Most of the really out there Christian fundamentalists, the ones eating the brain of the US political system, are derived from the Protestant Reformation (or Anglican, which is sorta to the side of the Reformation). Even the more fundamentalist Catholics in the US have opinions that align to the Protestants around them rather than the Pope. Big Bang and evolution, for example.

Most of the really out there Christian fundamentalists, the ones eating the brain of the US political system, are derived from the Protestant Reformation (or Anglican, which is sorta to the side of the Reformation). Even the more fundamentalist Catholics in the US have opinions that align to the Protestants around them rather than the Pope. Big Bang and evolution, for example.

Most of the really out there Christian fundamentalists, the ones eating the brain of the US political system, are derived from the Protestant Reformation (or Anglican, which is sorta to the side of the Reformation). Even the more fundamentalist Catholics in the US have opinions that align to the Protestants around them rather than the Pope. Big Bang and evolution, for example.

Also, people should start with small doses and work their way up.

In fact, there’s a lot of research and care people should do beforehand. Mushrooms can be a wonderful experience, but can also be a traumatic one. Learning about them ahead of time goes a long way.

Then you have to explain how her bum was like a mountain goat, and ain’t nobody want to do that.

Not calling something bullshit when it’s bullshit is itself an example of bullshit.

It’s a compromise position. Under Chevron, Conservative justices couldn’t strike down regulations that put limits on corporations. At the same time, more liberal justices (leftist justices don’t really exist) couldn’t reverse agencies that had been captured and start ending regulations.

This ruling only makes sense for their position if they think they can hold onto the judiciary indefinitely.

Me talking about PNG in the late 90s. IE didn’t render certain features right (like transparency), and Adobe’s compressor in Photoshop sucked ass.

I’m not sure where you’re getting that Nintendo sells at a loss. They don’t have amazing margins on hardware, but they don’t like selling at a loss. IIRC, commodity prices and a price drop meant the GameCube was briefly sold at a loss, but it wasn’t long, and it wasn’t by much.

Whatever else you can say about Nintendo, they are really good at managing manufacturing costs.

There’s a little wiggle track burned into PSX discs that’s impossible to duplicate with burners, and it won’t boot up unless it sees that. There’s workarounds that eventually came out, but console copy protection doesn’t have to last forever. It only has to last most of its primary life until the next gen comes out, and PSX managed that.

There was a project where the next console would have been the Genesis, 32X, and CD in one box with a new name. I don’t know if that would work, or if it’d be viewed as something of an in-between generation, like the Turbografx, and people ignore it.

It’s probably be easier to develop games for, unlike the Saturn. It’s not the only thing that held the Saturn back, but it didn’t help.

The paper actually argues otherwise, though it’s not fully settled on that conclusion, either.

See, I watch Adam Something videos from the point of view that he’s not really talking about America. He’s talking about European politicians looking at terrible ideas from America and trying to replicate them.

This is a pretty good example. America wouldn’t do this, exactly, but it’s a step towards our terrible bike infrastructure. The other poster had the right of it: in America, the sign wouldn’t be there at all, but the intersection would still be badly designed.

Yeah, let’s face it: the USSR collapsed for a reason, and its MIC was already failing by the time it did.

Depends. 40 RC sail boats? No, not very impressive. 40 supercarriers? Yes, very impressive.

At this point, I wouldn’t put it past Russia to claim 40 RC sail boats as “new ships in the fleet”.

If capitalism worked, then those workers would be a flood of cheap labor that could be used to build cheap housing (among other things).

The problem Marx didn’t foresee is that capitalism can sustain itself until it destroys us all. In Nazi Germany, this left the country a bombed out pile of rubble. In modern times, it’s global warming.

First Past the Post doesn’t guarantee complete nationwide hegemony of two parties. There can be areas where the vote is between a mainstream party and a regional party, because the other mainstream party doesn’t show up. This happens in the UK all the time.

They don’t take a lot, but those seats are enough that the big parties often have to work with them to cobble together a majority.

Nor is First Past the Post the only factor. There’s plenty of southern states that have runoff voting. Their last century of state level offices are just as filled with Democrats and Republicans as anywhere else.

The US is unique in that not only are their only two real parties, but those two parties dominate at every level of government.

No way they’re replacing the bigger ones, like the Moskva. That one was built in a yard that’s now in Ukraine, and Russia hasn’t gotten that part back. Even if they did, Ukraine hadn’t really maintained it.

It was also launched in 1979, and they haven’t built anything that size since the USSR fell.

They’d have to rebuild the infrastructure needed to build the ship. These losses are irreplaceable.

On the tank side, some planned updates/replacements for the Abrams were very suddenly canned and went back to the drawing board. The DoD didn’t say why, but a good guess is that they saw how things were going for tanks vs drones in Ukraine, and decided that these new designs would be obsolete before they’re built.