Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
25d ago
Sour skittles are beautiful. The sour Mike & Ikes are my current tart craze.
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
You're changing too many variables, I'm afraid. None of those involve irreversably claiming someone else's possession.
Mantergeistmann
27d ago
If I get into a traffic stop and I am asked if I take any medication, then I could be truthful and give them a list of drugs, and hope that they will eventually figure out that these drugs do not impair the ability to drive a car. Instead, I will simply lie to their face that I do not take any medication. But I generally do not seek out situations where I will lie.
I used to self-report my tiny keychain swiss army knife at land border crossings. I don't bother anymore, and I think the border guards are happier for it, because ultimately when they ask, "do you have any knives", we both know that isn't what they're referring to and isn't what the actual question is.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
The DoE build’s American nuclear weapons so they would be the type of people you would ask to get cleanup advice.
The DoE has US authority and expertise for all nuclear matters, to the point that the US Navy nuclear propulsion program is part DoD, part DoE. It makes sense that if there's even rumours of a radiation leak, the US would want/be invited to send some experts to check it out/verify for the propaganda/masses that there's nothing going on. Or hell, it may even have been an unfortunately scheduled unrelated visit.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
Estonia has asserted its right to inspect tankers transiting the Baltic under the international laws for maritime protection, which was also backed up by a European Commission decision requiring tankers to provide proof of insurance when transiting European waters. Last month, Estonia briefly held a tanker which it asserted was operating with a false registry and from the reports yesterday the Estonian Navy again attempted to inspect another suspicious tanker.
The crude oil tanker identifying as Jaguar (105,000 dwt) registered in Gabon was inbound for Primorsk, Russia when the Estonian Navy contacted the vessel. The Equasis database reflects the same vessel as the Argent, registered in Guinea-Bissau with unknown managers and a registered owner in Mauritius.
Yes, how dare Estonia... attempt to inspect a tanker, possibly one traveling in its territorial waters? And not even one sailing under the Russian flag. Which, yes, we all know that maritime registries are fig leafs and tax evasion, but it still counts.
"The Insider was able to confirm, using Sentinel navigation charts and data from tracking service MarineTraffic, that Jaguar was indeed located in neutral waters during its encounter with the Estonian patrol boat Kurvits.
However, the video shared by the pro-Russian Telegram channels shows coordinates on the vessel’s navigation display indicating that, at the time of filming, the ship was positioned just south of the neutral waters boundary — within Estonia’s territorial waters."
If anything, the overreaction here was by Russia:
Russian SU-35 fighter entered Estonian airspace overflying the area. The plane was reported to be in Estonian airspace for less than one minute, but the media is saying its transponder was turned off and it was not in radio contact with Estonian air traffic control. It had not filed a flight plan.
I don't see anything wrong with Estonia attempting to enforce the sanctions the West has imposed on Russia, and trusting in its alliance with the West to then back it up when it attempts to enforce them. Any policing effort is backed by the state's authority and not just the physical capabilities of the arresting officer (although it certainly helps to be a bruiser), so if you expand it up a bit to geopolitics, this is no different.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
Smoke Jaguar
They were the opponents in MW3, right? I'm still waiting for any sort of modern platform re-release of that one... by which I mean the ability to purchase and play the OG on a modern Windows machine.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I have a hunch for the Navy Nukes it's less about creature comforts, and more about ensuring they can have undisturbed rest and privacy for better studying.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I used priority contacts. I knew a call would only be coming from one of these X numbers, so I could set up my work iPhone to only make noise if it was one of them, and be in silent mode otherwise.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Seeing the recent unexpected shift in online discourse to describe Trump as being similar to Mao, I wonder as well if his crimes are soon to be spotlighted more than they used to be...
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
even Stalin and Mao haven't been as effectively pariahed
I think those two are helped by the sheer number of intellectuals who either fell for live propaganda about how great life was in the USSR, or who are generally pro-socialist/pro-communist and would rather not draw attention to such high-profile failure states.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Yeah, that's why I'm wondering if the shift will eventually lead to, "Well, Yuengling is anti-union, which we now like, but still pro-Trump, which is bad."
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
yuengling
Yuengling is, in some circles, more disliked by craft beer snobs than even Bud/Coors/Miller, due to the pro-Trump/anti-union stance of the owner. Should unions ever shift to be more right-leaning, I'll be watching the discourse with great interest.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Except Cognac, which is Black-coded in the US for reasons which are completely opaque to non-Americans.
Alright, I'll bite: this is the first I'm hearing of that, please do go on.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Interestingly, the previous Leo was not exactly pro-Socialist...
To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I think Benedict had 3:1 odds at one point. Francis was a bit less likely, but he had been noted in the previous election as having some support, so it wasn't out of the blue.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Oh, what the hell.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
In a sort of "it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it's love of money" way?
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I'm not sure if you're getting how big of a mania this is. People ended up bullied out of certain amateur forums for merely using AI illustrations.
I've seen the unironic take on some D&D forums that if you want an image of your character and can't afford to commission custom art, it is more moral to search Pinterest/Deviantart/whatever and download an image that looks kind of like what you imagine, rather than "use AI and steal from the artists it's trained on".
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
How about the appeal of legos? But there's also a mode where instead of just having all the legos you want, you have to hunt for/create them, following a gameplay loop, with just enough adversarial events (monsters) to keep you from getting complacent too easily.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
It did lead to the weird situation where Trump entered office as the first non-incumbent who was not opposed to gay marriage.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I always assumed that was less as anti-tax sentiment and more as a misleading "this is a low price (oops no you'll be paying more than what we said once tax is applied)". Same with car ads: "Taxes, tags, and fees extra".
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
LotRO and GW2 do it, but in separate ways: LotRO has the way you describe it, your cosmetic outfit vs your gear, whereas GW2 has transmog, which changes the appearance of thr piece of gear itself. I have a hunch FFXIV does something similar as well based purely on what I've heard of fashion in that game. I'd assume it's becoming more and more popular in MMOs in general, but I don't know how much it exists outside of that realm (other than things like e.g. BG3's camp clothes vs adventuring gear swap).
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
As I said, not seeking to help his case, merely indulging my inner pedant.
"Your honor, my client could not have committed this robbery, as he was clearly seen committing wire fraud elsewhere at the time".
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
TIL that should I ever venture onto Pornhub, all the videos will be about cleaning the grout in your bathroom, weeding the garden, the precise temperature at which your roast is perfectly cooked, and giving that mucky wall a good scrub.
Or, to quote Field & Stream,
"Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this fictional account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is still of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper.
"Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savor these sidelights on the management of a Midlands shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion this book cannot take the place of J.R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping".
Or, as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy put it,
I think theres something to be said for a concept of a "Friction Threshold", where everything above a certain level of difficulty/cost isn't considered "publically available" for certain purposes. Now, what exactly that threshold is depends very much on the information and medium, I'll grant. But it is very much one thing to be able to access the information, vs sharing/making it easier to find, vs publically broadcasting it. Or, to put it light-heartedly, my mother's age may have been easily findable/public record, but that doesn't mean she was happy when her nieces plastered the telephone poles up and down the block with "Happy 40th birthday!" messages.
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