I was wondering that too. Doesn’t the military signing on anyway put him in a position to fully Yeltsin it?
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et?post=asset%3A69e3ba8d-55f4-443e-9531-84ad91772741#post
He lifted it himself. I guess he didn’t have it in him to really take over, which makes me wonder what he even hoped to accomplish in the first place.
Currently it looks like the parliament is working on approving impeaching him
I mean, a lot of people hate his style, but I think he’s a pretty good singer too. Once you get past the basic conceit that he sounds constantly crossfaded, he’s very expressive.
Waters, of course, is also a good singer, and doesn’t have that barrier of potentially sounding incredibly annoying.
He could be bullshitting, and he and his cronies are incompetent enough to fumble this even if it was true, but this theoretically would be a great outcome for not having more war in the region.
It’s probably just because they want to arm and train Azov II with even fancier weapons to do terror attacks or something.
That’s exactly what doesn’t happen usually, but it’s one of the best outcomes (the other good outcome is if it was a hit and the corruption was uncovered as an unintended consequence)
I think that’s a counterproductive response.
I think the stronger parody would be if you could only play as your own sex because anything else would be trans ideology
Maybe there’s a rock out there made, by complete chance, in such huge proportion of silicon that it becomes more viable, I don’t give a shit. It was just an aside anyway, pick another based on the same principle if you like. Why an obligate biped? Why this size? Why not a flying creature? Why not a rotationally-symetrical monstrosity? Why not an intelligent species that physically couldn’t really be engineers but happen to live on the same planet as creatures who can? Or who just get contacted by outside life that can? I’m a dipshit who mostly prefers pulp and cosmic horror (read: fantasy) science fiction, so I’m sure someone who knows more could come up with more and better prompts.
I can’t help but notice that you didn’t list a whole lot of traits that would be considered vital to having a fairly human sillhouette. There’s nothing here about obligate bipedalism, for example, or having just two legs in the lower part of the body at all. There’s nothing here about how the forelimbs are articulated, and whether it would look meaningfully like hands or an array of dexterous tendrils or something. And all this gritty realist speculative biology seems out of place when most sci-fi is basically a particular sub-genre of fantasy anyway. Even being generous to the sci-fi writers, supposing the universe works in a fundamentally different way from how ours does (breaking laws of relativity and entropy, commonly), why can’t some ecosystems work out to stretch your imagination of what could be an advanced species? It all seems very narrowly prescriptivist, even beyond the fact that this is fiction to the point of taking negative liberties with the bounds of what is truly realistic.
Edit: idk, it just seems obtuse. Like, “Advanced life can only be carbon-based because being that way affords these benefits” without considering that other models could provide other benefits (I’m sure you know better than I about the use of silicon-based life in speculative biology). And that’s if the subject is addressed at all.
That “definition” doesn’t elucidate anything about the question, it’s just shuffling words around and leaving the reader to guess. I would also contest your elaboration, because the vassal of an empire can still participate in the execution of imperialism (would we really not call South Vietnam imperialist once it fell firmly into US orbit?). Not only that, but by reasonable definitions, Japan has been known to perform imperialism even in the creation of anime itself, by outsourcing the labor to India, to say nothing of the historically much poorer per capita China and South Korea. That’s just normal superprofits though, not “cultural imperialism”. We’d need a good definition of that to answer the question.
I support our rogues, they work hard to circumvent the combat mechanics
In a lot of cases (not the people here) it’s because they like having a woman they can oggle from every angle and exercise complete control over. See Shaun’s most recent video; if it’s enough to be a core conceit of reasonably popular video games, it’s enough to motivate g*mers in other games that treat their female characters just a misogynistically.
Plenty of people have other reasons, of course.
One thing that I’m surprised is being left out is that the admins were doing outreach to various leftist groups, and they were able to get into a conversation with at least a chapter of was one of the more substantial ones (maybe PSL?) who then refused because of the website referencing El Chapo. They rightly decided it would be better for the site’s public image to not have that name, and the site had somewhat grown apart from the podcast anyway.
It could never live up to that name anyway
In communist China . . .
Bernie had a lot of support back in 2020, but he got ratfucked by the entire field moving to ensure that Joe had a clear path to beat him.
Sure the history is interesting, so is that of elan vital, abiogenesis, and geocentrism. It still remains that anyone who believes in these in the modern day has something seriously wrong with them and there being a Soviet plenum that agreed with them almost a century ago does not change that fact.
I’ve seen some moments of HB consensus that “religion cannot be a reactionary social force ever, even theoretically, and you must be a reddit atheist idealist for suggesting so”
“oil cycle” is a good bit
If the site policy is that protective of the intellectual influence of Evangelicalism, the site should be shut down because it has lost the plot.
I think that the current generation generally don’t care about a thousand year Reich or they have some pastoral fantasy of it in the vein of Jefferson. I think they just want money and personal power and then eventually they die. What do they care about the subsequent 700 years or whatever it is? They got theirs.
And I think this mindset is prevalent in less blatant forms in other imperial core nations, they just haven’t reached the advanced rot or the US. Just look at the UK.