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Because most right wing memes are created by professionals. Left wing memes are genuine grass root creations.
The best grass root memes the right can come with is "let's go Brandon", which while catchy is about as meaningful as farting into a microphone.
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Some of you haven't read the Wasp v Weird Al comic event and it shows 😤
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That's the beauty of public transport
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Yep. Most of the time online you won't convince the person you're arguing against, BUT to convince people reading the thread. For the most part, arguing online is performative, for the purpose of the audience rather than the participants.
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No, not everything in that list applies to every industry. The car market isn't a monopoly, but it definitely has issues with government and regulatory capture (and perhaps others, I'm not expert in auto manufacturing). But even without those issues the nature of car making today gives it a high barrier of entry for new comers.
And as others pointed out, the fact it's not a monopoly leads to more unpopular ideas being scrapped.
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Under capitalism it's always been the case of"what is this worth to you". The difference is in the past if a company overcharges then a competitor could come along and undercut them (so long as the gap was big enough that it made financial sense).
Unfortunately, monopolies, regulatory/government capture, vertical integration, marketing and cartels have gotten so far out of control that consumers are left with little choice but to suck it up. And most governments in the Anglosphere don't really care.
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I'm thinking
Warner
Head
Smith
Marsh
Green
Maxwell
Carey
Abbott / Agar
Starc
Cummins
Zampa
I'd prefer someone else opening over Warner, but the selectors are definitely going to pick him.
Not sure if link works properly on all apps: https://dubz.co/c/dc30bf Resulted in a 5 second penalty for Hamilton and a new wing for Piastri.
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The connect app allows you to block instances. Not the same as defeding obviously, but it helps.
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Not stopping a lot of stupid hot takes about it though.
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Yeah, thats what I mean. That's why it's unlikely he'll be replaced, even if he hasn't formally re-signed yet.
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Unless he fucks up completely and repeatedly crashes out, Sargeant will keep his seat. James Vowles said that the plan was always to have Sargeant racing in 2024 and the reason he's racing this season is they had an opening and thought it was better to give him a "practice" year in F1 than another year in F2
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That will probably be similar to a lot of top teams with all the IPL players in the ODI squads.
I haven't been a massive fan of ODI bilaterals lately, but I've been looking forward to this world cup, should be a good comp.
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Australia's uncapped players will get the opportunity to impress in the upcoming T20Is and ODIs Mitchell Marsh, Australia's new T20I captain and stand-in leader of the ODI side, has been "blown away" by his brief sightings of left-arm quick Spencer Johnson who will get his first taste of international cricket in South Africa. Marsh expects all the uncapped players heading on the tour - there are four overall including Matthew Short, Tanveer Sangha and Aaron Hardie - will get the opportunity to showcase their skills, but it's Johnson who is the most talked-about after his rapid rise through the game over the last nine months.
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True, for me it also depends on how the Burger is constructed. Often the lettuce is put on the bottom, I want to get straight to the meat and not have the taste masked by lettuce. But it depends on the burger.
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As a Richmond fan it's a shame to see him go, but you don't want a coach who doesn't want to be there. Hopefully he can do some good at the Suns, it would be good to see Gold Coast have some success.
Pat Cummins looks set to miss Australia’s ODI tour of South Africa due to his fractured wrist and instead return for the series against India ahead of the World Cup in October. The World Cup could be Cummins’ last time captaining the ODI side, with the quick to determine after the tournament whether he can continue juggling the role with bowling duties and the Test captaincy. Cummins injured his left wrist diving in the field on day one of the fifth Ashes Test at The Oval but played on before beginning his ongoing recovery. Continued at link
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Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I always associated the change with the adoption of T20 batting styles into longer form cricket. So it's cool to hear about its evolution in the Shield
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Not yet this season, but I have the past few seasons. My decks are always changing, but unless Rogue and Enchantress are popular I find Dark Hawk to still be very strong, I like to run him with SHIELD and Devil Dino.
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Pretty much bang on, the RBA has essentially one tool at their disposal. Even if their decisions are perfect, poor fiscal policy will damage the economy and the RBA can at most put a bandaid on those wounds.
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Nice that there's only double ups on Saturdays, going to give people a chance to watch as much as possible.
Seems a bit odd that India v Australia is on Sunday, is that considered a good timeslot?
It was a very close game and Jezza kicked goals off both of these, if I was a Pies fan I'd be a bit salty. First one is pretty borderline, and the umpire was in a good position to call it: https://www.theroar.com.au/afl/video/watch-maynard-chucks-ultimate-wobbly-over-supremely-controversial-non-out-on-the-full-call-1297850/ Second one was pretty blatant not sure how they let that one through: https://www.theroar.com.au/afl/video/umpire-somehow-forgets-one-of-the-most-obvious-rules-to-let-cameron-goal-1297861/
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Yes, the health secretary, it literally says so in the headline.
