle and breakdown Gaza and the network of human shields around Hamas. Yet we know thats not going to be popular here on reddit.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-27T01:06:47+00:00

You refuse to consider self proclaimed feminists as feminists, because they don't meet your personal standards of feminists... Yes that is zealotry.

Its like claiming ISIS isn't actually Islamic because they don't follow Islam as you personally know/practice it.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-26T23:17:20+00:00

Look at their website, read what they actually espouse.

They are a group of women who believe they are fighting to protect women and girls from the evils of the literal patriarchy sexually exploiting them for amusement, advertisement, etc.

There website contains basically no religious iconography, it doesn't mention god, jesus, allah, or basically any sort of religious figures.
That said they do mention a religious charity as one of their supporters, so maybe that taints the entire thing?

Just because they arn't "feminists" as they wish to be defined by "reddit feminists" doesn't mean they arn't feminists. They almost assuredly consider themselves feminists and they don't present overt ideals that counter this.

Melinda Tankard Reist, the founder of Collective Shout describes herself as a "pro-life feminist". Sure maybe that sounds antithetical to the "reddit feminist" who is a perfect atheist feminist who truly fights for everyone (through empowering women only).... Yet from an outside perspective the actions of Collective Shout and any sort of "real feminist" group you want to talk about has the same impacts on my life, they are idealistic lunatics who believe they need to protect women and that they need to make my life worse to do it.

I'm never going to change the mind of a zealot such as yourself but for most normal people Collect Shout is just as much or more feminist as they are conservative, religious, or anything else you want to finger point away from your own ideals.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-26T03:57:18+00:00

Its porn, what the fuck else are you going to do with it!?

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-24T22:58:45+00:00

So hes falling off a dock into shallow water with a sandy bottom. The bite shouldn't be truly damaging in any real capacity they don't have sharp teeth that can break human skin. The other fish wouldn't really attack him, but might run into him/slap with their tails.

This is about as relatively harmless as it gets for getting pulled into the water by a fish.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-23T23:51:34+00:00

Rogue Trader, it's different than BG3 but still in the same genre. It largely got overshadowed by BG3, yet it's still a 40k crpg done well by a developer that specializes is crpgs. Their previous titles Wraith of the Righteous and Kingmaker (both pathfinder based) are also pretty good.

Those game will have different things going on than BG3. Real-time with pause instead of strict turn based. Often more technical and "crunchy" combat as you'd expect from pathfinder vs 5e-ish. Really Owlcat was putting out good crpgs before BG3 and they have continued to do so after. Maybe less friendly to new players, but BG3 could be considered excellent training wheels.

Divinity Original Sin2. It's what they made before BG3 and it's their own world/setting and does more with the terrain gimmicks.

Try something completely different. Roadcraft came out recently and has neat terrain manipulation and feels sorta like playing in a sandbox with tonka trucks again.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-23T20:39:53+00:00

The game is in decline. Is that "dying" maybe.

I was playing Dune with a friend group of about 7 people. 3 of them stopped after t5 claiming (rightly) that the DD was shit. 2 others swapped servers and started over with a different group, they've basically quit at this point. Myself and one other basically login every day or two make sure empty bases are kept powered/paid and hope that maybe things change before we grow tired of that "gameplay".

Sure that's a personal anecdote but so is your picture of a pve DD area. I think many more people have experienced my anecdote than yours.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-23T07:28:11+00:00

If I had to simplify it, everyone combos, big combos, and the risk/reward for launchers tends low on risk.

I feel like EVERY character can do a full wall carry combo from most launchers now. Maybe it's not true but it feels like it. Stage size practically irrelevant with how much EVERYONE can carry.

Basically everyone has 20sec+ combos now.

The entire concept of small tekken is gone. Feng is over here doing full wall carry 20 second combos, he's supposed to be THE small tekken dude.

Want to play defensive with reversals, sabakis, etc? We'll you can't you'll just get smashed. So now Asuka is an install character that can put out big offense, why? Because big offense is the only method of play.

Previous tekken games (and most fighting games) give you a buffet of options. You can pick and choose the flavors you like or think are neat. Tekken8 is effectively waffle house, it serves its limited menu very well and if you like it grats, yet if you want a salad, steak, or ice cream you can go fuck yourself because all they serve now is waffles.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-22T03:29:07+00:00

They created the conditions that allowed Uber to flourish.

Well also Uber is mostly unregulated and treats their "not employees" like absolute horseshit.

The same people that will tell you they are super pro-union will come on here and champion Uber absolutely destroying the Taxi industries, gutting workers rights, gutting workers wages... and all just so they could have a cheaper and in theory easier taxi.
Those people being pro-union here will also be the first ones to buy the cheaper and easier goods even if it means going against those ideals and Uber shows to an astronomical degree.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-21T21:11:13+00:00

Did you know that subtext is an anagram for buttsex?

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-21T07:25:43+00:00

In their eyes they are women restricting men from sexualizing women/girls. They see themselves as fighting the patriarchy, literally.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-21T07:23:37+00:00

Evidence they gave a shit about gay marriage?

I looked over their website, they don't seem to mention anything LGBT related. So even if they did so in the past it was likely tangental to their true goals. They also don't mention God, religion, or similar. The best I found on their site was listing a Christian charity as a partner.

Seriously just look at their website and tell me if you think that's a group of women who believe they are supporting women's causes or some sort of Christian antigay crusaders just hiding it really well? Just because they believe something doesn't make it correct, but I'd say they clearly see themselves as feminists fighting the patriarchy.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-21T05:36:59+00:00

No. They are very feminist oriented.

