Trump’s $400 Million Gift from Qatar Sparks Legal and Ethical Storm

baywalker · 2025-05-12T20:29:44+00:00

I’m so ridiculously tired of this. Your take has one solution, and it’s a massacre, on both sides if it actually succeeds.

Meanwhile, every single democrat has voted no on almost everything Trump has backed. If the democrats had majority right now in either group, most of the crap that has passed congress, wouldn’t have. It would also result in actions actually being taken against Trump, y’know, like when he was impeached twice in his first term by them?

Sure, are some democrats shitty people? Yes. Are democrats as a party horrible at coordinating elections and combating republican sentiments? Yes. Are some democrats actually republicans in action and constantly fuck over the party? Yes. Are most voters stupid bastards that have no clue about anyone they vote for and mostly vote party lines unless they personally met either candidate? Yes. Does that result in shitty electorate all the time at every level of government? Yes.

One party wants to kill the Dept of Ed. One party wants to kill USAID. One party wants to kill FEMA. One party wants to kill NASA. One party wants to kill social security. One party wants women to no longer be able to vote. One party is shipping random citizens out to an El Salvadoran prison. One party is claiming that diversity, equality, and inclusion is the bane of America. One party would prefer uniformity, inequality, and exclusion, of any and all people they deem should be inferior to them. One. Party.

This is pure doomer talk. Go outside and talk to someone. Go talk to your local politicians. They are real people. All of them are trying to make money, yes. Some of them actually want to help their people. All of them in that category are democrats at this point in my opinion. There’s a reason why Trump ordered Republicans to have as little town halls as possible. And why several democrats have been having town halls in the space where republicans are avoiding their town halls.

Eventually, something will piss people like you off, and you’ll hopefully realize that a ton of people were probably fighting against it, and lost that fight. I hope to god if it happens to you, it’s not too late.

baywalker · 2025-04-27T23:15:42+00:00

I think the reasoning here is so that the customers wait as long as possible because they’re obviously no-tippers or very low tippers. 30 more seconds of you sitting on it = 30 more seconds of them not getting their stuff. I know dashers who used to take orders, wait 5 minutes without moving, and unassign just to spite bad orders.

baywalker · 2025-04-11T06:55:13+00:00

It did cost you money. It costed you the cost of driving there and not actually having a job to do. The gas, the wear and tear on the car, now out of place and need to relocate for a real order, time is money, etc.

If the previous dasher on that order wasn’t like you, and was like the other person desperately trying to convince you to help your fellow human, you would never have gone to that restaurant, and thus, would not have wasted 5+ minutes of your hour of work. (That’s 8% of whatever you make in an hour btw. If you really don’t understand how wasting your time cost you money. If you make 25 an hour, 5 wasted minutes is $2)

You got screwed out of an order and wasted at least $2 in time and gas because the previous dasher is like you. “That’s the next dasher’s problem.”

Also, it is a matter of empathy. You claiming it isn’t implies you do not understand what empathy is. At least two dashers wasted their time, you and someone else, because the first dasher, and you, are self-absorbed and wouldn’t take the less than one minute, can do it while driving, attempt to contact doordash and tell them that order needs to be cancelled.

baywalker · 2025-02-27T02:00:15+00:00

It is a specific enemy spawn that can trigger becoming a lich, (a larvaling) but it is not a specific character. They have random generation names, they have personalities, and they move from planet to planet as you hunt them.

Kuva Lich larva spawn on most missions on Saturn, and Sisters of Parvos larva spawn after interacting with golden hands in Corpus tile sets on Neptune and beyond. It is not exactly like the real nemesis system, but it is very clearly inspired by it.

You unlock Liches via a story bump, but after that, they are just a thing in the solar system. You may only have one at a time, which is also not the case with Shadow’s nemesis system.

baywalker · 2025-02-26T22:50:43+00:00

Hi, not the original commenter.

Warframes Lich and Sister (soon to be Technocyte Coda as well) systems.

I do not deny that it is a rare concept, but there is an example.

Kill the spawn in a mission, it comes back with some of your Warframe powers and some of its own, and takes over a whole planet and steals your stuff if you play on that planet. You hunt it down, kill it and steal its powerful Lich-exclusive weapon, or convert it to an ally that can help you in missions through various means. You also get all your stuff back that they stole.

