BadCivilization
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BadCivilization
1yr ago
supporting Serbia against NATO (as best Russia could at that point)
If the U.S. was not acting as a hegemon against Russia, NATO would not have been helping Albania annex part of Serbia in the first place. (Ironically, in pretty much the same way Russia is now trying to annex parts of Ukraine but with less historical justification.)
BadCivilization
5mo ago
What's your living situation like? Buying a house ate up most of my money and also improved my life. It also opens a lot of opportunities to spend money on upgrades that you can't do in a rental.
Nice furniture is another option. My Aeron desk chair is a lot more comfortable than my cheap old one from Amazon. I love sitting in my Ekornes Stressless chair and reading. I sleep a lot better on an expensive king size mattress.
BadCivilization
9mo ago
The prior charges were politically motivated, but these charges are an attempt to openly criminalize dissent itself and hence an existential threat to our democracy.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
I think it is poor etiquette to start a top-level post about this instead of just replying, especially given how extremely recent the original post was.
Anyway, I haven't followed the issue very closely but I have seen claims relating to an internal email that appears to show that the people running the election were aware of "issues and concerns" related to the use of Sharpies and instructed that ballpoint pens be used for early voting but sharpies on election day. The article I cited refers to this as a Conspiracy Theory but despite that seems to accept the email as real.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
this is the regular reminder that the leaded US embassy phone call from Euromaidan was a discussion of who and how to approach for inclusion to a stable government after Yanukovych's offer
This is even worse than your eliding over the violence that forced Yanukovich to flee. It's obvious to anyone who reads the transcript that the U.S. was telling their Ukrainian puppets who to install after the coup.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
The violence documented in the links I provided precedes the shooting and provides important context for why the "protesters" would be suppressed with live ammo.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
We are citizens protesting. You are insurrectionists. They are rioting.
It's not up for debate whether the Maidan protesters were more armed and violent than the Capitol protesters. No one at the Capitol was throwing Molotov cocktails at police or throwing firebombs into the Capitol building.
BadCivilization
4mo ago
If you want to keep up the weights, buy a foldable bench. I have one by Flybird I picked up for $50 on Craigslist. Fits easily in a closet when not being used.
This is a decent program: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/2e79y4/dumbbell_ppl_proposed_alternative_to_dumbbell/
However, a few months off is not a big deal. Your strength and muscle will bounce back quickly. Maybe a good time to explore some other forms of exercise.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
How much are you making now?
What range MBA are you looking at? Top 10 schools close to guarantee a good salary but admissions are tough, tuition cost will be six figures, and you would need to relocate for 2 years.
BadCivilization
2mo ago
I think just agreeing to enhanced election security measures for future elections would have assuaged Trump's ego.
BadCivilization
7mo ago
Would you apply that logic to Afghanistan refusing to extradite Osama bin Laden?
BadCivilization
1yr ago
I can't remember a time when I haven't experienced an improvement in mood after cardio exercise, and I desperately missed it during times in my life when I couldn't. Are you working out hard enough to really sweat and get your heart rate up, or are you just doing the equivalent of walking? Not that walking is useless, but the effects are more subtle than moderately intense cardio.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
Yeah it should have been 60% and I forgot to include the source for the encounter and release numbers.:
Biden’s DHS is honoring that order increasingly only in the breach. Just 40 percent of the aliens who were stopped by Border Patrol at the Southwest border in July were expelled under Title 42, down from 47.7 percent in June and 62.3 percent in all of FY 2021. By contrast, Trump expelled more than 87 percent of migrants subject to Title 42.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
I got into the franchise with Three Houses so I don't have a good sense of what the game used to be like. I hate the new character designs, especially the MCS. Mika Pikazo has a very unique and distinctive artstyle and she was a very weird choice for FE. She's responsible for one of the weirder FGO servant designs but at least it fits the character there.
I'm disappointed about the routes too. I will probably just skip Engage.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
Thanks for the detailed info!
I have been extremely drunk many times but don't have any experience with hallucinogens. Unfortunately, I won't be able to try scale up over weeks because I am only planning on a week or so vacation in a country where mushrooms are legal. Guess I will try a small dose in a hotel room.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
Most people, even YIMBYs, support the right of a community to impose some restrictions on activities with large externalities. Only the most extremist libertarians think anyone has the right to build a fish cannery or paper mill in a residential area.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
How you can interpret that anodyne message of "everyone should have the right to speak / let's have a conversation" as an endorsement of Kaepernick's message, or as "conveying that Kapernick didn't intend the protest to disrespect the military or the country" seems quite incomprehensible to me.
The part of the narration that says "the first time I heard about Colin Kaepernick, I thought the guy hated America" is immediately followed by an image you left out, text saying "meet Green Beret who advised Colin Kapernick to take a knee." It seems pretty clear to me the intent of the juxtaposition is "Colin Kapernick does not actually hate America, a veteran told him this was an appropriate way to protest." Thus "make Kapernick's protest sympathetic and palatable" is an accurate description.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
The almost universal graduate textbook for microeconomic theory is Mas-Collel, Whinston, and Green. It is very comprehensive. Despite being a graduate textbook, you don't need any prior economic training to understand it. However, it is dry and abstract and not strong in developing motivation or economic intuition. Hal Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics is a good undergrad textbook that does those things better but is much less rigorous and does more handholding on the math. (Don't confuse this with Varian's more advanced "Microeconomic Analysis.") I would start with a quick read of Varian's Intermediate Micro and move on to MWG if you want more.
What sort of jobs are you looking at?
BadCivilization
1yr ago
This is a symptom management solution not a cure, but using a Navage to clean my sinuses when I have a cold greatly reduces post-nasal drip and the resulting cough.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
I second the exercise suggestion but how exactly to go about it depends on your current fitness level, weather, and living environment. If you're somewhere not too cold and are not already a runner I highly suggest the couch to 5K program! Only 3 days a week and takes about 2 months to get you running 30 minutes continuously. You will be in much better cardio shape by the end.
Reading more books is another idea. To avoid distractions, take a physical book or a dedicated ereader without web browsing capabilities to a coffeeshop and read a few hours a day. Maybe bring a notebook to reflect on what you're reading.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
Well, some people eat chicken sashimi.
Poultry generally has a high risk of salmonella and to be sure it is safe most people cook it to a high internal temperature. But not everyone agrees. For a more moderate perspective, see acclaimed chef James Peterson who says a properly roast chicken will be pink in some places but it's probably fine if it's internal.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
One thing I did notice was that fasting was harder without the cardio. Not much harder (a 16:8 schedule is pretty easy) but I just feel hungrier (which might explain why I'm more irritable). Still not sure exactly why moderate-to-vigorous cardio would make me less hungry. Maybe it's that I'm just wasting an hour and a half working out and walking home that I would otherwise been thinking about food?
The distraction effect is probably part of it, but it is known that cardio (transiently) increases levels of ghrelin, a hormone that makes you feel less hungry. I assume this is why I can go for a run while I'm starving and then not want to eat for an hour after I'm done.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
Kelly had spent more than twice that by July. Masters is extremely underfunded for a competitive Senate candidate.
BadCivilization
1yr ago
This becomes untrue if democracy is sufficiently local.
What happened in Ukraine is as if the January 6 protestors were much more numerous, armed, and violent; if the Capitol police decided to side with them instead of shooting Ashley Babbit; and if they successfully terrorized Congress into installing Trump while Biden fled.
When the democratically elected president is chased out of office by a violent mob of his political enemies, that is the central example of a coup.
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