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More persistently peddled lie than caricature, but I guess that works, too. FTFE, etc., etc.

... depends on what "psionic powers" entails, really. There's conceptualizations of the stuff that could get some folks together, spend five years cracking open something like a wormhole, and then move the planet to another galaxy or whatev'. Or hide the solar system or somethin'. Or use the vial granted junk to forcibly enable the rest of the species to use the stuff, and then tap a few (hundred) million psionics to do... whatever, probably. The list just kinda' trundles its way into the distance. Indefinite space magic is indefinite.

Eh, it's up there but competitive team based stuff in general likes to turn vicious without much prompting. Which is to say most multiplayer games out there, really, ha.

Will say one of the better ways to sort of mitigate some of that I've seen came from Infantry. Large random teams that occasionally shuffle members mixed with usually relatively short rounds and a large and visible player pool (i.e. you didn't constantly cycle through names you've never encountered before) seemed to take a bit of the edge off. Also helped that the nature of the zones and gameplay generally meant you could contribute a fair amount even if you sucked gigantic explosive donkey balls, and even losing tended to be pretty enjoyable.

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Ah, that makes more sense. Had forgotten what turn 16 entailed, heh.

I brought this on myself because of the memes but I've just been made to sit through the first episode of Kemono Friends. ... It looks like I may have to eventually sit through the rest of the series.

I did this. And I question why.

... now I have, too. Curiosity was why.

It was surprisingly painless. Somewhat amusing in places, though I think for reasons unintended. Would make for a vaguely absurd post-apocalypse setting. Somehow don't think the rest of the episodes will hold up to the potential of majin catgirl and bag-chan the opposable thumbs' magical mystery murder tour, even if someone presumably intelligent was killed and eaten in the first episode.

I'm assuming this is the basis for rejecting a travel ban on Muslims:

You can read the actual decision instead of assuming here. Politico hosted .pdf copy, there's probably other sources but that's the one I dug up first.

Short form is the establishment clause is only part of the reason the EO's been suppressed. There's other stuff involved beyond the religious aspect. Possibly even more involved on the net, skimming over it.

... did constitutional law even come up in the last page or two? Saw the word mentioned like twice, and most of the discussion didn't really have much to do with it. Y'all seem to be talking more about what's allowed as evidence, and maybe a bit of judicial inconsistency, not anything about that particular sort of law.

In any case, vis a vis it being a religious ban, the reason the EOs can be called that, and (iirc, it's entirely possible I'm misremembering exactly what got the first struck down, and what's going to get the second one, too) part of the reason they got squashed, had little to nothing to do with the body of the law itself, and everything to do with comments both explicit and otherwise by the people making it. Not lawyery enough to quote exactly why that's involved, but it is so *shrugs*

As for the tax loophole thing, I'd bet a fair amount of money I don't have that in any case a tax code issue went in front of a judge, where the people trying to get the loophole running or maintain it had spent months screeching to the public what they were intending to do, they'd get similarly kicked in the metaphorical nads for their blithering incompetence.

Though yeah, judges are inconsistent. Welcome to the USA, where they're chosen by like a half dozen different methods and quality control is a concept heard of in stories of distant shores. Feel free to push for something less wobbly than that, but in the mean time maybe don't kvetch about what times shit actually works like it's supposed to.

Hell, never mind politically non-viable, one of those articles you linked notes parts of it are literally illegal. They'd have to amend laws just to bring the proposed figures to the table to begin with.