absquatulate

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[–] absquatulate 6 points 1 day ago

Polling agencies in this country are simply opinion manufacturers. In any other country it would be unacceptable to have no less than 5 candidates off by more than 6% each in EXIT POLLS.

[–] absquatulate 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's really more shocking to the media, who essentially ignored the guy because he was always trailing in polls. They all had him at 5% and then he suddenly shot up to 16% in exit polls and 23% in actual votes.

The running theory is that the main party artificially boosted him through their votes to have an easier go in round 2 ( "vote for our candidate, not the extremist" ) and it backfired because they underestimated tiktoks ability to brainwash people.

[–] absquatulate 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wayfinder. Recently discovered it and i've been having quite a bit of fun with it. It's a former live service converted to singleplayer/coop, so the story kind of blows. But it's a good ARPG - a Torchlight meets Warframe sort of thing.

[–] absquatulate 2 points 2 weeks ago

Watched this a few years ago. Best damn documentary on WW1 I've ever seen.

[–] absquatulate 81 points 2 weeks ago

Most ethical army

[–] absquatulate 10 points 3 weeks ago

I don't really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.

I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi's Anno 1800, or blizzard's diablo 2 remake, but they're few and far between.

[–] absquatulate 14 points 3 weeks ago

Not sure what you're fighting me about - I can tell you for a fact that we had local cronies ( in Cluj or Constanta for example ) get away scot-free after taking people's advance payments on new apartment complexes, never building anything and just delaying proceedings until the trial closed. Or politicians' sons that got away with vehicular manslaughter and DUIs simply because of influence. Now I don't know how much influence the tates have, but at the very least they could've hired competent local attorneys that know how to game the system. And the justice system here is laughably corrupt.

[–] absquatulate 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

They learned from our local high-profile crooks that if you can delay proceeding for a couple years, the process ends. Or if you know people that know people you might get lucky and a judge retires, in which case the whole thing starts from scratch. Meantime they can continue to build their public image and pick fights with kermit or whoever on twitter. have very little hope that they will be prosecuted "to the full extent of the law".

[–] absquatulate 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose drips.

[–] absquatulate 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

This looks an awful lot like Oxenfurt. Still, gorgeous painting

[–] absquatulate 6 points 4 weeks ago

Is it just that brand? I understood that they tested 148 cans accross 5 countries and they are all over the limit ( which, depressingly, is not related to the amount that the body can absorb but the average amount that was found in tuna at the time the rule was implemented )

[–] absquatulate 22 points 1 month ago

Lobbying. The greedy fucks will lobby until they get their way

 

So far there's subscriptions for cruise control, adaptive beams, various navigation options, apple/google integration and my favorite, dual-zone climate.

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