Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Asmongold TV " channel.

  1.  @amuro9624  People who do things legally get documents.
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  2. Yeah, NPCs getting the latest update has long been a thing.
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  3. You could tell just from the words he was using that he was regurgitating talking points.
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  4. Someone should tell him that wearing a hat indoors is poor etiquette. And makes him look like a douche to boot.
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  5. Many of these smaller stories have been told, often for their drama angle but they tend to be lower budget affairs as befits their audience reach. This seems way overblown but I guess Netflix can spend their money how they wish. I am concerned that they will attempt to smear a thick layer of racism over the British though, despite the US itself having PSAs about how discrimination against black soldiers was much lesser in the UK and there being several stories of the Brits not tolerating some of the behavior the US brought over wrt race. Maybe I'll be surprised but I don't think we're far enough beyond Nov 5th for that narrative to be dying off from projects making it to the screen right now.
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  6.  @General_Meji  Ben's sister has huge tracts of land.
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  7. Guy is at the same mental level as Kelly Osborne.
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  8. The guy with the paintbrush looks like he wandered off from the nursing home and doesn't know where he's supposed to be.
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  9. Word is that a lot of the people in Hollywood you don't hear from have conservative views because speaking them will tank your career.
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  10. In hotels in NYC.
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  11. Very true. The risk of portraying these people as monsters (though what they did was surely monstrous) is that people later tell themselves that they aren't monsters and therefore the monstrous thing they are doing must be fine. It's the danger of self-reinforcing echo chambers and an inability to objectively analyze actions.
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  12.  @Joszef200  The problem is that homeless people often have a lot of issues going on. That's why the kneejerk reaction of just giving them a place to live is not a good answer most of the time.
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  13. That's another aspect. If there were two sides to an issue, the 'fact checkers' would often not list something as unconfirmed but would just out rate something as true or false whichever was the approved narrative.
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  14.  @OPINION27743beta  Yeah, Asmongold won't be so happy if Chipotle near him closes because it can't afford to operate anymore. Fortunately for him, he lives in Texas so he's a bit insulated from the consequences of such stupid policies.
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  15. This used to be a common opinion. NPCs got reprogrammed.
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  16.  @onceyouwheeinyoucantwheeout  Whatever the rest of the facts are, that's the truth. They should have totally stripped the studio and given it a makeover, maybe keeping a couple of items just for nostalgia. Kinda like how Doctor Who gets a new Tardis.
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  17.  @watnoudan  For a $5000 handbag that cost $20 to make and would be destroyed if it didn't sell by the end of the season.
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  18.  @jonathanstone4878  Nice try. California has been blue for two decades, arguably three.
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  19.  @Jebsauce  Dollar general is not really a dollar store though.
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  20.  @makisbizarreadventure4669  He was trying to play power games and he got outplayed. End of story.
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  21. From the way he talks, a leftist who likes to LARP as independent or moderate. It's fairly common.
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  22.  @TheFatalcrest  He's undoubtedly cosigning the loan himself (or possibly just 'loaning' her the money)
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  23. Care for a game of Gwent?
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  24. There was that dude with the "they make good tacos" when his child was murdered.
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  25.  @TheStarForge  If gold was traded based on its utility value only, it would be a fraction of what it is.
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  26. The simpler response is "Nobody cares". Her concern trolling is fooling exactly no one.
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  27. This is the problem when people are happy with 'fact checkers' as long as they agree with their preconceived notions. No, it's just a bad idea in the first place because nobody has a monopoly on the truth.
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  28.  @susanwojcicki5714  Yup. I don't know if that's what happened but that's the simple answer. Dude was messed up from his past and pushed over the edge by his present. All the drone stuff would be just a side effect. I think that there are still some questions that need answering though.
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  29.  @Perfectcrime87  Facebook right wing? Now I know you're not a serious person.
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  30.  @Doozy_Titter  When his teeth were rotting, they would bleed and the blood would get on his hands and he would wipe them off on the wall IIRC. Poor dude has a tragic recent past and although he says he doesn't have depression, I suspect he probably does. Though I couldn't say he isn't handling it the best way he can.
