Beef Yonder @Beefyonder

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that. My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve. Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that. If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

Congress please do your job. Impeach. Remove. Convict.

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I'm with Jay.

A good description of what it feels like to be a sane American during the Trump regime. #ResistTrump

Just imagine

@PLDHnet I love the variety of them as well. Running someone's business for a few minutes one minute, next you're pretending to be someone's life long rival, and then you're getting jumped by a bunch of birds with leeks. It's so great!

@Rainwontmiss

So the money Trump says he’s “giving to our troops” is money that was already supposed to be going to our troops?

@Enezator

Watching HP&TGOF and asked out loud how Karkarov, a convicted Death Eater, could possibly have been put in a position like Headmaster of one of the 3 big Magic schools. Then i thought for a second and realized how dumb a question that was in our current world.

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In Australia, we don’t react with “thoughts & prayers” when there’s a massacre. First thing our PM does is signal a tightening of gun laws. So fuck off Americans, you’re still slaughtering your own children as they sit in school…

Public schools should be fully funded so teachers earn a minimum of $80,000, kids get free breakfast and lunch, and classrooms have new books and technology. If that means taxing the ultra-rich into oblivion... even better.

Something I've been thinking about lately: Magic boxes have always been a gamble, but now they are basically slots (widely known to be the most profitable gambling for casinos and worst gamble for players). When I first started going EV calculations 15 years ago, the payout was fairly flat. Boxes cost $100. For some sets the best open was fetchlands or shocklands (discounting a foil mythic of some chase card) at something like $25 a pop. You'd get roughly 3.5 of these lands per box on average, if you run good you might get 5, if you run bad 2 or 3. Toss in the other stuff, and a good box might get you $200 in value while a bad box might get you $65. The EV was spread out through playable mythics and rares. It felt pretty safe to open boxes, since even though it was impossible to win big because no individual card was worth much, you also couldn't really lose big, because a lot of cards had value. Currently though, it seems like boxes are modeled after slot machines. Here's the thing about slots: they technically, by law, pay back something like 95% of what they take in (the exact percent varies a bit depending on location and such, but the return to player (RTP) is public info). You might think this means if you bet $100 you'll make back $95 on average, and while this is true over the course of millions of bets, for any individual player, this isn't really true. This is because of the jackpot. Sooner of later someone will get super lucky and hits the one in millions spin and win a massive amount of money, which means a huge percentage of players will lose money, despite the 95% RTP. Essentially most players lose money, so one player can win the massive jackpot. This is how boosters, especially collector boosters, work currently. Thanks to the advent of "jackpot" cards like the 1 of 1 The One Ring or the super rare The Soul Stone, a very small number of players will hit a box that wins them tens of thousands of dollars. In some cases millions. But these jackpot cards eat up most of the box's EV, so the average box will lose a bunch of money, because most cards aren't worth that much. Basically, 99% of players lose opening boxes, so that 1% (or technically more like 0.01%) can win big by hitting the jackpot card. This ends up being great for degenerate gamblers chasing the rush of hitting a big win, but bad for the average player opening a box here or there, since they are likely to lose value. I have to think this change was intentionally modeled after slots. It turns out the gambling industry is really good as vacuuming up people's money. If you want to make more money *and* can legally get away with it (which is why this works for collectable cards, which are sort of a loophole of *literally* being gambling, but not being *legally* considered gambling), doing what the gambling industry does makes a lot of sense. They have it figured out, why try to reinvent the wheel?

Cashier: “That'll be $19.94.” Me: *pulls out a $50 bill* Casheir: “I’m so sorry, but we've had a problem with counterfeit bills. Do you have anything smaller?” Me: *pulls out a $25 bill*

Jennifer Welch: “l just think it’s really important to remind everybody all the time that Elon Musk is a fucking immigrant that doesn’t pay taxes who is a parasite off the American taxpayer”

I posted this and got literally *hundreds* of comments/DMs from self-professed Christians claiming that we should absolutely be dehumanizing people we don’t like. I was called every horrible name in the book and repeatedly chastised for my “weak” version of Christianity. This is part of a larger trend in our country which claims the name of Christ, but has completely abandoned his teachings. It reminds me of a story I heard Russell Moore tell about how one of the pastors he knew mentioned that Christians should “turn the other cheek” in a sermon. A parishioner came up to him afterward and said, “where did you get those liberal talking points?” When the pastor pointed out that he was quoting Jesus, the man said, “That doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.” The idea that ALL people are made in God’s image and deserving of love is a core commitment in Christianity. Regardless of our theological or ideological beliefs, all Jesus-followers should be united in this commitment. No one is an animal. No one is garbage. No one is worthless. Every single person is worthy of dignity, respect, and care.

Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert

8 months ago

If your version of Christianity can justify calling any group of people “animals,” it’s not from Jesus.

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The weird thing about reading so much as a child and gaining a huge vocabulary from that is I can't define a lot of the words I use, I just...know that they would fit correctly in a specific sentence? Does anyone else experience that?