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dont know how to get this gunk off my car so ive just been driving lol REALLY bumpy today

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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Wilhelm Trübner (German, 1851–1917)

"Caesar at the Rubicon", 1880.

Oil on Canvas, 48.5 × 61.5 cm.

Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Vienna, Austria.

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what's important to remember with the high ground scene is that obi-wan is the man who trained anakin. note that anakin tries the same overhead flip that obi-wan used to recover from a height disadvantage and cut darth maul in half, a move that obi-wan probably taught him. but obi-wan knows that he taught him that move, and would know from training him that that's the move he'd go with, and also knows the counter to it (cut him in half while he's flipping over you instead of being distracted by the cool flip like maul was).

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one thing that is really wierd abotu the usa is how deeply everything in their culture fetishizes their own military i heard more bootboy dicksucking in a cumulative three months of being in the usa than i have in an entire lifetimes worth of living in three other countries

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popular YouTube channels are great and informative until they make a video about a topic you're informed on and then the house of cards comes crashing down as you realize how utterly wrong they are about most things

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As a matter of taste I find menswear guy kind of grating but more importantly as a matter of politics I am begging ostensible progressives to stop looking for ways to sneer and condescend to conservatives for being déclassé slobs. You are literally making yourselves into their caricatures of you.

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dont tag bible stuff as mythology God isnt mythology

hi hello how are you. most if not all story-based religions are in fact considered mythology by definition including the abrahamic religions. god is in fact abrahamic mythos whether you think he’s real or not. im sorry if that upsets you but im assuming this is regarding the post i just reblogged and i have to say im surprised the part you’re upset about is me tagging biblicalia as mythology and not the entire discussion on who tops in jesus/judas ship discourse

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there was a Victoria 3 update a little while ago that added more granularity to cultural acceptance modifiers and discrimination and players immediately started calling it “the racism update”

if large numbers of a foreign culture move into a part of your country you’ll often get an event where you have to choose how to respond to people’s racist reactions and it’s always humbling to do the mental math between 1. pushing integration and pissing off a large and influential interest group or 2. doing nothing and letting a couple thousand vulnerable people’s lives get worse, picking the latter option, and realizing that I am larping The Problem

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victoria 3 thing of the day

me: so having laissez faire economic laws means I get more investment money and more company slots? that’s ridiculous, there’s no downside!

me several years later when my entire economy is based around keeping the industrial capitalists happy and powerful enough to keep investing so I quite literally can’t afford to propose any labor regulations: so turns out there’s a downside,

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Just saw on Quora a guy asking if Poland was more German or Russian and every reply was a Polish guy detailing the ways they wanted to kill him

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A drawing of the spooky boy I did a year ago.

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I think if nft guys just ran that shit back with the internet and called it something other than nfts and went with the intellectual property angle more than the investor angle, they would capture like the majority of artists.

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officially the best line in The Odyssey

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This Equal Rights Amendment (or 28th Amendment) scuffle is a peak moment for revealing American constitutional design flaws. For those who don't know, the ERA - which codifies a ban on legal discrimination based on sex - was proposed in the 1920's, but finally passed Congress in 1972. That isn't enough, though - two-thirds of State Congresses had to approve it. The bill was passed with a deadline for that process of a few years, and while it got close not enough states approved, and the deadline expired. So it's over, right?

Well, *can* Congress put a deadline on a constitutional amendment? That isn't explicitly in the Constitution, no timeline is at all. Some amendments have had very long approval timelines - like the 27th Amendment funnily enough, which was approved over *202 years*. It was proposed at the founding, failed, was forgotten about, and then picked up by an undergraduate student in 1982 who noticed it could still be passed.

That bill ofc had no congressional timeline attached to it - but if you could argue such caps were unconstitutional, then the ERA is in the same boat. Thus, you get efforts starting in the 90's for state legislatures to pass it again so they can pick a legal battle, which culminates in Virginia giving it the supermajority stamp in 2020. And it also involves legal arguments that states like South Dakota can't *rescind* their approval, which they explicitly did. Suits and countersuits fly, often around the role of the "Archivist of the United States", who nominally confirms amendments. And now the Biden admin is forcing the issue, which, if they stick to their guns, will absolutely go to court.

Will it win? Oh no, absolutely not, this is a cringeworthy stunt, they should be ashamed of this. But I care about shaming Biden far less than I care about shaming the Founding Fathers: what the *fuck* is up with this cockamamie doodle sketch of an amendment approval process?? Here we go, five seconds of thought:

"If Congress passes a Constitutional Amendment, all States of the Union will convene a special session of their Legislature within the next 120 days and vote on the Amendment, passing with a two-thirds majority."

Oh, wow, now you have an *actual process* for doing this! Instead of letting amendments be passed over *200 year timespans*!! That isnt cute y'all, that is a mockery of effective legislating. Not considering this stuff when drafting a constitution was amateur hour. It being the 18th century is barely an excuse - they had the concept of time back then too.

And of course the US just chugs along with this - whether or not "Congress can attach timelines to bills" will be decided by a group of partisan warriors whose composition is determined by actuarial tables, because that is also the system we inherited, and we live in the age of stasis. We won't ever throw the thing out and build something better from scratch. Instead, policy makers are going to waste time, again, on insane courtroom battles that increasingly determine the majority of actual policy these days. Fucking cringe.

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