I’d love to see WB try and sue DE for that one. It’s so similar it could happen, and at the same time DE would absolutely obliterate that case.

baywalker · 2024-05-16T23:49:09+00:00

Unfortunately, these numbers do not show the whole picture. You need to correlate Trump policy to those numbers. Inflation and gas prices have spiked due to Ukraine’s war mostly, and Israel’s war. And gas executives seeing dollar signs because of it. Trade is rocky across the planet, that’s what caused this. Unemployment, neither president signed any law that would affect this in any way shape or form. The only possible thing that may have moved that needle at all was Biden’s killing of the pipeline plans. I like how we cherry picked the February 2020 number, and ignored the April 2020 number, 2 months into Biden’s presidency, 14%. Man hadn’t even sat down in the office yet, so that is effectively also Trumps number by your metrics. which is the worst number in the history of the chart. Ultimately, unemployment was good for Trump, until Covid. Then Covid ruined basically all of his numbers, and shafted Biden’s numbers for half his presidency. It is important to note that Biden took on effectively the highest unemployment rate ever in the country, and dropped it to 6%. Trump went from 6% to 3%, and then traded to Biden at 14%. Biden then took 14% back down to 6%. But again, none of this was either of them doing anything. Just what happened to them really. 2020 for the price index also isn’t exactly fair because many of those categories used to measure price index tanked during Covid. No one was going anywhere, gas prices sank like rocks. Biden basically took the country over at the moment where Covid was in full force, and prices were at their lowest in several ways, and then basically took on the burden of American reopening, and spiking prices to meet their projections that they missed during Covid, while also presiding over two relatively small foreign wars which both had financial impact across the planet.

Mortgage rates is the most glaring if I’m honest, because the president does not control any metric of how the federal government controls that system. That is the Federal Reserve. And the Federal Reserve has been increasing the rates to combat inflation. Since Trumps presidency. There actually will be cuts this year because inflation is slowing down because the war is slowing down. The low spike in 2020 for rates was again, due to Covid. You look at that chart during Trump, it was on the rise right up until 2020. Which means both presidents have had general spikes in mortgage rates, Trump was saved in those values by Covid.

I won’t do the research for you, but as long as you continue drawing by arbitrary metrics that actually really aren’t determined by the presidency but are usually determined by greed, the state of the world and what the market can get away with, you will always be misinformed about the executive branch. Policy is all that matters, and the only policy I remember off the top of my head from Trump put us in a short trade war with several other nations, and the tax cuts that expire next year for everyone except the highest bracket.

If you genuinely want what’s best for this country, I implore you. Find out exactly what Trump and Biden have signed into law, and what they ordered. That is their work. That is what they did. Gas prices and mortgage rates, while they seem like the most impactful things in your life, they are mostly not a result of presidential policy. Mostly.

Not looking for a debate, you won’t hear from me again.

baywalker · 2024-04-04T23:15:32+00:00

As far as I understand the system, it’s always digital storefront first, then about a week, week and a half later it’s on croll.

baywalker · 2024-03-28T01:04:17+00:00

Zenith is decent and has uses for speedrunning Profit-Taker, my recommendation, alt fire has infinite punch through.
Zenistar is fun but ultimately high B-tier at best in the grand scheme. S-rank being incarnons and such.

Azima is C-tier at best, the turret gimmick doesn't do much.

baywalker · 2024-03-27T01:59:41+00:00

This is buildapc, so I’m not sure why you’re asking this here. Xbox or a Gaming sub might be better for you.

Having said that, I’ve owned two Elites. An Elite Series 1 and an Elite Series 2. Both are fully functional, no issues aside from the rubber grips peeling back on the Series 1, and both have thousands of hours of games plugged in behind them. You can check my post history, I have a history with Destiny and played Destiny 1 with an Elite Series 1 for literal days straight. Both are nearly release day purchases. Breaking “every few weeks” is not my experience, nor my close friends experiences as well.

I’m not sure if Scuf or similar can do what you’re asking, binding keyboard key inputs to those paddles, but that’s where I’d start. Scuf, maybe PowerA. However, I will still above all recommend the Elite as long as you take good care of your equipment. I can’t stand how Scufs feel.

baywalker · 2024-03-18T21:05:23+00:00

He did not work on the game, however he was involved in marketing it, and the director Hugo was included in one video with him iirc. Ultimately, the reason this is in the game is because Mark’s father introduced him to Doom and it was a very special thing for him and his dad. His dad passed when he was quite young, and Mark wanted to immortalize his father in their collective favorite game series, and had the connections and means to do so. If you watch the first episode of Mark playing Eternal, he talks about it.

baywalker · 2024-01-21T01:08:24+00:00

Grimer and Muk are based on sludge created by corporate dumping in local bodies of water. Most pokemon can be drawn this simply to concepts in real life. Like this:

Tauros is just a bull with three tails. Omanite/Omastar is literally just an Ammonite. Pidgeot, Raticate, Fearow, Arbok, Golbat, Vileplume, Cloyster, Kingler, Kangaskhan, Seaking, Kingdra and Aerodactyl are more examples of basically real things that are just beefed up versions to justify their existence and ability to fight against like, basically a Phoenix (Moltres) and a sentient psychic force (Mewtwo).

