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CNN response to the video CNN coverage of the original video","1":"LF1 SHattered Throne Wish Ender looking for a 3rd to get wish ender from shattered throne dunking the orbs and killing the bonus bosses for the exotic bow msg. WoodyHarrellson","2":"LF1 Shattered Throne Wish Ender we have the first portion of the quest done, now looking to clear throne and dunk all the orbs etc.","3":"LF1M SoTP first encounter Message SeanKris0412","4":"Me and every other Hunt owner","5":"Are we just astroturfing in here or what? You guys seeing these posts? I know we haven't been exactly ACTIVE lately but I'm seeing a rise in posts that are applying the President's definition of Fake News, not the one stated in the sub sticky.","6":"Wait, where am I?","7":"Americans try Canadian candies for the first time! with detailed instructions from actual Canadians!","8":"DDR Jake leaves Nogai at a loss","9":"Trumps out here at the G7 having flashbacks to growing up rich.","10":"PS4 LF4M any raid Message WoodyHarrellson on PSN or post here","11":"Jattielle","12":"Desus and Mero watch FloridaMan stop a hit and run with a sledgehammer","13":"Hey look Tillerson blamed Russia Tweet I've fired Rex Tillerson!","14":"PS4 LF1M Trials Leave PSN","15":"Time Travel Trump strikes again!","16":"PS4 Solo player LFG Trials","17":"This is not Robert Mueller wait wait hear me out! This is Mignon Clyburn and she fought damn hard for us and Net Neutrality today","18":"Recapping The Moore campaign's greatest hits","19":"PS4 LF1M Trials Looking for a chill player to run some trials, Leave PSN or message BourgeoisLion","20":"PS4 LF1M Trials Leave your PSN lets win some game","21":"PS4 LF1M Trials LF player for a chill trials run, lets win some games and have some fun","22":"PS4 LF1M Trials Leave osn or message woodyharrellson","23":"LF1M TRIALS looking for somebody chill to win some games and have some fun! Leave PSN","24":"PS4 LF4M NM RAID Fresh experienced Raiders looking for a raid group Message WoodyHarrellson","25":"HELL YEAH","26":"And then, G.O.B realized he'd made a huge mistake","27":"PS4 LF1M Chill Trials Looking to get some wins, knock out these challenges and have fun","28":"PS4 LF2M Chill Trials run Tonight we're looking to get some wins, clear out these challenges and have some fun Drop your PSN below we're looking to start soon","29":"LF1M chill Trials","30":"PS4 LFG Trials Chill player looking yo win some games and have some fun PSN WoodyHarrellson","31":"PS4 LF1M Trials Get in here!!!","32":"PS4 LF1M Calus NM Experienced team needs more guy","33":"PS4 LF2M Raid, Calus checkpoint Experienced players need bodies to beat the reset","34":"LF3M nm Raid at Calus We havre multiple clears, just looking for guys to help us beat the reset timer","35":"LF Chill guy to run some trials First come first serve, Jump on it!","36":"LF Chill players to join us for trials PS4 Looking for some players to run trials with because our guildies have \"families\" or something. Not looking to fight with nutbars, just show up for a few hours and do your best we just need some warm bodies. If you've read this far you're already qualified now hurry up and reply to this!","37":"ZombieCare is dead! But Trump still thinks he won...","38":"How Donald Trump Jr. Checks his email Thanks Siri!","39":"A lighter take on the French Election Hack.","40":"Trump's first Days down, more to go.","41":"My project to combat Fake News marches on, next stops Russia, and that one Trump Subreddit...","42":"Trump Tweeting about holding people to the Truth is like...","43":"Paul Manafort, Scary AF!","44":"A Crash Course on Paul Manafort before he testifies before Congress","45":"The NEW Trump Travel Ban, broken down and analysed","46":"Celebrating my Cakeday with this little angel, He is Toby... this is his favourite activity","47":"Identifying Ad Hominem arguments in your daily life, and when its appropriate to use them with examples from Twitter","48":"Identifying Ad Hominem arguments, with examples taken from Donald Trump's twitter account","49":"Does Trump say these outrageous things just to distract us, and why is he lying about torture?","50":"Father and Daughter play Borderlands Ep.1 StepsBasic and the cutest homicidal maniac ever Potatanana shoot their way across pandora. Steps is a highly talented player conducting a master class in the art of sniping, his daughter likes burning things! enjoy episodes out so far","51":"How to stay motivated this was just what I needed this morning, got me through work","52":"video Stay Motivated! this helped me out a lot this morning","53":"How to keep on going when you know you're on the right track","54":"How to use Occam's Razor in your daily life","55":"Anybody in here? I'm new tell me whatcha think!","56":"The Krakan launches today! Join us in the fight against fake news!","57":"Join me and fight fake news! Today I get off the sidelines and do something about this disturbing trend. Join me as I launch my project aimed at spreading knowledge of fact checking tools and techniques, and fostering critical thinking tools. Channel has Launched! all feedback welcome, thank you for your interest.","58":"Fact Checking and Critical Thinking, question your world Channel Launches tomorrow come check me out! I will show you how to tell if a piece of news is fake, and help you convince others to question their conspiracies. channel overview","59":"What do you want to see on my new Youtube Channel to fight fake news? Launches Jan. 20th! Tell me what you want to see, share with me techniques you guys use yourselves, I'm very passionate about this and I want to get it right.Launch Trailer","60":"Fact Checking and Critical Thinking","61":"A metaphor for persevering in life","62":"My new channel seems tailor made for you guys! Can't wait to get involved","63":"Trailer for New channel, how to debunk fake news","64":"The Krakan, a channel dedicated to fighting fake news My Channel launches January 20th, the goal is to give you the tools you need to stay informed and avoid falling for fake stories Release Trailer","65":"New channel how to debunk fake news","66":"Novel False Gods, the book of Azure. Wonderfully transports elements of fantasy into a modern setting A good friend of mine is trying to get his dream off the ground, give him a look! This book is the first of an eight part series, spanning all of human existence. In this story we will follow the characters as they are forced into fighting for the balance of nature, aided, in a way, by beings of immense powers. false gods Help him out I REALLY want to read the sequel!","67":"Final Fantasy , the while story allllll the secrets A good friend of mine is putting his mastery of this game on display for all those who miss, missed, or never finished this old school gem. Check it out","68":"FFXV This guy cracks me up!","69":"Lightsabers and a little bonus for my Brother and his Fiance","70":"Lightsabers with a little bonus, for my Brother and his Fiance","71":"Two girls do the wrapping challenge, vote on the winner!","72":"Gift Wrapping challenge, vote on the winner","73":"Reintroduction, check her out","74":"Sacrifice the Doubt!","75":"Small youtube channel looking to take the next step, check her out!","76":"New Canadian youtuber looking for some love","77":"Lifestyle ElleRosher intro video from an energetic and charming young youtuber","78":"My girl made this very romantic valentines video and even let me be in it!","79":"Tavern Brawl Idea First text post, forgive me if I blow it How about this Build your opponents deck The 2nd last boss in LoE was a lot of fun, where Rafaam steals your deck and we can build our own deck in many tavern brawls, I think it would be a lot of fun to combine the two. It would present an interesting deck building challenge, ie. make the worst deck possible. And an interesting gameplay challenge, since you won't know whats in your deck, but you do know whats in his. I'd love to hear your thoughts","80":"Too late for valentines day but this one warms my heart","81":"A romantic and funny boyfriend tag video from new youtuber ElleRosher","82":"A Valentines day themed video from an adorable and hillarious couple","83":"I went out the gates of Helgen, took a hard right over the mountains and got my first real quests in the Rift. I didn't fight a dragon till I was like level ! They don't start to spawn the in the wild until you kill that one by Whiterun and head to High Hrothgar. My early game was quite peaceful... just me and the boys out burglarizing every night with no thoughts as to the fate of the world.","84":"Thanks for that laugh","85":"Depends what you borrowed. If you posted BTC and borrowed USD like a stable coin or whatever Then yes a drawdown would force you to close, post more collateral, or be liquidated. If you posted BTC and borrowed BTC then moves against another asset like the dollar wouldn't effect you. This process keeps the depositors protected since the liquidation would take place before the borrower loses more than the collateral they posted. I believe the preferred trade was post a stable coin and borrow a volatile crypto to trade, or the reverse, post a crypto like BTC, borrow a stable coin and use that to trade in and out of some other stuff.","86":"My life savings? No. But that's not really useful to point out to OP who seems to have been victimized by a loved one.","87":"You too","88":"I'm not downvoting her. I'm just sifting through the wreckage same as anybody.","89":"Fine call it whatever you like then, screw me for using the same word everybody else has been for years. Whatever, that was hardly the point of my comment.","90":"Y'know... you try to be helpful towards a person clearly suffering, and all that shows up in my replies are y'all. Like, I put a wall of text up there trying to make an honest effort and it's just been low effort unhelpful snark. Did you even use BlockFi or did you just slow down to gawk at the car crash?","91":"I never called crypto low risk, the risk in the space varies wildly from BTC to the shit coins but even after you factor that in the whole space could go to zero. That's not the problem here in case you hadn't noticed. We're dealing with counter party failure, from a counter party that we thought was low risk. Do you plan to be offended by anything else I didn't say? Or are you finished being an asshole.","92":"Fine, half the damn sector. Odd time to choose pedantry but then again, I'm on Reddit so what did I expect.","93":"Now that... is a scary fuckin rumour","94":"Yeah that... I moved from the yield account to the wallet and I know that shit never hit a blockchain.","95":"Frankly, none of us thought this was gambling. We thought we were with the adults, our money was being used in incredibly low risk loans. Like, to take a loan from BlockFi you