Guys, I've effectively quit Magic at this point. Like, I sold 90% of my cards and haven't played in almost a year. But this still managed to reach me! I occasionally watch MTG videos and Jeremy's ban video came up in my recommended section. The Professor, which is the main channel that I do watch, laid the heart of the matter out nicely. Someone was hurt bad enough by Jeremy's repeated, unsolicited, and frankly quite crude criticisms to leave the MTG community and that person was a highly visible and well liked individual. I work with 1st graders at an after school program and we work hard to foster a sense of community between the kids themselves and with the adults who care for them. They all can tell you that doing something mean is bad for the whole community because if one person is hurt then the rest must take stock of the situation and form a layer of social protection. Jeremy has benefited from way too much social protection within the MTG community for way too long. One thing I always have to remind the kids about is that even when you don't agree with someone or they make you mad you have no right to punish them. Jeremy has the right to free speech but at the same time he has no right to question Christine's level of worth to the MTG community or shame her for the way she raises money. One of my favorite cosplay creators, Cat Cosplay, recently asked for money from their followers because they were taking on a lot of projects, which said followers asked for, and their 9 to 5 wasn't cutting it. So Christine's request isn't unusual nor is it a plea for attention. The thing that bothers me the most is that I think Jeremy unconsciously went after Christine because she's a woman and women are perceived as more vulnerable. A.E. Marling, a male MTG cosplayer, raises money the same way Christine does and Jeremy hasn't gone near him. So clearly Jeremy sensed that Christine was emotionally vulnerable and decided to make bullying her a thing because she didn't fight back. Becoming "internet famous" because some guy is making fun of you or just doesn't like you can be downright dangerous and there should be some consequences for putting another person at risk just to get thumbs up and subscribers.
Cheers Sally folks, I've missed you and it's sad that it took an outrage for me to return.
Could Americans be called something like "Americandans" or "Americandians"? Given the age of the country it seems a bit late to start now but a new nickname could be fun. My personal vote is "Users".
Personally, I swear by Cabot. Their 3-year aged white cheddar is amazing.
I hope it's not aged on wood. The government wants to save us from delicate flavor notes by banning wood aged cheese. The FDA kind of backed out on it right now but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to swing the banhammer again soon. Also, Cabot IS amazing.
It terms of brands that are well-known and widely available across the U.S., I think Tillamook is the clear winner. There are a few smaller, more regional brands that are probably better (and also much pricier).
Tillamook is mostly regional. I did a quick search and it's only available at one place in an 160 mile radius of Buffalo, the 2nd largest metro area in New York.
Lawnmower Man, The Net, and Demolition Man are my holy trinity of bad 90's movies that I just love.
I almost put Buffy The Vampire on the list but it's not a bad movie. Merely cheesy and kind of astonishing at times. The mix of unknowns(Hilary Swank, Kristy Swanson, and a 90 second Ben Affleck cameo), 90's mainstays(Luke Perry and David Arquette), and WTF casting choices(Paul Reubens and Donald Sutherland) and a reverse horror movie plot created a movie that just can't be firmly placed in the bad category because it was the first of it's kind.
There is no overall best brand. Cheeses are still made and sold regionally for the most part and each has it's own unique take on flavors. What do the people in your market look for in a cheddar? Sharpness? Mellowness? Strong or mild flavor? What about specialty cheddar? Yancey's Fancy, a cheese maker in my area, makes several varieties of specialty flavors of cheddar, such as smoked, Buffalo, Maple & Bacon, and Jalapeno & Habanero. Wisconsin is the US state that is known for it's cheeses and may have the biggest variety of cheddar in the US. Also, are you sure that the cheddar people are eating in your country is real cheddar? The stuff people eat on nachos and burgers is not cheddar but rather artificial cheese product.
Saw this at a preview on Wednesday. This is probably the funniest thing I'll see this year. My only real complaint is that Zoe Saldana's acting was lukewarm and wooden at times and it made Gamora slightly less amazing. Bautista is this movie's secret weapon and many of his lines will be quoted at many LGS this summer. Go see it! Also, there was no secret tidbit at the end of the preview so if it exists at the end of the regular release please post it, in spoiler tags of course.