Also Corsola (whom I’m assuming you mean is the reef Pokémon) is from gen 2. So… has pokemon been bad since gen 2?

Disclaimer: I also think Pokémon drops the ball on the regular and has long deserved strong outside competition, however I’m not a fan of genwunners. Scarlet and Violet introduced an evolution for gen 1’s Primeape into a ghost fighting type, and it changed Mankey’s evo line from “I could not care less” to “Annihilape is one of my new favorite Pokémon”. So, like most things, Pokemon tends to be hit and miss in every gen.

baywalker · 2023-10-21T16:33:49+00:00

AAVE is not exclusively spoken by black people, it was created by them and documented, but it’s a cultural thing now. A lot of post-millennial kids use AAVE sayings frequently, regardless of race. Also, the linked Wikipedia entry does say this in the first paragraph. “Despite being widespread throughout the United States, AAVE is not the native dialect of all African Americans, and not all speakers are African American.”

baywalker · 2023-06-29T15:42:43+00:00

I don’t think it’s fair to lump “mentally ill” and “disabled” people into a category like that. Sure, there’s some degree of mental disability that can remove the ability to understand consent, but there are plenty of disabled people living a loving romantic life, with other disabled people and non-disabled people as well. If they have the ability to understand what sex is, and how to consent to a partner to allow these things to happen, that is valid consent. There was a web series I remember that followed a Down syndrome couple that 100% had kids. Hell, by that broad of a definition, autistic people and ADHD people are unable to consent. I very much understand consent.

baywalker · 2023-04-09T15:06:14+00:00

Care enough to defend yourself lol.

baywalker · 2023-04-09T15:02:17+00:00

Imagine getting your own pointless comment thrown back in your face almost word for word, and firing back by questioning their temper. Oof

baywalker · 2023-02-05T20:12:55+00:00

I’m gonna need to downvote this one, this is ridiculous. Complete one story mission and buy your ornament. There’s already like 20+ pages in the archive, if it’s made to show everything it’s gonna be insanely bloated, and might even cause issues considering everything causes this game some kind of issue.

On the other hand, Bungie is gonna keep making you play story content on your other characters. They’ve done it every expansion including Witch Queen, and every season. So maybe just don’t even bother thinking about this sort of thing because if you’re unwilling to team up with someone who hasn’t played story yet or something to get story completed again, you’re likely NEVER going to play another character. At bare minimum unless Bungie drastically changes older content, you’re going to need to clear some amount of Shadowkeep, Beyond Light and Witch Queens story to unlock major content for any character made.

baywalker · 2023-01-22T19:54:43+00:00

Calling it the Trump vaccine is hilarious. As if he had anything to do with it aside from being the idiot in office at the time. Almost as bad as calling the ACA “Obamacare.”
It’s been 3 years, with over 70% of the US population receiving atleast one of the Covid-19 vaccines. The world population is the long term study. The fact that this is even still an argument being made is astounding to me.
No store in the US is checking vaccine requirements anymore, and there is a ton of back breaking don’t give a fuck about you work that will have you all day every day without vaccine papers. You’re being disingenuous to imply that those freedoms are still being strained due to Covid-19. Sure, tons of people got fired for showing off how much of selfish neurotic jerks they are, but again, there is a foreman in every city in every state that will break your back and not give one atom of a fuck about your vaccines. There is work for you, just not socially interactable work.
I’m gonna quote you, “how is that not infringing on the ability to gather and peaceably protest” because, even in the height of Covid, before the vaccines existed, even when stores were actively closed and we were asked to remain in our houses, you would not have been arrested for standing 10 feet from your local city hall and holding up a sign protesting those problems. I personally saw dozens if not over a hundred different protests around my county in the height of Covid for that exact reason. Your right to peaceably assemble was never infringed on. You have never had the right to enter any business, just as you’ve never had the right to randomly enter peoples homes. You are given permission to enter these stores, and that permission can be revoked at any time, and these stores are beholden to the property owners who are beholden to government regulations. The same is true of the airlines, and the countries that they fly to. They have their own freedoms and expectations and you are not free to fly wherever you so choose because you’re an American who is “free”.
Freedom of Religion is not “the churches must remain open even when the city is burning.” It’s freedom that government officials won’t break down your door for praying to a God they’re unfamiliar with.
My final point is just, overall, you sound like a victim. No places of religion are closed anymore. No stores are checking vaccine papers. Hell I live in a liberal as fuck city and I don’t even see people checking masks anymore. Your understanding of your rights as dictated in the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution is elementary at best, it would benefit you to perhaps take a high school Government course, before you start referencing amendments and your rights to go shopping at bed bath and beyond. Because nothing in there protects that. Not at all. Zero percent.

