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Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this one…
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Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this one…
This is huge context. Had they been Google employees it would have been a clear case of retaliation. But in this case they’re not Google employees, and their own employer was locked in a fixed term vendor contract. I don’t believe Google has done anything wrong under these circumstances.
It’s a pretty dull turn based battler. Think the battle mechanics of something like final fantasy, pick an enemy and an attack your character knows.
Yeah I think this is the most likely explanation, like surely he knows he can’t win but he is a symbol that there is still opposition to Putin.
Hopeful but doubtful. It would be great if he successfully tackles inflation but many doubts persist about the sincerity of his commitment to democracy.
Horatio Hornblower would like a word if you think Indefatigable is a made up word!
Articles like this are so disingenuous. UK news has been reporting things like this for several years now, always trying to make it sound like it’s us mean old continental Europeans who are forcing our evil rules on the poor blameless Britons. As opposed to being the exact thing they themselves voted for. Hello and fuck you from sunny Portugal, dear Brexit voters!
This is probably inevitable now that Turkey gave in. With two obstructionists they could point at each other, but once you’re the last one still blocking, you’re singled out as the asshole.
Slightly off topic but, did you guys find a way to actually disable downvoting on your instance, or is this a rule enforced by moderators? Asking because we’d be interested in flipping this toggle on ours, if it exists
I do understand the point you’re making actually, but you’re wading into emotionally charged waters here. I would argue “white” is an inherently racial term, but the more importantly, the correlation is not really relevant to the discussion and needlessly muddies your broader point (that climate may inspire or disincentive industrialisation) by injecting it with racial discussion.
I get what this guy is trying to say but the phrasing and unnecessary racialising explains the downvotes. A better and less offensive way to put this could simply have referred to climate: that you suspect the harsher climate in Europe rewarded industrial and penalised agrarian lifestyles in a way that wasn’t true for civilisations near the equator. Being white or not has nothing to do with it - correlation versus causation.
This is a bad take. Canada is a country with a strong democratic tradition. Comparing them by reduction to Hitler and the Nazis precludes any constructive discussion about their actual failings. It is simply not the case that a country who sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives to stop the Nazis is “built upon fascism”. Starting your comment this way immediately disqualifies any good faith discussion about their poor history of First Nations policies.
Yea, it is ridiculous. Regardless of how you feel about the embargo, Cubans are obviously not terrorists. Putting them on the list with jihadists is absurd.
On a timescale of hundreds of years? He’s probably right. Empires come and go, borders change.
Within his own lifetime? Doubtful.
Some countries would need to stabilise their economies before this would be viable, Argentina in particular with the huge inflation and debt problems would be too much of a liability.
So the actual change in question was the elimination of free university for foreigners; going forward, foreign students will have to pay tuition. In reality this brings Argentina in line with places like Europe, where non-EU citizens are also expected to contribute at least nominally towards their education.
Not necessarily. NATO military tech can track rockets in real time and project a destination. If you can see a missile is headed for a sparsely populated area and unlikely to inflict casualties, then you are better off letting it go. To intercept the missile is to demonstrate your defensive capabilities. Right now, Russia is likely in the dark about that. Unclear whether showing their hand is strategically the right move for Poland.
Are we assuming we’re allowed to use defines and templates? 😏