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  31.  @ghostbravo7127  Problem is, all that is simply fanwank to recontextualize studio decisions and the studios have been making awful decisions (word is the movie itself was completely reshot). I guess we'll see how it plays out when it hits the screens.
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  32. It's also not a private platform when the government is telling the platform what to do and/or have backdoor access to the platform.
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  33. Whiplashing from handing out drugs like candy and causing an opioid epidemic to refusing drugs to people who are in chronic pain has to be one of the most sick things ever. No wonder people are losing faith in medical 'experts' across the board.
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  34.  @zm1786  Mmm, iceberg, e-coli and hepatitis medley...
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  35.  @xuzadem  They have a more inflation button and they're leaning on it hard. It's called deficit spending. You may have heard of it as "money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
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  36. Yeah, that makes no sense unless the cousin works for the Daily Wire or has signed some kind of contract.
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  37. It's a gamble and muggles should keep away. With that said, it shouldn't be illegal and people walk away from casinos with empty pockets all the time.
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  38. Bingo. I'm not a fan of this and hate shitcoins in general but it all seems pretty transparent.
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  39. I've never had a lot of luck sending resumes though it's undoubtedly getting worse. The best bet is if you can get an in from someone you know. Networking is a real thing. And yes, I hate it too. Just one of those horrible realities. Another tip is it's easier to get a job when you have a job so don't necessarily turn your nose up at jobs you don't really want. It's much easier to advance through lateral moves these days too so don't stop looking for jobs once you get one (unless you're very happy where you are and even then...)
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  40.  @stu.chainz  News flash: Nobody believed all that shit was real and not political now Trump has been president elect for 4 days now. Find another talking point. Or are you still waiting for one to be handed down?
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  41.  @WEIRDxGRIM  Hawking was already a professor before his disease started affecting him. I think he may have been an athlete too.
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  42. We just had Biden for four years. I think we're immune to embarassment at this point.
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  43.  @rclaws3230  Start with the conclusion. It's the leftist way.
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  44.  @marg7772  Strikes are fine in an anarchy but then again, so would be the employer saying "fuck off, I'm not paying you anymore" in response. An anarchy would have no government support for unions.
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  45. @ Wrong. You need to check your history. The gold standard is long gone for USD.
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  46. Last time I flew, I had a long connection between flights so paid for lounge access. Everything was included and self-service. It was fine.
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  47. Double plus ungood.
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  48.  @yowamidesu  They like to keep it vague and ambiguous and dissemble and divert when called on it. Like when Harris did her "You know the thing" in her Baier interview.
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  49.  @cliffy00  There's a reason it can't be sold on Europe. It's retrofuturistic at best and just plain ugly to me.
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  50. Sounds like Asmongold's blue city of Austin is on its way too. There is some stuff locked up here but it's a tiny proportion.
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  51. Perfect.
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  52. Also, it still would have been propaganda in the 1990s
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  53.  @sezcam79  I think gamers are more online so they can talk to others and confirm the shit they're seeing. The same thing has been happening with passive media but most normies won't be aware.
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  54. @ Correct. Industrial diamonds are, in fact, dirt cheap.
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  55. It's rhetorical.
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  56.  @MichaelNethery-l4n  Not anymore.
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  57. They loved Trump at first cause they expected him to be a spoiler for the republican nomination and Hillary would be an easy shoe-in.
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  58.  @DeputyFish  Yep. And automation has often preceded economic booms in the past. Neo-luddites gonna neo-luddite tho.
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  59. Missed merchandizing opportunity there.
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  60. Yep. He tried a more harder left-wing thing when he came out of retirement but that wasn't playing well so he's back with his subtle bias schtick.
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  61.  @rollastudent  We used to have it.
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  62. All else being equal, a home-studio would be a no-brainer. Which suggests all else wasn't equal.
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  63.  @GregoryDumas-q4j  I hope you've kept a shine on your studded leather shoulder pad
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  64. Definitely the government is primarily to blame in this because they have been derelict in their duty to their constituents but the billionaire couple bear a good share of culpability too. "Don't do evil shit" is kind of a universal value we should hold people to.
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  65.  @mooserocka522  I did take a hefty dose of salt when I saw "Mother Jones". Asmongold talks about not judging by the source but some sources are definitely worse than others (though even the good ones still ain't great)
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  66. How dare you talk about things without paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for 4+ years of refined left-wing indoctrination...
