Nope. A "tankie" is an 1970s-style pro-Russian socialist. ("One who loves Soviet tanks.") Right now I can't think of a worse attitude for a socialist to have when Russia wants to become a fascist empire again.
I'm definitely older than thirty.
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Nope. A "tankie" is an 1970s-style pro-Russian socialist. ("One who loves Soviet tanks.") Right now I can't think of a worse attitude for a socialist to have when Russia wants to become a fascist empire again.
Nice how you've got that meme ready to shoot from the hip. Now, try saying why my opinion's stupid and what you would do better. If you can, that is.
It doesn't help me sleep at all.
I'll write this knowing that folk will be offended, but having a tankie in charge right now is as bad as having the Blairites.
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Given what the rain can be like in Glasgow (falling so hard that it bounces back up), I'd recommend bringing waterproofs with you when the weather promises rain. For all that, it's a fine city with good people.
supply chains can be impressively long.) In this case, the pain is coming from all directions, so the customers aren't being steered by it - the most logical reaction is to hunker down and not spend at all, which is (of course) even worse for an economy.
The mechanism of tariffs is flawed even when targeted at businesses that you want to force to do something: You specifically hurt their domestic customers and hope that the pain influences their choice of seller. (Here, it's resuming manufacturing at home; the lead-time to set up a factory and its
Good control of form and tone. The jawline and the edges of the top seem a mite too emphatically marked to me, but they might have gotten lost if they weren't so dark as they are. I'd definitely be happy with the piece if I'd commissioned it.
The super-rich have been running anti-taxation scams since roughly forever. (In this case, the East India Company's 24-or-so directors, at least until the Crown took over in 1859.) It might be instructive to work out who's playing the same old tricks.
Given the choice of being made to kneel facing a wall in some cellar before being shot in the back of the head (as per Bucha) or dying on a hill, I'll take a bit of fresh air and the chance to do unto others.
Ah. Severely outclassed, then? (If you're familiar with R. Talsorian's early works, the phrase "delusions of mektonhood" comes to mind.)
Having been away from the US comics scene for a while, I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not. I am sure that Gail Simone has to be at one end of the bell-curve of relevance, however...
per session. This randomisation is what makes me think that - from the point of view of someone who wants a game that they can complete - a roguelike cannot by design respect a player's time.
In the case of chess and go, all the rules and mechanics are known to the player ahead of time. Whereas - if memory serves me - in the original "Rogue" even potion types were randomised on restart (and their effects were certainly hidden), so key mechanics have to be learned through experimentation
game to both reset a player's progress to zero and leave that player with a sense of having made any progress, or are roguelikes only capable of entertaining those who don't want to reach the shiny McGuffin at the end of the road?
Rogue was released in 1980, and - as you've pointed out - many games have followed similar designs. But you're missing the point: While they aren't about ASCII, dungeons, and permadeath, the question I raised is very much about permadeath. Let's look at it from another angle: Is there a way for a
so the time invested in getting close to the end of a run is what you lose, because you have to start over.
plays, that's not what I had in mind: My point is that the roguelike genre kills characters - no saves, no restarts, no unlocks, no way to even learn what a potion does, and no fixed maps. The player begins anew every time, and therefore the punishment for losing the game is losing all progress -
The first roguelike I played was Rogue. A key feature of that was non-optional permadeath - it did give its name to the genre. You may be thinking of roguelites, wherein you get to keep some progress through unlocks (even though you may have to start with a new character). As for how fast the game
Thesis: A roguelike game, or one raising the stakes through the "permadeath" mechanic, inherently cannot respect its player's time. This is because the only sanction it can apply to the player is forcing them to start from scratch, which means penalising them through loss of time. Thoughts?
There have been such predators throughout history, though different names for the same urges, and different levels of respectability, have been applied. That's why, as you wrote, preparing children to handle themselves is the only sensible way to proceed. (It's also the basic purpose of education.)
Some of them are just afraid because they have heard all the stories about predators working in social services or medicine or schools. All vice is virtue in excess, and all that, although there are almost certainly some others who are just dicks.
Doctorow seems hopeful here; he may even be right to be so.
Senility isn't a given: Some get wool-headed in their sixties, while others are sharper than average past their nineties. Wealth inequality is a problem, though - we have both billionaires and massive holding companies making life harder for everyone else by wealth hoarding. Know your adversary.
Kiddo, you live where planning for retirement is like planning for the Second Coming™. Which one of us do you think is going to drop dead first? (Probably me, but by then you'll be so badly aged that you won't understand what's happened, right?)
