I kinda like the repeating bosses. Sort of similar to fighting Genichiro multiple times over the course of Sekiro, and each time there's something new to the fight. Granted, Elden Rings repeat fights aren't quite so developed... but it's also a decent way to make assets stretch and save on dev time.

We have a steel industry?

just a few threads to tie up and then history can be done for good

I feel like we're speedruning the Bush presidency here -- all the same figures popping up to try and justify imperial violence, tripping over themselevs when pressed on the details.

Only, where you would have weeks, months, sometimes years between initial 'Justification' and inevitable 'tripping', now it's happening practically in the same day

Because of its radical shape, it is said that a taxi driver first came up with its nickname dà kùchǎ (大裤衩), roughly translated as "big boxer shorts". Locals often refer to it as "big pants".

To deter a potential conflict with China, the United States must act quickly to resolve key challenges in its industrial base.

to deter conflict we have to resolve the things that would make it difficult for us to have a conflict?

also, cute animation, is that the only way to explain things to congressmen these days?

White house urges developers forget programming languages that necessitate an understanding of computers as machines with limits and tolerances, not simply magic boxes to receive instruction.

i suggested a presidential write in campaign for 'nobody' partially as a joke

...maybe we could actually put nobody in office

if there were a similar statement from a hypothetical and distinct character in a fictional environment, and another character were to mirror the sentiment back at the fictional congressperson that uttered it, that would be illegal in the setting of this scenario.

this is like crying over a blind casting of shakespear but more embarrassing by several orders of magnitude

of course their solution is to forbid and restrict the technology, rather than create a global standard for healthcare

both of these two options are absurd in their scope and necessary coordination/workload/resources, but only one of them is stupid

Looking it up, the definition of liberalism specifies a belief in maximum personal freedom, especially as guaranteed by a government

"Maximizing personal freedom" is just a roundabout way of saying "property rights". Property is the primary freedom that is defined and enshrined in US law -- all other freedoms stem from that. In this country, you are free to do what you like... provided it's on your own private land. Renting? Need the landlord's permission. Out and about? You need to follow city or county laws. Homeless? If you don't have a permanent address, you're not a real person as far as most of our institutions - both public and private - are concerned.

Our government was founded on liberal principals -- if those principals were merely about preserving people's agency, why were the freedoms of native peoples so completely crushed? A semi-nomadic life, with a concept of stewardship - rather than ownership - of the land, is just a different shape agency can take. And yet our liberal government could not tolerate such a state of existing. The people of this land were corralled, were marched, were slaughtered by thousands and millions. Because it was never about agency. The slogan of the country, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, was originally written to be Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property.

Liberalism is an ideology that exists to justify the power people were already wielding thru private property. It is how capitalist argued in favor of their own position, couched in language tailored to appeal to more than just other capitalists. It's similar to how the logic of feudalism came after wealthy and well armed families slaughtered their way to the top, to stabilize their comfortable position within society.