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  67. You have to convince people you're right before you destroy their way of life, impoverish the world and lead to the death of millions? Say it ain't so.
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  68.  @damyr  Ironically, the burger is probably the least unhealthy part of the meal.
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  69. I'm sure a lot of the tipoffs are coming from the Boston cops.
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  70.  @nickthompson6466  To be fair, after the last four years, millionaire is nowhere as rich as it used to be.
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  71. They are the bully who just got given a bloody nose.
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  72.  @zakofrx  They also spend a lot of time idle which has to be factored into the cost. However, they are too expensive and doctors are quick to use them for transporting people around when they're not really needed.
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  73. How much USAID money did he get?
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  74. I had like 5 within 3 miles and I just drove past 2 new ones this last month.
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  75. 14:00 Abysmal take from the commentary dude. "Tie your future prosperity to my risky career change or I'll hate you forever"? Fuck that. Respect the agency of the people around you and be happy for them if your move allows them to improve their position. This is a commentary on this dude as I have no idea the details of the Cooper drama.
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  76. Don't forget, your account gets "hacked" wink-wink... Also, I haven't played Runescape in a loooooong time but are there any unique items?
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  77. 17:17 I like this definition of activist.
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  78.  @anthonyfournier1731  All those things stem from easy government money. Get the government out and make any loans be normal loans and they'd mostly only be given to people who are going to enter careers that will let them pay them back.
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  79. There's always a bigger fish.
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  80. I wish Asmongold would stop talking over Asmongold.
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  81. There's a Dom Gabor book that gives a lot of info for people for whom it doesn't come naturally. A lot of it is pretty simple stuff.
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  82. RIP Az.
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  83. I've heard reports of people self-deporting already.
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  84. OMG! If I break the law there could be uncertainly in my life? Color me shocked!
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  85. Comparing to cartridge games in 1985 is a bad comparison because of the hardware costs. Those of us buying games on more comparable cheap media (cassettes, disks) would often pay 5-10 for a game and sometimes less for budget titles. Development costs are definitely higher though. Not to mention you could swap games with your friends to extend the value. And the market was smaller. Word is Rockstar has gone woke anyway so I'll be holding off on this one whatever.
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  86. This is tragic and wrong but people need to take care of themselves too. After my car got dinged up in icy weather while commuting, I decided that I just wasn't going to take that kind of risk again. That's not to blame these guys, they were just doing their best and I know it's very hard when its your job and you need the money but nobody dead gets a salary. Nobody is going to look out for you like you. Be safe out there.
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  87. Musk's stocks went up because if Trump lost, the Democratic controlled establishment would have gone after him with a fervor second only to that for Trump himself.
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  88.  @randylahey8207  The problem is, there's no penalty for making bad law. So they go ahead and make bad law and hope they can take advantage of it before corrections are made which can be decades later. The problem with the constitutions is that it assumes the legislature would be reasonable people who acted reasonably.
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  89. Yeah, anyone saying you don't need to cut it off needs to sit down at a computer with a kid, fire up youtube and see how quickly it gets into the weird content. I think it's easy to be fooled by what the algorithm presents you as an adult to believe that things are generally safe. Weirdly, for kids, it's a lot worse.
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  90. 1984 is a critique of socialists from a guy who knew socialists because he was a socialist.
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  91.  @mustardbiscuits9750  "I hate Republicans and wars. Except when trump doesn't like them then they're my new greatest thing". - Dems everywhere.
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  92. 42:19 Is Amazon partially responsible for this? Well, we have Amazon here and this shit isn't going on so I'd have to put that in the 'no' column, much as I understand the desire to stick it to Bezos.
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  93. Asmongold, have you heard of Chesterton's fence? It describes exactly the situation that's occurring that you're talking about around the 13 minute mark.
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  94. No doubt a lot of rehypothecation going on there. And you thought NFTs were bullshit.
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  95. Oliver is terrible. He was OK on the daily show when they kept him reined in and he did a good bit on civil forfeiture but other than that, the only worthwhile thing he's done was his stint on Community.