had to deposit times the amount you wanted. To get 5k worth of Bitcoin you had to give them 20k. BlockFi is basically a savings and loan Y'know like the place the main character in \"it's a wonderful life\" runs. I give them my savings, they lend some of it out for interest, I get some of that interest. About for most accounts. Traditional banks give about interest, well below inflation, so you can see the allure of getting plus the potential growth in value of your crypto. BlockFi has insurance, and a trustworthy custodian... it all looked pretty damn conservative. None of us did business with FTX or the apparent conman who ran the place. Main trouble right now is that half the damn industry seemed to be exposed to FTX it had become the second largest exchange. So BlockFi's partners that we were counting on to back them if something happened may also be exposed. Anybody telling you they know what will happen is speculating. The FTX mess will take time to unwind, during the unwinding we will learn how badly BlockFi is impacted. They may emerge whole and you'll get it all back which is to say you full crypto value not the full dollar value as crypto is down over the last months Or they may not survive in which case there could be a bankruptcy settlement and you will get a portion of your money back, likely paid out in dollars. Possibly an insurance policy exists... that only matters if their insurer remains solvent. Possibly a buy out happens, Binance has announced its looking to spread around 1B USD to scoop up projects it likes, that could also see customers emerge whole. It's too early to tell, I'm sorry this happened to you.","96":"I'd also like to add, Raptors leadership has been yelling shit like fuck Brooklyn! for years. Chill out Croatian tabloid it means we think you're good and we hope we can win an upset.","97":"Thanks this is what I'm doing for the next hour now!","98":"I love your house emblem!","99":"One day that regime will fall, and the rest of the world will get a look inside the hermit kingdom. We'll finally see inside the prisons, and the work camps, and the mass graves. And the legacy of every PoS who ever played footsie with these monsters will be torn to shreds.","100":"Have you considered the possibility that your keyboard is broken?","101":"Can't wait to hear it!","102":"The value of tolerance? The value of not hating a person because of how they were born? It's not about imposing a value on a different nation, it's about standing up for the rights of the oppressed within that nation and nations like it across the world. If human rights are incompatible with a society's values it's not a case of my opinion vs their opinion. It's a case of right vs wrong. The freedom to live an honest life, one that doesn't hurt anybody around you but simply demands to be allowed to be yourself, is a right that belongs to all and must be supported by all.","103":"We're you playing it in the audio track??? It looks amazing!","104":"So basically France is going to buy from anybody who has a price below their domestic price, if they're market is at , they'll drive everybody else to that price. If you add a tariff of say They can only take you to before it becomes unproductive and they move on the the next nation. As you increase production they'll keep buying and it will gradually reduce the cost of their goods as their demand is satisfied, and you'll reap a nice tariff as it happens. However you're correct, if you're consumers are less wealthy than those in France they will suffer. Basically you either build more capacity to sell to the French, ignore the problem and hope somebody else fixes it, or ban the French from doing business with you.","105":"See the teen on the left nods \"Worth it.\"","106":"Fellas, is it racist to call slave drivers slave drivers if they're brown?","107":"Binance is picking the bones of their rivals and Coinbase doesn't have a lending product. What's most concerning about this piece of contagion is it looks like it's hitting some of the people who were supposed to be the adults in the room. If they couldn't see the flaws in FTX and exposed customers who trusted them to risks even they didn't know about... what chance does anybody in that space have of spotting it? As others are saying in here diversification of 3rd parties if you insist on yield farming. cold wallets. I guess we're back to trust nobody, which is a step away from legitimacy and mainstream acceptance.","108":"Only if you build him in a literal monster factory! It's the McElroy Brothers","109":"I live in a condo, the number of times my fucking neighbours have tried to get in my car is stupid.","110":"Actually now that you mention it... We have no idea WHERE he was on the day the library caught fire!","111":"Wow ... uhm... we'll in that case. GROND","112":"This is a pretty normal move, the meme basket moves with higher beta than SPY, a move in SPY translates into a mins in GME and probably double that in crypto. Could be that the fall rally has been false and there's a new bottom to be out in over the holidays","113":"Uhh that would be the golden snitch, one of the four balls in Westrosi Quudditch.","114":"Torontonian here, when I give my friends directions over the phone I ask what street they're on, then I tell them to turn and face the CN Tower, and give them rights and lefts from there.","115":"After Halo Reach it was made by a different studio, the guys who made Halo make Destiney now. They had a long term deal with Microsoft but decided they didn't want to be the Halo company forever. Their last two Halo games that they agreed to make before Microsoft would let them go didn't even feature master chief cause they didn't want him to be Microsoft Mario. I can recall one of the devs discussing a terrible vision of the future in which Master Chief was driving GO carts, playing golf, and participating in cooking competitions.","116":"Yeah put that one back in the basket and drift her in down to the kingdom next door","117":"In my USA run South Dakota was filled with Han Chinese after Qing lost a few wars with The UK, and like three months later North Dakota saw a massive influx of Mongols. So the Great Wall of Dakota may be coming soon. As a long time Crusader Kings player seeing a notification that The Mongols are coming to North Dakota was a bit of a shock.","118":"There's a what modifier???? I'm playing Haiti, I built one boat... I just defeated Denmark after using said boat to bring 30k soldiers first to the Danish West Indies which apparently existed??? then to Holstein! I believe when I land in Holstein there were no troops cause they were probably stationed in his capital, but when I landed on whatever island I annexed I definitely had a battle I must have won because of the shockwave that was caused as members of the proud Hatian National Guard exploded out of the single unassuming ship I rammed the island with.","119":"The puppet doesn't want to cut his strings, they're the only things holding him up. Perhaps the Chechnyas will find a another revolutionary to cut him down and rise in his place.","120":"When I'm deep in a war and some rebels back home could break my economy or draw necessary soldiers away from the front. Hell yeah I raise autonomy.","121":"This kicks so much ass.","122":"Typically I'd agree with you but this shit storm was directly caused by her budget. this looks like a decent write up. My Breaks ending so I can't write anything more co prehensile but hopefully that article did","123":"Welllllll She was trying to give her friends a huge tax cut, this money though just kinda disappeared down a hole and went to money heaven. The bond market was selling off and the Bank Of England the British FED stepped in to stop the bleeding. Then the government handed over some tax dollars to BofE to patch the whole in the balance sheet. source","124":"Honestly we would have saved a lot more money if we just paid her the pension six weeks ago!","125":"yup","126":"They do send me reports yes, I have voting rights not that that really matters. I actually believe investors should view themselves as owners, you shouldn't buy shares in businesses that do things you believe are bad for the world. Maybe that makes me a dork, I'm good with that.","127":"The title's a little sensationalist here The \"Chinese Business man\" bit feels racially charged in a way that's not all that fair. They're describing CZ who is a Chinese Canadian. Sure Binance does their best to toe the line and operate in China, they're a crypto exchange and the government of China has been fairly unfriendly to them over the years. I wouldn't characterize them as state run in the way we think of government interference in Alibaba or Tencent. Though to be totally clear, the man's basically a casino owner, I don't believe he's be any better suited to run Twitter than Musk himself who is definitely going to fuck this up. I just don't think he's a state asset, he's especially hard for them to lean on because his wealth and family primarily exist outside of China's reach.","128":"She cost them Billion pounds in six weeks.","129":"Well, the bond market is treating them like their creeping closer to failiure have a look I recommend hitting the 1Y button to see have yields have risen over the last year. Compare it to the US year bond if you like. up is bad for the bond issuer, which in this chart is the British government Yields spiked because the market lost confidence in the British government but note it's been creeping up all year. You'll notice it went back down, this is not because the market suddenly became confidant again, it's because the Bank of England shot a money bazooka at it to the tune of Billion pounds. The bank bought the bonds back and set a price floor under the market to prevent a cascading failure that likely would have swept a number of British institutions down with it. Taxpayers have since reimbursed the bank to patch the hole in its balance sheet... in a mere six weeks Liz managed to burn Billion pounds of public money in pursuit of a tax cut for her backers. That's failed state shit right there.","130":"In one case the election was decided by about votes in a single state and the Supreme Court stopped a recount and declared the son of the guy who appointed several of them the new President. The challenger, who was the incumbent Vice President did not use his powers to influence the counting of the electoral college and accepted the decision of the courts after pursuing a legal remedy to a race in Florida whose margin of victory fell within the margin of error. In the other, the election was decided by tens of thousands of votes in multiple states and the losing candidate attempted to use the powers of the presidency to alter the electoral count. When this failed he fomented and directed a violent mob to kill members of Congress and specifically sent them at his own Vice President, all in an effort to stop the certification of the election and remain in power. In the first case the loser thought he may have won, in the second case the loser knew he lost but didn't care for the rules of democracy and attempted to have himself installed as dictator. Has this become a trend? Yes. But it is disingenuous to pretend both parties are the same.","131":"Ahh yes... this should calm the bond market that took out the last PM","132":"Share holder here. The board barely own any stake in Twitter and have not been a particularly good caretaker of a company constantly mired in controversy that has never realized it's earning potential. They aren't particularly good at making money, which would be fine if they were the caretakers of some valuable public good, a \"commons\" of you will. But they've failed in that regard too, the place is a dumpster fire for most users. There are certainly parts worth saving but the place is some horrific combination of \"the internet's complaint department\", and \"outrage machine.