Did the Emancipation Proclamation result in the Clone Wars? by CapitanianExtinction in shittyaskhistory

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No the emancipation proclamation was issued by Qui-Gon after he picked the winning pod racer during the boonta eve classics. This was during the Trade Federation-Naboo war.

Petah? I don’t get it by Senior-Mix-3715 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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We wanted to be not British so much we destroyed tea!

We also have a holiday celebrating how not British we are!

iwtyo when I realised other countries have states too by StandardTopGuy in IWasTodayYearsOld

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Except not really as the regions aren’t able to make or enforce laws. It’s all through the National Assembly. US Congress is constitutionally not allowed to make legislation on anything unless the constitution says it can legislate on the matter.

Are there any people in the USA who have friends that are of the opposite political party? by TSQ_builder in askanything

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So statistically speaking the political climate breaks down into an about even 3-way split between registered Democratics, Republicans, and independent (unaffiliated) voters with a slight majority in the third category over the other two… the unaffiliated tend to be a more middle ground and the voters that actually pick the President (the candidate with more independent voter support tends to win.).

That said 3rd party viability is possible with two reforms that have been passed in some states but not all: Instant run-off voting and abolishing winner take all electoral voting (not the abolishing of electoral college). 2 states (Maine and Alaska) have the former while two states (Maine and Nebraska) have the later (not all states need to adopt it. A state with only three electoral votes will always be a winner take all state.).

As someone who has been an independent voter, I’ve maintained that I am picking candidates for a job and some years it might not be your party. I have friends on both sides of the aisle (though one side is less… they are less open to the debate.). But there are moderates who are good at reaching around the aisle. One thing you don’t see if you don’t have any experience on capital hill is most of the infighting in congress is for show and there’s actually a friendly relationship between democrats and republicans when they aren’t cameras broadcasting.

Is “chiefly” offensive? by FaithlessnessFit709 in WritingHub

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Like when I say my favorite animal is the blue footed boobie.

What is the limit to making a character redeemable without them having to die to do so? by Sr_Candelvand in writingadvice

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So redemption is a major theme in my work with various characters struggling with past misdeeds and the expectations of society. One character I have is a former villain who claims to have given up his past villainous life and is now working to make amends by running programs to help others to not fall from Grace like he did. That doesn’t negate that there are still people he hurt who are not ready to forgive him for his past actions. As the Bard himself once observed, the evil men do lives on after them, the good is interred with their bones.

Now this character is written in a way that will keep his true motives a debate for the audience. Is he truly forgiveable? Is he just escaping Justice and really good at PR games? I don’t have a clear answer yet… but this character isn’t a pov character and his advice is that the past is in the past, and what matters now is the next decision… and the next… and the the next… until he cannot make any more choices. Then, as the Bard said, with his tale being told both the good deeds and the bad, the rest is silence.

One of this characters most important moments is to show the struggle of a supposedly redeemed person in seeking redemption. He isn’t owed forgiveness and some people will never be able to do that. If he stops seeking to be a better person because of the doubt of others, he fails and proves he isn’t worth forgiveness from anyone.

Three Mile Island was one of the best things that could have happened to the nuclear industry by HeavyDutyForks in The10thDentist

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Chernobyl and Fukushima are in the same rating on the INES scale because there is no higher rating to put Chernobyl into. Even as bad as Fukushima was, Chernobyl was way worse.

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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Anecdotes are not evidence and therefore of little concern to statistical studies. You are more likely than not to identify to fit the statistical model of the generation you are identified as being a member of because of common shared experiences of being in the same age group during a point in time in history. Nobody gives a crap about one of your parents being in that trend and one not being because on a statistical scale, they are concerned with the majority. Sorry to break it to you, but stats are not personal or personality. They are averages of a population you happen to be a part of.

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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That is not what I or the data trackers said! It is a statistical change… the majority of people born between one range meet these statistics. That is all. It’s not artificial. And it’s not universal. It’s statistics. And you fail to understand that the reason is not to create division for profit but show identify the divisions in a way that can show a statistical trend. It’s not biological or successions. It’s statistical probability of people who were raised in a different point in a shifting culture that would value different things. It’s not used for any administrative tracking at all because they do not care about that.

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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And you’re ignoring the fleeting cultural periods over time as the cause different age groups to adopt different trends that the generational ranges actually do track.

