Mulholland Drive is not just my favorite Lynch movie but possibly my favorite movie. Lost Highway is also just excellent.

Hey well done! One thing for soup I'd recommend is to simmer (185 to 205 fahrenheit) your soups rather than boil, helps the ingredients and especially the broth retain more of the flavor. Boiling is one those few qualitative differences in cooking, and keeping the temp just below boiling can really help. I'd also throw some kosher salt in that water at the beginning, really helps preserve/bring out flavors

Agreeing with all of this, including the decision to omit Witcher 2

The fact he thought to do that is really disturbing. Just disgusting

yes :yes-chad:

Modern phrenology

this is strictly in voiced Japanese games, and featured in almost every voiced line in the FF7 Remake: a short, sudden, high pitched reaction gasp after another character speaks. There isn't a word for this in English - idk if there is one in Japanese - but almost every line of dialogue in FF7 Remake features this staccato gasp at the beginning . "Huh" "Ah" "Hep" "Hwa" "Uoh". It seems to communicate "I didn't expect that," but also characters never seem to expect anything.

when you pivot the left-ish party toward "Faith, Flag, and Family" :ukkk:

"I am a descendent of children" doesn't exactly scan

is Horizon Zero Dawn a shooter? If so, the combat in that game is fantastic.

If we're not rating just on combat but overall game, Mass Effect 2 (possibly just because I'm replaying it right now.)

God of Small things is a really good book btw, one that quietly explores unifying themes in exploitation, colonialism, and class, but then also it's nicely written. I'd recommend if you like good prose and nonlinear storytelling, but it's not strictly a leftist work or anything

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wait, did 4 of his accusers die? Can anyone fill me in on the who/when of this?

at the risk of poking a beehive, this isn't a terrible idea. The IRS, especially for auditing the highest income bracket, has been (intentionally) underfunded since at least Bush 2, and realistically since Reagan. It's a textbook Warren solution that doesn't remotely get to the heart of income inequality...but it's not like, bad to get more auditors for the wealthiest Americans and corporations.

came here to post this, thanks for beating me to it

I think they'll improve water quality treatment up to a point - lots of places are using more activated carbon treatments as source water is degrading, for example - but after a certain point places will just import water like in parts of Mexico City. A lot of people observed the downsides of sprawl as it relates to transit, which is fair, so thought I'd add that it's also really bad for urban water systems.

Increased precipitation from climate change will mean increased surface runoff, so non-source pollutants will contaminate drinking water sources at higher rates, meaning more money and time must be spent on water treatment and lower quality aquatic ecosystems.

But this is only the second largest contributor of rising source water contamination.

The single largest cause is development patterns and sprawl, such as in Atlanta. Bad land use policy (i.e. paving everything and growing lots of lawns) leads to really bad stormwater effects - worse source water, higher probability of flooding, more expensive water treatment, etc. This is in addition to the fact that said sprawl significantly increases the levels of non-source pollutants because of, for example, higher vehicle dependency; or that said sprawl tends to mean less tree cover and therefore higher temperatures, which in turn increase the severity of precipitation events. Too bad it's like, impossible to fix.

:solidarity: Same here. We'll get through it.

March of Return 2018 fucked me up in a way I will never forget. Snipers were deliberately shooting people's limbs to keep the fatality count low. "Only" 200 people died but nearly 2,000 total were shot with live ammunition.

Nope! I'm in the middle of one of the busiest weeks of my life, and this looks like a great thing to jump in to when it is finally over