\" The fact that their first instinct was to quash this rich idiots attempt to pay way more than the company was ever worth because they felt he wouldn't be as good at running the company badly as they had been... was laughable. The fact that they themselves barely own a stake in the place would also have made it especially easy to oust them and sue them for not doing their job here and ensuring this rich idiot is parted from his money. He pretty obviously cares about the place more than they do, he uses it more, he plans to own more of it aswell. Are his ideas good? Nah. Should he be legally obligated to actually buy the thing he's been manipulating publicly? Yes.","133":"Fucking hell I though is guy was supposed to be good with money","134":"Sooooooo, am I the only one here who misread pay as peg?","135":"Looks like you attacked the wrong time travellers in the wrong hallway","136":"Why is he cowboy???","137":"Did you see Alicent shielding her son against the unstoppable power of a dragon??? Heartbreaking","138":"Came here for a poop knife comment, didn't need to wait long","139":"say it","140":"I'll have your tongue for that!","141":"He did punch way above his weight in that race... especially considering nothing about him or his campaign would have indicated they'd be good at social media or popular with the kids.","142":"If I did it they'd put me in jail.","143":"I'm sorry... where does he think the pineal gland is??? The tip of the dong?","144":"Hmmmm, lockdown layoffs were bigger and faster than . Also we're poorer and more in debt on average than back then. Could lead to more desperation... but a lot of folks got financial relief right? 2k from the sky goes a long way to reducing that desperation, I can remember feeling rich that summer. Surely it has to be pandemic related right? I'd like to see if this number came back down by . Most murder is personal, note how it rises every summer. Laid off, stuck inside, summer heat may have been enough to elevate all the regular vague stresses of civilization and cause people to finally shoot their neighbour Mass shootings plummeted because there were no gatherings to present targets so this spike overwhelmed that positive too.","145":"Wow, a magic wand that immunizes... if only one of those existed for CoVid all the discrimination she's describing could have been avoided!","146":"Right but like... what would she have done if she was a real tiger? The SEC is not some financial first responder, they investigate stuff after it happened and slap fines on anybody who isn't powerful enough to avoid them. Which is why these days basically all they do is fine influencers for shilling crypto without putting the word ad on the screen. Elliot Ness coulda been at the helm that day and nothing would have happened differently. Now though, over a year later, he might be kicking some doors down.","147":"I'm just a social drinker... everytime I hear somebody say \"I think I'll have a drink.\" I say \"So shall I!\"","148":"Stewart's out here producing well researched and prepared interviews fighting for the rights of families to treat their children in the way they and their doctor's see fit. Meanwhile Bill Maher slips deeper into senility while speculating \"we're creating them. trans kids\" based on his favourite sources of trust me bro and My friend in Orange County Damn I've missed Jon.","149":"Edmonton is just Dallas with snow.","150":"It's just some python code that randomly picks a Jpeg of a black man from a Microsoft Paint folder. Meanwhile the cops are like, \"Ancestry East Africa? I knew it! it's perfect, shut up and take our taxpayer's money!\"","151":"He's busy writing his book. About all the sex parties with detailed descriptions of Republican's tatoos, moles, and birthmarks. Or he's a lazy fuck who considers his duty to his constituents over as soon as they failed to reelect him.","152":"I was thinking the same thing Josh was like \"c'mon guys where we're ya on that one?\"","153":"When I teach people to play I play France and they play Spain. Spain is the perfect tutorial nation, big and strong with no threats except France, who is you so not a threat at all. They get to learn the following How to diplomatically vassalize and later integrate Navarre. An easy reconquest war against Granada and later Morocco that leads to coring, state mechanics, religious conversions and dealing with rebels. interesting flavour events with a civil war and cool politics vs. Aragon. Also how to deal with estates and manipulate your own succession to avoid bad heirs. Diplomacy like keeping their ally Portugal happy and picking an extra ally somewhere else. Since you have France and Spain they can pick literally anybody they think would be cool to be friends with. Avoid the Irish minors and Scotland cause Britain's navy is no joke but yeah they can pick a German or Italian minor and help them get big and strong if they want. Trade! In one of the easiest nodes to understand their main competition is Portugal so they can't just blob their way to trade superiority. They'll need buildings and edicts and merchants and light ships. Great place to learn possibly the single most important game system. Other bonuses! Far enough away from the Ottomans that they don't just get killed Not in the HRE so no crazy rules or AE They get to tuck in behind you and win a fun war against England in the early game. This is a great first major war for new players and with you as France it's impossible for them to lose and get discouraged. Plus you can then give them help later and call it payback for the assist in the war making them feel like they earned it! They're often involved in the succession of Burgundy, had have possible PUs over Aragon and Naples. Great opportunities to project power and get into fun conflicts with major powers. Colonization, only like countries usually do it and Spain is one of them. The New world is usually pretty boring for seasoned veterans but when I was a new player the wonder and difficulty of exploration and the competition with rivals over seas was what got me hooked on this game. They will be safe during the league war but can still be a big part of it, you could even make one of you emperor if you like. Well placed to pick between catholic or Protestant and you can easily pick the same faith as them. The whole second act of this game is great, I highly advise you try and play through the reformation on your first game. Final thoughts You as France can also bail them out of literally any difficulty they fall into by playing conservatively and always having a lot of money and soldiers to lend. EU4 you want to learn in a big country that will survive mistakes, this set up ensures your little one will have a successful first game. Be sure to keep him moving through short term goals and towards long term ones. Give advice when he asks but let him do suboptimal stuff if he wants to. The two of you will be very powerful and your experience will make up for any Trouble gets into. When I teach this game I tell my student where we are going, but give them loads of control on how we get there, and if they feel confident true enough to say stuff like \"hey let's invade Japan!\" I go along with it when possible.","154":"He didn't take a single sip of his wine the whole night! They kept cutting to him not drinking while the others gave toasts, I was freaking out.","155":"She laid out her plan in the Godswood, Hightower will knock Luc's claim down and then she'll have to stand on her own. She was going to seek the throne herself because she believes Rae murdered her son. She did note that the deal offered was good though, when Visaerys sat the throne it was clear he would side with her and that good deal, made from a position of weakness and desperation, would disappear. So she took it while the getting was good. As for Corlys, I think there's a great chance he recovers, though I may be getting a little too meta when thinking about it. His attack happened off screen, the King died and that's a pretty big deal so they may space character deaths out a little y'know? Also there's this parallel between he and his wife now around her comments that he sold the kids off for power and legacy. That's just too perfect to miss having him live to see it. I love the idea of them fighting for their grandkids, and I also wish they could learn that their son is alive and happy... I know it's much too dangerous, especially for Laenel, to reveal that information but I'd love to see his parents learn he made it out before they die. The old show rarely let us have those moments but that doesn't stop me from craving them.","156":"I half though Raeny would find him dead in that room and learn they'd been ruling in his name for months! This show has done suuuuuuch a great job of making me jump at shadows, did you notice how Otto wasn't drinking the wine? I was freaking out as usual.","157":"Looking at these quesadillas hurts","158":"At one point I decided to wait till it ended and binge the rest... and here I am still waiting. I keep hearing rumours of a movie too? Anyway love the show looking forward to a month long binge rewatch, comments like this encourage me to go back to one of my favourites","159":"Well they get to chair all the committees so... Cancel all ongoing congressional investigations into him, and launch a whole bunch into anyone he considers an enemy. Then investigate all the people who investigated him to attack their integrity","160":"My history teacher felt it was unfair that the Southern generals all had great nicknames but none of the Northern ones did. So he called this guy the Sherminator","161":"Bad guy from labyrinth","162":"It's called the Petro dollar