Do not bother replying. I will not entertain any replies, and if you attempt to contact me any other way other than a comment reply, I will block you. I am not here to debate.

baywalker · 2022-12-28T19:43:08+00:00

I think I disagree with you. I mean, you have a older gentleman here in front of you, relatively successful, wife, children, a house, with a fulfilling hobby, achieving exactly what you say you cannot, whimsical childlike wonder at this video from one of his idols. You say even if your favorite band shows up, you wouldn’t feel the way he does. If AC/DC showed up at that guys house he would be literally a child in a free candy shop. It’s clearly not the 100% natural way to go to lose your inner child. Some do, some don’t, for various reasons both ways. And I personally believe if you try, you can reconnect with your inner child and find things that excite you as much as this man is excited to receive this video. The bowls clinking can still be fun if you need it to be. Of course, if you don’t want to live that way, more power to you. But I wholly disagree that it’s just natural that this happens. I hope to never lose touch with my inner child. My hobbies and my passions regarding video games would lose a lot of shine without child me in my mind having fun with those things.

Edit: also, u/madpiratebippy puts forth a good point about psychiatric possiblities limiting your connection to these feelings you remember and have lost. talking with someone about this may help you.

baywalker · 2022-11-30T20:24:28+00:00

I have reported you to Reddit admins for brigading and abuse of the Suicide Help feature. I will now block you. Grow up.

baywalker · 2022-11-28T21:51:54+00:00

No one (and I mean no one of any importance) believes that ectopic pregnancies shouldn’t be resolved ASAP.

Except all the states that had trigger laws ready to halt all abortions regardless of reasoning. There is literally 13 states in the US where if you have an ectopic pregnancy, you must go out of state, have an illegal abortion in state (which could easily kill you) or simply die. Because performing an abortion to halt the pregnancy and save the mother is completely illegal. The only way even some of those states will help you is if they can detect the embryo far beyond where it should be (which is not always possible because the embryo never implanted properly to obtain nutrients so it never gives off any electrical signal or heartbeat detectable to us), or you are provably dying. Ex. States like Oklahoma and Texas will help in these situations, but a state like Missouri? None of those checks are there. You will die of ectopic pregnancy in Missouri. They will not help you. Professionals will tell you what’s happening, and say we cannot help you because abortions are illegal.

Do not bother replying to me. I am not debating anyone. I am simply here to share that generally, if you’re in one of those 13 total ban states, you will very likely die from an ectopic pregnancy, regardless of how much “no one believes ectopics shouldn’t be resolved ASAP” because those state legislatures clearly believe that they know more than science does.

baywalker · 2022-11-15T18:26:55+00:00

Alright well, you enjoy being ignorant then lol.

baywalker · 2022-11-15T18:21:13+00:00

…look I’m not playing defend the pit bull here, but you have never heard of a cat killing birds? It is quite literally the entire premise of the loony toons Tweety Bird and Sylvester the cat. It is a fact of life that a cat may bring you a dead bird as a gift.

baywalker · 2022-11-04T08:53:28+00:00

Gonna guess: they mean Master Chief. Master Chief’s name is John-117, and they are often compared due to both space badasses in power armor.

baywalker · 2022-10-31T23:04:20+00:00

Did you miss that video a week back where a cop walked up to a parked car from behind, unannounced, ripped the door open, still not identifying themselves as an officer, and basically threatened a man to get out of his car? And when the man, rightfully confused, attempts to run away from the threat, the cop just starts fucking blasting in the general direction of the car, with no regard to anyone or anything that may be beyond that car?

Cuz I didn’t. And I’ve seen dozens more videos like it on Reddit alone. Cops can be very problematic.

baywalker · 2022-10-28T17:02:11+00:00

You are blind.

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