-The Collector's part in this is very brief yet seems like it will have a big impact on the MCU. As of GotG we have three Infinity Stones: the Cosmic Cube, the Aether, and the Orb(or at least was inside it). His collection is blown up and we know the Aether from Thor 2 is there. I think the Asgardian's have the Cosmic Cube but since they gave the Aether to The Collector they could have also handed that off as well.
-Thanos' Chitauri gimp got no love. I wonder if Alexis Denisof reprised his role as chief gimp. I couldn't really tell it was him in The Avenger in the first place though.
-The baby Groot at the end was amazing. I want one!
-Favorite Drax quote(you'll have one too): "Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too quick."
I hate pants but I hate shoes more. Why did we have to invent glass?!? In the winter I suppose I prefer shoes to frostbite but once the snow melts I want to feel grass under my toes.
I have to wear pants or shorts because YMCA policy pretty much forbids skirts. Short skirts are inappropriate and long skirts make it hard to be able to participate with the youth I work with. Plus some of the kids are short enough to see up even a skirt of modest length.
Drink often, even when you don't want to. If you stop sweating, feel faint or dizzy, and/or feel nauseous you have some kind of heat illness and should get inside immediately. I work at a summer camp and got heat exhaustion on the second day! On my way home I was disoriented and ended up falling. >.< Also, do whatever it takes to lower your body temperature. Swim, sit near a fan, or go find AC. Luckily I swim 5 days a week so I get to cool off on exceedingly hot days. Another pro tip is to avoid wearing dark clothing, as it traps in heat.
Why do we die of age? That has yet to be solved. Why does our bodies fail in old age? How do you "definitively" know that we cease to exist when we die?
A big part of why humans die of old age has to do with telomeres, which basically keep our cells from dying during division. With each division they shorten and eventually they end and your cells begin to die. Over time your organs begin to function at less than maximum capacity because their cells are dying and so you begin to die, albeit slowly. Telomeres are still kind of a mystery because they don't behave the same way between different species. As for ceasing to exist when we die, what we consider to be ourselves is our unique neurological patterns in the brain. When you die for good that pattern is lost forever and there is no compelling evidence to prove that humans don't die for good when we die. If animals are forever lost when they die then it stands to reason that humans are the same. Sentience doesn't grant us some special destiny that sets us apart from the species we share this planet with. In the not too distant future I think we will be able to preserve a person's neurological pattern and in that way they won't really die.
I get what you're trying to say, but it's (imho) a terribly bad thing to try to take logic and science beyond what it is meant to be.
Logic and science are sometimes friends but are often at odds with each other. Logic can be entirely subjective while science is evidence based and thus not subject to individual opinions. I think science is much more logical than religion because of it's emphasis on evidence rather than faith.
We can't be so quick as atheists to condemn religion as nothing more than stupid nonsense on based on what we think about religion, we have to ask ourselves what religious people think about their religion in order to understand why it's still around.
I didn't say that religion was stupid nonsense, I asked why it is still relevant and why more people don't worship science.
I've been an agnostic atheist for roughly two decades and one thing I just don't understand is why religion continues to take up so much mental and actual time in human lives. We have many serious global concerns(e.g. AIDS, overpopulation, climate change, etc) but people are more worried about their "souls" than what's going on right now. Science deals in certainty and yet it has few religious adherents, which is confusing to me. You would think that the concepts that have been proven would be more likely candidates for worship. Yet humanity still chooses to believe in things that cannot be proven for no logical reason.
All the old mysteries have been solved! We die due to disease, accident, or age. The lights in the sky are stars. When we die we cease to be and that's it. The amount of evidence for evolution is overwhelming. Knowing all that, why is religion still a thing?
Heck yes single people go on vacations. It's great going alone because you get to pick everywhere you go, what you eat, and how late to stay out. Also, you can go on a "camp" style vacation, like a survivalist retreat, without anyone there preventing you from engaging in romance or holding you back from doing something cool because of their own issues.
By now I am sure most Americans have some familiarity with the large influx of children immigrants. My question for the thread is what do you think should be the solution to this problem.
My solution would be something like this
1.) Inspect all the children for any health or life threatening problems.
2.) Determine which children want to go back home.
3.) For the the children that want to stay we put them in the immigration system.
4.) We set them up with education/job training opportunities.
5.) When the children reach age 16 they should work to pay for the debt incurred by the state.