system With the petrodollar system, Saudi Arabia and other countries in OPEC sell their oil exclusively in dollars in exchange for US protection and cooperation. Even if France wants to buy oil from Saudi Arabia, for example, they do so in dollars. Any country that wants oil, needs to be able to get dollars to pay for it, either by earning them or exchanging their currency for them. So, non oilproducing countries also sell many of their exports in dollars, even though the dollar is completely fiat foreign paper, so that they can get dollars for which to buy oil from oilproducing countries. And, all of these countries store excess dollars as foreignexchange reserves, which they mostly put into US Treasuries to earn some interest.","163":"I've flown with one in my passport wallet like a dozen times. I crashed zero planes... that I know of.","164":"Where we're going, we don't need roads!","165":"Done","166":"I mean it sounds like she was just out at the mall","167":"?? Lol it's !","168":"this chart may change your mind, compare the red line to the dark blue and see what happens at tech . here are the detailed breakdowns. You either want to hit before tech or after tech","169":"Well Hugh is weird I've heard him on podcasts, he's got a chaotic energy and can annoy people who don't instantly fall in love with him. He's hard to predict but... I'd say if he comes back he's got a chance of saying GME or Bitcoin. He's a bond guy first, then stocks, and has in the last declared crypto to hard for him to understand which has been a sensible position for many But he's best mates with Raul Pal whose a huge crypto bull, Pal has stayed out of the GameStop fray aside from chastising greedy shorts while also cautioning newbies to learn before they buy. Hugh is weird enough and successful enough to talk about either on tv and let's face it Bitcoins not that weird anymore so GME is probably more his style.","170":"Well Spanish people used to be white, let's remember all of this is a social construct not rooted in genes or even really skin tone. Swedes do not have a higher place in white supremacists circles today than Italians or the Irish, but they certainly used to back when Italian Americans and Irish Americans were dirt poor immigrants. Italians, Greeks, Turks, Egyptians all look pretty much the same and have massive amounts of shared history but they get treated very differently based on their relationship to power. Same goes for Spain, for centuries it was a powerful European kingdom that drove the wheels on colonialism just as hard as any other and was particularly enthusiastic when it came to religious cleansing at home and abroad. But they lost some major wars, their armada was broken, they fell into civil war, and spent much of the 1900s as a failed state. They emerge on the other side a racialized group of people in the eyes of the supremacists. Obviously there's those in Spain who'd like that to change that but it's not really up to them.","171":"My experience with metal heads, DnD players, LOTR fans and everybody else this article seems to lump together is that they actually trend progressive not altright. They know they're kinda weird, they want to be left alone and allowed to be different, and they respect the choices of others who just want the same. The bed rock of the altright is a desire to control and police the behaviours of others, especially those they view as inferior. So I guess that's Sauron Eyo is Tom Bombadil bot around?","172":"Nope was a lot of fun","173":"Well the point is you're already invested, now you've been hurt... am I really trying to explain the concept of revenge? The whole point of the thing is you should be the bigger person and move on but you choose pettiness and hurt yourself to hurt them. It's the primary theme of like half the movies ever made.","174":"Everybody seemed to love the Northman last year when it did this Oh, and who could forget Reddit's favourite piece of high ground Fire's cool, lava's hot, audiences love it when people fight near the stuff.","175":"Well first, when you talk about a bank run you cause a bank run. Let's say you heard there would be a run in your bank on Friday, you as a rational actor would take your money out on Monday, just like all your neighbours, this causing a run on the bank on Monday. This brings me to the second and likely more important reason. In an effort which has been incredibly successful to prevent these rational bank runs most federal governments insure bank deposits. Ex. Canada insurers your first 100k This alleviate the need to pull your money from a shakey bank so long as the government looks solid, then there's no reason to withdraw in fear, thus no need to participate in a run, and now they don't happen. If your government looks shakey well, they underpin the value of your currency anyway so if they fail... getting your money out means jack shit. Unless you successfully participate In capital flight by getting your money into a superior currency or other instrument.","176":"Was Madison the one who invaded Canada for... reasons... and ended up getting his house ever t to the ground in the process? Solid POTUS... still probably ranks top","177":"My first thought was of this story You may know it, it's a Reddit favourite I'm sure Relevant bit Strange things began to occur in and around Hinterkaifeck sometime shortly before the attack. Six months prior to the attack, the family maid had quit. It has been widely claimed that her reason for leaving was that she had heard strange sounds in the attic and believed the house to be haunted. Andreas Gruber found a strange newspaper from Munich on the property in March . He could not remember buying it and initially believed that the postman had lost the newspaper. This was not the case, however, as no one in the vicinity subscribed to the paper. Just days before the murders, Gruber told neighbours he discovered tracks in the fresh snow that led from the forest to a broken door lock in the farm's machine room. Later during the night they heard footsteps in the attic, but Gruber found no one when he searched the building. Although he told several people about these alleged observations, he refused to accept help and the details went unreported to the police. It was clear the perpetrators had remained at the farm for several days someone had fed the cattle, eaten the entire supply of bread from the kitchen, and had recently cut meat from the pantry.","178":"It should be really easy to get a USD account from your Canadian bank and transferring CAD to USD will be essentially frictionless between your accounts with them. So I'd say yes that sounds like a smart hedge. Particularly if you already invest in the American market and own shares in an American company like say, GameStop. You're dealing is USD anyway, can't hurt to have more on hand.","179":"Runny peas, ManU jerseys, and Ed Sheeran.","180":"Is she Caribbean? That's not a weird joke, it's a thing.","181":"You wouldn't need a lawsuit to get paid while retiring from injury. I can recall a few years ago Jamie's went into a game for Tampa to relieve Fitzpatrick a few weeks after he'd been benched and it was clear they would cut him that offseason. He got sacked immediately and all anyone could talk about was how expensive it would have been if he'd gotten hurt and how if they were him they would have stayed down and gotten paid. That same year Dez Bryant tried to make a comeback with New Orleans, he tore his achilles while on some kind of a try out contract and they had to cover his entire rehab, he was even entitled to use their facilities and doctors since he was legally part of the team. NFLPA has made some good moves in past years, and I'm sure their leafs team is itching to tear someone apart over Tina's situation. They had an open investigation into last weeks treatment already.","182":"Just stop being Jewish!","183":"It would encourage greater migration to nations with harder currencies yes. Though if America hits a recession the sort of low training labour jobs that provide the pay for the remittances simply won't exist. Remote work could also work really well, and as I think about it the rise of low friction \"currencies\" that can be traded for dollars could also facilitate people earning hard currency without migrating. Instead of making the treacherous migration and searching for a job that may not exist, a person could edit articles about how bad the economy is on wordpress for bitcoin and convert it to dollars from the safety of their own home. Certainly not a mass solution, but I bet like six people will do really well","184":"Fed printing is devaluing the dollar but not at nearly the rate people assume, I see these charts everywhere claiming things like \"half of all money was printed in the last two years.\" That may be true but most of what we think of as money is actually credit. Credit is created between private entities. for example between you and Mastercard Credit spends just like money and moves through the economy unhindered unless there's a massive unwind. Pre credit outnumbered \"money\" by about to . Meaning out of every dollars is borrowed not printed. Haven't checked lately, could be higher or lower So if the fed doubles the amount of money printed we would feel slightly more than a increase in money moving through the system. Furthermore, the rest of the world printed right alongside the fed. If we measure currencies against each other and the debase at the same rate we can't tell their debasing at all... that is until we try to trade them for an inflation resistant good like a washing machine, a house, or a brick of gold.","185":"Okay so there's a trolly going along a track with nobody on it, if you pull a lever you run a kid over and get to fuck your sister. BUT On a totally different track there's another trolly that's gonna run over all of King's Landing, if you pull the lever you kill your king instead and get to fuck your sister. Standing between the tracks is a man who loves pulling levers, and his sister.","186":"We look to be entering a strong dollar cycle, obviously any trend can change or reverse before it plays out but here are some things it might cause. For America higher international purchasing power and less competitive exports. This makes businesses want to import the stuff they sell domestically and export labour. For developed world nonUS more competitive exports especially for Canada and China the US's two largest trading partners in that order. This could potentially be good for British exports since they now need to compete with the EU and will presumably be more nimble than them in this environment but the EU's larger economic base, specifically Germany, might just wreck the British in open competition. This will also mean higher energy prices, international