The average person does not have 73 names, that was a statistical error. John … McNamee, CEO of names, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Yes, because nobody has ever believed themselves to be superior for reasons other than religion such as ethnicity; that would be absurd. It’s not like the Jews suffered a holocaust for exactly that reason or something.

(To be absolutely clear: this isn’t a defense of Israel; they are, beyond any possible doubt, perpetrating a genocide, and I don’t want it to seem like I’m excusing this in any way because there is no defense. I just want to note that this is a flaw in humanity that we see pop up in a variety of forms, with religion being one possible angle.)

To call this a flaw in religion is to equivocate Israel to Judaism, and that’s exactly what Israel wants you to do. Don’t help them muddy the waters.

An 8th century peasant probably wouldn’t immediately call you a witch, and even if they did, they probably wouldn’t execute you for it, so long as nothing suspicious happens afterwards. So long as you don’t literally show up in your Time Machine in the middle of the day directly in front of them, you’ll be fine. Keep a low profile and people will write a lot of things off as exotic goods. You could just say these are a candy from somewhere far away and they would have no way of knowing.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdFrPnlRg

The real risk they should be worried about is the resource commitment required to run a nuclear program in the first place (to say nothing of their ballistic missiles which have consumed incredible resources over time only for them to have underperformed in the Twelve Day War).

Their domestic situation remains incredibly fragile, and every bit of money committed to a war machine is money that can’t be committed to domestic priorities like keeping the people from wanting to forcefully interface you with a piece of lighting infrastructure Mussolini-style.

Extremely understandable. I just have turbo autism and a frankly embarrassing playtime in OSRS 😭

Also, I can’t believe you would point out to me that the quest is two decades old. In a single moment I straight up withered away into dust

I believe you may be thinking of My Arm from the quests “My Arm’s Big Adventure” and “Making Friends With My Arm”, unless I’m forgetting about a troll named My Finger.

There’s a kid named finger joke there somewhere, I just know it.

The perfection of my ass could only be crafted by autistic hyperfixation. This is known.

Ukraine deploying drones from trucks in Operation Spiderweb was arguably also a drone carrier, just a terrestrial one.

If I’m understanding what you mean correctly, then that is the point that Japan started building up its military again. The war in Ukraine was a shock to the system for many countries, and Japan was no exception. Their subsequent 2023 force design white paper outlined a whole host of ways that they intended to expand and modernize the force in order to better handle a potential fight if the “rules-based international order” (their words) were to continue its trajectory of instability.

Still, your point stands, as to my understanding, they remain deeply dependent on INDOPACOM for coordination a lot of the time. For example: South Korea is by far one of their best options as regional allies go, but those two haven’t really been able to put aside the hate for each other very effectively. They’re explicitly allied, but most Asia Pacific training operations involving Korea and Japan are configured with the US as the glue holding them together. I, for one, wouldn’t trust that glue to keep holding.

Impressive. Not just anybody can cut mid stream like that on a hydrated, full bladder.

Homie got a stream so clear and a kegel so rock-hard that they’re just pissing out mineral water at this point.

Honestly, I don’t even need the group pee, I be judging even at the urinal. If I’m pissing at a urinal and someone walks up next to me, completes their entire piss, and then leaves before I’m done, I’m gonna be just a little smug about it in my head.

Smh. Should’ve been born in Rome. I could’ve been critiquing Publius on both piss duration and log volume.

Remarkably clear streams. These dudes are out there chugging water to make sure they’re not showing up dehydrated for the communal sink piss.

Probably depends on who you ask, but my understanding is that there is at least relatively significant support for the reinstatement of Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son and exiled crown prince of the last shah. To my knowledge, his calls for protest and overthrow aren’t the inciting incident for the currently-occurring protests (the economic catastrophe(s) Iran is going through have that plenty covered), but those calls to action have at least been been a contributing factor and rallying point for the ongoing protests.

Genuinely, invest in education and you can resolve a lot of this in one fell swoop. I firmly believe that a large part of the reason the US is in its current state is because of the systematic cuts to our education system which have been happening for damn near half a century (fucking Reagan). Invest in the youth, give them the critical thinking and media literacy skills needed to draw their own conclusions, and I think you’ll have made significant progress on the issue.

Easier said than done, though, I’ll admit, and it’s a plan that operates on a pretty goddamn long timeline - a much longer one than the current critical situation is likely to allow us.

Plus, without the US onside, NATO does not have the stocks at the moment to keep supplying Ukraine in the way they would need to take back all of their lost territory, and you can’t become a member of NATO if you have an ongoing border dispute. Unless Ukraine is willing to cede its claims to the regions occupied/annexed since 2022 (as well as Crimea), they can’t join NATO now, and they can’t re-take that territory (for now) without the US helping.

If defense production can adequately ramp in the rest of NATO, then that might change, but for the moment this seems like a decent option if it keeps US friendly and options open depending on how things pan out. They aren’t really sacrificing anything that was a realistic prospect in the short term anyways, as far as their strategic goals are concerned.

There’s something comically absurd to me about censoring “fuck” on a post that jokes about pedophilia lmao. Feels like the priorities might be slightly out of order.

Fr. I died when I saw the title because it reads like a conspiracy theory class roster lmao