CombatLiberalism [he/him]

It didn’t come from a lab in Wuhan, it was first discovered in Wuhan but was already going around in Italy for months at that point based on waste samples.

The point was that we have just as much evidence to say it came from Detrick as we do to say it came from a Chinese lab. It most likely didn’t come from either, but only one of these conspiracies gets pushed. If you provide any pushback that maybe China isn’t responsible for COVID you get met with “well they would lie and cover it up, so I might as well be right”

In Communist North Korea the passengers get out and push the trains

5 whole hours and not a single PPB??? Smh gotta do everything myself

I’ve been enjoying it, but I think it’s more because I grew up playing Bethesda RPGs and it’s a familiar format in a new setting than anything special with starfield itself. I’ve been finding the pacing is way too quick as well, I’ll spoiler just in case

Officer, sir, he was simply implying that the warios would have melted from the excessive heat. We would never allow such a violation of the pledge to occur on hexbear dot com

I put all my points into soul and got killed by a ceiling fan

I have a book in my to-read pile called “Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict” that apparently takes a look at the political situation that the historical Jesus would have found himself in through a historical materialist lens. The authors were on Rev Left a while back, which is where I first heard of it. I haven’t been able to read it yet, so I can’t personally vouch for it but based on that episode it seems pretty solid.

Figured I’d drop the title in case anyone was interested

see landowners are about to revolt

delete all the barracks in their regions

landowners revolt anyway, run into battle unarmed

get crushed

Advocates for the inmates said the incident was a protest over prison conditions, including the excessive heat, limited access to showers and ice and unclean drinking water. A US National Weather Service heat advisory is in place until Tuesday for the area, warning temperatures could reach up to 100F (37.7C)…

The DOC says the prison is short of 50 officers, which has been exacerbated by the holiday weekend, leading to intermittent lockdowns of inmates since Friday. It means prisoners have been kept in their cells for longer periods, reportedly with no air conditioning…

DOC commissioner Paul Schnell said inmates were usually given several hours a day during the weekend for recreation, but holiday-related staff shortages had cut that down to just a single hour.

Jesus, I can’t imagine how dehumanizing it must be to be locked up for 23 hours of the day in the blistering heat and not even have access to clean water

Suppressing them is step 1 every time I play, but I was playing as japan and did some cheesing to bump them down enough temporarily to trigger an event but boy did they NOT like that. I also hadn’t developed my urban industries enough, meaning they were just constantly regaining their influence, revolting, losing the war and whatever influence they built, rinse and repeat.

Started a new run as Persia that is going insanely well. It’s January of 1840, the entirety of Central Asia that wasn’t already under Russian/Qing control at the start are now my vassals, and I completely control nearly all of the Persian region. Infamy is pretty high but I have no real competitors in the region so once I finish growing I’m going to settle down and work on my economy. Currently I’m waiting for my peace treaty with Oman to expire to get that second little port they have, so while that’s going on I’m getting ready to invade Afghanistan. Surely nothing will go wrong in Afghanistan.

Edit: things went wrong in Afghanistan

Playing Vicky 3 and the landowners have revolted for the 4th time in 20 years

To combat this I set the packages directly across from wherever I’m cooking, instruction side facing me.

Remembering to throw it out after though??? Impossible task.

This entire thread is proof that the liberal understanding of geopolitics and foreign policy is entirely vibes based

Do you think these rounds just magically disappear after they’re used? They’re going to continue to litter the land and cause generations of people completely uninvolved in the conflict to suffer from birth defects, lung damage, and cancer, as can be seen after its use in Iraq. No one is immune to depleted uranium. At this point you can just admit that you care more about killing Russians than you do defending Ukraine, consequences be damned.

Unironically yes. A peace deal was in the works last year until, according to the Ukranian Pravda, Boris Johnson pressured Zelensky not to go through with it. This would have stopped the fighting and resulted in some withdrawal of Russian troops, but since the West is more interested in weakening their geopolitical rivals and helping the weapons industry rake in profit than ending the war, they squashed any possibility of that happening.

There’s this one dub of it where the VA just sounds so frantic and it cracks me up no matter how many times I replay it

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It’s an option but obtaining the game isn’t the problem. I already have a good few hours into it but out of my friends that are planning on getting it, one is waiting to upgrade his PC and the other just got a bunch of games and wants to get through some of those first