Not really? I feel like that was a lot closer to new Vegas. That felt like a continuation of obsidian whereas starfield very much feels like a continuation of the trends between Skyrim and FO4 within bethesdas game design. If that makes sense.
I feel so sorry for Argentina. My highschool Spanish teacher fled from Peron and in hindsight she was basically using spanish class to teach about how fucked up the stuff amerikkka-clap pushes in South America is. Very based lady. Argentina deserves better.
I was not at the point in my political development where I would have considered that.
Points in her favor:
She taught me about liberation theology
She showed a movie that had an explicitly leftist main character and had us write an essay about it (edit: important context includes the essay being the one where we are supposed to learn how to write about abstract concepts in Spanish).
Points against:
Was extremely catholic. Like, thought Chesterton had good ideas level.
The original Olympic truce required everyone to lay down their arms. It would go against the spirit to selectively enforce this. Not that the IOC actually cares about the legacy of the games, they tried to remove wrestling at one point.
What possible gain is there for Russia to blow up the off-ramp to the gas sanctions? Best case scenario for Russia in regards to the pipeline would have been it being reopened when Europe decided higher energy costs are no longer worth it.
Speaking to reporters on February 7, Biden said: “If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2.” “We will bring an end to it,” the president said. A journalist asked Biden how he could do that since Germany was in control of the project, the president replied: “I promise you: We will be able to do it.”
The discussion started with a disagreement over the claims of subservience, right? Taking away the option to assert sovereignty over which sanctions are worth it is something that benefits the USA, hurts Europe, and takes away a potential advantage for Russia when the war inevitably ends someday and the practicality of buying from them instead of America (who charges more in addition to being less practical).
There would be no need to blow it up if Europe (Germany at bare minimum) was seen as completely subservient.
I didn’t say Russia did it. I should not have assumed
rationality I try to assume that actions are taken because the person doing it views it as rational. I don’t see the point in trying to understand the world only to write-off as irrational the actions taken under different material realities.
Unlike the US Germany actually has the stealth subs to pull it off undetected unrelated tangent, but I would be very interested in hearing more about German stealth subs and what makes them better. I don’t know much about the German navy.
Fair enough on the rest, it seems like a weak motive given that Russia could simply not send the gas or disable it on their end, but that’s my opinion not a fact.
Out of curiosity, where did you pick up “seppo”? I’ve only heard Australians use it before, maybe the occasional brit.
I’ll be sad if you block me, but I found a handy guide. I had to go to Reddit so I hope you appreciate the psychic damage I endured to find this for you.
I asked this as a comment on my previous post, but I still have some questions. 1: If ML stands for Mali and they’re not from Mali, then why would they represent a foreign country? 2: Since it’s not Mali, what does the ML stand for? If it’s a pair of letters, it represents a country or stands for two words. Machine...
Mali was chosen because the dev team has a lot of communists and ML is often used as a shorthand for Marxism-Leninism. Tangentially related: If you ever see a communists who is strangely enthusiastic about MultiLevelMarketing they are probably talking about Marxism-Leninism-Maoism when they say MLM.
Do you think bad weather is a good reason for moving?
Would you uproot your life, leaving behind your family, your job etc if you dont like the weather in a country....
QA does stuff (lemmy.ml)
I wish there were fewer "screenshots of fights with libs" posts. Actual libs in the comments here I don't mind, as long as we drown them out, but the constant posting about libs wears me out a little.
At least quarantine that shit to the dunk tank....
What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
Whoever the interviewee is goes hard (hexbear.net)
Double tapped the back of the head (hexbear.net)
Context: A fighter kept hitting a guy in the back of the head which is against UFC rules
Argentina right now feels exactly like Trump-vs-Hillary election, it's so Cassandra-funny to me (hexbear.net)
Context: We now have three flavors of Menem (our Reagan) to choose from in October:...
North Korea enforces an anti-shorts law - but it's only affecting women (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1517933...
Ukraine to compete at 2024 Olympics on one condition: athletes from Russia and Belarus must perform under neutral flags (www.rt.com)
This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation? (i.imgflip.com)
Context: sh.itjust.works/comment/2181865
McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)
Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud....
Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)
Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border (apnews.com)
Sly Cooper and the Gladius Raccoonus (hexbear.net)
Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week (www.reuters.com)
What does the ML in Lemmy ML stand for?
I asked this as a comment on my previous post, but I still have some questions. 1: If ML stands for Mali and they’re not from Mali, then why would they represent a foreign country? 2: Since it’s not Mali, what does the ML stand for? If it’s a pair of letters, it represents a country or stands for two words. Machine...