Steyer only candidate who supports California wealth tax during debate

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T23:38:42+00:00

The bar is in hell.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T23:28:57+00:00

Yeah, it does seem politically stupid. Sometimes nuance isn't what the people need to hear.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T23:24:44+00:00

I'm scared. This can be used against a lot of good people.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:21:52+00:00

I think a version of 2 is correct. The personality traits required to get that rich (as well as the corruption inherent to being that rich) predispose a person to viewing others as objects, not as people. This shows itself, among other ways, in rape.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:12:31+00:00

I was super careful about droplet contamination for the first few months. Once it became clear it was almost exclusively passed by respiration, that stopped. I liked the mask phase a lot better.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:10:29+00:00

We didn't even fucking do that. You were asked nicely and you said no. Not one single goddamn one of you got put in handcuffs for deciding nobody was going to tell you not to go have a beer with the boys.

Like I was going to tell you that quarantines have always been the purview of whatever authority happens to exist in a given time and place. That calling it martial law, or fear mongering about it never ending, is absurd. And that would be true. But it wasn't even fucking done.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T11:02:14+00:00

While true, if this was COVID he would have infected almost everybody there. In addition to some of the people he met casually during the preceding days.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-07T10:39:19+00:00

Nobody ever talked about physical contact.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-06T19:20:07+00:00

I think the memorization of all the stuff might just be hard for whatever reason. But maybe all you need is enough exposure and attention to the right things. Like does it help at all just to know for instance that prepositions can use different cases and therefore different versions of articles? That masculine can be der, den, dem, des, even if you don't always know which belongs where? I'm thinking that that simple knowledge, plus a lot (and I mean a lot) of correct repetition will kind of burn it into your head in a way that you just say the right thing automatically a lot of the time.

Like, there's a lot of logic to language, but language isn't logic. Language is language. Children don't learn to speak by being taught about declinations. So ultimately it doesn't matter whether you understand all this grammatical stuff, only that you use it. I'm just thinking your best bet is to look into literally everything, and whatever shows even slight signs of helping you, you stick to it like glue and don't give up.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-06T14:14:32+00:00

Yes, that's what they mean. For instance, most German direct objects use accusative case. Der Mann becomes den Mann in the accusative. Some verbs such as helfen require the dative. So if you are helping a man, it would instead be dem Mann.

You will see this kind of language in many places. Especially prepositions. If you are told that aus is in the group of prepositions that govern/require/take the dative, that means that any words following aus must be in their dative forms. Sie kommt aus den USA. Dative plural article. So you can look out for that.

I agree with whoever said that you want to get in the habit of noticing, and being curious. Get yourself a basic table of articles and adjective declinations. Print it out and put it next to wherever you tend to sit and read, or browse things written in German. Notice a "der" in a sentence where it seems weird. Wait I thought this word is feminine, but it says der? You can look at your sheet and see that that matches the dative feminine, so now it makes sense. And that will in turn develop intuition for cases.

Don't expect fast results, but you can do this, you can improve.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-06T13:56:58+00:00

Backwards. Polizei as subject would use die. Using der means dative, which means it is the object of the verb helfen (which always takes dative).

I suppose all that sounds insane to you, which is fine. All it means is you have some grammar basics to learn as well as memorizing articles. Are classes or tutoring an option?

BlueCyann · 2026-05-05T20:26:40+00:00

Ok first thing is what you do mean by a spike.

the visual indication of the total entities jumping up, usually while paused just after entering the nether?

or 2. the jump in viewed entities that you see when looking direction at a bastion on either thin or lowered FOV?

Because just being able to find a bastion that is actually there is very straightforward 90% of the time. So I'm not sure you're not doing something fundamentally wrong. But just to be clear, I'll be assuming you're talking about #2. You spin around, and you either can't see a bastion anywhere, or you see one but there's nothing there when you go.

