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  1. Google.com

    Reddit.com/r/destinythegame

    Destinythegame.com

    Destinydb.com

    Destinytracker.com

    http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps4/704532-destiny/faqs

    Destinygamewiki.com

    Destiny.wikia.com

    Destiny.wiki.fextralife.com

    So you are suggesting we should delete this thread because the information can be found in other places across the Internet? Maybe we should just delete the whole board to be safe and make sure it never happens again.

  2. Find it funny that "no complications" almost always gets really complicated unless you are talking about one night stands.

     

    We aren't built to hang with someone a lot, have sex with them, share our whats going on in our lives, and not have some chemistry kick off in our brains that makes things complicated.

     

    It seems a lot less complicated to just date normally.

  3. I feel like it's coming to an end. I'll get my character up to around 315, do the raids a few times, and then occasionally fire up the crucible before moving to something else.

    Right now, still not really pulling my weight in raids and I want to be able to beat them all from start to finish.

  4. No one's perfect and disagreements happen, but she's fallen a bit on the side of it happening too frequently.

     

    Today has been pretty quiet. Supposed to talk later. It's partially my fault for not speaking up sooner instead of letting it get to this point.

     

    Basically, she's just got to understand where I'm coming from, make an effort to change, and I'm in to try and work it out. Put a year into this, it's worth trying to fix. If it ends up being a continuous fight, it'll end.

  5. I truly don't mean this in an offensive way to you, thebiglebowski, in any way, and I'm not saying there needs to more immigration (I think it's a very complex answer with no straightforward answer).

     

    BUT, that statement is very uninformed, ignorant, and around the wrong company could be quite offensive.

     

    As a Manager at several different workplaces in several different industries, and as a data collection manager for the government regarding immigrants and their education the idea that they are all (or even as a majority) unskilled laborers is simply incorrect.

     

    The reason they end up in all of the unskilled jobs is not that they themselves are unskilled, but that their education does not correlate/is not recognized in north america.  The majority of the immigrants I've worked with or surveyed had skills to offer that our over regulated industries would not accept.  Please know that I'm not saying that regulations should be relaxed, again it's a very complex issue without a straightforward answer.

     

     

    EDIT: I still feel like this is worded too strongly, it's really not flamebait or an invitation to argue.  I just truly think that many people are misinformed when it comes to this point.  There are tons of Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, etc, that drive cabs, own gas stations, and work at corner stores because their education is not recognized and they don't have the means to go through school again.

     

    I'm open to consider other opinions and that maybe my opinions are based more on perception than fact but I'd need to see some type of evidence to support it. Clearly, the example you bring up is a problem (doctors and scientists driving cabs because their education is not recognized). I'm sure this has happened to some people who cross the border illegally from Mexico. There are so many people that have done it that it must have. I still think these are significant outliers to the population as a whole. The majority of those who cross the border illegally end up doing lawn service, janitorial work, cooking fast food, etc and don't have anything we would consider higher education. Maybe there's a higher portion of them that have mechanic or manufacturing skills.

     

    It's widely considered that the departure of manufacturing jobs started in the 70s/80s was a serious factor in causing the current state of poverty and despair in our inner cities and poor. People that couldn't find decent paying jobs either ended up 1) using drugs to cope with their troubles or 2) selling drugs because it was the only way they could make a living, which combined with white flight led to the collapse of those communities. Getting those jobs back and restoring the ability of the poor to reach the middle class is going to be a long, uphill battle if it is even possible. In the short term, the best alternatives for many of our lower class is going to be what we consider unskilled labor as listed above. Having illegal immigrants come into the country and work under the table undercuts the opportunities of American citizens to make a living and improve their quality of life through positions.

     

    And this is in no way meant to be taken as Trump support. His comments about Mexico paying for a wall and illegal Mexican immigrants being murders are disgusting and offensive. I wouldn't even consider voting for him. Just generally discussing the topic.

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