Oh no…what ever will we do…?
Any adaptation like this is such a flagrant cash-grab. Is there anyone in the world (who doesn’t stand to make a quick buck) who actually wanted a feature length live-action movie about a silly arcade game some of us played decades ago?
I’ve got an idea! Come up with an original concept, and make that. I don’t need some generic consumer-friendly backstory for a cluster of pixels that gobbles other clusters of pixels.
Approval ratings are meaningless. He left office after his first term with the lowest average approval rating in history, and was still reelected. The media hasn’t learned anything, they’re falling into all the same traps. We’re fucked.
Huh, so it turns out providing effective legal counsel prevents people from being taken advantage of, how about that.
But the article points out that the program is expiring, right after they’ve figured out how beneficial it has been, because of course.
One thing this piece glaringly left out is that while many people talk about peat as a renewable resource, it’s really not. This is one of the first things they tell you if you’ve ever gone on a tour of distilleries in Scotland. “Renewable” typically is defined as resource replacement keeping up with the speed of use.
Peat accumulates at an average rate of one millimetre per year, in waterlogged environments where the lack of oxygen slows down or entirely halts the process of decomposition. Burning one cubic meter of extracted peat is the equivalent to releasing one thousand years of accumulated carbon. Source.
I’ll elaborate. Clearly the part of the story that matters is that an important resource providing information on reproductive health was taken down for what seems like absurd and petty partisanship. Nonchalantly discarding resources that were built with our taxpayer dollars bugs the shit out of me, especially when it’s such critical information for a government to provide.
I was just pointing out that a huge chunk of government work like designing, building, and maintaining websites for all the agencies, programs, departments, etc. is done by federal contractors, whose contracts are funded with our taxpayer dollars. And by taking down the website like it’s nothing, the administration is just tossing our money down the drain.
These things are also expensive as all hell, way way too expensive, but that’s a different problem.
While this isn’t really the part of it that matters, in all likelihood that site was designed and created by a federal contractor, who probably billed tens of thousands of dollars (probably more) to build it, and most likely continued billing to keep it maintained. He’s just throwing our tax dollars in the trash.
I think rescheduling was pretty clearly a political football from the start. I never believed there would be the will to actually follow through on it properly. Such cowardice.
It has already. And landlords are doubling their already ridiculous rents while people are viewing units.
While the new film’s familiar title might conjure images of a certain caped crusader, executive producer Michael Roesch pointed out that “our movie is very different from Chris Nolan’s movie, so there is no danger of confusion.”
Well I’m still pretty confused. So it’s not a Batman movie, but it’s about a crime-fighting vigilante called The Dark Knight. Great, no confusion at all. Nolan didn’t come up with that moniker, Batman has always been known as the Dark Knight. This seems like a classic bait and switch to get people to watch a movie they would otherwise avoid.
I’m very glad to see practical research like this being done. I’m sure it’s not popular with the Evilcorps of the world, but at least people are thinking about real solutions.
The question of how much production is necessary to end poverty cannot be answered by assessing PPP-based incomes or aggregate GDP. It is necessary to assess what is being produced, and whether people have access to necessary goods and services. Development strategy should focus on ensuring the efficient production of and universal access to the specific goods that people require to achieve decent lives and good social outcomes, including nutritious food, safe housing, healthcare, education, sanitation, transit, information technology, and household durables. This can be done while also reducing less-necessary forms of production, particularly in high-income countries, in order to bring resource use back to sustainable levels.
So basically, money is not the whole answer, but providing everyone with the fundamental/essential things they need to live decent lives will get them most of the way there. Seems pretty straightforward and doable to me, if a few powerful people are forced to part with their insatiable greed.
(PPP = purchasing power parity, for those like me who didn’t know.)
This was a surprisingly awesome game. The Sabacc mini-game alone is worth the price of admission.
The UK has a population of just over 69 million.
These numbers are legitimately mind-boggling, I’m having a hard time believing it:
Thirteen vapes are discarded every second in the UK, adding up to more than a million each day.
For fucks sake, this is infuriating. Choosing between a young, extremely popular, highly effective congresswoman and a dying man few people have heard of, should have been the easiest choice ever for one of the most important House committees.
In the face of blatant propaganda, the best you can do is stay grounded in reality, and only rely on sources that have proven themselves to be independent, fact-based, and free from corporate influence. ProPublica and Democracy Now are the two outlets I always recommend. You won’t miss much if you read them exclusively with maybe some AP and NPR sprinkled in there.
I think it’s also important to be aware of and sometimes read the sources that consistently spout propaganda and misinformation, as long as you can keep the fact that you’re reading bullshit front of mind. Not everyone can do that naturally, but being able to spot propaganda is the best first step in defeating it.
That’s just how I approach it though, I’m sure others have better ideas.
Time to put the Capitol Switchboard on speed dial, gonna be calling them a lot these next few years.
For those who don’t know, here’s the switchboard number:
202-224-3121
Call, tell them where you live, and they’ll connect you to your representative’s constituent services. It’ll only take you a few minutes, but they keep track of every call. It matters.
I’ve been needing a new big game to sink my teeth into, but I haven’t played any of the other Dragon Age games. I watched the glowing euro gamer review for Veilguard and it looks amazing to me (the slightly stylized look doesn’t bother me at all). Do you think I’ll enjoy it without much context? I don’t usually buy full-priced, but I make the occasional exception for games I know I’ll play for a while…Baldurs Gate, for example.
This is a pretty big disappointment imo, and shows that the party didn’t really listen to its voters or learn from the election in any meaningful way. He was the least interesting and compelling candidate. I wish they had gone for someone with an actual ideology and values that they’ve lived and acted on for years—like Faiz Shakir. This role is very important, and it would have been a great way to show us that Dems actually care about us, and not just the money. But nope, they’ve taken yet another opportunity to give power to a bland vanilla fundraiser who almost nobody has heard of.