Pearl S. Buck's novel Sons deals with this culture of warlordism and backstabbing. It's the sequel to The Good Earth and is nowhere near as excellent, but still a good read. Plus it's got Wang Lung in it again, which is good too.
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Why did the media suddenly start bleating about banning gas stoves, all at once? The company behind the study is called “Carbon-Free Buildings.” That company is a partner of the World Economic Forum and has a true-believer CEO who wants to rid the world of all carbon emissions (which is impossible and would lead to mass extinction).
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Hundreds of millions is peanuts.
Europe makes $60 billion every single year on trade with the US. They can easily afford to purchase some of our gas. Everyone goes on about how we're ripping them off, but it's a lie. Trade is supposed to be equal and benefit both parties. It just goes to show you how pampered and privileged Europeans are that they simply expect this $60 billion as a birthright and when anything decreases it even a little, they throw a temper tantrum.
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·2 years agoRoiland made a cartoon, posted on his website, about raping, torturing, and killing children. It's so graphic I can't show it here. If you want to watch it (which I don't recommend), it's at this link. http://roilandtv.com/unbelievable-tales/ The cartoon begins with two young boys who decide to go for a swim in the ocean naked. They get into the water and one child drowns and is shown under the water bleeding and being eaten by something. It just gets worse from there.
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The other boy then gets out of the water to go get a snack. A naked adult backs up toward him and defecates into the child's mouth.
The next cartoon features a character that looks like a shriveled raisin going to his home, where he has two children tied up who are shaking and scared. Above them is a clock with a penis and a swinging testicle. The gray thing tells the children that since he's been sexually gratified he must get rid of them.
He then takes a knife and skins one child's face and wears it as his own while he skins the other child's face.
In the next cartoon, a man in the park starts asking a child if he wants to see something, promising not to "stick my dick in you." Then he pulls out a knife, stabs the child in the stomach, and proceeds to rape the knife wound while yelling "I'm f*cking the stab hole"
These are the funny "jokes" we are all supposed to be enlightened enough to understand. Raping, torturing, and killing children. This cartoon was made in 2012, long before the rumors of Hollywood pedophile rings were swirling after the #MeToo outbreak.
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That's because you can't copyright game rules. If they used the exact phrases then maybe, but if you reword them then the company has no leg to stand on. GW's lawyers would have been all over it if it were in any way actionable.
My dad had .38 caliber shells with some kind of pellets encased in a matrix. Snake charmer I think he called it? Anyway you don't need shotgun shells to shoot a snake. You just leave it the fuck alone, snakes don't like to interact with people and only bite when cornered.
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Oh, I think they're perfectly aware. It's just that they're taking this popularity and cashing it in. If they're not making money, then why are they allowing it?
Just look at Games Workshop. The most asshole company out there, they are literally run by lawyers. They sue players all the time and come out with new rulesets that force players to re-buy their entire collection of figurines. And yet they're making money hand over fist.
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Yeah, but it's not D&D and will never be D&D. It's just another RPG that won't have anyone playing it in 5 years.
D&D players are going to upgrade to the new system for the reason they always do: 1) it's D&D 2) it's what everyone else is playing.
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·2 years agoThe subject really gets the dumbfucks and shills riled up. Bottom-rung despicable populist filth, and their agitating puppet masters.
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·2 years agoDon't call them "mainstream" media. They're not mainstream. Call them "corporate" media, because that's exactly what they are.
LOL Stripe regularly bans organizations from transactions due to political concerns. Musk won't last long.
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·2 years agoThe emotional support animal B.S. started as a good idea, then got abused to fuck by people who can't bear to be away from their pets for even a moment.
The stupidity hurts, too. The animal would have frozen to death or asphyxiated in the cargo hold. At high altitudes the temperature goes to -40 degrees and there's no breathable oxygen.
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·2 years agoStop lying. If you turned the stove onto "medium" it worked like a cheap microwave. It went "on 30 seconds, off 30 seconds", ensuring that the food either burned from overheating or didn't cook correctly.
It's hilarious how the Repubs used to be 100% on board with the FBI only to have it turn on them and attack. They used to worship the ground the FBI walked on and now it's turned itself into their #1 enemy.
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"The battle is won when the average corporate journalist is regarded in the same way as the average tobacco executive. They have a job; they're promoting their product; their product is cancerous and deadly; they're often bright people; they're often good people; but beware of what it is they're selling you."
-- Micheal Malice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYGhsf5G1k
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Induction stoves absolutely suck. They only work with certain pans. They're either on full or off, you can't simmer anything. Source: had to use one, got rid of it as soon as possible.
Putting circuit boards on carpet is just asking for trouble. This photo is just missing white tube socks and dad bod for the trifecta.
Hundreds of millions is what the link said.
$26.7 billion is still less than $60 billion. That's a difference of $33.3 billion. We could cure homelessness with that money. But instead, it goes to a bunch of overprivileged European snotnoses who despise us. Fuck them.
They've still got tens of billions to go before we're equal and trade is fair to both sides. Then, we can talk about running a trade surplus and maybe make some money for ourselves. You know, like Europe has done for decades.