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CNBC reports a potential deal for writers: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/21/hollywood-studios-writers-near-agreement-to-end-strike-hope-to-finalize-deal-thursday-sources-say.html

Tuberville was going to remove his block on just the Marine Corps commandant nomination, so Chuck Schumer filed cloture on the promotions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Chief of Staff of the Army, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to confirm all three tonight. But they still have to go through each nomination individually because of the hold, which means they can't do this for the other like 300+ nominations.

how many congressmembers don't have outside income/wealth and actually rely on their congressional paycheck tho the rich ones would could just hold out against the non-rich ones

we got our first real bikes when I was five, we lived on a dead end so we could ride up and down the street. had training wheels and a tall flag on the back to warn cars. anyways we were riding around but my older sister was just in some sort of snotty and/or resentful mood and refusing to acknowledge me, and would speed up so I couldn't keep up with her. she was on the opposite side of the street, so as I was trying to keep up, I was looking at her to my left. then I finally looked forward and took myself out riding right into a parked car. cried like a little baby (five year olds are kind of little babies), and a man from that house (they were having a BBQ party or something) picked me up and carried me the two or three houses back. lost a thumbnail and sliced an egg-shaped piece of skin off my thumb tip. still remember after the fact when my mom cut the dead skin flap off with scissors. wouldn't touch the bike again for ages.

I've seen a few headlines and stuff that kind of imply that the White House is making no efforts to help resolve the House Republicans' inability to pass a spending bill because they've calculated they know the GOP will take all the blame. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1704608170704822555

https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1704517579795022038

I don't need anything but I hope your arms didn't get too tired out

I walked into the lynel coliseum the other night unprepared and did not realize I couldn't sneak out of view to cook gloom-heal foods, I killed my way through four of them but couldn't pick up the loot because I was so close to death because I couldn't ungloom my hearts (I was cheesing it pretty hard by the end, I really am not fond of this game and BOTW's difficulty spike revolving around damage soaking/outputting instead of like smarter enemies or new attack patterns etc.), and then the final lynel got a hit in and killed me. Respawn sets you right when his gate opens but all the lynel loot drops despawned. I was so tilted I fought the guy a dozen+ times over and over again with only four hearts and a fairy until I beat him BUT IT DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL BETTER

idk, it's just an alleged draft with his name all over it. it could be real or not, but everyone will know it's real if he actually files something. until then it's just bathroom palace intrigue

happy birthday lobster man @Vercaties!

one boob, two boob red boob, blue boob

"invest in stealth tech" they said "it'll be worth it" they said yeah, worth it for nameraka when he finds your lost plane

housekeeping a sidebar, because bottom line is disco is right

regular old rants can go in GD, either as a new thread for angry discussion or the Haters/Complainers megathread for a one-off vent

I grabbed the game when it was free on EGS a couple years ago but I never got to the point of installation. Was totally afraid of getting completely sucked in.

This is probably the crux of the issue. If negative reactions and punishments aren't breaking through to him, then they will only serve as a temporary roadblock instead of a learning experience (in fact he could be learning the wrong things, like how to sneak it around his parents). That's probably a question for his therapist if he has one.

PROVE IT

Yeah I'm wondering if he's actually like emotionally connecting the overspending to the punishment. Like does he internally recognize it's bad to overspend when he gets in trouble? Or did he just cry purely because he was punished? One thing in his defense though is that "properly" developed freemium games are intentionally addictive. Every aspect is geared towards instant gratification dopamine hits and they are literal poison.

https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1284205235737628672

How does he respond to the punishment at the time?

I was gonna make a joke about not being able to hear the clown horn when he honks her, but then she put her hand between his legs

noooooooon dont watch it

I'm summoning as hard as I can @Rogue_Alphonse hhhhhnnnnnnnggggggghhhh

I read a thread somewhere that showed all the scientists' evidence, about the DNA and the bone structure and the eggs and the liquid diet mouth and I'm just kinda hung up on like "if there was an alien, would it *really* have two arms, two legs, a humanoid face and body structure, opposable thumbs, eggs, or even like DNA as we understand it?" I just assume aliens aren't just star wars, it'd probably be stuff we wouldn't even know to comprehend. Buuuuuuuuuuuut it is fun to think about, so I get it.

what