large_goblin

I didn't post on r/CTH but my political journey / "radicalisation" was based on joining the workforce in the aftermath of the 2008 crash and then losing my safety net just before covid and the employment hellscape that came after.

I've been through enough to know a decent amount of luck and privilege was the only thing keeping me off the streets, and I get a similar vibe from a LOT of the posters here. The idea this place is full of teenagers is absurd.

Squadron 42 is the singleplayer main development focus which we are told contains all the features and functionality that will make star citizen great and which are then slowly drip-fed into the actually playable game. I have seen nothing besides the "wow cool features" that would put it on a level above 2016's Call of Duty Infinite Warfare.

I don't do combat so I have zero interest in it, I play SC because I like doing salvage and cargo trading. It's also the only game I've found where you play as a person on a ship and not the ship itself, free to leave your seat and walk around mid-flight even going on to form part of the gameplay loops.

I feel some dissonance with the rest of the community when a lot of the game's FOMO sales drives revolve around cockpit only PvP orientated ships where this one will be the NEW META on sale for LIMITED TIME ONLY tied directly into the SQUADRON 42 LORE. Like I just want to salvage wrecks, drag boxes around my cargo hold and do contraband runs on the dark side of moons but there's like 8 ships in the game that allow for this.

Det. Greggs beats down a physically restrained "suspect" not once but twice

Hey ACAB applies to them all. I was referring to Kima's personal story being about commitment and compromise in relationships and eventual parenthood instead of what all the other cops were up to. Still a bastard but we see some personal growth and a welcome break from the self-destructive behavior of the other characters.

Bodie was so conflicting because he showed zero remorse and the little bits of humanity we saw died when he killed his friend who was also still a CHILD at the time and just went on business as usual.

But he still didn't deserve what happened to him,

And then McNulty tries to do the exact same shit the day after.

This is the face of the show and the cops in general for most of the seasons too, the reference point for cop behaviour, he's even portrayed as one of the "better cops" when Omar gets arrested.

Kima was the most human of them all and Bunk was just sad. It felt like as long as he kept being one of the more / only competent detectives noone would ever try get him to avoid liver failure in the next few years.

If we start Prez discourse we could get a 200+ comment hexbear thread going.

McNulty was a terrible person the entire series who committed a series of crimes being saved by his badge every time and whose only decent quality was being a passable detective willing to tackle big cases.

He even put himself on the level of the completely irredeemable fuck ups like

The wire was ACAB throughout. Every cop in that show was either a criminal themselves, corrupt, incompetent and almost always extremely racist. The one (arguably) good cop in the entire show gets forced out.

It did a great job of showing how the police and the gangs are two different criminal organisations with their own heirarchies filled with actual human beings.

Season 3 was the highlight of the entire show, watching the police become the "muscle" for the drug dealers.

I'd go as far as to say it was a crime show, not a cop show.

So Japan is expected to keep it's interest rates at or below zero to allow the yen to be used for speculation.

But during economic crises where other major economies raise interest rates it's also expected to do the same or face devaluation of the yen?

I'm more interested in the yen finally starting to recover from it's steep decline than I am in the value of the stock market.

"Diverging monetary policies in Japan versus the U.S. and Europe are behind speculators' moves, he said. The yen's appreciation is contributing to the sell-off, he said."

I don't understand this area of economics and everytime I think I learn something it seems be proven incorrect shortly after.

I believed Japan was facing pressure to raise interest rates in line with other nations. Now it's done that and the yen is starting to recover it's monetary policy is divergent again causing a stock sell-off?

I'm tired of my income turning into monopoly money whenever I think about going abroad.

I just use Mac OS.

I have a macbook and two raspberry pis

"I have black friends" but with so many additional layers of creepiness