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This is not surprising in the least from the organization that brought us such amazing hits as “Cigarettes aren’t bad for you! Doctors recommend them!” when cigarette companies discovered their products give you cancer and “Climate change isn’t real! Invest in big oil!” when it became clear we couldn’t keep just burning fossil fuels forever. If there’s a take that is bad for people, the heritage foundation is there to promote the worst.

Are we sure they don’t mean “other people’s religions” when they agree?

Even if they find a prosecutor won’t they just put it in front of Aileen Canon again?

Nooooooooo. Reeaaaallly?

Their morals didn’t really change though did they? :( They’ve always been what they are. It’s just that the words that come out of their mouths don’t line up with how they act or what they believe, or even reality, a lot of the time.

While I think it’s funny that the tough on crime crowd is rallying behind a convicted felon it’s important to remember that sometimes there ARE people who have been politically suppressed. Eugene Debs ran in 1920 for the socialist party. He’d been convicted for speaking out against WW1 at the time. He didn’t win, but he did run.

What I hope is that Trump just doesn’t win. His support goes way beyond simple constitutional rights or freedom of speech. These GOP voters are not REALLY saying convicted felons should be allowed to become president. They are saying TRUMP should be allowed to become president. It’s populist, slightly cultish, and entirely frightening. Due process means nothing, personality and whatever they personally view as “strength” are what matters to them.

There was a vote that happened in my youth where two parties ended up with (Edit: NEARLY) identical amounts of votes in the house. In my voting district there was an independent running who was fairly popular with the city and we voted him in. The end result was that during legislation there was some vote where the yes/no vote was split perfectly even between the two major parties and our little independent became the deciding factor Edit: My memory was faulty. He forced it into a tie with his vote and the speaker of the house had to be the tie breaker. But the point still stands that his one vote had a pretty large implication.

This is a very niche and unlikely scenario (it did happen though, look up Chuck Cadman) but it was a very clear indication to me that yes, voting does matter. And every one single vote DOES count and make a difference.

Bets that they do actually know.

That’s an inefficient way to spell lied

That’s true but it literally doesn’t matter what you do the Trumpists will cry foul regardless and facts and reason don’t apply to them. I’m just glad the US still has people in positions of power that are willing to go against Trump and actually follow their rule of law. I’m also not American, but as a Canadian I feel dangerously close to what goes on just south of the border and we have our own cadre of ultra right-wingers who are trying to upset Canadian ways in the model of what Trump does. So I’m glad there are judgements against him when warranted even if he’ll never pay up and even if the amount he’s penalized is a pittance to what he should be penalized and even if his followers cry about it.

Thanks for the tips!

Hey this looks super cool! I don’t know LaTeX or TeX, nor am I a programmer, but I do play D&D and would love to be able to make some item cards for my group. Any tips on getting started aside from the obvious of looking up what on earth LaTeX is and how to use it?

You can also play around with the shader nodes in blender to learn the basics of the concept. These won’t be able to be used in a game engine directly, but it’s fast and easy to see the results of changes there. And also free!

It’s going to depend a LOT on what type of graphical output you are looking for. Are you hoping to have realistic fur on a 3d model with simulated hair? Or is it a portrait only for a 2d game? If you’re searching for this most basic level of information I would not expect to do anything that complicated. That being said what I recommend to look into this kind of thing is to research “procedural textures”. You can find tutorials on how to make materials in substance designer (not painter), or material maker. A good starting point would be to become familiar with the Voronoi texture (edit: also the Musgrave texture), and displacing it using noise textures. This should be a good starting point for you. The basic idea (and this part here is jumping ahead and will make sense once you have learned about parameterized materials and those textures I mentioned) is to set up a material with inputs that you can mathematically blend.

You will also want to become familiar with vector math to get good results since colour information in these programs can be handled the same way as 3d vectors (instead of x,y,z, there’s r,g,b but that’s still just an array of 3 values that can mathematically be handled the same way)

The information you will come across will be for 3d modelling, but if your intent is on a 2d image you can still apply the theory.

Material Maker is free so go ahead and try it out. https://www.materialmaker.org/

I hadn’t seen it

Fasch’s ankles as they trip over themselves crying about wokeness

Go fasch, no cash

This is great news for the Barbie Movie

Piss Force