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BRODIE Grundy has been thrown a lifeline and will return to Melbourne's team for the first time in five weeks, while Collingwood has recalled Will Hoskin-Elliott and Billy Frampton for Friday night's blockbuster against Geelong. And in other round 22 team news, Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks has swung a surprise by dropping second-year star Josh Rachele to the substitute role for its match against Brisbane at the Gabba. Grundy will play for the first time since being dropped following the win over St Kilda in round 17 as coach Simon Goodwin searches for answers to fill the hole left by the injured Harrison Petty.
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Trent Cotchin will retire at the end of the 2023 season, drawing the curtain on one of the great Richmond careers RICHMOND'S triple-premiership captain Trent Cotchin will bow out of the AFL as a "transformative" and "towering" figure in the proud history of the Tigers. The 33-year-old has announced his retirement at season's end, likely to be Richmond's round 24 game against Port Adelaide as the club looks set to miss the finals. Cotchin is battling calf soreness and will sit out Sunday's clash with St Kilda, but is hoping to be available for the Tigers' final two games against North Melbourne and the Power. After being drafted with pick No.2 in 2007, Cotchin has found his "life purpose" in playing 305 games for Richmond – the fourth-most appearances in club history. The entire Tigers list, and most club staff, were present as Cotchin was joined by wife Brooke and their three children at Punt Road Oval on Thursday to confirm his retirement.
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GENERAL UPDATES New Feature – Multi-Upgrade: If you have enough resources, Multi-Upgrade allows you to select the Quality you’d like to target and tap the upgrade button once to directly skip to that Quality level! Save your thumbs and save some time! New Feature – Upgrade with Gold: If you are short on Credits and/or Boosters but still want to upgrade a card, you can now upgrade your cards with Gold (up to a limit each day). Improved Avatar Selection Flow: Tapping on the Avatar on the Main Menu will now bring up the Avatar Select screen, allowing you to change the current deck’s avatar quickly. When you view an upgradeable card in your Collection, and choose not to upgrade it, it will be “marked as read” and will no longer increase the red-dot notification count. Note: This went live in our last patch, but we forgot to put it in the patch notes. BALANCE UPDATES CARD UPDATES Cable [Old] 2/2 – On Reveal: Put the bottom card of your opponent’s deck into your hand. [New] 2/2 – On Reveal: Draw the top card of your opponent’s deck. Developer Note: The change to America Chavez starting on the bottom of the deck was predictably damaging to Cable, as drawing your opponent’s Chavez was usually good for them, not you. We didn’t value that too highly because Cable’s play rate was already low, but that was a mistake on our part. Conquest has shown that players really enjoy playing with cards that can give them an information advantage against their opponents. This is a simple enough change, just going to the other end of the deck, but we’ve also gone ahead and updated the template to reflect the action Cable is actually taking, which is drawing a card. Magik [Old] 3/2 – You can’t play this on turn 6. On Reveal: Change this location to ‘Limbo’. [New] 3/2 – On Reveal: Replace this location with ‘Limbo’. Doesn’t work after turn 5. Developer Note: Our OTA on 7/20 mentioned this was coming, and here it is! This isn’t a large change to Magik, mostly just making her a legal card to play on turn 6. However, it’s worth noting that the VFX behavior has changed a little bit. She used to light up with fire on the last turn you could play her, but now that corona will indicate whether or not you’ll be able to create Limbo based on the turn count. Mister Negative [Old] 4/-1 – On Reveal: Swap the Power and Cost of all cards in your deck. [New] Gameplay Change: Caps Costs at a maximum of 6. (no text change) Developer Note: This is a minor change to improve players’ quality of life by adding consistency to in-game interactions. The Peak location has this cap, which it needs because otherwise many cards would become literally impossible to play when the location appears. Mister Negative doesn’t expressly need it, because his decks are built to minimize Power in-deck. However, it’s intuitive for that location and this card to function the same, so we’re lining them up. Plus, it makes Jane Foster shells a little less risky. Rogue [Old] 3/2 – On Reveal: Steal an Ongoing ability from a random enemy card at this location. [New] Gameplay Change: Now triggers On Reveals if the copied Ongoing card had one. (no text change) Developer Note: As mentioned when we changed Mystique in the previous patch, Rogue is receiving an update to bring players’ expectation around copying card text via On Reveal in line with the outcome. Moving forward, we expect cards that copy text when they Reveal to consistently trigger the On Reveals of cards they copy. Spider-Man [Old] 5/4 – On Reveal: Your opponent can’t play cards at this location next turn. [New] 3/5 – On Reveal: Move to another location and pull an enemy card from here to there. Developer Note: All right, this is a big one. Let’s start on the mechanical angle: the previous Spider-Man incarnation was a polarizing card. It prevented your opponent from playing cards at a location, a frustrating experience. It was most popular following