Oh that's that new "x"?! Tell me about it?!
Be excited people are joining your hobbies. Without people hobbies die.
The best we can hope for is for them to not increase as fast as they have
That's what inflation going down means. Inflation is the rate in which prices increase. Saying "inflation going down" means that the rate prices increase is not as much. "Inflation going down" still means prices are increasing. People are confusing "inflation going down" with deflation, which means prices are decreasing.
This is exactly how I felt. There is always a response that "it's intentional. Unreliable narrator...blah blah blah." Which doesn't make it better. It's that "jokes on them I was only pretending" meme, but in literary form.
This is a private individual who is suing valve for her own personal gain. This isn't a government or a class action. If they win valve gives this one lady half a billion dollars. Sounds bullshit to me.
The Honey pot conspiracy is fake. But Hillary Clinton did use her influence to prop up Trump early in the election thinking that he would be the easiest candidate to face. And I can see reddit being a part of that plan.
50% of what Thanos considers life since it was powered by his will. Since he seemed to imply that nature (plants and animals) where not part of this it's safe to assume it was sapient life only.
It's an allegory for the civil rights movement with prof. X as MLK Jr and Magneto as Malcolm X. In proper allegorical fashion this means it can be representative for any form of civil resistance by a repressed class, including the fight for gay rights.
https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
https://www.transportpolicy.net/standard/us-light-duty-fuel-economy-and-ghg/
The footprint-based system means that selling more small vehicles does not necessarily help manufacturers meet the standards. Smaller vehicles are subject to more stringent requirements, such that a manufacturer of smaller vehicles has a lower CO2 standard while a manufacturer of larger vehicles has a higher CO2 standard. Footprint systems encourage improvements in efficiency, regardless of vehicles size, and have relatively little impact on vehicle size mix. Unlike a weight-based standard, a footprint-based standard encourages use of lightweight materials while maintaining the vehicle size, without subjecting the manufacturers to a higher CO2 requirement.
Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.
There is a law in the US that says trucks must meet a certain Miles per gallon fuel economy. But there is a loop hole that says trucks over a certain size are not included in that law. So as long as the trucks are ridiculously big they don't need to worry about their fuel economy.
Edit: it's the CAFE law.
When I was a kid I used to walk to the movie store to rent games. I would go back every time I had money and rent Chrono Trigger, but some one would always erase my save, so I would have to start over.
On my birthday I got a check from my grandma that was for 50 dollars. I walked right up to the game store and slammed my check on the counter for one copy of Chrono Trigger. I didn't know how money, checks, or sales tax worked.
Luckily, my mom bailed me out. I played that game for years. I still have such fond memories of that game.
The guy you are arguing with is an idiot trying to make you angry to "win" because you said to not get angry. Just ignore the troll.
My wife has severe OCD. She has gotten to the point she has basically 0 symptoms now. Where before she couldn't drive or leave the house. Here is what I've learned through our journey.
- The repetitive actions are often caused by intrusive thoughts. My wife's stemmed from actions that were tied to her morality, and her memory. Such as, she would drive around the block 5 times because she would have this thought, "What if you ran over a kid but you don't remember it?" Which was the worse thing she could have done.
- 90% percent of people with OCD are also neurodivergent, namely autistic. My wife wasn't diagnosed with Autism until after her OCD diagnosis.
As Llamapacolypse said, it has it's dark moments. What I wrote above is some of the darkest. It never goes into too much detail when it involves some of the more triggering things. Just a fade to black.
That said it's such an intensely human series. So much love and compassion litered throughout the whole thing.
It's also such a unique experience. Most fantasy books have huge massive reveals that shock and take you by surprise. Malazan has these things. But it also does it in reverse. You'll read something and then a book or two later it changes context entirely, completely blowing your mind.
The Crippled God from Mazalan Book of the Fallen. I should probably spoiler this. And trigger warning.
spoiler
The High King Kallor once ruled an empire. And he did so with a cold hard iron fist. Some Elder Gods decided that he was to be dethroned, and set off to confront the High King. Kallor had gotten wind of this before the confrontation and so had all his mages begin a ritual. One that would summon an alien force from beyond the known universe. They were successful and pulled an entity of such power that it destroyed Kallor's entire empire. As the Gods approached the High Kings throne they found him there, emporer of only ash.
The power Kallor summoned was so alien and anthemic to the universe it needed to be destroyed. But they found it couldn't be done. So instead they crippled and chained the power. This power came to be know as the Crippled God.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly the cruelty that the Crippled God did himself. See, the crippled god worked in the shadows from his tent on the beach. He lifted others up to enact his broken visions. Granted them slivers of his alien power, and whispered promises of power or revenge into their ears. One such figure was the Pannion Seer.
The Seer was a holy figure who led an massive army, the Pannion Domin, on a crusade against the world. This was a holy war and such his followers where blindly devoted. His most devoted where called Tenescowri. The Tenescowri where purposely starved. Given no rations, no water, no food. They had to subsist on what they were able to find. And what is the most common thing found after a battle? Dead bodies. The Tenescowri was an army of forced cannibalism.
It gets a bit darker. The most powerful of the Tenescowri where the Children of the Dead Seed. During battle the fervent women would take dying men, and force them to copulate. Filling their wombs with the seed of a dead man. These children would grow up to be unholy warriors.
I think it was said the Tenescowri were 100,000 strong led by Anaster the Fist Born of the Dead Seed.
Because Mike Johnson isn't in my district or anywhere near it. But I know my representative's voting history, and that's what matters. Local governance is very important.