oil trade is done in dollars. This will put some pressure on these economies but it's not hard for them to get dollars and keep the oil flowing at home. For the developing world This could be very hard, some regions may see an influx of new business as their exports get more competitive and the US looks to ship jobs overseas BUT most of that will happen in China and India. In particular this could be harmful to Latin America which has many vulnerable economies already. If these nations are exporters of oil they may be fine, if they import their power they may face a crisis. As mentioned above oil is priced in dollars, countries with weak economies have difficulty keeping up in this environment and if energy prices get away from them we could see serious economic carnage. The IMF essentially exists to mitigate the fallout from the dollar based system, but it has proven predatory in past decades toward Latin America. Odds are this trend will continue until something somewhere breaks. This happens every decade or so, some are worse than others. In the past years or so we've seen hyper inflations, they happen for various reasons but a strong dollar is one of the leading causes. Odds are good that somewhere soon an entire population of hard working people just like you or me are about to have their life's savings evaporate in front of their eyes simply because it was stored in a currency that won't make it. While this is an important story, let's remember that we enjoy immense economic privilege and, while we certainly have our own challenges to deal with, there are many people who have it much worse. This cycle will hurt many of us, but it will totally destroy those already living on the brink in the developing world roughly of the world's population. Sure, we could see Triffin Dilemma level stuff occur, but we're still a ways off from that and I'm not prepared to make any apocalyptic calls from what is currently a standard correction for this system. Mostly I'd like people to realize that a standard correction is existential for people far away from us.","187":"If you chase them out towards the savannah where the tigers are they.... Leave you feeling kinda guilty","188":"Wait, your seduction of the pipe didn't make it into the story???","189":"Is it really a threat if you say it after you ran away from the guy?","190":"A what???","191":"First ever two four I picked up was faulty, the bottom peeled open and about a dozen glass bottles broke against the shelves and spilled on my legs, I saved the rest while assuming I had done something wrong. Didn't even get a discount on the one I eventually bought! Holy shit was I nervous when I picked it up! I then carried it blocks back to my dorm with my jeans still totally soaked, all the while worried it would just open and eject my beer all over the sidewalk!","192":"Caught DaVinci with my first AND second wife but I couldn't do anything about it because he was too damn good at drawing.","193":"Isn't this the plot of Avatar?","194":"Glutentag!","195":"I'm pretty sure you get kicked out of the Republican Party if you forget who Johnny Cash is... Oh strange thought, has anybody noticed that Greg Abbott is a little piss baby?","196":"I think it's straight fire!","197":"Certainly not with gas prices these days","198":"Probably depends what country it's in. Some countries blow up granite mountains to build highways, others import the stuff from around the world.","199":"I once watched a wasp landing in spider webs on purpose, when the spider came to check it out it munched the spider and flew away. It did this for like minutes and only the older bigger spiders were able to resist its trick... though even a few of the hesitant big guys got convinced that the wasp had finally fucked yo once or twice and got eaten too. It was fascinating. Also I assume it made the mosquitos happy","200":"Rep. Nancy Mace is a little piss baby","201":"So when they said \"If you impeach Trump every president will just get impeached.\" They meant \"If you try to impeach my boy I'm gonna impeach every person you ever elect.\"","202":"Was that the dragon Laena was asking about as a kid?","203":"Oh, credits fucking great! We couldn't do most of the shit we like to do in life without it.","204":"I recommend putting a washing machine in front of it. If not use something you can open, you want access to those shut off valves.","205":"He's allowed on Twitch?? But there's kids on there!","206":"Because of all the child eating!","207":"So, I do this too but not because my partner controls my life lol. I'm bad at long term planning, she's great at it, I schedule stuff in the future and then tend to forget about it until it's basically on top of me which makes things difficult. For example I'm going to a wedding in three weeks, if it was left up to me I'd be scrambling to get my suit resized the week of the event, but because of her I did it last week. I was talking with my boss yesterday my job works most weekends, I'm taking a day off next month and we had this conversation Boss So you're going to a wedding that Saturday? Me Yup! Up north at some lakeside bed and breakfast. B oh, so you're busy Sunday too? M uhh, I don't think so... B well that sounds like a long drive are you staying over? M I'm staying over Friday but I suppose I'll drink at the wedding... B Well are you planning to drive back down here before on Sunday? That sounds rough. M ... well she only asked if I could take Saturday of so I think no? ... I'll ask. As you can see from my skit I'm still doing things I want to do but maybe now because of her my life doesn't become a panic filled disaster every few weeks. As it turned out the wedding is going to be a morningafternoon thing and I'll be in my own bed Saturday night. She's apparently kept that information in her brain since we agreed to go four months ago. A feat I find stunning.","208":"Well Constantinople became what it did because Constantine bent the resources of the entire empire to its construction. Byzantion itself was unable to do much to capitalize on its location in the fulcrum of the world, it's walls were actually torn down by an emperor after his opponent in a civil war used them a little too effectively for his liking I want to say during the first crisis period? So it sounds like a great challenge but don't beat yourself up too badly if you find tall Byz doesn't yield the results you hope it will.","209":"The total amount of money has a far smaller impact on the inflation story than people tend to think. Many will tell you quite confidently that all money comes from the government, and that the government just boosted the money supply by X etc. etc. But there's another piece of this puzzle. Credit. Credit spends exactly like money, there's no difference between a person swiping a credit card or a debit card for instance. Money goes into a business, that business uses it to pay its employees, those employees then spend that money etc. Except a lot of that money never came from the government, it's a loan from a credit card company that is now moving through the economy just like real money. There is significantly more credit than money in the US economy before the pandemic, it's a little early in the day for me to research the new figure sorry Credit creation and destruction happens between lenders and borrowers everyday, most of the money you interact with actually came from a private institution. Finally, when you make more money your higher I come means you become more credit worthy and can borrow more. Which you can then in turn spend. Since one person's spending is another person's income this credit allows you to spend more, which means others earn more and become more credit worthy allowing them to borrow and spend more... This continues until we begin paying down our debt, while you're paying down debt you have less disposable income to spend, others have less income and in turn have less to spend, this completes a debt cycle.","210":"Will the jackhammer be in this one?","211":"I'll agree with that, I could use less wurg in my life","212":"I know this sub likes shitting on it but have you seen any of Rings of Power yet? The orcs look fucking amazing! All of them are practical effects with actors bringing life into the monster and I can't express how much better they look than the Trollocs do in the Wheel of Time show. Or have you seen season of Stranger Things? They've always used a top notch blend of practical and physical effects but this year they had an actor play the big bad for the first time and he was incredible. The way Vec'na swaggers and looms and just fills the screen with his prescience and malice is so enjoyable. It should make a lot of creators reconsider having their cast act against tennis balls to save money.","213":"Same reason we hang horse thieves but try murderers in Texas... We ain't never met a horse that needed stealin.","214":"It's uncanny!","215":"What kinda shitty submarine is this!?","216":"I spent a summer installing Smart Boards in Ontario schools It was not our job to move stuff like in this photo but we'd have done it anyway. My supervisor was one of those above and beyond guys that every boss prays to find. He figured the school was dropping 6K on the board everything had better be fucking perfect. He'd even stay behind and train the less confidant or older teachers on its basic functions.","217":"My favourite part is the conclusion that a person accepting a tip to wear a mouse suit ought to restore your faith in humanity.","218":"What??? Neville Longbottom would have been the chosen one instead didn't you read the books????","219":"Watched the hearing with my partner, AOC was like hours in and didn't speak till after Mark Meadows cried of television after being called racist. So we were half tuned out, after AOC's time my girlfriend yelled \"Why the fuck didn't anybody else ask those questions???