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  96. Asmongold broke the internet (Can't believe nobody made the IT Crowd reference)
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  97. I remember the period around the beginning of online fact checking. If definitely had an inorganic feel and I think it was being pushed by the 'correct the record' types who were beginning to infest reddit at the time.
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  98. It's not justice. But it's needed.
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  99.  @RandomVids0987  Typically monopoly on violence.
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  100.  @dukecunning7046  His dad is a rabid anti-trumper as shown from a recent stream. There are obvious influences. AG appears to be a free thinker so I think he could get to see the truth. Which is not to say he would like Trump but jettisoning some of the massive lies the left attached to him would be a net positive.
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  101.  @Xnorre  I think with the mess the Democrats have put themselves in, there's a good chance a third party arises to face-off the republicans than the Dems gain real power again.
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  102.  @KuraKekoa  I don't know anyone who believes that.
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  103. Side quests? Wait until he starts challenging them to a round of Gwent.
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  104. They legit gave the guy a struggle session.
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  105. What was interesting to me is that it talked about his 'unique' points. I.e. if he said 19 was from a lab and if someone else said it was from a lab and it was from a lab, that doesn't count. If that was from a human, I'd say it was disingenuous. From an AI, I don't know what that would be.
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  106. 14:37 This, class, is what we call a straw man argument.
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  107. We get a president that's actually good for the economy instead of the shambling corpse from before and the richest people, who are primarily invested in the economy have their wealth increased? Color me shocked. What a rube. We got lucky the DNC shanked this guy in the back.
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  108.  @scarlet_phonavis6734  I'm betting the people who are saying their tv doesn't show ads don't recoggnise the ads as ads. Mine is corrently showing ads for espn, nbc, tubi and max shows on the homescreen. I'll allow that there may be some TVs out there that don't and I'd like to know those brands.
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  109.  @CurieBohr  About half of the Trump supporters I hear from hate Fox too. MSM is a dead man walking.
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  110. Bernie could have fought in 2016 and instead, buckled under for whatever rea$on and so lost all relevancy. Which is probably good because he would have been a disaster. But the two are not unlinked.
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  111. My coffee is already made by a robot. I just have to give it coffee beans and water and electricity and milk if I want a cappuccino or latte.
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  112. You're correct. Unfortunately, it's a prisoner's dilemma as some restaurants have tried this and gone out of business because their advertised price is more expensive. Also, it's big money for some kinds of servers so they tend to oppose reform attempts.
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  113.  @jakewilson7112  To be fair, MSNBC is such a joke now that watching them is a positive for Trump if you're not an NPC or TDS sufferer.
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  114. Soros used to be a 'conspiracy theory'. Now it's just accepted as fact.
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  115. Here's the thing though. Most of these people are guilty of state level crimes. The states are not doing their job, true enough. These people are here illegally and ice can not do anything about those crimes (unless they cross into federal crimes) but they can deporting. Attempting to reenter the country after being deported is a federal crime so then the federal government can do something about it in the way of prosecution. So there is a deterrent to coming back (albeit that many may choose to try anyway). That's my understanding anyway.
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  116. Bring back web forums. Throwing your lot in with Reddit is a big mistake.
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  117. @ Ask those people what their cable bill is.
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  118.  @jamesrussell3436  It seems like every couple of decades, McDonalds goes so far into the realm of enshitification for profits that they have to do a major course correction.
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  119. They'll show a certain kind of villain as sympathetic.
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  120. 14:17 I've played stealth games. Presumably they threw a rock and crouched in some tall grass.
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  121. Breaded cheese wands and tendies!
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  122. Rust is this way. I found the building and crafting fine but the pvp was not for me. I know a lot of people enjoy it though so it serves a community and that's fine.
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  123.  @nickthompson2023  Yes. In fact, with 45 minutes notice (which is only an estimate at best), their best bet probably was to hunker down at the plant rather than risk being on the road.
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  124.  @ericrickyc1906  Often true.
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  125. The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
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  126. There's a documentary about Noam Chomskey's book "Manufacturing consent" that's worth a watch. Chomsky's poliics are trash but he shines an interesting light.
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  127. Re: Laser tag. Do you mean he said 'that's what you have to break to win"? Otherwise I don't see the point. Unless it was a bunch of 'don't' rules?