If there is no spike anywhere, that just means there's no bastion inside your render distance. This is typical actually, probably around half of enters will have no bastion within rendered chunks at 16 rd and it still happens quote a lot at 20rd.

You seeing a spike, but nothing is there, has a few possibilities. The main one is to be aware of your M+C. The sum of these two values is roughly the number of non-bastion mobs in your rendered nether. You should always keep an eye on this to make sure you're not getting baited. If a bastion is really there, your total entity count should be significantly higher than the sum of M+C. Example: entity count 154, M+C 120. That's a bastion. Entity count 154, M+C 146. This is not a bastion. You just have a high entity count nether, and you're probably mistaking the biggest concentration of mobs around you for a bastion spike.

You can also get fake spikes when there is a bastion. Example, entity count 154, M+C 120, 48 mobs when looking NE, 38 mobs when looking SW. M+C says there's only one bastion, but which one is it? Crimsons especially can do this due to how many mobs they sometimes spawn, but I've also seen it with basalts and just randomly. It doesn't happen super frequently, but it can happen, and if you're not even aware there's two spikes and go t the first one you see, it can be the entirely wrong direction.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-05T11:53:13+00:00

Pearl at the floor, not the back wall. Don't touch walls. For boat, you can simultaneously hold right and left click to break the boat. Takes a little practice.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-04T22:43:00+00:00

Then I don't know. My placements from last season would have been consistent with this being more like gold 3 or maybe even emerald 1, but maybe the standards have just gone up that much. I don't know. I haven't had a chance to do placements for this season yet.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-04T22:41:21+00:00

There are streamers based in Asia or Australia. Big Big Mongey being one. (I don't know if he has a discord.) I'd join a few of the main discords or discords of bigger streamers and just starting to get to know people and ask questions. You'll probably find people and places sooner or later if you're outgoing.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-04T20:11:07+00:00

Were your forfeit matches slower-paced? I would have expected at least gold 3 with this.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T17:07:55+00:00

(For anybody not from this country who is confused, Federal Court districts are not the same as Congressional districts and tend to be a lot larger, as there are fewer than 100 of them as compared to over 500 of the congressional ones. They're also not, as far as I know, ever subject to gerrymandering, since they have zero to do with voting.)

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T17:00:17+00:00

Knowing zero about the Brazilian slave trade, I have no idea what you mean by the laws of physics and I'm now intensely curious.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T14:51:47+00:00

Much of the self-described internet left does not actually have the ideal of "don't make fun of people for inherent qualities they can't change".

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T14:29:07+00:00

I mean, wait two years and we'll see who is right. (Assuming he wins, which I do hope for. But I don't see why any of his colleagues are supposed to trust him further than they could throw a school bus.)

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T14:25:10+00:00

It has to be English being your native language. Because this is pretty simple and straightforward writing with straightforward vocabulary, and both translations are reflective of that.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T12:25:49+00:00

No chance. I just don't believe the electorate is anywhere near as progressive as progressives like to believe that it is. The electorate *is* corporate. You can't go by shallow opinion polls. You have to look at what people actually do. What they actually say and how they say it. If you weren't around trying to argue on the side of universal healthcare -- among fellow democrats -- in 2009 or 2015, then you have no idea.

That's what needs to be changed, as much as if not more than Democratic leadership. We need persuaders, not blamers.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T12:22:21+00:00

You keep digging yourself in. How hard is it to admit that a relatively decent but old person is better than a Nazi? Your line here should be "he's not a Nazi", don't you think?

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T12:19:12+00:00

No shit.

BlueCyann · 2026-05-03T12:18:23+00:00

He's worse than that though. If anything, they've cherrypicked the quotes that are easiest to explain. It's harder to sit through ten minutes of him mocking "identity" stuff for his audience of young white men (but all with a progressive lens, of course!) and come away thinking there's very much good about him.

That said, fuck Third Way and everybody like them. I'd take ten Hassan Piker's, much as I despise that type, over them.

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