\"","220":"I gave the king like a chance of surviving that wedding so I'd say of the Kingsguard did a great fuckin job. All I keep thinking is that we saw of Jeoffrey's assassination take place before our eyes, and the directors have been fucking with me all season! How many long slow shots of wine have we seen this month! This episode felt so dangerous, Daemon was acting sus, those regular town guards were running around, also all the damn wine! I saw enemies in every corner of the wedding, I haven't read this book and I've been like a fish on the line for every episode.","221":"Jay is so shady, I need to go relisten. My family listened to this on a road trip back in the day and we were all convinced it was Jay. But like... I also think Carol Baskin totally killed her husband so maybe I'm just a sucker for whatever the true crime editor wants me to believe.","222":"OMG it's a think tank with no power to enforce or bring about any of their ideas besides publication and persuasion who gives a shit.","223":"We'd probably start with a manhunt to see who did all the manslaughter. Then get back to our lives in no man's land.","224":"Back in the day I played Wind Waker while my little brother played as a green disk with tingle's face on it. He could do two main functions, fly around and push A to make me stop playing and look at him while the game played the sound \"HAAAAAAAYYYYYYY\" which was very Navi. Or push the B button to use one of my bombs, occasionally clearing a barrier that only Tingle could clear. It did not take him long to discover that yelling Hay while I was climbing a ladder or creeping along an edge would send me plummeting to my death, and that a well timed bomb placed slightly off screen was essentially impossible for me to anticipate or dodge. We had hours of extremely unproductive fun while we played what we called \"Vs. Mode\" this guy shows you what it looked and sounded like at","225":"An foot Elendil would be distracting af","226":"The Dragonborn usually","227":"None","228":"Pet the dog","229":"I assume that's why they tried to put focus on this moment, a rare smile in years of war. Did they overuse the slow motion camera that their absurd budget gave them? Yeah probably, beautiful shots at a crazy location but it sort of felt like eating too much pecan pie, sugar overload.","230":"I believe this was the first time her character smiled all series. years of war slides off her shoulders during a brief moment of freedom from responsibility as she allows the joy of horse riding to take over.","231":"Charlieeeeeeeeeeeeee We're on a bridge Charlie!","232":"I thought they were baby legs!","233":"The way he framed it this was local governments trying to fool the central government. I watched an eye opening video from this same channel a few years ago about apartment building construction. Most of what he pointed to bore out imo.","234":"I used to work for a pretty negative dick","235":"There's a what where now????","236":"Well not with that attitude you can't! Have you even tried drinking the blood of a virgin goat at the height of the full moon???","237":"So look, Grahams and idiot but he's not an idiot. This bill does two things, first it helps further restrict reproductive rights in states that haven't gone further than weeks thus helping usher in the theocratic hell scape they so desire. So checkmark there from Republicans. But second, it provides cover for politicians running in tricky states or districts in places where Democrats can credibly claim their opponents want to ban abortion. Currently Dems can paint most Republicans with the horrors of South Dakota's full ban with no exceptions for example. If vulnerable Republicans can get themselves under the cover of this nationwide week ban it may blunt some of the attacks they've been sustaining over the past months. An extreme position in blue states is simultaneously a moderate position in red ones. We need to make it very clear that this thing bans all abortions after weeks with exceptions BUT allows states to be more restrictive. And we shouldn't even discuss it in the or so states where this could be seen as a welcome relief or a reasonable compromise with an opponent who has outflanked us.","238":"Oh good, a Moderator conspiracy about a different sub from somebody who doesn't qualify to post on that sub. Remove this trash.","239":"I don't want Chuck to be my king. This would be a great time to stop doing all that. I sure as fuck don't want him on my money, surely we can get a First Nations leader on the bill before the mint switches over to the new guy by default.","240":"He had been back in jail for days awaiting trial on a drug trafficking complaint. We should maybe care how this man died while in the care and custody of the state.","241":"just isolate the node and dump em in the other side of the router.","242":"Exactly, it was a great fucking scene! See what I did there I was honestly surprised how much he resisted, he should have shut this down years ago in the forest when she was a teen crushing on her bodyguard. \"Big strong knight can't defend himself from a girl?\" Is the sort of thing we may hear later in the show if this comes out or they fight about it. She used her status to get what she wanted, see Terry Cruz discussing his own Me Too moment to understand how these things play out. Crews recounted a Hollywood party where an unnamed, powerful agency executivelater revealed to be William Morris Endeavor's Adam Venitgroped him, laughing when he protested. Although Crews instantly drew gratitude and support, he also found himself on the receiving end of skepticismparticularly from other men, who said a guy like him couldn't be sexually abused, due to his size and physique. As one comedian put it, \"God gave you muscles, so you can say no.\" This show keeps impressing me, GoT succeed because it had great characters placed firmly in a moral Grey zone, never cartoonishly bad of comic book level good. People are complicated, and they do bad things. Especially when they have the power to get what they want and face no consequences.","243":"Was the horse ride the first time she's smiled on this show? I feel like that's why they lingered on it so long but I think a lot of viewers just found it awkward. The people I was watching it with though she was a stunt double at first, maybe it was the slow mo, but maybe it was also that they'd never seen her look happy.","244":"Mayyyyyyybe. He didn't feel in control as he lay on the ground covered in vomit getting kicked in the ribs. But he's certainly going to try and take some advantage from this. I'm also torn on whether he actually wants Rhaenyra or he was trying to ruin her. Taking her hat off in the brothel is probably the tell right? He's complicated, I think he's genuinely attracted to her and that's complicating his plans to step over her.","245":"I'm a teacher, I often let my kids draw on the whiteboard during break. One day I came back to a class of grade 4s who had written the word \"anal\" about times in minutes. Only on the bottom half of the board though cause the couldn't reach the rest. Children are shocking.","246":"The kid who told Otto about Daemon and Rhaenyra worked for her and she seems to have a network of spies. Otto stated she'd been giving him information for sometime and was always accurate. Daemon did not appear to be pulling her strings as she left him in a stupor and then he got his ass kicked by the King. Having said that, if this scandal goes public literally nothing happens to Daemon's reputation while Rhaenyra would be destroyed and it gave him an opportunity to ask for her hand which would get him on the throne as consort not king if she inherits. But it really didn't feel like he was manipulating anybody this episode. He went for Rhaenyra cause he wants her, and that blew up rather spectacularly when he drove her into the arms of another man and got sold out by his own romantic partner. If you meant why is she faking the accent... I don't think it's very good and exposing her secret identity is a great opportunity to bail on it. Sure it'd be dumb, but I'd over look that fact.","247":"it was a joke yes","248":"She's his whore wife yeah","249":"Yeah it just clicked in my head, I'm now reminded of how frustrating it is to have one click off early like six times while I squeeze it","250":"I've never found it productive to argue the degree to which the worst people, tragedies, or crimes in human history rate against each other. I'm perfectly happy saying nothing was ever worse than the Holocaust, or the Rwandan genocide, or the Holodomor, or the Cambodian genocide etc. etc. I think this leader board shit is unproductive. It's probably possible to rank them, and maybe Stalin is worse, but why bother? Pol Pot killed anybody wearing glasses because he claimed it meant they were educated. As I understand it his goal was to eliminate literacy from much of the country. Sure he killed less people than Mao, but does that actually make him better? Chattel slavery in the American South affected fewer people than the Roman's years of taking conquest slaves. So what? It's all fucking horrible, let's put it in the bin of horrors call it all bad and get on with our lives. Though... that earlier comment asserted Hitler \"fought for his people\" and that's fucked up.","251":"I actually like how the elves are pricks. I can recall Tolkien described Thorin as haughty but I'm not sure if he used that term for the elves, it certainly fits the way they behave in RoP. I particularly like the way they blame humans for the actions of their ancestors. The humans barely recall these actions, but to the elves it all happened pretty recently. This would naturally cause tension and resentment between the two groups. To address Galadriel specifically , she's damaged. The war took everything from her and she's become so attached to her identity as a warrior that she cannot contemplate anything else. It's a classic story of the genre, many great stories have been written about the warrior who can't function without their war. Back in the day Buffy did this really well, or how about John Rambo screaming \"Nothing is over!