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Ended up getting a Switch + Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the extra tracks. Fun little machine.

Goat.

Threw in a tenner.

I just don't understand how people don't hear something that seems like it's inflammatory and almost unbelievable (for example: the claim that US politicians want a one party state) without looking into it and looking into what was actually said. It takes google and the ability to sift through some links to get a full picture of what actually happened or what was actually said. If a source is breaking up quotes in a certain way and then putting it's own opinion in... without giving the full quote or full context of what happened... when you can see the full text/get a better picture... you should be able to see when political editorialisation is happening to cause division and sow extremism. It is scary, but fascinating, how information manipulation and misinformation can be so effective.

Legend, thanks again John.

London 1900 - Today

All this reminds me of that NBA Jam game on Sega Genesis. Played that for hours at a time.

I remember a decent bit about the 90's NBA players. I think my favorite player of that era was probably Karl Malone. There were some great teams back then and it seemed like they all had a superstar combo. Phoenix had Kevin Johnson and Tom Chambers. Utah had Stockton and Malone. Detroit had Isaiah Thomas and Joe Dumars. Hell, even the shitty Nets had Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson. I could go on. The league is rather sterile now with too many "super teams".

Haha, I was completely NBA-obsessed as a kid Literally knew every player in every team for about a decade, starting with the Bull supremacy in early 90s to the Lakers time in early 2000s... Had a massive collection of trading cards, posters on the wall, all that jazz. Even carried a "lucky" MJ picture on me whenever I played in competitive matches, too Used to get up in the middle of the night to watch the finals and then go to school afterwards. Good times

I used to be really into NCAA. I went to University of Cincinnati and for the longest time they were a top-25 performing school. I remember losing interest in the early 2000's after I graduated and never really go back into it. I've flirted with NBA interest over the years but it never stuck, probably because there isn't a team here locally. Vince Carter was a beast. I think he only just retired in the last few years.

I was never into NCAA, so don't have any clue about college basketball but Vince Carter was probably the last NBA player I actually liked watching. Stopped playing myself in early 2000s and then gradually lost interest in basketball altogether... Focused on Euroleague in the years that followed as my hometown team played there.

That name sounded very familiar so I looked him up. He played for University of North Carolina in college with UNC legends Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison. What a team that was.

Eh... he might just be misinformed by whatever info he's been fed from wherever he consumes media from. And even if he's not, it's important to counter wrong information on the internet because for whatever reason sometimes bullshit just sticks with people. I do think it's weird though when people claim neo-Nazis are part of the extreme left. It might be because Nazi's a mix of "National Socialist" and they see the word socialist... but the Nazi ideology is a fascist ideology. So Nazis are a part of the extreme right. And the reason this gunman claimed he didn't like Fox news is not because they're a right-wing media outlet... it's because they weren't peddling enough of the far right white nationalist bullshit some of their talking heads (like Carlson) push and were too moderate. But he did specifically cite something that Carlson had been pushing on his show in the days before his attack. But I think it's right Tucker Carlson gets some blame for the shooting - he's got the most watched show on the most watched news network in the USA and he spreads far-right white nationalist conspiracy theories designed to make people afraid and hateful. Carlson didn't invent the "replacement theory" but he's certainly helped it spread - and now that theory has been cited by a man who's murdered people simply because they're black. The media needs to get more shit for the extremism they have been building up in the US (and really, the world). Because they are going to spread ideas that if people take too seriously will lead to other instances of domestic terrorism like the Buffalo shooter. The media can't just pretend like they're another loony at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park "just getting their ideas out of their head." They've got a remarkably large platform and they spread ideas, more than news nowadays tbh, to millions of people in an instance. So pushing neo-Nazi conspiracy theories that are cited as a reason a man goes out to murder people of a different race to him... it's something that should be condemned. Having a "free press" is not an excuse to spread hate and violence.

Fake news.... That's just a Red Herring, It's the minions entrance This is the front door... They will need to shout though because the doorbells not working at the moment..

Good signing!

I will be putting in £10 this Thursday off my pension to get this month's contribution moving along