Personally I feel that YouTube's data centers need to be a public resource. Nationalize them, pay out Google appropriately for their value, and then turn it into public property. YouTube can remain just the way they are and will undoubtedly retain market share because they're recognizable and everyone already has a YT account, but other people can spin up their own video front-end services to compete, while drawing from the same leviathan-sized backend data store which would now be publically owned.
There is just too much general knowledge available through YouTube for me to say it's a good idea to let it all rot behind a corporate firewall. I would love to force YouTube to shut down to then in turn force the availability of third party options. But if we shut it down without a plan to recover their server data then we've just lost a massive international educational platform. Just think of how many people you know personally who learned to fix their car or write code via YouTube University, then expand that to encompass the entire internet-connected world.
I don't think there's a chance in hell this would ever happen, because Google would never open its datacenter to become a public resource no matter how many infinites of dollars you paid them to do so, and the American government (where Google is based) would never legally force them to do so. But I really don't see any other viable path forward to dethrone YouTube and de-monopolize the video sharing industry.
Someone using their position of authority to parrot "god" is exactly the kind of person that created Mormonism. The LDS church was literally born from this exact sort of thing.
You're absolutely right, it goes completely against everything the Bible tries to teach, but somehow I don't think that's going to be a very big deal to them.
I want to see Atlus mop the floor with Nintendo over this because Shin Megami Tensei had all these features 6 years before the first Pokémon game ever existed.
Sting Shard trap also works great, I just threw one of those at every minion spawn and then they die in one Needle hit after. If you stack poison on it then you probably don't even need the follow up hit but I don't remember if you can have the Pollip Pouch before this fight or not.
Sting Shard is great in general though. Does 2x Needle damage in a trap you can place in midair, can be poisoned with Pollip Pouch for even more extended DPS, is AoE-capable and can hit multiple enemies, and is cheap enough to refill at 7 shell shards. It's been my primary red tool so far all game, though I just got to Act 2 recently and I'm hoping to find something better here.
Last Judge was the only boss so far that almost completely filtered me from the game and I think the reason why was because of how very little warning you get before the big spin. I think like an extra quarter of a second on that startup animation would go a huge way toward making her way less annoying. Took me two days to complete the fight because I kept getting so tilted by getting hit with the spin.
The runback wasn't difficult at all but it was very annoying. You can avoid all enemies on the route except for a single drill fly, but it takes a whole 30 seconds or more to make the run back to the boss fight. Don't fuck up your platforming though, the sand worms do two damage, so missing a landing means you're stuck spending the first 10 seconds of the fight trying to Bind with your cocoon silk if you want to survive more than one single hit (two, if you found all the act 1 mask shards).
To be honest I ended up finally defeating Judge by strapping on the Pollip Pouch and sticking her full of poison straight pins. I regret nothing and I do not consider this to be dishonorable.
Yes, he was a human being. With all of the associated rights, responsibilities, and various other baggage that comes attached to that. Dehumanization of the other is exactly what leftists are upset at conservatives over, and is what leads to situations like present day Palestine and Israel, where people are killed en masse with no remorse. The IDF is reportedly having fun murdering civilians. The only way that happens is that they are taught these Palestinians are not people, they are animals. This is what it leads to.
Was Charlie Kirk a piece of shit scum fucking loser who deserved exactly what he got? Yeah, absolutely. I will not shed a single tear over this man's passing and I wish they shot him an additional time in the knees first.
But he was also a human being. No matter how disgusting our opponent we should not stoop to dehumanization. If we must kill them we must kill with a heavy heart. To do otherwise is to dehumanize yourself.
That's basically unenforceable unfortunately. Search engines are effectively made to be gamed by the way they function. SEO up to a certain point is what makes your website actually findable, it has just gotten out of hand.
Ah. Round here we have Everclear for that. 180 proof straight grain alcohol. It'll peel the paint off your walls at 40 paces and it mixes like shit with everything, but if you need to get a dozen people piss drunk for less than $10 it would definitely get that done.
This is obviously not a comprehensive list, but the main big ones that come to mind are The Grand Canyon, Mt Rushmore, Niagara Falls, and Yosemite.
The Grand Canyon is kind of cool, I guess. I went there once, said "Yep that sure is a big fuckin' hole in the ground" and then continued the rest of my vacation. Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I don't see GC being something that someone comes from, say, France to come look at, unless you're a geologist.
Mt Rushmore is stolen holy land that we carved the faces of a bunch of old white men into. Go America. It's kind of cool to look at I guess but the history behind it does not paint us as good people, and this also isn't a natural wonder, it's man-made.
I believe Niagara Falls is technically property of Canada but I may be incorrect on that.
Yosemite is actually great and I highly recommend it to everyone. However Trump is defunding the parks & rec divisions and trying to sell off national park land to development contractors, so the one actually really cool natural wonder that we have is in danger of becoming a parking lot.
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There are plenty of neat places in the wilderness in America, because despite our hyper-capitalist-industrialism, the US is still like 40% wilderness or open land. But I wouldn't consider e.g. Appalachia to be a "natural wonder". Nice place to have a beer and go fishing, sure, but it's not unique or special.
I look forward to other people telling me other American natural wonders that I've missed in the replies here, because I can't really think of any other big ones off the top of my head. You'll have some small local attractions sometimes - the Bottomless Pools and the titular bat cave of Bat Cave, NC were neat and fun as an example, and things like local caves or beaches or whatever, but you go one state over and ask people about them and they've never heard of them. Hardly a notable attraction.
I live in America, so I can't say what people in other countries know about us as far as like, vacation destinations. I'm actually interested to hear what big natural wonders America has that are commonly known to the rest of the world.
Texas can't even properly support their own power infrastructure inside their own state
The vast majority of the population of Texas (Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas/Ft Worth) are solidly blue. The state maps are gerrymandered to death such that 100,000 square miles of empty land has the same voting power as over ten million citizens. This is the sole and only reason Texas is consistently "red", is via rampant voter disenfranchisement.
Police have arrested 474 people at a demonstration in London in support of banned group Palestine Action.
The Metropolitan Police said 466 protesters were arrested for supporting the group, five for assaults on police officers, two for public order offences, and one for a racially aggravated offence.
Personally I feel that YouTube's data centers need to be a public resource. Nationalize them, pay out Google appropriately for their value, and then turn it into public property. YouTube can remain just the way they are and will undoubtedly retain market share because they're recognizable and everyone already has a YT account, but other people can spin up their own video front-end services to compete, while drawing from the same leviathan-sized backend data store which would now be publically owned.
There is just too much general knowledge available through YouTube for me to say it's a good idea to let it all rot behind a corporate firewall. I would love to force YouTube to shut down to then in turn force the availability of third party options. But if we shut it down without a plan to recover their server data then we've just lost a massive international educational platform. Just think of how many people you know personally who learned to fix their car or write code via YouTube University, then expand that to encompass the entire internet-connected world.
I don't think there's a chance in hell this would ever happen, because Google would never open its datacenter to become a public resource no matter how many infinites of dollars you paid them to do so, and the American government (where Google is based) would never legally force them to do so. But I really don't see any other viable path forward to dethrone YouTube and de-monopolize the video sharing industry.