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Etherwraith - Dead Air - Tumblr Blog
I doubt it was predicted or designed, but when the practice emerged of delegating industrial policy to local governments, China invented a structural form of antitrust. The central state declares what industries are to be favored, and then many localities toss contenders into the ring. The unsurprising result is competition. At the national level, with astonishing speed, industries with world-class competences emerge, even when — especially when — no "national champion" comes to dominate. Great industries are what a nation wants, not great firms. Firms are just the players. They perform extraordinary feats, and we cheer them, but they come and go. The industry is the league. It is what endures and delivers decade after decade. A decade ago China did not produce electric vehicles. Now it is the world leader. It is the same story with batteries, solar panels, steel. In the US, we tend to provide government support to established national champions, Boeing perhaps, or Intel. How is that working for us? Large consolidated firms become specialists in exploiting market power and political influence rather than any technical facet of production. What if we financed state governments to field local heroes and compete in the big leagues? It boggles the American imagination to think that medium-sized, US-state-level enterprises could compete in high-tech, capital-intensive industries. But isn't China's experience an existence proof? Shouldn't the share-buyback-heavy, technical-achievement-light experience of firms like Boeing and Intel chasten our conventional wisdom?
Must do socialism so we have intense competition between the Colorado smartphone and the Massachusetts smartphone
Kinda wanna know what the statute of limitations is on necromancy
Protip: if you live in a city, get involved in your local community. It will benefit your mental health significantly
meanwhile on twitter
Can we get some laws that seriously limit what terms and limitations a company can require for you to use their service? I don't live in the US where the case is but T's & C's are just so long only to hide that you're agreeing that you need to name your firstborn elsa or you forfeit your body below the neck to be donated to Mr Disney for his resurrection.
In the latest update for the Disney Springs wrongful death lawsuit, Disney cited legal language within the terms and conditions for Disney+, which “requires users to arbitrate all disputes with the company.” Disney claims Piccolo reportedly agreed to this in 2019 when signing up for a one-month free trial of the streaming service on his PlayStation console.
A woman died from allergic reaction to undisclosed peanuts in her food at a Disney park, and the company is citing the EULA on the one month free trial of Disney+ on playstation she had as a reason to dismiss the lawsuit.
I've had this thought for a while but only just realized I have a tumblr now so I can actually get that thought to reach ppl who'll share my level of madness.
So Sonic yeah? Pretty much the entire main cast are all anthropomorphic animals, excluding Eggman and his family tree. Across adaptations of Sonic, there's not a lot of consistency on what the general population outside of Sonic and the Gang are composed of. In shows like Boom, Prime, and the IDW comics, it's almost entirely animals, and Eggman's the odd one out:
But in other versions, where there are humans, Eggman still sticks out like a sore thumb:
It's also worth noting that in some Sonic games, there are regular, non-anthropomorphic animals in addition to anthropomorphic versions
(Yes, Vector is a crocodile not an alligator, but they're close enough taxonomically to be significant. You can't convince me that the difference between alligators and crocodiles in this universe is that one swims in freshwater and the other has bills to pay)
So here's my theory: there's cartoonish, anthropomorphic versions and realistic, non-anthropomorphic versions of the animals, right? So why wouldn't this extend to humans? After all, they're mammals just like hedgehogs and foxes are. AND THAT'S WHAT EGGMAN IS. He's an anthropomorphic animal like Sonic, it just happens to be that the animal he's based on is a human.
Eggman is an anthropomorphic human. He's human squared.
Thank you
Based take, break the re-conviction cycle.
Prisons/Jails vs Colleges - More prisons or more colleges?
The reason Technoblade would have smoked Dream at Manhunt is not because he was categorically the superior pvp player, though he was.
It's because he'd have pulled an mcc build mart. He'd have done the WORK.
Techno would have watched every single available Manhunt stream, put together the data on Dream's movements and preferred escape methods, noted the version they were playing, and then- he'd have let the other five do the work.
