#Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the #UnitedStates, & leverage the #Ukraine#war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, acc/to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
Preview before tonight’s #Maddow live interview, read Robert Draper article:
#CassidyHutchinson, now 26, dropped out of sight last year after she testified in damning detail in a nationally televised cmte hearing about Trump’s actions during & after… #Jan6, 2021. Facing blistering #SocialMedia attacks from #Trump & #threats from his supporters, she retreated from DC & cut off contacts w/her fmr WH world.
Both in print & in the conversation in her high rise, #Hutchinson described a journey down a #political rabbit hole that might have tested the #psychological stamina of a more seasoned operative. It was one in which loyalty to #Trump surmounted all else, to the point where WH staffers routinely laid “leak traps” in hopes of discovering who was feeding info to #media. Once #Meadows asked Hutchinson if she’d “take a bullet” for the president. (Perhaps in the thigh, she nervously joked in reply.)
"One is not #born, but rather becomes, a #woman. No #biological, #psychological, or #economic destiny defines the figure that the #human#female acquires in #society; it is #civilization as a whole that develops this product, intermediate between female and #eunuch, which one calls #feminine. Only the mediation of another can establish an #individual as an #Other. In so far as he exists for himself, the #child would not be able to understand himself as sexually differentiated. In #girls as in #boys the #body is first of all the radiation of a #subjectivity, the instrument that accomplishes the comprehension of the world: it is through the eyes, the hands, and not through the sexual parts that children apprehend the universe."
—Simone de #Beauvoir, philosopher and social theorist, in The Second Sex (1949)
Just my favorite Second Wave feminist, shattering the entire concept of the gender binary and "biological womanhood" in one masterful swoop.
In my opinion this make #customers believe that requesting a #feature like that leads to #security#threats and it's probably best to have Microsoft fully #control their products and just eat out of the palm of their hand while this situation rather shows that they are not in full control of their systems for other reasons. The responsibility of this incident is not fully undertaking by them. It's kinda your own fault.
New: It is reported that the Wagnerians broke through the barricades on their way to #Moscow.
The governor of the Lipetsk region confirmed that the columns of Wagner PMCs are already in the region
Around 15:00 Moscow time, it became known that the militants had passed Yelets. It is 340 km from Moscow. The rebels can enter the capital by 19:00 Moscow time.
The thug oligarchs Potanin, Manturov, Rotenberg and presumably the younger Kovalchuk could have flown out of Russia amid the mutiny.
Dictator Putin plans to eliminate Prigozhin and promise amnesty to Wagner militants.
The leadership of the Russian Federation is discussing the possibility of recognizing "Wagner" as an extremist and terrorist organization.
Russian Telegram channels are spreading video of the alleged Wagner PMC disarming the first Akhmat fighters.
▪️Sviatlana Cichanouska called on the citizens of #Belarus to expel the Russian troops. The Internal Troops of Belarus entered the mode of increased combat readiness. #Wagner#coup
▪️Sviatlana Cichanouska is a brave warrior 💪 she is incredible!
▪️Prigozhin demands the dismissal of Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov
#Orgasms release chemicals which are good for your body and brain, and move your blood and muscles in a health-promoting way: orgasms promote #heart function and #BloodFlow and #BloodPressure!
#Ejaculation, male and female, releases substances being stored in the body long-term, keeping seminal and vaginal fluids fresh and flowing, flushing out stale stuff and toxins, preventing everything from overgrowths and #UTI to #ProstateCancer!
MASTURBATION IS GOOD FOR YOU! Don't let people lie and tell you otherwise! Remember that #NoFap is an #AntiScience cult!
Please, for your own good, masturbate: your body literally evolved to have regular release!
China’s military is increasingly at work on wearable technology and a dedicated #psychological#support#system to win at what it views as the crucial space of #cognitive#warfare—manipulating enemy troops’ state of mind to shape their behavior and hardening its own forces against such efforts.
“In future cognitive domain operations, the influence of rational factors such as science and logic on individual cognition is likely to be weakened, and cognitive confrontation may become a #contest of #emotions,” says one recent article in PLA Daily.
Cognitive domain operations seek to capture the mind of one’s foes, changing the thoughts and perceptions of an adversary to shape their decisions and actions. As another People’s Liberation Army outlet describes, a cognitive attack aims to “use an “invisible hand” to control the opponent’s will, making the opponent feel “I can’t” and “I dare not,” and then achieve the effect of “I don't want to.”
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
In Sound Mind is a first-person psychological survival horror game, and that's a three out of three for a express train to nopeville.
I tried to give it a fair shake. The atmospheric design is pretty much exactly what you'd want in a horror game, as is the audio.
The environmental design is considerably more frustrating, with the things you can use being highlighted with an icon, and everything else just being... there.
You play as a psychologist who appears to be going quite mad, having woken up in the basement of a building in a completely flooded town.
You need to solve some puzzles, as the atmosphere got increasingly tense, I was less and less inclined to keep going.
For complex reasons, I get no enjoyment out of horror games, and this game has not changed that.
I'm sorry, In Sound Mind. It's not you, it's very definitely me, saying:
Anyone else love the look of SH1? The PS1 style is so charming. It added so much to the atmosphere and feel of the game. Things being a bit unclear made your imagination fill the gaps. It's beautiful.
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Favorite Silent Hill quotes?
"They look like monsters to you?"...