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AmericanSaxeCoburgGothic
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7mo ago
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Breaking up with someone who hates who you are seems net-positive for both parties to me. I had a friend who dated a girl who cried over a beer-pong game very early in the relationship. She was overly emotional was anxious all the time. To me all disqualifiers to long-term relationship material. But I think my friend thought she would improve, she was best he could get at the time, could fix her (who knows!). But they wasted each others' time dating for several fraught years, where I think they each wanted the other to be someone they weren't, or couldn't be. Now years after the break-up now are both doing much better by all appearances by being with other people much better suited to both of them.
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7mo ago
Be prepared for a lame answer, I just have a really positive outlook on life in general, I dont think I'd pay for or opt for any unusual life extension. The last person born in the 1800s died in 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano
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7mo ago
My goal is to live long enough to see three centuries. Beyond that all my money and assets is split between my parents, in the likely event I outlive my parents will change it to my siblings or their children. Funeral-wise my only requirement is a Catholic funeral, if I anticipate having a lot of extra cash, will give money to the presiding priest, servers, pallbarers, and pay for the meal afterwards.
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7mo ago
Korolev's also had the benefits of state resources, sharashkas and priority in a state planned economy go a a long way.
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7mo ago
Paul Dano as the character I thought was good casting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_%26_Peace_(2016_TV_series).
Also love the novel.
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7mo ago
Let us know how Irkutsk is. I think most non-Russians have only heard of it from the Risk board.
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7mo ago
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8mo ago
Not so much a rant against your post, but something I've wanted to say. I'll say its different, because it is different. When I was in grad school I remember one of my colleagues said the same thing, no difference between gay marriage and marriage between a man a woman. I wanted to slap her across her face. Such unthinking ally bullshit. To see that a regular marriage can have a physical manifestation of their love that binds them, a child, and her say that my hypothetical marriage between two men would lose nothing by not having any such possibility of that was such an insulting level non-thinking, and really missing the whole point. If my uncle had wheels he'd be a bike.
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8mo ago
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I liked it, but it does have some significant problems. It succeeds as spectacle but not as a narrative. I want more film-makers to take chances like this, but also this wasn't a masterpiece.
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8mo ago
I did see Megalopolis! Its a self-produced, self financed movie by Francis Ford Coppola! There are some superficial culture war elements that are mapped onto this neo-Roman America (
The final dedication at the end of the film, and I think cinema-insiders fears of the future of movie production are why this movie was made now.
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8mo ago
I assume non-citizens would hypothetically serve non-combat roles, if there was a need for draft probably would need a lot of ditch diggers.
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8mo ago
I do not see concrete proposals from Harris that realistically will be enacted for any of these issues you mention except for abortion access (same for the other candidate). I think you might be buying what the candidate is selling a little too much. If she solves all these issues, then great (except abortion access I differ from her viewpoints on that) but don't tout her as a greater reformer rather than standard democratic candidate 2.0 especially before she's done anything of substance. Its possible I just don't have the information, can you elaborate on Harris solutions for college debt, housing, the opiod crisis or fixing Medicare? Economic stagnation has J. Powell on the job. To me it sounds like every Presidential state of the union type of address where grand vague future plans are proclaimed, but the issues linger year after year.
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8mo ago
Checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System it looks like all US male citizens from 18 - 26 are required to register for selective service, as well as resident non-citizens including: immigrants (illegal or otherwise), refugees and asylum seekers. Non-citizens exempt from registration are international students on visas, visitors (lived in the US less than a year) and diplomats. Though if an international student visa lapses they are required to register.
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8mo ago
I think the male exploitation/male victim and male perpetrator definitely has a female audience that is captivated by it. I think it's idealizing a sexuality and preference with an absence of pregnancy scares, where all activity exploitative or otherwise doesn't change a persons mental status, with characters not bogged down by the 'All Women are Wonderful' and allowed to villainous.
Several years ago I rented the film 'My private Idaho' from the library (awful even, with young Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix mixes Shakespeare prose and street urchins to ill effect) where the dvd jacket had a interview with the writer JT LeRoy (I believe pre-unmasking of the author) who gives fraudulent story about her watching the film while working as a male prostitute in the Castro district (what a bizarre cultural relic).
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10mo ago
From my understanding its more they dictate prices to the pharma companies as stewards of national public health systems.
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10mo ago
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When I give up alcohol but still want a cold fizzy drink, tonic water with freshly sliced half- lemon peel and all in a beer glass heavy with ice goes perfect. I'll keep the tonic out and just refill the glass directly. Alternately I'll keep club soda on hand just to drink with ice.
