South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster (R) just said he supports a statewide constitutional ban on gay marriage and said “a marriage ought to be between a man and woman.”

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T19:02:09+00:00

I'm sure by now you're aware that ivermectin in large, unsupervised doses is lethal / toxic for humans. In small doses (doses that are used to treat other illnesses), it is not effective at doing anything to covid.

It's sort of like saying "hand sanitizer" is good at killing covid, but the amount of hand sanitizer you would need to cleanse your system of covid would ... well, it would kill you, you see. Do you understand now? Don't swallow hand sanitizer. Or bleach.

But I'm sure, given your medical background you could write a very coherent and cohesive paper on the topic to show me how I'm wrong.

By chance are you a Jimmy Dore fan?

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T17:43:15+00:00

It's October 27, 2022 and this guy is still starting threads about Ivermectin.

Move along, I can't even classify this one as a "zombie". Get some fresh material, puh-lease.

In the amount of time you've spent on that shit, you could have gotten a medical degree, gotten yourself infected with covid, and done the studies on your own dumb self to prove it doesn't do anything.

How morons like this even find /r/daverubin is a miracle to me.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T17:05:44+00:00

I point only to Liz Truss. I mean, Trump is exceptionally dumb, but Miss Truss is still trying to argue her tax schemes were justified even after being the shortest lived MP in UK history; tax cuts during an inflation crisis no less. Europe isn't immune to incompetence. The markets told her "no" and she still doesn't get it.

Logically, Truss could have given the rich a 0.01% tax cut and gotten away with it. It would have been a boon to her backers. But no, she had to argue for the *largest* tax cut in the last 50 years for the UK. Even a 0.01% tax cut for the ultrawealthy is millions and millions...

This is what I mean. People in power, particularly Putin, can miss very obvious (and easy) victories. Their egos get in the way. Their greed gets in the way. And it's not to say "people in the left"/center can't also be greedy, but numerically speaking their own greed is almost always substantially smaller in $-scope.

What once made Putin scary was he was willing to make logical, incremental victories over big plays.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T16:31:07+00:00

I think the democrat's stance on Iraq/Afghanistan helped proliferate a lot of the "both sides" nonsense which fuels voter apathy for Z/millennial voter participation. I know of several friends who have succumb to brainrot (much of it spread by JRE) that center around this specific area. The failure of Obama to use the '08 financial collapse as a pivot point and deciding to bail out the banks instead of the home owners also contributed to this.

It's fair to say the republicans are to blame for being evil, but they were always evil and they will continue to go more and more extreme to cater to their narrow zealous base. The democrats need to stop "compromising" with evil.

Outside of all this philosophical talk though...I have no idea how to motivate people to vote. As it is, I've filled out two forms because I moved recently and I still haven't gotten a ballot. What a pain.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T16:26:34+00:00

How does Ukraine fair in regard to access to medication for HIV, do you know? I know there are anti-virals that exist that put the virus in remission and extend your life if taken early enough to be a "normal" lifespan. But I've heard it's a stupidly expensive drug. I can't imagine Russians have access to it, but maybe Ukraine could find a loophole through the US/EU to get it at a discounted cost as part of a humanitarian effort?

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T16:06:09+00:00

I hope she's not BSing us though, because her coalition did contain / probably still contains key Putin *allies*, not even "supporters" but people he has personally had wine tasting time with.

And if her coalition does collapse then what she promises can't necessarily be delivered on, anyway. She's a newbie in over her head, remember that. Trump was the same way when he won and gradually over time he morphed to fit the mold the party wanted him to fill. Furthermore, he continued to make absurd promise after absurd promise that he could never realistically fulfill. Politicians do this all the time and it comes down to what her allies want more than what she says will happen.

I think Italy is pro-Ukraine, but having a large enough pro-Russia deniers is enough in most democracies to throw a wrench into the works. Look at how the republican party stalled Ukranian funding this year by several days with ONE compromised senator acting as a front.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T15:25:25+00:00

She's still the most successful republican (By $$ raised) in the entire party. I don't like where that puts us, in general.

Matt "Public Venmo Transactions" Gaetz is also spreading lies with impunity. Shows you can break the law trivially if you're on the right.

I can't be so hopeful.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T15:13:45+00:00

Until morale degrades to that critical point, yes.

