Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Even steelmanning your argument though, why would we grant citizenship to someone willing to sell out their country to an invading power for a paycheck?
As an incentive to future collaborators? "Help us out, and you can earn your citizenship. Also, if everything does go to hell, we won't leave you in the lurch to be executed by the government you turned against".
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
When I was a teenager, I thought Office Space was representative of real life.
20 years later, that wasn't really true
Let me tell you, at least in my white-collar office, Office Space is considered by most people I talk to to in fact be completely true, and if anything an understatement. Of course, it helps when you have reports of your own with a 3-letter acronym that everyone knows for a fact nobody reads...
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
The others in his gang claimed he was possessed by a female spirit and would commit suicide (kill him)if she lost the baby, so he had to be on light duties till the baby came to term.
I'm sorry, what?
Mantergeistmann
9d ago
Would it help the US to get rid of all their black soldiers if they were fighting some white supremacist state?
See also: the US civil war, and the CSA opinion of black soldiers serving in the Union army.
Mantergeistmann
12d ago
So clearly it's possible to tell a dramatic story in this genre, where the heroes win a desperate victory against overwhelming odds, without incompetent commanders.
Case in point, LotR. The good guys are fairly competent, just up against a juggernaut of an empire ruled by Satan's lieutenant himself.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
an ingenuous device that will let him know which way on the starship to face so he can pray towards Mecca.
I unironically like that idea, though? How to incorporate religion into sci-fi is always a neat thing when done well. I'd also like some discussion about communion wafers/wine made via the replicator device, and any potential implications of that.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
Furthermore, he became a lodestar for people who cared more about religion than sports. His jersey was among the best-selling in the NFL. The people who wished him the most success, though, apart maybe from people in Denver, were those who weren't so much impressed with his playing ability as they were his evangelism.
I think this is an understated part of it: wildly popular backup quarterbacks are not a thing any team/coach wants to deal with.
Mantergeistmann
16d ago
You could at least provide us with what was said, rather than "go google this news story and then come back."
Mantergeistmann
23d ago
Wasn't the pro-life/pro-choice gender gap formerly pretty small? That is, there used to be a similar amount of pro-life women as pro-choice up until the last decade or so?
Mantergeistmann
26d ago
I suppose I could do something like a, "So you think you are an inventor, whats it like to get your invention patented?" Post if that would interest you, because that is something I could cobble together in a week or so.
Yes, please!
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
I'd recommend giving Heroes of Might and Magci 3 a try. It ticks the co-op and strategy boxes, and if you like it, there's a decent modern sequel shaping up.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
It's also one of the best scenes in Bill the Galactic Hero.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
The videos I've seen of the drug strikes haven't been on narco-subs, but have been on go-fasts. Assuming SecDef hasn't been completely lying about the location of the strikes in the video... there are very, very few other reasons to be in that part of the open ocean in a go-fast without a motheryacht nearby.*
And if you've got the money for a yacht and auxiliary go-fast... well, maybe you are a drug smuggler, but you're sure as hell not the one personally smuggling them.
*Granted, kinetic strikes on the whole boat is a step up from the previous interdiction methods, which are a) USCG boarding team, or b) USCG sniper in a helicopter with an anti-materiel rifle, and my understanding is that in the latter case, the smugglers will sometimes try to interpose themselves between the chopper and the engines in the (usually true) hope that the Coast Guard will hesitate to kill someone just to stop a smuggler.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Start a think tank
I'm in. What're we calling it?
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I do prefer the nebulous comfort of the BurdensomeCount brand name over the half-priced generic alternative that contains the exact same ingredients, I kust admit!
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Most people I know who liked Clair Obscur also were big fans of Metaphor: ReFantazio (AKA fantasy-Persona-with-adults-and-HieronymousBosch). I've played the latter but not the former, so I can only recommend it on its own merits.
I'm currently trying out the Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era demo via Steam's NextFest. My initial impressions are that it feels like someone made a modern version of Heroes III, which is of course the best game in the series and one of the greatest of all time. The biggest flaw so far: it seems like it isn't designed for hot seat (at least in the battles), which... I get it. It's the Year of Our Lord 2025. Hot seat isn't a thing anymore. But it's the principle of the thing, dammit!
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
The arguments I've seen are "he says they're good with money, which is stereotyping", and "he's encouraging people to hate them, both by generic bigotry and by doing things like recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which made a lot of people angry and therefore more likely to attack Jews."
The first one seems more than plausible (Trump, a bog-standard bigot who agrees with stereotypes? Say it ain't so!), even if it's a bit milquetoast; the second is... IMO one hell of a reach.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof
That looks like the lead-in to a statement you'd see from someone pro-Palestinian on Reddit, which does not usually line up directly with the far right (who I believe want everyone in the Levant to lose).
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
Yes. That's the point I was trying to get across. I believe we are in full agreement.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
You can hardly ask the Israelis to stop fighting and wait for the Palestinians to catch up in the kill count.
I feel like the definition of the term "proportionality" as a military/conflict term was one of the major casualties of this war, but I also don't think it matters. If Israel were to have shut down the Iron Dome, so more of its own civilians were being killed, those misusing the term proportionality wouldn't have changed to "well, now it's not genocide/war crimes because the Israeli deaths are closer in count to the Palestinian deaths", it would be "good, that's what they deserve for attacking Gaza." At least, among the die-hards, rather than the normie supporters who hear about a bad thing on social media and take their views/marching orders from it. They'd just go along with whatever the newest talking point was instead.
I feel like it might be a tad uncharitable to have said that, but I've never seen anyone change their mind when confronted with the text or context of the various laws and regulations that cover waging ethical and legal warfare.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
If a domestic abuse victim moves out because they finally found a safe place to stay instead, it feels weird to say "well, they didn't leave because of the abuse".
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
"Palestinians brutally murdered by occupying military forces!... but it's not the IDF doing it, so does anyone really care?"
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
My mom still has a painted Harris/Walz rock (?) in her back garden.
My stepmother named a beloved houseplant "Kamala".
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
I've been really tempted to get a GameSir for my laptop. I hear the back bumpers are surprisingly intuitive, and have a coworker who swears by them.
Time Team is a goddamn national treasure, though.
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