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  128. My random guess... Some LIDAR scanning is going on. For what purpose, I have no idea.
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  129. Real? Or performative?
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  130. @ To be fair, I think our understanding of the phenomenon of parasocial relationships has grown over the last few years.
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  131. Dang, watching this in 2025, they really have made it too hard to find iron now.
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  132. I think X/Twitter is a lot better than it was but it's less than ideal that that relies on having someone who at least leans toward supporting free speech (as could be seen from the mess that was Dorsey's reign). We really do need something better but as Truth, Parler, Gab, Mastodon and P3do-Sky have shown, it ain't easy.
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  133. 68? Do socks count as 2? If so, I think I bought 2.
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  134.  @gurmyigoll3535  Don't buy scamcoins.
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  135. These news channels have helicopters, right?
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  136. They have fully integrated the Skinner box methodology.
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  137.  @Stiksta  It's been a puzzle for me why world's don't get reused more often. Maybe just for a bit of DLC but all that work that went into creating them just effectively abandoned.
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  138. Is that Pulp music I hear playing?
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  139. "Historic ties to extreme groups" says the Democrat.
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  140. I think the trick if you want to sell at a lower price is to put out at the standard (70) and have lots of discounts and sales.
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  141. @malmstring Yep. He identifies real problems then advocates the most obviously knee jerk, ultimately infeasible, potentially disastrous responses to them. Whatever the problem, the answer is Marxism.
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  142.  @Bruce-kx5ku  And to be clear, he could easily become not-a-millionaire but chooses not to.
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  143.  @snally6111  When your supporters are rallying behind you to fight the entrenched powers and then you go and stand with the entrenched powers and endorse them, do you not see how that might be a problem for the people that were supporting you? (I was never a supporter myself though).
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  144.  @IWearShaqs  LOL. Average Redditor take.
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  145.  @codywalker3747  Having principles is a foreign concept to people like you, isn't it?
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  146.  @Logan-op9xz  Thing is, he got behind Hillary. I think that was cozying up to the enemy a bit too much for many. He totally cucked and that's never a good look for someone who's looking to be a leader. Especially at his age where a redemption arc is unlikely. He's cooked.
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  147. "Get away with it". These were political prosecutions which no longer have any purpose since they didn't achieve their goal. Continuing with them would only look stupid and make the participants obvious targets for the investigations they so richly deserve. AG, you need to stop listening to your dad and understand that Trump is not the man the left-wing propaganda has been telling you.
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  148.  @greatmental  Involuntary labor? There's another word for that.
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  149. The $300,000 is an anti-family propaganda number. It will be nothing like that for most people. With that said, sure, one-off payments will do nothing. People need to be confident that they'll be able to keep their heads above water. I'll also say that if you're going to have kids, have them as early as you possibly can because it starts getting harder once your support structure starts disappearing. You're not getting any younger yourself, either.
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  150. Well, this became relevant again quickly...
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  151.  @MelanismSeis  This is why I hunt my own cows.
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  152. Meanwhile the man who helped fix NYC before is being financially politically persecuted for daring to question the most secure election ever.
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  153. "Old Ghostbusters movie..." -- don't you be dissing the cla... -- "with an all female cast". Dude, that was 2016.
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  154. What was this yoyosms dude doing at google? Cleaning the toilets?
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  155.  @HunnyBunny110-0  As an adult who is not particularly bothered by the themes it explores, I'd simply describe it as cringe.
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  156. In the 80s I read sci-fi stories about this very thing. One of them was about the military working out that they could teach people maths to pilot missiles instead of wasting expensive computers. (It obviously got some key aspects of computer evolution wrong).
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  157. I don't like it much but is Trump actually making any misrepresentations? It's one thing to sell someone a sack of potatoes and it's actually a sack full of poop but if you're honestly selling them a sack full of poop, that's just the trade.
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  158. When I was a kid of around 8 or 9 my family visited the US. We didn't have Dr Pepper in the UK so I had a can as a drink and thoughtlessly left it on the parcel shelf of the car while we were doing something. When we got back, I took a swig and it was hot from the sun. Put me off Dr Pepper for two decades.
