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Meet momodora 3's morph ball:




Welp. Welcome to the game, I guess.

E: Oh gods, the crouching animation. Have a still: It wiggles. It's a cat-about-to-pounce animation. Damnit game, I needed those teeth.

You... seem to have missed the point where a higher minimum wage would mean significantly more that "low single digits" being less poor. Note that 1.3 million was for folks making dead on the federal minimum. That doesn't including the people that are making less than an increased minimum.* It doesn't including the people that are making less than the current minimum (from that quote's source, another 1.7 million**). Nor does it include those who aren't paid by the hour, but are still making the equivalent of at or less. People aren't poor for any one or two reasons; there's dozens upon dozens of contributory causes. What a minimum wage is intended to address is just some among many.

If you want to see the report that quite came from, you can find it here.

*A $15 minimum would effect around 42% of the hourly paid working population, by the by; somewhere in the realm of 30 million people if I'm checking the numbers right. A $10 minimum would effect around half that.
**You can say 3 million is still low single digits, I guess. I'd personally call around four percent of our entire wage/salary base something that's a pretty substantial issue, particularly considering it falls notably on those of us who can afford it the least.

Nah, the sentiment is pretty strong in the U.S., too.

In other news, it looks like the article 50 negotiations have already begun (and yes, I'm aware they haven't officially started); Schultz has already said they're not letting the UK back into the single market :V

Definitely looking like the negotiations on that front are going to be a hell of a thing.

Yeah, mostly is probably not the right word. There was also a great heaping pile of lies, apparently, among some varying kernels of actual argument. Seems like there were even some vaguely decent ones, they just were largely drowned out by "immigration" and promises that are looking a lot like they're not going to be able to be kept.

S'kinda' fun in a morbid way, actually. It's taken very little time for some of the leave supporting politicians to start backpeddling rapidly, ehehe. So much for that NHS budget not budging :V

So now the only reason to oppose immigration is being a racist?

Sweet zeus people, that's not how it works. No, that's not the only reason. Yes, it is a substantial reason many people do. Near as I can tell with UK, it'd have to be a pretty significant one, because most of the things the leave campaign's been saying will improve with less immigrants seem to have basically bugger all to do with immigrants. I guess you could contribute some/most of it to ignorance or gullibility instead? There's probably some folks in there that have some sort of reasoned argument for the opposition, but seeing more of the UK situation as I've been looking at this stuff this mornin' it's looking like a lot of potential avenues for that doesn't just doesn't apply to the UK.

Anyway less united, huh. *looks at scotland and NI, 52/48 split* I... guess that's true? You could claim they're roughly as united as they were two days ago. Kinda' doubtful, though.

Part of me half wonders if the disputed cow route could be a thing. 52% of population takes 52% of the country and leaves, 48% of the country takes the rest and stays in EU. The schadenfreude would literally split nations :V

Who need Euros? We can lend them some good old Dollars.

Don't think we actually would though. From what I'm picking up watching other conversations, it looks a lot like a non-EU UK would be fairly significantly aligned against our interests. They're apparently much more inclined in terms of economic and international relations with the sino-russian bloc. So iff anything, it looks like if they would end up on something besides the euro in such a scenario, it'd be the yuan or ruble.

Quote from: LoSboccacc on June 24, 2016, 05:45:06 am

good old "everyone who disagrees with me is racist"

That's the regressive left for ya.

And the illiterate right. It's good to see people come together :V