Or two wooden coffee stirring sticks
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When I lived in Paris my dad came to visit and made me take him to Père-Lachaise to see the site of the commune and teach me about it.
Wow my dad is kinda based now that I think about it
They balk at looking like they’re the aggressors when bullying the defenceless, but can’t stand the thought of any compromise made by the west against states of comparable power level. It’s all just insecurity and angst that maybe America isn’t, after all, number one anymore
After hanging out here for a few months it is starting to feel like the mainstream liberal discourse is just collectively insane?? Like. Mass delusion level. I was always skeptical of western lib talking points but thought at least some of them were decent on welfare / social progressiveness etc. but now I just feel like I’m watching an increasingly unhinged horrorshow carousel that everyone I know is clinging onto for dear life
Missing a heritage university campus area, but other than that pretty good
BO1 isn’t real Magic tbh. Losing the ability to sideboard and adapt against your opponent makes it so much less of a skill game and variance matters more. But it’s profitable for wotc when worse players can win more against better ones, so there we go.
I think MH3 is a great limited format fwiw, I just mostly play on MTGO where I can play real matches and sell the cards I open to make it more affordable.
Agreed. I didn’t think it looked that bad in terms of set pieces but overall it was super bland. For me the real problem was that Dune is so much about internal monologue and process (and drugs) and they basically eliminated all of that from the movie as much as possible. It just became another GoT-style fantasy power struggle.
What an incredibly succinct illustration of imperialism.
Beijing didn’t limit its global influence efforts to propaganda. It announced an ambitious COVID assistance program, which included sending masks, ventilators and its own vaccines – still being tested at the time – to struggling countries. In May 2020, Xi announced that the vaccine China was developing would be made available as a “global public good,” and would ensure “vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries.” Sinovac was the primary vaccine available in the Philippines for about a year until U.S.-made vaccines became more widely available there in early 2022.
Washington’s plan, called Operation Warp Speed, was different. It favored inoculating Americans first, and it placed no restrictions on what pharmaceutical companies could charge developing countries for the remaining vaccines not used by the United States. The deal allowed the companies to “play hardball” with developing countries, forcing them to accept high prices, said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of medicine at Georgetown University who has worked with the World Health Organization.
The deal “sucked most of the supply out of the global market,” Gostin said. “The United States took a very determined America First approach.”
To Washington’s alarm, China’s offers of assistance were tilting the geopolitical playing field across the developing world, including in the Philippines, where the government faced upwards of 100,000 infections in the early months of the pandemic.
I actually watched Zelenskyy’s show “Servant of the People” and at the end of that he makes a reference to Ukraine “being always stuck between the orcs and the elves”. So I guess it was in common usage at least in Ukraine prior to the war
Did they?? I had stopped following. But iirc they basically defrauded the competitions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of prizes
I don’t know but they had the most unhinged cheating scandal in competitive sports ever. The top fisher was found to be cheating by putting lead weights into his catches.
The video of when they were caught is extremely worth watching (CW: dead fish)
I am in Britain, Fs in the chat
It hasn’t been too bad because short trip but my father in law at breakfast started talking about how the Palestine protest camp in Oxford was “wrecking the iconic lawns”