Greg Jose

> be Forza Horizon > starts as a spin-off nobody asked for > new country every 2-3 years > FH3, FH4, FH5 - 91, 92, 92 Metacritic in a row > FH5 - 10 million players week one > biggest Xbox launch ever. a racing game. > Japan requested since 2012. 14 years of silence > Microsoft accidentally leaks the full game on Steam > modder streams it without blurring his name > banned until December 31, 9999 > launch day - 273,000 Steam players > record for any racing game in history > 6 million players in 72 hours Forza went from unwanted spin-off to the most consistent franchise in gaming and nobody talks about it.

Brutal situation for Destiny fans. Sorry to see it happen. Thanks Bungie leadership :)

1. Basically every developed economy has cabotage laws. Including China. 2. If you strike the Jones Act then America’s commercial maritime industry dies essentially overnight. 3. Foreign vessels will take their place and the USA will not have a commercial maritime industry.

Now PLEASE add a double hulled China built to PLA standards merchant ship. I’ll bet $100 it’s more difficult to sink than anyone in the pentagon thinks.

A little-known hack: 2 slices of Aldi wheat bread: $0.17 3 oz of Aldi deli turkey: $0.86 1 slices Aldi cheddar: $0.15 1 condiment of your choice: $0.02 1 apple: $0.53 1 hard boiled egg: $0.14 5 carrot sticks: $0.17 Cold water from the tap: $0.01 Total: $2.05 You can do this.

The fact that you think this is a workable analogy really doesn't bode well here but let me try to explain this: Pro lifers think abortion is murder in the sense that it is an innocent life is being taken. What they do NOT necessarily believe is that abortion can or should be *legally categorized and prosecuted* in the same way as, say, a premeditated mass shooting (first degree murder), or accidentally hitting someone with your car (manslaughter), or leaving a loaded gun out where someone was able to pick it up and shoot themselves (negligent homicide). Some pro-life people think that women who abort are victims themselves -- that they don't fully understand the implications of the choice they've made, and they deserve compassion. Some pro-life people really just want the procedure banned but have no particular desire to punish women for accessing it, because it's only the former thing that will actually save lives. And some pro-life people would in fact like to see women prosecuted for aborting, but they keep it to themselves and don't pursue it as policy, because they know it's an extraordinarily unsympathetic position and that making it part of the platform would be political suicide, hurting their ability to accomplish what they want more -- which, again, *is to reduce or eliminate abortions.* You don't have to find this persuasive in the sense that it makes you rethink your own beliefs about whether abortion is murder, but if you want to understand the mindset of pro-life people, you have to accept that this is how they think about the issue and the tradeoffs that surround it. This is what they believe. James Surowiecki has had all this explained to him a dozen times over, of course, and more eloquently than this; he just doesn't want to hear it because he doesn't actually want to know how pro-life people think. He prefers the made-up villain version of them inside his head, which is easy to mock and dismiss. But that's his impoverishment; feel free to not duplicate it!

Suddenly it's 2015 again. Rubio was always the preferred candidate of the permanent GOP think tank blob in DC. Now they see a way back into power on his back.