Jacob Parakilas

Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:51 UTC

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

... Not to mention the fact that Trump would immediately mark him as a rival and try to jam up both his nomination and his election. You need someone with nothing (in GOP elected politics) left to lose.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

I don't think he'd take the veep role while running for Senate out of fear of alienating his own base voters though.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

Yeah I mean I can Johnson balking at putting Romney up for a vote out of spite but it seriously backfoots them. And this is where I'm running out of procedural knowledge but could they do a discharge petition in time for the election? Gotta figure he'd get through a straight vote.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

Is there any reason why she couldn't nominate different people as running mate and rest-of-term VP? Pick the former for the election and, say, Mitt Romney (who's retiring anyway and might see it as patriotic service) to do the job until Jan?

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

We need someone in a position of authority to give roughly this speech

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 15:28 UTC

Still on my post-Fallout TV series New Vegas playthrough and am again struck by how incredibly good it is and how incredibly bad it looks. Seriously is there another game with as big a delta between its overall quality and its graphics?

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 08:02 UTC

The nonhuman part I agree with but Luthen and Mothma are both idealistic poshos, not working class heroes?

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 06:10 UTC

Restart L1A1 production!

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

I like the idea that horse-mounted cavalry are 80% as effective as tanks.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

Needless to say the direction of travel has not changed in the subsequent three years.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 20:05 UTC

Not just from then. We moved from London to Nigeria in 2019 and back in 2021 and the deterioration in basic state functionality and service availability *just in that time* was pretty noticeable.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

As an American living & driving in London I admit it's an adjustment dealing with omnipresent traffic cameras, and getting a ticket for 24 in a 20 was pretty annoying... but also it's rare here to see someone driving super aggressively, and also the cameras don't shoot people. So it's a net plus.

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Jacob Parakilas @jparakilas.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 06:25 UTC

If you see this, post a picture you took at sunset.