But we’re in the bad timeline, so a congressional logjam means that he takes lots of executive actions, the bought SCOTUS lets him and Congress can’t pass anything to stop him.
I mean, I wouldn’t say it is the dumbest thing, but it sure is up there.
First, this is a great explanation and example. That being said, tarrifs can be good for the country implementing them in a very narrow set of circumstances.
Let’s say you are in a not very industrialized nation, maybe one recovering from colonialism or war. In that case almost everything is cheaper to import, and so it’s really difficult to get any economy going past subsistence farming. Targeted tariffs can help in that case to encourage local investment in the basic commodities needed to get the economy started.
Similarly, if you have one specific part of your economy that you really care about but it needs some help getting going, tarrifs can help to grow that sector.
In both cases, the tarrifs need to be narrowly targeted and be regularly monitored for when they should be phased out.
But in all cases, a large economy raising broad tarrifs is stupid.
That’s why you reroll on already taken numbers. Or drop down a die size every two arrows.
I'd absolutely allow something like that at my table. Something like this isn't going to have explicit rules, so even in a serious RAW (Rules As Written) game, the GM is going to have to come up with something. It's just that we all have dice and may not have the right setup for tokens, etc.
Really, the simple way to do it is have arrows #1-5 be the cursed ones. The player then rolls a D10 to see which ones are pulled, rerolling on repeat "arrows".
I really, really want to like KCD, but after a bad experience early on I've never been able to get back into it. There is a mission fairly early on where you need to sneak from one end of a large map to the other. There was a lot to do and explore on it, so it probably took me 60-90 minutes. Then right at the end I got jumped by 4-5 soldiers and died. And because of KCDs aggressivly-anti save system, I would have had to repeat the entire thing. I get that KCD is supposed to be super hard core, but I'm a busy dad of two small kids. Finding an uninterrupted pocket of 90 minutes to enjoy a game is a rare luxury, so having it ended like that completely soured the game for me.
More games need a "busy parent" easy mode.
In addition to op-eds, many people would write letters to be read in public, at churches, in the public squares or at pubs. Reading was not the solitary activity that we think of today, but often done as a gathering with people taking turns reading letters, books and sermons to each other.
It’s alway weird to me that even though Ubuntu has the largest Linux desktop market share, no one admits to using it.
Anyway, I use Ubuntu because I was doing a lot of ROS development when I last built a machine, and getting ROS running properly on other distros can be a pain.
To claim a subdomain in the DNS system you have to have the domain first.
Ugh, is there just a written version or a transcript?
I live a five minute walk from a beach and less than an hour from some of the best cheese makers in the US. And have neighbors that keep chickens.
Atole!?! In that case I’m definitely a victim and await my tamales.
Yup! This is what is leading to the slow ACA death spiral.
I hate to tell you, but it's worse than that. Pre-ACA mental health wasn't covered at all except in extremely expensive private coverage for the wealthy, so it wouldn't matter if it was preexisting or not.
GLPs are the new Prozac
I don't mean that literally, of course, but metaphorically. Back when Prozac first hit national consciousness here in the US in the early 90s there was a huge backlash against it, much like the one we're seeing against the GLP/GIPs.
Every magazine had a special issue with a bottle of pills lit by scary, dramatic lighting for a cover. There was a constant discourse of hysteria and pearl clutching like: "you'll have to be on it forever!", "it doesn't really fix anything!", "it's so expensive!", "what if they give it to children?!?", "oh no the side effects!". Every self appointed expert had a reason you shouldn't take it: "you don't need it, you just need God", "you just need to get tough", "it's a cop out for the weak", etc, etc. Even many therapists and psychiatrists spoke against it, often more afraid for their jobs than anything else, "what if we fix everything with a pill, what does that mean for psychiatry?"
And now, 30 years later we have a much better understanding of anti-depressants. They are a common prescription and much of society accepts them the same way we accept people being on statins, insulin or ibuprofen. They didn't destroy psychiatry, make everyone become mindless drones or create a bunch of psychopaths. And they became a whole lot more affordable.
On the other hand, Prozac itself would be an odd prescription today as there are much better, more targeted medications with fewer side effects.
I strongly believe the same thing will happen with semaglutide and tirzepatide, but probably much faster due to the much larger number of potential patients. In ten years the new family of weight loss drugs will be commonly used and accepted by society, but they probably won't be semaglutide or tirzepatide but rather some new, more targeted meds that are cheap and have far fewer side effects.
But that doesn't mean I'm going to wait a decade to lose this weight.
GLP Weight Loss - For people using the new family of meds to lose weight
GLP Wieght Loss is a new community for people who currently are or are interested in starting losing weight using the new GLP1-RA and related medications, such as semaglutide and tirzepatide, AKA Wegovy, Zepbound and other brand names. !glp_weight_loss@lemmy.sdf.org
Starting the journey with my partner
40s M, 5'11, SW 255, GW 200?
I've been overwieght almost my entire life. One summer in elementary school my weight shot way up and it's been high ever since. I've been on every diet, have always done sports, hit the gym regularly, and am generally active, but I've never been able to keep it off long, or even make it down to a "normal" BMI, generally floating somewhere between overweight and obese. Over the last two years, my weight has started climbing at a pound or two a month and I haven't been able to stop it.
I took my first dose of semaglutide tonight, after trying to get a hold of it for the last six months. My insurance denied me said I had to join Weight Watchers for six months. Then, two months ago I was laid off. But, a couple of my friends have had success with one of the compounding pharms, so I though I'd give them a try. My partner also did the same thing, and took their first dose last week. Here's hoping that this is the change I've needed!
Gridfinity Drawer Organizer
I printed a complete set of gridfinity bins for my desk drawer. It’s so much better than the drawer of chaos.