Celestial-body-NOS
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Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
3hr ago
My headcannnon is that Han is slightly force-sensitive; he technically shot first, but perceived that Greedo was intending to shoot.
Thus, the original version is what it would have looked like to a by-stander; the Special Edition is what it looked like from Han's perspective.
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1d ago
what's with this ten-year gap in your resume
"I presume you are familiar with the Official Secrets Act?"
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1d ago
Better to give a bit of behind the scenes sneak peak instead.
They rewrote the plot to include a sly, crafty mountain?
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4d ago
I can still scare one of them by saying the words "rigorous proofs" in a Russian accent.
Or "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrisation of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold". (Боже мой!)
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4d ago
Prussia was on Washington's side in the first one of those; the British allies were Hessian.
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5d ago
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5d ago
when the harmful consequences don't fall on yourself.
That does not apply to that to which I was referring.
If Alice calls for 'redistribute Bob's wealth; do not redistribute Alice's wealth', your argument might be valid; however, I am referring to when Alice calls for 'redistribute a fraction of both Alice's wealth and Bob's wealth' and Bob counter-proposes 'redistribute Alice's wealth; do not redistribute Bob's wealth'.
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6d ago
...much in the same way as, when someone advocates redistribution of wealth, they are met with calls to redistribute their wealth specifically while not redistributing the wealth of their richer, less compassionate neighbours.
I thought it was brilliant.
Maybe if Uncle Mark didn't want his niece to talk to him like a toddler, he oughtn't have thrown his toys out of the pram when he was told to be polite to people with whom he disagrees.
(Yes, even if he thinks they're delusional. Family dinners are not the time or place to practise amateur psychiatry; if we invited Richard Dawkins, we would expect him to refrain from referring to Cousin Sarah's church as 'fairy-tale club'. Not dead-naming or mis-pronouning Cousin Alice, or bringing up the genitals with which she was born, is the same principle.)
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6d ago
I was reading a history book talking about Episcopalian death squads running around killing Presbyterians in Britain, in the 17th century.
And now you have:
- the 'C and E C of E' who shows up on Christmas and Easter
- the man from Good Omens who 'doesn't go to church but insists that the church he doesn't go to is the Church of England'
- the man who regards the Church of England as akin to a cucumber sandwich, in that it isn't very intense but makes a good accompaniment to a nice cup of tea.
Cultures are not set in stone; they can change over time.
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7d ago
Less, given that they are hors de combat, while the terrorist in the Afghan village is still capable of perpetrating armed acts against you.
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7d ago
What did their families do?
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7d ago
...other than the fact that they are no longer a threat to you.
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7d ago
As neither the United States nor its allies ever sought to annex Kosovo, combined with the atrocities committed against the population by the Serbian government, the intervention in Kosovo was less analogous to the German invasion of Czechoslovakia/Poland/&c. and more analogous to the independence of the various colonies of European nations.
The matter of Israel is more complicated; Israel had, to the best of my knowledge, been minding their own business for the past decade when their Arab neighbours decided to attack them; however, some of their conduct in the territory which they captured in the ensuing conflict has been less than honourable.
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7d ago
It's a bit disturbing to think that people might set up independent societies which are a great deal worse than North Korea, but the possibility of central control is in many ways more disturbing.
Scott Alexander wrote something about this tension.... (TL;DR version: limited central government enforcing very robust exit rights.)
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7d ago
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;
Theology tells us we existed before birth.
Before conception, or in early-to-mid-XX-Century terms, 'before you were a twinkle in your father's eye'.
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7d ago
First Gulf War was the US supporting
the post-1945 taboo against wars of territorial expansion.
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11d ago
Or perhaps I don't have an eye for Afghans, and they all look the same to me.
To a weasel, another weasel is weaselly weckognised.
But a stoat? That's stoatally different!
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12d ago
Me and my buds would go fuck off in the woods for an hour, whittle little spears and wooden daggers, set interesting looking plants on fire, hurl rocks and playful taunts at other patrols we encountered. Headed back to camp, cooked and ate dinner, cleaned up, made a fire, play some cards while cracking the raunchiest jokes and using the worst profanity we knew while the dads snickered and pretended not to hear. Then it was lights out, to our tents and sleeping bags where we talked about girls (90% bullshit, we knew nothing) and busted each other's balls for this or that. The dads cracked a bottle of whiskey and shot the breeze;
Doesn't seem Courteous, Kind, Clean, or Reverent....
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12d ago
There is no [Haitian] fracking community in South Dakota.
...much to the chagrin of the supervisors, who, much like factory managers in Ohio, would appreciate a workforce who show up on time and sober.
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13d ago
immigrants do make housing less affordable simply by the numbers
I don't think it's the recent immigrants who are preventing houses from being built....
As a moderate opponent¹ of Mr Trump, I did get a 'nabbing al-Capone for tax evasion' impression from the matter....
¹Capable of understanding that not every possible criticism of him is necessarily true², and of recognising his stopped-clock moments³.
²Compare the cancellation of Bill Maher post-9/11 for pointing out that the hijackers, while irrational⁴ anti-freedom murderers, were not, in the usual sense⁵ of the term, cowards.
³Such as the Executive Order on architectural styles.
⁴For those not familiar with Mr Maher's oeuvre, he has a very dim view of organised religion.
⁵As opposed to the vague 'bad person' sense, which far too many terms for specific character flaws erode into....
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18d ago
...system leaders voted to phase standardized-test scores out of admissions decisions.
Institutions ... that have self respect have pivoted back to some form of standardized testing....
Standardised tests are the worst method of determining college admissions, except for all the others that have been tried.
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18d ago
Possibly relevant: today is the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
Should they be drug out into the street first?
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