The Aurora apartment takeover was confirmed? Not calling out, just genuinely interested in the outcome (work in Aurora and the whole thing honestly seemed exaggerated, at best).
I didn’t realize that all those were Monolith games. AVP2, FEAR, and Condemned are all up there for me in terms of solid adolescent gaming memories (now I want to check if AVP2 is on a steam sale or maybe GOG).
The Nemesis system was also something special and made the experience personal in a way very different from character customization or dialogue options. It really gave a sense of the world and things in it reacting organically to you. And that’s not getting into all the particular orc/uruk-craziness (professional frenemy, gibbering manic, kinda to explicitly in love with you…)
Sad to hear they went under and that we lost another opportunity to mess around with Nemesis.
I don’t think I’ve seen this point yet, so I’ll add:
It’s also not just whether the facility or specific provider is in network (and all the chicanery that can result as laid out above). How something is coded or labelled can add an extra layer, e.g. is treatment for an eye infection medical or optical?
That comes out of an anecdote that was more provider-side, just to be clear.
It’s not only insurance and it all forms a system that makes you play bureaucratic roulette whenever going in for anything other than a routine checkup (and god forbid they find something during that checkup).
To pile on, is that 80K covering just one person? Add kids/dependents and it can easily become a paycheck-to-paycheck situation, even if, all else being equal, it's not bad pay for the area.
Agreed. Ford's decision in the end amounted to kicking the can down the road. Whatever the validity of the concerns that motivated it, we're now dealing with the same issues again, and at a time when we might be actually less able to deal with them. Forcing this to come to a head honestly is the most prudent thing that can be done. I'm hopeful that TFG will go down in flames in November, but by itself I don't think a lot will be solved long term.
Getting older has for me, politically, meant going further to the left. But that's also been matched up with meeting a decent number of people who actually seem to fall under the small "c" conservative label - valuing incremental change, wanting to preserve the accomplishments of constitutional democracy, and very much wanting avoid jumping off a variety of political, social, and economic deep ends.
I disagree more and more with the specifics of what frequently comes out of this orientation, but I can see it as legitimate, and at the very least not just as euphemistic code for being incredibly willing to put people up against a wall.
All of that said, I don't see remotely how small c conservatism is meaningfully represented in Conservative politics, which at this point, seems to be all about putting people against a wall. And as the post points out, there really is NO euphemism about that being used anymore.
Going to second this. I don’t doubt it’s a point of research. Before such scientific breakthrough, however, ectopic pregnancies are just going to plain kill people. Ambiguity around that point is too dangerous for any credit for good faith.
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The Aurora apartment takeover was confirmed? Not calling out, just genuinely interested in the outcome (work in Aurora and the whole thing honestly seemed exaggerated, at best).
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Not a substantive contribution, I just couldn't resist:
https://youtu.be/fl86G6L5PnU?si=3yPUP37DE5T0X0ul
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I didn’t realize that all those were Monolith games. AVP2, FEAR, and Condemned are all up there for me in terms of solid adolescent gaming memories (now I want to check if AVP2 is on a steam sale or maybe GOG).
The Nemesis system was also something special and made the experience personal in a way very different from character customization or dialogue options. It really gave a sense of the world and things in it reacting organically to you. And that’s not getting into all the particular orc/uruk-craziness (professional frenemy, gibbering manic, kinda to explicitly in love with you…)
Sad to hear they went under and that we lost another opportunity to mess around with Nemesis.
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I don’t think I’ve seen this point yet, so I’ll add:
It’s also not just whether the facility or specific provider is in network (and all the chicanery that can result as laid out above). How something is coded or labelled can add an extra layer, e.g. is treatment for an eye infection medical or optical?
That comes out of an anecdote that was more provider-side, just to be clear.
It’s not only insurance and it all forms a system that makes you play bureaucratic roulette whenever going in for anything other than a routine checkup (and god forbid they find something during that checkup).
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To pile on, is that 80K covering just one person? Add kids/dependents and it can easily become a paycheck-to-paycheck situation, even if, all else being equal, it's not bad pay for the area.
On “I Blame Gerald Ford”
Agreed. Ford's decision in the end amounted to kicking the can down the road. Whatever the validity of the concerns that motivated it, we're now dealing with the same issues again, and at a time when we might be actually less able to deal with them. Forcing this to come to a head honestly is the most prudent thing that can be done. I'm hopeful that TFG will go down in flames in November, but by itself I don't think a lot will be solved long term.
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Getting older has for me, politically, meant going further to the left. But that's also been matched up with meeting a decent number of people who actually seem to fall under the small "c" conservative label - valuing incremental change, wanting to preserve the accomplishments of constitutional democracy, and very much wanting avoid jumping off a variety of political, social, and economic deep ends.
I disagree more and more with the specifics of what frequently comes out of this orientation, but I can see it as legitimate, and at the very least not just as euphemistic code for being incredibly willing to put people up against a wall.
All of that said, I don't see remotely how small c conservatism is meaningfully represented in Conservative politics, which at this point, seems to be all about putting people against a wall. And as the post points out, there really is NO euphemism about that being used anymore.
On “Yes, That’s an Abortion: The Importance of Clarity and Statutory Precision”
Going to second this. I don’t doubt it’s a point of research. Before such scientific breakthrough, however, ectopic pregnancies are just going to plain kill people. Ambiguity around that point is too dangerous for any credit for good faith.
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