StLangoustine [any]
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That's funny, but is the show any good?
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·3 years agoLibs love to parade the 75-90 vs 90-present contrast though.
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·3 years agoLibs have been slipping "genocide" into their proclamations from the day one which shows how the word lost all its meaning.
Supposedly there wasn't much modern equipment fielded until a day or two.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-dead-as-convoy-escaping-kyiv-comes-under-ukrainian-fire/
Now we're cooked. If I can't see Dune 2 in the theatre I'm going to be pissed.
Kinda feel for Americans. They can't have shit, let them at least be proud of cool looking planes.
Wait, it's not an academic article, it's an essay. Still, it makes a lot of good points.
Greg Egan's Diaspora is a hard sf novel set in year 3000 where most of the planet is given up to nature and the majority of humans, billions upon billions of them, live in like five 10 meter cubic supercomputers powered by geothermal energy. One of my favorite novels but you have to be a huge nerd to really enjoy it.
Yeah, this is a drum I've been beating in for quite some time. I love Culture, but it's not particularly radical and Banks seems to have been a lib. Culture is basically what libs want to see "the West" as. Progressive, prosperous, untouchable in its hegemony. Graciously interfering with more backwards weaker civilizations for their own damn good.
Look to Windward is a particularly revealing example.
spoiler
Culture secretly meddles in affairs of cat people's backwards cast civilization, trying to get democratic forces to power through bribes and what not. This backfires spectacularly and leads to a cat civil war killing a good fraction of population in process. The cats are pissed at the Culture. They sent a civil war veteran who lost family in the war to go 9/11 on the Culture's massive space station. The attempt is easily thwarted and it's cat architects are brutally tortured and murdered by Culture's super special forces robot agent.
Published in year 2000. You can't make this shit up.
If anyone is curious I also read an academic article with the same sentiment.
Oh I remember this. Also that Lord of the Rings comic was fun.
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Sounds like a gambling addiction.
Someone once said that Psaki is trying to act as West Wing character and I guess that was stupid enough to be true.
In many places universities are straight in the cities and have dorms so I don't know how much gentrification they can do.
Irish travellers descend from Irish who took off for in reason or the other in the seventeenth century. Before genetic sequencing a popular theory was that they were a remnant of an indigenous population.
Under Stalin, I think, itinerancy was banned, some Roma were given apartments and some were pushed to start collective farms but didn't really stick.
Wasn't that show in England or something. There are Romani there.
I mean, they don't cost zero money. They cost like $50 a pop to mint.
Afiak hose commercial VPN services are on borrowed time in Russia.