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... also, totally don't assume that a computer being 2D means it's not a horrific resource drain. I've seen plenty of 2D games that are cheerfully capable of chewing up more CPU et al than even fairly intensive 3D games. It's all a matter of what's being done and how (badly) it's optimized, not so much whether it's 2 or 3D.

Well. Hopefully it's not going to result in a hellacious mess. _{G... good luck.}

Show us the fleshy squirming depths of your disgust, neo.

... I think taking the discussion re: israel beyond how it's relevant to US politics or general voter opinions is something that should be done somewhere not this thread, m'self. We have other places to discuss the comparative morality of that particular FUBAR situation. Or did, anyway.

... don't y'all have an election or something like this week, owl? Next?

Pretty sure that's it, actually. Good times.

Eh, I wouldn't be entirely sure of that. Personally, my math related grades jumped up like two letters when I went from high school to college. Very different environment, and often significantly better resources (on-site tutors, better/more accessible teachers, better tech/book resources, the list just kinda' goes on) for learning.

but in, say, rural Appalachia where the poorest tend to be white, those people are abused just as frequently as minorities are (but without any significant coverage). I wonder if any studies consider this possibility.

I can pretty much tell you, having lived in areas like that my whole life that, no, the police don't come down on poor whites like they do on poor minorities, even when the minorities are basically nonexistent in an area. Not even remotely. Instead you see things like those poor whites getting away entirely with things like drug trafficking and pedophilia while the cops and much of the local and state legal system pointedly look in the other direction, while poor blacks get the shit beat out of them for being in the wrong place doing absolutely nothing illegal -- I've seen blacks dragged bodily out of their vehicles for no reason whatsoever, while whites drunk, belligerent, and violent get treated with kid gloves and warnings at most.

Won't say it's not possible it's different in other areas of the country, but for the southeastern panhandle area -- just slightly south of the Appalachia region -- yeah, no. Here, there's not even a systematic abuse excuse, it's outright goddamn racism mixed with good-ol'-boy bullshit.