Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
The sheer pleasure in watching an arrogant tit get humbled was chef’s kiss. Once by someone who couldn’t give a shit about him, and was good enough to simply crush him the first few games and then dick about, and once by someone who really wanted a statement victory
It funny because yesterday the chess did not, in fact, speak for itself
I’m not arguing that secular people (or, indeed, nations) can’t be evil. While you bring up China, though, it’s a bit of a myth that they’re not religious; approximately 80% of the Chinese population practise cults of gods and ancestors or belong to folk religious movements.
My point was that it’s a bit odd to pick the US as your example of a secular country when it is at the moment de facto Christian.
With regards to Bush being ‘as religious as Trump’, that’s just simply not true. He’s a pretty devout Christian, and has put it in a prominent position in all his campaign rhetoric, more than any other president of this generation. If you just Google George W Bush religion you’ll find plenty of news articles from a variety of sources saying that (e.g. this or this).
America is not a secular nation lmao. The entire language of the Bush administration during the Iraq war was one of a ‘holy war’ – they wanted it to be a new crusade.
And what’s interesting is that the suffragists (Millicent Fawcett chief among them) were at the same time working to peacefully lobby for suffrage, and yet they are not remembered remotely as much as the suffragettes.
What I personally believe is that the more militant wings of movements work best when they are bringing into focus something that the public already broadly believes. When people say ‘I agree with their point, but not their methods’, they’re doing a whole lot of discussion of your issue, and agreeing with your message.
At the same time I think you do need the quiet lobbying to be done to effectively push for specific legislation. Both a carrot to offer government an easy path, and a stick to keep it in the public spotlight.
The suffragettes put acid in postboxes, chained themselves to railings, and bombed the Chancellor of the Exchecquer’s house.
For sure. Systems engineering is a way of trying to apply more rigid thinking to what are known as ‘wicked’ problems. There’s a whole bunch of tools that come under the discipline, but to pick one specific example, causal loop diagrams are often used to help understand why complex phenomena happen. An example:
This shows a causal loop diagram for an energy network. The pluses indicate positive causation in the direction of the arrows, the minuses negative causation. If you were tasked with coming up with all the causes and impacts of fluctuations in energy demand, you might find it difficult to show (e.g.) positive and negative feedback loops
You might find the discipline of systems engineering of interest.
Glad it’s not just me that becomes mega camp. For some reason I go full Joe Lycett in voice and mannerisms.
*Got it; more semicolon memes for you!
Eyyyy always nice to be able to share – it’s a genre I really like, but just isn’t widely popular.
I prefer the Sidh live – I feel like they have more energy. Would thoroughly recommend Peatbog Faeries if you like that genre.
Other similar bands: Monster Ceilidh Band (prefer their studio stuff – Venus is a good track to gauge if you’ll like it), Elephant sessions, Niteworks.
Peatbog Faeries just dropped a banger of an album in this genre – my particular favourite
Laxatives?
Edit: for the latter
Or possibly footsteps
“whinging poms”
unpleasant ashes memories dragged kicking and screaming to the surface
I give up; the memes are too good. Where should I start watching Star Trek?
Elephant Sessions, Kan, Peatbog Faeries, Monster Ceilidh Band, Flook. Peatbog Faeries have a new album out now that’s great, but it is their first album with some vocal samples (not with many words though). All Celtic fusion bands to a greater or lesser degree.
True; my only question is whether it was inevitable that peace talks would have broken down anyway, and all the assassination did was slightly hasten the collapse. It’s like the question of whether the assassination of Ferdinand caused WWI. No-one would argue that it wasn’t the trigger, but in the counterfactual case tensions were so high that a conflict was really inevitable.
Also surgery. But we’re capable of knowing which homonym is meant by context ;)