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Just to clarify, what's in the "pro" category of smoking/tobacco products?

Well... it's a stimulant, apparently, if not exactly a relatively healthy one to use. With what that brings to the table. Also chock-full of poison, which I seem to recall has some uses (that doesn't involve putting the stuff inside a human) that aren't directly harmful to people? Seems about it, so far as pros go.

Alas, poor bluto, forever forgotten. It's probably for the best, I guess.

Quote from: Cinder on July 11, 2018, 08:07:26 pm

B-but raw onions are bitter.

M8 I drink draught beer

But have you ever drank a draught beer slushie made by adding a pureed raw onion?

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... no one actually makes those, right?

Not quite in that order, but... basically! The title is "Super Robot Taisen Gaiden: Masoukishin - The Lord of Elemental". Super Robot Taisen is Super Robot Wars, Gaiden is Side Story, and the rest is right there.

... y'know, just today I was thinking about the old SNES elemental lords super robot wars side story. Just now checked to see if translation efforts had gotten anywhere since the last time I checked. Turns out AGTP came back from the dead again and released a finished translation over a month ago. Welp.

... does it? I've played the thing to completion more than a few times on a pretty trash computer, often cheating wildly (i.e. being far more excessive on items and extra levels and whatnot than the game's intended for), and never noticed a problem.

What's really silly is that absolute number of jobs is kind of meaningless anyway - what's most important for day-to-day living is probably closer to the quality of life metrics, even as flawed as they are.

While true, you can't even get the GOP emphatically behind workfare projects at this point, shit as they may be, much less anything less problematic that could increase quality of life metrics. Bit less than half-ish the political spectrum is intent enough on destroying the country's infrastructure and government's ability to help people that jobs are about all that's left at the moment.

I don't think the manufacturing jobs are ever coming back.  If the Chinese won't be doing them, robots will.

Oh, some steel/whatever stuff seems to have been bumping up a bit.

It's just at the cost of dozens/hundreds/thousands of other american jobs for each one that has (on top of all that good will and shit vis a vis increasingly tentative allies and trade partners), and no guarantee for any particular region regardless. It's basically been about the stupidest and most self-destructive way to go about it you could think of that doesn't involve detonating nukes.

Manufacturing as a core economic activity that indefinitely supports increasing amounts of people on a high school or less diploma is permafucked, though, yeah. That's gone and it ain't coming back. It'd basically take nationalizing and subsidizing the manufacturing industry, 'cause that'd be the only way you're going to get companies to both use the methodology that could use that sort of background in appropriate numbers and pay them a living wage without said company getting outcompeted faster than you could blink.

... and if you're going to do that, you might as well just tax the companies a bit more and pay for better education/welfare/investment-in-other-markets/whatever. Be better for everyone involved, probably.

So, you're saying that Supreme Court picks should be judged solely and entirely by the people who nominate them, and their own words and records should be ignored?

Considering I didn't say that, no. If he had a record that strongly indicated he would be willing to defend abortion rights, that included more than words, it might offset the flat fact he was nominated by someone who explicitly wants the previous ruling squashed and is hostile to the general subject (if largely by proxy in the repeat adulterer's case). If there's more than words behind his record, I'm not aware of it. Roe isn't the only means of attack, either, if he actually held true to that quoted statement.

Though I'd trust the world of a trump nominee to SCOTUS on their willingness to oppose republican political goals about as far as I could throw them, sitting in my bed multiple states away from the capital. We were promised partisan activist judges, and until proven otherwise that's what I'm expecting we're going to get.

But hell, maybe abortion rights would be one of the few areas this particular critter defies the base on (already stated this guy is more corruption than that side of things, anyway). I'll believe it when I see it happen.