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Robinhood is basically a stock trading app which lends people money to trade stocks with and then sells user's stock trading data to recoup the costs of lending out that money. In theory, they're not under any obligation to facilitate trades for any particular stock, in the same way that in theory, ...

Also I think he describes the right justification in his first line but somehow came up with the wrong answer? Yeah, I had originally thought "Oh, obviously you just resolve them in Before->When->After order and break ties based on the order their triggering events happened!" But that was...

My understanding of the rules is that you resolve it 1, 3, 2. When happens before After. You have to finish resolving the When (which includes resolving anything triggered by that When) before resolving the After which triggers off the same timing event. If the first ability had said "...destro...

My understanding is that you resolve things in Before -> When -> After order, and that a 'When' rule can prevent an 'After' rule from triggering if the 'When' rule prevents the trigger conditions for the 'After' rule from happening, but cannot similarly prevent a 'Before' rule from triggering. Obvio...

Honestly, McConnell threatening to filibuster if unless they pinky promise to let him filibuster is pretty emblematic of the reasons why we should no longer have a filibuster. And yet, here we are, almost certainly about to see him continue to get away with being an obstreperous blight, both politic...

Other notable executive orders include: -Rejoins Paris Climate Accords and World Health Organization. -Assigning Fauci as the head of our WHO delegation. -Eviction/foreclosure/student loan moratoriums extended. -Keystone XL, Muslim Ban and Border Wall all cancelled. -Workplace protections for LBGT+ ...

The actual "if it's a 50/50 split in Senate seats, that means we do a 50/50 split on committee seats" agreement is indeed only a weak precedent. The actual line is drawn at turning the organizing resolution into an actual political fight. Doing like Kaelik suggests and announcing that the ...

It is as much a law of the universe as Gravity or Evolution that no Senate majority leader is ever going to do what you're suggesting they do simply because it would be the right thing to do. Water does not go uphill unless someone expends energy to pump it there. Genes which do not contribute more ...

Yes. In fact, the organizing resolution that decides committee spots is decided by just voting it up or down. So they could in fact do the normal thing of granting the majority party more seats on each committee than the minority party. Historically, the VP tiebreaker hasn't counted toward this pur...

The actual rules say that the first thing the Senate has to do after swearing in its new members is to pass an 'organizing resolution' which decides (among other things) who gets to be on what committee. There's no strict requirements for this except that the resolution get passed by the Senate as a...

The point behind impeaching Trump isn't to keep him from trying to regain power. Whatever else he plans to do in terms of insurrections and calling for terrorist acts, he's still going to do even if he's impeached and removed. The point is to very loudly punish Trump in order to signal that sending ...

It probably would, but that sort of thing was removed from the game along with all other examples of 'real line of sight' precisely because it would lead to all sorts of intensely stupid arguments about whether someone can be seen through a particular piece of cover. People would sculpt their minis ...

King Bard also has not one, but two artifacts. Both of which are technological, not magical. This seems really out of place. Like… why? It's a Golarion setting thing. The part of the map in which Kingmaker is set is right next to Numeria, which is in turn where the Iron Gods Adventure Path (AKA: Co...

To clarify, I actually AM blaming Biden for not making noises about Medicare For All. He's been handed a popular mandate to give all of the stuff Obama wanted to do with the Affordable Care Act a second go around, but appears to be doing absolutely nothing with said mandate. I'm not even expecting h...

Is that not more or less what was expected, though? Personally, I'd say that would be the best case scenario, Trump has gotten people more accustomed to shenanigans and he's likely to make use to that. At least, that how it seems to me, someone living half the world away. I'll be honest, I was kind...

So let's be clear - bitching that the last election didn't deliver what you, personally, hoped for is exactly like going to a steak house, finding out that there are no vegan options on the menu, ordering the porterhouse rare, and then complaining that what you wanted all along was a vegan option. ...

I feel like this general sort of system would also have value if you were designing something like Black Forest, where the protagonists are assumed to be much smaller and weaker than their opponents, such that getting grabbed and stuffed into a sack to be later eaten by ogres is supposed to be a muc...

My understanding of the idea is that Ogre is interested in a combat model where melee combatants automatically defeat non-melee combatant that they successfully close with and where such combats are resolved by having Ranged Guy declare ranged attacks on an advancing Melee Guy, who in turn announces...

Brevoy (the guys who sent you here) wants a buffer state against the River Kingdoms (a collection of feuding bandit warlords whose fights keep spilling over into southern Brevoy) where the bandits will raid your unfortunate asses instead of them. There's also some decent mineral wealth and valuable ...

Hilariously enough, while hitting 20 Unrest is game over for your kingdom , it is not game over for the campaign - you can totally just run your kingdom into the ground here, take over Varnhold in the next segment, run it into the ground, invade the guys on the other side of the smouldering ruins of...

Pathfinder crafting doesn't cost XP. And the tabletop version gave you XP per hex explored (enough to care about for the first handful of levels) and lump sum XP for certain kingdom milestones which, by the time you're actually reaching those milestones in the module, you don't especially give a shi...

Perhaps the most noteworthy of these little random encounters is a dead unicorn. The evil Fey queen killed them for the lulz and left the body. Of course, the party can’t find out this is the case, Speak to Dead explicitly only yields vague bullshit. Because fuck you. Fun fact for aspiring necroman...

The Mutants and Masterminds game balance philosophy is for the GM to carefully examine whatever the players come to the table with and then veto anything that they think will make life difficult for the GM. Keep that in mind when looking at Teleport, Sense, Create, Transform, Mind-Reading and other ...

Is Biden a dumpster fire? Of course, he's already planning on putting Republicans in his Cabinet. It's awful. But even on the specific question of mongering wars (which is one of Biden's absolute worst points), he's better for the world than a second Trump term. Putting Republicans in his Cabinet i...

The sooner the USA's ongoing collapse can render it a non-entity internationally the better for us. The less competent the criminal in charge of your endless coups against democracy and illegal invasions the better. This makes all of your prior political posting suddenly make sense to me. I still d...