If they ever want to develop another Half Life, they should release some cheeky 5 minute game as HL3 that ends with an imminent release date reveal for HL4 to sidestep the expectations.

Let people celebrate a win.

The Democratic Party has shown time and time again that they are willing to vote in line with the people if and only if their vote doesn’t change the outcome.

I’ll believe their votes on Israel mean anything when their votes – well – mean anything for the result.

It was safe to vote in order to appease the voters without actually doing anything because they knew the Republicans would shut it down.

If the vote were closer and couldn’t survive Democratic unanimity, just enough of the rotating selection would oppose it to keep it from passing while the rest saved face.

But was causality established? That’s a very difficult thing to do. I’d like to read the paper if you can find it.

Because it’s just as plausible that people predisposed to think critically are more likely to both go to college and move left politically in early adulthood.

and we know that there is a causal relationship between academic achievement and progressive politics

Do we know that? That’s actually a very strong claim, significantly stronger than the OP’s claim of correlation. For a comment about skepticism of statistical links, your rebuttal is more problematic than the original claim.

Standing for the pledge is not a requirement. Neither is saying it. To try to force students to do either is an infringement on free speech.

Just… no. Memory before 1998 is a terrible litmus test for a birth year cutoff at 1996. Perhaps you had too much lead exposure.

What are you even talking about? My point is that’s not a good measure of the generational transition from Millennial to Gen Z. It’s the wrong timing.

I was 5 when Pokemon came to the US, so I don’t think it’s fair to say I remember a world before Pokemon. I have memories from before 5 sure, but nothing that counts as knowing what the world was like. And that’s not even counting hearing about Pokemon from my Japanese cousins before it came here.

I also don’t think it’s fair to say I can’t understand how amazing Pokemon are when those games dominated my whole childhood.

I disagree, that puts the last few years of Millennials into Gen Z though. That puts me into Gen Z and I’m a few years before the cutoff.

That’s almost a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border (for the US at least). Usually remembering 9/11 means you’re more on the Millennial side. Though generations are fuzzy and ill-defined.

Yeah, I don’t know any couples my age who don’t both work.

It doesn’t really make a difference if both parents are working and make similar amounts. Then that part is no different from filing separately.

You inserted yourself in a conversation about the Democrats. Not about the goddamn article. My ire against Trump is that the pedo rapist isn’t rotting in prison for the rest of his life, and this entire conversation was started by someone insinuating Kamala would have done something about it. You jumped in and took their side in this argument, so you don’t get to back off now. For someone who goes on and on about insulting people for not reading context, it’s amazing that you can’t grasp that I was responding to a comment and not the article.

The Democrats, particularly the executive leader for 4 years, did nothing with this evidence to root out the pedo rapist ring. My ire against Biden and the Democrats is that they were the only thing that could stand in the way of the fascist takeover they helped facilitate back in 2016 (Trump was Hillary’s pied piper). So am I mad at the Republicans and Trump? Of course, they’re pure evil. But I’m not ideologically aligned with them in the slightest. The Democrats claim to be ideologically aligned with me but never act on it, taking away my only sector of representation in our government. So yeah, I direct my ire at the group that is supposed to be doing something about this and chooses not to.

In the meantime, any semblance of criticism against the Democrats is always met with assholes like you who can’t stand anyone calling out the ineffective controlled opposition.

What facts have I pulled out of my ass? You think a few missing files that the article is talking about excuse the lack of action on the entire case?

I’m not talking about these specific files, I’m talking about the whole thing. Which we can all see with our own eyes right now. You don’t need to trust me on anything, if you assert that the Biden administration did its job on this case, you need to prove that.

Heed what dates? The ones that place the evidence firmly in existence for the entirety of Biden’s term?

Are you saying Trump took the files away and brought them back with him in his second term? Why would his admin bring them back at all?

Even if this insane world you’re pitching is true, that makes Biden’s lack of investigation even more egregious since it should be obvious if this key evidence was missing.

Even funnier that you’re claiming to only care about facts when you’re the one spinning some wild accusations to go out of your way to clear Biden’s DOJ of basic responsibility.

Ah sure you got me. Your names are similar at a glance. Doesn’t change the fact that you’re reply is just apologist bullshit.

Yep, I’m looking. Starts with your snide comment that says:

I’m sure Kamala’s DOJ would have covered this up, too, amirite?