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@ebinlaw @PaulTassi There were people of color in Europe in the 1400s. There’s very clear history record of this. Even the lauded Vikings had trade networks with Asia and the Middle East that brought POC into their settlements.

@Bolerolero @goldenastrum The original context of the acronym was for fanfic and fandom, as in an "original character that was created to fit within an existing fiction", not every unique character to every be created.

@unburdenedman @FortFurry1 @LinkofSunshine For your sake, I truly hope that you’re never in a position where you need to rely upon services like Medicaid. I for one am perfectly happy to give a nearly insignificantly amount of my money to ensure that our most vulnerable have some form of the care they deserve.

@unburdenedman @FortFurry1 @LinkofSunshine Hey, guess what, those folks also pay taxes just like you! Medicaid ain’t exactly easy to get either.

@unburdenedman @FortFurry1 @LinkofSunshine What if they have no family? What if they’re not religious? Who pays the church so that they can suddenly afford this additional cost? Man, if only there was some way for the entire community to pay just a little bit of money individually so that society as a whole could benefit.

@unburdenedman @FortFurry1 @LinkofSunshine Medicaid is specifically for those who have limited income or resources. For example, someone who is intellectually disabled and is unable to maintain a full time job. Should they not have the right to medical care? Should we not strive to protect our country’s most vulnerable?

@inagalaxyjarjar @ColbyStarWars @CBUncharted There were never full scripts. Lucas had what was reportedly a pretty messy set of notes and had also hired Michael Arndt to develop a treatment. The treatment was used to develop the Sequels, with Arndt as the original script writer. The notes were tossed.

@MichaelBTheNerd @AFoolAmI @alyssa_merc @GiveMeBanHammer The culture war shit isn’t really effecting the market. Games aren’t losing out on substantial sales because they’re “woke” or whatever. It’s a bunch of petulant children that have been sold propaganda to generate clicks and discourse. It’s not worth paying attention to.

@MichaelBTheNerd @AFoolAmI @alyssa_merc @GiveMeBanHammer “If you interact with game focused social media bubbles in any way”. Yeah, devs tend to stay away from those bubbles for what should be obvious reasons. The folks that make the games usually aren’t knee deep in the discourse.

@onegospel2021 @michalnowakow @Bucket_WFTFan @AdamBadowski SBI is a Canadian consulting team that’s been around only a handful of years and has less than 20 employees. Why would you expect a Polish developer to have heard of them prior to the culture war nonsense?

@betsonall59995 @jamesihernglass @bialek_luk @iwelsh They called themselves socialists as a means of drawing the support away from communism. The party ran a vaguely socialist agenda in the 20s, but became nationalists by the 30s. But their claim to socialism was in the sense of the "people's community", which is racist nationalism

@MrMemory_Hole @MrMatthewTodd

@RoyDelfino @NathanJRobinson Rain typically comes to Southern California in mid-Dec through January that protects it from wildfires. It has not come this year, leaving the region drier than usual. This is following record breaking heat this past summer.

@theoceanblooms @supersymmetry_I @YRANACKCALB Michael Chrichton knew dinosaurs were related to birds at the time the book was written (he also wrote the screenplay). The dinosaurs in the park were genetically engineered to be theme park monsters, so they were made to fit the public perception, not the scientific consensus.

@sm_ar_ta_ss @LiveLaughLexii_ @PuppyWineMom @DreamLeaf5 Studies haven’t been conclusive. Some show no change in consumption rates, some say it knocks a few percentage points off. So it’s either a net zero change or a positive one.

@sm_ar_ta_ss @LiveLaughLexii_ @PuppyWineMom @DreamLeaf5 According to the CDC, only around 10% of teens in the US use tobacco products, which is near a historic low. Of those that do use tobacco, about 80% is vapes. Of those that vape, about 90% is the flavored versions. Regulations won’t stop them altogether, but it’ll do some good.

@KyleDWilson1 @JohnnyWildePro @colbylapointe None of their shows make money in the traditional sense, as they’re hosted on a proprietary platform and they typically don’t license them out. Money isn’t even earned through viewership, it’s through new subscribers and those kind of numbers aren’t public knowledge.

@Bantoo_Prime @JazzyTyfighter @colbylapointe Sounds like you’d enjoy the High Republic then.

@JohnnyWildePro @colbylapointe Someone ran the numbers of the Star Wars subreddit. Nielsen ratings can be deceptive, as they track “cumulative minutes watched”. The series had shorter episodes, so it naturally tracked worse. Total viewers were only something like 9% less than Andor.

@goobfromyoutube @PhilGarber5 @MattZeitlin “Epic” in this context is just referring to the style of meter used in the poem.