joseph [he/him, they/them]

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Cake day: July 28th, 2020

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  • joseph [he/him, they/them]tomemesgames like this?
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    7 months ago

    FWIW it seems to be far simpler to get iron/gold/diamonds from shipwrecks and other structures after they added deepslate. I still explore caves now but I do far less strip mining.


  • joseph [he/him, they/them]tomemesgames like this?
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    7 months ago

    I think that's intentional from the devs in response to strip mining. The current meta post-Caves and Cliffs seems to be to raid structures in the early game to build up an iron/gold/diamond stash before transitioning to the renewable resource farms in the late game.


  • joseph [he/him, they/them]tomoviesBarbie was fucking snubbed
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    7 months ago

    The Barie's love patriarchy actually? What is even the problem then?

    u have to understand that they only love patriarchy because they were "brainwashed" even though the only thing Ken does (according to the movie) is utilize the power of persuasion and the marketplace of ideas to convince the president, the supreme court, and every other authority figure in the Barbie Matriarchy that being ogled at is better than being in charge.



  • joseph [he/him, they/them]tomoviesBarbie was fucking snubbed
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    7 months ago

    yup... "oh isn't it funny how all the people in charge of mattel are white men (hey just like real life!) but also the people in charge of mattel are good actually? anyways lets just leave it there no criticism just vibes"


  • joseph [he/him, they/them]tomoviesBarbie was fucking snubbed
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    7 months ago

    ah yes i love the barbie movie where one himbo is able to singlehandedly convince an entire matriarchy into giving up power to men. the most libbed up second-wave feminist slop i've ever seen

    edit: also what really bugs me about this movie is that it sets up the plot arc of "Stereotype Barbie is malfunctioning because her real-world owner is depressed about capitalism/patriarchy" and does nothing to actually resolve that.





  • I was raised with conservatives (thanks, parents), have eaten dinner in the same room with some pretty high profile people in the Evangelical right, and have been to religious right wing "conferences" and other events. This was back in the late aughts, but one of the most common "big picture issues" (aside from abortion) I remember being talked about was the "INSANE" power that the executive branch has both to do stuff like this and delegated rulemaking (which allows the EPA to set standards without consulting congress, among other things). This was before Trump - the right was seeing the righting on the wall that they would never win a national popular vote again (still haven't) and wanted to limit the already trite authority of the President.

    So this, to some members of the right, is bigger than capital. There have been a ton of recent cases in SCOTUS litigating the power of the executive and it's no coincidence that the 5th Circuit 'forced' the court's hand here. The grand goal is to totally neuter the executive branch so they don't have to worry about the Presidency.

    The legal arguments are complicated, but the consequences of the 5th Circuit’s ruling, if upheld, would be straightforwardly devastating. First, Jarkesy argues that the SEC’s decision must be vacated because the agency sought civil penalties and disgorgement of unlawful gains in an agency proceeding and not in a federal court, where he would be entitled to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment. The result would be the demise of agency proceedings if any agency―not just the SEC―sought monetary relief except in federal court. Not all agencies have the statutory authority to bring cases in federal court, and if they wanted the right to recover money from a wrongdoer, today’s stalemated Congress would need to act (it won’t). Even agencies that currently have the right to go to court would have to choose between getting full relief in court or settling for an order stopping the unlawful conduct, which they could do in an administrative proceeding. And to the extent that agencies choose the federal court route, those courts would see a significant increase in complex litigation, with no new judges or additional resources.

    Of course, we all know that the executive branch can't really do much anyways. But there are a few important agencies (think FDA) that would end up totally gutted if it went the wrong way.











  • After a century of excavations trying to prove the ancient accounts true, archeologists say there is no conclusive evidence that the Israelites were ever in Egypt, were ever enslaved, ever wandered in the Sinai wilderness for 40 years or ever conquered the land of Canaan under Joshua’s leadership. To the contrary, the prevailing view is that most of Joshua’s fabled military campaigns never occurred--archeologists have uncovered ash layers and other signs of destruction at the relevant time at only one of the many battlegrounds mentioned in the Bible.

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-13-mn-50481-story.html