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  159. Instead of a social credit score, have a socially-awkward credit score.
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  160. Online purchasing is great as an alternative but many people will have the issue of porch pirates, especially as the stores close and the thieves change their methods.
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  161. It's fun that AG critiques the ads too.
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  162. Calling someone a redditor? Them's fighting words.
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  163.  @MrCroky123  Yeah, government is printing money so muh capitalism... Meanwhile private money exists and the only value being taken from people is when government comes calling again. The problem is people who will sell their votes because they think they're entitled to free shit.
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  164. "Now wash your hands"? Nobody tells me what to do...
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  165. Godwin's law began outpacing Moore's law.
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  166. Watergate was a coup too.
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  167.  @termiterasin  I love being able to walk down the street and pick up a gallon of milk instead of driving to the big grocery stores. Mind you, it's the big grocery stores that put an end to that in the first place.
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  168. I'd just say to be careful about using the phrase "going nuclear" when talking about the president of the US because that's actually an option.
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  169. Asmongold, read about the Skinner box.
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  170. I long ago realized that all video games are ultimately meaningless. That doesn't mean I don't play them (they have value as entertainment) but I try and keep things in perspective. There are real-world things you can do that actually improve your life. Like cleaning your room. (sheepish side-eye).
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  171. Conflating legals and illegals. A common lefty tactic and a sign that they're not serious.
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  172. "We found Joe's body draped over the fence but his ID badge was on the outside side so we're counting that as a win."
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  173. And that was 45 minutes between the warning and when it hit. At the time, they probably didn't have any idea exactly how long before it would get there.
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  174. I suspect half the VPNs are owned by intelligence agencies.
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  175. The good news is, Joe Biden cured cancer.
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  176.  @dondahighhh12  The one closest to me, there will typically be no one at the register until you need to check out. Which kinda makes sense and was the way general stores used to work.
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  177.  @SRose-vp6ew  Yes. Our dollar tree is pretty nice for what it is. A little cramped but generally clean and tidy.
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  178. Click in the middle of the video or press 'k' or sometimes space works (depending where the focus is).
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  179. Trump not allowed to drive? Everyone knows he grabbed the wheel of that car with the partition that separates the driver from the rear of the vehicle...
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  180.  @Aroused_Milk  Haha, no. AG is smart and has drive. He was going to do OK whatever path he ended up following. And that's not even fanboy shit, I just recognize the type.
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  181.  @Aroused_Milk  Just smarter than average is enough (though I think he's a little more than that) and he's spoken about stuff that he's done before that indicates he likely could have taken things in an IT direction. And for drive, he puts out way more content than I care to watch. Don't mistake the slobbishness for lack of motivation. The mediocre often like to attribute the success of others to 'luck' but there's often way more to it.
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  182.  @xuzadem  Indeed.
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  183. I'd never seen him and only heard of him a couple of times before the end of last year. Fascinating guy but I don't have time to watch all his longer stuff.
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  184. I bet they were being overly-sexualized in his head. It's all projection with these people.
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  185.  @DragonOfTheMortalKombat  Yep. I have a STEM degree. You could easily get most of what I know online these days, much of it from YouTube. What you'd really need is a decent syllabus and good motivation.
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  186.  @johnhalliday5420  They were starting to try to slip it in in the 90s. My STEM degree was clear of it but there was some exploration of bringing in subjects that would have been the camel's nose.
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  187.  @user-qy2wf2lt6v  Oh, you've clearly never played the manspreading DLC.
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  188. When inflation is rising quickly, when companies raise their prices, they tend to want to get out in front of it so raise it a little bit more which, of course, accelerates the inflation. Then throw in some greed and the opportunity to blame additional rises on inflation. Just one more reason why inflation is pernicious and government needs to get the money printing under control. Inflation has its own costs beyond just higher prices. Also, the government lies about inflation so saying that price rises are above inflation doesn't necessarily mean much. The operating margin thing is pretty convincing though.
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  189. Incredible that they're even shrinkflationing the sugar water.
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  190. Because they've been told to.
