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US supreme court strikes down affirmative action

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If it was so irrelevant, the colleges would not have fought tooth and nail to maintain it. Anyway, the prior experience of individual states that have banned affirmative action indicates that the effects are not negligible -- it's responsible for double digit shifts in racial compositions of student bodies.

Things will depend on how the universities respond; one can imagine Harvard doubling down on ever-subtler ways to tag Asians as personality-free robots undeserving of consideration.

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Seriously, it's impossible

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Went back and checked: Walter was 50 at the start of the series. The series spanned two years of in-universe time, and he died at 52.

Anyway, the point stands. Cooking meth is a valid shared interest for an older man and a younger man to bond over.

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What do you think about the current events?

Last few patches have been thoroughly mid, IMO. Good enough to pass the time, but nobody will remember any of this content a few months from now. Also, the quality of the accompanying storylines has been slipping for a while now. The card game tournament story felt particularly mediocre, like it was put together by an intern trying to check boxes.

Genshin's refusal to develop mainline endgame activities, aside from constantly pumping up the numbers on Spiral Abyss Floor 12, really hurts it during this part of the patch cycle. Hopefully the summer patch will be a step up, like GAA and GAA2, and 4.0 will blow our minds.

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Seven of Nine Arrested!

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TLDR: 7 of 9's ex-husband pressured her to go to a sex club. Then he ran for Senate. The sex club stuff comes out, he drops out, and Barack Obama wins in a landslide, becomes a political rising star, runs for president, etc.