\" while he's in a standoff with American cops. It's a fun twist on the idea that she's actually right and everybody else is wrong, it puts a rift between what she needs to do to heal, and what she needs to do to serve. Her anger towards everybody \"in her way\" is an expression of this pain and desperation, you aren't supposed to like it and it shouldn't feel like a smart way to behave. Which she knows, but she can't turn it off, it's saved her life too many times and she can't imagine herself without the blade, or the hunt, or the war. Galadriel believes her life no longer has meaning without the enemy, and all of her statements about how she'll settle down after she kills Sauron are a lie, as sure as the lies an alcoholic tells as they promise to give it all up after tonight's bender.","252":"Pierre Poilievre is a dork whose presence makes people uncomfortable. The dude described inflation accurately on the internet once and some folks got convinced he was their messiah. YouTube once recommended me a video of him smoking a hookah and talking about Bitcoin. He stands for nothing and is the worst version of the \"believe\" anything for power political archetype. Minoritarian paths to power are thankfully limited in this country, the guys trying to run Trump's campaign without the electoral college style vehicle that delivered Trump to power. I remember when the Conservative party was good at politics, I disagreed with them but I recognized that they were good at winning elections in both the short and long term. Harper had the charisma of a Fig Newton and he stayed in power for a decade mostly because he knew what not to say or do to piss off the centre of the electorate. Pierre doesn't scare me, at least not at the polls. He could certainly degrade the country as a public figure even if he's never handed real power.","253":"Thats how you'd explain this to a five year old!?!? They'd be saying \"power of the anus! For weeks!","254":"I'm gonna poke the super heated water even harder now!","255":"Ontario prices touched a gallon in March","256":"Half the ones in Ontario never work for me, I set them and they kick off immediately. Have you found them to be shit or do I have a car with a gas tank that doesn't play well with the auto shut off?","257":"Not if you jam your gas cap in it!","258":"I mean sure but... with this dork?","259":"I teach a finance class among other things and we have a stock portfolio project. A solid of the HS boys I teach tell me they want to invest in steam and are always shocked when I tell 'em Gavin never needed to go public and he just uses all the cash they pay his as building blocks for his money fortress.","260":"Those weren't Otto's spies Mysaria is the fucking shadow broker out here and she just betrayed Daemon! Soon we'll find out she's been faking that accent all along too!","261":"You've just made an e enemy for life!","262":"Have you read his concurrence in Dobbs? The biggest decision of his career and he's reduced to begging Kavanaugh for a vote that never materialized. It's pathetic. I love it. starts on page","263":"What if I told you it's a television show. And that it's okay if something in a television isn't accurate to what happens in the real world? Then what if we leveraged that fact to help make the show appealing to lots of people, maybe even people who don't often get to see protagonists who look like them on television? Did you follow any of the public reaction to Black Panther? Did you see videos of happy black people standing in front of the posters saying things like \"wow! This is amazing, do white people feel this way all the time?\" Personally I couldn't answer that question because I don't know what it would feel like to live in a place where every main character looked like somebody else. Personally I think it's fucking great that people who don't get to have that feeling, can now have that feeling. I'm willing to trade a small bit of realism in my television show for a piece of art that makes others feel that way. And frankly, if the material we all love so much is to remain relevant into the future, this is what it will look like. It has to be taken up and carried forward by more people. This show could very possibly create another wave of Tolkien fans and fantasy fans just as Black Panther has done for Marvel and comic books in general. I for one think that's exciting.","264":"This is why the old sub was split between show and book and book stuff was banned in show sub","265":"The fact that they request a special master with high level security clearance was hilariously telling","266":"They did this morning actually here","267":"So... Larry Fink is not a banker, he runs Blackrock, the largest asset manager on earth multi trillion AUM I'm not saying this to be pedantic stick with me here. This dude has declared his giant pool of money will not touch companies that are not committed to fighting climate change and going carbon neutral. here Literally every company on earth could use some Blackrock capital, and when he invests in your company he literally never sells. To be untouchable by blackrock is to be a second class citizen, which means that in the last years since he made this declaration this unelected, unaccountable, mega billionaire has done more to move the sticks on climate reform in America and abroad than almost any piece of legislation in recent history. That doesn't make him a hero, that makes him a rational human being. This doesn't prove great shit about the private sector, it demonstrates just how ineffective our governments are. The reason why Larry can move on climate change and a President Prime Minister can't?","268":"Canadian here Last year my government got a judge to write an order to a crypto wallet manufacturer demanding that they freeze a few million worth of Bitcoin. And then our press just reported it like because a judge said it it had actually happened. In reality it was about as effective as telling Wrangler to freeze all funds being held within the pockets of their jeans. Embarrassing all round.","269":"I'm old enough to remember Biden v Palin. This is probably the biggest mismatch I've seen in US politics since that night. Joe was essentially Obama's attack dog that election and his biggest challenge was to not look mean when beating that no nothing since she was the first woman to get to that stage. Fetterman will have no such restraint placed on him... I expect this to be embarrassing for NJ's most irritating export. Fet might win the governor's race too if he buries Oz deep enough that his fair weather supporters stay home.","270":"That'll save on gas. Guess even the klan's feeling the pinch at the pump. Vote these bastards out!","271":"There it is.","272":"It's like these people hate votes. Straight up, if Trump and Mitch sent out one more cheque back in they would have held the Senate, The Presidency, and possibly taken the House. Now here they are nickel and diming themselves out of a landslide and into a nail biter.","273":"Literally the thing most likely to break a ranked choice ballot is a situation like this last Alaskan election. A uniquely disliked candidate running for the more popular party and splitting that vote with a rival against a lone opponent. Like, this basically isn't a problem in nations with more than serious parties... sometimes it can be an issue in a primary. Had she finished 3rd the other guy might have beaten the Dem, but I would argue his supporters would have written her down as 2nd if they had actually wanted her. Some people will vote no matter what and I think the ranked ballot allowed them to do that without also having to vote for Palin, who they hate, but also allowed them not to vote Dem either. I think this Alaskan election actually did a great job of communicating the will of the voters, many of whom wanted a Republican but not that Republican and they felt so strongly about that that they couldn't bear to put her down even as a second choice... and now they don't need to suffer the indignity of being represented by her.","274":"I think giving my ally control of my army is an elegant solution to the problem of third party battles. I look forward to getting my hands on it.","275":"Well they're both Hell in the Pacific","276":"King Edward III of England and several of his successors were hailed as king of both England and France. The French Color's can even be found intermingled with the English ones on most English banners from the time. Ed's father was king of England and his mother was the French King Louis the Fair's daughter, none of her brothers produced suitable heirs. This was due to a huge scandal, it seems all their wives were having affairs at the same time... in the same tower! Phillip had them sent off to become nuns and was in the process of having the marriages annulled when his puppet pope died. He would have put that right but Phillip himself was dead about a year later. His heart gave out while he was hunting a White Hart... which is probably why all of this is suddenly top of mind for me. Anyway Edward was rightful king of England and had a very strong claim to the throne of France hence the change in title. Unfortunately for Ed, positive thinking and mental manifestation wasn't enough to win the years war.","277":"Really? Papa google is telling me it's Ser Criston and a Trillion dollar company has never ever deceived me before!","278":"Yeah but like, he was tired... and the moon was in his eye, and he didn't even have his armor on, and... and that little piggie wasn't fighting fair!","279":"Usually my last.","280":"I've been seeing Greyscale and possibly poisoned wine in like every other scene all season! I love the subtle story telling and possible foreshadowing happening every time somebody drinks something, or touches somebody who might be contagious. I'm not sure if I'm jumping at shadows or if I have a mainline to the source and am two steps ahead of the game. Been a really fun watch so far. All I can think of is that every step of Jeoffrey's assassination at the purple wedding happened right before our eyes. I'd love to catch on the something like that as it happens the first time.","281":"Oh, was Sir Criston Cole on that beach? I must have missed him.","282":"Y'know I didn't think it would be funny the 4th time... but that's the time I laughed the hardest! Lloyd's deliver is epic.","283":"My understanding was Targaryens fire resistant but that trait has been waning for years and Visyries sp? is lacking even in that Dany fireproof and thats unique even among her family. I personally don't put book lore ahead of show lore when discussing stuff that happened in the show. We all saw her go into Drogo's funeral pyre and emerge with dragons after her clothing burned off her body, she's fireproof in any practical sense... probably Drogon could melt her I guess Having said all that, this is a new show and is probably less tied to GoT details than the original show was to book lore and they violated that plenty. If we're trying to judge the rules of this show I suggest we don't look any further than stuff we see actually happen on it.","284":"Biden points out the people trying to divide America and, unsurprisingly those same people complain that he's dividing America against them. You could hear him writing the Fox News chitons for them, this was chef's kiss level stuff.","285":"I don't want Putin at my funeral either","286":"Edit published several smash hits including Harty Pumper and the Smart Guy's Rock Harty Pumper and the Mysterious Room Harty Pumper and the Prisoner of Azerbaijan Harty Pumper and the Hot Cup Harty Pumper and the Hemophiliac Heir Harty Pumper and the Organization of the Bird Harty Pumper and the Messy Shallows","287":"The idea that Trump and Jared sat down with three KGB trained spies Putin, Lavrov, Kislyak is fucking bananas. And in the aftermath they sent out H R McMaster to take the bullet since he was the only guy in the room with any credibility left to sacrifice.","288":"He wrote the headline Fate of Duels. So possibly meth?","289":"Good point. Those guys who killed Freddie Grey all got judged by . In fact the same , and he let them all go one after the other.","290":"And he'll likely have announced his run for President by then giving us the same fact same problem Garland is trying to avoid","291":"Yo why are these old people so obsessed with us? Fuckin weird if you ask me, we're just a bunch of idiots who don't understand portfolio diversification or exit strategies.","292":"I watched the Charlottesville rallies live and spotted one of these right wing LARPers waving a magic wand at the counter protesters. Dude was wearing a robe and everything.","293":"Him my names. Matt, my pronouns are Matthey, Matthem! Good for btw","294":"I mean... I used the emoji \"Why these hotties dating fatties?