@jeremyct I own a 2500sqft above grade house in Canada, Ontario. We pay approximately $6.2k in taxes a year. On an equivalent sqft basis, your grandmother owns a property that is likely worth around 3-4 million dollars, and she should probably sell that property to people who can use it.
@D2EsportsEvents Legendary.
All the behind the scenes work you did to bring real competition out of Destiny 2 PvP (even with all its imbalances and lack of support from Bungie) has given me and many others memories for life.
From me and many others - thank you.
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.
Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.
Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.
The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.
Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at https://t.co/MQvByA4atR and https://t.co/v6ghw99u1K — it takes two minutes and it matters.
Here’s something no other politician will say: we’re not sorry for building Canada. We don’t regret Canada’s existence. Today I introduced a bill to remove Truth and Reconciliation Day as a holiday, because we’re proud of the great country we built from an untamed wilderness.
🚨 ROGAN: “The Charlie Kirk thing opened up my eyes. I never expected so many people would celebrate that man's murder. That is evil … especially when you're seeing people on the left, that are supposed to be … the inclusive people, celebrating gun violence. That's insane.”
This is why X is the single best form of social media that currently exists. We get a post by someone who is considered by many to be the world’s greatest fiction author writing a perfect reply to an actor for her astoundingly detached left-wing politics and viewpoints.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
@Mercules904@Bungie You're saying people bouncing their head off the ceiling or Icarus dashing multiple times don't need to be as accurate? Bold of you to call that opinion "correct" - especially when a handful of weapon classes suffer from accuracy loss in-air. I think movement makes Destiny unique
@Mercules904@Bungie What?
Players are too hard to hit: "When you can bounce .. to make someone miss you don’t really need to be accurate"
Players who move often have poor primaries: "There's a large number of “good” players who have flat out bad primary shots"
I said "most" vs "large amount".
@Mercules904 Sounds like you are upset at top tree dawnblades and hunters specifically. Anyway, this whole thread is full of opinions from you as a player. The reason hitboxes are so generous is because the game has been built around these fast movement abilities. Stasis doesn’t fit atm.