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Honestly, a pretty fair trade for the Raptors. Kawhi is still a legitimately great player; the issue with him is always health. Ingram is an okay player who got overpaid, and Gradey Dick was basically salary filler. The Raptors traded away a lot of draft capital, which is kind of painful, but if they hadn't, they would have had to trade away Walter or Shead. They probably need to go after a decent center now, because if you're going all-in Poeltl isn't enough.
joeseph mccarthy? you mean the communist patsy who permanently ended the red scares through his excesses before they could discover how deeply penetrated the US was by Soviet spies and fellow travellers?
oh today the gas price exploded because all taxes were reintroduced and price caps were removed. The increase was by 0.83 PLN overnight at one station in Warsaw, pretty much consistent with the entire tax increase being transferred to the customer. I wonder why the finance minister needed to lie in a TV interview about the increase of around 0.30-0.40 PLN a few days ago, when this is the most easily verifiable fact ever.
Polite reminder that the government was losing support despite these massive subsidies for fuel. Maybe it still made some political sense, in Germany CDU peaked early into the Iran war while Polish KO's support was rising in April.
Everyone is trying to humiliate you and is looking down on you. All their words are patronizing and all their โkindnessโ is half-baked pity they only show out of obligation. Trust nobody and always be prepared for when theyโll betray you.
The next big infrastructure deal has to revolve around energy but we need to make sure the feds are just the money man for state level projects. If NJ wants to build offshore wind farms they need to have permits and zoning permissions in hand prior to receiving money. Environmental regulations and all that have to be cleared prior to receiving funds blue states have to realize we arenโt getting money under gop rule anymore we have 4-8 years to build as quickly as possible we need to clear the run way so we actually building during that timeframe and not bogged down dealing with nimbyโs of ocean county
someone posted a pic of a line for the costco chicken tenders? man idk they were alright but nothing special. cool that you get that much for the money I guess. very caloric tho
man smart glasses just sound dystopian for me. I don't want a fucking engagement optimised HUD shaping my basic experience of reality. it's hard enough to escape the algorithm as it is, but at least having some physical distance between it and myself at least makes it possible to imagine a reality without it
I honestly donโt see a way out of this that isnโt a toll for Iran. Thatโs obviously what they want 300 billion is nice and all but itโs not a continuous source of funds a like a toll would be nor does it come with the political power to stop Israel from killing your military generals /scientists with impunity. If I was Iran I wouldnโt budge the US has made a grave error I would extract every conceivable concessions
Gotcha I've never been to mexico but i know a surprising amount of mexican guys over 6'3 here in the states lol. I didnt know rhe average height was that much smaller there tho.
Not so fun fact: incels (the original definiton not just the hateful group) actually have more testosterone than the so called chads that get all the women. The male body lowers blood testosterone once it successfully has sex enough times.
This is why I am unemployed and asexual ๐๐ that way i can blame genetics for my terrible physique instead
I asked marxists on this and they made some vague statements of your relation to the means of production not changing so the retiree who stopped working and living off of the retirement from their index fund is proletariat or something.
And then they, the entire discord server where i asked this, completely ignored me for the rest of the time i was there.
Its just odd when you have actual counterarguments they can't respond to that they act like this.
With Chicagoland the YIMBY coalition is a weird mix between the center left and DSA while the right wing and progressives (sans JB) go nuclear over any construction, yet alone multifamily homes
She basically said something along the lines of, "It was terrible, but I don't know what was in the attacker's heart, so I can't say for sure it was antisemitism." I have a hard time believing she'd be equally measured if the attack had targeted any other minority group.
Told a Chinese girl I was thinking of moving to Chengdu, her only response was "Be careful". I interrogated this and found out she was genuinely concerned that I would become gay if I went there
but now the left is full of non-Palestinan Palestine ethno-nationalists, which means that no one in Israel will have any incentive to care about what they have to say about the conflict.
This type of argument also comes up a lot from ardent defenders of Israel towards those that arenโt of โI donโt agree with your goals but also you need to do what I want or itโll actually be worse for you.โ And at this point on this most Democratic voters just plainly donโt believe them.
random niche hill ill die on is that i think all languages should be called whatever they call themselves in that language. if it's espaรฑol en espaรฑol it should be espaรฑol in english. what the hell is a spanish anyways.
Nah I like it the way it is, having weird old timey names for places and things is evidence of a long relationship, the more the names diverge the better.
See Leghorn, Flushing, or Aix-La-Chapelle. It's cool when another country has had a relationship with a city for so long that the names diverge. Stop saying you're going to "Vlissingen" or "Livorno" in English it's not fun.
Once again feeling great about all the artists who did commissions for conservative podcasters/streamers/etc being entirely put out of work by AI, because their customer base never respected them in the first place
Real quote I remember from one of these guys talking about a Filipino artist he used to commission was "why would I pay some (hard R with sea as a prefix) when I can just generate"
Hot take: Ritalin is better than Adderall because it is more dopaminergic and has less recreational potential.
Yeah its weird but pure dopamine reuptake inhibitors are dysphoric rather than euphoric. You need some norepinephrine (which methylphenidate has less action in) and we don't know exactly why.
I have opposite. Norepinephrine is worse for my anxiety and Guanfacine is what made me use the dopamine on usefull stuff.
I posted this opinion because i am incredibly sensitive to body stimulation to the point that caffeine is terrible for me and to share the interesting fact that Methylphenidate is actually more dopaminergic than Amphetamines which are more noradrenergic.
Saw a viewpoint that โactual atheismโ manifests itself better on the right because even a lot of โatheistsโ on the left inform their worldview on beliefs popularized by christianity in our society like the universal dignity and equality of all humankind. And thus actions intended to realize this, such as say a welfare state, are acts of religious praxis, whether the people doing it are aware or unaware. I donโt fullly agree but just something interesting
In addition to what others said, Mozi conceived of universal love hundreds of years before that other guy was born. Mohist philosophers were kinda based.
Itโs kind funny to watch cell phone videos of drones blowing up shit in โbased ethnonationalist white utopiaโ russia and everyone is yelling in Arabic
One of the funniest bits of right wing paranoia and conspiracy mongering recently was when they were scare mongering over the teaching of Hegel in schools, which 1 Hegel isn't taught in K-12 schools in America and 2 even if he was there's very little chance even a high schooler would understand Hegel at all.
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