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  191.  @cynicalthoughts  They say those words but what I hear them say is "I have no idea how government works"
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  192. @ I'd be fine with the first step being that government stop preventing the loans being discharged through bankruptcy. The problem is, the loans encourage colleges to offer shitty degrees and increase their tuition fees (the data on how they've increased is out there and is shocking) and leads to qualification inflation for jobs. It's also devastated vocational training. If the loans are just loans, most of that goes away. I'm not even that fussed if there's some direct government assistance in there, especially if it's properly targeted (which it won't be).
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  193. @ Higher ed in the UK was free when I did it. It's not now. And Labour did nothing to reverse the situation like they promised they would. Young people are perpetual suckers to the left.
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  194. Yeah. AG definitely occupying a 'default' position here.
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  195.  @Gromaul  Precisely. State goes rogue, that's a problem for the state. The DoE has gone rogue and that's a problem for the whole country. It provides no value. Scrap it.
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  196.  @j4nk3n Thing is, physical games can have drm and servers too. Digital games can also be backed up (though that also still has the issue with drm and servers too). You can still buy games that are DRM free and don't require servers (my copy of Cyberpunk for example). The major concern, PC or games is that you get to enjoy using them for a while so they provide value. Can the same be said for skins and luxury items? Perhaps. Personally I fail to see the value and think they're a bit of a scam, particularly when paying for brands but that's just my opinion.
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  197. @ Stupid or not, it's a fundamental tool of the English language so get used to it.
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  198. Trump talked about prices being too high. I know you watched the stream because you talked (correctly) about how it would be hard to get prices down and wages would have to rise.
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  199. The antebellum south?
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  200.  @kassygendron3022  I was surprised that he didn't do that speech where he called out the deep state by name until the final year of his term. I felt sure it was a lot earlier. Dude had the deck stacked against him. Word just came out (not confirmed) that Barr was looking to go after him too. Just exposing what he has has been a huge step forward.
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  201. It's to hide the huge brain-sized dent in his cranium.
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  202.  @parramaniac6155  Penny didn't even kill anyone.
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  203. I disagree on the fractions, somewhat agree on cells but yes, life skills should be highly prioritized and there's plenty of room for all of them.
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  204. The good political comedians will lead you where they want you to go. Lecturing and scolding is the sign of a hack and is not entertaining.
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  205. That game. I remember thinking I was getting close to the end then there was a popup that said I was about halfway through.
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  206. F2P can be seen as a "first one's free" kind-of advertising. It doesn't matter if people are getting a free ride if enough of them convert to good paying customers later. So with that in mind, adding advertising could either be beneficial to the company by allowing them money or detrimental by driving people away. I kinda agree with Asmongold that people will put up with it, sadly and that's all that's needed. The big issue I have with internet advertising is that it often brings very little value to the company (and quite often the advertisers) while disproportionately negatively affecting the end user by being annoying or using bandwidth or especially time (mine is valuable) or whatever else. It's a very shitty model for revenue generation in many cases.
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  207.  @hexabossbossman5731  Sure. It's "How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends" and I'm glad you asked because the author is actually Don Gabor.
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  208. Yeah, funny how that 'luck' thing tends to happen for people who go out and do things and not for those who mope around on their couch and complain about the lucky ones. Who designed this universe anyway?
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  209. Someone please help me out here. I just recently watched an AG clips video which had a part where people were sitting in an office, not working, just staring at screens. I'd like to watch the longer AG video that's from but would also be happy to hear which clip it's from so I could work backward from there. I've been through my youtube history but nothing seems to match up. It wasn't directly relevant to the video but I think it was just a bit of flavor. Thanks in advance.
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  210. It looks like the clip was from a Vice documentary which featured a North Korean computer lab.
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  211.  @alexanderfreeman3406  It depends. Some stuff is legit good bargains and some stuff is shit-tier quality but there's no reason to pay more for something better. Some stuff it's even hard to find elsewhere.
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  212. Wrong or right, the studios are still shutting down.
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  213. Spotify is depressing when the young and rebellious bands of the time have pictures of them all as old men now.
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  214. Chicken of the sea.
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  215. It wasn't so many years ago that Krispi Kreme expanded too rapidly and got themselves in trouble. I wonder if a similar effect is at work.
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  216. It might be more reassuring about not using the military against the public if the Biden administration had not authorized the use of military against the public.
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