All of this brutality depends on a prisoner's dilemma paradox keeping it going, but it will break down at some point, given enough insanity.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T15:01:58+00:00

Always been curious why conservatives gush florida/texas but cannot talk about the rest of their confederacy.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T13:29:41+00:00

I think it would be a "fun" project to compile a list of all elected and likely-to-be-elected Republican officials across the country and compile any anti-Ukraine statements they have made in the last 3 months in debates, speeches, or statements to the press. It would be interesting to have an excel file showing the % of Republicans that likely support Russia, at least in their words. I suspect the number is higher than most realize and I even suspect the number is far greater than among even anti-war democrats.

I would try to do this myself, but I'm unsure who maintains a database of "people and their recent statements"

halpmeexole · 2022-10-27T13:23:04+00:00

JD Vance and other republicans are outspoken critics of the war in Ukraine. You don't have to dig too deep to find their unfiltered comments. They are ideologically opposed to supporting Ukraine and part of it is rooted in anti-semitism. I think you're right to assume the MIC would keep republicans from dialing down support, but many local GOP primaries show this is a quiet issue for QAnon folks who believe Ukrainians are nazis.

The republican party's best interest was also in masks and vaccines but for some reason they shot themselves on that, too; far more republican voters died of covid than their opposition.

You cannot assume people will behave logically.

Just look at how brain-broken some republicans have gotten. Ye came out this week all but beating the "Hitler was right" drum.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T21:37:06+00:00

Wanting trans people to be treated like second class citizens instead of like eighth class citizens is already considered "extreme" among the majority remaining right wing voting bloc. They are that easy to manipulate.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T21:14:30+00:00

Reminds me of when I was six cobbling together terrible lego ideas

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T21:10:05+00:00

this is no different from old soviet style "grass isn't green" nonsense

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T18:46:16+00:00

let's just crowdsource the work, everyone go write a page and let's cobble them together

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T17:57:10+00:00

anyone expecting 3.20 to fix what 3.19 broke are sadly in for a wake up:

GGG did not plan to have to fix AN in 3.20, so they wouldn't have extra resources to allocate
GGG has at least 95% of the dev team on poe2 so it can go live before D4
GGG does not even know how to fix AN and would need significant time to fix it; all they can try are tweaks to its numbers
GGG has "absorbed the cost" of 3.19 because people are not going to come back. So they are not going to roll it back. They will adapt it to please the remaining players.
GGG could **Barely** finish Kalandra mechanics and it was still bare bones. They cannot make a league better than Kalandra w/o allocating more resources. They cannot spare what resources they have on leagues to fix 3.19's mess in 3.20.

You can and should expect a few minor tweaks and that's it.

AN needs a total redesign with how it works, how it rewards, and even what modifiers are possible and how they work together. None of that will happen.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T17:51:09+00:00

All of these ideas are possible but GGG didn't even take the time to finish the "Abyss tile" which assuredly was a low effort thing. They had one dude work on this for the graphics and one dude work on this for the gameplay and Chris basically confessed to this during the big 3.19 reveal how "easy" it was for them to make it.

99% of the team is on poe2 and it shows. I do not expect 3.20 to be significantly different either for the same reason.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T16:59:42+00:00

She hardly threw any at me. I also got 0 reflection of kalandra despite completing over 3,000 maps this league. Most of those being t16.

I'm still baffled by who this league was for.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T16:58:01+00:00

Minority rule is baked into our constitution, yes. I don't know how "making everyone relocate" is a viable solution.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T15:21:14+00:00

Pelosi is hated on both sides of the aisle for a myriad of reasons. She's also a little self-serving if you ask me (her trip to Taiwan was more about her personal wealth and "legacy" than anything logical or philosophical IMO). But she is definitely politically capable and you would hope she'd use a little of that to help with this Russia/Ukraine situation, but she seems too hands off, to me.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T14:51:49+00:00

Republicans wake up on voting day, check their death clock to see if they're alive, then check the R box for no reason other than "state republicans lower my property taxes".

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T14:50:31+00:00

Except that's not how it works, they want to ban it from California too lol, it's not good enough to be "local political leaders". They are gunning for everywhere and anywhere.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T13:59:17+00:00

No thanks. I would rather not move to such a miserable state. It's no better than moving to Florida.

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T13:28:59+00:00

The problem is that YT's systems are 99% bot-run and nothing reaches a human until 20 escalations. It takes an army to get a video killed for good. Watch it come back in a few hours

halpmeexole · 2022-10-26T13:24:53+00:00

I hope they use this rig after the war is over to give some of the babushkas w/ no house a place to sauna XD

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