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Colleen
@PiedViper
I'm a gamer, engineer, married woman & probably older than you. I don't argue; I explain why I'm right. You can change my mind with data.
the elevator to the mezzanine Katılım Kasım 2015
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🇯🇵🇺🇸 A common lie repeated by third worlders is that "Japan only recovered because the US helped".
This is a lie. Japan got just 0.31 billion USD per year for 7 years. African countries, on the other hand, received massive amounts of aid and yet created nothing.
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But you won't let me connect if I'm on a VPN from my weird browser that you can't really fingerprint. So instead of trying to hide stuff from you, I feed you garbage :)
Or I would if I still had the energy and cared enough. I don't any more. Everything that is important doesn't go across the internet. We should air-gap it, but I'm fine with running faster than the other campers right now.
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Nothing your device, browser, ISP, or VPN (mostly, these are the best one) do protects you.
As a professional, I'd say you could probably stop us by using a VPN and opening every url in a manually created new incognito window. Mostly.
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ARC readers wanted for Red State Mars (out May 26)!
We’re giving away a limited number of advance ebook copies to readers willing to consider leaving a review during launch week.
Sign up: forms.gle/Fch8YrQYYRB8Zw…
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My father did this to my mom. He called her, said I'm quitting my job. Walked into his boss's office and quit on a Friday and never looked back. I think the defence contracting firm he was working for were up to some shady/almost certainly illegal stuff and he found out. Mom handled it pretty well I think lol.
It happens more than people suspect. We had a guy that relocated from another state to make his wife happy, lasted here a week, and something went horribly wrong and he quit and went back to his family. We couldn't talk him out of it. It was very :(
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My father did this. Just straight up quit one day after a meeting and drove home.
Retired. At 56.
There was ZERO discussion with my mother prior to this.
No big hoopla. No talking about it for years. No philosophical countdown.
He just did it. And that was that. Done.
ZC@zbonecantswim
Dude one of my co workers just got up and quit mid meeting. Dropped call, starting packing up his desk. Got up, left his laptop and badges behind and Irish goodbye’d the office #BeastMode
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Rx OK, the #TransLunarInjection is about 6 minutes long - What 1-2 songs would you be blasting were you the Commander
GIF
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@dnvr_is_burning @avidseries What do you mean by affirmative action exactly, and why do you think it would be a good thing?
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@avidseries The reality denial is exhausting... and I even support moderate affirmative action (not as extreme as it had become). But I'm not going to pretend the facts aren't the facts
If it weren't for the facts, there would be no need for affirmative action in the first place
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Estimated number of times I've politely replied with accurate statistical data to a large left-leaning account who has tweeted provably-false claims about affirmative action: About 100
Number of times I've received a response: 0
Number of times I was instantly blocked: About 50
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Officially credentialed Pentagon press corps as of today, alongside my interpreter @DataInterpretr. First Deaf journalist to hold the badge. Thank you @JoelValdezDOW for moving mountains to make this unique arrangement possible. Naturally, the legacy media is invited to congratulate the Department of War on their commitment to press corps inclusiveness.
This wouldn't have been possible without you. Every $3 subscription and every engagement opened this door. Now I'm going to use it. Military institutional capture research starts today.
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@RealCoffeeChoco @SandyofCthulhu I don't need a reviewer to agree with me or have my exact taste, I just need them to be consistent in what they like an why. If Siskal loved a film, I knew I'd hate it.
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@SandyofCthulhu the only critics ever worth listening to were Siskel and Ebert from that era. Not b/c they weren't annoying poseurs, but because they really didn't like each other, and sometimes would just disagree for the sake of it, and so you actually got a more honest review that way.
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The reviews of commando back in the day were highly negative. No critic wanted to go on record as liking an action film or schwarzenegger, who was mocked as an actor.
I knew they were wrong and the critics attitude is why we all hate critics today. Except Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic.
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Justin Lee Collins@iam_jlc
Predator is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s best film. It totally holds up after almost 30 years. With Commando of course coming a close second.
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Get a free book. Write review. It’s that simple. Apply in the tweet below.
Ark Press@ark_press
ARC readers wanted for Red State Mars (out May 26)! We’re giving away a limited number of advance ebook copies to readers willing to consider leaving a review during launch week. Sign up: forms.gle/Fch8YrQYYRB8Zw…
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I think randomness keeps the game from being decided too early. With a little randomness, someone can possibly come back from a mistake. It takes a little longer for it to be apparent there is no way for someone to win because a lucky roll or draw could change the situation.
There are other ways to deal with that, like the way Air, Land & Sea allows a player to withdraw and deny their opponent a total victory, but a little randomness can go a long way toward making it fun for people of different skill levels to play together.
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As many of you know, all modern boardgaming is divided into two factions - casual gamers and avid gamers. Avid gamers can't usually enjoy the classic casual games - Monopoly, Scrabble, etc. can be a real drag when you're used to better things. Luckily, casual gamers can enjoy many real games - you just have to pick the right ones. My wife is emphatically casual, for instance but she's happy to play Ticket to Ride or Collosseum.
Now the problem arises, for me, within the avid gamers which are ALSO split into two factions - ameritrash and eurogamers. Now, the great stereotype is that ameritrash are huge sprawling totally unbalanced super fun games and eurogames are tightly-balanced, carefully-crafted snoozefests, but of course there is overlap and exceptions. The iconic Ameritrash is Axis & Allies while the poster child for Eurogames is often Settlers of Cataan.
