I’m afraid describing what the appropriate way to deal with that disgusting little cretin would be considered a war crime… thankfully I’m Canadian and creative. Someone tell Brussels to dust of the Geneva conventions, they’ll need an update.
No one should trust the US at this point, but they can clearly be manipulated for advantage. Never trust an American offering support, but always be willing to use their mistakes to your advantage.
Worked for Portugal.
The Iranian regime executes women and homosexuals, finances global terrorism, and has breached its obligations under nuclear non-proliferation agreements.
The US regime executes women and homosexuals, finances global terrorism, and has let nuclear non-proliferation become a joke. When do we start bombing the US? I’m not a fan of Iran but millions more innocent people who never asked for any of this will die than will be saved by this war. In the mean time, Oil is now over $100/barrel and fighting is heating up from Turkey to India potentially leading to world destabilizing conflict. We were well on our way to standing down the decades old conflict with Iran until Trump decided he’d rather just light the whole damn world on fire and end it all in a nuclear haze.
Edit: bad auto-complete.
Before the Artificers it was the rangers who were “stealing the stealth thunder from the rogue.” Heck, I remember in 3rd ed when people said the Bard was “stealing the Rogue’s lunch” because their skill mastery made them decent with traps.
whistles quietly in Armorer Artificer, stealth build
… yes… not fair at all…
What does slash dotted mean?
Old term from the dawn of time. Slashdot is quite possibly the largest tech forum in history. It was fairly common for small sites to get mentioned or promoted on slashdot, only for the overwhelming traffic to crash whatever it was that was being discussed. A mass surge in traffic that causes a website to fail became known as being Slashdotted.
Political influence accretes where treasure is. Same as always. Right now a bunch of old rich men are trying to buy their way into heaven with a sacrifice of human blood, that’s all.
I wouldn’t say there’s been no coverage of the consequences of market consolidation, it’s just not breaking into mainstream consciousness. Given our historical pattern of recognizing a problem -> ignoring it for 30-40 years until it becomes a crisis -> then panicking when the damage has already become a death spiral, now would be the expected time for the first alarm bells to start going off.
That was true 40 years ago. The decline started before Trump, although I’ll certainly grant that he’s one of the worst offenders and has poured jet fuel on the fire.
I think the previous poster was attempting a joke in clanker-speak. It wasn’t a particularly funny joke, but an attempt was made.
Look, I’m of Scottish descent, but I’m not Scottish. It’s been generations since anyone in my family has seen scotch heather in anything but a photograph. I never went to a Scottish school, sat in a Scottish pew, and while I can understand the Scots dialect I couldn’t speak it to save my life. I have a few fragments of old traditions, some of which no one in Scotland even practices anymore. Sure, I like a nice dram of whisky or black pudding as much as the next guy, but I also enjoy sushi, that doesn’t make me Japanese either. So why would it make any sense to refer to myself as a Scottish-American? If I were a recent import or maybe 2nd generation, sure it makes some sense, but I don’t have the foggiest clue what life in Scotland is like. If you dropped me in Glasgow or Aberdeen without GPS in my pocket and asked me to find my way around I wouldn’t know where to start. So what gives me the right to call myself Scottish anything? Because my family held on to a few comforting traditions from a Scotland that’s been gone for more than a century?
There’s a very old trope that the land seeps into your blood over time and no matter how far you roam from it, it calls you back, and shapes your character. It’s from the same school of thought that coined the phrase “Blood and Soil” and murdered people in gas chambers. It’s not a philosophy I have much attachment to, in spite of the fact I have one of those in my bloodline too.
Actually most other places have far more indigenous culture, because the dominant socio-economic group is the indigenous people of that place. The existence of an indigenous minority is pretty unique.
Well, as a Canadian I’d say you definitely could, but I’d rather you didn’t try to prove it.
Citizens United. That ruling should have started a riot that didn’t end until the constitution was amended.
Excellent summary. The US has used and abused the Kurds over and over again. While they’d be crazy to not take their opportunity to establish some territorial autonomy, they’d have to be utter fools to trust the US not to stab them in the back again.
That’s the big secret. Efficient at what is never discussed. It’s very efficient [… at lowering legal costs, and avoiding consequences and accountability]. As long as no one says the quiet part out loud, everything is “fine” [… for them].
I have a theory about why Trump himself is authorizing this. Trump is president, but he knows he can’t hang on to it. Bibi has offered to make him and his heirs kings in perpetuity of Gaza though. He’s aiming to build a new Dubai in Israel, a resort city for the rich and famous under his exclusive control in perpetuity and shield him from prosecution. Trump City. That’s a legacy. That’s the most massive tribute anyone has offered him yet. He’ll do anything Bibi asks because in exchange, he gets to be a petty king of his own little Morocco, his Singapore, his little Mediterranean paradise. It’s exactly that transactional. The proceeds from his “Bored of Peace” brigade will go to building his little kingdom, and he’ll be given a blank check to do whatever he feels like as long as he uses the full force of the US military machine to serve the Israeli cause.
Yeah, you can kill a man with a knife but you can do it a lot faster and easier with a nuclear warhead. People aren’t scared of an aggressive chihuahua, but they’ll have an aggressive pitbull put down. The scale and scope of damage matters.
There have been a few studies. Most estimates put it at around 20% of men engage in actively degrading behaviour, sexual harassment, or have had a history of sexual assault, with between 5-8% actually engaging in violence. It isn’t everyone, but it is around 1 in 5 which is not a small group that could be classified as “Creeps.” It’s a lot higher percentage of the population than, for example, the percentage of violent extremists among Muslims.