Because Israel set up an apartheid state. If they had set about building a representative democracy that included a constitutional right of return for Jews nobody would have had a problem. Instead they want to own all this land and oppress the people who live there.

Either that’s a legitimate goal or it isn’t. I don’t think it is.

BG3 reminded us of what’s possible in game story telling. What letting the marketing team run the shop has done to the industry.

No. They are absolutely not allowed to stop food and aid into the combat zone they created. They are absolutely not allowed to prevent Egypt from sending aid in. They are absolutely not allowed to conduct a naval blockade.

Russia is food secure and has trade access all along Central and East Asia. Norway’s closure is in no way the same thing.

When the professional aid distribution people who work for the United States Agency for International Development tell you it’s happening, then it’s happening.

USAID already reported Israel is using hunger as a weapon. Which very much qualifies.

I was thinking the Vampire could actually take this as permission. She told him to make the determination.

That’s actually a really good layman’s explanation. I’m going to use that combined with, “you’re not a capitalist just because you support them. Capitalists are the people who own the capital.”

Easy. We set the FBI on all the actual leftists decades ago. So the movement is having to slowly rebuild itself in the US. As a result Progressives are the farthest left things most Americans have experience with.

Universal Healthcare

Point of order, the Iraqis used a worker action to prevent the US from taking the oil.

Or more specifically, from importing American oil workers and executives to rebuild the oil fields and run them in the near term. The Iraqis had a reasonable fear that they would be squeezed out of the industry and it would return to a Western corporation just taking all the oil, as it was before 1972.

Bush actually backed off and now Iraq administers it’s own oil and sells leases like most other countries. Just recently they finalized a deal with Total(France), ACWA(Saudi Arabia), QatarEnergies, and Basra Oil Company (Iraq).

So hopefully it’s working out for them long term.

Yes. Preservation that’s why it was taken. You see that statue was in imminent danger of being left there for the local people to preserve. The horror!

My favorite story about the British stealing shit is that time they stole a cultures entire written history. They had it all written on tablets and arranged in a specific order. It never occurred to them though that they should put page numbers because who would jumble them up? Who would destroy their history like that? Ah yes, the British, that’s who.

But that’s all in the past, and now it’s the only place on earth that can preserve these things. The only place. There is no other place. No possible other home for these artifacts.

I think it will be a while before they can take humans out of the loop. Otherwise they’re going to find a badly written romance novel or something else that weird in the code.

Here’s a good one of you read past the doom anecdotes they give you the hard data. It’s not dying by any means but 130,000 tech workers were laid off this year. If you’re still employed or have a lot of experience you’re probably fine. It’s the newbies and grads that are experiencing a tight labor market.

Udemy is a common place. (I have not taken this course and cannot guarantee it’s a good course) If you’re willing to pay more all of the certification companies offer courses as well.

AFAIK, career wise it’s more about what you want. You’ll be in a stable workplace with cyber but there are some reports that the software world is closing up, that getting a job is harder.

Nursing is just always in demand.

Also if you’re going to do cyber you don’t need a degree to start. There are online classes on network security and such you can use to study for your first certification. That’s the key point to get hired. A degree would help long term but moving up requires further certification, not necessarily a degree.

Por que no los dos?

My family will not play Stratego with me anymore. I buy hotels, and stay out of Australia in Risk, so they’ll play other board games with me still.

I wish. Our students are kittens compared to European students. The police are going to riot anyways, stop bringing the kid’s gloves.

I mean… That still works. In Iraq the US Army routinely ran bait ambushes in areas AQ was known to operate. Oh look a single vehicle and they’re waving beer bottles around. That’s not a trap at all… Meanwhile there’s an entire infantry platoon traveling dark and silent just out of the light behind them.

HEMA is not combat. It’s tournament fighting. In combat you’ve got a thousand spearmen on either side looking to stick you with a sharp stick wherever they can.

The only chance he had, while still taking Poland, was to not meaningfully attack France, Netherlands, or Britain. Make it clear he was willing to settle with them. None of those countries were thrilled to be in a war, that would have been the end of it with a new map of Europe.

The West didn’t care about the Holocaust and felt more threatened by Russia. The war in the Pacific would have still happened of course. And there’s a fair chance the West would have teamed up with Hitler to fight Russia.

Anything beyond Poland was just a bridge too far.