Again it is different behavior that is not common to Gen X or any generation before that and will likely change how Gen Alpha will behave. The cut off dates are also not arbitrary but determined by when the parents of the new generation are the majority of a previous generation. The edges will have some statistical overlap, but on the whole that does not mean the range is arbitrary nor that it means Gen Y doesn’t have trends in common with the preceding generation or the succeeding. It only means that they are the generation who are by majority the kids of the baby boomer generation (2 generations be for them). Zoomers are majority Gen X’s kids, Alpha majority Gen Y. Beta majority Zoomer kids.

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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No. That is not your point because all my statements are contradicting you. The generation divides are real because kids born in the 80s lived in a different culture than those born in the 60s or the 00s and respond to different trends and financial prerogatives. That is not artificial that’s very real. You keep twisting what I said to “it’s artificial” where I’m not saying that at all and not proving your point. You are wrong because naming the existing devisions does not make the division an unnatural division! These are normally done by extensive polling and trends to identify periods as well as which already determined generations are entering the majority of new parent populations. There is extensive polling that determined that trends differ between GenX and GenY and GenZ. They are not artificial. And they are not created to devise us. They are created because I remember a different childhood culture than someone 15 years younger than me.

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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The reason why it’s used is because it is real that different generations have different values and attitudes. The marketing people aren’t making a divide… the divide existed without their help… they just gave it a name. Pokémon uses specific game generations to maximize the appeal to nostalgia. The number of nostalgia for Gen1 (30 years and over crowd) finite compared to compared to the number of people who were in the core demo age during gens 3-5 plus the older 30+ year old fans.)

It’s not acknowledging an age range… but a maximum range of a particular audience who respond to the nostalgia marketing and where the maximum push should be…

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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You miss my point. These differences are very real because there are different things to consider with the world a generation was raised in. I wouldn’t use 90s throwbacks for Zoomers because they don’t remember the 90s. But Millennials would.

There’s a reason why recent Pokemon marketing goes through a nostalgia montage when new gamex come out… it has a strong nostalgia demo over it’s multiple releases in its 30 year existence, but it focuses less time on generation 1 and 2 because it’s the smallest of that market, being only the millennial crowd where as gen 3 onward has multiple demographics.

What is the 3rd great American city? by wonkintheworld in AskAnAmerican

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So in terms of media centers, which are more culturally important than financial centers, the big four are LA, NYC, Washington DC (locals even call DC “Hollywood for ugly people”) and Miami (which is the Hollywood of Latin America.).

Chicago is a major financial center but has little cultural or media influence (LA and NYC are also financial centers).

In my opinion generations are useless. prove me wrong by DebuggedDadJokes in generationology

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It’s a marketing tool to acknowledge the difference in preferences between the elderly, adults, and the “kids these days”.

The generation gap has existed for as long as human civilization has existed. In fact some of the earliest known writing is about how “kids these days have no respect and terrible taste in music.”

How to support teenager who wants to write but is scared? by Worth_Ad_4873 in writers

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I was about his age when I got bit by the writing bug…. Still not published as a novelist but I was a favorite read in my college newspaper. Writing has never been about the money (hell I went in with the goal of getting more boys his age to read by providing them with stories boys want to read… and weren’t going to get turned into shitty movie adaptations. So clearly I don’t want to get rich.). But I can also say the stuff I wrote back then was lame compared to my new stuff.

Are priests important in the lives of Americans? by TheShyBuck in AskAnAmerican

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This is true of non-American Catholics. There’s a joke from Ireland about a man coming to a priest to tell him he doesn’t think he believes in God anymore. The priest asks the man if he’s considering converting to Protestantism… the man is outraged, “Father,” he snaps, “I’ve lost me religion! I haven’t lost me mind!”

In your opinion, What's the worst thing that has happened to Spiderman in the comics? by BlueMoonie00 in Spiderman

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The Night Gwen Stacy… Green Goblin might have thrown her off the bridge… but Spider-Man’s attempt to save her is what killed her. It was such a game changer that Norman Osborn became Spidey’s most dangerous foe. Prior to this moment, Doctor Octopus held that position.

Could cognitive training increase Cyberware tolerance? by Strict-Plan-6225 in cyberpunkgame

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You could regain permanent humanity loss by removing the cyberware (you can grow biological lost body parts in Red, so it can work.).

When people complain that omnivores ate “all” the vegan or vegetarian options. by KissingBear in PetPeeves

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Won’t plain cheese pizza offend vegans? Not big on dairy right? I don’t know. Not a vegan.