I love that climate change is politicized and that the two sides are "make it worse" and "do something that is mostly just symbolic" it's great

Consider making something really small! The entirety of my own "game dev experience" is making a little Galaga clone and then making a Legend of Zelda thing that was only one screen and only had one enemy, and even though I didn't make much I still felt really fulfilled every time I would go "now how do I make X happen" and after an hour of researching and trying things out I would have successfully added X to my little game.

It's BS but the same thing happens if your car gets totaled while you're still paying for it. If your insurance can't cover the rest of your loan, you gotta pay it off. Sometimes you can buy a second insurance plan - gap coverage - which as the name suggests is supposed to cover the gap between your accident coverage and your outstanding loan amount.

In the case of a mortgage I think declaring bankruptcy might be the most rational move. The bank will take the land but the debt will be discharged, and with time you can rebuild your credit and get another one. It's a better out than defaulting and losing the land that way in any event. If you own the land outright then you can take out a new mortgage to rebuild, but damn that sucks especially if you spent thirty years repaying the original one.

But when you’re in the NBA, there are a lot of things you want to say, but you know if you say them, there will be repercussions. You could get into a lot of trouble. For example, a couple of years ago when I played for the Houston Rockets, I tweeted “Free Palestine,” and I almost got kicked out of the league for it. I was just trying to figure out why. Before that, I had spoken with some Palestinians who told me about the struggles in their country. I actually went to the movies one day in Houston, and a group of Palestinians approached me. They said, “Hey man, we’re big fans of you. Can we watch the movie with you?” I was like, “Cool.” When I was in Houston—or even in Orlando and other cities I played in—I would take fans to movies, to Main Event, or to events at Dave & Buster’s. After the movie, we took pictures, and they asked me to bring awareness to what was going on in their country. Me, having a big heart, thought, “This is the Christian thing to do.” So, I tweeted “Free Palestine.” Less than 10 minutes later, I got a call from the NBA commissioner, agents, people in my foundation, and even folks from Texas, telling me to take it down. They said, “You’re going to get into trouble. You need to delete this tweet.” I was like, “What did I do that was so bad? Can somebody explain this to me?”

I don't know anything about the nba as an org but this checks out.

Slavslop is the genre of isekai stories where someone resurrects or otherwise brings back Stalin.

I think it's just the current micro-trend. Shield Hero did it and was edgy in the laziest ways possible, but that got popular so here come the copycats. Japanese light fiction has a glut of authors so any given "genre" will very quickly get overrun by as many hyper-specific versions of the same thing as you can possibly imagine. It also makes the stories easy to write and easy to produce merch for (which is where the real money comes from) - I mean, imagine having to write a backstory for each of your characters when you can just give them all the same one?

I have to go there for work a lot, truly a cursed city

Saw a reddit thread of Canadians all saying they would die for their awful settler-colonial country, and it's like... why?

Anyway amending my previous statement that if America went to war i would join the military in order to do some fifth column sabotage - I'm only willing to do that in defense of a non-white country, frankly.

randomly attack revelers

detonate car bomb for the most confusing reasons in history

plan and execute highly specific assassination of rich person directly responsible for your and millions of others' problems

these three are not the same (assuming Luigi did it which I DO NOT BELIEVE. he's a patsy any jury with a brain should see that and vote NOT GUILTY due to reasonable doubt)

It doesn't even take communism to do this stuff. Japan funds rail lines to all of its least-populous areas with profits taken from the privatized-but-highly-regulated Tokyo metropolitan system. I think America might just be uniquely incompetent in this regard.

Trudeau reveals that he's been Castro's son the whole time by repelling the Bay of Crackers invasion.

"I wish America would get modern mixed-use residential/commercial developments."

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