Wave into Galactus or in “lockdown” decks, which are both decks that use combinations of cards to reduce the total play space of the game for your opponent. We want some of that–the game needs a variety of strategies. But we don’t want those decks or even one of those cards to be the best in the game. Our best cards should be cool and awesome. But you know who’s cool and awesome? Spider-Man! There’s an irreconcilable dissonance in having one of the most popular characters in the Marvel canon attached to an effect we don’t want to be popular. Discovering Spider-Man in our game should be a great experience. Since launch, we’ve also added more Spider-Verse to the game and seen players enjoy the theme of movement for those cards. So we’re making a change and bringing Peter in line with the rest with a new ability. Will we return the old ability to the game on a new card? Maybe, but for now let’s go with no–it’s not been adding much fun. We don’t take this kind of rework to a card lightly, so we’re happy to hear your feedback through all the usual channels. We don’t intend to start suddenly remaking tons of cards, but understanding your feelings may help us better understand the appropriate thresholds for this action in the future. “Evolved” The Thing [Old] 4/6 – On Reveal: Afflict a random enemy card here with -1 Power. Repeat this twice more [New] 4/6 – On Reveal: Afflict 3 random enemy cards here with -1 Power. Developer Note: High Evolutionary has mostly landed in a healthy spot since we made the tweaks to Hulk and Wasp during the last patch, but this is one more small twist of the dial. Cyclops has been really strong still, but we like keeping him strong in High Evolutionary shells based on ensuring a character with his popularity has a solid and satisfying home. The Thing has actually outperformed Scott a bit lately, and this change also makes the afflict curve from Wasp into Cyclops into Thing more elegant, distributing -1 Power to one more card at each stop. It’s a slight buff to Abomination, but a slight nerf to The Thing’s strength as a single card attacking a location. BUG Fixes Fixed a bug that would cause Mirror Dimension to repeatedly morph into another Mirror Dimension in a loop. Fixed a bug that would cause players to get stuck on an old Season Pass season. Performance improvements and UI/UX bug fixes. KNOWN ISSUE List For Windows: Controller and Arrow Keys are unsupported. This may impact Steam Deck usability as it will only be usable with touch controls. Using Multi-Upgrade only counts as 1 Upgrade for the “Upgrade a Card” Mission.
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'I lost my hunger': Inspirational Roo hangs up the boots MUCH-LOVED North Melbourne veteran Ben Cunnington will play his last AFL game this weekend after announcing his retirement on Tuesday. The 32-year-old will play a farewell game in Saturday's clash against Essendon before hanging up the boots after a career that will span 238 games and 14 seasons.
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Inspiring skipper 'Boots' to retire Inspirational West Coast Eagles captain Luke Shuey has today informed the club of his intention to retire at the end of the season. After producing one of the great individual performances in Grand Final history, the 2018 Norm Smith medallist has decided to join another former captain Shannon Hurn in calling time at season’s end. Shuey, a big game star and captain for the last four years, is also a dual John Worsfold medallist, was player of the finals in 2019 and also won the club’s emerging talent award in 2011. “As much as my mind wants to go on, my body won’t allow it and I have made the decision to retire at the end of this season,” Shuey said.
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‘Not acceptable and never will be’: AFL hands down punishment over Pickett fan incident The patron who reached over the fence and touched Marlion Pickett during Friday night’s game at Marvel Stadium has been banned from attending AFL matches until the end of 2024. Pickett had been beaten in a one-on-one making contest with Bulldog Marcus Bontempelli and overcomitted. As Bontempelli ran into the open goal, Pickett was left getting to his feet over the boundary line. With his back to the crowd, a rogue fan reached out and patted Pickett repeatedly on the shoulder and then started gesturing to the Tiger as he turned around.
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Friday, August 25 Essendon v Collingwood, MCG, 7.50pm AEST (Seven) Saturday, August 26 North Melbourne v Gold Coast, Blundstone Arena, 1.45pm AEST (Fox) Hawthorn v Fremantle, MCG, 1.45pm AEST (Fox) Brisbane v St Kilda, Gabba, 4.35pm AEST (Fox) Geelong v Western Bulldogs, GMHBA Stadium, 7.25pm AEST (Seven) West Coast v Adelaide, Optus Stadium, 6.10pm AWST (Fox) Sunday, August 27 Port Adelaide v Richmond, Adelaide Oval, 12pm ACST (Fox) Sydney v Melbourne, SCG, 3.20pm AEST (Seven) Carlton v Greater Western Sydney, Marvel Stadium, 6.10pm AEST (Fox)
Via: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/australia-news-pat-cummins-set-to-be-fit-for-odi-world-cup-despite-wrist-fracture-1391247 Cummins set to be fit for ODI World Cup despite wrist fracture Marnus Labuschagne has been dropped from the one-day squad; Tanveer Sangha and Aaron Hardie included Strong squad, what would be your XI?
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Government reveals a draft framework has been formulated for how ChatGPT rollout will work in schools
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Batter to undergo surgery after recurrence of injury that has hampered career