So he targeted the people that the GOP propaganda machine told him to. Must be a ‘lone wolf.’

More proof that the War on “Drugs” is largely an authoritarian criminalization of untreated mental health issues.

We shouldn’t lock people up for addiction any more than we should lock people up over depression.

I hate the euphemism of “self-deport.”

Let’s call it what it really is: ICE threatened to lock him up and send him to an undisclosed location if he didn’t flee the country.

You can do a lot to improve how it looks, too. There’s a lot of custom terrain, and you can download meshes made from satellite photos.

It also works better in VR.

Reactionaries see the Constitution in the same way they view the Bible: they get to make up insane justifications for doing the exact opposite of what it says.

Wow, they really got the chatbot to sound like a right-wing debate bro shithead. They must have had a lot of training data laying around somewhere.

When you ride alone, you ride with MechaHitler.

I should get back into that one. I played some in early access, and it was fun.

It’s my favorite racing sim. Good pick.

I’ll definitely look at Sailwind, I’d love a good sailing sim. Thanks for the rec!

That was another great one; it’s one of the most fun eras to fly in.

I still cry when I remember that they were clearing them out at $5 a pop. I’ll cling to mine until the day it dies.

From the same article:

The United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, or Nadia Marcinkova.

According to a ruling by US District Judge Kenneth Marra in February 2019, “from between about 1999 and 2007, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused more than 30 minor girls…at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, and elsewhere in the United States and overseas.” The ruling goes on to describe a child sex ring: “In addition to his own sexual abuse of the victims, Epstein directed other persons to abuse the girls sexually. Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him. Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.”

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Notably, the extra rights are only given to churches. Other non-profits are still restricted in their political activity.

It’s definitely not a cult though.

Should have been “Milky Whey.”

To illustrate:

As a slogan in American political discourse, “America First” originated from the nativist American Party in the 1850s. The motto has been used by both Democratic and Republican politicians in the United States. At the outbreak of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson used the slogan to define his version of neutrality, as did newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. The motto was also chosen by Republican Senator Warren G. Harding during the 1920 presidential election, which he won.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) used the phrase at the organization’s peak in the 1920s, when racist, xenophobic sentiment was widespread; it informed many of their members who ran for political office. The Immigration Act of 1924 sponsored by Washington U.S. representative Albert Johnson proved to legislate xenophobia and white supremacy, excluding immigrants on the basis of ethnicity and national origin in an effort to preserve white racial demographics. Johnson’s leading role in the immigration restriction bill elicited strong support from the KKK.

“Encounters” is such a funny way to phrase it. Like he was traveling through the woods on a quest and had to roll on the random table upon which a pack of wolves was also an option.

I feel so much safer now.