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10mo ago
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Last week Wall Street Journal writer Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years for espionage charges. The trial was closed so evidence was not available to the public; the WSJ and the US government have denied the charges (All the WSJ articles on Gershkovich are free from paywalls and other restrictions).
A list of other notable Americans imprisoned or formerly imprisoned in Russia includes:
Paul Whelan (former Marine charged with espionage for 16 years, arrested in 2018, his family denies he is a spy).
Trevor Reed (former Marine charged with assaulting a police officer while drunk arrested 2019, sentenced for 9 years, released in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was convicted for drug smuggling [for cocaine was arrested in Liberia in 2010 and sentenced in the US to 20 years]).
Marc Fogel (schoolteacher at the Anglo-American School of Moscow, arrested 2021 for entering Russia with 0.6 grams of medical marijuana sentenced to 14 years).
Britney Griner (WNBA player arrested entering Russia with a hash oil vaporizer arrested Aug 2022 sentenced to 9 years, released Dec 2022 in exchange for Viktor Bout [arrested 2008 in Thailand extradited 2010 to US, sentenced 2011 to 25 years by the US for conspiring to provide arms to Columbian rebel group FARC]).
Alsu Kurmasheva (journalist for Radio-Free Europe, holds Russian and American citizenship, arrested 2023 for failing to register as a foreign agent, sentenced to 6.5 years for spreading false information, relating to a book she edited 'Saying No To War').
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10mo ago
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Ada or Ador a family chronicle by Nabokov has one duel; also I think two attempts or near misses to duel . In the duel that does take place there is more discussion of seconds.
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11mo ago
What state sent a ballot for your dead uncle?
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11mo ago
My outsiders perspective is that he did it to keep an opposition spirit 'alive', even though he knew his personal efforts wouldn't likely be fruitful. I don't know if he expected death, but maybe was influenced by the experiences of late soviet dissidents and Warsaw pact detractors who were often imprisoned and harassed by authorities but lived to form the foundations of some post-communists governments.
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11mo ago
I've joined a weekly prayer group (a diocesan sponsored group from a international organization) we have a chaplain who joins us but hearing from others is often just as informative. I've never had a good personal relationship with parish priests or residence hall rectors (were priests at the University I attended), but with the weekly group makes approaching and conversing with the chaplain very easy. Other alternatives are spiritual direction, I would advise against broaching theologically complex questions in the sacrament of confession.
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11mo ago
Can I ask what is your source for the last sentence more than 1,000 settler attacks against Palestinians? Given the Israeli military responses since October how do they define 'settler attacks', is this lynchings?
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1yr ago
What bothered me most about Bridgerton was the love interest storyline where Queen Charlotte at court plays matchmaker and tries to set up Daphne (daughter of a Viscount) with a Prussian royal prince (not an heir but presumably legitimate), described as the Queen's nephew. What bananas, crazy-town balderdash, nonsense. I think Daphne could be believable be a mistress or a morganatic second-wife to an older Prince, but what is portrayed in the show is nonsense. If the conventions of Royals only marry other Royals is out the window then what is point of a Regency setting? This bothered me so much I never had any interest in the later seasons at all.
Couple this scene with the one where Daphne's eldest brother tearfully gives up his actress girlfriend. As if he, a bachelor with rakish tendencies and a titled Viscount with his presumably own inherited fortune lacks the freewill to break convention here is odd coupled with my earlier gripe. The more likely scenario being that he would try and marry for money but keep the actress as a mistress and have a second family.
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1yr ago
What is the point on reporting about the spouses of Supreme Court Justices? This headline and the previous ones I remember on Ginny Thomas seem publicized just for waging the culture and rallying voters. The court members are appointed for life and I doubt these there is political appetite to impeach a justice for their beliefs or family associations after they are already seated on the bench. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/politics/alito-pride-flag.html The reporting on the gifts received by the justices makes sense to me since that would speak directly to concerns of an impartial judiciary. These type of stories remind me of the reporting and reactions to the Butker speech, wrong beliefs equals condemnation no matter the context.
Taking a step back, I see the same culture war reporting from the other side; see Conservative media reporting on Biden, Pelosi, AOC or Rashida Talib but don't recall where beliefs of their family members was reported as news.
I had a professor (native Russian teaching Political Science at a US university) who said that Jefferey Sachs deserved to be crucified in Russia for what he did with advising shock therapy. He also said the Russian leadership shared some blame for believing his policies.
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