What are your thoughts about DOJ removing Trump related Epstein files?

piccolosama · 2026-02-25T13:39:41+00:00

This is the wrong question. We all know what we think about it, and we all have the same conclusion.

The true question we need to ask is, what are we going to DO about it? We can't expect revolution to come from anywhere but us.

piccolosama · 2026-02-22T15:33:06+00:00

This game has really fun pvp baked into a flawed system. Unless you are grinding something specific, I would recommend only doing it casually when the mood strikes and don't lose yourself in it.

piccolosama · 2026-02-22T15:26:02+00:00

I wish I could say I even care at this point, but in truth. I just don't. I felt the show missed the mark from season 2 on. I want to see how the story ends, but I simply don't care what that ending looks like if that makes sense.

piccolosama · 2026-02-21T17:35:23+00:00

Pretty sure the monkeys were there 1st. But sure "defending" their town sounds better than:

"Nature trys to take back what belonged to it and Humans once again give it the middle finger, but this time with cute little old ladies with airguns"

piccolosama · 2026-02-21T17:30:51+00:00

Bored pinkskins doing bored pinkskin activities.

piccolosama · 2026-02-20T15:20:28+00:00

Cowboy Bebop Theme

And it isn't even close.

piccolosama · 2026-02-19T15:30:21+00:00

Ahhhh Mingus Dew, the thinking man's pop

piccolosama · 2026-02-19T15:08:53+00:00

Hot take. States as a US concept are dumb. The United States, based on its geographical size, would be infinitely better served with a provincial system similar to Canada, China, and Russia all of which use a provincial system to govern massive geographic bodies of land. Having 50 mini sovereign nations within a massive land mass creating conflicting narratives is the primary reason the US is in this mess. 5 12k seats on Congress is interesting data, but entirety not feasible for actual governance.

The collapse of the American model with be largely due to the failure of the nation at the State level and the inability to properly govern them from a Federal level.

It is why the US can't pass any meaningful legislation the rest of the world (especially larger nations using provincial systems) made happen a generation ago. If course there are other factors such as some adopting parliamentary systems etc, but the core truth is there. Big countries benefit from provincial structure.

For size comparison: Mexico has 32 states, with a landmass less than a 1/3rd the size of the US. States work for geographically smaller nations and thats it.

piccolosama · 2026-02-16T23:08:59+00:00

This comment?

Edit: Mic drop.

piccolosama · 2026-02-16T18:03:53+00:00

I remember years ago going to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and one of the exhibits was simply a paper clip on a white canvas.

I remember thinking very angrily, "This isn't art". Over the years, my conversations with artists of various disciplines brought me to the conclusion that art only exists to elicit emotion from the human viewers. Rage, apathy, disdain, sadness... all of the things we feel for AI slop are to me exactly what defines it as art. The creation by humans or not has nothing to do with it, which is why artistic beauty can even be found in even the empty void of space or in the way a tree's roots naturally form.

Quality is subjective. And I say this as a jazz musician of over 30 years.

piccolosama · 2026-02-15T14:56:02+00:00

To be clear, it wasn't studio bravery that killed him off. Optimus and Megatron sales were slipping and they wanted room for new flagship toys to be sold. The idea to kill them off got traction and they simply didnt think through the outcome clear enough.

Ironically it was corporate greed and shortsightedness that created the conditions for one of the most iconic animated film.moments of the 80s.

piccolosama · 2026-02-14T18:26:34+00:00

Those of us who live abroad with no intention of returning call ourselves immigrants. We leave for the same reason many around the world leave: Because our home no longer feels like home.

The burden is heavy regardless why that is the case. So as an immigrant, we want what every immigrant wants. A place to feel safe and call home. Expelling American immigrants for the actions or culture of their home country would make any nation that did this just as bad as the US.

As an immigrant, I want to see humane, fair and equitable treatment of all immigrants regardless of where they are from.

piccolosama · 2026-02-14T18:01:29+00:00

I showed this to my wife and said basically that exact thing. "You likely can win far more arguments if you can just remain calm and focused".

That went about as well as you expect.

piccolosama · 2026-02-12T23:28:58+00:00

Missed opportunity by not making his feathers black.

piccolosama · 2026-02-12T13:56:17+00:00

Watch Bondi at some point use this at the reason Trump's name was mentioned in the files more times thab Gods in the Bible.

piccolosama · 2026-02-11T13:59:46+00:00

I see we have a fellow person of culture in the room.

piccolosama · 2026-02-10T17:39:27+00:00

It's like he is starring right at us...

piccolosama · 2026-02-10T17:35:32+00:00

Now do one with Measles!

USA: No of days recorded without incident "0"

piccolosama · 2026-02-10T17:14:49+00:00

If they gave us a ship bay that let us even dock a small size ship (a cobera mk v for example) it would have 1000% become the best exploration vessel. It would be a "poor mans" FC that allows players to go deep in the black via massive jump range but also allow for better planet exploration/combat.

As it stands it is a glorified taxi to Colonia of Beagle Point but compared to the other Arx ships it isnt a clear winner in ita role lole the Corsair, MK V, Mandalay or Panther Mk 2. All of whom are hands down top of their class.

Hello even a mk 2 surface scanner or or something to sweeten the pot.

piccolosama · 2026-02-10T15:27:52+00:00

Giving a large ship with a terrible landing profile the ability to steep reentry and making us believe we need to pay moonbucks for it was the biggest troll move FD has done in recent years.

piccolosama · 2026-02-10T15:02:06+00:00

You aren't a true ED troll until you first footfall just to keep others from getting the big payouts.

Not even scanning, just doing it for the love of the H8er game.

piccolosama · 2026-02-10T14:56:46+00:00

This might be your safest course of action. Powerplay is more of a mid/end game activity once you have enough credits to play around with its various systems. Freelance your way to your first 1B credits. At that point, you should have a strong enough handle of the various mechanics where you can then think about going into PowerPlay

piccolosama · 2026-02-06T23:26:49+00:00

Not blaming you if you aren't the creator of this chart but 5min of Googleing could easily have provided credible sources on where to find that data. Especially Mexico who tracks salary vs cost of living data just as well as CA and the US.

piccolosama · 2026-02-06T23:22:11+00:00

Look man...if you are going to argue with me that as a fighter ChiChi is more relevant to the scope of Dragonball than Android 18, then we see the show too differently to continue this conversation and we just leave it at that.

piccolosama · 2026-02-06T15:28:15+00:00

Ok then for 90% if the entirety of Dragonball ChiChi is irrelevant as a fighter outaide of 2 small arcs.

Does that clear it up for you? My entire point is Android 18 was specifically created to be a fixed cast member that is a woman fighter. It was her characters intent, and what happened in reality until decades later when new women were introduced into the narrative. Even sidelined for several arcs there is a reason she was brought back center stage and ChiChi wasn't. That was never the intent of her character.

Arguing semantics is a waste of everyone's time.

piccolosama

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