Most of the video game subs, BG3 is active enough, but I like Tribes and EvE online and their subs are sorta dead. I know niche titles wont have as much discussion, but representation would be nice.
I dont care how it happened, I heard it being reported on my local radio station, and all I got was that it was a rumor. Thanks for enlightening us with the details.
I had some DYI hackable computer kits (ClockworkPI) that I orderd last year, both of them arrived in the last few weeks. Im very glad they made it through customs before most of this shit gets enacted.
In the same way that Nero was an enviromentalist, burning Rome to the ground meant that fewer people were throwing shit in the Tiber, im sure the fish appreciated that.
Dito, still have RIF installed on my phone so every time I click a reddit link im reminded of what they did with a 403: forbidden error. I like it better over here anyway, nicer people who give a shit and fewer bots (or atleast fewer obvious ones).
I guess it is in a traditional sense, but they are very infrequent these days due to the senates rules and their collective lazyness.
IIRC the current version of the filibuster is a combination of two rules (procedural rules of the senate, not laws).
Votes on bills cant be done while a senator is talking.
You cant force them to give up their speaking time (which is how ever long they want it to be) unless 60 members of the senate vote to get them to stop.
Back in the day, you actually had to be talking the entire time, but in the senate's lazyness they changed the rules to streamline the entire process. Someone to just say they are going to filibuster something and they have the vote, to see if the matter gets dropped or not. I think its a squares vs rectangles sorta thing, a filibuster is done with the intent to kill a bill by not allowing the voting process to go forward, this appears to be doing the same before they brought anything to vote on. The outcome is still the same, the senate does nothing.
This pokes at one of my biggest gripes with it, if there is a big guy with pearly gates upstairs, and doing good in life is a reward, does that mean you only do good things because your paid? It cheapens the entire philosophy and moral compass they proport to have.
On that topic. Religions does have philosophy, but it requires more effort than just showing up to what ever service you attend, I personally only know 3 religious people who have even read Aquinas (which is sad, because his work is a good read even if christiantiy aint your jam). For everything else religion is a crutch, its easier to scare kids into not steal things and acting with good-enough morals than it is to plonk a tomb of Plato or Confucius in front of them and tell them there will be a quiz on ethics at dinner.
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There was that Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore that got the Boston tea party treatment.