\" is an objectively funny thing to be arguing about","295":"Just don't raise all the pesants Use them in sieges and keep a few to meat shield for your MAA but your main fighting army with be high quality if it's mostly MAA and knights","296":"I have a beard it frames my face and looks very handsome but that's beside the point I want to make. I actually want to look older, I work in private education and my lively hood depends on people trusting me to teach their kids stuff. I've done this job since I was and the facial hair helps make my age ambiguous. People who want to see me as older, do. I'd love to get a little grey on the temples too, y'know a sort of Mitt Romney esq distinguished kinda thing that will make people believe I can get them a perfect score on the LSAT.","297":"I would think a good looking man would date whoever they want? As a good looking man myself that's kind of the point. It's confusing that you're confused by people who can get what they want getting what they want.","298":"Weaponized support for disabled people?? Weaponized opposition to cops killing you in your sleep? It's amazing how people get so worked up over shit they made up in their own head.","299":"But what if we short the short etf? I'm so fucking smart I scare myself sometimes Y'know??","300":"Given what my country has done to First Nations people I have no issue with putting them at the front of the acronym.","301":"Love it!","302":"Did you watch yesterdays video? They were reacting to a single video that's already on Youtube. Yeah it's about sex, it's a thing adults have, honestly the whole things wholesome and funny and about embracing your own liberation. I highly recommend it my partner and I laughed our asses off last night.","303":"Lol no, I'm in Ontario, paving around parked cars","304":"That kid is so cute!","305":"Little boy does not like being held by yeti!","306":"The violent mob does not get a veto. Trump can't be allowed to continue his crime wave because we fear the retribution of his thugs.","307":"Every god damn comment in here is siding with YT. What a cowardly sub. Can you imagine any other business that just declares you won't be paid for a month while they decide if they'll discipline you? Henry and Jeanie did what was asked and lost weeks of income because YT's policy is to let you work for free while they decide whether or not to fire you. What a fucking joke. And now they're supposed to be grateful that they get to keep making content for google on limited monetization? While we wag our fingers and tell them they should be better next time. Today's video they censored words that were in the video the were watching on YouTube They comply with ToS, they made a mistake that they fixed on their own, and still got stomped on by the Trillion dollar corporation. But sure guys, let's all tell them they need to be more careful.","308":"Apparently the whole sub agrees with you. All I've seen here is posts about how YouTube is right. For me it's not about the mistake they made which was literally a mistake, they took it down in mins It's about how heavy handed YouTube is while they consider your case. But all I've heard in response to my comments are screeds about following the rules and about how nudity on the internet is bad... as though we didn't all just watch House of the Dragon last week.","309":"When you walk to the garden You better pack a lunch Well I beg your pardon Take a basket and some brunch","310":"Yes, but that would require the town to have a guy present at the job site since pavers do not have the authority to tow people. If your asking if Ontario is run badly, the short answer is just as badly as everywhere else.","311":"These aren't the terms he agreed to when he made the account and these sure as shit can't be compared to laws. These terms shift on a monthly basis and creators are subject to the whims of google's advertisers. Can you think of a single good reason for every video to be child friendly? Most television isn't, most movies and video games aren't. Why should we accept a childproof world where advertisers get to censor whatever they want so nothing interferes with their efforts to blast ads for bullshit into the eyes of every child?","312":"Google is a bully. The way they pull the tiny slice of ad revenue they share with the people who actually make the content for the website before even having a human look at the infraction is absolutely brutal. MxR was reinstated, they were in the right. Google is basically printing money these days their margins are insane and yet they can't be bothered to treat their partners like human beings. In the face of that I don't see much benefit in all sidesing this and pointing out the small wrongs this creator committed to incur the wrath of the trillion dollar behemoth that stomped on them yet again.","313":"MxR didn't violate ToS, which is why they got reinstated. The fact that YouTube pulls the tiny fraction of their ad revenue you get while they consider your case is insane. Henry has been on this platform for a decade, making content for them at an incredibly consistent clip, and they treat him like trash. Google is a horrible business partner.","314":"It also introduced the theme of a totally new yet connected story each season, the first time they did that I think it pissed a lot of people off, but by season we loved it.","315":"The number of big tech apologists on this sub is too damn high! I like this meme, fuck off bootlickers YouTube ain't in the right","316":"I worked road crew. I have done this. We came back and finished next week, it wasn't even a big deal. Towing cars literally ain't my job.","317":"So this is the extension of an old battle. Henry's original channel was completely demotized after years of bringing in money for YouTube. He has changed his content time and time again, he censors everything, he has continued to move to keep up with YouTube's changing rules for years. The idea that you're some OG correctly telling newbies that he should just play ball with them is ridiculous, he has played ball. He's knuckled under to them about a dozen times and his current content is miles away from what he made when he started and they just keep pushing. IDGAF if naked yoga happens somewhere we that should be allowed it's not porn, it's not sex, and it's tagged as mature. The point is not comparing MxR Plays to what is currently allowed. It's comparing it to what we used to be allowed to watch before YouTube decided all content must be made for children. The idea that the big tech company gets to smash the people who make the fucking content whenever they want by pulling those creator's share of the money that rolls in is a God damn joke. Creators still get a laughably small share of the money Google is keeping, and they are such a disgusting business partner that all of their creators live in constant fear of missing their rent payments because they put the wrong song in their video. \"Just follow the rules.\" Only makes sense if the rules haven't changed every six months for the last years. What a condescending post.","318":"They cleared out a couple of towns to build the reservoirs behind their damns, happened in America quite frequently too. Saw a movie a decade or so ago called \"manufactured landscapes\" that followed a photographer. One of his subjects was the gorges dam that was under construction and he took these amazing photos of the towns being destroyed. The people were paid for their homes and then offered a final job of tearing down their own town before they left to keep their roofs from damaging ships. Place looked like it had been bombed, children played in the rubble of their old town, all while their Dads were smashing banks and restaurants n shit with sledge hammers.","319":"Well they had to get Rep votes for the CHIPS act, the burn pits bill, and a few others. Then once it was clear that no more compromise bills were coming before midterms the Dems surprised the Reps by passing that huge climate bill and forgiving student debt. It was fucking gangster.","320":"Why do all YouTube videos need to be made for children in order to be fully monotized? Million people just watched the house of the dragon premier, there's nothing wrong with making content for adult audiences. I think it's really shitty that YouTube uses the threat of pulling all ads from you as a means to hammer creators down into a mold that most of their viewers don't want them to be in. They tag all their videos as mature kids literally can't watch them unless they violate ToS.","321":"That's a little unfair, the second quarter was GDP The line for a recession can't be a GDP swing, especially since those numbers and estimates and get revised a year later when we have harder data. Last month's job numbers were great and indicate better growth than was seen on the GDP side. However, low growth still sucks, high inflation is awful, and nobody is arguing that the economy has hit the roaring 20s folks were speculating about before CoVid swept the globe. Powell's actions around inflation have shown that he believes \"consumer sentiment\" is a powerful economic force and I tend to agree with him. His decision to keep lying to us to avoid negative sentiment hurting the economy further is shortsighted and assumes the public is ignorant. His decision to choke demand to solve supply side inflation probably will put us into a recession, but only some indicator say we're there already.","322":"Henry has been making videos a long time, I guarantee you he has a mountain of data telling him that lewd thumbnails get significantly more clicks. From new and long time viewers.","323":"Fuckin eh!","324":"I'm sure the king will be fine! The best doctors in the land have applied both of the medical treatments known throughout the realm... leeches, burning it with a stick, and that's literally all medicine ever discovered. Well, also cutting you open and harvesting your babies but that one probably won't help in his case.","325":"legendary","326":"Remember when he knocked a woman over during a city council meeting? He had a good reason though, he was trying to run up the stairs to fight a heckler in the audience Wrecking ball","327":"Just swapping stories","328":"Try out this media scrum with Doug! For context A Tiger Cat is a football team A pussy is a vagina. I have more than enough to eat at home."}}