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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
There is also the strong message that it sends, that #Me Too! ends here. That's not a side effect, but the whole point for a lot of them, it doesn't mater that they have to sacrifice some of there own to make it.
True. I don'T think that they can really stop Me Too!. If they continue in this manner, the blue wave will become a tsunami.
Just out of curiousity...is there anyone here left who even remotely beliefs Kavanaugh? I mean, when the first allegation came I was all "well, let's wait and see". Then I was "okay, with so many women coming forward, there is most likely something to it, not enough to put him on trial though." But at this point, there is so much evidence speaking against him, I am actually wondering if it would be enough to put him on trial.
While it should be no surprise, the sheer despair and horror so many of my fellow authors (all of them women) over the entire court appointment has been terrible. While this is just another Trump disaster for me, this is a shredding of dignity and horror on a deeply personal level for many.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I was initially willing to give Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt... but that started to erode once more allegations came out against him. And now, we have texts proving that he was trying to get ahead of Ramirez's allegations first published in The New Yorker.
Edited by BearyScary on Oct 2nd 2018 at 1:13:16 AM
Do not obey in advance.An article about how foreigners see this train wreck
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@Swanpride: The reason to push him through is because they don't have time to pick another candidate before the Senate potentially shifts to blue.
Well, the main things that should be banned are data harvesting (already happening in Europe), thinly-disguised gambling such as gacha mechanisms and paid loot boxes, and Evony-style false advertising. Ideally, there'd be a way to nail "whale hunters" like Candy Crush Saga, where an Allegedly Free Game abuses addictive-behavior mechanisms, but I don't know enough to develop the latter regulations.
Frankly, the latter is probably easier to defeat through middle-school Internet education. If consumers stop putting up with P 2 W mobile shit, then companies will stop making it.
(Also, of course, Chinese game devs will respond to these regulations with their usual middle finger held high.)
Why are we Capitalizing random Nouns?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Yeah, finding blatantly partisan conservative judges who think Roe vs. Wade was the WORST THING EVER isn't too hard. But finding one who genuinely thinks the POTUS should be treated like a god king? That's a bit trickier.
Edited by M84 on Oct 2nd 2018 at 1:48:48 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised