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1d ago
Or in Cibo's case: find God and then steal its body to wear as your own.
I've never heard of Otoyomegatari. I'll give it a look.
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1d ago
Huh.
I was also going to recommend Blame!
The artist has trouble with motion and action, but realy sold me on people endlessly wandering through a superstructure the size of the solar system.
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1d ago
I read that book and quite enjoyed it. Then read the author's afterword in which he details his experience on a bomber crew destroying the Benedictine Abbey at Monte Cassino in WW2. Nazi soldiers were using it as a fortress. It was a stone structure on a tall rocky section and was indeed a fortress. But a 1944 American bomber crew can easily wipe out a 1500 year old fortress by dropping bombs on it.
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3d ago
How many professional, actively managed funds beat their benchmark index over the course of 15-20 years? Guess at a percentage/range.
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3d ago
A Korean fictional show in which people compete for money. Losers are killed. Like playing "red light, green light" on a field surrounded by motion sensing machine guns. Or hard-core tug of war over a very long drop onto concrete. Really quite violent.
I assume Mr Beast isn't murdering the losers in his version.
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4d ago
I've never seen a second of his content, but I somehow know at least some of it is real life Squid Game.
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6d ago
Zoning rules that keep them from being within 5000 feet of a school, bans from advertising on television, heightened liability for harms, special insurance they have to purchase
What are: schemes proposed by gun control advocates to strip us of Constitutional rights, but pretend otherwise.
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8d ago
But they literally stole his money. It was also a civil asset forfeiture thing.
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8d ago
who happen to do a search warrant
If they had merely verified the lack of slave dungeon full of kidnapping victims they would have been fine. But no, they had to steal his money and now are getting smeared as fatsos, cucks and lesbians. Which in any other context I would be against. And I agree it is unfair in the sense that our complaints against them have nothing to do with their wives being unfaithful or licc[ing]'em low.
But no fair legal methods of retaliation exist and they deserve a good shaming. So I'll accept this little crumb of payback and hope somehow we get more in the future. Because I sure know my legislative representatives aren't going to help.
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9d ago
According to some he was an anti-illegal extremist. Heres a drawing of Trump and Chavez discussing border security.
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9d ago
Multiple non-German commenters in this thread are replying to me with "just following orders" arguments, including in response to me criticizing acts of murder. It apparently is a position with significant support.
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9d ago
How do you like your megachurches?
This is not the typical Protestant experience. I've heard Protestants in person unkindly mocking megachurches.
Back when I was young and went to church twice a week with my family we went to small local churches. Like every churchgoer did.
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9d ago
The search warrant forced them to disconnect his cameras and literally steal the cash out of his wallet? If they merely searched his place, determined he doesn't have a slave dungeon in his non-existent basement and then left than would be one thing. But no, they went further and disconnected his cameras and stole his cash. I now have no sympathy for them and advocated cruel public shaming.
I get this isn't my nicest view, but civil asset forfeiture is so vile. The incentives so perverse. I say good riddance and hope for more robbers wearing law enforcement uniforms to weep on camera from the targeted shaming.
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9d ago
I'm not criticizing them for executing the warrant. I am criticizing them for disconnecting his cameras and stealing the cash out of his wallet. That is a moral failure on their part. It is also technically legal so the only recourse against their terrible behavior is to name and shame.
And also things like Lon Horiuchi shooting a dark siloute he saw in his rifle scope and oops, that's a woman holding her baby. I'm not against him or the FBI having a sniper team or obeying orders to get ready to shoot. I am bitterly criticizing them for obeying the illegal order to shoot any adult on sight. He pulled the trigger and shot an unarmed woman. He indeed had a veto against obeying that illegal order. His obedience was a personal moral failing and he deserves shame to be heaped onto him.
This is a "just following orders" debate and I'm staking out the position that following orders to steal and murder is not acceptable. I hope our democracy can survive FBI sniper teams not murdering unarmed people and local cops not literally stealing the cash out of people's wallets.
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10d ago
Yes, and the articles detailed how they did that to lots of people. Including people who merely said government officials are parasites and one man who said a particular politician is a dick. And then German officials interviewed by 60 Minutes explained that yes they do this and it is a good thing.
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10d ago
I don't know about county judges, but I know that FISA courts approve of 99% of wiretapping warrants. So 1% shy of your rock.
The state invaded his home, not individual agents.
I get your point and entirely reject it.
The US government has at times murdered Americans. Including in the past few decades. By which of course I place personal blame and responsibility on the individuals who pulled the triggers, not on the amorphous and impersonal state.
"The department did [bad thing]." Makes it sound like an out of control building is victimizing Americans. Remember these are individuals with just as much moral agency as you and I. Don't let them hide behind a mask of collective guilt. As though department policy is an evil spirit haunting the land.
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11d ago
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14d ago
There have been incidents in which parts of a plane peel off and the cabinet loses pressure. That doesn't crash planes or kill passengers. Shooting a gun through the plane isn't enough.
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14d ago
taking his gun to the rear lavatory and emptying it in the general direction of the rear elevator assembly
You have a very Hollywood or maybe video game understanding of handguns destroying machinery.
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14d ago
As a P226 enjoyer I object. Yeah sure, no P320s shooting holes in legs, dicks and plane walls. But all of Sigs other great handgun offerings should be allowed.
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16d ago
About what I expect from a lecturer. Not an academic or a researcher. Only responsibilities are to teach a class.
The lecturers I'm familiar with are rather wretched. They couldn't get into a research position as a professor and this is a bad second option. They are paid little and lack stable employment. Maybe Obama was a very well off lecturer with student assistants and a decent wage. Or he wisely married another lawyer who stayed working at a law firm.
Yes. Loan words exist. Including from Arab sources within the past few centuries.
Not clear why they are being credited with cotton and sugar. Ancient Egyptians and Indians had cotton and traded it to ancient Romans. The middle East being between Europe and East Asia means they were the middle part of larger trading networks. So Indian numerals and far East trade such as sugar cane went through them. But I don't give them credit for being in the way of Chinese and Indian traders. Adopting Indian numerals was a good call on their part.
I have mandatory implicit bias training at work. I work for one of the largest companies on Earth by market cap. HR hasn't been informed of this happy news.
I also think there will be a backlash against Trump. Someday Democrats will be in charge and their voters will want payback. It will look something like vindictive wokeness and motivated partisan prosecutions.
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