Now one stereotype of eurogamers which is spot on is that they hate any random element. When I designed Cthulhu Wars, I had two random elements. First the hidden Elder Signs - when you take one, no one knows its value except you. The other is combat, which is dice-based.
IMMEDIATELY after publication I had suggestions from Eurogamers how to "fix" my game. Make all the Elder Signs 2 points. Replace the combat dice with a fixed sequence of results. This was urged upon me innocently, with apparently no idea that I could possibly disagree because how could randomness be good? But I LIKE some randomness in a game. When I'm shaking a fistful of dice, hoping and praying for a decent roll, the thrill of expectation, the joy or tragedy of the result to me all add to the fun. The randomness of the Elder Signs means that you are never really sure if you are ahead - there's danger and risk added to the game.
Like you, I hate games that are totally random - but you get enough Elder Signs and combat rolls in Cthulhu Wars that it balances out. And since strategy is even MORE important, everyone who's played it has seen someone with consistently good die rolls lose to someone who outwitted them.
Now, I think my way of playing is the best. But if you buy my game, it belongs to you. You can change the rules as you please. Just don't blame me if the results are not all you hoped for. Also please tell the other players you changed the rules. It's only fair.
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"Students are now required to show they are “lawfully present” in the country to get in-state tuition"
"undo benefits and services that made Texas hospitable to noncitizens"
“These steps ensure compliance with federal law, protect the integrity of our systems, and prioritize jobs and resources for legal residents and citizens.”
"strictly enforce a federal English proficiency requirement for truck drivers, and ordered the agency to stop issuing commercial driver’s licenses for non-English speakers."
"added stricter photo identification requirements for registering and purchasing a car...increasing the risk that they’ll (illegal aliens driving unregistered cars) be pulled over and potentially face deportation"
“The state in a way got really smart,” Higueros said. “Now when a cop stops you (for driving an unregistered vehicle), they do have probable cause to arrest you and there’s no way we can fight it.”
All of this looks good to me. Why should any of these benefits (occupational licensing, in-state tuition, car registration, etc.) be available to illegal aliens?
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Texas is cutting undocumented immigrants off from school, work and driving.
The sweeping rule changes, all enacted outside the typical legislative process, have upended life for noncitizens, including those who are here legally.
texastribune.org/2026/04/02/tex…
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That's whaat I really dislike about the battle of Agincourt
The total lack of diversity, especially among the archers
Ben Leo@benleo444
“Apollo was all white men. This is not.” What is this? Who does this appeal to? They are courageous heroes of humanity. No one, not even them, cares about skin colour or gender. Just put a sock in it.
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@physicsgeek We watched the trailer and thought we might watch it when it comes to streaming. It's not getting us to the theater though. We're not Superman and family fans though.
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@PiedViper I probably would because I am the fan base for this movie. Shit like this makes it much less likely I'll bother to see it
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I've seen trailers and the movie actually looks decent and will probably do well at the box office, but following the Rachel Ziegler model of promoting a movie is a bad idea.
PJ Media@PJMedia_com
'Supergirl' Star Sparks Controversy With Comments About ‘Sexist’ Fans pjmedia.com/michaelcantrel…
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They aren't saying things they actually believe, they are just doing the most cynical thing ever to make sure people notice the movie is coming out. Would we be talking about it if she had just said "I'm excited for this role and I think y'all are really going to like the movie!"?
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Ripley
Sarah Connor
Buffy (on the small screen)
[feel free to add your own here]
All of those women were loved by audiences in successful franchises. But sure, you're the first person to exist as a woman or whatever.
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Colleen retweetledi
HII’s #IngallsShipbuilding division successfully launched future USS George M. Neal (#DDG131) Wednesday, marking a major construction milestone for the fourth Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be built at the shipyard.
Read more here: ow.ly/pvMs50YCh1m
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I enjoy it for the performances and not the story. A lot of people's motivations IRL don't make any sense to me, so I guess I don't object that much when they're a little off in a superhero movie. Don't get me started on stupid science and technology writing in movies that are purportedly science fiction though. I think we all have our things that bug us.
I don't remember any flagrant "completely irrational and unexplained choices by main characters to just advance the plot" moments in the one with the Joker, but it's been a long time since I watched it.
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I've never seen Nolan's Batman. Not any of the three. Finally watched the middle movie on the flight back home from San Antonio. I think I have to conclude Nolan's movies just aren't for me.
Everyone seems to love them, but Interstellar was overcomplicated and some of the characters made decisions which make no sense. Inception was also overcomplicated and characters made decisions which make no sense. Yet again with The Dark Knight the plot is overcomplicated and characters make decisions which make no sense.
I could buy that The Joker is criminally insane. I could not buy that he'd have an army of competently criminal adherents doing all his dirty work for him. I could buy that he might try to manipulate the situation so as to force Harvey Dent to compromise his principles. I could not buy that a horrendously wounded Dent would become the circus freak Two-Face.
And so on, and so forth.
I know, I am trying too hard with a superhero movie. All superhero movies require an added layer of suspension of disbelief, and The Dark Knight almost had me. But there were too many plot dominoes falling in specific ways which made the "machinery" of the writing too apparent. And Bruce Wayne's war to save Gotham too contrived.
I give it two-and-a-half out of five stars. Just like Interstellar and Inception.
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