You're being intolerant of the group of people who are old, saying that they're all incompetent. Yes, that's bigotry. The act of making fun of them for that is what we might call "callous mockery", or "an act of bigotry". You are writing like a bigot, just not about women or black folk. Stay classy.
Making the assumption that old people are all stupid is the same kind of category error that gives us racism: "Because they are [insert_group_here], they must be [insert_character_flaw_here]." By the way, have you planned for your retirement already? You're at your intellectual peak now, right?
I would call him a social murderer, as per Freidrich Engels' definition from 1845: He's setting people up to fall ill and die.
Remote lockout's where the real issue would be (unless you're a civil servant with access to sensitive material, which sounds like Cold-War-era science fiction, but ...). It would be a perfect grey-zone attack, either economically or kinetically if the steering was disabled in transit.
One could even call it nationalist socialism.
Regular pillowcase swaps may be the answer.
I dislike firearms in the abstract. When there is an armed group whose members want to oppress or kill you and yours, though, you'd better provide a balancing force. I'd be really happy to see gun ownership restricted to militia members in the USA, however, and limited ownership per person.
Thanks for drawing that feature to my attention. :)
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.
With time, Russians may learn to expect better than what they see at home - which may be one thing that their masters truly fear.
Matthew 25:40-45. You don't get to drive out the homelessness without driving out the homeless.
This makes me wonder whether there are differences in the way that European and American academic institutions have been decorated. As I was never one of the elite, I can't speak to the more expensive schools, but I remember mostly utilitarian decorations regarding school history, not imported ones.
Give the man time to admit that he's wrong - he's probably earned that much grace.
It's sad that they're putting the donkeys in harm's way. I wonder how many of them will be found living wild in Ukraine after the war?
Flooding the zone on behalf of his acolytes/lackeys/masters?
Some people are already creating such as craft projects, so the only issue would be the economies of scale. But still: "The kids, leaving the club, looked like a cloud of fireflies," is a nice mental image.
instability which comes from homelessness. (It's not charity: Such programs are cheaper than remedial work later.) Do the PPP calculations factor in that type of risk?
That's an important aspect, but one has to consider the lack of a social safety net in the USA. While monthly equivalent income there may be higher, many people elsewhere in the world have greater stability because of affordable healthcare and social programs designed to prevent the type of social
How does the data in your chart compare to the ability to afford food and lodgings in those other countries? It may be possible for people in those nations to live more comfortably than those in the lowest third of incomes in the USA.
Yesterday, in relation to people's nerves about publishing their writing, someone posted here that there are six Sharknado movies. I thought that you might need to hear that.
Well, the UK did get "Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt" into the top ten...
"They'll never see them under here, not from the air."
As long as one doesn't replace those frameworks with identical frameworks owned by different cliques, eh?
Worse than sleepwalking into trouble?
One thing that may be more scary is the idea that Trump might not be the one ordering the raid, but an underling.
Good luck.
That gavel seems to be compensating for something - such as a sense of righteous authority.
Death is better than perpetual suffering without hope, which may be one reason why Christianity was permitted to reach slaves. After all, working only six full days in a week means a loss of profit.
And whyever not? Whatever gives you the statistically average response to a question or statement is going to tend towards the middle - which is where mediocrity lies.
Years. Rebuilding implies that it was broken, and that's an entirely different matter - you are starting from betrayal rather than neutrality.
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
They won't isolate themselves, and they won't be at risk of inbreeding. This will be a tribal stronghold, and possibly the start of something worse.
have been publicly embarrassed?" In the first case, I think that A would have a hard time trusting B again; in the second, A's probably just being a brat. Kind of hard to tell when you're outside that context.
That's the most likely reason, given Ockham's Razor, but it's also possible that people can deeply misunderstand each other (or miss social cues) and still have a viable working relationship. My question here is, "Was A hurt and surprised because B didn't go to them, or are they angry because they
If that really is the case, rather than some simple accident or opportunistic scam, then the leadership of the USA was depraved long before Trump was given power. But given that Belarus is now preparing for war on Russia's behalf and Europe is reacting to that, they may cease to be a problem soon.
One should remember that if it was staged, then two people died for it and two more were wounded. However, Trump (or a bodyguard) nicking his ear with glass while he was on the ground is much easier to believe: He seems like more of an opportunist than a planner.
Oh, I don't know, maybe the last few decades of research on that subject by clinical psychologists has something to offer here? www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
Well, people have made advances there. It's just a shame that so many politicians still seem to be cavemen.
There are protests against Trump going on all the time in America, too, but they don't get reported much - if at all - on the TV news. This was simply too large and too visible to be ignored.
