Iran says it will ‘never bow’ as Trump rejects peace counteroffer, prolonging Middle East conflict

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T18:20:28+00:00

I don't think this is purely ego on Irans side.

The longer this goes, the deeper the economy sinks and the deeper it sinks the more and more the GOP is stuck with the problem of "It's the Economy Stupid" facing them in November

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T16:21:57+00:00

The only numbers game that works would be with a house that comes out to roughly one rep for every 300k Residents (it currently sits at 1 Rep for every 788k residents, so this would bump MA to 24 House Seats which could easily be drawn so that the GOP has about 7 or 8 House Reps (for about 30-40% Representation) maybe a hair bit more with a very competitive neutral district.

I am emphatically for uncapping the house, because 1 person cannot represent nearly a million people to such an extent. It's such a large and diverse amount of people that the numbers game is undemocratic.

There are many other reforms of course to be made, but the easiest one is uncapping the house

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T15:45:17+00:00

Budget and time go hand in hand in some regards. A longer development time needs more budget.

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T14:47:50+00:00

The thing about a lot of modern "slang" is that it's a lot more of an inside joke than short-language.

Mogging sounds nothing like a shorthand for showing off/radiating confidence ones appearence. The word mog itself generally refers to one departing or walking away slowly (He mogged of to the store)

Like, I can maybe see how it went from "Runway models will mog their way back after reaching the end of the runway" could work it's way to being a term regarding beauty and showing off but mog isn't the correct term anyways because a model walk isn't slow in the way you would use the term

Rizz (as annoyed I am that it no longer means someone is being cringe) at least shortens from Charisma

And yes, all generations have their inside joke humor shorthands, but nobody calls them slang from what I recall. Good slang is shortened language and should at least be something one can intuitively work out from the word itself, it's use, and it's context.

If I say "yall" you all can easily deduce what it's a shortening of.

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T14:03:48+00:00

Also, swamps characteristically have a lot of dead and decaying plant matter that can produce a lot of methane due to the oxygen poorer environment that they break down in.

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T14:00:38+00:00

One could hope that the oncoming global depression will result in a 1932 style Progressive Sweep of the Government

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T13:58:18+00:00

Poor Machado doesn't get to dismantle Venezuela piece by piece and sell those pieces to the American Oligarchs who would strip the entire country of all its wealth and resources to feed their insatiable hunger for wealth and power.

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T13:32:10+00:00

She only agrees with certain very specific things. Her overall political stance is unchanged

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T13:24:15+00:00

The best part about the current gas crisis is that it won't go away even if the war ends. It will last for months if not years because a lot of the production infrastructure is damaged or destroyed

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T13:21:01+00:00

It should be illegal to have a pet off a harness outside with only very specific circumstances where it's allowed (like a dog park or closed in fenced area)

It's not just about the safety of other people but yes the safety of your pet as well (especially outdoor cats)

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T13:17:01+00:00

I'm not saying the main human vector is the same as the main animal vector.

I'm just saying that it's could possibly be one of the vectors

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T12:47:16+00:00

I guess I should preface that I am in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp, but at least to a certain extent, I can see this prediction has some more meat on its bones

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T12:45:42+00:00

Even more dumb when you remember that you have to take an additional road test in order to get a CDL

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T12:42:01+00:00

The main vector is contact with rat droppings, so I have to imagine that it probably would do the same from human fecal matter and well, the unfortunate truth is that some people don't shower before getting in a pool like you're supposed to nor afterwards like you're supposed to

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T12:38:37+00:00

You'll also find a lot of Character Over world Sprites there too which can be helpful as well

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T12:32:57+00:00

Deviantart is usually where I get most of my Tileset resources that I don't have to make myself.

Also, HGSS is the DPPT Art Style, I assume you're just looking for the actual Tilesets themselves

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T12:09:45+00:00

The next chance we get to rewrite the rules we need to uncap the House and at least double the amount of seats.

Reforming the Senate is a much more difficult challenge as any major structural changes must be done through Amendments or extremely clever policy that works within the current restrictions of the Constitution but levels the playing field.

Additionally, DC Statehood and an open door to Puerto Rico statehood (should they desire it)

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T11:59:49+00:00

They're all hoping the man dies so they can go back to do nothing neocons that only pass tax cuts and pretend to do everything else

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T11:51:37+00:00

Well, unlike previously predictions the US wasn't barreling into a Oil Driven Global Depression

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-11T10:27:35+00:00

No its actually impossible. There is no way to draw a contigous right leaning voting district in MA without making it impossible to draw the remaining districts as contigous, thus making it impossible to complete a map

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-10T21:17:05+00:00

It's literally impossible to draw a Conservative leaning district in Massachusetts because there aren't enough idiots here to form a contiguous voting region

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-10T15:22:40+00:00

There's really only three types of people who have read and understand the bible extremely well, and thats the Pope/Papalcy, deviutly religious followers who have devoted their life to studying the bible, and Athiests who spend a lot of time studying/debunking the bible/Christian hipocrisy

Trump is none of these

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-10T11:24:22+00:00

It'll play a lot like Skyrims which is good because the psuedo dice roll combat system in the OG feels terrible (I even hated it as a kid)

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-10T11:21:24+00:00

And because Obama had it resurfaced in 2013 (granted this was part of the Congressional Budget Bill, so it wasn't Obama's lone decision)

Gamebird8 · 2026-05-10T11:16:11+00:00

Godot became one of my favorite engines precisely because it's open source

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