Just like that bit with Quackity, he'd have followed at a sedate pace. Maybe wandered off once or twice to mine and gather resources, all the while informing his chat that he had no idea if this stupid plan would work but it's what he's got.
And in the last two minutes, Technoblade would have swooped in, absolutely obliterated Dream, and killed the other five for good measure because the man had a brand.
Techno's real power was not in his click speed or typing proficiency. It was in an ability to- with or without preparation- see a possibility no one else did and charge towards it. Whether this was taking advantage of the game's mechanics or just close listening, his threat was always in his intelligence and a mad will to just give it a shot.
She's gen Z, we crave our daily dose of PET
what compels her to do this
damn people really are writing a lot of poetry that sucks
I'm so tired of hearing about how the different US states are really "50 countries in a trenchcoat" because I'm sorry... Have you been to the states?
You're really going to sit there and tell me that Washington, California and Oregon are as distinct from each other as the UK, France and Germany?
Really?
With a straight face and everything?
The states are more like, I dunno, different denominations of protestantism, or different Shonen Jump battle series, or different versions of Star Trek.
Like, if someone earnestly talked about how The Original Series and Voyager are actually really different that person would be correct, but if another person said, "Come on man what are you talking about it's all fucking Star Trek" that person would also be correct.
My point is more that in this specific example, the abnormal spellings seem like such an edge case that I don't think a syllable-counting bot would be able to guess how many syllables are in words like "s(=reenreaders". I'd be astounded if the bot was that comprehensive, though. I wonder if its code is open sourced somewhere.
Mäybe i'ľl starť aďding randôm díačriticš to éňglišh wóŕdś
Number of Years Current Executive or de facto Executive Heads of State and Government Have Been Incumbent
by DataSittingAlone
“At a conference in June, NBC CEO Steve Burke explained what would constitute an Olympics “nightmare,” Bloomberg reports. “We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20%,” he said. “If that happens, my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn’t know it.” That nightmare is basically here, as the Olympics saw a sharp viewership dip for the first time since 2000. Among 18- to 49-year-olds, the damage is even greater than 20%, sitting at a 25% drop-off”
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NBC Olympics viewership is down 17% - Business Insider
AKA “It’s not our shitty, tape-delayed, reality-show style coverage, or our myopic and draconian social media policies - it’s those damn millennials and their snapchats!”
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No. It is the children who are wrong.gif
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In contrast, the CBC network in Canada probably just got it’s highest Olympic ratings ever.
They streamed or broadcast basically every single event, and in order to watch you just needed to a) be in Canada and b) have the internet or a tv. None of this “cable subscription to access streams” stuff. Made it super easy to watch.
And everything was broadcast live, even the obscure sports. They might not have commentary, but they had multiple camera angles.
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For Firefox I like Ad Nauseum for my adblocking. Pretty sure it's buily ontop of u-block anyway, but I like what it does
Libra office is basically the same functionality as microsoft office but free
Krita and gimp for free drawing and photo editing software
Xournal for notes
Make sure you install ublock and privacy badger at a minimum for firefox
Thank you for the software reccs
hey fellow Australians! are you aware that only 6% of the findings of the disability royal commission have been accepted by the government? are you aware that what has been accepted are the mildest + most watered down recommendations possible?
after the long and emotionally exhausting process that was the disability royal commission. after the weeks we've just had of fear-mongering about misuses of NDIS funds. after the amount of sheer ableism that disabled Australians have had to sit through. we're not even getting the bare minimum from the government
I don't even know what else to say. this shit fucking sucks. they couldn't even accept the recommendation to end forced sterilisation. bare. fucking. minimum. good job australia
We all know this site is US-user heavy, but I wanna know how many are vs aren't from the land of capitalism.
This was before I was born, but we should definitely bring this back!
Australian Federal Election 2001: Pranksters follow around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into news footage
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LMAO I just saw the post this meme was mistakenly reblogged to. Now I've enjoyed it both with and without context :D
Lighthouses of the Great Lakes.
by researchremora
this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] put on the best talent show this towns ever seen