Ye gods, no. These are armed idiots who will respond with lethal force.
At a guess, 1: The shape looks a bit like a long-necked flamingo in flight. 2: Emotional damage to the "tough" guys who've been cheering on the Russians form their sofas.
You'll get your video soon enough, I'm sure - after all, sometimes propaganda uses the truth.
The laws of physics remain constant, and form follows function. At least this iteration of the design will be heading towards the genocidal aggressor of the day; also, modern navigation systems will make it something more than a mere terror weapon.
Best served over chilled granite. (Using stones to chill whisky is an affectation of those who don't want to dilute the taste by using ice.)
Nah, mate, these are going to be the people who were always against the war but we never got to hear much about - like the Orthodox Jews who've been getting beaten up by the local police. The news stories are there, but you have to go looking to find them.
They're opposing the local Dear Leader, so someone is probably saying exactly that. The world has too many Dear Leaders.
Shakespeare's Sister-in-Law
Didn't Mr Trump say that there would be so much whining you'd be sick of it?
the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.
It depends on how snarky they get when you give them instructions.
Shame that Jesus got deported for having a Mexican name, really.
Or, perhaps, they are each distractions from each other, and from the fact that his policies have wrecked the USA's economy. The modern playbook is to sow enough confusion - "flooding the zone" - that people face a dilemma of what to respond to, and how to respond.
Tomorrow, the President is going to order the national guard to militarize the nation's capital (despite crime being at a 30 year low) after sending Congress home to prevent them from investigating evidence he committed sex crimes against children. The Congressional GOP is unified behind him. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A stray thought: The Lord of the Rings has the Eye of Sauron and the Mouth of Sauron; what's the Ring of Sauron?
One of the nice things about Ukrainian drone attacks is the inherent geography lessons, as I now get to hear about places that never would have come to my notice otherwise.
How very sad it would be for Mr Putin, as Shakespeare had it, to be hoist on his own petard.
I miss the good ol' days where folks had the good graces to do their own phrenology.
Amazing -- an application which tells one that youthful people are less likely to suddenly drop dead. We are truly in an age of technological wonders.
When asking Google why it is useless now, don't forget to give the AI answer positive feedback so that the LLM can learn.
"Welcome to your bright new future." "You're not really one of us - be grateful you were picked." "These lessons will tell you why your parents were evil." "Here is your rifle - the front line is that way."
"Wehrscheißen des amerikanischen Volkes 2025" -- spelling intentional.
Some people fixate on the challenge, or the risk, of hunting something that could definitely kill them, and so prove to themselves that they're alive by taking out of the world the very same creatures that they admire. For everybody else, there are nature documentaries and video games.
If you are using Google, then set the date filter to the custom range of up to 2021. So far, this has let me bypass a lot of AI slop.
If psychological factors could limit the length of hair, then I'd save SO much on grooming costs by willpower. Mind you, I often forget to book a hairdresser's visit, so I save money through a lack of willpower.
In all seriousness, does the arrest warrant issued for the democrats who left Texas threaten to spark violence? You are far closer to this events than I currently am, and I would value your opinion.
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on a knife's edge. Now, somebody please tell me that the situation in a nuclear-armed state, with a neo-fascist government on the edge of electoral collapse, isn't actually going to devolve into outright bloodshed. At least not in the USA. I'd like to read that.
inciting incident from one of my history books; the sort of event that could trigger a civil war. At this point, I don't know whether things will kick off because of their arrest, or because of some act of violence that can be used as an excuse to impose martial law, but things seem to be balanced
So - Democrats in Texas have left the state in order to break the quorum of their state legislature, in an attempt to prevent gerrymandering by Trump's followers that would give him extra senators in the next election, and arrest warrants have been issued for them. This seems very much like an
I do like the extractor hood above the lower circular bed. The AI obviously has a good understanding of nighttime flatulence.
I should note that the subs shown in that picture were Borei-class; Kilo and Victor 3 classes were shown docked at that pier in a report by the Federation of American Scientists on the mid-2010s upgrades to the piers.
debris, and arrives on land not as one wave but as a series of waves where the water level does not go down until the event is over. There is a strong possibility that dockside equipment was severely damaged, as well as the pipes and cabling that could be built into the damaged pier.
Not necessarily: pbs.twimg.com/media/F6fVH_... shows that even if it was a floating pontoon, it had the solid structure you require for transporting materiel to Kilo class and Victor 3 class nuclear submarines. It's also important to realize that a tsunami isn't just water: It's water plus a lot of
If Trump escalates nuclear tensions with Russia too far, the USA really will be the "HOTTEST" country. Briefly.