The problem with this situation is that these children haven't been classified as refugees, which is what they are. Refugee status would give them international support and make helping them a lot easier. But it isn't something that's easy to grant and since the children are coming from several countries maybe impossible. The UN wants these kids to be called refugees and I really hope this happens. Also, refugee services like food stamps and Medicaid, are paid for by the federal government so the states themselves never feel a burden from the services refugees receive.
I don't think it's ethical to ask children to sign up for a service that puts them in debt that they must work off once they reach 16. They're just children - they won't understand the implications of the deal.
Current refugees, even the children, who come to the US have to pay the UN back for their travel to the US. A family of 5 might have $10,000 to pay back and though in most cases the parents pay their children's loans sometimes they don't. I know several refugee teens who have after school jobs just to pay their loans. 16 is a bad idea because a 16 year old isn't an adult but 18 is fine and a reality for many refugees in the US.
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Cheers Sally folks, I've missed you and it's sad that it took an outrage for me to return.
I hope it's not aged on wood. The government wants to save us from delicate flavor notes by banning wood aged cheese. The FDA kind of backed out on it right now but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to swing the banhammer again soon. Also, Cabot IS amazing.
Tillamook is mostly regional. I did a quick search and it's only available at one place in an 160 mile radius of Buffalo, the 2nd largest metro area in New York.
Try some Yancey's Fancy. It changes lives.
I almost put Buffy The Vampire on the list but it's not a bad movie. Merely cheesy and kind of astonishing at times. The mix of unknowns(Hilary Swank, Kristy Swanson, and a 90 second Ben Affleck cameo), 90's mainstays(Luke Perry and David Arquette), and WTF casting choices(Paul Reubens and Donald Sutherland) and a reverse horror movie plot created a movie that just can't be firmly placed in the bad category because it was the first of it's kind.
-Thanos' Chitauri gimp got no love. I wonder if Alexis Denisof reprised his role as chief gimp. I couldn't really tell it was him in The Avenger in the first place though.
-The baby Groot at the end was amazing. I want one!
-Favorite Drax quote(you'll have one too): "Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too quick."
I have to wear pants or shorts because YMCA policy pretty much forbids skirts. Short skirts are inappropriate and long skirts make it hard to be able to participate with the youth I work with. Plus some of the kids are short enough to see up even a skirt of modest length.
A big part of why humans die of old age has to do with telomeres, which basically keep our cells from dying during division. With each division they shorten and eventually they end and your cells begin to die. Over time your organs begin to function at less than maximum capacity because their cells are dying and so you begin to die, albeit slowly. Telomeres are still kind of a mystery because they don't behave the same way between different species. As for ceasing to exist when we die, what we consider to be ourselves is our unique neurological patterns in the brain. When you die for good that pattern is lost forever and there is no compelling evidence to prove that humans don't die for good when we die. If animals are forever lost when they die then it stands to reason that humans are the same. Sentience doesn't grant us some special destiny that sets us apart from the species we share this planet with. In the not too distant future I think we will be able to preserve a person's neurological pattern and in that way they won't really die.
Logic and science are sometimes friends but are often at odds with each other. Logic can be entirely subjective while science is evidence based and thus not subject to individual opinions. I think science is much more logical than religion because of it's emphasis on evidence rather than faith.
I didn't say that religion was stupid nonsense, I asked why it is still relevant and why more people don't worship science.
All the old mysteries have been solved! We die due to disease, accident, or age. The lights in the sky are stars. When we die we cease to be and that's it. The amount of evidence for evolution is overwhelming. Knowing all that, why is religion still a thing?
The problem with this situation is that these children haven't been classified as refugees, which is what they are. Refugee status would give them international support and make helping them a lot easier. But it isn't something that's easy to grant and since the children are coming from several countries maybe impossible. The UN wants these kids to be called refugees and I really hope this happens. Also, refugee services like food stamps and Medicaid, are paid for by the federal government so the states themselves never feel a burden from the services refugees receive.
If the UN gets involved then there will be some aid from them.
Current refugees, even the children, who come to the US have to pay the UN back for their travel to the US. A family of 5 might have $10,000 to pay back and though in most cases the parents pay their children's loans sometimes they don't. I know several refugee teens who have after school jobs just to pay their loans. 16 is a bad idea because a 16 year old isn't an adult but 18 is fine and a reality for many refugees in the US.