@HybridGrizzly @suchnerve Yet figurehead monarch also tip-top around politics. If they didn't the monarchy could be removed.
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"A slave to pompous scientism."
Toronto, Canada Katılım Ağustos 2009
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@doconnoronca @suchnerve most celebrities tip-toe around politics to avoid alienating their fans because that is their livelihood but that obviously wouldn't be a risk for a figurehead monarch
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The only pro-monarchy argument I’ve ever found even a little compelling: a legally powerless monarch serves as a cultural pressure release valve for the human urge to worship larger-than-life symbols which would otherwise be misdirected at the constitution by refusing to amend it
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@HybridGrizzly @suchnerve No more than a celebrity, but they are not allowed to run for office, so their power is limited.
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@suchnerve but their worship gives them political power regardless of the safeguards in place
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@judejon_ @andrastimot In the movie Hagrid said pure-bloods aren't that pure. "Why, there isn't a wizard alive today that's not half-blood or less"
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@andrastimot I think any pureblood wizard being even partly non-white does change the spirit of the books. Purebloods are heavily inbred. If one pureblood is black then they must all be partly black. A racial caste system would be impossible to ignore
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@TierZoo Woke government said no.
theguardian.com/world/2013/jan…
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could they have just blown up Venus?
Steve Evenly Naked@impossiblebones
@TierZoo You know what I suddenly realized? Like Raiders, Grace is irrelevant to the story. Once Astrophage consumes all the CO2 on Venus, that's it, it can't absorb any more energy from the Sun. Everything goes back to normal on its own.
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@MlNESWEEPER @marrymegarfield The movie is set in Toronto if you can believe it.
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@marrymegarfield and they’re doing this at queen and spadina for why
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@KMc_head @fuckyouiquit They never said "the wealthy don't pay taxes" so that was never the goalpost.
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@fuckyouiquit Only an idiot would move the goalpoasts from "the wealthy don't pay taxes" to "they don't pay the same overall percentage if we include absolutely all taxes including sales taxes too" when called out on the first point...
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Wealth taxes in the US are nothing new. The poor believing the wealthy shouldn't be taxed is. Here's a pretty interesting read on how it used to work. itep.org/america-used-t…
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@zweiwalker89607 @SCentralized Probably for the same reason. He was too OP and could easily defeat the threat in the story.
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@doconnoronca @SCentralized Bantam/NJO Luke is kinda like if Yoda was High Republic Maxxing for his entire time as Grandmaster.
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People who don't actually read Legends don't know that this is also true in the Bantam Era lol it feels like Luke is like "hey Streen you're in charge while I go flirt with this chick for a year, have fun training the kids loser" in every book
Wes 🟢🟢🟢🟢🛰️🟢@Luke_Maxxing
It's so funny how in NJO and beyond they just fully drop even pretending that Luke does his job and say "yeah Tionne just trains the entire Jedi Order"
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@Noahpinion @DBZYuYuYasha Governments bent to the KKK's will, like the OIC is doing.
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@DBZYuYuYasha I don't think the Olympic Committee is very similar to the KKK
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It's not clear to me that the long arc of moral history bends in the progressive direction on this particular issue
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: Trans women athletes are banned from the Olympics by a new IOC policy on female eligibility. apnews.com/article/ioc-ol…
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@CosmicEggEarth @ReviewsPossum Oil does that and they don't support it.
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@ReviewsPossum If nuclear power would kill a few million most productive, and tax into oblivion anyone with a job, THEN they'd support it.
You just don't get how they work.
It's a crab bucket religion of spite.
They want to ban everyone with a brain.
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If we renamed nuclear energy to something like "crystal energy" and didn't tell anyone, all of the anti-nuclear people would support it.
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@bbcdoctorwho Which Master, Doctor, and episode is that quote feom?
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@amircalilh I’ll thank you to provide an example of a SW theme injected in a random place that isn’t also shit
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It’s kinda crazy how Dave Filoni himself explained the thematic point of “Duel of the Fates” in The Phantom Menace, and how it’s not actually Maul’s theme, and then still proceeded to do this
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
First clip from ‘MAUL - SHADOW LORD’. Releasing April 6 on Disney+
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@doconnoronca Thank you for clarifying. The Route Supervisor is monitoring and will make an adjustment when possible. ^TM
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@haldlex @Laine_MiB @lstTurtle I remember a Robert A. Heinlein story where an alien from Venus basically did that to be able to speak human language.
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@Laine_MiB @lstTurtle It’s even funnier when you factor in humans can’t speak eridian without musical instruments, so he just started walking everywhere with bagpipes lol
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I have a head-canon that the longer he lives on Erid the more he starts to tone his voice to the eridians music-language and so if he WERE to meet a human some forty years later he has a very very very strange accent that makes it difficult to understand him.
PMK@INTERGAL4CTUS
my ryland grace headcanons ☆⋆｡𖦹°‧★
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Minimum wage in Oregon is double that. Double
daz@MetamateDaz
The minimum wage in Pennsylvania is $7.25 an hour. A regular Auntie Anne’s soft pretzel at the mall is $7.29. Imagine telling someone an hour of their time is worth less than a pretzel.
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@doconnoronca Good morning and thank you for sharing your feedback. I will forward this to our Closures & Diversions Team for their consideration. ^TM
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@ChShersh @CeltCartier Only if the IDE allows declaring a variable at any point (and automagically move it into a VAR section).
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@PlannerSean Given that airport traffic is a small percentage of traffic and the 509 has room to increase frequency to what it was before COVID, Queen Quay should be able to handle it.
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Yes, 5x the airport traffic at Queens Quay and Bathurst is a totally not unhinged thing to support.
Gil Meslin@g_meslin
@GraphicMatt It’s the final ‘quick fact’ bullet in the Province’s news release. news.ontario.ca/en/release/100…
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