u/mellowfever2

fuckass ending

wtf is Ryan Coleman-Williams doing on the field

See also: Battle of Mbwila

After the battle many people, including nobles and members of the royal family, were captured. Some of these were enslaved and crossed the sea to the Portuguese colony of Brazil and maybe other places in the Americas. It is unknown what happened to most of them. But at some point before 1670, the sons of princess Aqualtune (who led a battalion during the battle), Ganga Zumba, his brother Ganga Zona, and their sister Sabina appeared enslaved in an engenho (sugar cane plantation) in the Captaincy of Pernambuco in Northeast Brazil. They led a rebellion at the engenho, escaped, and later formed their own kingdom of Quilombo dos Palmares, a Maroon) nation which controlled large areas of northeast Brazil during the Dutch-Portuguese War.

Ball don’t lie

This is genuinely incredible. It also makes me mad that we haven’t had a city builder game more aesthetic than simcity4 which is over 20 years old atp. Cities Skylines may have better behavioral modeling but I really need to watch something grow that I think is beautiful, and SC4 is somehow still the gold standard. These images are a great vision board for a modern city builder.

omg these drops are bailing out our asses lol

uhhhh can we sit Ty for the rest of the game so he's healthy for the postseason

Not sure about the other post-cold war president, but I know that Obama would have at least encountered Marx in college. Columbia has a core curriculum which includes excerpts from Capital Vol I as well as pamphlets. We also know that Obama as a professor was friendly with at least some anti-colonial / diaspora thinkers (Rashid Khalidi being the most famous example).

I would be surprised if he didn't skim if not read primary texts from Marx and Lenin.

Melodramatic thread. In all seriousness, probably something like the Second Gilded Age

Vandy seems real

This was not unique to AZ. Democrats held senate eats in NV, MI, and WI despite Trump winning those states. PA senate was also much closer than PA presidential margin. And Democrats *gained* seats in the House despite Trump winning.

It's a combination of candidate quality (as many have mentioned in this thread, Kari Lake was a bad candidate) and national headwinds (inflation) that led enough voters to punish top of ticket while splitting votes down ballot, which matters in very closely contested states.

Not off topic at all. I think that explains a lot of these incidents. I used to do acid a lot with my friends and we had a running joke to "remember to count yourself twice" because it so frequently happened that we counted exactly one more person in the group than actually existed.

I think it has to do with mind-body disassociation. If we were in a circle, for example, and I was trying to tally everyone, I would look around and count every body in the circle, including myself—and then I would count myself again as the one doing the counting. Basically, I was counting my body once and my mind once.

I believe the sensation comes from acid-induced delays/distortion in the pathways between sensation and higher-order thought (kinda similar to the bicameral mind hypothesis). But I could see the same sort of disassociation arising from extreme exhaustion or stress, like with the Shackleton expedition.

I will say that for me at least, the sensation of an additional person never took any concrete form, like a dead relative or a voice giving guidance, as other people in this thread have mentioned. That feels like a different phenomenon. What we experienced was just the formless sensation of exactly one additional person in our group, presumably due to our own mental disassociation from our bodies.

Agreed.

If I'm reading correctly (it's insanely complicated), under the current law being used to justify the tariffs you need to overcome a veto to terminate the national emergency (plus probably a majority to do some rule changes in the House).

I think you're right that Congress could also just change the law, but that would require 60 votes in the Senate to get over the filibuster (plus, again, a House majority willing to fuck w/ the speaker). And idk what's politically more feasible, finding 67 votes w/o changing the law or finding 60 votes to rewrite the law.

In any case, I suspect that the off-ramp to this crisis will be Congress asserting its tariff authority, and that it's a movement that will take a month or two to organize the votes for. Though if the bottom really falls out who knows. Also, the more I read, the more I think Johnson will be the roadblock; I bet Thune is a more rational actor here.

Senate will have to find 67 votes to override a veto on asserting tariff authority. I suspect this will not happen for another month or two, by which point we'll be deep in recession territory.

GOOD question, I have to imagine that the concept of smoked almonds existed prior to Blue Diamond. Can’t wait to see more answers.