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https://www.serebii.net/scarletviolet/teraraidbattleevents.shtml Hyyyyyyyypppe (I’m excited to get a Great Tusk) Belly Drum Chestnaught is gonna DOMINATE this event.

Initial impressions, Azu and Iron Hands seem to take down Walking Wake pretty easily. Iron Leaves is kinda absurd for a level 5 raid. Mowing down teams of Kingambit/Scizor/Skeledurge, but did manage to catch it. Only 1 catch per person is BS, and item drops being weak is bleh. Shoulda been...

Playing through Paldea, we all have our own little goals and things we’re working towards in our own circumstances— making progress big and small. Maybe you finally got Goldengho to evolve, maybe you beat a boss way underlevelled, maybe you reached masterball rank online or had an especially...

Hi All. So I basically don't exist as a Smogonite or Pokemon Player in recent years; though I like to watch FSG and BKC, and have been tuning into some of the big channels recently just to see the wacky adventures of Joey and Blunder in early Gen 9. But I was surprised when my brainless...

So this is a conversation that was sparked by Current Affairs Writer Nathan Robinson's Article: "Isn't Right Wing Populism Just Fascism?" Specifically prompted by the existence of The Hill's Youtube Show, "Rising" Glen Greenwald did a great 1 hour show here where he interviews both Nathan and...

I’m sure that there is a gun control thread somewhere but what’s going on is so incredible I thought that this merits its own thread. These kids are just so incredible. It’s terrible what’s happened to them but these kids are exactly the voices the American people needed right now. This is the...

I believe the answer is: not always, but it is requisite to freedom, and in western liberal countries-- is often a force for it. So I touched on this in the Marxism/Socialism/Leftism thread when discussing liberalism (as opposed to leftism). Probably the key value difference there is that...

Does anyone know of a children-friendly bible that depicts Jesus as a middle easterner? That has no western Europeans inextricably living in the middle east BC? To be perfectly honest, I have incredibly mixed feelings about my faith and my children-- Christianity, spirituality, and grappling...

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/891261-j-j-abrams-takes-on-live-action-version-of-your-name-anime So JJ Abrams is going to direct a live action version of "Your Name". Oh man my brain was running off in a hundred directions at once (as a Japanese American, anime lover, and fan of the...

So in previous posts/threads, I've mentioned my appreciation of JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy-- a book that tells the grim reality of poor, rural America. Vance, a Scott's Irish Hillbilly made Silicon CEO, has made brilliant comments about how "his people" became Trump's America...

RBY, the very first gen-- it presents a completely unique OU environment where there were less than 20 viable Pokemon. Pretty extreme when later statistically built OU gens would have an average of over 50 mons, and a gen like 7th has more like 80 that are good, and maybe over 100 with viable...

Simple, open-ended question: Is there such a thing as justifiable immigration control? Or, should all countries have completely permeable borders? Alternatively: Should all documentable immigration be seen as legitimate? Sorry to make the OP so open ended-- but this thread is touching the core...

So yesterday CNN hosted a debate on the fate of Obama care between Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz: http://digg.com/2017/sanders-cruz-obamacare-debate-cnn-full-video An oasis of intelligence and candor, a reprieve from the shit fest of idiocy that otherwise is the news. You couldn't help but...

This is a simple topic but one surprisingly ungoogle-able. Anyone think of how novel it is how humans raise siblings? It's much more common in the animal kingdom for siblings to literally try to kill each other than for parents to simultaneously raise offspring from different age litters. So...

So let me note that I'm a big free market guy-- I believe in economics, and that value is created when people make economic decisions. Keep in mind that economic decisions are logical ones-- and economics assumes things like "perfect information" where all people participating in markets are...

So, given how urgent global warming has become, what do you guys think the prognosis is for humanity now with Trump and his new EPA pick? Are we fucked? Are we majorly fucked? GG humanity? Or is there actually a fare shot of technology and the renewables private sector literally pulling our...

Edit 2020: While I generally still favor non-political correctness, and I prefer social norms that allow more, and humorous examinations of difference... and yes, I still generally disagree with a policing or reactionary identity politics that serves to alienate or draw lines rather than bridge...

So people who watched the development of so-called "religious freedom" state laws are probably aware that corporate America really threw its weight behind the LGBT community. Companies like Disney, Coca-Cola, IBM, Apple, Twitter, etc. stopped or threatened to stop operations, closed down...

So in the midst of this election year, it's no surprise that health care is once again a central topic in American politics. But this thread is about a topic that concerns more than the US. Now, I'll comment that I'm bringing up this topic without being an expert, and an outsider to health...

Big question of this thread: At what point do we people stop working, and let machines make the pie to which all of humanity should get a piece of? Is that even a possible reality? So most people who know me in Cong, know that I am solidly "right" in economic views-- in other words, I...