Thanks, fully agree.
Somehow, my post was downranked to -1 Troll, I guess?

BL was groundbreaking as a looter-shooter.
BL2 was probably the pinnacle of the franchise. Great writing, great characters, good story. Child Schmafficking.
Tales was probably the peak writing/narrative delivery.
PreSequel was...we don't talk about the pre-sequel.
BL3 was completely disappointing.
BL4 The fact that Gearbox was militantly woke by this time is basically irrelevant (wrap your trannie franken-unit in the pride flag, I don't care I just want a good game) but their writing has been utter shit since TT. That a $3k PC chugs to run it - is asinine.

I only care insofar as truth matters? Does it to you?

And I don't care what pronouns THEY use; I'm going to use the one that's descriptively factually appropriate. If it upsets them, maybe their bitch is with reality, not me.

I don't give the faintest shit what sort of role-playing someone wants to do in their life.
OTOH If a dude in a dress pretending to be a woman walks into the bathroom while my wife or daughters are in there, I'll make sure he's exiting that bathroom immediately. IDGAF about his kink.

You mean the democratically elected president and congress?
"Authoritarian" does not mean "someone who disagrees with me that is in power".

Maybe if your team stopped loosely throwing around terms like 'authoritarian' 'fascist' and 'nazi' because you're either disingenuous or too stupid to know what real ones look like, fewer people would get assassinated by your psycho crazy allies?

You want to see actual authoritarianism? Watch all 9 hours of Shoah, maybe you'll grow up a little at the same time?

Fully agree.

Pollsters generally are finding people are growing unresponsive to polling generally. Their task relies on the largesse of people's voluntary participation and that's been badly damaged by:
- fatigue: ain't nobody got time for that shit anyway.
- robocalls: nobody, I mean nobody, is going to wait to hear if it's a "real" survey or some marketing bullshit
- political everything: elections now never seem to end
- deliberate skew to polls: I don't know about you, but the last handful of times I bothered to listen, the polls were skewed in a way a 3 year old could tell the way they "wanted" you to answer. "Who will you vote for, our guy that loves puppies or that despicable Nazi?"
- deliberate skew to answers: it's a well-demonstrated effect that one side of the political fence in the US *loves* to overshare their opinions about everything, and the other tends to tell pollsters to fuck off.* This leads to a strong political cleave-line in the responses, and the near-impossibilty of getting an actual representative sample. On this basis, if I were asking a polling company to answer a question for me, I'd be highly suspicious of any answer essentially coming from one voice, not a bellcurve of the population generally.

*fwiw, when I do amuse myself by not hanging up immediately, I generally give them an answer based on a coinflip, to taint their data with noise as best I can. It's mildly amusing to do this as I have to often hastily give contrarian answers to the previous answer I just gave them. Call it an exercise in rhetorical nimbleness. I hate polls.

Also, a totalitarian state or doesn't that matter for you?

Genetic offcasts from the complex process of heterosexual reproduction, like someone born without an eye or 2 girls with a merged body below the thoracic vertebrae.
We need to care for them, help them have as normal a life as possible, but there's absolutely no reason to change broadly accepted societal mores for them.

(his)
A human with xy chromosomes is commonly called male and referred to correctly with masculine pronouns in English, no matter what costume he's wearing.

I would have said this is self evident?
I've been curating Pandora channels by mood for a long time.

I realized fairly early that what I wanted to listen to was context dependent, not really wanting a Chopin Nocturne while working out, nor KLF while trying to relax.

Sure.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
https://earth.org/wp-content/u...
Hahahaha

Considering there's no human in the loop, I'd argue these need INTENSIVE ethics reviews, not "none".

That's fucked up.

The scientists attribution of anything and everything to climate change based on models specifically tweaked to give them the results they want - and the complete failure of such assertions in another climate-change-related context - is 100% a salient point regarding the believability of these new claims.

And yes, at the same time it's 100% troll because /. has more or less ideologically become Reddit.

... Are these the same scientists asserting that global warming will drive more frequent and more severe weather such as hurricanes?

(He said ironically, at the peak of the 2025 hurricane when there isn't any activity in the Atlantic at all.)

Lol
"I'm a leftist bot" much?

That's the point.