I think they don’t really care about their citizens doing any aid. Or, basically, they care so little they’re not willing to put their necks out first.

I think (well, hope) we’re seeing a slow gathering of momentum as different countries make various small shows of support. If a dozen countries decided to send military escorts, and defended the aid all the way to its delivery into the people’s hands, it would work… but right now, none of them are willing to step up and say that they’ll do it by themselves. We’ll see a bunch say they recognize palestine, then diplomatic attempts to get aid in, then rabble rousing about aid needing to be delivered… and in each step it’ll be one followed by a few others before a larger amount all follow along. It’ll take far too long, but I would say in another year and a half that there would be military escorts, as long as trump doesn’t (threaten to) kickoff world war three.

DS2 is definitely my favorite. I liked the world’s concept much more than the castles that are just terribly designed in 1 & 3. 3 was also built up too much as ‘such an amazing game!’ by my friends who convinced me to get into the big boss bashers in the first time, and it just felt like the story dragged too much along the same lines as the first.

I think, seeing as I started with elden ring and then moved through 1->2->3, that some of the game’s choices, like certain enemies eventually not respawning, just felt so strange. That and what felt like a much slower combat pace.

I hated shalquoir, but I wish it was vr so I could give her good scritches.

The honest to god reason? Israel is perfectly willing to go all the way up to attacking other nations in this battle, and the other countries know it. NONE of them know whether the states would fuck around in their soil if israel were to start something, so they’re all leery of being the first one to find out.

Ah, the 'ole “I just want someone to acknowledge that I exist and love me for who I am, rather than because of a familial or business relationship” kink.

The apartments were randomly assigned. Do you know many freshmen who got to choose their dorms? Once I was a sophomore+, I did, but that first year in university-run student housing I didn’t get to pick.

I judge people based on whether they can understand youtube (which you should be changing to invidious or something else anyway) urls. It’s a useful and very short way to see if people have ever paid attention to repeated patterns. The moment I saw the t=XYs, I was amazed.

In a sense of understanding the wife’s perspective, proximity is just as important as the other major factors that affect how likely a relationship is to begin. There was a cool study of college students who lived in an apartment style building that showed you were most likely to begin a relationship with the person who had a door immediately next to yours. The only exception to that was for the person who had a door immediately next to the mailboxes. Proximity matters because it lets another person see you enough to form opinions based on a lot of interactions, and we all know someone who ‘shines’ despite their physical looks.

Plot twist: new neighbor was wearing a shirt that read, “I <3 dad bods,” and was already flirting (asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll) with the guy in sweatpants.

Everyone wants to shit on motorcycles, but it’s as much a red herring as a meaningful statement. You might as well mention that horse riding is 25x more dangerous than motorcycles. And if you really want to get into the weeds, go look up how many motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle accidents, and how many of those are due to speeding or alcohol involvement. So if you don’t drink, and don’t act like a fool, you’re really not all that badly off. Still worse than being in a steel cage for protection, but it’s not only for people “who don’t want to get old.”

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die.

I think?

Don’t look up something called, and I’m not remembering it perfectly, ‘the number,’ in the US, anyway.

Well, when you use money you’ve saved from the bank, you’re cutting a check. Barrels full of water from the sky are clearly rain checks.

The honest answer? We’ve been taught that it’s wrong since birth. If you go read some (not really) edgy takes on ‘honor’ codes from the middle ages, you’ll find a theme that the codes really just made it hard for peasants to go after nobility types without breaking the codes. Think about stuff like fighting one-on-one rather than mob rushing, using poison, not stabbing someone in the back… All things that would allow a peasant, or 20 peasants with knives, to kill an armored man. Also all things that were consistently done between noble people, but conveniently ignored unless useful politically.

Meanwhile, most things that we would consider moral are completely left out of such codes. And even back then, many of those morals were around, they just weren’t important to said codes of honor.

Nowadays, the same propaganda is used against us. You can’t hold a person working for a company responsible for the company’s policies/actions… unless they’re below a certain pay-grade, then it’s all their fault. You can’t get angry about your health being impacted by pollution, because how dare you try to change someone else’s life that uses that pollution! How dare you feel frustrated because someone can afford multiple giant boats and staff and multiple estates and their staff… while you struggle to afford rent and food and others languish on the street without any help at all.

Honestly they’ve mostly all felt the same to me. Perhaps if you had a wildly different fence that put out something like 10x the electrical rating you’d feel a difference, but every fence I’ve seen used is usually similar, around ~10k volts, I think.

A constitutional requirement for what? Answer that and you’ll understand why it doesn’t matter if they’re in “clear violation.”

As someone with two separate computers that have nvidia cards, I can only recommend hopping distros until one works.

(I’m not going to admit that manjaro worked out of the box on both of them and I ended up staying on it out loud on the internet)

Okay, you found me. Now do something about it. I’ll warn you, though, there’s only one way to stopper this mouth of mine! Trolololol!

Which is honestly pretty standard for the real world. Limited social circles and hot times blended well for millennia, why not continue the tradition at this point if both parties are willing? That’s probably the most accurate character portrayal rowling ever made.

good

You and I have very different ideas of what the word ‘good’ means, lol. The first, like, two chapters were fine as lampooning the poorly thought out logic of rowling’s world, but by chapter 8 or so it just was the same thing over and over again: mary sue thinker boy immediately noticing the giant flaws of the main author and having already rationalized the perfect exploit in a split second.

If it really became good later, well, first impressions matter and it had a pretty bad one.

O.o wait what.