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In some cultures dueling scars were also considered manly so a lot of those duels were mutually agreed on in advance with both participants really just trying to give eachother cool dueling scars in the hopes of seeming more attractive.

I think I’d have a beer with the guy, I think he’s a giant prat but just because I dislike someone doesn’t mean they can’t have positive qualities mixed in among the bad. What he’s doing right now is actually somewhat positive for farmers in the UK and if I met him I’d at least want to re-enforce the less shitty behaviour.

I could see a market for a small electric camper van (Like actual small van sized like the old VW vans) with a solar roof. For regular camping you would always have electric to charge your phone and if you wanted to tour around a bit you could probably stay at each location for 2/3 days and gain enough charge to make it to the next one (at least in summer)

Nono this is good, its always good to fight an enemy ready to die for his cause, it means you and him have the same idea about how things should go.

I agree with you but are those recovery numbers based on western on hospitals and treatment? I imagine they’re going to be less rosy if you factor in a few days in the mud before treatment followed by the best medicine whatever money hasn’t been stolen can buy.

Can’t wait for for the 2120s when we do all this again but the nukes have pure fusion igniters and probably some kind of pseudo intelligent AI guidance systems so their proliferation can’t be prevented and they can evade anti ballistic missile systems.

Presumably the same place real rich people get it today. Gradually inflating the currency so that even if they’re not directly stealing from you the increase in their wealth comes from the lessening of value of your, mine, and everyone elses money.

Counter handwave, any god that would do that is a jerk who doesn’t deserve worship. (Actually like 99% of the shit most faiths deities do falls into that category.)

Exactly, sure ones that just don’t let him do dumb shit would be nicer but its nice to know that if he does somehow succeed in becoming a dictator he’s going to speedrun his way to the coked up hitler making terrible micromanaging decisions stage. Should be enough to balance out the brute force of the US armed forces when the rest of the world is trying to defend itself.

Technically zoidberg should be further right on the training axis than everyone else on it combined, He’s literally the best doctor in the universe for every single species other than humans.

I’m fine with ads when they don’t take up half my screen or try and shift the page to to trick me into clicking on them, should a stuck with sidebar adds.

Ah but Russia isn’t keeping track of its own losses anyway, easy to slip away and they assume you’re dead.

Well their heads aren’t on the tracks and they’re immortal, I bet we could rig some kind of device to make them total praplegics and then work on a direct neural interface so they can use computers while they lay there endlessly having their bodies painlessly trisected.

That just kicks the can down the road, can’t run a company when no one can afford your product. Which is the situation we seem to be rapidly approaching.

I dunno the NK troops at least appear to have boots, so coming back and telling stories of how the ‘western’ Russian troops don’t even have shoes or ammo is probably decent propaganda for the regime.

Short term decisions are made that ultimately collapse the company and that also turns to shit.

• White

• Not in shot, just a hand

• The arm was the same complexion as my own

• Tennis ball sized but made of that stuff billard balls are made of, smooth and shiny

• Classic oblong wooden table, looks like that cheap ikea pine with a clear grain

• The ball rolls along the table with again, the same sound you get with a billard or similar rigid ball rolling along a solid surface, upon falling off the table it hits the floor (pale orange ceramic tiles) and bounces a few times in that satisfying way that produces an ever increasing frequency until it stops.

• I already knew and did not have to chose after being asked the questions.

Honestly it seems more sinister than that, Its a black box deliberately designed to be as obscure about its methods as possible that can produce corroborating ‘evidence’ on demand in a way that’s deliberately un-verifiable but wrapped in some very authorotive sounding technobabble.

Its not as simple as that though, e.g. that electro shock experiment was rather shaky and subsiquent attempts to replicate it have all but falsified its results.

What you have to do is cherry pick the small group of people that are willing to do awful things, you then get them to do those things in presence of the saner people who then feel guilty by association. After that you can use their lack of action to stop this awful thing as blackmail/guilttrip to get them to do some small awful thing of their own, and then repeat that process to get them to do increasingly awful things until everyone is just as bad as what was originally just a very small subset of that group. Importantly even though they’re doing awful things they still feel bad about it but they’re in too deep, this makes them even more effective than your original psychopaths because they know how they’re likely to be punished should your side loose which makes them fanatical in order to avoid punishment.

Its a tried and tested process but not quite as simple as people just following orders.