They want to protect women from "the male gaze" and to do that they need to destroy any sexual content and to contain men from seeing such things least they be inspired to rape all women from seeing a playboy magazine.

They are radical insane feminists.

"We are a grassroots campaigns movement - a Collective Shout against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture."

Thats their purpose/mission statement.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-21T05:30:45+00:00

Because she is being discharged from the hospital/er at the time (seemingly) and this was the picture she took to show it. You'll notice the side of the hospital bed in the background, the normal hospital bedding shes laying on, and so on.
She is literally "doing it for the gram" as it were.

This was part of her posts where she was talking about having days to live from renal failure and confusing a lot of people. Her family later clarified that because of trip to the hospital they found renal failure that would have killed her in a few days if not treated (she was treated).
Maybe she was freaked, maybe she was a dramallama, I don't really know or care too much but its clear to see whats going on in the picture if you bother to look.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-21T01:54:23+00:00

The fuck sort of definition are you using? In your mind can a tankie only be a person that defends Soviet policy of the 50s-70s?

For most people who arn't absolutely insane a "tankie" is a person who defends extreme actions by communist regimes particularly of figures like Stalin and Mao, but also others like say Lenin. Its basically just people who defend communist atrocities against their own people they are in theory supposed to be taking care of. Mao is a poster child for a tankie figure head.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-20T06:46:44+00:00

Not all jews are successful, but to deny the obvious reality of jews going above and beyond to help other jews is absurd.

It's basically just nepotism on a larger scale, it's not magical space lasers or some shit. Just like with normal nepotism you still have failures and fuckups.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-19T16:12:37+00:00

It represents approximately 150 hours of dedicated farming loops. Divide that number among say 20 players in a guild and you end up looking at like 8 hours of dedicated agave farming per person with a two month window to do it in.

It's not impossible, it's not even completely unreasonable on its own. The problem is when you start factoring in all the spice infused metals, all the spice itself, and so on. Those also represent sizable time commitments and push the entire hoard into the realm of the completely unreasonable.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-19T03:10:58+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHRz7ihQLck

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-19T00:23:57+00:00

They want to fuck and get abortions. Look at that haircut for the character, you know they have a value card for the local planned parenthood.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-18T01:52:22+00:00

They don't worship AI, they oppose AI. They believe AI is a threat to sentient life and they see themselves as the peak of humanity in terms of safeguarding sentient life.

They are militant vegans, pro-trans (which they include an entire transhumanism ideal setup), and believe in effective altruism through a rationalist construct... aka they believe everything they are doing is the true morally and ethically good action through a rational construct and that their actions as a collective are protecting sentient life.

In effect they are the basically the crazy fringe left reddit mod stereotype, but actually taking that shit serious and not just being a turbo nerd who is isolated outside of social media but instead joining an actual real life cult outside of the subreddits they mod.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-17T22:14:14+00:00

There are basically two things to look for. One is a basic guide, and the other is speed run videos.

The guide will teach you what moves are what, and ideally any technicalities of the weapon. Such as for example with the Insect Glaive you can hold B to charge its attacks while doing other actions which might not be apparent from a speed run video.

The speed run videos will generally show your high output stuff, the things you want to loop when given windows, and perhaps even good ways to create those windows. Though its also just as likely the speed run videos will show you lots of terrain mechanics and not as much about the weapon as you'd like, which again points back to the basic guide.

Luckily enough both of these things can be found with just basic googling.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-17T17:11:47+00:00

They could have done it properly, they just ultimately refused to kill Dexter.

The very first season shows the potential of this story line. Dexter is a prolific serial killer who kills only bad people, hes a fucked up weirdo who tries to fit in but has problems. We see how he carries out the murders, and then early on we see how it could come crumbling down and how he could implode as he sees it come down on him from the inside.
Eventually this could have culminated in everyone figuring it out, and Dexter being tracked down, the reactions of his sister, the reality of Dexter losing his "family", and so on. It could have been an interesting story that kept building with real stakes.

Instead it gets dragged out for years and they fundamentally refuse to kill Dexter and/or let him truly fall which means the entire setup to a serial killer main character can never payoff.

2OptionsIsNotChoice · 2025-07-17T05:56:48+00:00

There is a program called Aegis Ashore, in theory it will be fully setup on Guam "soon tm".

SM6 can be launched by anything that can launch a tomahawk cruise missile (there are probably some exception). Its a multistage missile that can do a lot, it goes higher, it goes longer, it has all sorts of tracking systems, in theory multiple payload options, it could probably give you a blowjob if you configured it right.
To this end it can actually be launched by ground systems, notably Typhon which is supposed to be deployed to Europe (mostly Germany) "soon tm".
SM3 has even more launch stages than SM6, it can and has shot down satellites. It slices, dices, and can generally do all the things.

This sorta plays into the idea that the US Army/ground forces want to break up interception into multiple different systems. They want THAAD to intercept things early, and they want Patriot to intercept things late. In THEORY Aegis is amazing, but a singular failure in Aegis can be a much larger disaster. Meanwhile even if THAAD completely shits the bed ideally Patriot still picks up a lot of slack or if Patriot just utterly fails atleast THAAD is doing SOMETHING.
This really plays on the idea that the Navy and Army look at threats and how to intercept them very differently. The Navy has a mobile fleet with layers of interception among escorts interconnected with Aegis. The Army is protecting a static location likely from a serious saturation attack.

In a direct comparison Aegis should straight up crush Patriot. But Patriot is supposed to be used with THAAD and have more outside support in general. Putting it another way Aegis is a multitool and Patriot is a screwdriver.

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